Malcolm Hawkes
@malcolmhawkes.bsky.social
Barrister, extradition & human rights law
Иногда, хочется поболтать или читать по русский
All things #ITFC.
All views my own (he/him)
Иногда, хочется поболтать или читать по русский
All things #ITFC.
All views my own (he/him)
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Malcolm Hawkes
@malcolmhawkes.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Есть здесь русскоязычные? Особенно украинцы, которые пишут по-русски? Я пока не вижу здесь русскоязычных аккаунтов, но многие из них все еще находятся на X, куда я бы предпочел больше не заходить!
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From the CWS Archive. June 2022 and August 2020.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
From the CWS Archive. June 2022 and August 2020.
Crippled the criminal justice system by decades of underfunding? The only solution has to be removing the fundamental right to trial by jury:
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Crippled the criminal justice system by decades of underfunding? The only solution has to be removing the fundamental right to trial by jury:
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
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Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
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Superb piece by Ben Tonra in today’s Irish Tines, on Ireland’s strategic choices in a predatory world, with the necessity of a strategic pivot towards Europe increasingly apparent.
Everyone interested in foreign policy making should read this.
Everyone interested in foreign policy making should read this.
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Superb piece by Ben Tonra in today’s Irish Tines, on Ireland’s strategic choices in a predatory world, with the necessity of a strategic pivot towards Europe increasingly apparent.
Everyone interested in foreign policy making should read this.
Everyone interested in foreign policy making should read this.
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IS RUSSIA ABOUT TO CROSS INTO ITS ‘TOTAL WAR’ MOMENT
In February 1943 Josef Goebbels made his Total War speech.
It followed the defeat at Stalingrad and openly acknowledged the dire situation Germany faced. He declared a state of total war - because up to the point, Germany had been cosseting its
In February 1943 Josef Goebbels made his Total War speech.
It followed the defeat at Stalingrad and openly acknowledged the dire situation Germany faced. He declared a state of total war - because up to the point, Germany had been cosseting its
October 29, 2025 at 6:44 AM
IS RUSSIA ABOUT TO CROSS INTO ITS ‘TOTAL WAR’ MOMENT
In February 1943 Josef Goebbels made his Total War speech.
It followed the defeat at Stalingrad and openly acknowledged the dire situation Germany faced. He declared a state of total war - because up to the point, Germany had been cosseting its
In February 1943 Josef Goebbels made his Total War speech.
It followed the defeat at Stalingrad and openly acknowledged the dire situation Germany faced. He declared a state of total war - because up to the point, Germany had been cosseting its
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"You left Europe because you wanted less boats, you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment."
Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.
Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0
Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.
Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"You left Europe because you wanted less boats, you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment."
Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.
Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0
Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.
Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0
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An elected MP, Reform’s Sarah Pochin says there are too many Black and Asian people on TV - so plain racism - and the coverage of it is buried. Silence and ignorance is complicity, causing lasting damage. When we see racism it’s what we do next, individually and collectively, that matters.
October 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
An elected MP, Reform’s Sarah Pochin says there are too many Black and Asian people on TV - so plain racism - and the coverage of it is buried. Silence and ignorance is complicity, causing lasting damage. When we see racism it’s what we do next, individually and collectively, that matters.
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People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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October 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Thanks for all the really amazing support from Question Time tonight!
You heard it several times (including even from Reform!):
@greenparty.org.uk are surging.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
#BBCQT
You heard it several times (including even from Reform!):
@greenparty.org.uk are surging.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
#BBCQT
Join the Green Party
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October 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Thanks for all the really amazing support from Question Time tonight!
You heard it several times (including even from Reform!):
@greenparty.org.uk are surging.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
#BBCQT
You heard it several times (including even from Reform!):
@greenparty.org.uk are surging.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
#BBCQT
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By way of a reminder folks...
You voted for Cameron
Everything got worse
You voted for Johnson
Everything got worse
You voted for brexit
Everything got worse
You voted for Truss
Everything got worse
If you vote for Farage
You have no idea how bad your life will become.
You voted for Cameron
Everything got worse
You voted for Johnson
Everything got worse
You voted for brexit
Everything got worse
You voted for Truss
Everything got worse
If you vote for Farage
You have no idea how bad your life will become.
October 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
By way of a reminder folks...
You voted for Cameron
Everything got worse
You voted for Johnson
Everything got worse
You voted for brexit
Everything got worse
You voted for Truss
Everything got worse
If you vote for Farage
You have no idea how bad your life will become.
You voted for Cameron
Everything got worse
You voted for Johnson
Everything got worse
You voted for brexit
Everything got worse
You voted for Truss
Everything got worse
If you vote for Farage
You have no idea how bad your life will become.
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I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
October 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
This is fantastic and very welcome news. As a cyclist, I’ve really noticed a difference - long may it continue!
Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air.
That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.
That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.
London hits clean air milestone 184 years early - ULEZ makes 'big difference'
A professor has branded the success a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality'
www.mylondon.news
October 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This is fantastic and very welcome news. As a cyclist, I’ve really noticed a difference - long may it continue!
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This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
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We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
October 5, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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The ECHR is much more than a treaty. It’s a quiet promise - a shield against abuse of power, a lifeline for the vulnerable, a declaration of who we are as a nation. In an age of upheaval and division, we must not let it be torn up for political convenience
Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to change how judges interpret the European Convention on Human Rights – a move that risks weakening everyone’s protections.
The ECHR has become a convenient scapegoat for challenges around migration and sovereignty.
WE MUST PROTECT IT
youtu.be/Lmad4kujRhQ?...
The ECHR has become a convenient scapegoat for challenges around migration and sovereignty.
WE MUST PROTECT IT
youtu.be/Lmad4kujRhQ?...
🚨THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTS US ALL. WE MUST PROTECT IT
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
October 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The ECHR is much more than a treaty. It’s a quiet promise - a shield against abuse of power, a lifeline for the vulnerable, a declaration of who we are as a nation. In an age of upheaval and division, we must not let it be torn up for political convenience
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Leaving the ECHR is just another "cause" that right-wing lunatics can latch onto.
It's Brexit 2.
And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.
It's Brexit 2.
And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.
October 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Leaving the ECHR is just another "cause" that right-wing lunatics can latch onto.
It's Brexit 2.
And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.
It's Brexit 2.
And like the original most people backing, it don't understand it, don't really believe in what they
are doing and do not care one jot what havoc it causes.
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Labour has a chance now to turn a corner and win support from people who want it to succeed. Or it can continue with this type of vicious populist filth and alienate everyone. It's your call guys.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Labour has a chance now to turn a corner and win support from people who want it to succeed. Or it can continue with this type of vicious populist filth and alienate everyone. It's your call guys.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Media figures who cheerlead & champion Nigel Farage every minute of every day are freaking out about Keir Starmer telling a few home truths about the whiny little liar’s racism.
And how the racism he disseminates every day affects real people in the real world. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
And how the racism he disseminates every day affects real people in the real world. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
James O'Brien Daily
Daily News Podcast · Updated daily · Welcome to the best bits of James O'Brien's LBC phone-in show.
Listen back to all the highlights in a 60-minute bite sized chunk of his show with new episodes ever...
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October 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Media figures who cheerlead & champion Nigel Farage every minute of every day are freaking out about Keir Starmer telling a few home truths about the whiny little liar’s racism.
And how the racism he disseminates every day affects real people in the real world. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
And how the racism he disseminates every day affects real people in the real world. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
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“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏
PM Keir Starmer
PM Keir Starmer
October 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM
“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏
PM Keir Starmer
PM Keir Starmer
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Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security.
It’s time for a public inquiry.
It’s time for a public inquiry.
Nathan Gill’s treachery puts him in same league as the “Cambridge Five”
Reform’s Russia connections may endanger our security – time for a public inquiry
bylines.scot
October 1, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security.
It’s time for a public inquiry.
It’s time for a public inquiry.