Michael Horton
@mikehortonbar.bsky.social
Family law, rule of law, and cats
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“‘Stablecoins are a money-launderer’s dream,’ said one. ‘But we don’t want to say that in public because we do not want to ruin our relationship with Tether.’”
by @economist.com
by @economist.com
How Tether became money-launderers’ dream currency
The stablecoin is fuelling a global shadow economy. And it’s never been more respectable
economist.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“‘Stablecoins are a money-launderer’s dream,’ said one. ‘But we don’t want to say that in public because we do not want to ruin our relationship with Tether.’”
by @economist.com
by @economist.com
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X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
Nobody with any sense or decency should be there.
No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there.
Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.
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PERSON OF THE DAY. 29 October 1988. Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram re-ran the famous 367 metre “Chariots of Fire” race at Trinity College, Cambridge. The “Court Run” involved running around Great Court within the length of time that it takes the College clock to strike the hour of 12 noon. Coe won.
October 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
PERSON OF THE DAY. 29 October 1988. Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram re-ran the famous 367 metre “Chariots of Fire” race at Trinity College, Cambridge. The “Court Run” involved running around Great Court within the length of time that it takes the College clock to strike the hour of 12 noon. Coe won.
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The forgotten Shropshire tragedy that inspired The Mousetrap
The death of 12-year-old Dennis O’Neill in 1945 shocked Britain and led Agatha Christie to write her famous play The Mousetrap | Jonathan Calder
@centralbylines.co.uk @lordbonkers.bsky.social
The death of 12-year-old Dennis O’Neill in 1945 shocked Britain and led Agatha Christie to write her famous play The Mousetrap | Jonathan Calder
@centralbylines.co.uk @lordbonkers.bsky.social
The forgotten Shropshire tragedy that inspired The Mousetrap
The death of 12-year-old Dennis O’Neill in 1945 shocked Britain and led Agatha Christie to write her famous play The Mousetrap
centralbylines.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The forgotten Shropshire tragedy that inspired The Mousetrap
The death of 12-year-old Dennis O’Neill in 1945 shocked Britain and led Agatha Christie to write her famous play The Mousetrap | Jonathan Calder
@centralbylines.co.uk @lordbonkers.bsky.social
The death of 12-year-old Dennis O’Neill in 1945 shocked Britain and led Agatha Christie to write her famous play The Mousetrap | Jonathan Calder
@centralbylines.co.uk @lordbonkers.bsky.social
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TY v XA (No. 2) [2025] EWFC 349 (01 July 2025): Wife's application for financial relief following German divorce. Orders made for housing fund for wife, and maintenance for wife and children. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...
October 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
TY v XA (No. 2) [2025] EWFC 349 (01 July 2025): Wife's application for financial relief following German divorce. Orders made for housing fund for wife, and maintenance for wife and children. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...
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What about Habeas Corpus? Did she die in vain?
October 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
What about Habeas Corpus? Did she die in vain?
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Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?
September 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?
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Hold your nerve, Labour government. IMF forecasts for next year put UK 3rd fastest growing economy in G7
July 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Hold your nerve, Labour government. IMF forecasts for next year put UK 3rd fastest growing economy in G7
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If you want to torture yourself you can read the transcript of Biden’s speech from last years West Point commencement ceremony. Lots of applause and laughter, no trophy wives and yachts. He stuck around and shook the hands of all 1,036 graduates too.
bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-roo...
bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-roo...
May 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
If you want to torture yourself you can read the transcript of Biden’s speech from last years West Point commencement ceremony. Lots of applause and laughter, no trophy wives and yachts. He stuck around and shook the hands of all 1,036 graduates too.
bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-roo...
bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-roo...
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BREAKING: $5M of your tax dollars will be going to the estate of criminal seditionist Ashli Babbit. UNCONSCIONABLE. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. to pay nearly $5 million to family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt
Babbitt was fatally shot by police during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The Trump administration’s decision to settle reverses the Justice Department’s earlier position.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
BREAKING: $5M of your tax dollars will be going to the estate of criminal seditionist Ashli Babbit. UNCONSCIONABLE. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Victims and Crimes Bill would require Crown Court to make indefinite prohibited steps order on sentencing someone for 4 years or more for serious sexual offence, re any child for whom he/ she has parental responsibility. No discretion. Welfare principle disapplied. At bills.parliament.uk/bills/3968
Victims and Courts Bill - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament
Current version of Victims and Courts Bill with latest news, sponsors, and progress through Houses
bills.parliament.uk
May 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Victims and Crimes Bill would require Crown Court to make indefinite prohibited steps order on sentencing someone for 4 years or more for serious sexual offence, re any child for whom he/ she has parental responsibility. No discretion. Welfare principle disapplied. At bills.parliament.uk/bills/3968
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Among the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against the Crown was “transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences.”
newrepublic.com/article/1939...
newrepublic.com/article/1939...
Trump’s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags
His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.
newrepublic.com
April 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Among the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against the Crown was “transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences.”
newrepublic.com/article/1939...
newrepublic.com/article/1939...
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When Chamberlain announced his tariff crusade, Liberals launched a spectacular campaign for free trade.
They used all the communications technologies of their age - colour posters, cartoons, songs, films, pageants, speeches - to warn of the harm to family budgets.
Can Democrats do the same today?
They used all the communications technologies of their age - colour posters, cartoons, songs, films, pageants, speeches - to warn of the harm to family budgets.
Can Democrats do the same today?
April 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
When Chamberlain announced his tariff crusade, Liberals launched a spectacular campaign for free trade.
They used all the communications technologies of their age - colour posters, cartoons, songs, films, pageants, speeches - to warn of the harm to family budgets.
Can Democrats do the same today?
They used all the communications technologies of their age - colour posters, cartoons, songs, films, pageants, speeches - to warn of the harm to family budgets.
Can Democrats do the same today?
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This being, by God’s great blessing, the fourth solemn day of my cutting for the stone this day four years, and am by God’s mercy in very good health, and like to do well, the Lord’s name be praised for it.
March 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
This being, by God’s great blessing, the fourth solemn day of my cutting for the stone this day four years, and am by God’s mercy in very good health, and like to do well, the Lord’s name be praised for it.
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It’s 13 years since one of the all-time great headlines, as news broke that Jo Kuffour was set to leave Gillingham...
March 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
It’s 13 years since one of the all-time great headlines, as news broke that Jo Kuffour was set to leave Gillingham...
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We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems.
As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.
But what can authors do? Read here:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.
But what can authors do? Read here:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
March 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems.
As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.
But what can authors do? Read here:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.
But what can authors do? Read here:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...
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Good that when (if) Mark Carney becomes PM, and Trump goes with the ‘Governor Carney’ insult, he can simply reply, ‘Ah, you’re a fan of my early work, then?’
March 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Good that when (if) Mark Carney becomes PM, and Trump goes with the ‘Governor Carney’ insult, he can simply reply, ‘Ah, you’re a fan of my early work, then?’
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Labour has a real counterattack opportunity if they’re brave enough to take it.
More spending, both for public services + defence, using the need to prep the UK for war to justify breaking fiscal rules/tax pledges.
Be unequivocal in calling those seeking to undermine the UK traitors and quislings.
More spending, both for public services + defence, using the need to prep the UK for war to justify breaking fiscal rules/tax pledges.
Be unequivocal in calling those seeking to undermine the UK traitors and quislings.
February 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Labour has a real counterattack opportunity if they’re brave enough to take it.
More spending, both for public services + defence, using the need to prep the UK for war to justify breaking fiscal rules/tax pledges.
Be unequivocal in calling those seeking to undermine the UK traitors and quislings.
More spending, both for public services + defence, using the need to prep the UK for war to justify breaking fiscal rules/tax pledges.
Be unequivocal in calling those seeking to undermine the UK traitors and quislings.
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Today, we honor the 216th birthday of Abraham Lincoln by carrying out his legacy in the continued fight for democracy & truth. The party he built has been bastardized - he wouldn't recognize it today. With our institutions & freedoms in danger, Lincoln's memory is more important now than ever.
February 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Today, we honor the 216th birthday of Abraham Lincoln by carrying out his legacy in the continued fight for democracy & truth. The party he built has been bastardized - he wouldn't recognize it today. With our institutions & freedoms in danger, Lincoln's memory is more important now than ever.
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Trigger warning.
May contain traces of Roger Lloyd-Pack.
May contain traces of Roger Lloyd-Pack.
January 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Trigger warning.
May contain traces of Roger Lloyd-Pack.
May contain traces of Roger Lloyd-Pack.
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Ladies and gentlemen: we did it
In email to X staff, Musk says "user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we're barely breaking even"; sources: banks plan to sell their debt in X (Wall Street Journal)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
January 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Ladies and gentlemen: we did it
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From meat management magazine on the costs of export to the EU... (the things I have to read in this job).
An SPS deal could help some of this. But these are the barriers UK firms now have to face...
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An SPS deal could help some of this. But these are the barriers UK firms now have to face...
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January 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
From meat management magazine on the costs of export to the EU... (the things I have to read in this job).
An SPS deal could help some of this. But these are the barriers UK firms now have to face...
(repost - better clip) emag.meatmanagement.com/html5/reader...
An SPS deal could help some of this. But these are the barriers UK firms now have to face...
(repost - better clip) emag.meatmanagement.com/html5/reader...