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On 12 April 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt wanted to add #freedom of movement – ‘without red tape of any kind’ – to her husband’s Four Freedoms. Yet, a few months later, Art 13 of the Universal Declaration, which she was chairing the drafting of, guaranteed only the right to leave a country. #HumanRights

If possible, the Trump admin is having a worse year geopolitically than Putin. They've trashed their influence by alienating old allies and failing to keep (Hungary) or gain (Brazil) new ones. But at least the Kremlin and the White House have each other.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cmgelnrd4r3jt

Incredible what Brazil did tonight, a lesson to many supposedly mature democracies. When confronted with the possibility of having back in power those who had already shown their authoritarian colors, the Brazilian people, surprisingly and beautifully, said no.

Enoch Powell level bile and lies from the Times www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

If I have to shelter my neighbours in the attic I bloody well will.

No one seems to care, but these were the UK's submissions about hospital use in I v UK in *2002*. I get that the UKSC is big on reading ECtHR jurisprudence as narrowly as possible, but it really does strain credulity to think there is no Art 8 violation .

Far too often the bench is comprised of people in their 60s making decisions about parents in their 30s who have children under 10. The dynamic is one of grandparents making decisions about grandchildren: very different from what it should be.

Read this thread & weep In our bioethics classes, we’re all going to be teaching our students about this grotesque RFK Jr-funded trial for decades to come White Danes flying in to Guinea-Bissau to withhold a proven intervention—the new Tuskegee And it’s happening in the year of our Lord 2026 🤯

All won without cheating

‘So Lance, another Tour de France …’

What is the movie that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times?

We should get an answer sooner than might have been expected as the SRA has been granted a leapfrog certificate www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sra-tak...

Please read this obit, it's so powerful 25 years later.

“There is absolutely no reason to pay attention to these people. You won’t get my thoughts on this. I have little time in everyday life for idiocy – and even less on social media.”

I’m serious about this. If a plan, to obstruct fans’ enjoyment of 1 football game by switching off floodlights at a match for £ gain for self & others, sufficed to convict D of common law public nuisance & get a 4 year sentence, then on its face this clearly warrants police attention (RvOng CrA2001)

Both the report & the so called comprehensive equalities impact assessment, stated to be authored by a senior lawyer, can be viewed here. Anybody here think this could survive a judicial review? FWIW I don’t. Let’s hope it’s tested, this is a truly awful precedent & not just for asylum seekers.

Tonight’s fascist attack on an RNLI lifeboat is the result of years of stochastic terrorism directed at asylum-seekers by mainstream politicians and media. Repeated high profile claims that “we must stop these people!”. The fascists are simply following through on that rhetoric.

From an article by @helenaw.bsky.social

He could have quite explicitly stated that they don't, because they don't. This isn't an area to go "oh people think". We have the evidence. They just don't. If you want to claim to be a progressive, liberal, party, you have to actually challenge right wing, predominantly, lies and scare mongering.

"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"

I had no idea of this extraordinary episode. I reminds us of how easily people can be declared "illegal" or "immigrant" rather than native. These are not natural kinds, but administrative categories. Striking parallels with the Windrush scandal. Of interest to all, but tagging @spe07.bsky.social

The Sheeran Effect …like the Streisand Effect but whereby declaring yourself non-political you in fact briefly become the most political celebrity on earth

but I can’t believe we’ve now got to the point of feminism which explicitly says “only women can do childcare”, well done everyone

French report: Asylum seeker returnees to France from 🇬🇧 showed signs of violence - some very serious- specifically linked to being detained in the U.K. “One A&E medical report from a returnee who arrived in France in such a bad state that he was sent to hospital reads: apple.news/AF3kuiVJ9Q6m...

Good grief, the video at the end interviewing young people, social members of Swedish society, being deported to Iran and Egypt, is something else.

The 2024 is in most demand but we can only buy what they have. Looking forward to trying this with a nice looking fish prepared by @crookedfootball.bsky.social

Months of work on FWS & the problem of making it fit with NI law alongside @sylviademars.me and @aoifemod.bsky.social is finally ready to see daylight. Short answer, it doesn't fit. Yes, the situation is so serious that it warranted the Mean Girls quote in the title. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Very pleased that @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social is taking a stand on this. As he says, the current proposals from Mahmood are totally destructive of integration

Glaciers collapse, disasters ensue. And then we’re expected to ignore all that because we can make fun AI images and google can badly summarise Wikipedia. Seriously. AI - Fuck off.

“…I have EVERY DOUBT that what he was conveying there was his experience..” Considered? Freudian slip?

This

So dreadful. And shameful that no UK minister has intervened (presumably because they also think that treating immigrants with inhumanity is ok.)

If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...

An RNLI lifeboat guy here, and as I’ve been saying for many years now: why is it that the public have been subjected to hate campaigns against hated enemies including rescue services, Stonewall, Amnesty International, the left of the Labour Party, the National Trust, the Proms and Match of the Day?

Labour need to be clear. Neither the thugs at Dover nor the mobs at Portsmouth have ‘legitimate concerns’. They’re racist hate-driven violent thugs.

I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.

Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

I’m flat out begging politicians to stop trying to win votes with a little light xenophobia. All you do is feed the racists without ever satiating them. Stop legitimizing hate

A placard with "LEGITIMATE CONCERNS" in 24 point font and "about Netanyahu/climate change" in 10 point font might be worth a try