Peter Cherbi

How Scotland's judiciary neatly arranged it, so Lord Advocate James Wolffe's judge wife - Lady Sarah Wolffe - was to hear a £9Million claim against her own husband, and also Scotland's Chief Constable Note, Lady Wolffe avoided recusal 👩‍⚖️⚖️ petercherbi.blogspot.com/2018/01/wolf...

UK Chancellor pledges cheaper marmalade and gherkins in pre-Budget package of 'everyday fixes'. Fiddling at the edges. Need redistribution of income and wealth. End profiteering in housing, energy, water, essentials. Increase tax personal allowance.

Lloyds CEO Charlie Nunn praises Brian Pitman for “great leadership and value creation”. Yes, investors loved Pitman's focus on return-on-equity but turned a blind eye to the misselling that underpinned it. Under Pitman, Lloyds led the charge into PPI, one of the biggest financial scandals in history

Instead of screaming about ‘woke’ could we try having a sensible discussion about whether or not the dead should be on display in museums? Scotland has removed some mummies from display and the culture warriors have gone nuts. Whatever happened to intelligent debate? In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

They ignore the irony of the present FBI Director, “Poodle Room” Patel, regularly lying to Congress.

"If it comes down to a choice between wolves and livestock on western public lands, the clear winner is wolves. Let’s extend the benefits all across the American West. The case for leasing public lands for livestock production? That’s a tougher sell." Read more: https://ow.ly/ZPuK51014Qu

🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

BREAKING WaPo: A federal grand jury just REJECTED an attempt by the Trump Justice Department to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.

The Paxtons’ blind trust invested $600K in a convicted fraudster’s new company. Experts say the trust wasn’t truly blind as the Paxtons reported losses from it on their taxes. Angela Paxton also sat on an affiliate’s advisory board for several years. with @texastribune.org

Ex prime minister Liz Truss, 🥬 who is plugging her book Bank Job, was interviewed by Sky News’ Wilfred Frost. It didn’t go well.

The UK is exporting its carbon footprint. We ship 8M tonnes of scrap steel to nations with weak environmental laws, only to buy the finished product back. #UKPol #UKSteel #NetZero #IndustrialPolicy @uksteel.org @green-alliance.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: Democrats asked a federal judge Monday night for a restraining order and temporary injunction to halt President Donald Trump and his administration from interfering in the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A week from today is Election Day, and wolves need your voice now more than ever. The people we elect help shape the laws and policies that determine wolves futures. Visit Vote.gov to check your voter registration and find information on how to vote in your state. 📣

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I’ve got a piece in the @nytimes.com this morning about why Supreme Court reform has to be at the top of any agenda for democratic repair www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...

It is interesting watching so many people fight for Supreme Court reform because of how terrible the justices are instead of because of the fundamentally broken structure of the institution. Don’t ever give a gov’t official official largely unreviewable power for life. Doesn’t matter who they are.

This week's Research Dean spotlight! Prof. Deepa Varadarajan has an exciting new symposium piece, "Whistleblowers and Trade Secrecy's Long Shadow," examining how whistleblower protections in the Defend Trade Secrets have fallen short of their potential. Have a look! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

UK energy bills could rise even more. Regulator is considering a Market Stabilization Charge to guarantee corporate profits. This would force energy companies to compensate consumers’ old suppliers for lost profits when people switch away. What would the govt do? Watch the Minister's reply.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

🚨BREAKING: Judiciary Democrats’ report details mounting evidence linking Trump to Epstein’s criminal activities and DOJ’s cover-up; specific accounts involving 11 women provide more evidence of potential sex crimes. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

'The real threat to Britain's countryside' - spoof video about Pheasant shooting by Lord Christian Brighty! Watch it & then send in your evidence to Defra about impact of gamebird shooting - consultation closes Sun 1st Nov! raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/10/26/t...

Politicians should look at the UK economy as a CEO would, says Lloyds Bank CEO From a bank that hasn't investigated HBOS frauds. No thank you. Companies enrich shareholders. Countries have entirely different purpose, governance, accountability. Must not be treated as corporations. archive.ph/lj45s

“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.” Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:

NEW: A federal judge has now ruled that former SDNY prosecutor, Maurene Comey, was UNLAWFULLY fired by the Trump DOJ. He orders her retroactive reinstatement and back pay. Comey alleged in her lawsuit that she was fired for politically motivated reasons. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

'Otters' in ink by Jackie Morris, artist, author who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt #Monday

Planting a tree means nothing if it dies a week later. Local authority tree planting is down 45%, and the trees we do plant are heavily imported, bringing biosecurity risks with them. @nationaltrust.org.uk #EcoSky #TreePlanting #GrownInBritain

UK Govt promised to halve consultancy spending by 2025-26. How is it done? By fudging the data and by reclassifying consultancy spending as "professional services". £600m spent. Reliance on consultants means poor in-house knowledge, poor decisions. archive.ph/5Glj6

The Trump administration has signed an oil deal with a Venezuelan energy baron who has faced money-laundering investigations in three countries. ProPublica reviewed a copy of the 18-page agreement.

ProPublica: Ken Paxton says he's tough on crime. His trust invested $600,000 in a convicted fraudster's company. "The blind trust's investment in Wildcatter offers a new, unreported look at the attorney general's financial ties with … executives whose prosecutions he typically celebrates."

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit to preemptively block certification of the results in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if the Republican loses is pure bunk, according to a growing chorus of legal experts, democracy advocates and politicians. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NO to "golden visas". We don't need even more corrupt, dangerous people arriving on private jets

The technology they are selling you - trapping you into spending a fortune on, so they can harvest you for data like a fucking farm animal - is pointless

This is the kind of thug behavior creepy billionaires and their government stooges resort to when it looks like the people are going to reclaim their power. Democracy? Or government-by-billionaire? That’s the choice. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This (ugly) ruling only raises the stakes of the (already massively important) Barbosa da Cunha case #SCOTUS will hear this term. Now, if the justices side with the government on the statutory question presented there, they’ll have to also take up and resolve the due process question presented here.

The DOJ is doing this crazy thing mostly to create more doubt about the election not in the hope of winning in court. Expect more of this. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. From the ProPublica archives:

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration’s campaign to obtain states’ unredacted voter rolls suffered its 27th consecutive district court loss Friday, this time at the hands of a judge appointed by President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Duchy of Cornwall says it collected £503,711 rent from the King for Highgrove House. Prince William is the Duke of Cornwall. Father pays rent to son. No money left the family but nice PR. Previously, King Charles was the Duke of Cornwall. He was paying rent to himself.

Trump’s personal Attorney General Todd Blanche doesn’t rule out challenging election certifications in various states (You are not alarmed enough)

In 2020, Lindsey Graham had a secret dinner with executives at the defense firm Navatek. Graham agreed to steer a $10 million contract their way. In exchange, the firm’s CEO, Martin Kao, pledged thousands for Graham’s campaign coffers, Kao later told the FBI.

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an unprecedented lawsuit Thursday, effectively calling for Alaska’s Division of Elections to set aside the results of the Senate race if anyone other than incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R) wins www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A small grove of historic American chestnut trees has become the site of resistance against an AI data center in West Virginia. @samleecole.bsky.social has more. Read now: www.404media.co/west-virgini...

Technology doesn't control society, humans do. Powerful voices are pushing AI into every corner of our lives, from classrooms to jobs. But despite what they say, AI is not inevitable. It is a political choice and we can choose a different future. #TechEthics #SystemChange #YouthVoices

Any day now the Fifth Circuit is going to hold that the GOP has a constitutional right to win elections because doing so is self-defense under the Second Amendment, and the Times will seek Josh Blackman’s opinions on the subject.

On a visit to a Buddhist monastery in Japan, I was surprised by my visceral unwillingness to participate in a ritual. On the blog, I reflect on that reaction and how it might inform efforts to reform antidiscrimination law. Also, there's a picture of a cute deer in front of the subway entrance.👇

Some of Europe’s highest energy costs expected in Britain this winter. Since privatisation UK gas storage capacity reduced to about 8 - 12 days, EU has 80 -120 days. UK is net importer of electricity. Wars, privatisation and profiteering take toll.

Trump ordered to sit for a deposition by 11 December in his $10bn defamation case against the BBC. The court order follows complaints from legal counsel for the BBC over the US president’s “foot dragging”.

Happy Let’s Stockpile Food and Water Ahead of the Apocalypse Day!