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Barrister, environment, energy, public law, human rights. Visiting Prof LSE & Goldsmiths.

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FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

05.03.2026 07:15 πŸ‘ 17182 πŸ” 5989 πŸ’¬ 515 πŸ“Œ 492
Zack on Bold Politics podium

Zack on Bold Politics podium

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

05.10.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 3844 πŸ” 1225 πŸ’¬ 152 πŸ“Œ 70

A rally organised by Tommy Robinson should be a slam dunk for a Labour government.

Most people will recognise it as being led by the far right (and will not identify themselves as such). Violence is predictable too.

The PMs and ministers should have been ready to respond immediately.

14.09.2025 12:53 πŸ‘ 1324 πŸ” 225 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 18
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Politics latest: 'We will not stand for assaults or intimidation' - Starmer speaks out following mass-protest Sir Keir Starmer has condemned assaults on police at yesterday's 'Unite the Kingdom' march, while recognising the "right to peaceful protest." He has also said people should not feel "intimidated beca...

β€œwe will not stand for assaults on police officers doing their job or for people feeling intimidated on our streets because of their background or the colour of their skin”
Keir Starmer

news.sky.com/story/politi...

14.09.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 247 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 7

Mike Johnson wants us to stop framing the existential threats to our democracy as existential threats to our democracy. He wants us to think a weaponized DOJ, masked ICE kidnappers, the military occupation of cities and the extortion of universities and the media are "simple policy disagreements."

14.09.2025 14:16 πŸ‘ 212 πŸ” 88 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 7

It’s not that difficult, actually. πŸ‘‡

13.09.2025 21:36 πŸ‘ 194 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.

This is getting very dark, very quick.

13.09.2025 21:26 πŸ‘ 4034 πŸ” 1707 πŸ’¬ 258 πŸ“Œ 290
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The only excuse for this mindset is that the truth is too unbearable. It is no less grotesque and unforgivable for that.

28.07.2025 10:29 πŸ‘ 607 πŸ” 109 πŸ’¬ 108 πŸ“Œ 22
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"What we're seeing now is the most horrific stage of Israels starvation campaign... Israel has been using aid as a way to bait civilians & has been killing civilians who have been seeking aid..."

Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food

22.07.2025 06:10 πŸ‘ 131 πŸ” 106 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Where’s Rosie Holt? @rosieisaholt.bsky.social

21.07.2025 23:06 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

Certain people seem far more concerned that the Afghans were provided with asylum in the UK, rather than the somewhat larger issue of an data leak which put approximately 100,000 at increased risk to their lives and the MoD covering it up. We continue to abandon people needing safety.

16.07.2025 15:58 πŸ‘ 239 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 1

The final nail in the coffin would be for this woman to be prosecuted for disclosing information on the Epstein file and sent to jail for life with Ghislaine.

17.07.2025 08:49 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cummings, Pollard…people who had power and influence.

17.07.2025 08:31 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Lifting the District Court’s injunction will unleash
untold harm, delaying or denying educational opportunities
and leaving students to suffer from discrimination, sexual
assault, and other civil rights violations without the federal
resources Congress intended. The majority apparently
deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very
real harms while the litigation continues. Equity does not
support such an inequitable result.
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The President must take care that the laws are faithfully
executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule
undergirds our Constitution’s separation of powers. Yet today, the majority rewards clear defiance of that core principle with emergency relief. Because I cannot condone such
abuse of our equitable authority, I respectfully dissent.

Lifting the District Court’s injunction will unleash untold harm, delaying or denying educational opportunities and leaving students to suffer from discrimination, sexual assault, and other civil rights violations without the federal resources Congress intended. The majority apparently deems it more important to free the Government from paying employees it had no right to fire than to avert these very real harms while the litigation continues. Equity does not support such an inequitable result. * * * The President must take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not set out to dismantle them. That basic rule undergirds our Constitution’s separation of powers. Yet today, the majority rewards clear defiance of that core principle with emergency relief. Because I cannot condone such abuse of our equitable authority, I respectfully dissent.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

From Sotomayor's dissent:

14.07.2025 19:20 πŸ‘ 5636 πŸ” 2457 πŸ’¬ 488 πŸ“Œ 1351
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Do not enter the sea.

14.07.2025 17:55 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Enfin !

11.07.2025 15:32 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Consider this β€˜defence’; if a murderer is in a school, it is justified to blow up that school and kill the children not to neutralise any threat or to achieve any military objective but purely to punish the murderer.

11.07.2025 11:52 πŸ‘ 131 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack A forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza

I did not want to watch it; I forced myself to and it should be obligatory watching. The BBC decision not to air it is terrifying & shocking, particularly in light of Israel’s refusal to allow the media, including the BBC into Gaza or its prisons.

www.channel4.com/programmes/g...

10.07.2025 23:11 πŸ‘ 52 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Pay for doctors Resident doctors As a resident doctor you’ll earn a basic salary, plus pay for any hours over 40 per week, a 37 per cent enhancement for working nights, a weekend allowance for any work at the weekend...

www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-role...

09.07.2025 18:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Full-blown militarized raid on horseback,
military tactical vehicles, and soldiers on foot with a perimeter set around McArthur Park.
Looks like a big show of force by ICE/Border Patrol.

07.07.2025 18:59 πŸ‘ 2930 πŸ” 1257 πŸ’¬ 562 πŸ“Œ 200
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More than the entirety of the former budget of Trump abolished USAID to be spent on detention centres alone. A nationwide apparatus of camps capable of deporting 1million people per year (with no due process).

08.07.2025 06:10 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

What % of this Β£billion allegedly paid to β€œhouseholds with a foreign national in them” is paid to Brits? No doubt he knows the answer to that question... Utterly malign, as he well knows.

07.07.2025 15:53 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œHouseholds with foreign nationals”???? Current Tory spiel: β€œdon’t go partnering up with no foreigner - like…it’s not right” so you’ll be lose benefit entitlements…Incoherent, racist, nationalist nonsense, as we’ve come to expect.

07.07.2025 15:34 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

@yarotrof.bsky.social

02.07.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 7711 πŸ” 3396 πŸ’¬ 860 πŸ“Œ 353

So true. Chris Mason relishing his utterly pointless and mostly ridiculous script.

02.07.2025 23:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Jenrick and Hannan are tweeting in their classic careless and obnoxious form, putting people’s lives at risk. What they don’t perhaps realise is that so called β€˜lefty’ judges are very much the exception; mostly judges are ultra-conservative to the benefit of the incumbent Government.

01.07.2025 22:07 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œThey’ve had 14 years to get ready for government” - πŸ˜‚

30.06.2025 23:06 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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This is the Home Office behaving exactly as intended:

The visa fees paid by a grieving widower to bring his wife to the UK are kept. Despite the face that she literally died before she made it to UK soil.

We need to rip this broken institution apart.

30.06.2025 08:38 πŸ‘ 540 πŸ” 186 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 13