Two women are currently in custody in Uganda for allegedly kissing in public.
The pair, whom Ugandan police arrested on February 18, are detained under the country’s Anti-Homosexuality Act, one of the most draconian anti-LGBT legislations in the world.
DPP loses appeal of the decision to throw out case against Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh.
The DPP threw a lot at this appeal.
Badenoch said if she was prime minister HMS Dragon would have left a week ago. Presumably with its doors hanging off and with no weapons onboard.
obviously many reasons to loathe AI but a very personal one for me is that Claude would be SUCH a chic name for a little Franco-British child but now it's just the name of a stupid machine, fuck's sake
And the tiny numbers of claims involved here are not going to "drive down asylum". This seems to be saying that the intention is to impact on behaviour more broadly and... why would it?
This immediately made me wonder whether anything had been said about lifting the "brake". Apparently the plan is to review in 18 months. I have quite a lot of questions about the review.
Solidarity and good luck to all those at Parliament today!
And others should also take note
Also nice that the Home Office confirmed refugee status isn't permanent at the moment, and that safe reviews have been policy for several years. They may want to reflect this in their press releases.
This week, the Home Office launched a consultation on its Use of Force Policy - indicating its intent to use force on families and children during enforced removals.
Let's be clear: using force on children is utterly unacceptable. Period.
Some more details about how core protection and the work & study protection route may work. Responding to a written question, Alex Norris confirmed those on the work & study route won't have their protection needs reviewed when extending their leave questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...
‘The war that has erupted between the US, Israel and Iran, engulfing the region, has already proved deadly to Filipino workers abroad’ - with 32-year-old Mary Ann De Vera killed by shrapnel on 28 February while escorting her employer, an older woman, to a shelter www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
I haven't done my proper sit down with the 2025 stats yet but will be doing it in the next week for the ECRE report (waiting for the tribunal data to come out as well). But I did a quick check for Syrian settlement and hit the same problem - so HO is not publishing that yet. An FOI *might* work...
It feels a bit like HO comms have somehow managed to degenerate further recently (see also last week's bastardisation of %s in the student announcement)! I have Syrian clients at SET(P) stage who are desperately worried about their situation, so find this error particularly insulting and infuriating
Yes it's a v good point and a trap I've also fallen into when trying to give a shorthand explanation of the approach. I think this is from HO itself: www.gov.uk/government/n...
It feels a bit like HO comms have somehow managed to degenerate further recently (see also last week's bastardisation of %s in the student announcement)! I have Syrian clients at SET(P) stage who are desperately worried about their situation, so find this error particularly insulting and infuriating
(subject to a safe return review - ask any Syrian going through a settlement protection application at the moment how "permanent" their grant is), to an even more temporary two and a half years at a time, with the length of time to settlement tba in the autumn earned settlement changes
I don't know where this narrative of "permanent" refugee status came from (right wing press), but it is wrong. The change is from a single grant of five years' leave followed by the ability to apply for settlement
‘We can’t go back’: mother of six-year-old cancer survivor fears UK visa changes
This whole thread on a show cause hearing is just excruciatingly painful. Yes, AI used to generate filings, yes fake citations and made up quotes from actual cases. Yes, lawyer attempts to bluster out of trouble. Car crash.
Even granted that the Home Office makes ministers at least 50% more evil, there’s something unnerving about Mahmood’s performative cruelty
Renfer: I accidentally deleted my original brief because I was overwhelmed so I used AI to try and replicate my prior work
Today at 4:00 I will go over to Raleigh and sit in on a show-cause hearing. This will be my first time attempting to live-post a hearing in person. The case is Fivehouse v. DOD and the question is whether the DOJ attorney fabricated quotes in a brief.
Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
"Shabana Mahmood, the home secretary, turned down proposals from the Foreign Office to maintain a carve-out for Chevening scholars, a government-funded programme for “exceptional individuals” to study for a master’s degree at a UK university."
You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.
One would certainly hope that this whole policy, which will cause harm and disruption to 1000s, is not one entirely based on vibes initially spread around by right wing think tanks.
It is important that the government actually gives out - in writing - what it is claiming and not claiming about the fiscal impact of its settlement proposals. Ministers are now consistently making misleading claims, factually, in speeches outside parliament, + inadvertently in parliament itself
BREAKING: Andrew Milne, the solicitor who has been buying up hundreds of freeholds in Sheffield and then demanding money from homeowners, has been sentenced to a 24 month community order and 300 hours of unpaid work for “grossly offensive and menacing” emails to the court reporter Daniel Cloake.
I *really* don't want a load of Telegraph readers subscribing though...
