Phillipson said: “It’s been little surprise to me that there’s been such vociferous criticism from lawyers about the changes that we’re bringing. You know, they’ve got a vested interest in maintaining the failed status quo. There’s profit to be made. “They want the system to remain as it is, because they make a profit often out of exploiting parents. And I don’t, for one second, blame parents [who] are pushing really hard for what their children need. Who wouldn’t? But it’s a fundamentally unfair system if parents who’ve got the money to hire lawyers end up getting a better deal than those who don’t.

Incoherent, populist ('let's kill all the lawyers') garbage, from Bridget Phillipson.

If you "don't blame parents" for "pushing really hard for what their children need," and "hiring lawyers" means you "get a better deal" aren't parents right to hire lawyers, and what is it lawyers are doing wrong?

🇬🇧 british Nationalists just can’t get over their loss of empire, so they cling onto Scotland as its the last colonial remnant

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’  – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling’, examining working-class participation in the creative industries across Greater Manchester. He spoke to Hardeep Matharu and Peter Jukes about how opportunities for people from poorer backgrounds has declined since the 1960s, and why his work prosecuting the grooming gangs perpetrators as the former Chief Crown Prosecutor for the North West informed his insights on class

🟨 Print Edition — Nazir Afzal: ‘Class Discrimination Isn’t a Complex Mystery – It’s a Structural Issue Quietly Enforced, Politely Denied, Endlessly Deferred’

The Chancellor of Manchester University has co-authored a new report, ‘Class Ceiling…

For the weekend

My Prospect piece on the botched "Kneecap" prosecution www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

My follow-on piece at The Empty City on that case and the similarly dappy Palestine Action proscription

emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-pa... /
theemptycity.com/blog/2026/03...

Are we Better Together yet?

youtu.be/Z-znkbMzi4A?...

Water crisis looms as company warns it can’t meet demand for new homes Councillors say it must serve as a wake-up call on the Labour government's plans to build 1.5m new homes

South East Water says it can't provide water to all new homes

Water companies haven't built new reservoirs for decades, paid dividends, govts did nothing

Govt wants to build new homes but no infrastructure planning. That's what happens when you privatize essentials infrastructure.

Post from PalPulse - YouTube The governments of Netherlands and Iceland have formally declared their intention to intervene in the genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel at...

youtube.com/post/UgkxoxC...

As Scotland mourns the victims of a school shooting after 30 years, America routinely forgets the victims of hundreds of school shootings after 30 minutes.

UK asylum appeal backlog doubles in a year to hit record high Home Office statistics show more than 80,333 people were waiting for appeals to be heard at the end of 2025, up from 41,987 a year earlier.

Around 50%, maybe up to 60%, of asylum seekers whose claims initially fail but whose appeals are considered are successful.

But you won’t learn that here⬇️, as the BBC is fully bought into the rightwing framing that the only relevant figure is how many people are in the backlog and/or live in hotels

Britain First - 'protecting women and girls'
by making indecent images of children
including babies

"Another right wing purvert."
via Arise - Democratic Socialism UK

,

i hope the reply was
Fuck off 👇

UK minister tells SNP to 'step up' and back Iran war effort

The UK Gov is calling on SNP ministers to put forward funding.
A UK minister has called on SNP politicians to “step up and show their support” for the military operations in the Middle East

The Daily Rebuttal Team bringing you real Scottish News.

1/ On 8 March 2026, a major fire gutted a B-listed Victorian building on Glasgow’s Union Street near Central Station. English Labour's Branch Manager Anas Sarwar claimed at First Minister’s Questions that SNP cuts ...

how ironic to see the state protect two people who sought to strip the state while working under the direction of elon musk, who has made it impossible to seek recourse when people get death threats and harassment on twitter

SNP pledge £10k for first-time Scottish home-buyers. But how would it work?

The SNP will offer £10,000 to first-time home-buyers in Scotland if they retain power in Edinburgh at the next Holyrood elections, First Minister John Swinney has said

Ethics adviser rejects Tory call for inquiry into PM over Mandelson appointment Sir Laurie Magnus said the relevant process appeared to have been followed when Lord Mandelson was made ambassador.

Sir Laurie Magnus refuses to do his job, and not investigate a known and admitted mistake, he should resign to allow someone else to do the job.

Yet another sordid chapter in the Starmer potboiler of unethical political intrigue. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"We haven't forgotten you"
Seen in Québec city

Here in Colorado, we've had to cull 11 million chickens in the last 4 years. It has infected and killed cattle, dogs, and cats. Cats have between a 60% and 90% mortality rate from it, often within 24 hours.

Ten poultry workers have contracted it.

The big fear is when/if it jumps human to human.

"Your silence will not protect you"

"Your silence will not protect you"
Seen in Portland, Oregon, along 1-84

#Lebanon, 13 Mar 2026
An Israeli strike on a health centre in southern Lebanon has killed 12 medical workers, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health reported.
#NetanyahuWarCriminal #Boycottisrael
#TrumpWarCriminal #BoycottUSA
#israel Enemy of Humanity

#Iran, 13 Mar 2026
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Iran’s leadership was “desperate and hiding,” after US-Israeli strikes on the country. But scenes from Tehran showed Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian & FM Abbas Araghchi joining al-Quds Day rallies.
#NetanyahuWarCriminal
#TrumpWarCriminal

#Gaza, 13 Mar 2026
Israel is exploiting the global focus on the war with Iran to deepen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as aid deliveries fall to just 30% of required levels & the transfer of critically ill patients out of the enclave has completely halted, according to a report by Ultra Palestine.

#SouthernLebanon
Amani Bazzi, who was injured in the town of Bint Jbeil, shows a portrait of one her three kids who were killed after an Israeli drone strike hit her family car.
#NetanyahuWarCriminal #Boycottisrael
#TrumpWarCriminal #BoycottUSA
#israel Enemy of Humanity

'Israeli' settlers brutally assault Palestinian youth in Nablus YouTube video by Roya News English

"...'Israeli' settlers brutally assaulting a young Palestinian man near his home in the Nablus governorate.

...several masked individuals attacking the youth with blunt objects & physical force while a small child watches from a nearby rooftop, visibly distressed.'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkKo...

"3 vacancies opened up on Horwich Town Council. 🗳️
Average votes per election? Just over 400.
Not worth the cost of a by-election?
No. Reform insisted on three by-elections.
And Reform lost… three by-elections.
Congratulations Horwich & Blackrod First Independents"
via Reform Are Not Your Friends

The Lebanese Ministry of Health claims Israel has killed 103 children in 11 days

Gibbering pig. His use of an exclamation mark after bragging about how much of the country he is destroying shows how brazen & nonchalant he is about Iranian lives. If the world made any sense, this alone would be enough to try him for war crimes.

"Meanwhile"
via Electrify This

You read this unhinged stuff and you are reminded that one of his first forays into the political arena was personally buying an ad calling for the execution of black men accused of a crime (later found not guilty)

good morning