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Find someone who loves you as much as Tony Blair loves ID cards.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Some very good news from Asylum Aid. The Safety of Rwanda Act was a nasty and nonsensical affront to the rule of law and the UK’s international obligations. Good riddance.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

🎉 HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to Katy Watts for being named in Big Issue's Top 100 Changemakers of 2025! She's leading the fight against Government anti-protest laws that were ruled unlawful in our landmark legal challenge. #DefendDemocracy

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

The retention of custody images of people never even charged with a crime is made even more concerning by the growth of unregulated and dangerous facial recognition technology. The police must urgently correct this serious intrusion on people's privacy.

submitted 163 days ago • 0 comments

We at Liberty are back in court today protecting your rights against the new government’s defence of the last government’s dodgy laws. Katy has led all this work. If you’re interested in the right to protest and our attempts to hold the government to account, follow her.

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

Seven hundred and fifteen million pounds. The cost is obviously not what is wrong with the Rwanda scheme, but nonetheless that figure is extraordinary.

submitted 172 days ago • 0 comments

Oh come on.

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 185 days ago • 6 comments

How quaint this looks just a few hours later now Matt Gaetz has been nominated for Attorney General.

submitted 191 days ago • 0 comments

Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense is my first ‘surely that can’t happen’ of the second Trump administration. Judging by how the first one went, I imagine it won’t be the last and I’ll be wrong about most of them.

submitted 191 days ago • 0 comments

Our client was one of the last on the plane to Rwanda in June 2022. Worth remembering that if it weren’t for the European Court, he & other asylum seekers wd’ve been unlawfully sent to Rwanda where they cd’ve been exposed to a variety of human rights abuses incl return to their countries of origin.

submitted 556 days ago • 0 comments

Times Diary.

submitted 556 days ago • 6 comments

Fun seeing who has and hasn't read the Supreme Court judgment based on which people are just continuing to witter on about the ECHR.

submitted 556 days ago • 4 comments

The Supreme Court explicitly states that today's Rwanda appeal decision does not depend on ECHR. In other words: UK leaving ECHR would not make a difference to this decision.

submitted 556 days ago • 14 comments

Very pleased that the Rwanda plan has been ruled unlawful. Listening to Lord Reed today, it’s amazing it could even have been in doubt. Full judgment here: www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...

submitted 556 days ago • 0 comments

If you are protesting today, or any day, know your rights. Save these bustcards, write the lawyers’ numbers on your arm, and reply ‘no comment’ until you have a lawyer. Translations available here: www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/advice_infor...

submitted 588 days ago • 0 comments

The Telegraph really can’t help itself with this stuff. “Mr Biden, who senior unionists have accused of hating Britain…” www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

submitted 610 days ago • 0 comments