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Senior Home Office official expressed concerns about proscribing Palestine Action: “My colleagues and I are shocked. The office has been very tense, with concern about treating a non-violent protest group the same as ... Isis, and the dangerous precedent it sets". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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President Trump has hailed what he called a ‘giant win’ after a landmark ruling by the US Supreme Court. It effectively allows Mr Trump to end what’s known as ‘birthright citizenship’ in some parts of the country. www.channel4.com/news/trump-h...

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Environmental groups file a federal lawsuit to block a migrant detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” being built in the heart of the Florida Everglades. apnews.com/article/flor...

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US Supreme Court sides with parents who wanted to opt their children out of reading books with LGBTQ themes. The court voted 6-3 in support of the parents who said a curriculum adopted in 2022 for elementary-age children violated their religious rights. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Interesting explainer on "Does the European Convention on Human Rights stop foreign criminals being removed from the UK?". ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/d...

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Keir Starmer: “I wouldn’t have used those words [“we risk becoming an island of strangers”] if I had known they were, or even would be interpreted as an echo of Powell. I and my speechwriters had no idea. That phrase – it wasn’t right. The honest truth: I deeply regret using it.”

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Sorry, but, what now? "Under the agreement, Britain would send back Channel migrants to France, in return for the UK taking asylum seekers from France". www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...

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"Deep seated" issues must be addressed before the UK's official statistics agency can "rebuild its reputation", according to a highly critical government review. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The King has approved the appointment of six Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal. He has been pleased to approve the appointments of Mrs Justice Cockerill, Mr Justice Dove, Mr Justice Foxton, Mrs Justice May, Mr Justice Miles and Mrs Justice Yip. www.judiciary.uk/appointments...

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Congratulations to Hugh Mercer KC on his election as judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of the United Kingdom. pace.coe.int/en/news/9943...

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The parliamentary International Development Committee has written to the Government, advising that the exemption of F-35 components from suspended exports to Israel could be incompatible with the UK’s international legal obligations. committees.parliament.uk/committee/98...

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Palestine Action has raised more than £100,000 within days to fight the government’s attempts to proscribe it as a terrorist organisation. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...

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How did this take 4 years? "Two police officers who conducted the "humiliating" strip-search of a 15-year-old schoolgirl committed gross misconduct, a panel has found. The girl, known as Child Q, was searched at her east London school in December 2020". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Five elected representatives to the Board of Deputies, the largest body representing British Jews, have been suspended for two years after criticising the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Keir Starmer’s pledge to “smash the gangs” is the wrong way to tackle the small boats crisis and his pledge to end the use of migrant hotels by the next election is unlikely to be achieved, the head of the borders watchdog has warned. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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London Labour councillors have defected to the Greens as support for Starmer’s party continues to slump. They blamed what they described as the party’s shift to the right under the Prime Minister for their defections. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

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Co-op to stop sourcing relationships with countries with internationally recognised human rights abuses and international law breaches. Wherever possible, they will not use ingredients in Co-op branded products or sell whole products from such countries. www.co-operative.coop/media/news-r...

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The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to swiftly deport migrants, including a group of men bound for South Sudan, to countries they are not from. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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"Placing a higher value on minor damage to war planes than on the lives of Palestinians reflects the century-long legacy of colonial violence at the heart of the UK Government's stance towards Palestine": open letter from civil society organisations to Home Secretary. www.pilc.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Over 70 Labour MPs have backed a motion opposing cuts to disability benefits, in a major blow to the government. The Mirror understands the backbenchers - including 10 chairs of Commons committees - have signed an amendment rejecting the reforms. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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A former GB News presenter is taking legal action against the broadcaster after he was taken off air last year. It comes after Albie Amankona was taken off air after saying on air he believed Suella Braverman to be a “racist” in July 2024. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

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Reminder on Windrush Day: "At least £22,000 was spent by the Home Office on hiring lawyers in a failed attempt to prevent release of a hard-hitting internal report that found the roots of the Windrush scandal lay in 30 years of racist immigration laws". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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A 19th Century mass grave in Pennsylvania could contain the remains of up to 120 Irish immigrants, researchers have said. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Hundreds of journalists for Voice of America (VOA) - most of its remaining staff - have been fired by President Donald Trump's administration, effectively shutting down the US-funded news outlet. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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A viable device was thrown through the window of the Belfast Islamic Centre during an attack on Friday night. People from the centre were praying inside the building when the attack was reported at about 10pm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Every baby in England is to have a DNA screening to "avoid fatal diseases and receive personalised healthcare". www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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What shameless, cowardly, bullying behaviour. "The home secretary will move to proscribe Palestine Action in the coming weeks, effectively branding them as a terrorist organisation". Solidarity with everyone who speaks out against tyranny and genocide. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Well done, Bluesky people! US Vice President JD Vance became the most blocked user on Bluesky days after joining the social media platform. www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-blu...

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More than 60 former patients of a teen psychiatric unit have been awarded damages totalling £2.5m. The patients were subject to alleged sexual abuse or mistreatment from the 1960s to the 1990s. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Wow! The "world’s most trusted broadcaster" refuses to air a documentary "about the plight of medics in Gaza" that it commissioned itself, as "broadcasting this material risked creating a perception of partiality". www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

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Lord chancellor declares she would continue to ensure no one is treated differently in court because of race or religion, as legislation entered the statute books preventing guidance for judges referring to race and ethnicity. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/sentenc...

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Expert Legal Opinion on the Implications for the EU of the July 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion regarding the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Given the Advisory Opinion, the EU and its Member States are under the following international obligations:

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Pornography depicting any act of strangulation is to be made illegal as part of govt efforts to combat an “epidemic” of sexual violence against women and girls. A review by Baroness Bertin found that porn had effectively established choking as a “sexual norm”. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...

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Decisions relating to lone child asylum seekers should be removed from Home Office officials and given to independent professionals because of fundamental problems with the way the Home Office treats this vulnerable group, a report has found. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Two serving Met Police officers and a former officer will face a gross misconduct hearing following an IOPC investigation into an incident where an elderly woman who had dementia was “red-dotted” with a Taser, handcuffed, and had a spit hood applied. www.policeconduct.gov.uk/news/three-o...

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It starts. Anyone who doesn't support and encourage us to waste money and human lives on yet another destructive, illegal, counterproductive war in the Middle East is a traitor.

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Israel's defence minister: Khamenei “can no longer be allowed to exist” after Soroka hospital in southern Israel was hit during an Iranian missile attack. Bold of Israel to say that the leadership of regimes that target hospitals should be destroyed.

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The rollout of synthetic pepper spray for use to incapacitate jailed children is “wholly irresponsible” while black and minority prisoners are more likely to be subjected to force than white inmates, a watchdog has said. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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