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Zuckerberg is trying to suppress this book. So it’d be a shame to promote this review 😉 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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America, just in case you thought Friday went well here’s how the London Times saw it …..

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Imagine if we were part of the #EU

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Three weeks tomorrow 4 of my colleagues will be running rhe #Liverpool half marathon, I will be jogging behind. We are raising funds for @inquest-org.bsky.social If you can chip in any amount would be welcome to support their truly amazing work #AcesstoJustice www.justgiving.com/page/bjc-inq...

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Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.

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We’ve asked some festival favourites and hope-makers to respond to our theme for this year: Hope in the Making. Here’s what writer, rapper and record-breaking human beatboxer Testament had to say: a poem – full of hope – just for you.

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A statement from our CEO Moazzam Malik on the news that the government is cutting the UK aid budget to fund an increase in defence spending:

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Important reminder that @teamlabouruk.bsky.social need to carefully consider where our laws are taking us. If protest is outlawed then oppression is inevitable.

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The UK's anti-protest laws pre-legitimise far right authoritarianism. Labour must repeal them now. My column today. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

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Seems to miss the point about a huge imbalance of power. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Trump cuts aid to South Africa over ‘racial discrimination’ against Afrikaners. It's a decision clearly driven by apartheid bro Musk. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Gordon Brown sends a salutary message folling this week’s madness in the White House. #Trump making America great again is bad news for us all. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Who wants to tell him?

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Here's the sermon that enraged Donald Trump - in full. 'Have mercy, Mr President, on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away." 👇

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🚨NEW: Donald Trump has called Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde “nasty” and demand she apologize for her sermon yesterday at the National Cathedral that called for justice for the poor and marginalized. REPOST if you stand with Bishop Budde against Donald Trump’s hatred!

submitted 59 days ago • 52 comments

The difference four years makes: Trump swore the oath of office in the same Capitol Rotunda that his supporters swarmed on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop the certification of Biden’s victory

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Wonderful evening at #Liverpool #Philharmonic music room with #MartynJoseph fighting off the flu to give an amazing performance.

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It’s with a heavy heart that I’ve been forced to write to Claire Coutinho again.

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Why did Liz Truss send Keir Starmer a letter? Featuring @nerineskinner.bsky.social! youtu.be/-JeJBZyueV4

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@riannedowney.bsky.social wonderful performance on Hogmanay tonight

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We’ve updated our Clacton billboard to tell voters their MP just took £40k from a US firm that advises clients how to offshore their money and pay less tax. For the full story see video below 👇

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How many cases about service of the claim form can we fit in between now and Christmas. (The pedants amongst you will notice that this is a case about late service of the Particulars of Claim...) www.civillitigationbrief.com/2024/12/06/i...

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Not just pedantic but critical to the success of the appeal… a claim form delay would have met with a different outcome. One of those cases which we will use for training from now on.. “How not to run a claim” #AccesstoJustice

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Wonderful night in #Liverpool watching the legendary @paulheatonsolo.bsky.social and the superstar @riannedowney.bsky.social not only singing but the guitar came out too 👍🏼

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Legal-aid is scarce in the UK. Legal advice to help people down from a million in 2009/10 to 130,000 in 2021/22. People helped by legal-aid dropped by 4.5m People going to court without representation trebled. Rich go to courts, poor suffer in silence. leftfootforward.org/2024/11/what...

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Nobody got rich on their own. Elizabeth Warren's observation also underpins the argument as to why it is right for the rich to say their fair share of tax.

submitted 113 days ago • 52 comments

My new blog: Poor decision-making by the SRA is symptomatic of an organisation desperately in need of change. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...

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Interesting approach to limitation in misfeasance - always complex and now possibly more so? Will be “interesting” to see how the defendants’ lawyers approach changes.

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Second action struck out as an abuse of process. Discontinuing first action (on terms with no order for costs) well knowing you were going to issue a second is probably a recipe for trouble... www.civillitigationbrief.com/2024/11/29/s...

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Amazing sky this morning in #Liverpool

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In December I'm heading down to Cornwall for the first time to do some poems at the Cathedral... Wanna come? www.trurocathedral.org.uk/whats-on/car...

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On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation

submitted 120 days ago • 75 comments

@greenbeltfestival.bsky.social welcome to this better place!

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#Liverpool Law Society dinner and awards was at a new level this year. When Lady Hale is your guest speaker that is a win and when she reminds the room at the start of her speech that #HumanRights are front and centre that tops it all.

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The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills. Quite stark. Norway - 0 UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643k

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Simon Mullings obituary. An Other Lives obituary about Simon ‘Spike’ Mullings who died last month. He had a quite extraordinary career in social welfare law. www.theguardian.com/law/2024/oct...

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Liverpool shows Labour how long-term sickness blights lives and the economy

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #6,146,369!

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Everyone welcome and all funds to The Dan Kay Foundation 💜

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Interesting approach by the court which my costs draftsman son describes as “concerning”. Maybe an understatement 🙄

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