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The ministers reasonable should also face charges of misconduct in public office.

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Good Law Project holds a copy of new NHS Guidance published yesterday and it is clear that Wes Streeting is continuing his war on trans people. Remarkably the national health service is now directing GPs to cause harm to the community. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

It baffles me why voters in a local election would care about parties' foreign policy positions. It's just not relevant!

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Lots of news from US, and this is especially significant. The DoJ suspends a lawyer for candour to the court when answering judge’s questions. This is important, as any lawyer has duties both to client and to the court. The system breaks down otherwise. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

This thread is absolutely brutal

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.

submitted 12 days ago • 65 comments

The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

submitted 13 days ago • 422 comments

Every accusation is a confession

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British institutions came through too, despite some intense and sustained pressure. Just been reading the bit of Tim Shipman's latest where Johnson and Cummings try to get Cabinet colleagues & Civil Service to break law, and they are all, immediately: "Nope. Not doing that. Do that & you're toast."

submitted 14 days ago • 13 comments

We are watching in real time as increasingly large sections of the global political and media elite agree that the Rule of Law - law made by democratic political assemblies and enforced by the apparatus of constitutional states - should be abandoned in favour of the whims of corrupt extremists.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

The argument here appears to be “high profile criminals should simply be let off if some people will be upset by them facing justice”, which I suppose is what’s happened in the US

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

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Today Keir Starmer wrote in the Mail that the public 'has a right' to be angry about illegal migration. We have a right to be angry our Prime Minister is fanning the flames of far-right narratives; angry that under Labour there are still no safe routes for people to come here fleeing war. 1/

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Note to all editors: 1. Autocratic leaders arbitrarily imprisoning political enemies on barely-concealed made-up pretexts is bad. 2. Independent courts convicting people who happen to be politicians of crimes they did actually commit is good. 3. These are not the same thing. 4. As you well know.

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

“Forget the Signal Chat, What About the Yemen War Crimes Revealed in It?” Much of our media is missing the biggest story of all: US officials are not just breaking US and international law but confessing to it in writing. My latest for Zeteo, read/share/subscribe:

submitted 17 days ago • 274 comments

Driving out billionaires who don't pay their taxes seems like it should be fiscally positive. Replace them with people who are willing to pay. Why should we mourn these freeloaders?

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Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process. That means the United States is simply unsafe

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Destroying an inhabited civilian building to kill one guy is a war crime. Waltz and everyone cheering him on is complicit.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The Atlantic just published all of the messages from the signal chat. archive.ph/ta6gH

submitted 19 days ago • 99 comments

White House claims "plenary authority, derived from...the mandate of the electorate" to lift itself above the courts. This is what I mean when I talk about "authoritarian democracy": the idea that constraints on an elected govt - whether courts, laws or oppositions - are inherently anti-democratic.

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

I honestly cannot express how awesome it is that the DoD was putting out these statements at the literal exact same time that the Secretary of Defense was negligently transmitting classified information on an unsecure platform to a journalist. It's just utterly amazing. What a time to be alive.

submitted 20 days ago • 35 comments

Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

By way of contrasting example: the UK opposes torture everywhere, no matter who does it. The courts won't deport someone somewhere they face torture or even trial based on evidence obtained by torture, no matter what they're accused of. Viz the alleged terrorist Abu Qatada.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment