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@davidallengreen.bsky.social

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Blogger. Mainly law and policy; Aston Villa supporter; sometimes ironic. Birmingham/London, England.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · Mar 16

I apologise again for restricting replies and quotes of my posts.

This is just to make using social media bearable.

As a quid-pro-quo for this, if anyone wants to respond to a post, you can @ me directly and if I can I will respond in turn, and good points (and counterpoints) will be re-posted.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1m

“So what do you feel you can offer to the Nobel peace prize if your application is successful?”

Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 2m

Trump has said quite a bit about the name change from the Department of Defense to the Department of War. He says America will no longer fight wars in a "politically correct" way, and that the US will win wars like never before ! etc etc

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A thread from my @prospectmagazine.co.uk colleague, @aloner.bsky.social.

Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 1h

Trump is in the Knesset waiting to speak, where there has been a long line of standing ovations for Netanyahu and his wife, Ron Dermer, Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner and Ivanka trump

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Matt Ashby @mattashby.com · 1h

Today I’m speaking at an event for police leaders in Durham, held at a conference venue. I knew I was in the right place when I pulled into the car park and every single car had been backed into its space.

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 2h

“Over the last 70 years, the #ECHR has repeatedly stepped in when domestic courts were unable to provide the protection we now take for granted and cherish,” says the UK’s outgoing judge at the European Court of Human Rights👇

🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ecthr-m... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social

ECtHR 'more necessary and relevant' now, says outgoing UK judge

Leading silk says he 'hardly recognises' the good work of the ECHR from recent criticism of Strasbourg court.

www.lawgazette.co.uk

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14h

Good luck in the new job you

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 17h

I have theory about this mess which I may write up.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22h

I have now deleted the posts because of people moaning they cannot reply.

dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 23h

Some of you have come over with me.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

This post has reached the daftness threshold and so replies now turned off.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

She had good speechwriters, especially Ronald Miller. I think he was responsible the Lady is not for turning line/allusion.

dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

FB has a lot in common with hauntings.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right

A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation When Mus unfurled the leaflet lying on her driveway, she was left shocked, angry and upset. “White Britons are already a minority in London … it is clear that if these trends continue white people will become a minority in Britain,” it read. The leaflet, written by a far-right group, was distributed along her street three years ago in Moseley, a leafy suburb of Birmingham. It went on to blame NHS waiting lists, a shortage of social housing and even traffic on “the rising population”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 1d

First as tragedy. Then as frogs.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

Best wishes Hayley

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

Which is a pity, as my article anticipates your very point.

Always good to read articles before commenting on them.

dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

I can tell by your first question you have not read the article you are commenting on.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

For Trump, the cruelty is the point.

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

Attorneys general hold awkward positions—political yet nominally independent. Pam Bondi has squared that circle by being unashamedly partisan, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.

Law versus politics

Both the UK and the US face a choice between unchecked executive power or a balanced constitution

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

And so does Michael Fish.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 2d

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d

Sinister Joanne Rampant.

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 2d

Looking like Chelsea FC? So, previously owned by a Russian oligarch, but now in hock to American hedge funds?

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 2d

There is perverse thinking, and a step below that is thinking that a president that is illegally sending US military units into US cities should be awarded the Nobel Peace prize.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 2d

What Trump and his ilk claim versus what they can support with actual evidence are always leagues apart.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

if only he'd renamed it the DEPARTMENT OF PEACE

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