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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 · 12h

Good luck in the new job you

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14h

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

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20h

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

dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20h

Some of you have come over with me.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22h

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

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22h

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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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d

This is a timely, excellent and important report on how "arms length" bodies in UK are vulnerable to political manipulation.

Kudos @chrischirp.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social for putting this together.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 3d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 2d

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 2d

Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Last year, Nash Colundalur interviewed Machado, who is in exile, for Prospect: “Is there a risk that I could be put in prison? Yes, certainly.”

Venezuela’s opposition leader: ‘The main challenge is to stay alive’

From hiding, María Corina Machado still believes the fight for Venezuelan democracy and freedom is making progress

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 2d

The Nobel Peace Prize committee's decision to honour someone who has tirelessly campaigned against dictatorship is both worthwhile and welcome, and objectively very funny.

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