@lizzybeesoraya.bsky.social
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Refugee & human rights law (non practising lawyer), Green Party socialist, atheist, tofu eating, fully vaxed, pro Autism, Gen X, unpaid carer. Mostly English, sometimes Kiwi, always Persian. #FreeIran #womanlifefreedom #BackZack
Refugee & human rights law (non practising lawyer), Green Party socialist, atheist, tofu eating, fully vaxed, pro Autism, Gen X, unpaid carer. Mostly English, sometimes Kiwi, always Persian. #FreeIran #womanlifefreedom #BackZack
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- Free Iran;
- Refugees welcome;
- Neurodivergence, learning disability & physical disability acceptance;
- Gender self ID acceptance;
- Combat climate change;
- Smash racism;
- Smash patriarchy;
- Redistribute wealth;
- Abolish monarchies;
- Open borders worldwide.
DO IT!
- Refugees welcome;
- Neurodivergence, learning disability & physical disability acceptance;
- Gender self ID acceptance;
- Combat climate change;
- Smash racism;
- Smash patriarchy;
- Redistribute wealth;
- Abolish monarchies;
- Open borders worldwide.
DO IT!
How dare the BBC speak to people with lived experience - we wouldn't want voters knowing that refugees are human beings. And top marks to Zack for rattling everyone's cages with his responses too. Reform supporters are seething all over social media, their £9m donation can't change the facts.
The Express is furious about this because the moment you show those who repeat anti-immigration rhetoric the real human stories their narrative collapses.
The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family.
And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.
The “immigrants” are people. Our friends, colleagues and family.
And it’s this nation of neighbours that is what makes Britain great.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
How dare the BBC speak to people with lived experience - we wouldn't want voters knowing that refugees are human beings. And top marks to Zack for rattling everyone's cages with his responses too. Reform supporters are seething all over social media, their £9m donation can't change the facts.
What is wrong with Fiona Bruce? Why is Zia Yusuf being allowed to keep calling people seeking asylum illegal immigrants??
December 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
What is wrong with Fiona Bruce? Why is Zia Yusuf being allowed to keep calling people seeking asylum illegal immigrants??
Question Time off to a crap start with nobody differentiating between refugees and migrants - they are not the same!!! And seeking asylum is NOT illegal. Hope Zack Polanski gets to speak soon!!
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Question Time off to a crap start with nobody differentiating between refugees and migrants - they are not the same!!! And seeking asylum is NOT illegal. Hope Zack Polanski gets to speak soon!!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hope the BBC holds him to this!
'Farage launched a tirade against the BBC and said he would no longer speak to the broadcaster, calling it “despicable” and “beyond belief”.'
Hope the BBC holds him to this!
'Farage launched a tirade against the BBC and said he would no longer speak to the broadcaster, calling it “despicable” and “beyond belief”.'
Nigel Farage denies saying anything racist ‘with malice’ as he attacks BBC
Reform UK leader launches tirade against broadcaster in latest effort to address claims of abuse from school contemporaries
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hope the BBC holds him to this!
'Farage launched a tirade against the BBC and said he would no longer speak to the broadcaster, calling it “despicable” and “beyond belief”.'
Hope the BBC holds him to this!
'Farage launched a tirade against the BBC and said he would no longer speak to the broadcaster, calling it “despicable” and “beyond belief”.'
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This International Day of Disabled People, we’re reminded that disability justice is deeply connected to every other fight for equity.
Our struggles connect us. Our solidarity is our strength! 💥
#IDDP
Our struggles connect us. Our solidarity is our strength! 💥
#IDDP
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This International Day of Disabled People, we’re reminded that disability justice is deeply connected to every other fight for equity.
Our struggles connect us. Our solidarity is our strength! 💥
#IDDP
Our struggles connect us. Our solidarity is our strength! 💥
#IDDP
Made a wreath today, at a free workshop run by a local initiative called the Green Skills Library - unfortunately they don't seem to be on BSky but you can find them on other social media if interested to know more.
December 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Made a wreath today, at a free workshop run by a local initiative called the Green Skills Library - unfortunately they don't seem to be on BSky but you can find them on other social media if interested to know more.
So, jury trials in England and Wales for crimes that carry a *likely*sentence of less than three years are being scrapped.
Can you believe this is happening, based on what a sentence is *likely* to be? Who will be making that decision? I hope the entire criminal bar stages a mutiny.
Can you believe this is happening, based on what a sentence is *likely* to be? Who will be making that decision? I hope the entire criminal bar stages a mutiny.
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
So, jury trials in England and Wales for crimes that carry a *likely*sentence of less than three years are being scrapped.
Can you believe this is happening, based on what a sentence is *likely* to be? Who will be making that decision? I hope the entire criminal bar stages a mutiny.
Can you believe this is happening, based on what a sentence is *likely* to be? Who will be making that decision? I hope the entire criminal bar stages a mutiny.
So this Andy Ngo (who I've never heard of before) has written a book about how he believes "antifa" is destroying democracy but he's trying to prevent others exercising their right to free speech - without which democracy can't exist.
pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/gu...
pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/gu...
Guardian faces trial after influencer sues over 'alt-right agitator' label
Guardian News and Media is considering next steps after a finding it was defamatory to describe Andy Ngo as an "'alt-right' agitator".
pressgazette.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
So this Andy Ngo (who I've never heard of before) has written a book about how he believes "antifa" is destroying democracy but he's trying to prevent others exercising their right to free speech - without which democracy can't exist.
pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/gu...
pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/gu...
Very happy to be supporting torture survivors with this purchase of festive cards & giftwrap from @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Very happy to be supporting torture survivors with this purchase of festive cards & giftwrap from @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social
A shout out on this World AIDS Day to two men I knew who were lost very young to this horrible disease in the 80s and 90s, work colleague John - a very funny guy and Cayhim - amazing salsa dance teacher and only person ever to offer me a professional dancing job. Always remembered.
December 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
A shout out on this World AIDS Day to two men I knew who were lost very young to this horrible disease in the 80s and 90s, work colleague John - a very funny guy and Cayhim - amazing salsa dance teacher and only person ever to offer me a professional dancing job. Always remembered.
"Almost no other European country uses juries, except sometimes in exceptional cases. Most use judges and examining magistrates. They treat trials as matters of possibly contested evidence"
Those countries have an inquisitorial system, not adversarial. So are we retraining all the judges now?
Those countries have an inquisitorial system, not adversarial. So are we retraining all the judges now?
David Lammy is right to slash the use of juries – it’s an open-and-shut case | Simon Jenkins
Barristers and criminals may not like the idea, but it’s key to reforming Britain’s antiquated and overloaded justice system, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
"Almost no other European country uses juries, except sometimes in exceptional cases. Most use judges and examining magistrates. They treat trials as matters of possibly contested evidence"
Those countries have an inquisitorial system, not adversarial. So are we retraining all the judges now?
Those countries have an inquisitorial system, not adversarial. So are we retraining all the judges now?
There is a great deal about this bill that is still very worrying. In a society that treats disabled people as 'less than' in so many ways, I am not sure this legislation could ever be completely safe. Its very existence would be perniciously coercive.
Three disabled peers have called on the House of Lords to make it harder for disabled people to be “coerced” or subjected to “undue influence” before requesting an assisted suicide through measures in a controversial bill.
#AssistedSuicide #AssistedDeath
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#AssistedSuicide #AssistedDeath
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Disabled peers call on Lords to increase protection from coercion in assisted suicide bill
Three disabled peers have called on the House of Lords to make it harder for disabled people to be “coerced” or subjected to “undue influence” before requesting an assisted suicide, through measure…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
There is a great deal about this bill that is still very worrying. In a society that treats disabled people as 'less than' in so many ways, I am not sure this legislation could ever be completely safe. Its very existence would be perniciously coercive.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
The Labour Party should probably charge its name to the Business Party. It certainly doesn't seem to have workers' backs any more. My maternal grandparents, who were lifelong Labour Party members would have been disgusted.
#votegreen
The Labour Party should probably charge its name to the Business Party. It certainly doesn't seem to have workers' backs any more. My maternal grandparents, who were lifelong Labour Party members would have been disgusted.
#votegreen
Labour U-turns on unfair dismissal right from day one after business backlash
The 'day one' protection against unfair dismissal will no longer be in the legislation
inews.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
The Labour Party should probably charge its name to the Business Party. It certainly doesn't seem to have workers' backs any more. My maternal grandparents, who were lifelong Labour Party members would have been disgusted.
#votegreen
The Labour Party should probably charge its name to the Business Party. It certainly doesn't seem to have workers' backs any more. My maternal grandparents, who were lifelong Labour Party members would have been disgusted.
#votegreen
Very weird that the Chancellor decided to launch an attack on @zackpolanski.bsky.social in the middle of the budget. Yes he's worked as a hypnotherapist, and yet has a better understanding of economics than an Oxford & LSE educated economist.
November 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Very weird that the Chancellor decided to launch an attack on @zackpolanski.bsky.social in the middle of the budget. Yes he's worked as a hypnotherapist, and yet has a better understanding of economics than an Oxford & LSE educated economist.
To all the people who keep saying a wealth tax won't work because the super rich will leave the country or move their assets to avoid it - the law will be changed to ensure that they still have to pay their tax. The US taxes their expats, so can we.
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
To all the people who keep saying a wealth tax won't work because the super rich will leave the country or move their assets to avoid it - the law will be changed to ensure that they still have to pay their tax. The US taxes their expats, so can we.
Why not do away with trials altogether and just have summary justice and a police state? It would cut court backlogs.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Why not do away with trials altogether and just have summary justice and a police state? It would cut court backlogs.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
I am seeing multiple, very impassioned, letters and emails from parents of disabled children to Richard Tice. Can I suggest if you are going to do this, please leave out your child's personal details and details of their daily difficulties. (1)
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I am seeing multiple, very impassioned, letters and emails from parents of disabled children to Richard Tice. Can I suggest if you are going to do this, please leave out your child's personal details and details of their daily difficulties. (1)
If you're on FB please go to the Newsnight post on Zack Polanski's page & report this vile anti Semitism
November 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
If you're on FB please go to the Newsnight post on Zack Polanski's page & report this vile anti Semitism
Just ordered my Xmas cards & wrap from @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social to show support for refugees at a time when our govt is completely failing its legal and moral duty to people fleeing persecution.
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Just ordered my Xmas cards & wrap from @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social to show support for refugees at a time when our govt is completely failing its legal and moral duty to people fleeing persecution.
Has Shabana Mahmood considered deporting herself yet? Or selling her valuables to pay her own salary? These would seem the logical conclusions of her desperate attempts to please the far right.
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Has Shabana Mahmood considered deporting herself yet? Or selling her valuables to pay her own salary? These would seem the logical conclusions of her desperate attempts to please the far right.
