Malcolm Hawkes
@malcolmhawkes.bsky.social
Barrister, extradition & human rights law
Иногда, хочется поболтать или читать по русский
All things #ITFC.
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Иногда, хочется поболтать или читать по русский
All things #ITFC.
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Malcolm Hawkes
@malcolmhawkes.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Есть здесь русскоязычные? Особенно украинцы, которые пишут по-русски? Я пока не вижу здесь русскоязычных аккаунтов, но многие из них все еще находятся на X, куда я бы предпочел больше не заходить!
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“1) Greenland has been owned by Denmark since 1380 and is today a fully integrated but self-governing part of Denmark. Very much like Alaska is part of the USA.” 2/
December 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“1) Greenland has been owned by Denmark since 1380 and is today a fully integrated but self-governing part of Denmark. Very much like Alaska is part of the USA.” 2/
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@jarlov.bsky.social: [Conservative MP Denmark] “Let's get the facts straight regarding #Trump's newest statements about #Greenland:” 1/
December 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
@jarlov.bsky.social: [Conservative MP Denmark] “Let's get the facts straight regarding #Trump's newest statements about #Greenland:” 1/
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@seryndippyt.bsky.social and I wrote about migration in @bylines.scot
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A new approach to integration – the cost of division - Bylines Scotland
Political fear and scarcity have stripped humanity from our immigration debate, turning neighbours into strangers – Nazish’s story
bylines.scot
December 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
@seryndippyt.bsky.social and I wrote about migration in @bylines.scot
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If ministers want to publish the assertion - "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" - they should be able to say what they think that means
I hope that demonstrably untrue claim will now be retired
I hope that demonstrably untrue claim will now be retired
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If ministers want to publish the assertion - "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" - they should be able to say what they think that means
I hope that demonstrably untrue claim will now be retired
I hope that demonstrably untrue claim will now be retired
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This has made grin, so I'm sharing it 😍 @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Empathy that lasts a lifetime’: charity bridges gap between Bradford schools
Pupils from schools with differing demographics meet and play under charity scheme set up after city’s 2001 riots
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
This has made grin, so I'm sharing it 😍 @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Brexit ‘badly damaged’ our economy says David Lammy, the deputy prime minister also says rejoining the EU customs union would boost economic growth. More and more people are realising the sky doesn’t fall in when you tell the truth about Brexit!
December 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Brexit ‘badly damaged’ our economy says David Lammy, the deputy prime minister also says rejoining the EU customs union would boost economic growth. More and more people are realising the sky doesn’t fall in when you tell the truth about Brexit!
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
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Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
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From the CWS Archive. June 2022 and August 2020.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
From the CWS Archive. June 2022 and August 2020.
Crippled the criminal justice system by decades of underfunding? The only solution has to be removing the fundamental right to trial by jury:
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 2:18 PM
Crippled the criminal justice system by decades of underfunding? The only solution has to be removing the fundamental right to trial by jury:
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
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Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇
🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR
There are thousands more.
#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
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Superb piece by Ben Tonra in today’s Irish Tines, on Ireland’s strategic choices in a predatory world, with the necessity of a strategic pivot towards Europe increasingly apparent.
Everyone interested in foreign policy making should read this.
Everyone interested in foreign policy making should read this.
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Superb piece by Ben Tonra in today’s Irish Tines, on Ireland’s strategic choices in a predatory world, with the necessity of a strategic pivot towards Europe increasingly apparent.
Everyone interested in foreign policy making should read this.
Everyone interested in foreign policy making should read this.
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IS RUSSIA ABOUT TO CROSS INTO ITS ‘TOTAL WAR’ MOMENT
In February 1943 Josef Goebbels made his Total War speech.
It followed the defeat at Stalingrad and openly acknowledged the dire situation Germany faced. He declared a state of total war - because up to the point, Germany had been cosseting its
In February 1943 Josef Goebbels made his Total War speech.
It followed the defeat at Stalingrad and openly acknowledged the dire situation Germany faced. He declared a state of total war - because up to the point, Germany had been cosseting its
October 29, 2025 at 6:44 AM
IS RUSSIA ABOUT TO CROSS INTO ITS ‘TOTAL WAR’ MOMENT
In February 1943 Josef Goebbels made his Total War speech.
It followed the defeat at Stalingrad and openly acknowledged the dire situation Germany faced. He declared a state of total war - because up to the point, Germany had been cosseting its
In February 1943 Josef Goebbels made his Total War speech.
It followed the defeat at Stalingrad and openly acknowledged the dire situation Germany faced. He declared a state of total war - because up to the point, Germany had been cosseting its
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"You left Europe because you wanted less boats, you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment."
Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.
Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0
Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.
Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0
October 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
"You left Europe because you wanted less boats, you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment."
Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.
Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0
Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union.
Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0
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An elected MP, Reform’s Sarah Pochin says there are too many Black and Asian people on TV - so plain racism - and the coverage of it is buried. Silence and ignorance is complicity, causing lasting damage. When we see racism it’s what we do next, individually and collectively, that matters.
October 26, 2025 at 8:38 AM
An elected MP, Reform’s Sarah Pochin says there are too many Black and Asian people on TV - so plain racism - and the coverage of it is buried. Silence and ignorance is complicity, causing lasting damage. When we see racism it’s what we do next, individually and collectively, that matters.
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People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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October 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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Thanks for all the really amazing support from Question Time tonight!
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October 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Thanks for all the really amazing support from Question Time tonight!
You heard it several times (including even from Reform!):
@greenparty.org.uk are surging.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
#BBCQT
You heard it several times (including even from Reform!):
@greenparty.org.uk are surging.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
#BBCQT
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By way of a reminder folks...
You voted for Cameron
Everything got worse
You voted for Johnson
Everything got worse
You voted for brexit
Everything got worse
You voted for Truss
Everything got worse
If you vote for Farage
You have no idea how bad your life will become.
You voted for Cameron
Everything got worse
You voted for Johnson
Everything got worse
You voted for brexit
Everything got worse
You voted for Truss
Everything got worse
If you vote for Farage
You have no idea how bad your life will become.
October 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
By way of a reminder folks...
You voted for Cameron
Everything got worse
You voted for Johnson
Everything got worse
You voted for brexit
Everything got worse
You voted for Truss
Everything got worse
If you vote for Farage
You have no idea how bad your life will become.
You voted for Cameron
Everything got worse
You voted for Johnson
Everything got worse
You voted for brexit
Everything got worse
You voted for Truss
Everything got worse
If you vote for Farage
You have no idea how bad your life will become.
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I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
October 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes
But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
This is fantastic and very welcome news. As a cyclist, I’ve really noticed a difference - long may it continue!
Thanks to London’s bold action, almost 10 million people are now breathing cleaner air.
That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.
That means fewer children will grow up with stunted lungs and fewer people will have to suffer from asthma, dementia and heart disease.
London hits clean air milestone 184 years early - ULEZ makes 'big difference'
A professor has branded the success a 'truly remarkable turnaround for the city's air quality'
www.mylondon.news
October 9, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This is fantastic and very welcome news. As a cyclist, I’ve really noticed a difference - long may it continue!