Sally Brooks
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Sally Brooks
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‘Corporate courts’ in trade deals are the fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon against climate action: so why does the UK government demand them?
In this gas, Sally Brooks discusses ISDS, secretive 'corporate courts' that threaten to limit significantly national efforts to implement pro-ecological policies.
www.greenhousethinktank.org
‘Corporate courts’ in trade deals are the fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon against climate action: so why does the UK government demand them? By me on @greenhousett.bsky.social www.greenhousethinktank.org/corporate-co...
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It's a pretty consistent theme that the United States is constitutionally incapable of forgiving any foreign nation for humiliating them militarily and so in proceeding decades, bullies them and their people just for kicks (NK, Cuba, Vietnam, Iran, etc.). An adolescent country with a big stick.
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
It's a pretty consistent theme that the United States is constitutionally incapable of forgiving any foreign nation for humiliating them militarily and so in proceeding decades, bullies them and their people just for kicks (NK, Cuba, Vietnam, Iran, etc.). An adolescent country with a big stick.
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Juries don’t cause backlogs — underfunding does, ’ Jason Lartey, LCCSA president, tells @thetimes.com, asking justice secretary David Lammy to meet him and see what it's like on the "frontline" of the system. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
Jason Lartey: ‘Juries don’t cause backlogs — underfunding does’
The new president of the London Criminal Courts Solicitors’ Association tells Catherine Baksi why he fears scrapping jury trials risks inflicting greater harm
www.thetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Juries don’t cause backlogs — underfunding does, ’ Jason Lartey, LCCSA president, tells @thetimes.com, asking justice secretary David Lammy to meet him and see what it's like on the "frontline" of the system. www.thetimes.com/uk/law/artic...
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Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
November 27, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Headline on The World at One just now:
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
"Sir Keir Starmer has denied putting the Labour Party before the country by ending the two-child benefit cap".
Can we please go back to reporting the actual news, not someone's partisan take on it?
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I'm constantly shocked (but not surprised) by how little we discuss the additional financial burden placed on young people by the Clegg-Cameron student loan regime.
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
Rachel Reeves hits young graduates with a double stealth tax
The Chancellor plans to raise as much money from freezing loan repayment thresholds as from the mansion tax
www.newstatesman.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm constantly shocked (but not surprised) by how little we discuss the additional financial burden placed on young people by the Clegg-Cameron student loan regime.
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
@rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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On the topic of the ‘mansion tax’ somebody with a £2m house will pay £2500 which is substantially less property tax in ABSOLUTE TERMS than I paid on a house assessed at $300k in Minneapolis a dozen years ago. I imagine they will live.
Dollars to donuts the complainants will be older people sitting on massive amounts of property wealth and not younger high income people facing massively increased childcare costs (salary sac) or higher student loan repayments.
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
On the topic of the ‘mansion tax’ somebody with a £2m house will pay £2500 which is substantially less property tax in ABSOLUTE TERMS than I paid on a house assessed at $300k in Minneapolis a dozen years ago. I imagine they will live.
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Fresh data shows Hungary’s population fell below 9.5M, down from just under 10M when Orbán took power in 2010 — despite mass naturalization of the diaspora and people moving to Hungary. Losses to Western Europe and the failure of “pro-family” policies still outweighed the gains.
📉🇭🇺 INVESTIGATION: Viktor Orbán vowed to boost Hungary’s population without immigrants. But births keep falling—and emigration is soaring. Direkt36's investigation shows many young people are leaving, posing serious risks for the country’s future.
Inside Viktor Orbán’s Failure to Achieve His Demographic Goal - VSquare.org
The Prime Minister has long said that he would like to grow the population of Hungary without bringing in immigrants. Recently, births have fallen, but the number of people leaving the country has also soared.
vsquare.org
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Fresh data shows Hungary’s population fell below 9.5M, down from just under 10M when Orbán took power in 2010 — despite mass naturalization of the diaspora and people moving to Hungary. Losses to Western Europe and the failure of “pro-family” policies still outweighed the gains.
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Tory MPs now protesting about anti-protest laws which they themselves brought in..
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Tory MPs now protesting about anti-protest laws which they themselves brought in..
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I think one thing that needs to be said in the argument over judges v juries is that juries are far, far more diversely drawn than the judiciary. Juries will usually include, for example, at least one person under 30. The judiciary won't.
I don't know what effect that has, but it's a difference.
I don't know what effect that has, but it's a difference.
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I think one thing that needs to be said in the argument over judges v juries is that juries are far, far more diversely drawn than the judiciary. Juries will usually include, for example, at least one person under 30. The judiciary won't.
I don't know what effect that has, but it's a difference.
I don't know what effect that has, but it's a difference.
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62,791 signatures so far.
Sign and share widely to safeguard democracy.
Sign and share widely to safeguard democracy.
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
62,791 signatures so far.
Sign and share widely to safeguard democracy.
Sign and share widely to safeguard democracy.
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OBR: "We have not changed our assessment that Brexit will reduce the level of UK productivity by around 4 per cent after 15 years."
obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
obr.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
OBR: "We have not changed our assessment that Brexit will reduce the level of UK productivity by around 4 per cent after 15 years."
obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
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On budget day, think of George Ward Hunt, who delivered his only budget in 1868.
On arriving in the Commons he discovered that he'd left his speech behind, & had to run home to get it while MPs sat grumbling in the Chamber.
That is why chancellors show the red box to journalists before setting out
On arriving in the Commons he discovered that he'd left his speech behind, & had to run home to get it while MPs sat grumbling in the Chamber.
That is why chancellors show the red box to journalists before setting out
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
On budget day, think of George Ward Hunt, who delivered his only budget in 1868.
On arriving in the Commons he discovered that he'd left his speech behind, & had to run home to get it while MPs sat grumbling in the Chamber.
That is why chancellors show the red box to journalists before setting out
On arriving in the Commons he discovered that he'd left his speech behind, & had to run home to get it while MPs sat grumbling in the Chamber.
That is why chancellors show the red box to journalists before setting out
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journalists asking cabinet ministers why there’s so much chaotic crazed speculation about the Budget might want to question their own role in this
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
journalists asking cabinet ministers why there’s so much chaotic crazed speculation about the Budget might want to question their own role in this
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Budget 2025
One lesso: organise, inform, campaign, protest.
UK Govt wasted 18 months, condemned millions of children to poverty. Today govt announced end of the two child benefit cap.
7 MPs had Labour whip withdrawn for opposing the cap. For 18 months Ministers defended the stupid policy.
One lesso: organise, inform, campaign, protest.
UK Govt wasted 18 months, condemned millions of children to poverty. Today govt announced end of the two child benefit cap.
7 MPs had Labour whip withdrawn for opposing the cap. For 18 months Ministers defended the stupid policy.
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Budget 2025
One lesso: organise, inform, campaign, protest.
UK Govt wasted 18 months, condemned millions of children to poverty. Today govt announced end of the two child benefit cap.
7 MPs had Labour whip withdrawn for opposing the cap. For 18 months Ministers defended the stupid policy.
One lesso: organise, inform, campaign, protest.
UK Govt wasted 18 months, condemned millions of children to poverty. Today govt announced end of the two child benefit cap.
7 MPs had Labour whip withdrawn for opposing the cap. For 18 months Ministers defended the stupid policy.
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what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
what the fuck
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Has no one in the BBC heard of the Streisand effect?
Did everyone think, "oh, Rutger Bregman, he'll be cool with this"?
Did everyone think, "oh, Rutger Bregman, he'll be cool with this"?
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Has no one in the BBC heard of the Streisand effect?
Did everyone think, "oh, Rutger Bregman, he'll be cool with this"?
Did everyone think, "oh, Rutger Bregman, he'll be cool with this"?
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Perhaps the Home Secretary, law graduate & barrister-at-law, Shabana Mahmood should read & understand the relevant section of the Refugee Convention to which the UK has been a signatory since long before she was born before putting out deliberately misleading & rabble rousing tweets like this.
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Perhaps the Home Secretary, law graduate & barrister-at-law, Shabana Mahmood should read & understand the relevant section of the Refugee Convention to which the UK has been a signatory since long before she was born before putting out deliberately misleading & rabble rousing tweets like this.
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Are we really as obsessed with migration as Shabana Mahmood thinks? My column in today's Sunday National.
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Are we really as obsessed with migration as Shabana Mahmood thinks? My column in today's Sunday National.
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Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
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🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has already passed 40,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has already passed 40,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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One day everyone will have always been against this.
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
One day everyone will have always been against this.
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paint me not surprised
"Leftwing bias"
"Leftwing bias"
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
paint me not surprised
"Leftwing bias"
"Leftwing bias"