Bicerin
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Current affairs, environment, arts, history & culture. Rugby too.🤷🏻♂️
Hope to be back in the EU before too long!
#FBPE
Inequality drives poverty. End it: #FairTaxSystem.
#UBI
Alba shaor!
A luta continua! ✊
Turkish protest pic: Erdem Sahin/EPA-EFE
Current affairs, environment, arts, history & culture. Rugby too.🤷🏻♂️
Hope to be back in the EU before too long!
#FBPE
Inequality drives poverty. End it: #FairTaxSystem.
#UBI
Alba shaor!
A luta continua! ✊
Turkish protest pic: Erdem Sahin/EPA-EFE
Does little to tackle the fundamental root cause of much of UK’s problems: inequality and the poverty it drives. Utterly hopeless from Labour. Again.
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Does little to tackle the fundamental root cause of much of UK’s problems: inequality and the poverty it drives. Utterly hopeless from Labour. Again.
But the three judges themselves have a known rightwing, pro-government track record. They are there for a reason. It’ll be interesting to see the outcome and subsequent fallout if it’s what folk are anticipating.
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
But the three judges themselves have a known rightwing, pro-government track record. They are there for a reason. It’ll be interesting to see the outcome and subsequent fallout if it’s what folk are anticipating.
Sorry, it wasn’t a personal dig at you, it’s just that I’m not sure the apartheid era justice system is the first place I’d look for inspiration - but you’ll know that better than me.
(for my record, I visited Jo’burg from Mozambique in 1979 and was shocked by the experience - never forgotten it).
(for my record, I visited Jo’burg from Mozambique in 1979 and was shocked by the experience - never forgotten it).
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Sorry, it wasn’t a personal dig at you, it’s just that I’m not sure the apartheid era justice system is the first place I’d look for inspiration - but you’ll know that better than me.
(for my record, I visited Jo’burg from Mozambique in 1979 and was shocked by the experience - never forgotten it).
(for my record, I visited Jo’burg from Mozambique in 1979 and was shocked by the experience - never forgotten it).
Absolutely true I agree but the justice system as a whole needs fixing, not tinkering with bits of it. This solves nothing. What’s the point of speeding up justice if the convicted have nowhere to go? How does that help victims? The justice system is where it is due to 15 years of funding cuts.
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Absolutely true I agree but the justice system as a whole needs fixing, not tinkering with bits of it. This solves nothing. What’s the point of speeding up justice if the convicted have nowhere to go? How does that help victims? The justice system is where it is due to 15 years of funding cuts.
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Unusual last-minute change means panel of three will now hear case rather than Mr Justice Chamberlain
Concerns have been raised after the judge who was expected to hear a legal challenge to the ban on Palestine Action was removed from the case at the last minute without explanation.
Mr Justice Chamberlain had granted permission for the judicial review and said that he would preside over the trial but it has emerged that a panel of three different judges will instead hear the case, which is due to start on Wednesday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Removal of judge in Palestine Action ban legal challenge ‘deeply concerning’
Unusual last-minute change means panel of three will now hear case rather than Mr Justice Chamberlain
Concerns have been raised after the judge who was expected to hear a legal challenge to the ban on Palestine Action was removed from the case at the last minute without explanation.
Mr Justice Chamberlain had granted permission for the judicial review and said that he would preside over the trial but it has emerged that a panel of three different judges will instead hear the case, which is due to start on Wednesday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
In the apartheid era there were many things you didn’t have. A fair justice system was one of them. There are arguments for no juries in certain kinds of cases that are complex, like fraud and other financial crimes, but speeding up trials will send more people to prison faster. They’re full! So …?
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
In the apartheid era there were many things you didn’t have. A fair justice system was one of them. There are arguments for no juries in certain kinds of cases that are complex, like fraud and other financial crimes, but speeding up trials will send more people to prison faster. They’re full! So …?
Well, one thing he’s already said before is the prisons are full. So, where are you going to put all the people more efficiently processed and sent to serve time in prison? You need to look at the justice system as a whole not just a bit of it. It’s been chronically starved of funding for 15 years.
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Well, one thing he’s already said before is the prisons are full. So, where are you going to put all the people more efficiently processed and sent to serve time in prison? You need to look at the justice system as a whole not just a bit of it. It’s been chronically starved of funding for 15 years.
So, assuming all that works well, where are you going to put all the people sent to serve time in prison? They’re full.
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
So, assuming all that works well, where are you going to put all the people sent to serve time in prison? They’re full.
Selling weapons to regimes bombing people doesn’t strike me as very smart either.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Selling weapons to regimes bombing people doesn’t strike me as very smart either.
Surprise! What’s it Denis Healey (I think) once said, if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. That’s advice this mess of a government has yet to learn, even better, don’t start digging in the first place!
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Surprise! What’s it Denis Healey (I think) once said, if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. That’s advice this mess of a government has yet to learn, even better, don’t start digging in the first place!
Cut him some slack guys, he was just doing it for a laugh … 👀
November 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Cut him some slack guys, he was just doing it for a laugh … 👀
🔥 Sounds great. Booking my summer holiday there!
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🔥 Sounds great. Booking my summer holiday there!
Well. The MAGA morons shouldn’t have voted in this regime, which seems made up of traitors and vatniks.
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Well. The MAGA morons shouldn’t have voted in this regime, which seems made up of traitors and vatniks.
Call a spade a spade. This is corruption. Nothing else.
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Call a spade a spade. This is corruption. Nothing else.
Enough of your corruption #SamirShah and #RobbieGibb, just go. NOW. And take your cronies with you.
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Enough of your corruption #SamirShah and #RobbieGibb, just go. NOW. And take your cronies with you.