A JUDGE HAD NO WORKERS RIGHTS
Claire Gilham was a district judge in Warrington. She spent her days dealing with some of the most difficult civil and family cases in the North West. People going through divorce, debt, custody battles. The kind of work that matters.
The courts she worked in were a mess. Unsafe buildings. Overworked staff. Budget cuts so deep that basic safety was gone. Violent people in courtrooms with no security. She even received death threats.
She reported it. Formally. In writing. To the people above her.
Their response was remarkable. They told her the problems she was describing were not really problems. They were just her personal working style. She was then bullied and loaded with extra work for daring to speak up.
So she did what any reasonable person would do. She took the Ministry of Justice @MoJGovUK to an employment tribunal.
Here is where it gets truly absurd.
A judge in England has no whistleblower protection. None. The law that protects workers who speak out about wrongdoing did not cover judges because judges are classified as office-holders, not workers.
The person sitting in court enforcing the law for everyone else had fewer legal rights than almost anyone sitting in front of her.
She lost at tribunal. She lost at the Court of Appeal. She started a crowdfunding campaign just to keep the case alive. Most people would have stopped.
She did not stop.
In October 2019, after seven years, @UKSupremeCourt ruled in her favour. Unanimously. Five judges, zero dissent. The law was rewritten to protect judges who blow the whistle. And the ruling went further, helping workers across the public and private sectors who had been denied the same protection.
One judge. No institutional backing. Fighting the entire Ministry of Justice with a crowdfunding page. She changed the law for everyone.
@guardian@BBCNews@lawgazette@thetimes@UKSupremeCourt - Gilham v Ministry of Justice [2019] UKSC 44
🚨 Reports say FIFA is fuming with UEFA.
After the US humiliated top African referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan — CAF Referee of the Year — denying him entry despite a valid visa and blocking him from the 2026 World Cup...
UEFA just handed him the biggest stage: officiating the 2026 UEFA Super Cup final.
FIFA talks big about "inclusivity" and "global football," but stays silent when the host nation disrespects African officials.
Meanwhile, Europe steps up.
This exposes everything.
The World Cup in America is showing its true colors: selective borders for Africans while they welcome whoever fits their interests.
Africa is not begging for scraps.
Our talent will shine — with or without their permission.
This is Sad!
For almost 30 years, leaders from both parties have set politics aside to honor the women veterans who gave their lives for this country at Arlington National Cemetery.
Then Trump and Hegseth shut it down.
Why? Because the ceremony recognized women.
This is an insult to every woman who wore the uniform, served with courage, and sacrificed for this nation.
Yesterday, @demwomencaucus stood with the women veterans Trump and Hegseth tried to erase and held an event anyway.
We see you. We honor you. We thank you. 🇺🇸
London must not host a property fair selling land in illegal Israeli settlements. The “Great Israeli Real Estate” event promotes the sale of land in occupied Palestinian territory. It is normalising annexation, displacement and ethnic cleansing.
This Event Must be Cancelled!
@DaniMayakovski Estados Unidos estuvo en un tris de aliarse con la Alemania nazi pero la había inconvenientes. Pero ni ideológicos, ni humanitarios ni de justicia. De haber tomado partido por los nazis ya se habrían ocupado ellos de blanquear la historia como han blanqueado la suya.
@DaniMayakovski 90 Aniversario
La Batalla de Cable Street, los trabajadores de Londres se unieron para asestar un golpe decisivo contra la amenaza del fascismo británico
La Batalla de Cable Street tuvo lugar el domingo 4 octubre 1936 📕📚
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Palantir's co-founder claimed "the NHS makes people sick".
Yet this US tech giant now runs the NHS data platform.
There are serious concerns about its access to patient data and human rights record.
The Government should use the break clause to kick Palantir out of our NHS.
Tim Walz (Gobernador de Minnesota): «Estamos hartos. Un presidente débil, imprudente e idiota nos ha metido en una guerra que nadie pidió.
No existía ninguna amenaza. No se fijaron objetivos. No hay ningún plan de salida. Esto es puro fascismo».
Más claro, imposible.
Richard Burgon highlights the stark double standard in UK policy:
"Imagine if this weekend in London there was a Russian real estate event selling Ukrainian land. The government would ban it immediately.
Instead, we have an Israeli real estate event openly advertising the illegal sale of land in occupied Palestinian territories. The government recognizes Palestine. Why isn't this banned?"
El político sionista Moshe Feiglin en el programa de noticias más visto de Israel:
"Como dijo Hitler: 'No puedo vivir si queda un solo judío', no podemos vivir aquí si queda un solo palestino en Gaza".
Lo admiten sin pudor alguno, el Sionismo es el nuevo Nazismo.
When Obama bombed Libya, the justification was "humanitarian intervention." "Protection of civilians." "Responsibility to protect." The language of international law and moral obligation.
Libya was subsequently destroyed. It has open slave markets today. The humanitarian outcome was catastrophic.
But the language was immaculate. The syntax was perfect. The suits were pressed and the speeches were moving and the Nobel Peace Prize sat on the shelf while the drones flew.
Trump bombs things and says it's about the oil.
In terms of honesty, pure, raw, unmediated honesty about what American power actually does, Trump is more accurate than any of his predecessors.
This is not a defense of Trump.
This is an indictment of everyone who made the polished version seem acceptable.
The lie was always more dangerous than the liar currently in office.
Because the lie had good manners.
@RobKenyonReform Having had several myself, they do not carry over. Ergo, for this post, you do not have one. So, the question is, why wouldn’t you just get another one? Be absolutely grand, won’t it? Seems you ought to check your facts.
President Erdogan of Türkiye🇹🇷:
‘Eighty-five years ago, the silence and inaction in the face of Hitler led to the loss of eighty million lives across the globe. All of humanity paid the price for the madness of a bloodthirsty monster.
Today, the same mistake is being repeated. The genocides committed by the butcher of Gaza, Netanyahu, and his cabinet are being watched with the same profound silence and inaction as was shown towards Hitler.
Let no one forget that when a fire grows, it does not merely burn the region; sparks will fall across the globe.
Just as the whole world is paying the price for the deadlock in the Strait of Hormuz today, if Israel’s banditry is not curbed, humanity as a whole will suffer the consequences alongside the region.’
Oh it’s not just Trump, it’s Us Citizens, the whole USA has shown it’s all bluster and hubris. Its defence systems fail, its airplanes fall from the sky, it’s bigly aircraft carriers limp out of the region with ‘laundry fires’.
It couldn’t defend its ME bases, and we in UK and Europe are expected to take US seriously as a security guarantee.
I hope the US/Israeli efforts to topple the Iranian government continue to fail. I hope Iran gets stronger so that it can hammer Israel whenever Israel does evil things. I hope the US war machine implodes, the US empire ends, and Palestine is freed from the scourge of Zionism.
😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media.
A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.
Lets make this viral again 👇