Sarah Adkins

Solicitor: infrastructure planning, environment & #Brexit, transatlantic law firm; parent, school governor, charity trustee, evidence based decision-maker

[Sarah Adkins @S_CAdkins]

A tribute to my brother, Matt Holmes. https://t.co/X53Y0rRjkl

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Last week, the new owners of the Observer wrote to tell me they would *not* be issuing me with a new contract.

So...I want to say publicly that it was an absolute privilege to speak on behalf of my Observer colleagues during our strike. I don't regret doing so. And I learned so much from it.
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[Dominic Grieve @dominicgrieve_]

I now want to look in more detail at Jenrick's nasty propaganda video.
It starts with a few examples of cases to make people angry. But those examples are in fact irrelevant to the case he is trying to make.

Jenrick has been an Immigration minister. He must know that the main problem with illegal or irregular migration is that when a person comes here and claims asylum, they may get it as a bona fide refugee in which case they can stay. That has nothing to do with the ECHR. It is a consequence of our domestic law and the Refugee Convention. He makes no suggestion we should leave it.
For those whose application is refused the main problem is that it is very difficult to return them to their countries of origin which will often not co-operate particularly if documents have been destroyed.
So leaving the ECHR will have minimal impact on the problem he claims to be addressing.

[Dmitry Grozoubinski @DmitryOpines]

1/ Thread of random things to keep in mind when reading these and other stories about the border this week as the UK attempts to start actually enforcing its own regulatory checks.

https://t.co/DdshXAIZPU

[Simon Oldridge @SiOldridge]

I urge all climate scientists and politicians to read this article by @jonathonporritt
https://t.co/83lyqvG93v
Quoting his summary points:
1️⃣"The speed with which the climate is now changing is faster than (almost) all scientists thought possible."

🧵1/6
https://t.co/Z7LuGGNJk6

[David Henig 🇺🇦 @DavidHenigUK]

Ultimate symbol of the failure of UK government post-Brexit trade policy - to sign an agreement with Australia that allows them almost unlimited access to the UK market, but doesn't allow UK beef producers any reciprocal access. https://t.co/7Ru7smbK9M

[Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 @vivamjm]

Once again for the Brexit liars & dummies 
1/ All countries start with their own market standards, regulated & customs territory.
If an outsider wants to sell on it you must prove you meet its standards & pay a tariff at its border

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Sorry to repeat myself, but you *really* need to know this.
Under the government's Public Order Bill, anyone who has protested in the previous 5 years can be forced to "submit to ... being fitted with, or the installation of, any necessary apparatus" to monitor your movements.

[Chris Grey 🇺🇦 @chrisgreybrexit]

Brexit has driven the Tory Party mad. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog on the Tory conference, how the TrueCons love Farage but loathe Sunak, the new politics of envy, the 'Brexitism' engulfing the party, and the perils of thinking populist = popular: https://t.co/fZWa6NjFo0

[Chris Grey 🇺🇦 @chrisgreybrexit]

The eighth summer of Brexit: pragmatism without honesty. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog, analyzing how attempts to fix consequences of the delusion of 'taking back control' without admitting that it is a delusion run through the summer's Brexit events https://t.co/LVodM0nxQF

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Good old @SouthWestWater always dependable, always reliable, always crap.

Highest water bills in England, customers living under a hosepipe ban since last August and this morning dumping sewage into huge swaths of if not most of Cornwall and Devon. Ho hum.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

A dark day for freedom of the press, for everyone who cares about it and for every journalist & news organisation that believes in public interest reporting.

A statement:

[David Henig 🇺🇦 @DavidHenigUK]

Well, without fully explaining the point this tweet raises one of the crucial questions of modern trade, the tension between regulatory autonomy and modern trade barriers. The more control a middle power like the UK takes over regulations, the higher the resulting trade barriers.

[Sarah Adkins @S_CAdkins]

If I had known two years ago what I know now, my brother Major General Matt Holmes CBE DSO would probably be here now. I share the reasons why in this LinkedIn post.

https://t.co/Q6dF0SuCl3

#suicideprevention #mentalhealth #loveoneanother #RMFamily #royalmarines

[Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit]

One reason why climate change doesnt energise politicians and the public is because we describe heating in terms of temperature. Saying the world has warmed by 1.2 degrees seems like a nice pleasant weekend. Here are some other ways to describe it... (1)

[Tomas Pueyo @tomaspueyo]

Why is Africa the way it is?
What are its main regions?
Its most defining features?
What's key about each country?

Most of it is rooted in 2 factors.

Here's how to understand Africa and each one of its countries:

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

1. I've long wondered how nations slide into authoritarianism. Why do people accept the loss of their freedoms? Why do they not rise up together against oppression? Now that it's happening in the UK, I think I have an answer. Thread/

[The Citizens @allthecitizens]

The government is trying to use secondary legislation to lower the threshold for taking action against disruptive protesters, despite the change being rejected by peers in primary legislation.

[Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe]

Why has Britain been in decline in the last few years. This graph provides a clue. 🧵

[Chris Lowndes 🇺🇦🕊️🇬🇱 @chrislowndes]

I really can't ridicule the incompetence of the UK government over post-Brexit trade enough

Remember the phantom Seabourne Ferries debacle?

Well, the latest example is a tale of utter incompetence, phantom shipping companies and the Great UK Tomato Shortage of 2023 🧵