Joseph 🇵🇸

Pedantic Welsh │ Pupil barrister - criminal defence, immigration etc

[Joseph 🇵🇸 @jsggvm]

“Don’t come back to Peckham!” A walk of shame for police and immigration enforcement officers, leaving the estate after releasing the person they detained. Community solidarity works.

[Gabriel Tan @finishedloading]

Judgment hand down for the Palestine Action appeal will be live-streamed from the Court of Appeal on 15 June at 11am.

[dezza ♊️ @misanthropicc92]

When Black people told everyone the police are very often incompetent and often only end up exacerbating situations rather than actually helping, we were told to shut the fuck up and stop lying by these very people. So I’ll be so real, I’m not trying to hear all of this. At all.

[Jacob Bard-Rosenberg @Prolapsarian]

THREAD: The collapse of higher education in the UK is misunderstood by almost everyone involved. We are told it is because of volatile international student markets. The truth is more to do with real estate and capital investment. Here is what is going on: in places like the US

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Bodycam footage of Henry Nowak, as he’s slowly dying, is most grotesquely surreal thing I’ve ever watched. The officer managing the situation shouldn’t be allowed to walk a dog, let alone be a police officer. He should be dismissed.

Can’t imagine being a parent & seeing that.

[Coll McCail @MccailColl]

As Hasan Picker and Cenk Uygur are denied entry to the UK, it’s worth remembering that Isaac Herzog — accused of “direct and public incitement to commit genocide” by the UN Commission of Inquiry report — was welcomed by Keir Starmer on the steps of No10 in September.

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

I was supposed to chair the @hasanthehun discussion at SXSW this week, who's been banned from entering the UK by Shabana Mahmood. First of all, @sxsw must facilitate a way for Hasan and Cenk to contribute remotely, as a bare minimum refusal to comply with government censorship.

[Andrew Kersley @AndrewKersley]

In November 2023, police found the decayed corpse of Tracey Turnell in Walthamstow Market.

She had no phone, job, passport, friends or lovers. There wasn’t a single photo of her.

I pieced together who she was and who was responsible for @_TheLondoner

https://t.co/Jxv5fnW0u3

[bat020 @bat020]

what an amazing life
https://t.co/KWlJaFGyFS

[Ronke Lawal @ronkelawal]

The kind of innovation that the UK should be embracing nationwide.
This is a wonderful initiative.

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

Counter terror police stopped and interrogated an independent cafe owner, in order to intimidate him before offering him financial benefits to spy on Palestine Action.

Instead of taking the offer, he went public to expose the state. https://t.co/VW5M75luYm

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

my favorite calvino by the director of one of the best movies of the 2020s. what great news, genuinely surprising

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

2 trains cancelled in AM. Hour late for meeting. WiFi & signal doesn’t work, so call not possible.

Going back: Waterloo like Euston. 3 excuses for delay in 2 mins (person on tracks, signals, no driver).

Thank you, @Heidi_Labour, for creating the first ‘4th world’ rail service!

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

Wow, the Thames sure does look lovely in this heatwave doesn’t it?

Imagine if we could build a beautiful floating lido in the middle of London that allowed people to cool off in the Thames in clean, safe water, & avoid any conflicts with wildlife & shipping traffic.

Now imagine that there was a fully costed proposal to provide such a lido at no cost to the public purse, but which would have boosted tourism & made the city a much better place for everyone ti live in.

Now imagine that this proposal was blocked by a petty faceless bureaucrat & there is no way for the Mayor, the people of London or even the government to challenge it, because Queen Victoria gave ownership of the tidal Thames to an unaccountable group of conservators who became @LondonPortAuth, & now run the most important river in the country as their private fiefdom.

It’s time to take back control of our river from this faceless & unaccountable organisation & give it back to the people & the nature of London to be restored for both their interests.

[bat020 @bat020]

listening to Chelsea Girl; looked up the guy who produced it out of curiosity and eff me now that is a career:
https://t.co/on8HR3MM9n

[Xavi Simons @xavisimons]

Not the season we all envisioned. But we survived. I’m proud of the boys. Your effort today was incredible. To the fans, you were incredible. I wish I could have been there. I wish I could have played my part. Now it’s time to start rebuilding.🤍

[Agnes Callamard @AgnesCallamard]

This research by Queen Mary University of London should be a wake up call for the UK government and judicial institutions:

286 political prisoners in Britain, held in relation to their activism for Palestinian rights or against fossil fuel.

Prison sentences for acts of direct action or civil disobedience (which were once rare) are now being imposed with increasing length and frequency.

In Great Britain.

https://t.co/zirb1lfTGb

[Joe Allen @Joe___Allen]

Yet another sacked and disgraced South Wales Police officer can't be named in the press. The force says it would be bad for their mental health.

The PCC just nods along. Surely at some point an elected official has to speak out on this?

Great work by @ConorGogarty.

[kate wehwalt @mcmansionhell]

the real “end of modernism” pic sorry

[Heidi Matthews @Heidi__Matthews]

Flotilla participants are arriving at Istanbul airport. This is what Israel military and prison personnel did to them.

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

BREAKING: The Court of Appeal judgment on the legality of the Palestine Action ban, will come out at 11AM on Monday 15th June at the Royal Courts of Justice, London.