It's remarkable that a woman can complain about free speech in Britain while supporting execution for blasphemy in Saudi Arabia.
This might be one of those paradox of tolerance situations.
Note to elements of the British Right:
Relentlessly broadcasting how awful your country is to the rest of the world is not patriotic. It’s the opposite, and it has real-world results.
Twitter-brained right wing politicians from America to Israel to Argentina lap it up, with all its declinist hyperbole, and eventually use it to move against us.
They may say that they love the old country and want to help you “save” it but ultimately they will act in the interests of their country, not ours.
If you hadn’t realised this yet, look at what has happened with Javier Milei: using “decline” rhetoric that could have been lifted from this website as a pretext to retake the Falkland Islands. All with the apparent blessing of American Republicans.
These people are not your friends!
You really think it’s as clear cut as that? Sure Cambridge have questions to answer. But this became obsessive and ugly bloodsport for certain sections of the press, that was about way more than plagiarism.
“Will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency”
What about the trust of the people of Manchester, who he promised to serve a third term as mayor? They now get a £4m by-election?
All this smacks of voters used to serve politicians, not vice-versa.
News: the Hereditary Peers Bill has tonight finally passed the Lords, ending centuries of tradition. Expect a handful of life peerages for a smattering of hereds.
Judgment Associated Newspapers Limited v. the United Kingdom - obligation on publisher of the Daily Mail to pay certain substantial costs in privacy and/or defamation proceedings was excessive
https://t.co/H4aSDyZZU1
#ECHR#CEDH#ECHRpress
Judgment has been promulgated this morning in the matter of Tesco Stores Ltd (Respondent) v Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers and others (Appellants) UKSC 2022/0133: https://t.co/QmrzWiiSFh
The Rt Hon Angela Rayner MP @AngelaRayner has been appointed Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities @luhc.
She will also be Deputy Prime Minister.
#Reshuffle
UKSC makes s4 HRA declaration that s146 TULRCA - by impliedly legitimatising sanctions short of dismissal for participation in lawful strikes - is incompatible with Art 11 ECHR.
Judgment will be handed down on Wednesday 17 April in the matter of Secretary of State for Business and Trade (Respondent) v Mercer (Appellant) UKSC 2022/0080: https://t.co/7YWVaWX9wq