Former Senior Home Affairs Correspondent @channel4news.
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The boy in the cowboy outfit – my tribute to Erwin James 1957 – 2024
At the age of seven, with the loss of his mother in a car accident and his father turning to drink, put Erwin on a pathway he never thought imaginable.
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Merry Griftmas
@ByDonkeys calling out the Grifter In Chief...
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No Holds Barr-ed: Coles on the rack at the #spycops inquiry
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A “creepy” undercover police officer in his 30s formed a sexual relationship with a teenage activist without disclosing his true identity to her, #spycops public inquiry has been told. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…
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Bob Lambert - the former undercover cop, the women he deceived, and allegations (he denies) of involvement in a plot to set fire to Debenhams stores in 1987.
Great piece from my colleague @simonisrael ⬇️
#c4news
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For anyone who doesn't realise, Reform UK [ltd.] and their MPs, Farage and Tice, are setting their followers up for a huge bait and switch.
The plea for money to fund their 'court case' in Manchester will start soon. They'll fleece tens of thousand of pounds from their followers and then be forced to admit that it can't go ahead.
This is the setup. Now they can start shouting about 'legal interference' and 'two tier justice'.
The case is never going to happen. Not now, not ever. It has no basis in law and could even prejudice the case. They already know that it can't happen.
Don't fall for their grift.
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NEW. Coroner in Maeve Boothy O’Neill inquest has said that treatment and research for ME needs overhaul to prevent future deaths
Reg 28 rulings are too often ignored - Maeve’s case shows how desperately ME patients need action. Over to you @wesstreeting
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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.
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Thank you @tonyvaughanMP for your time and consideration of our campaign for worker rights to prevent exploitation, together with @thevoiceofdws. We look forward to working with your office 🙌🏻
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The dark heart of this catastrophe lies in this simple, depressing narrative: the state stepped back, corporate greed stepped in and innocent people died.
Bit by me for The Guardian:
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We are devastated and enraged by the racist violence over the weekend. The scenes taking place on our streets in the past few days do not come from a vacuum – they are the inevitable result of decades of racist rhetoric. 🧵
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Protests in Southport became violent and objects were thrown at police a day after three young girls were killed in an attack on a dance class.
It comes after a 17-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder.
Earlier thousands attended a separate peaceful vigil.
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5 days to go. Remember when senior Conservatives showed they don't understand anything about trade
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Huge congratulations to @kirkkorner, who has tirelessly campaigned to expose the failings of the “Single Justice Procedure” - a cost-saving gimmick introduced in magistrates’ courts, which has resulted in widespread injustice occurring behind closed doors.
Outstanding journalism.
And the winner of the Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism 2024 is... Tristan Kirk of the Evening Standard!
#PaulFootAwards2024
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Today we launched legal proceedings in the High Court against the government's decision to increase the MIR to £38,700 which was announced back in December '23. We are taking action against a decision which we feel has not been properly thought through 🧵 theguardian.com/uk-news/arti…
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Tristan Kirk's reporting showed how the "single justice procedure" makes justice impossible for people without the means to challenge the system, creating a conveyor belt that has removed humanity and fairness from the law.
🎧 Listen to the full interview with Tristan on today’s episode of the Page 94 podcast. In feeds now. audioboom.com/posts/8518774-… #PaulFootAward2024
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New from me - ‘The UK needs an independent commission against corruption’
“No decade in post-war British history has evidenced anything on the scale of this stunningly pervasive & serious collapse of ethical or public-interested central state governance”. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp…
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I greatly agree with the thrust of this article. These cases are the lifeblood of the common law. And judges sometimes exhort parties to settle without acknowledging the diverging perceptions of litigation risk created by their own judicial uncertainty which make that impossible
What does it mean to have world-leading’ courts if they are increasingly giving up hearing ordinary cases involving ordinary people? My law column for @TheCriticMag. thecritic.co.uk/what-price-j…
