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@davidallengreen.bsky.social

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Blogger. Mainly law and policy; Aston Villa supporter; sometimes ironic. Birmingham/London, England.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · Mar 16

I apologise again for restricting replies and quotes of my posts.

This is just to make using social media bearable.

As a quid-pro-quo for this, if anyone wants to respond to a post, you can @ me directly and if I can I will respond in turn, and good points (and counterpoints) will be re-posted.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 43m

I can tell by your first question you have not read the article you are commenting on.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1h

For Trump, the cruelty is the point.

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 3h

Attorneys general hold awkward positions—political yet nominally independent. Pam Bondi has squared that circle by being unashamedly partisan, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.

Law versus politics

Both the UK and the US face a choice between unchecked executive power or a balanced constitution

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 6h

And so does Michael Fish.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 13h

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old

“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”

Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon

(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Black-and-white picture of two children playing in woodland. Also in the picture, there are 12 hidden animals including an owl, a bat and a squirrel.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14h

Sinister Joanne Rampant.

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 22h

Looking like Chelsea FC? So, previously owned by a Russian oligarch, but now in hock to American hedge funds?

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 1d

There is perverse thinking, and a step below that is thinking that a president that is illegally sending US military units into US cities should be awarded the Nobel Peace prize.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 1d

What Trump and his ilk claim versus what they can support with actual evidence are always leagues apart.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

if only he'd renamed it the DEPARTMENT OF PEACE

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

This is a timely, excellent and important report on how "arms length" bodies in UK are vulnerable to political manipulation.

Kudos @chrischirp.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social for putting this together.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize.

Last year, Nash Colundalur interviewed Machado, who is in exile, for Prospect: “Is there a risk that I could be put in prison? Yes, certainly.”

Venezuela’s opposition leader: ‘The main challenge is to stay alive’

From hiding, María Corina Machado still believes the fight for Venezuelan democracy and freedom is making progress

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize committee's decision to honour someone who has tirelessly campaigned against dictatorship is both worthwhile and welcome, and objectively very funny.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

Well done you - and well done them, for they are lucky to have you.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado.

The Nobel Committee recognised her “struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

In other words, exactly the opposite of what Trump is doing to the United States.

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 1d

NEWS! Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize newsthump.com/2025/10/10/f...

Fury as man who threatened to invade Greenland and who uses military against own people fails to win Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump has once again been cruelly snubbed by the Nobel Peace Prize committee, despite what he insists was an “incredible” year of personal achievements in the field of “peace, which is very …

newsthump.com

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

Not all “corrections“ are in bad faith though. People think they are being genuinely helpfu.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

Ha, I was born not far from that factory.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 1d

All the people who argued that Palestine recognition had no impact whatsoever, might want to consider whether Israel’s diplomatic isolation was a factor, alongside the pressure from Trump. None of these things exists in a vacuum.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

The post was a joke.

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1d

The state should enforce its contractual rights against suppliers more often, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social. Take, for instance, the purchase of PPE equipment during Covid via the so-called VIP lane...

Why the government was right to take PPE Medpro to court

The state should enforce its contractual rights against suppliers more often

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

I know John, you are arguing with a joke.

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 1d

If the Norwegians had a sense of humour, they'd give Obama a second peace prize today.

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 1d

The whole framing here is about “Trump bombast” making the difference rather than, say: Israeli public opinion souring on its govt; various US constituencies turning against war; the extraordinary diplomatic isolation of Israel

All these things at best half nodded at

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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