Chris Connolly
@edtechris.bsky.social
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Appeal allowed in IA: Upper Tribunal was wrong to find breach of Article 8 ECHR
www.judiciary.uk/judgments/ia...
This is the widely reported case about the Gazan family applying for settlement under the Ukrainian Family Scheme. The Court of Appeal makes no criticism of the choice to use that route
www.judiciary.uk/judgments/ia...
This is the widely reported case about the Gazan family applying for settlement under the Ukrainian Family Scheme. The Court of Appeal makes no criticism of the choice to use that route
IA and others -v- Secretary of State for the Home Department - Courts and Tribunals Judiciary
Appeal No: CA-2025-000713Case Nos: UI-2024-005295, UI-2024-005297, UI-2024-005301, UI-2024-005302, UI-2024-005309, and UI-2024-005311 In the Court of Appeal (Civil Division)on appeal from the Upper Tr...
www.judiciary.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Appeal allowed in IA: Upper Tribunal was wrong to find breach of Article 8 ECHR
www.judiciary.uk/judgments/ia...
This is the widely reported case about the Gazan family applying for settlement under the Ukrainian Family Scheme. The Court of Appeal makes no criticism of the choice to use that route
www.judiciary.uk/judgments/ia...
This is the widely reported case about the Gazan family applying for settlement under the Ukrainian Family Scheme. The Court of Appeal makes no criticism of the choice to use that route
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Been driving for a couple hours. Just got online. Lemme see if I understand. US has been pushing a Ukraine plan for a few days. After some pushback, US Secy of State reveals that in fact it's a Russian plan that was presented to the US. Helluva a misunderstanding.
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Been driving for a couple hours. Just got online. Lemme see if I understand. US has been pushing a Ukraine plan for a few days. After some pushback, US Secy of State reveals that in fact it's a Russian plan that was presented to the US. Helluva a misunderstanding.
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X has a legal duty to remove those unlawful racial slurs.
It defends > 90% of the racial abuse faced by the Home Secretary [in common with many other British Asians in public life] in breach of that
Its a failure of government too if the platform can do that with impunity
bsky.app/profile/sund...
It defends > 90% of the racial abuse faced by the Home Secretary [in common with many other British Asians in public life] in breach of that
Its a failure of government too if the platform can do that with impunity
bsky.app/profile/sund...
X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
X has a legal duty to remove those unlawful racial slurs.
It defends > 90% of the racial abuse faced by the Home Secretary [in common with many other British Asians in public life] in breach of that
Its a failure of government too if the platform can do that with impunity
bsky.app/profile/sund...
It defends > 90% of the racial abuse faced by the Home Secretary [in common with many other British Asians in public life] in breach of that
Its a failure of government too if the platform can do that with impunity
bsky.app/profile/sund...
The Labour MPs worried about getting re-elected if they put up income tax were never getting re-elected anyway.
It's true. If Labour raise income taxes, the party might slump to around a quarter of the vote, and its PM and Chancellor might be even more unpopular than Rishi Sunak in 2024 or Jeremy Corbyn in 2019 - wait, sorry, just got an email from Ipsos with some new polling, I'm sure it's nothing important.
Quite a contrast to the BlueSky consensus the last 24 hours
November 15, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The Labour MPs worried about getting re-elected if they put up income tax were never getting re-elected anyway.
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
Not exactly a Labour stronghold.
But still. 👀
But still. 👀
Ridgeway (Vale of White Horse) Council By-Election Result:
🔶 LDM: 43.1% (-15.0)
🌳 CON: 24.4% (-17.6)
➡️ RFM: 19.9% (New)
🌍 GRN: 11.9% (New)
🌹 LAB: 0.8% (New)
Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2023.
🔶 LDM: 43.1% (-15.0)
🌳 CON: 24.4% (-17.6)
➡️ RFM: 19.9% (New)
🌍 GRN: 11.9% (New)
🌹 LAB: 0.8% (New)
Liberal Democrat HOLD.
Changes w/ 2023.
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Not exactly a Labour stronghold.
But still. 👀
But still. 👀
The knives are out.
November 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The knives are out.
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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
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This exact same reporter was ousted from the NY Times for soliciting a $30,000 donation from Epstein— and you're telling me that as an employer, the NY Times never bothered to circle back and review this person's correspondence with a convicted pedophile?
A former New York Times staffer quietly left the paper after revealing he had solicited charitable donations from Jeffrey Epstein
Former New York Times reporter Landon Thomas Jr. told his editors he became friends with Epstein after profiling him in 2008, NPR reported Thursday.
www.businessinsider.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This exact same reporter was ousted from the NY Times for soliciting a $30,000 donation from Epstein— and you're telling me that as an employer, the NY Times never bothered to circle back and review this person's correspondence with a convicted pedophile?
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Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious child sex trafficker, says that Donald Trump is the worst person he has ever met
It's probably not fully possible for you to understand the full meaning of that sentence
It's probably not fully possible for you to understand the full meaning of that sentence
Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious child sex trafficker, says that Donald Trump is the worst person he has ever met
It's probably not fully possible for you to understand the full meaning of that sentence
It's probably not fully possible for you to understand the full meaning of that sentence
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
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In a bit of black comedy, someone nicknamed “The Duke” gets involved in one of the most ominous email chains that could possibly land in a person’s inbox—about a forthcoming British tabloid exposé—and pleads with Maxwell to get him out of it somehow. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
In a bit of black comedy, someone nicknamed “The Duke” gets involved in one of the most ominous email chains that could possibly land in a person’s inbox—about a forthcoming British tabloid exposé—and pleads with Maxwell to get him out of it somehow. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
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Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Russia presented its human-like AI robot. It fell down as it walked onto the stage.
tl;dr: why are your taxes about to go up?
Brexit!
Brexit!
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
tl;dr: why are your taxes about to go up?
Brexit!
Brexit!
My favourite bit of the Noah Smith story is that on top of everything else, he bought a ticket he didn’t need for a free train transfer between terminals.
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
My favourite bit of the Noah Smith story is that on top of everything else, he bought a ticket he didn’t need for a free train transfer between terminals.
Lucky for Trump that Democrats in the Senate jumped in to stop the decline!
November 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Lucky for Trump that Democrats in the Senate jumped in to stop the decline!
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Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
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I don't think the biggest problem is that this relief exists. The total allowance is 60k. That's just mad.
You can also park 20k in your ISA, 9k in JISA per kids, 2.8k in JSIPP per kid.
A family of 4 can shelter just over 183k per year from tax.
You can also park 20k in your ISA, 9k in JISA per kids, 2.8k in JSIPP per kid.
A family of 4 can shelter just over 183k per year from tax.
November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I don't think the biggest problem is that this relief exists. The total allowance is 60k. That's just mad.
You can also park 20k in your ISA, 9k in JISA per kids, 2.8k in JSIPP per kid.
A family of 4 can shelter just over 183k per year from tax.
You can also park 20k in your ISA, 9k in JISA per kids, 2.8k in JSIPP per kid.
A family of 4 can shelter just over 183k per year from tax.
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"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
Go flurries!
I assume this is a sportsball reference?
I assume this is a sportsball reference?
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Go flurries!
I assume this is a sportsball reference?
I assume this is a sportsball reference?
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This week I have written about whether the government's proposed changes to school accountability - Progress 8 - make sense (£/free trial). timleunig.substack.com/p/school-sta... @daisychristo.bsky.social @branwenjeffreys.bsky.social @schoolsweek.bsky.social @beckyfrancis.bsky.social
School standards
What to do about secondary school accountability measures
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November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This week I have written about whether the government's proposed changes to school accountability - Progress 8 - make sense (£/free trial). timleunig.substack.com/p/school-sta... @daisychristo.bsky.social @branwenjeffreys.bsky.social @schoolsweek.bsky.social @beckyfrancis.bsky.social
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OTD - November 10, 1969 Sesame Street airs for the first time on National Educational Television, the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Corporation, with a goal to "master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them".
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
OTD - November 10, 1969 Sesame Street airs for the first time on National Educational Television, the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Corporation, with a goal to "master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them".
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BREAKING: Trump just got loudly booed at the Commanders game.
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
BREAKING: Trump just got loudly booed at the Commanders game.