Dr Julie Doughty
@juliedoughty.bsky.social
lawyer (retired solicitor; academic). Live in Wales now, although still Australian. Child law; media law. Legal blogger in family courts for The Transparency Project www.transparencyproject.org.uk (contact me there as I don't receive DMs on Bluesky)
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Contrary to what Tories and Reform claim, literally no one is arguing that Reeves wouldn't receive criticism if she were a man. But many of us argue that, because she's a woman, the criticism and coverage that Reeves does receive is often laced with misogynistic language and narratives.
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Contrary to what Tories and Reform claim, literally no one is arguing that Reeves wouldn't receive criticism if she were a man. But many of us argue that, because she's a woman, the criticism and coverage that Reeves does receive is often laced with misogynistic language and narratives.
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Great news!
After a campaign from the APPG, the Chancellor has made tackling dodgy high street businesses a priority in today’s Budget – setting aside £50 million a year for the next 3 years to boost enforcement against money laundering & tax evasion on our high streets.
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After a campaign from the APPG, the Chancellor has made tackling dodgy high street businesses a priority in today’s Budget – setting aside £50 million a year for the next 3 years to boost enforcement against money laundering & tax evasion on our high streets.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Great news!
After a campaign from the APPG, the Chancellor has made tackling dodgy high street businesses a priority in today’s Budget – setting aside £50 million a year for the next 3 years to boost enforcement against money laundering & tax evasion on our high streets.
🧵👇
After a campaign from the APPG, the Chancellor has made tackling dodgy high street businesses a priority in today’s Budget – setting aside £50 million a year for the next 3 years to boost enforcement against money laundering & tax evasion on our high streets.
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We're hiring.......
📢We're hiring a part-time Fund Manager to oversee the Law for Change caseload.
This flexible, remote role (2hrs/day) is ideal for someone with a background in public law and legal case management.
To learn more contact Stephen Kinsella or email your CV & Cover Letter to [email protected]
This flexible, remote role (2hrs/day) is ideal for someone with a background in public law and legal case management.
To learn more contact Stephen Kinsella or email your CV & Cover Letter to [email protected]
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
We're hiring.......
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The Budget confirmed the speculation - Rachel Reeves has scrapped the two-child limit.
Our blog on child poverty considered the evidence supporting policy change. ⬇️
Our blog on child poverty considered the evidence supporting policy change. ⬇️
Child poverty remains a persistent challenge in the UK. At Wednesday's Budget, attention will be on the Chancellor & whether she will scrap the two-child benefit limit. The Foundation's @amiddletonbeer.bsky.social assesses the evidence for this necessary, but not sufficient, policy.
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Child Poverty in the UK: Removing the two-child limit is important, but insufficient - Nuffield Foundation
The decisions to be announced at the despatch box on Wednesday will have profound...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The Budget confirmed the speculation - Rachel Reeves has scrapped the two-child limit.
Our blog on child poverty considered the evidence supporting policy change. ⬇️
Our blog on child poverty considered the evidence supporting policy change. ⬇️
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Despite this, I’m broadly optimistic about the future of foster care. The fact that more than 8,000 families came forward to foster last year is a wonder, given the commitment it represents.
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Despite this, I’m broadly optimistic about the future of foster care. The fact that more than 8,000 families came forward to foster last year is a wonder, given the commitment it represents.
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Does placing social workers in schools improve outcomes?
🏫 The SWIS trial evaluates this innovative approach across 21 LAs.
🔗 buff.ly/7d4BBHS
#ResearchWednesday
🏫 The SWIS trial evaluates this innovative approach across 21 LAs.
🔗 buff.ly/7d4BBHS
#ResearchWednesday
The SWIS Trial: An evaluation of school based social work – CASCADE
CASCADE
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November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Does placing social workers in schools improve outcomes?
🏫 The SWIS trial evaluates this innovative approach across 21 LAs.
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#ResearchWednesday
🏫 The SWIS trial evaluates this innovative approach across 21 LAs.
🔗 buff.ly/7d4BBHS
#ResearchWednesday
one for #legalhistory #familylaw
Well, if it’s 26 November, it must be the 139th anniversary of a divorce case so saucy and notorious it gave us the phrase “what the butler saw”, and newspapers suppressed some of the details of the domestic servant in question’s testimony because it was “unfit for publication”
November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
one for #legalhistory #familylaw
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Neither of these men can tolerate accountability or constraint, which explains their animus against judges and law. Their regime from 2019 to 2022 was the worst and most dangerous anyone living in Britain today has known.
They would say that, wouldn't they?
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Johnson and Cummings attack the Covid judge | The Observer
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November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Neither of these men can tolerate accountability or constraint, which explains their animus against judges and law. Their regime from 2019 to 2022 was the worst and most dangerous anyone living in Britain today has known.
freeing from a bad relationship may be 'happy' but nothing about Britney or Angelina's cases ever sounds remotely happy
Daily Mail: Cameron reveals he had prostate cancer #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
freeing from a bad relationship may be 'happy' but nothing about Britney or Angelina's cases ever sounds remotely happy
too true
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
too true
I remember a neighbour rushing in to tell my mother that President Kennedy had been assassinated, although not sure I knew who he was. We lived in Singapore then but I don't remember if the neighbour was also Australian. Maybe she was American.
At 11:45 a.m. local time, President Kennedy’s motorcade departed Love Field en route to the Trade Mart for a luncheon.
Accompanying him in his Lincoln Continental were First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, Nellie.
Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s car followed.
Accompanying him in his Lincoln Continental were First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, Nellie.
Vice President Lyndon Johnson’s car followed.
November 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I remember a neighbour rushing in to tell my mother that President Kennedy had been assassinated, although not sure I knew who he was. We lived in Singapore then but I don't remember if the neighbour was also Australian. Maybe she was American.
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Research by Karen Nokes @laws.ucl.ac.uk @richardmoorhead.bsky.social Rebecca Helm and Sally Day from @uniexeterlawschool.bsky.social shows "innocent until proven guilty" was rarely taken seriously enough when subpostmasters came into contact with the legal system
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Post Office cases cast doubt on the “golden thread” of British justice, study says
The “golden thread” of British justice – the principle that people are innocent until proven guilty – has been exposed by the Post Office Scandal as more deeply tarnished than previously thought, a ne...
news.exeter.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Research by Karen Nokes @laws.ucl.ac.uk @richardmoorhead.bsky.social Rebecca Helm and Sally Day from @uniexeterlawschool.bsky.social shows "innocent until proven guilty" was rarely taken seriously enough when subpostmasters came into contact with the legal system
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can this be true??!!
That he doesn't mind, I mean
That he doesn't mind, I mean
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
can this be true??!!
That he doesn't mind, I mean
That he doesn't mind, I mean
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Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
within a few hours, the headline on Nathan Gill's bribery conviction has dropped off @walesonline.bsky.social which now features silly pranks with statues, shopping, and Beaujolais Nouveau
November 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
within a few hours, the headline on Nathan Gill's bribery conviction has dropped off @walesonline.bsky.social which now features silly pranks with statues, shopping, and Beaujolais Nouveau
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🚨 BREAKING: Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, gets 10.5 years for Russia-linked #bribery offences.
⚖️ This is the first time a British politician has ever been convicted of bribery.
👉 Follow us for more from the courtroom later today.
⚖️ This is the first time a British politician has ever been convicted of bribery.
👉 Follow us for more from the courtroom later today.
📹 Zainab Saleem, Spotlight's Legal Fellow, will be down at the Old Bailey today for the sentencing of #NathanGill, the former Reform UK leader in Wales who pleaded guilty to 8️⃣ #bribery charges in September. Here Zainab outlines the case and explains why it matters for UK democracy.
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, gets 10.5 years for Russia-linked #bribery offences.
⚖️ This is the first time a British politician has ever been convicted of bribery.
👉 Follow us for more from the courtroom later today.
⚖️ This is the first time a British politician has ever been convicted of bribery.
👉 Follow us for more from the courtroom later today.
Former Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill sentenced to 10 years and 6 months over bribes - live
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Nathan Gill sentenced to 10 years 6 months for bribes
Former leader of Reform UK and UKIP in Wales, Nathan Gill, pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery after he received payment in return for making statements in favour of pro-Russian media outlets in...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Former Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill sentenced to 10 years and 6 months over bribes - live
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
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The Nerve is at the Old Bailey today for the sentencing of Nathan Gill. It's a complex story and the Nerve is here with our first print edition - a handy fold out timeline detailing the whole affair...!
More soon...
More soon...
November 21, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The Nerve is at the Old Bailey today for the sentencing of Nathan Gill. It's a complex story and the Nerve is here with our first print edition - a handy fold out timeline detailing the whole affair...!
More soon...
More soon...
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I’m not sure how I would deal with being found to have been responsible for 23k deaths, but I think it would likely involve removing myself from public life and finding some way to help save lives.
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I’m not sure how I would deal with being found to have been responsible for 23k deaths, but I think it would likely involve removing myself from public life and finding some way to help save lives.
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📰 2025 Issue 3 (Winter) of the Financial Remedies Journal is out now! 📰
Read the full issue, in PDF format or as individual articles, all for free on our website: financialremediesjournal.com/financial-re...
Read the full issue, in PDF format or as individual articles, all for free on our website: financialremediesjournal.com/financial-re...
November 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
📰 2025 Issue 3 (Winter) of the Financial Remedies Journal is out now! 📰
Read the full issue, in PDF format or as individual articles, all for free on our website: financialremediesjournal.com/financial-re...
Read the full issue, in PDF format or as individual articles, all for free on our website: financialremediesjournal.com/financial-re...
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Footage shared on social media claims to show migrants stealing items from a graveyard in the UK.
This is false—the video actually shows a cemetery in Ukraine. It is unclear what the people are doing by the graves, however.
This is false—the video actually shows a cemetery in Ukraine. It is unclear what the people are doing by the graves, however.
Video does not show ‘migrants’ stealing items from UK graveyard – Full Fact
Footage shared on social media claiming to show migrants stealing items from a UK graveyard is actually from Ukraine. It is unclear what the people are doing by the graves, however.
fullfact.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Footage shared on social media claims to show migrants stealing items from a graveyard in the UK.
This is false—the video actually shows a cemetery in Ukraine. It is unclear what the people are doing by the graves, however.
This is false—the video actually shows a cemetery in Ukraine. It is unclear what the people are doing by the graves, however.
I must have read this when a scifi teenage fan, but i wouldn't have understood it. Not sure I do now! The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick. Feel i have to re read straight away. Spotted in my wonderful public library
November 18, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I must have read this when a scifi teenage fan, but i wouldn't have understood it. Not sure I do now! The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick. Feel i have to re read straight away. Spotted in my wonderful public library