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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not surprised - it's a terrific idea. Thanks for doing it.

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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 5h

New post | On China, the Official Secrets Act and 'enemies': Is the Prime Minister wrong?
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/10/08/o...

On China, the Official Secrets Act and ‘enemies’: Is the Prime Minister wrong?

The Prime Minister has claimed that his government’s hands are tied in relation to whether China constituted an ‘enemy’ for the purpose of a now-dropped criminal prosecution under…

publiclawforeveryone.com

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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 5h

Kemi Badenoch promises to abolish stamp duty. Hurrah. But where is the £12bn a year coming from?

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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 5h

The complete text of the brilliant and thought-provoking Human Rights Lawyers Association Inaugural Annual Lecture delivered by the phenomenal Robert Spano last week:

www.linkedin.com/posts/shoaib...

HRLA Inaugural Annual Lecture 2025 by Robert Spano | Shoaib Mahmood Khan

"Human rights, as a political and moral value system, is losing ground; history appears to be repeating itself. One even fears that a hurricane of horrors might be brewing. It may be a tropical storm ...

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Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz @wannseekonferenz.bsky.social · 17h

Solidarität mit den Kolleg*innen des Jüdischen Museums Berlin:
"Laut einer Polizeisprecherin soll er das Wort 'Jüdisches' durchgestrichen und mit dem Wort 'Kindermörder' ersetzt haben.
Zudem soll der 54-Jährige ein Plakat mit der Aufschrift 'Kindermörder' unter dem Wegweiserschild angebracht haben."

Antisemitismus in Berlin: 54-Jähriger beschmiert Schild des Jüdischen Museums mit „Kindermörder“-Aufschrift – Festnahme

In der Gitschiner Straße in Kreuzberg hat ein 54-Jähriger am Montag ein Wegweiserschild des Jüdischen Museums beschmiert. Dazu brachte er ein Plakat mit antisemitischem Inhalt an.

www.tagesspiegel.de

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 21h

I've read most of his his novels and enjoyed them all, and I agree with his evaluation of The House of Sleep. But I think The Rain Before It Falls is his very best. Which is saying something since he also wrote The Rotters' Club and What a Carve Up!

Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 1d

In which I talk about anxiety as a motivating force, never being considered for the Booker, and an early novel that's become problematic.

Jonathan Coe: ‘I have a fascination with the right’

The author on keeping his liberal instincts in check, his love of breaking the literary fourth wall, and not fitting comfortably into the world

observer.co.uk

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 1d

But what did he have to do with any of it, except to complain about it when he was shadow Home Secretary?

Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 1d

What does he mean, he stopped the ECHR on prisoners?

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 2d

Do you know if the text of her speech is available anywhere?

Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 2d

A better idea than a lot of the usual constitutional reform plans.

Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe the answer to political apathy, trust, and populism is for everyone to be a local councillor for a few weeks.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d

*gasp*

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 2d

It's as if creating this precise structure of argument again and reliving it allows them to know and prove to themselves that they were right all along from 2016-2020.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 2d

In all seriousness, I suspect an aspect of this is a wish to reenact Brexit. If that's right then deep down they actually want to claim implausibly that there's a clever solution to Northern Ireland problems while the world insists (and they themselves on some level know) there isn't.

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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 2d

Lord Wolfson’s report has now been published: www.conservatives.com/wolfson-fina...

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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 2d

Summary here by @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social of the so far unpublished but apparently “circulating” “legal advice” by Lord Wolfson to the Tory party. open.substack.com/pub/rozenber...

How UK could leave ECHR

Withdrawal would allow EU to end criminal law enforcement co-operation

open.substack.com

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

‘The current members of the Supreme Court, ten men and two women, all of them white, seem to regard the Human Rights Act as an unwelcome remnant of a past era.’

In his final piece for the 𝘓𝘙𝘉, Conor Gearty writes on the Supreme Court’s reinterpretation of the HRA: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social · 3d

The attorney general, Lord Hermer KC, gave a sermon at North Western Reform Synagogue in London on Friday night. He expressed the government’s solidarity with the Jewish community and spoke about the unprecedented rise in antisemitism since 7 October 2023.
rozenberg.substack.com/p/ag-says-pm...

AG says PM will fight Jew-hatred

In synagogue address, Lord Hermer condemns rise in antisemitism

rozenberg.substack.com

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 3d

The Corbyn years show us that a membership surge is a very different thing from electoral success.

Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 3d

Fair enough. Also just worth mentioning that I think there could be significant amendment of the ECHR itself before long. Maybe not in the next three years but quite likely in the next five or six.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 3d

I understand why you think what you say in the first of those posts. But I honestly think it’s very possible for the parties wanting to leave to be kept out of power until one of them changes. We can’t be confident of success but nor can they.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder how they sent the letter.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 3d

You might say Coates’s principles are so basic that nothing he stands for can be reconsidered without moral bankruptcy. Maybe, but a high level of abstraction isn’t of much practical political use. Politics involves particular policy means, and it’s those that need reevaluation.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 3d

To stand by core values—fine. Core values. That’s not the same thing as doubling down on every position you’ve held. I think you can only identify your core values by also working out what was not truly at the core and needs reevaluation. Coates seemed from your summary not to be doing that.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 3d

That’s interesting, thanks. I’m not American and don’t know either’s writing. What Klein said about “pro-life” candidates sounds very wrong to me. But isn’t he at least wondering what his side could do differently, what they might have got wrong? That is also needed I think.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 5d

Incredible impression of @rosieisaholt.bsky.social here from Kemi Badenoch.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 5d

no excuse for being this bad

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