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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 24m

Yes, we all know and cherish that video. Sevalas did not visit Brum to make it.

dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 59m

Ha - and the god-awful Brutalist architecture inflicted on us.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1h

No, I am not going to allow my platforms to be used for amplifying silly nasty provocations from an opposition politician about my home city - and about sacking judges.

I will not provide the noise he wants to create.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1h

Henry.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you Liz

dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you Gaye

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 2h

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 14h

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21h

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 17h

Halcyon days.

Internet Archive @archive.org · 17h

🐹 Before viral videos on TikTok or YouTube, there was Hampsterdance.

Full of dancing hamster GIFs & a sped-up tune, it became one of the internet’s first viral hits.

You can still dance to it on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19991222...

#Wayback1T

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17h

🐹 Before viral videos on TikTok or YouTube, there was Hampsterdance.

Full of dancing hamster GIFs & a sped-up tune, it became one of the internet’s first viral hits.

You can still dance to it on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19991222...

#Wayback1T

🧵

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Major Clanger @majorclanger.bsky.social · 19h

Jenrick complains that there are immigration judges (presumably he means the part-time ones) who spend the rest of their time representing immigrants.

Wait until someone tells him about Recorders (part-time Crown Court judges) who spend the rest of their time defending the accused.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20h

I refer to that in the post on which you are commenting, if you click.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21h

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

I closed them for those I don’t follow, not expecting a reply like this!

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 1d

My real concern is whether Amicus, the mascot of the Canadian Supreme Court, has also been compelled to change robes.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Attempts to deploy federalized National Guardsmen to Oregon, California, & Illinois, also, signs that Trump, or at least someone around him, is starting to think seriously about the Insurrection Act. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Portland And Beyond

This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.

open.substack.com

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

Closing comments on this, thank you.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

This is a good explanatory post.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

Attempts to deploy federalized National Guardsmen to Oregon, California, & Illinois, also, signs that Trump, or at least someone around him, is starting to think seriously about the Insurrection Act. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Portland And Beyond

This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.

open.substack.com

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

By embracing Brexit for party advantage, the Conservative and Unionist party both destroyed itself and, in time, dismantled the union.

A political morality tale, a fable of hard folly.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think there is any substantive difference between Reform and the Tories on asylum or justice anymore. We don't have a centre-right party.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick now proposing sacking judges he doesn't like. I can just about remember when Conservatives cared about things like the rule of law.

George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 1d

The Daily Telegraph: MI5 kept in dark in China spy trial fiasco #TomorrowsPapersToday

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

An accusation of such ****wittery is mild compared with the injunction I typed and then deleted.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect.

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