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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1h

Just in case you are curious - and my God you should be - about the dude Wes Streeting and others are handing loads of public data contracts to. 👇

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1h

"This surveillance supersystem," Thiel wrote, could act as “a political framework that operates outside the checks and balances of representative democracy as described in high school textbooks.” www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1h

"This surveillance supersystem," Thiel wrote, could act as “a political framework that operates outside the checks and balances of representative democracy as described in high school textbooks.” www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h

Uncharacteristically sloppy reporting of a very important issue, this from the FT. It quotes "Fair Civil Justice" without mentioning it is a front for the US Chamber of Commerce and it quotes CMS without mentioning it is Fair Civil Justice's lawyers. on.ft.com/48gOSZv

Drop in class action cases sparks warnings over litigation funder curbs

Investors behind collective lawsuits say limits to their share of damages hamper public access to justice

on.ft.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 14h

I'd add this. Although human rights are universal, those who most need the shelter they provide are those without money and power and who are politically targeted. The cost of the Supreme Court's choice to "edit the Human Rights Act out of existence" will be born most heavily by them.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 14h

It's difficult to read this piece without asking yourself whether you need to be foreign to see England for what it is. It's difficult, too, to read it because doing so is to be reminded, again, how much we will miss Conor Gearty. 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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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 5h

Link: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli....

Gender critical activists accused of ‘hateful’ remarks about trans women

Labour MP Richard Quigley said he was ‘appalled by the comments, but not surprised’

www.independent.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 5h

Because of the unforgivably appalling decisions of the Charity Commission, these hate groups, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance, are funded from your taxes.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 6h

I wrote about whether the hideous Thames Water bailout plan - which lets it off fines for up to 15 years - is lawful or will need the support of MPs. open.substack.com/pub/jolyonma...

Is the Thames Water bailout plan - which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years - lawful?

A group of Thames Water’s senior creditors, London & Valley Water (“L&VW”), has submitted to Ofwat proposals for them to be relieved from fines for past or future sewage dumping for a period of up to ...

open.substack.com

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 13h

Hard not to speculate that it's a tragedy made from the very white and almost uniquely privileged quality of our senior judiciary: how are you to understand what life is like in the rain if you have lived yours entirely in the sun?

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 14h

I'd add this. Although human rights are universal, those who most need the shelter they provide are those without money and power and who are politically targeted. The cost of the Supreme Court's choice to "edit the Human Rights Act out of existence" will be born most heavily by them.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 14h

It's difficult to read this piece without asking yourself whether you need to be foreign to see England for what it is. It's difficult, too, to read it because doing so is to be reminded, again, how much we will miss Conor Gearty. 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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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 14h

I am sure it reflects @seanjones.org's experiences. And I have enormous affection and respect for him. But others', including mine, differ.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 14h

It's difficult to read this piece without asking yourself whether you need to be foreign to see England for what it is. It's difficult, too, to read it because doing so is to be reminded, again, how much we will miss Conor Gearty. 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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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19h

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Thames Water's creditors have put a bailout plan to Ofwat which they say is lawful. But are they right? www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/is-the-tha...

Is the Thames Water bailout plan - which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years - lawful?

A group of Thames Water’s senior creditors, London & Valley Water (“L&VW”), has submitted to Ofwat proposals for them to be relieved from fines for past or future sewage dumping for a period of up to ...

www.whatthelawdoes.com

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

A human rights position is universal, requiring us all to extend rights and protections to those we disagree with

Yes, you can deny some groups are owed human rights, but only by denying their humanity

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

We're pleased that the loathsome comments carried by GB News, which equated being LGBT+ with being a paedophile, have been found in breach of the Ofcom code, following 71,000 complaints collected by @goodlawproject.bsky.social. pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...

GB News comment about LGBTQ+ including 'paedos' in breach of Ofcom code

A GB News presenter saying “full inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons” at a church would “include paedos” breached the Broadcasting Code, Ofcom said.

pressgazette.co.uk

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

In the last 2 weeks MAGA aligned people have done 2 attempted mass shootings of a gay bar and pride center in Arizona and Texas, murdered 2 teenage girls for mocking Charlie Kirk, and torched a judge's home.

Meanwhile, the government mobilized the military to go after the left.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 1d

coming up on the podcast:

- new 'writing the bible'
- @profyolonda.bsky.social on bioethics
- deepra das acevedo on tenure
- @podmalm.bsky.social on immigration politics
- @goodlawproject.org on trans rights in the uk

links to follow/ subscribe -

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com

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Tory Fibs @toryfibs.bsky.social · 1d

The BBC

• Refused to interview Zack Polanski after he was elected leader in September.

• Cancelled a Zack Polanski interview after his Conference Speech.

Every other elected party leader of other parties got both a post election interview and a conference interview.

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 2d

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3d

Freedom is just another name for “a gap in the law”.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 3d

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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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 3d

Over 400 arrests of protesters in London thanks to the government’s refusal to admit that their decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group has been a disaster

The Labour gov has so far arrested well over 1,000 people for holding up signs

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Police make more than 440 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London

Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleas

www.theguardian.com

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 3d

Digital IDs

💸 Will cost billions
⚠️ Will be riddled with errors
❌ Won’t reduce irregular migration at all.

Tell Starmer to scrap his scheme ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/j2ld

Keir Starmer: ID cards are a recipe for repression | Good Law Project

Digital IDs don’t reduce migration but they do open the door to authoritarian control – it’s time to fight back

goodlaw.social

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