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My first undergraduate degree was an MA(Hons) in English Literature and Religious Studies.

Best subject choices I ever made - and they equipped me well for the later LLB and legal career.

Neil is right. Beware the Tory barbarism.

Plenary power = complete and absolute power

The US is a frightening place right now.

Triggered bouts of acute pancreatitis in me.

It's a dreadful med.

Filling the swamp with more swamp.

How the eight Marmot principles could transform our health

Jessica Allen, deputy director at University College London's Institute of Health Equity, explains the eight Marmot Principles.

YouTube video by Middle East Eye The toll on Palestinians: Two years of Israel's genocide in Gaza | MEE Live

"Middle East Eye takes a look at the toll of #Israel's genocide on Palestinians in #Gaza."

The toll on Palestinians: Two years of Israel's genocide in Gaza
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXO8...

#FreePalestine #GazaNews #GazaStrip #IsraelNews #MiddleEast #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews

He WANTS Civil War.

Ooft. Coked up to the gills.

Intimidating.

There's not a thing about the US system that I understand.

How can paychecks go unpaid?

How can a system as poor as this have survived so long?

It's a wonder to me that there's been no 'Trump' before now.

Seriously?

We've gone back to 1861. But with a twist.

Texas is now waging war on behalf of the Union.

Amazing Glasgow band ♥️

Saw Paul Buchanan in a rare solo performance last year - part of Celtic Connections at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

I am shocked and appalled by the arson attack on a mosque in Peacehaven, where two people were inside.

No community should be terrorised for their faith or in their place of worship.

At a time when Islamophobia hits record levels, we need urgent action from the top of government to confront it.

For shame. 😡

Gary Neville, "Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country"

"The messaging is getting dangerous"

"All these idiots out there spreading hate speech in any form, abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them"

"And get back to a country of love, peace and harmony"

"And become a team again"

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

'These aren't jokes': Ex-insider warns Trump is 'fracturing' the 'foundation' of America President Donald Trump wants Americans to think that the artificial intelligence videos he's posted on social media are just jokes, but they serve a much more nefarious purpose, according to one former Trump world insider. Michael Cohen, the former attorney for the Trump Organization, argued in a re...

President Donald Trump wants Americans to think that the artificial intelligence videos he's posted on social media are just jokes, but they serve a much more nefarious purpose, according to one former Trump world insider.

I counted 6 explosions so far in Kharkiv‼️Russia is a terrorist state!

Kicked in the head by several related horses - called Putin, White Ethnonationalism and Thiel.

www.wired.com/story/the-re...

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Hundreds of thousands of people protest in Amsterdam against Israel’s Gaza war

"The six-kilometre march drew roughly 250,000 participants...

Protesters accused the #Netherlands of complicity through arms trade and political silence, calling for sanctions on Israel and a ceasefire in #Gaza."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Skf...

#GazaStrip #Israel #News #Palestine #WorldNews

We can all agree that the attack on the Synagogue in Manchester was terrorism

So why is setting a Mosque alight just 'arson' and a 'hate crime' and also not terrorism?

Kicked in the head by several related horses - called Putin, White Ethnonationalism and Thiel.

www.wired.com/story/the-re...

Inexorably building to very open, very real and physical, war.

Putin has finally removed the last restraint - the US is at war with itself.

The UK has arrested 1,775 people for protesting against genocide since the proscription of Palestine Action.

The UK has not arrested a single person since October 7 for their participation in that genocide.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic: “Everyone is preparing for war. It's just a question of which side someone belongs to.

“We would like to avoid wars and conflicts, but I'm afraid no one wants to listen anymore. Everyone is really and seriously preparing for wars.”

Stephen Miller Follow @StephenM Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself. › Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance • 3h 1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon National Guard in Portland. IMMERGUT, District Judge. This case involves the intersection of three of the most fundamental principles in our constitutional democracy. The first concerns the relationship between the federal government and the states. The second concerns the relationship between the United States armed forces and domestic law enforcement. The third concerns the proper role of the judicial branch in ensuring that the executive branch complies with the laws and limitations imposed by the legislative branch. Whether we choose to follow what the Constitution mandates with respect to these three relationships goes to the heart of what it means to live under the rule of law in the United States.

Stephen miller is actively calling for a civil war right now on Twitter.

I really do not think Americans are taking in the reality that the federal government is openly admitting to waging war against democratically held cities and states and what comes now that this is being openly said.

a cartoon dog is sitting in front of a fire and saying i 'm fine this is fine everything is fine Alt: a cartoon dog is sitting in front of a fire and saying i 'm fine this is fine everything is fine

German authorities have confirmed drones circling Munich were military grade.

Not sure how much longer NATO countries can keep up the pretense…

Nigel Farage Is a Racist The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda

"It appears that the only people who ever have to apologise for Farage’s long history of racism, are the people who dare to call it out."
open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

Nigel Farage Is a Racist The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda ADAM BIENKOV OCT 04, 2025 Nigel Farage is a racist. That is my honestly held opinion based on absolutely everything he has said and done since entering politics in the late nineties.

“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose”

Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”
-de Beauvoir