Doctor Who's BDSM torture chair has exceeded all expectations.
When one of us gets attacked, the whole party rolls for initiative
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No quarter!!?!?
Legal Action Groups law books are super helpful for advisers and caseworkers in free legal advice centres, law centres, and CABx. A new edition of the Housing Law Handbook should be unmissable for anyone doing housing advice work.
Missing Doctor Who Recovered!
The Film is Fabulous! team are pleased to announce the recovery of two missing episodes of Doctor Who, from the serial entitled, ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’:
The Nightmare Begins (Broadcast: 13th Nov 1965)
Devil’s Planet (Broadcast: 27th Nov 1965)
Applying this policy to people already in the UK is particuarly self defeating as they can… just claim asylum anyway. In fact, if arguably forces some to do so who might not have otherwise because they had an alternative legal route available. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Since coming to power Labour has ignored everything it was saying before the election. Rather than doing anything useful to improve already poor Home Office initial decision making, it focused on ramping up anti-asylum policies and making it worse. 1/
#r4today
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“'If you do not go back, we will definitely deport you and your family, and if you or your child tries to get away, our officers will handcuff you, your child and your wife and put you all on a plane using physical force’.” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
I feel like Tim Berners-Lee might live to become the contemporary Alfred Nobel
Are you even a Woman In Games until someone crashes your talk & scrawls dicks on your slides?
It was mercifully a momentary disruption, and otherwise smooth, with a wonderful audience.
Many thanks.
Solidarity
Yes, yes it would, for about 1001 reasons. We are already seeing the use of AI in asylum decision making, and the way it negatively impacts asylum claims and leads to more people needing to appeal, not to mention that it can't possibly translate the nuance involved in an application.
Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️
🎉 Yesterday was a truly an historic day for #Wales 🎊
Action Deafness Cymru was delighted to be represented at the Senedd alongside other members of the BSL Consortium as well as members of the #Deaf community. Yesterday was the day Senedd debated and passed the Wales #BSL Bill into law
#BSLWalesBill
Labour's one in one out policy fundamentally undermines protections for modern slavery and trafficking victims. Ministers were warned about this from the start. They ignored those warnings to push a policy they knew put people at risk. 1/
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Props to @rosasparks.bsky.social for this nuanced, gracious treatment of Sinners & the Black Midwest in @reactorsff.bsky.social
Freedom to move throughout the cosmos
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Well well well. If it isn’t the exact thing people like me have been saying for years would happen, happening. Rushing out poorly made asylum decisions in a stupid attempt to clear the initial decisions backlog simply moved the backlog to the tribunal.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
The juxtaposition of the first and second items of business for this Privy Council meeting is hilarious.
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I have done a quick post on today's tribunal stats. Specifically those that relate to the quality (or lack thereof) of Home Office decision making. I also look at the ongoing saga of the missing nationality data in asylum appeals, and why that is important: open.substack.com/pub/thoughts...
If we really wanted to honour Churchill, perhaps we should implement his 1940 plan for an “indissoluble union” between France and Britain. It’s what Winston would want.
The Bank of England has only put non royals on bank notes since 1970.
Farage and Co. losing their minds over a relatively modern tradition.
i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”
New stats show the asylum appeals backlog was over 80,000 cases at the end of 2025, relating to around 104,000 people - a 91% increase on a year before. 4 in 10 of all asylum appeals disposed of in the last 3 months of 2025 were withdrawals, the majority of which will be by the Home Office.
It's no surprise the government wants to take drastic action on asylum appeals. Replacing the existing tribunal with a new body isn't a good answer in my view, though. The Home Office bears a heavy responsibility for inefficiency in the existing system.
The asylum appeal backlog has hit 80,000 cases. This chart, which includes asylum appeals lodged and asylum appeals disposed of, shows what kind of trouble the immigration tribunal is in. www.gov.uk/government/s...
#GNUTerryPratchett
The tribunal statistics are out at 9.30am today. They’ll show the backlog of asylum appeals at the end of 2025, which will be higher than the backlog of initial decisions. Also likely to carry on the trend of high numbers of withdrawals following a drop in the quality of home office decisions.
This was great fun to record. I still can't believe how lucky I was that everyone else was so polite so I could nab the original...
