Patrick Smith

For more on how conditions at Dilley are affecting children, read my latest for @nbcnews.com

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

"the nature and scale of Palestine Action’s activities, so far as they comprise acts of terrorism, has not yet reached the level, scale and persistence that would justify the application of the criminal law measures that are the consequence of proscription, and the very significant interference with Convention rights consequent on those measures."

But this, here, is the key bit: despite everything they have to say about PA, the court finds that the consequences of proscription on human rights are not proportionate to its benefits. The first ground upon which the government lost is largely procedural. This one is substantive.

Arguably more relevant to Locke. A level politics teachers, discuss.

Always fascinating to see the judiciary revise the actions of the executive, exactly its role in a functional democracy, Montesquieu in action.

I will bite: from my sixth-form college it was Melanie Sykes.

"I remember when all this was mills"

My band used to practise in Denton and I often went swimming in Gorton. This is surely enough to justify a whimsical political analysis on "the Manchester I know" [ed: it is not]

Me on the bus: "Sorry, nothing smaller mate"

The real fitness challenge is resisting pizza in the newsroom.

Word of the day, for all British-based tweeps.

Pluvial: relating to or characterized by rainfall.

Tough on Hutton, tough on the causes of Hutton

If you look at the demographics of voter trends, a wealthy person of his age is pretty likely to support Reform.

14 years ago today. No social media manager. No PR. Just raw unfiltered emotion and heartfelt stream of consciousness for a much-loved and much-missed musical icon. The day the music died and Twitter peaked. @

Struggling to think of many countries where a family would be left to raise $1.3 million to pay for medical expenses after a bereavement

"Sir Jim - who is a resident of Monaco"

Sam Altman was right - this unironically is PhD-level intelligence

Clever headlines in government press releases, an on-going series

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

Poll: Americans support ICE overhaul amid federal funding fight The question is how far to go, as a new NBC News Decision Desk Poll finds 43% want ICE reformed, 29% want it abolished, and 29% want it to continue in its current form.

A new @nbcnews.com Decision Desk Poll finds 43% want ICE reformed, 29% want it abolished, and 29% want it to continue in its current form.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

This is a useful account for #news

Just learned of a breaking news story via BlueSky.

Nature is healing.

All flights to and from El Paso airport in Texas halted for 10 days for 'security reasons' The FAA notice covers the airspace over El Paso and the neighboring community of Santa Teresa, New Mexico.

Very strange

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Big fan of Nashville police using the thermal imaging camera on a helicopter to find a suspect hiding in a wheelie bin (US: trash can) x.com/MNPDNashvill...

yes indeed - it might stop someone doing the same elsewhere if they knew there would be proper scrutiny

An interesting parallel to POTUS' ongoing dispute with American universities

Notable that two of those businesses mentioned AI licensing deals in their earnings releases - no doubt others are negotiating similar things too.

Amid WaPo woes five US news giants show how industry can grow Green shoots in digital advertising, video and subs at NYT, Bloomberg, People Inc and Dow Jones.

Interesting news industry reporting from @pressgazette.co.uk with some reasons to be cheerful

Amid WaPo woes five US news giants show how industry can grow pressgazette.co.uk/north-americ...

SWFC News: The reality of Sheffield Wednesday’s on-field plight as relegation beckons A 4-0 defeat to Swansea City over the weekend saw Sheffield Wednesday move a step closer to relegation, and it’s no surprise whatsoever.

re: the plight of #swfc, admirably covered by the Sheffield Star throughout, why has there been no accountability for Chansiri?

No public statement, no inquiry calling for him to answer for what's happened. Don't fans and players deserve at least a response?

www.thestar.co.uk/sport/footba...