Holger Hestermeyer

The domino effect of the us market closing and the goods once going there looking for other markets. Things will get worse.

One of the reasons the figures have risen is, of course, Brexit. Competences reverted back to Britain and ‚taking back control‘ implies that someone exercises that control.

Kemi Badenoch: let's do this in Britain

I see we had the same thought at the same moment…

The facts of cases involving ice are more and more horrifying. What happens when you hire barely trained people and provide incentives for cruelty plus try to limit the application of law.
Is this really what the Tories want?

Also as a mere matter of strategy, the Tories are now the pale copy of Reform and continue to behave as such, rather than a traditional conservative political force. It is hard to see how this will translate to electoral success rather than further self-destruction.

I wonder it follows the old Brexit strategy: ‚theoretically we can strengthen human rights on our own, so there‘s no downside because we could do even better‘ (but yeah in practice we will just get rid of them)

1) Either the ECHR significantly constraints government action. Then "it has to go because of that" means "we plan to, want to and will do things that are currently considered to violate human rights" or
2) Human rights protection remains the same. Then... why leave the ECHR?

I would add one thing: we are bombarded with two claims: 1) the UK can leave the ECHR without lowering human rights protection and 2) the ECHR significantly limits what the government can do and hence the UK has to leave it.
These cannot both be true. /1

The article solely refers to the us and the increasing tendency to (self)censor.

A brilliant article by @katie0martin.ft.com. My gut instinct says the increasingly manipulated information environment will lead to disaster. But what about China - any research on that? - I've repeatedly read articles here and there about how so many of their numbers are fake, but yet it thrives?

A brilliant article by @katie0martin.ft.com. My gut instinct says the increasingly manipulated information environment will lead to disaster. But what about China - any research on that? - I've repeatedly read articles here and there about how so many of their numbers are fake, but yet it thrives?

I fear Tories and Reform together are polling at roughly 50% of the vote. I fear for the future.

For NI, Ireland and the EU it is time to have a plan. What exactly will not work or run into trouble without the ECHR? Police cooperation, data exchange, extradition are certain candidates and the level of cooperation will have to be reduced. /3

There's still time to turn the wheel: what is the point of this? Do you think it will fix migration? Farage did not fix migration by getting Brexit, he apparently made it worse in the eyes of the population - and now you allow him to dominate the debate and determine the next step? /2

UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

Both the Conservatives and Reform are now set to leave the ECHR and are committing the UK to breaking human rights (if you say they contain significant constraints and you want to get rid of these constrains - yes, that's what you plan to do). /1 www.bbc.com/news/article...

War-ravaged.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25A326 KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. NATIONAL TPS ALLIANCE, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR A STAY [October 3, 2025] In March of this year, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California entered a preliminary order postponing the effective date of the Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to remove "temporary protected status" (TPS) from Venezuelan nationals living in the United States. See 8 U.S. C. §1254a; 5 U.S. C. §705. In May, this Court stayed that order while the Government appealed. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ultimately affirmed the District Court's preliminary order. Last month, the District Court entered final judgment in respondents' favor, holding unlawful and setting aside the Secretary's actions effectuating her decision— namely, her vacatur of a pending extension of TPS for Venezuelan nationals, and her termination of that status itself. See 5 U. S. C. §706(2). (The District Court also concluded that the Secretary unlawfully vacated a TPS extension for Haitian nationals. The Government now seeks to stay the portions of the District Court's judgment pertaining to Ven-ezuela, but not Haiti. See Application 7, n. 6.) The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties' legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here.

NOEM v. NATIONAL TPS ALLIANCE JACKSON, J., dissenting The September 5, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, case No. 25-cv-1766, is stayed as to the Venezuela vacatur and Venezuela termination, pending the disposition of the Government's appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is timely sought. Should the petition for a writ of certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court. JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR and JUSTICE KAGAN would deny the application. JUSTICE JACKSON, dissenting from the grant of application for stay.

BREAKING: SCOTUS (again) allows Sec. Noem to proceed with ending Temporary Protect Status for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, over the objection of the three Democratic appointees.

Could we please, please not build a narrative of the inevitability of people like Farage? Why not highlight Farage‘s failures from time to time. He did enormous harm to the uk economy. He failed to get anything on migration. He did enormous harm to uk fisheRies, which was his core ‘competence‘.

Im just reading ‚the coming storm‘. apparently the us started having this conspiracy -> news pipeline since the Clinton years.

To all conspiracy fans: there are requirements for how to do treaties, for Germany treaties covering matters of federal law require parliamentary approval, for the U.K. they need to be put before parliament.

Agreed - which makes sense given the UN is not an ICC member (and cannot become one, I'd say from the top of my head)

Note that Austria, Kenya and Switzerland are ICC member states.

For ease of reference

See Art. 19 of the Treaty between the UN and the ICC

To be fair, it's debatable what they got, because his first action was to allow his better friend to bomb their territory.

But the EO is not supposed to create any rights (see the snippet). Can Qatar rely on it? Who knows… /4

The document is … unusual. A similar guarantee is in the NATO treaty, but this is an executive order. Trump will rely on Potus Art. II powers, amongst which this one /3

The key passage /2

Assuring the Security of the State of Qatar By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in recognition of the enduring alliance

The EO in which Trump ‚assures the security‘ of Qatar /1 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...