Sam McIntosh

Damming indictment of Scottish prison system. Systemic failure and neglect resulted in deaths of Katie(21) and William(16). Need to stop imprisoning young people & invest in communities. And overhaul investigation & FAI system so grieving families are not forced to fight for the truth for years.

Grim reality of life inside Manchester prison. Death, self harm and dehumanising regimes.

UK-EU youth mobility scheme key to better EU relations, says top diplomat Germany’s ambassador to UK suggests Starmer will have to agree to concessions like youth mobility in order to secure economic benefits

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

PSNI and Met police’s unlawful spying on journalists may be tip of the iceberg Two investigative reporters put under surveillance say public inquiry is needed to uncover scale of operations

After a tribunal ruled that two investigative journalists, Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, were unlawfully spied upon in order to find out their sources, the pair were at pains to stress that they consider what was uncovered to be just the tip of the iceberg www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

Prison population in England and Wales set to exceed 100,000 by 2029 Rising prosecutions, higher maximum sentences and soaring number of people on remand driving growth from 86,000 today The prison population could top 100,000 within five years in England and Wales, official estimates show. The justice department…

Prison population in England and Wales set to exceed 100,000 by 2029

Screenshot summary of the arguments in the case. Full text in the link.

EU courts, border controls

New case: latest attempt to challenge Frontex, the EU border agency - this time for supplying information to Libyan authorities, allegedly in breach of human rights eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

Racial abuse, physical assaults and no beds: asylum seekers tell of brutal conditions at Manston migrant centre www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

‘Mum was ill, not bad’: family call for reform of England’s justice system after prison suicide Exclusive: family say case of Kay Melhuish is stark reminder of the dangers of criminalising vulnerable women

The daughter of Kay Melhuish, a vulnerable woman who took her own life in prison after being left without clean underwear for 10 days and denied phone calls with loved ones, has called for urgent reform of England’s justice system

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

📣 Public event
I am delighted to invite you to our next Monday Lecture on "The EU's response to Brexit" by Prof Brigid Laffan and Dr Stefan Telle (Berlin and online, Monday 21 October, 17:00 CET)
Participation both in person and via Zoom, registration required (events.gbz@hu-berlin.de).

The Guardian view on the coroner’s role: if deaths can be prevented, they should be | Editorial www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Children being traumatised at Gatwick deportation centre, finds watchdog Assessment finds detention unit is subjecting families to ‘unnecessary suffering’ amid lengthy Home Office delays

Young children are being traumatised while held at a Gatwick airport deportation centre known as the Family PDA, which should be closed down, the independent monitoring board has found

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Kausale Wirkungsanalyse mit innovativen Mobilitätsdaten zeigt: Das D-Ticket führte im ersten Jahr zu einer substanziellen CO2-Emissionsreduktion Anstieg des Modal Split um +2,1 Prozentpunkte (von etwa 10 auf 12%) km BESCHLUSS Verkehrsminister (23. Sept. 2024) Preisanstieg von 49 auf 58 Euro/Monat PROGNOSE Jährliche Emissionsreduktion im Pkw-Verkehr könnte fast halbiert werden (3,6 statt 6,7 Mio. t CO₂) -7,6% gefahrene Autokilometer Quelle: Eigene Darstellung Anteil der Zugfahrten an der Gesamtzahl aller Wege größer 30 km © MCC Berlin 202 4:34 CO2 -6,7 Mio. t Co, im Pkw-Verkehr (entspricht -4,7% der ges. Verkehrsemissionen)

Flat-rate train ticket reduced Germany’s transport emissions by 5% in first year – analysis
www.cleanenergywire.org/news/flat-ra...

EU court rules gender and nationality enough to grant Afghan women asylum ECJ ruling follows Afghan women’s challenge to Austrian court refusal to give them refugee status

#ECJ rules gender and nationality enough to grant Afghan women #asylum .
#Afghanistan #Refugees #HumanRights www.theguardian.com/law/2024/oct...

The Spies Who Ruined Our Lives/ Die Spitzel, die unser Leben ruinierten | Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP Germany premiere of the film about a secret British unit of undercover political spies For over 40 years, British undercover agents spied on people in the UK and many other countries. The police unit ...

Morgen zeigen wir in Berlin als deutsche Erstaufführung diesen Film zum britischen #Spycops-Skandal, der durch die Enttarnung von #MarkKennedy ins Rollen kam:
www.cilip.de/2024/08/26/t...
Anschließend Details zu seinem hiesigen Einsatz und der EU-weiten Kooperation von Polizeispitzeln.

If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.

Celebrating 10 million users. I was number 7,091,955

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #7.091.955!