Laurène Soubise

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
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To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
www.sentencingacademy.org.uk/wp-content/u...

I was thinking about this recently when taking my eldest to the Oxford Open Day. She's at a northern state grammar school. She was amongst groups of kids who had been bused in by their schools, had stayed in college, where their schools had already been visited by various colleges...

You know what no one has ever done before?

Tried to 'reclaim' patriotism for the left.

Getting mighty tired of the meme on here of “oh, it is just so difficult for the government to set the agenda”. The government (which literally employs thousands of press officers) is setting the agenda - it’s just that it is setting it on toxic ground it can’t win.

We could have a look at other European countries who have had ID cards for decades (e.g. France) and see that it doesn't make a difference to border control. There is however racial profiling during police ID check...

This is why, despite Labour’s fumbling attempts in the last couple of days to persuade people that they can be relied upon as allies in the fight against fascism, they very obviously can’t

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

And the 1958 constitution could do with a democratic makeover...

My take on the French political crisis remains the same since the last parliamentary elections: the only (orderly) way out is through a constitutional assembly. There is no way French politicians will make the necessary compromises so close to the next presidential election (2027).

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Bunch of people who never had to uproot their entire lives and move thousands of miles away ought to stop pontificating on asylum and immigration

Jeu des sept différences :

- A la moindre incartade (même résiduelle), les établissements musulmans sont fustigés publiquement & privés de subsides

- Et quand le directeur un établissement catholique viole gravement la loi républicaine & multiplie les dérives intégristes : Il ne se passe... *rien*

Call for barristers and solicitor-advocates act in Crown Court trials to be interviewed for PhD research about the jury. Please email nicola.monaghan@northampton.ac.uk.

Calling all barristers and solicitor-advocates. If you are able to help with my PhD research on the jury, please do get in contact with me. Thank you in advance!

And yet still infuriating. It feels as if crucial research doesn't take place north of Birmingham

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas.

1 in 2 builders were born overseas.

1 in 6 nurses were born overseas.

1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas.

1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas.

1 in 5 university academics were born overseas.

The UK would be screwed without them.

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One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today

To go on about how jobs and houses and shops and drugs might now be consumed by someone other than yourself is, to be frank, a form of greed. Stop going on about yourself and your people and your family for a minute and think about others.

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‘Lefty lawyer’ Keir Starmer to push for ECHR reform The U.K. prime minister — a former human rights lawyer — wants to shake up Strasbourg amid pressure over migration rulings. Some fear inaction will stoke “the next Brexit.”

Un Premier ministre « avocat gauchiste » veut une réécriture de la CEDH.

Pour saper la protection des étrangers en matière d'éloignement (tortures & vie familiale).

Afin de « calmer » l'extrême droite.

Le dernier qui a tenté ce calcul, c'est Cameron en 2015.

Le résultat fut brillant : Brexit...

Migrants: «4000» forces de l’ordre mobilisées pour des contrôles dans les gares et bus, annonce

Ça porte un nom, qui renvoie à une tradition française déjà ancienne: c'est une rafle.

V good paper by @echrhawk.bsky.social - 'The Human Rights Act under Siege: The Vulnerability of Fundamental Rights Protection under the UK Constitution' - reflecting on implications of legislation passed in 'dying days' of last govt. A sobering conclusion. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

“Whilst this may involve a degree of disruption in family life this is considered to be proportionate to the legitimate aim of maintaining effective immigration control.”

It also states that the need to maintain immigration control “outweighs the possible effect on you”

But sure,let's review art 8

Really nasty stuff!

That's great for them - now can we also raise the statutory level for everyone else?

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Something that the Lucy Connolly case has illustrated - something that is well known to those who work in criminal justice but often overlooked in public debate - is the complexity and nuance in the lives and characters of people appearing before the courts.

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