Jack Greig-Midlane

If I want to make an illegal law, I should be allowed to!

So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. "Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain - the guards told me that," Karen says. It's no secret that the Trump administration has been pouring money into ICE. Its annual budget - $6bn a decade ago - is now $85n; ICE is now the highest - funded law enforcement agency in the US. Since last August, new recruits can expect to receive a signing-on bonus of up to $50,000. Karen's experience has left her convinced that ICE agents are being given even more incentives - to arrest and detain anyone they possibly can, even blameless tourists who have all the paperwork they need to be in the US. Within days of Donald Trump's second inauguration on 20 January 2025, his administration ordered ICE officials to detain more people, with new quotas that would increase the total number of arrests from a few hundred to 1,200-1,500 a day. Reports immediately began to emerge of international travellers being detained by ICE officers.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sociopathic stuff. Just the casual tone of it, as well as the implication that if he didn’t ‘like her as a person’ it would be fine.

Like, in the most literal sense, I don’t think I could live with myself if I knew I’d done this to someone.

Man in Sicily trained his dog to illegally dump rubbish, say police City of Catania calls ruse to avoid CCTV cameras installed to stop fly-tipping ‘as cunning as it is doubly wrong’

Police say the duo will face ‘ruff justice’

#Criminology

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I have less than zero respect for any plaintiff trying to copyright a rhythm. Vampires sucking dry all that is good and fun.

Can a rhythm be owned? What a reggaeton lawsuit reveals about how copyright misunderstands music A high-stakes dispute forcing copyright law to confront a long-standing problem: how to define ‘originality’ for the protection of musical works.

“If successful, the ruling would grant two rightsholders control over a core musical feature used across a global genre. Unsurprisingly, many musicians and scholars see this as an attempt to claim ownership of reggaeton itself.”

theconversation.com/can-a-rhythm...

Lowe rotting away… dead… in a Muslim gang run prison. Is this still Reform policy? Starting to thaw a little on them if so.

An immortal chap with short hair sits in front of a whiteboard. His face is joyous.

It is my sincere belief that this guy has not aged a day

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University of Manchester is hiring a Lecturer in Sociology (qualitative/theoretical) in the of political sociology of class and culture.

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Met deploys drones and ebikes to help catch adolescent phone thieves London police say criminal gangs are using Snapchat to offer cash rewards of up to £380 for stolen iPhones

‘Rowley said: “Policing alone cannot solve this problem. Manufacturers and tech companies must do more to stop criminals being able to reset, reuse or resell stolen phones.”’

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I had the same thought. And it would be because they know it is a waste of their time so enforcing it to the letter highlights the problem with the legislation. (And also avoids criticism from the government)

Roses are red
Poorly formatted references are vile…

An absolute fucking mess

What on earth is going on at the Telegraph?!

(This is a real picture published for a real column)

And Oakeshott’s Reform pals were literally cold calling for an invite to Bangor.

She’s a piece of work

YouTube video by Wednesday - Topic Women Without Whiskey (Drive-By Truckers)

File under: rare instance of a cover that is better than the original

youtu.be/Fp5spiO3nQI?...

Countless = 6 ppl

Good on Sunak for flatly condemning KK’s obvious racism, rather than falling into the trap of Gove and Grant’s prevarications

More than 120 dead after multiple suicide and gun attacks in Pakistan, officials say

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

The president appears to envy Chinese economic interventionism — but in China, the authorities tend to set the parameters and allow companies to compete vigorously. The overt US turn towards favouritism and quid pro quo governance risks undermining US economic foundations by reshaping incentives across markets and regulation. When capital flows primarily to those with access and connections, competition becomes distorted, inequality deepens and policymaking weakens. The most productive or innovative businesses could get sidelined.

Trump looks to be replicating Putin's approach to the economy rather than Xi's

School‐Based Interventions for Reducing Disciplinary School Exclusion. An Updated Systematic Review School exclusion—commonly referred to as suspension—is a disciplinary response employed by school authorities to address student misbehaviour. Typically, it involves temporary removal from regular te....

Really interesting to hear plans re changes to school suspension in white paper
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

esp as suspension causes increased risk of later custody
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

we can prevent behaviour leading to suspension
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

What was the pleasure in stealing from the slot machines? Javid's face lights up. "Oh, I loved it. I loved it. The pleasure was that you could make money from these machines." He pauses. "Well, actually not make money, take money from these machines." He says they justified their actions by telling themselves the owners were also acting unlawfully. "Bas and I thought that the people who operated these amusement parks shouldn't be letting kids in anyway. You had to be 18. Bas was 11, I was 13. We were obviously nowhere near the legal age."

Javid here making the case for ‘seductions of crime’ and cultural #criminology

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

I think you’ll find ‘hire Batman’ polls very highly!

Do they like the policy idea exactly, or are they just keen on crime fighting?

I wish her all the worst in her new endeavours.

Iran protest doctor: ‘In one street, I saw blood pooled in a gutter with a trail stretching several metres’ | Anonymous I’ve worked as a surgeon in disaster zones. Nothing compares to the nightmare I saw in Iran’s hospitals when the state started shooting protesters

“People were afraid to come to the hospital. They knew what happens afterwards. …once the situation is considered “under control”, hospitals receive official letters from security institutions demanding patient information – names, details, injuries.”

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

In the midst of every crisis lies great opportunity (to be racist)

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Trump and his minions seem unable to NOT constantly and brazenly lie at any opportunity, like it’s habitual. Completely surreal to live through a US administration that appears to be in the throes of self inflicted madness.

#Newsnight