Yuan Yi Zhu

This is the hidden in plain sight heffalump trap in the Budget - Mahmood’s plan will deepsix whatever fiscal headroom the Chancellor has.

The future of healthcare if assisted suicide becomes legal.

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI. Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Good front-paging.

Right this isn’t a matter of choice, it’s a legal obligation with legal consequences if ignored.

Tom Stoppard's plays were actually written by the Earl of Oxford and Asquith

Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!

YouTube video by 曾錚真言 珍貴機密史料：拒絕鎮壓八九六四天安門學生運動之解放軍第38集团军军长徐勤先庭審視頻 | 北京軍區軍事法院

Someone just uploaded a 6-hour recording of the court-martial of Xu Qinxian, the Chinese general who refused to take his army to Beijing in 1989. Astonishing stuff. youtu.be/m2NN0vSJ8rU?...

Dare I say it but you also write a very good nice review

Return of the Spider Woman: Lady Hale tours Britain’s courts With the Law on Our Side is a pleasingly old-fashioned look at our legal system by the former president of the Supreme Court

While I was offline I reviewed Baroness Hale of Richmond's newest book. It's actually very good! I'm going soft. Free link here @ www.thetimes.com/article/6dd6...

Good and fair review.

She is a serious person Baroness Hale, and deserves to be treated as such.

She also seems to have put effort into writing the book.

I’d missed this being published.

I know this is a niche point—& I think Lady Hale has tried to address it a bit from YYZ’s review—but I do wish more of these sorts of books would come not from the Great and the Good but those sitting a first instance, wrestling with litigation in the raw.

Her agents haven't paid me enough for me to confirm this.

Return of the Spider Woman: Lady Hale tours Britain’s courts With the Law on Our Side is a pleasingly old-fashioned look at our legal system by the former president of the Supreme Court

While I was offline I reviewed Baroness Hale of Richmond's newest book. It's actually very good! I'm going soft. Free link here @ www.thetimes.com/article/6dd6...

Scrapping jury trials won’t solve Britain’s legal backlog A wise man once said that “jury trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement. Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea.” High office has a habit of deadening such wisdom, and now Da...

A wise man once said that ‘jury trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement’. That man was David Lammy. Me for @unherd.com

unherd.com/newsroom/scr...

I still think it's funny John Mearsheimer gave realism a bad name when all his Russia analysis is basically onthological security constructivism.

Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social

Table 1: Minimum requirements that an application for settlement must meet to qualify Pillar Requirements Suitability The applicant must meet suitability requirements for an application, as set out in Part Suitability of the Immigration Rules) – for example, not having a criminal conviction. The applicant has no current litigation, NHS, tax or other government debt. Integration The applicant must be able to evidence that they meet English language requirements, which will be at B2 level under the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The applicant must be able to evidence that they have passed the Life in the UK test. Contribution Applicant has contributed to the Exchequer by having annual earnings above £12,570 for a minimum of 3 to 5 years (subject to consultation), in line with the current thresholds for paying income tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs), or an alternative amount of income.

Contribution This section focuses on ‘Contribution’. This reinforces the principle that settlement should be earned through active participation in the economy and wider society. To be eligible for settlement applicants must: • Have contributed to the Exchequer by having annual earnings above £12,570 for a minimum of 3 to 5 years (subject to this consultation), in line with the current thresholds for paying income tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs), or an alternative amount of income. Please note, however, that these income-related thresholds would not track future changes to the tax system. • Have no outstanding litigation, NHS, tax or other government debt. 1. Do you think the following groups should be exempt from the requirement to have earned above £12,750 for at least 3 to 5 years? Yes No Don’t know / prefer not to say Those on maternity leave or long-term illness/disability Those in certain occupations with different pay arrangements (e.g. Ministers of Religion)

British citizens who marry foreigners will have to make sure their spouses have a minimum income of £12,500 for 3 to 5 years, or they won't get indefinite leave to remain, the UK government has proposed. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...

literally nobody has automatic ILR, that is not a thing that exists. meghan fucking markle had to apply for LtR

for comparison (and it's not a direct comparison): when my wife arrived here at the start of 2016, they added a third language test but you only had to do it if you'd arrived within 6 months of it being introduced. expanding that out to "major rules can change inside of a 5 year period" is very bad

'Not authorized': Family fights to regain Lemkin name from vehement Israel critic nationalpost.com/news/not-aut...

Bluesky's power users are in favor of violent threats, as long as the people receiving them "deserve" them. This is a much more complex and subjectivity-laden stance to take than the mods' stance, which is violent threats are always bad. The power users hate the mods for this.

The last 2.5 years of Bluesky were a steady build up to "criticism of Jeffrey Epstein's writing ability is ableist." Congrats everyone, we did it.

I'm still a bit uncomfortable with the number of people who seem to think what the BBC did with the Trump edit was either totally ok, or just a silly mistake. If a historian got caught playing fast and loose with sources and evidence like that in such an obviously politicised way, they'd be toast.

Top N.S. judges defend right to ban staff from wearing poppies in courtrooms Nova Scotia's top judges say their peers were in the right to ban court staff from wearing poppies in the courtroom.

Nova Scotia’s top judges are defending their peers’ decision to ask that staff not wear poppies in provincial courtrooms

The move had been slammed by Premier Tim Houston and others late last week

nationalpost.com/news/nova-sc...

James Watson has died and much of the conversation has inevitably turned to Rosalind Franklin. I do commend anyone with access to read this 2002 New Yorker essay on her by Jim Holt. It presents a rather more complex version of the story than the somewhat mythic …

www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...

Routes to Settlement - Committees - UK Parliament The Government has announced major changes to eligibility for Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR), also known as settlement, and is planning to consult on the proposed changes later this year. &nbsp...

Call for evidence on proposed changes to routes to settlement in the UK (ILR). Sharing for people on my list who may be affected by this,this is opportunity to provide feedback as part of the process. Deadline 2 December. committees.parliament.uk/work/9389/ #indefiniteleavetoremain #settlement #ilr

A tweet by a doctor stating that "It is a profound failure of leadership that even the most 'patriotic' White men in British office are too afraid to name the 'Israeli' Jewish lobby as the primary architect of mass migration policy."

I'm posting this on BlueSky to (hopefully) disprove a theory I have about this platform.

Do people on here understand this is not 'pro-Palestine' activism, despite this individual describing her output as such? That this is in fact the Great Replacement theory so beloved of White Nationalists?

J'ai passé la journée à répondre à des messages injurieux m'accusant au mieux de complaisance avec l'extrême droite et au pire d'être moi-même un fasciste en chemise brune.

Je vais donc mettre les choses au point.

Il y a dans notre République un certain nombre de principes cardinaux.

1/

Tories will not deport legally settled people, Badenoch clarifies Katie Lam spoke ‘imprecisely’ in stating large number of people would ‘need to go home’, says Conservative leader

Further updates on the ignominious end to Lam's ignominious policy. Good to hear Badenoch say "But we have a principle. We don’t believe in making things retrospective." Let's hope all Britain's parties follow that principle. And for a less punitive & vindictive approach to immigration more broadly