Ben Williams

She is not doing well

The judicial oath:

I [name], do swear by Almighty God that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign King Charles the Third in the office of [judicial role], and will do right to all manner of people after the law and usages of this realm, without fear or favour, affection or ill will.

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The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention (5-6 October 2025)

Reform UK: 27% (-2 from 28-29 Sept)
Labour: 20% (-2)
Conservatives: 17% (+1)
Lib Dems: 17% (+2)
Greens: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

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I can see the short term political advantage to us, but the prospect of the long term poisoning of the well is beyond appalling.

Jenrick being the loudest member of the Conservative party has already been a huge contributor to the poisoning of our politics. We really don't need any four-dimensional chess about him becoming leader. When it happens, it will be a terrible day for our country.

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

Five Conservative councillors in Kent defect to Reform UK Reform UK welcomes one councillor from Medway Council and four from Gravesham Borough Council.

Having first helped manage defections in the 90s, I'm not going to deny the political momentum they generate. However, there is a curiosity about Reform absorbing in large volume all the politicos from a party they say is crap. At some point they basically become them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Yes.

Robert Jenrick denies 'Trumpian purge' after conference attack on ‘activist judges’ | The News Agents Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick tells Emily Maitlis 'activist judges’ are bringing the UK’s legal system into “disrepute” and vows to make appointments a political decision under a future…

"What I want is the removal of activist judges we have in our country right now."

Robert Jenrick tells Emily Maitlis 'activist judges’ are bringing the UK’s legal system into “disrepute”.

Is this, as the Lib Dems say, a ‘Trumpian purge?’

Kemi Badenoch repeatedly refuses to say whether she admires Nigel Farage The Tory leader says she believes her party's fortunes "always would get worse before they got better" as she rejects suggestions of a Reform pact.

Kemi Badenoch’s weird inability to remember the war in Ukraine, the biggest issue on which a) she has a wedge with Farage and b) the country thinks the Tories did a good job is, well, weird.

New on MSNBC: Trump's new acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan has recruited prosecutors from outside her office to take James Comey to trial, after being unable to find any federal prosecutors in her own office willing to pursue the charges, according to two people familiar with the selections.

"Wank is a speech act directed first and foremost at helping the speaker feel better about themselves, stated as an objective claim about the state of the world, that we are expected in discussion to treat with the epistemic authority of a claim about identity, but the content of the actual claim".

I'm guessing Robert Jenrick might be hard-pressed to see a black face if he walked round his own constituency of Newark for 90 minutes, given the ethnic minority population of its main town looks to be smaller than the white population of Handsworth. (Source: citypopulation.de/en/uk/eastmi...)

I think it’s worse than this. Her “different category/different country” line shows she can identify racism on the right. It just also revealed that she is too much of a coward to confront it head on, and instead makes false equivalences.

Yesterday Trump claimed that one year before 9/11 he wrote about how we "need to watch" Osama bin Laden, further claiming he told (a then 20 year old) Pete Hegseth about it.

The man has lost his damned mind.

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

Kemi Badenoch currently on Radio 4 demonstrating what a carcrash of a politician she is. It's always so hideously painful and cringe to listen to her.

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Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

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The finances of one of Nigel Farage’s key confidants are being examined by the UK’s tax and revenue authorities amid questions over his income from wealth and business activities, the Guardian understands.

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👇🎯 This is how governing works in literally every actual democracy around the world. If you don’t have the votes, it’s up to you to make concessions to the minority parties. It’s not their job to save you from your responsibility to govern by giving you things you don’t have the votes for already.

It's IMO *interesting* that her speeches aren't on display, and I don't think it's deliberate, it is that the party memory of her speeches is of the zingers, not the long arguments about the country and what needed to be done.

Within 24 hours of the Kirk shooting, top Trump officials and administration lawyers were drafting legal memos, writing blueprints for possible executive actions and prioritizing which liberal organizations and strongholds of the left needed targeting.

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People dislike Greta Thunberg because of jealousy and misogyny. That’s it. They can’t handle a young woman with that level of courage and conviction.

'The ECHR is not merely an international agreement; it is a cornerstone of civil liberties, enshrining rights that protect individuals from arbitrary state power and ensure justice, fairness, and dignity for all.'

My God. The Starmer government could not be a bigger disappointment.

This is excellent.

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.