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Dementia sufferer, 76, convicted of failing to insure car she's incapable of driving The 76-year-old woman was prosecuted by the DVLA over the unpaid bill on a Ford car still registered in her name

The SJP has just got to be scrapped
www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/s...

Empty homes: Families 'living in limbo' on Lambeth estate Vanessa lives in temporary accommodation but there are dozens of empty homes on her Lambeth estate.

Councils need to have their priorities set right
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These days if you get a felony conviction you get booted out with no right of return. E.g. a drug conviction ends your stay in America. You run a huge risk (imho) if you are not a US Citizen

When I was there if you had a temporary visa (L1 in my case) the sponsoring company owed you certain rights/costs so after about 3 years they insisted you had a Green Card and so mostly managed your own costs. At that time many Irish in Boston came in and out as tourists (but it was more than 20 yrs

Time for a Brexit reckoning In order to finally move one, Britain must face the abysmal failure this project has been.

I agree with every word of this @daliborrohac.bsky.social www.politico.eu/article/time...

Ghislaine Maxwell refuses to answer questions about Epstein from Congress A video released by members of Congress shows Maxwell, the jailed associate of Jeffrey Epstein, refusing to answer questions about the late sex offender.

Ghislaine pleads the fifth! In the US there is a Bill of Rights embedded in the Constitution. The US is a government formed within a Constitution. Quite different to the UK where the Government likes to pretend such Rights do not exist. High time
that is reversed
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Something not quite right. Why was he there 20 years? What visa did he have? He should have gone the green card route long ago and be well into his citizenship application by now. Good luck to him though and I hope he gets out soon

The strikingly soft tone in stark contrast to ICE aggression is very effective.

Reminds me of the Estonian Singing Revolution.

Keep it up #Minneapolis. Sing your way to peace and a better world.

#IceOut

Joel Hames and Emma-Jane Faulkner: Frustrating Liberty: Habeas Corpus, the Right to Trial, and Palestine Action Remand Prisoners Introduction ‘It manifestly appeareth, that no man ought be imprisoned but for some certain cause: and these words, Ad subjiciend’ Et recipiend, prove that cause must be shewed: for otherwise how c…

Joel Hames and Emma-Jane Faulkner: Frustrating Liberty: Habeas Corpus, the Right to Trial, and Palestine Action Remand Prisoners ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/02/09/j...

I'm just in awe of this article! Everyone should read it

Intentionally misleading marketing for machine learning

Lots of calls for "Starmer resign NOW" from people who, on closer examination, don't wish Labour well.

I used to think that of Dominic Cummings. How did an unelected person get that much control? All I could think of was the politician was out of ideas (Boris) and so anyone who had ideas suddenly became very valuable (just my opinion though)

The might of the USA government arrayed against a traumatised 5 year old.

Ukrainian mother's joy after phone call with son she thought had been killed Nazar Daletskyi's family were sure he had been killed and had buried what they thought was his body in 2023.

A heartwarming story about how a mother receives a call from a son she thought was dead.
Who did they bury?
Identity was supposedly checked using DNA, it shows this technology is not always accurate
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The defendant in this case won

High Court to Hear Landmark Legal Challenge Against Police Live Facial Recognition — Big Brother Watch

There is a judicial review under way brought by Big Brother Watch. I'm not sure if this covers private cases
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Iain Gould - Actions Against the Police Solicitor The blog of a police misconduct claims lawyer.

There are solicitors who specialize in actions against the police. Ian is a famous one but many do this work. Contact one of them.
Although it was Sainsburys in this case it could have easily have escalated to the police.
False accusations need to be stamped out
iaingould.co.uk

Facial recognition error: Customer misidentified by Sainsbury's Sainsbury's staff wrongly eject a man from a south London store over a facial recognition alert.

Stupid Facial Recognition cock up.
Always ask for the evidence, i.e. the picture of the person they assumed you were.
Take names. Note: the "software" in this case could be the operator, find out who this was. Demand at least £10k compensation
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In Texas the court stands for the jury

In this case they read out loud the "True Bill of Indictment". Usually, the the judge asks counsel if they wish to waive reading of the indictment , perhaps they do that as it is a trial

YouTube video by Judge Stephanie Boyd TUE., FEB 3, 2026/JUDGE STEPHANIE BOYD/187TH DISTRICT COURT/JURY: STATE VS ROSS

In Texas, Pro Se defendants are allowed but its hard to catch one live. The State provides the defendant with 2 Standby Counsel but you can see how difficult it is for an unqualified party
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei8d...

YouTube video by Spoken Injustice Inquests, Criminal Trials and the Search for Truth: Lessons from the Letby Case

Good video from Spoken Injustice. Features Stephanie Davies on the Lucy Letby case
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRDT...

Claire Mercer 'not surprised' by smart motorways anxiety Claire Mercer has been campaigning to scrap the motorways since her husband Jason's death in 2019.

I've never liked the idea of the so-called smart Motorways. They were and remain a stupid idea. Designed, perhaps, for breakdowns where you cruise to a halt a disabling crash leaves you dangerously stranded in a lane with speeding traffic
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Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed…

…perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

This is great news! Next could you start to think about EU Passports and citizenship

‘It’s like a gift from God’: undocumented foreign workers welcome Spanish amnesty Half a million migrants will be ‘regularised’ under plans to boost economic growth that have angered rightwing parties

Humane and sensible step move by Spain in facilitating irregular migrants and asylum seekers to move to work with decent pay, social security and tax payments. Predictably the right is grumbling - unlike the UK, the govt isn’t allowing this to set their policies www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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I hope this is not a fake but an interesting 2 hour job going in Boston:
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2,000 wrongly matched with possible criminals at Champions League 92% of people wrongly identified as possible criminals at Champions League final in Cardiff.

So just how accurate are so called facial recognition systems?
Not very, it seems, from this trial
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wale...