I had no idea coke owned Costa, although it does make sense why Costa is the worst coffee shop on the high street.
23.08.2025 22:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@defencebrief.bsky.social
UK based criminal defence lawyer
I had no idea coke owned Costa, although it does make sense why Costa is the worst coffee shop on the high street.
23.08.2025 22:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Farage is no patriot. Patriots don't go abroad to tell lies about the country they love.
Farage hates our country, and everything it stands for.
Funnily enough I don't remember reading similar front pages when Jeremy Hunt bought *seven* luxury seaside apartments from a Conservative donor, in breach of his government's own money laundering rules
23.08.2025 21:52 β π 302 π 76 π¬ 14 π 8People convicted and imprisoned for saying or writing things that stir up racial hatred.
β’ Abu Hamza
β’ Abdullah el-Faisal
β’ Lucy Connolly
Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.
π€¬ Woman who admitted incitement to violence and racism on Social Media and in Court was jailed for 2.5 years.
Gets released early and British TV and media repeating what she said originally, give her prime spot on TV.
Britain wonders why they have a problem which every day is getting more extreme?
Allison Pearson never apologised for claiming that Omar Salem, the man with a sick daughter who confronted Boris Johnson at Whipps Cross hospital, was wearing a microphone. (Sep 2019)
Eye witnesses, photographs and audio of the exchange, proved conclusively he wasn't.
fullfact.org/online/omar-...
Hang on a minute. What happened to all the yanks telling us Brits that this sort of thing meant we have no freedom of speech or something like that?? Turns out they're doing exactly the same thing!!
23.08.2025 13:00 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0These people need to answer a lot of questions. First, how did they find a bank branch?? Second, how did they know the exact five minutes it would be open today??
23.08.2025 12:58 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0I didn't vote for Labour and I'm not very impressed by them so far. But, they're far better than the corrupt incompetents they replaced. Pretending they aren't is just bizarre.
23.08.2025 12:56 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Lucy Connolly tried to claim in her appeal that she didnβt know what a guilty plea would mean.
Her first lawyer brought *comprehensive* receipts demonstrating that wasnβt true. As Sunder says, sheβs repeating claims a court very clearly found to be false.
She'll be standing as a Reform candidate at the earliest opportunity.
23.08.2025 12:50 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think we can accept Judge Inman has been proven entirely correct on the lack of insight.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
So Nigel Farageβs βnewβ plan is in factβ¦ Rishi Sunakβs old plan - which was exactly what caused the explosion in use of asylum hotels in the first place.
23.08.2025 11:50 β π 602 π 170 π¬ 44 π 7All being protected by the same police they were attacking during their riots last year.
23.08.2025 11:54 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0"We are Bristol! who are you? We are many, you are few!"
Around 40 fascists surrounded by hundreds of counterprotesters
Good on the Mirror for having the bravery to strike out against this bullshit
22.08.2025 10:35 β π 2156 π 574 π¬ 41 π 8Xmas wreaths in a garden centre
No
Justβ¦NO!!
Our local garden centre usually gets Xmas stuff out in July!!! I've not been there this year so I don't know if they've done it again but they have every other year. I can't work out why anyone thinks this is sensible.
23.08.2025 11:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We need to learn from Australia.
23.08.2025 11:45 β π 40 π 14 π¬ 1 π 0I don't think it's defamatory to state an opinion that you think someone is in the wrong. Even if it were, it doesn't damage her reputation since we can all see it's a moronic and simply wrong opinion.
23.08.2025 10:55 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You just know that this woman - who called for asylum seekers to be burned to death & accepted that made her a racist - is going to be a Reform candidate at the next election.
23.08.2025 10:53 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The laziness and implied bias of the BBC here is extreme - "No 10 did not comment" presumably because the CPS and courts are independent, but there's no attempt to find anyone who would argue the opposite view, just the unchallenged whine of someone who called for asylum seekers to be burnt to death
23.08.2025 10:09 β π 1128 π 360 π¬ 57 π 18Farage? Jenrick was out with a nazi the other day. He looks a lot more like Nick Griffin to me. Mind you, Farage is pretty Griffin-y himself.
23.08.2025 10:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Genuinely baffled as to what Bertie Jenrick would have to do for any of the one in ten Tory MPs from an ethnic minority to go βsteady onβ. Turn up at their house in a Klan robe?
23.08.2025 10:34 β π 804 π 240 π¬ 52 π 9I see Farage is pretty much parroting the National Front/BNP's old line of "send 'em back where they came from". I really worry about the future of this country when this stuff doesn't exclude them from mainstream politics.
23.08.2025 10:42 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0"When contacted by the BBC, Excel still insisted Miss Robinson was in the wrong".
No she isn't - you are, which is why courts keep telling you that you're wrong!! Idiots.
BBC News - Excel Parking firm pays Β£10,240 after losing court appeal - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
In what circumstances can the crown appeal a not guilty verdict there?
22.08.2025 17:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The sheer, crass, dangerous stupidity of parroting the nationalist rightβs narratives again on display here. It is absolutely not a matter of democracy that the judiciary does as the government says. It is the total opposite. Without an independent judiciary there is no democracy.
22.08.2025 15:40 β π 26 π 12 π¬ 3 π 1You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Boltonβs house not because you love John Bolton but because youβre opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics
22.08.2025 13:13 β π 5948 π 1273 π¬ 153 π 68On Sunday evening, Robert Jenrick proudly attended a xenophobic rally in Epping involving Callum Barker of neo-Nazi group Homeland.
Also in attendance: dedicated follower of fascism, Eddy Butler (BNP, Combat 18, For Britain)
Butler later posted: βAt the Bell Hotel riding shotgun for Robert Jenrick"