Law

2024-11-17: One more failure in care: locking up children in dangerous places

Fears grow over UK children at risk placed in illegal care homes: Many children subject to Deprivation of Liberty orders are being locked up in wholly unsuitable places.

Congress About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush Political Enemies: A bill which enables the treasury secretary to unilaterally declare that any non-profit supports terrorism.

2024-11-12: Google receives its biggest fine yet. $20 decillion. A decillion is a one with 33 zeroes after it. …

2024-11-09: 📚 Finished reading Rough Justice by Wendy Joseph.

The AI-Generated Product Reviews Choking the Internet Are Now Illegal: The FTC makes certain types of fake reviews illegal, whether human or robots wrote them, in the US.

The United States of Abortion Mazes: Access to abortion in each US state visualised as an interactive maze.

Abortion rights: Amnesty International on access to abortion being a human right.

10 Things to Know About Abortion Access Since the Dobbs Decision: Some of the impacts of the overturning of Roe vs Wade in the US.

The ‘Internet of Things’ helping to provide key evidence in criminal trials: The Crown Prosecution Service’s take on the utility of our data-gathering gadgets.

Ban smacking in England now, says children’s commissioner: Proposal to ban smacking one’s child in England, similarly to existing Scottish and Welsh legislation.

When therapy goes wrong: the problem of underqualified practitioners: Far more people should see therapists, but it is wild that there’s technically nothing to stop anyone claiming to be one.

Undercover police officer admits spying on Keir Starmer when he was a barrister: I’d maybe have been more actively excited about Starmer in his ‘radical barrister’ phase of life.

Representation of the People Act 1948: The act that abolished the right of some people to vote twice in UK general elections amongst other things.

2024-10-05: TIL: Until the 1948 Representation of the People Act, graduates of certain universities in the UK …

Cannabis legalisation could be worth £9.5 billion per year to the UK: It’s astonishing and absurd to me that you can still go to jail for cannabis possession here in the UK.

2024-09-29: Elon Musk's free speech 'principles' lose to his economic interests once again as he capitulates to Brazil's Twitter demands

Maine woman sues Anthem insurance for failing to cover weight loss drugs: I hope she wins - if the drug is deemed medically necessary then that should be sufficient.

2024-09-19: Now Hezbollah's walkie-talkies are exploding

2024-09-03: More events in what is starting to feel something like a global backlash against some of the big …

2024-08-03: TIL: The US' current cybersecurity legislation, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, is an evolution of …

2024-05-31: Trump can't pardon himself for yesterday's crimes even if he becomes president again

2024-05-14: The Rwanda bill went through, but that doesn't make it OK

2024-05-03: Tom Hunt's predicament is a perfect example of why voter ID laws are usually bad laws

2024-04-19: Let's not make the update to the 1824 Vagrancy Act worse than the original