Law

2025-04-24

Lib Dems back ban on playing music and videos on public transport in England: A ban on playing things out loud, to be clear.

2025-04-21

Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat: ‘The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother…’

2025-04-20

The authoritarian takeover attempt is here: And their incompetence is seemingly the main hope we have of stopping it.

2025-04-17

Legal definition of woman is based on biological sex, UK supreme court rules

2025-04-12: Never let it be said that the Trumpistas are not creative in their cruelty. The Trump …

2025-04-08

Executions at 10-year high after huge increases in Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia: Fewer states are carrying them out, but those that do so have increased the (known) count.

2025-04-04

Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that’s the price of protest in Britain today: On the heavy-handed and biased policing of dissent in the UK.

2025-03-30

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced: It’s as bleak as you’d expect.

2025-03-29

Trump Demands Social Media Accounts for Immigrants in U.S.

2025-03-27

Is it safe to travel to the United States with your phone right now?: It’s worth taking precautions, as a minimum.

2025-03-26: Florida to replacement immigrant workers with…child labour

2025-03-26

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

2025-03-22: Another week of corruption and probable unconstitutionality from Trump et al

2025-03-20

Britain Issues Travel Warning for US: Essentially: be sure your paperwork is perfect if you don’t want to end up in jail.

Greenpeace must pay at least $660m over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury: I hope they appeal and win against what seems like an unjust verdict.

2025-03-18

US deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador despite court order: The Trump administration openly defy the US courts.

2025-03-18: More illegal and unconstitutional behaviour from the Trump administration as they openly defy the US judiciary

2025-03-16

We can’t move for therapists but do they help or harm mental health patients?: It’s very hard to argue that this industry doesn’t need some serious regulation.

2025-03-15

Trump Is Fighting His Court Losses With a Surprising Legal Tactic: Trying to end the practice of universal injunctions against the federal government when they lose.

2025-03-14: Revealed: how the UK tech secretary Peter Kyle uses ChatGPT for policy advice. …

2025-03-05: 📚 Finished reading The Great Post Office Scandal by Nick Wallis.

2025-02-27

Automattic’s “nuclear war” over WordPress access sparks potential class action

2025-02-26

Damon Albarn, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and over 1,000 artists release silent album to protest UK copyright AI laws 

2025-02-26: The Executive Order that deports you for acts of protest

2025-02-17

Countries with Birthright Citizenship 2024: 33 countries have unrestricted birthright citizenship, 32 others have a restricted form.