Law

2025-06-21

The Hidden Risks of Expanding Medical Assistance in Dying: ‘…ask whether it is appropriate for their government to offer easier access to euthanasia than to health care and support’

Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths

2025-05-28

Sadiq Khan calls for partial decriminalisation of cannabis possession: ‘…the way the drug is policed causes greater harm to society than its usage.’

2025-05-25

Live facial recognition cameras may become ‘commonplace’ as police use soars: Needs discussion.

2025-05-01

A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store: They aren’t allowed to stop apps offering non-app store commission ways of paying elsewhere.

2025-04-27

Gender ruling could ‘gravely affect very vulnerable prisoners’ – solicitor

Government will ban trans employees from toilets that reflect their gender, minister says: Implications of the recent Supreme Court ruling.

Was it the courts, the cops, or The Sun who killed Just Stop Oil?: ‘…the hammer of the state had simply flattened the organisation.’ - certainly some of the prison sentences activists got are pretty outrageous.

2025-04-26

Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan Arrested by FBI in Immigration Dispute

ICE Can Now Enter Your Home Without a Warrant to Look for Migrants, DOJ Memo Says: ‘…anyone labeled an “Alien Enemy” is “not entitled to a hearing, appeal or judicial review.”’ - plus all police officers are basically immigration officers now.

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.