My favourite question of the year, just happens to be directed at Farage in relation to the paedo list: Do you agree with yourself?
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My favourite question of the year, just happens to be directed at Farage in relation to the paedo list: Do you agree with yourself?
AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.
People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.
Farage probably thought the Congressional hearing would be an easy forum to pontificate about UK free speech while GOP bros applauded. Instead he became the Democrats' cat toy.
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Before resigning on Aug 22 over the refusal of other parties to toughen Israel policy, Dutch foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp quietly got 13 Palestinian refugees out of Gaza to NL, including 11-yr-old vlogger Renad Attallah.
German cabinet (finally) greenlights EU migration pact implementation
Farage's tactic as an MEP was to show up just to make an anti-EU tirade and then clip it for YouTube. Nice to see the tactic used the other way around.
Good to see Dartford borough council speaking about pride and prejudice
"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
These survivors and their family members are stronger and more courageous and better at speaking publicly than the overwhelming majority of people in public office. This is so incredibly powerful.
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Farage left this one early too
Farage flees the hearing right ahead of Goldman's questioning
Nigel Farage, lying to Congress here. The New World, the magazine I edit, was banned from Reform's conference this morning, three months after they accepted our request for a press pass
Nigel Farage is claiming to Congress that the UK gov deliberately withheld details of the Southport attacker from the public. This is dangerous and it’s false. The attacker was under 18, and so a court had to give express permission to release his name in exceptional circumstances, which it did.
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Am loving the woman sitting to the left of Farage!
nothing in the case law OTOH (we're in the midst of the next edition of the book on the directive) but I don't think that can be right. See also Commission guidance: sufficient resources 'do not have to be periodic and can be in the form of accumulated capital' - eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
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"To the people of the UK who think this Putin-loving, free speech impostor and Trump sycophant will protect freedom in your country, come over to America and see what Trump and MAGA are doing to destroy our freedom......... You might think twice before you let Mr Farage “make Britain great again”."
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Starmer also did a "he was first through the e-gates" jibe awhile back. But it's not really a criticism of policy.
there are more clips on Adam's timeline
Better late than never, I finally published my analysis of a live-streamed hearing at the Court of Justice of the EU about a very important case in the area of EU citizenship. The Advocate-General’s Conclusion will be handed down at 9:30 CET tomorrow! curia.europa.eu/juris/liste....
Bit of a paradox that it takes a US Democrat to challenge Farage, whereas UK Labour does a decaf tribute act for him
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The CJEU will soon rule in a case on the rights of a non-EU parent of a disabled EU citizen child Summary of the Court's hearing, and analysis, by @basilok.bsky.social - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/09/eu-c...
He's just performing for the free speech bros
Raskin: "The dictators of the world have got nothing to fear from this hearing. Republicans called it to attack our democratic allies in Europe. The star witness is not a human rights leader like Navalny, but a far-right pro-Putin politician who leads the UK Reform Party."
Tesla rejected $60 million settlement in Autopilot case that ultimately cost it 4 times that amount
I don't think it's realistic to just ignore him and hope he goes away
So far in about 90 minutes of the hearing, Farage has spoken for about seven or eight of them. He might have done better to turn up for PMQs.
comparative lawyers:
Another Democrat member of the committee, Jerrold Nadler, refers in passing to Farage as "a fringe politician from the United Kingdom”. Not entirely correct, but quite brutal.
This is a lie - the point is that the tweet was a call for violence
'Please control us', says 'take back control' guy
"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers
Not exactly persuasive for the GOP to criticise the UK for criminalising calls for burning asylum-seekers, while supporting Trump detaining and expelling people for criticism of the Israeli government
Linehan's call to violence was not directed at the government.
Speaking to Sky News ahead of his appearance before the US Houe Judiciary Committee, Nigel Farage talks about worries about the Online Safety Act and links it to the arrest of Graham Linehan. Linehan was arrested under the Public Order Act.
As a form of standstill one would think van Gend is relevant by analogy re direct effect...
An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1
Donal is very polite, but I'm less so: for the Policy Exchange paper not to acknowledge that a key element of their argument has been rejected at two level of courts is intellectually dishonest
Although this looks like an argument against the legal effect of Art 2 of the WF, rather than its interpretation?
There has been a lot of ink spilled about the substance of the Policy Exchange paper today. I just want to write a brief thread here on a point that I haven't seen mentioned today and what I think is likely to be a key target of the paper: the upcoming Supreme Court appeal in Dillon (UKSC/2025/0013)
Significant intervention from some of NI's leading civil society groups working on rights and peacebuilding in response to today's Policy Exchange report claiming that the GFA does not restrict the UK's from withdrawing from the ECHR and on the importance of the ECHR for NI:
In any event - as a previous Home Secretary really ought to know - the potential of derogation from the ECHR does not apply to Art 3, the ban on (a real risk of being sent back to face) torture et al, which is by far the most relevant provision as regards asylum
EU Commission proposes remaining budget laws for next long-term EU budget - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
My opponents are *still* competing for love from Trump and the billionaires. And I’m going to let them fight it out at whatever unofficial debates pop up this month. We’re bringing this campaign to you.
'Sufficient means' under the Directive can be provided for by a family member, according to the case law.
Under EU free movement law there would need to be five years' residence to get permanent residence, although there would not be a 'sufficient means' requirement to get it - only a requirement to show they have resided on the basis of the free movement Directive for 5 years.
Gotta remember that a big part of the decline in total fertility rates is the disappearance of teenage pregnancy
Dublin wasn't simply a returns agreement - it was about deciding which country should be responsible for a claim. Top of the criteria was family unity, which is why some families were reunited through it.
“following rumors of his death donald trump held a press conference announcing extrajudicial killings of civilians and plans for a military invasion of an american city” is a perfectly factual headline that could be used to describe what we saw yesterday
Trump’s feelings are hurt. He thought they were his friends.
The only times Rowley has called for a 'review of the law' in relation to Palestine protests have been with a view to strengthening it, by the way.
Roses are red Poems should scan Happy 12th anniversary to this headline which says
I would think so, based on the Lounes judgment by analogy - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2017/11/dual... See also the treatment of Brexit in the Mirin judgment - curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...
As many as 100 victims will show up to today's Epstein victim press conference. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
The "anti-war President"
For the second year in a row, Reform has banned me from attending its annual conference. So much for “free speech” etc. etc.
Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK. So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
People can advocate what they want, but should not do so on the basis of a misunderstanding as to what the law did (in fact a particular Dublin rule about people staying in French camps has since been removed)
Starmer ravages Farage: "The honourable member for Clacton is not here... he's flown to America to badmouth and talkdown our country. And worse than that... he's gone there to lobby the Americans to impose sanctions. You cannot get more unpatriotic than that. It's a disgrace."
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CJEU, free movement law/LGBT rights New case: can Romania refuse entry to a non-EU same-sex civil partner of a returning Romanian citizen, on the grounds that it does not recognise same-sex civil partnerships? curia.europa.eu/juris/showPd...
EU Commission proposes signature and conclusion of free trade deals with Mercosur and (revised) with Mexico - ec.europa.eu/commission/p... Qs and As on the EU/Mercosur deal (including plans to propose a law on EU safeguards) - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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It's possible to overpolice trivia, but when the top examples of doing so are people tweeting "burn the hotels" and "if I find one in a changing room I'll punch them" I am far from convinced this is happening either.
Oh that’s nice news: ITV has confirmed that 70 Up, the tenth film in the 7 “Up” documentary series, will be aired in 2026. I loved those programmes.
this is the guy the energy abundance bros lauded lmao
Yes, although Dublin was never an agreement to simply return everyone who made it to the UK, it also meant some asylum-seekers coming *to* the UK, and the numbers were never huge ukandeu.ac.uk/the-uk-franc...
Since returning to office, Trump has: -Stripped 1 million federal workers of collective bargaining rights -Reversed Biden's minimum wage hike for federal contractors -Gutted OSHA and frozen enforcement of a regulation protecting miners from lung disease "Pro-worker" president.
Perhaps they would argue for a form of communitarianism, ie you can only build solidarity with people who are sufficiently similar. Of course that would have excluded previous generations of Glasmans, but ( doubt he's thought this through.
Fash music festival in Great Yarmouth called off www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/2543569...
The one thing saving Keir Starmer from an extremely uncomfortable mauling over this at PMQs right now is Kemi Badenoch noting the open goal, and deciding to carry on with her planned attack on high govt borrowing www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Education minister Stephen Morgan yesterday claimed “35,000 people have been deported”. That’s not correct, according to the government’s own data. The figure refers to *total immigration returns* in Labour’s first year, most of which were voluntary.
Shabana Mahmood’s Sentencing Bill is intended to reduce the proportion of a sentence served by some offenders in prison to as little as one-third while increasing and diversifying the punishments they may serve on their release. rozenberg.substack.com/p/sentencing...
Full statement from Rayner on underpaying stamp duty. She's not resigned yet but clearly now possible. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK govt consults on ban on sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to under-16s www.gov.uk/government/n...
It's very narrowly defined in law tbh
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And French spox confirms what we were told: The additional safeguards could be sufficient for Paris to reconsider its staunch opposition to the deal and it would consider that the commission has taken into account its concerns by proposing a robust mechanism
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Things that are *really* unpopular with the median British voter: Internet harms Donald Trump Taking other countries' side over our own
The US radicalisation of the British right. The remigration obsession is a route to defeat by racist overreach.
The governance of Britain is broken. Regulators have given up doing their jobs.
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Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?
Labour's strategy since the election seems designed to appeal to right-conservative voters. This strategy hasn't worked on its own terms because they have lost the (very few) right-wing voters that they had, while also losing (much) larger numbers of left-wing voters.
Indeed. Far too much worrying about Polanski, about Farage, about the Ipsos' issues index, about individual polling, and not enough on 'how can we deliver election-winning budgets and spending rounds in 2027-8 and 2028-9'.
Oh. yeah. We should definitely vote in this demigod to run the country. 😂
Oh look, Labour has spent months targeting the wrong voters.
EU courts, foreign policy sanctions Russian businessman A. Usmanov loses challenge to EU sanctions re invasion of Ukraine - EU General Court says it was valid for EU to widen scope of sanctions to include 'leading Russian businessmen' generally - curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...
oh this is straightforward white nationalist agitprop
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This'll be very telling when he comes to speak. If Farage uses his appearance in front of that committee to encourage a foreign state to bully his own country, he'll have crossed a very specific line.