Chiefs' Mahomes sets up Super Bowl showdown with Brady after win over Bills https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jan/24/kansas-city-chiefs-buffalo-bills-afc-championship-game?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1611545239
The fight for recovery from a lifelong eating disorder https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2021/jan/25/the-fight-for-recovery-from-a-lifelong-eating-disorder?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1611544132
New Zealand Covid case appears to be South African variant, officials say https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/25/new-zealand-covid-case-appears-to-be-south-african-variant-officials-say?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1611540307
Anti-lockdown rioters clash with Dutch police in the Netherlands – video https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2021/jan/25/anti-lockdown-rioters-clash-with-dutch-police-in-the-netherlands-video?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1611538716
Nia Dennis wins plaudits for stunning 'black excellence' gymnastics routine https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jan/24/nia-dennis-gymnastics-ucla-floor-routine-kendrick-lamar?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1611537336
Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for Australia rollout but PM warns jabs not 'a silver bullet' https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jan/25/pfizer-covid-vaccine-approved-for-australia-rollout-but-pm-warns-jabs-not-a-silver-bullet?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1611536886
Where to find this year's Invasion Day rallies and how you can show your support even if you can't attend https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jan/24/where-to-find-this-years-invasion-day-rallies-and-how-you-can-show-your-support-even-if-you-cant-attend?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1611534862
The fateful Bloomberg speech of 2013 – contextualising *that* speech by David Cameron eight years later
Today's post at the @law_and_policy blog looks at the speech in three different contexts
https://davidallengreen.com/2021/01/the-fateful-bloomberg-speech-of-2013-contextualising-that-speech-by-david-cameron-eight-years-later/
Interesting analysis, and in places damning e.g. "[Cameron] probably put no more serious thought into the actual implications of a referendum defeat than he would have put into an essay on the topic of referendums on a PPE degree course." https://twitter.com/law_and_policy/status/1353289960196075521
![Interesting analysis, and in places damning e.g. "[Cameron] probably put no more serious thought into the actual implications of a referendum defeat than he would have put into an essay on the topic of referendums on a PPE degree course." https://t.co/KkScOzshou](https://www.londonyc.com/wp-content/plugins/custom-twitter-feeds-pro/img/placeholder.png)
The fateful Bloomberg speech of 2013 – contextualising *that* speech by David Cameron eight years later
Today's post at the Law and Policy blog looks at the speech in three different contexts
https://davidallengreen.com/2021/01/the-fateful-bloomberg-speech-of-2013-contextualising-that-speech-by-david-cameron-eight-years-later/
The fateful Bloomberg speech of 2013 – contextualising *that* speech by David Cameron eight years later
Today's post at the @law_and_policy blog looks at the speech in three different contexts
https://davidallengreen.com/2021/01/the-fateful-bloomberg-speech-of-2013-contextualising-that-speech-by-david-cameron-eight-years-later/
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1. Over the past couple of days I've been engaged in a prolonged series of exchanges of tweets with people who identify themselves as supporters of Scottish Independence. In what follows I share some preliminary reflections
Move to EU to avoid Brexit costs, firms told.
“Moss said it was now clear that Brexit was not about winning back control from the EU but investing in it to survive.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/23/brexit-hit-firms-advised-government-officials-set-up-shop-in-eu
PLOT TWIST
We thought Brexit was about diverging from the EU
Turns out it actually means moving UK firms to the EU
Yep
@tradegovuk advisers are actually telling UK firms to do this to avoid VAT/border costs
Is that what they meant by GLOBAL BRITAIN?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/23/brexit-hit-firms-advised-government-officials-set-up-shop-in-eu
Some inconvenient truth to go with the government’s cornflakes this morning: the outrageous delays in criminal justice were caused by government, not Covid.
Me in today’s Sunday Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-secret-barrister-all-rise-this-trial-wont-be-starting-until-2023-g296lhbnj
The growing tendency of the Home Office to interfere with the independent judicial process for partisan political point-scoring is reaching Trumpian proportions.
Exclusive: The government has repeatedly criticised prosecutors for doing “no more than applying the law” in immigration cases, the head of the CPS has said
Max Hill QC defended recent decisions that drew the ire of the Home Office
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/priti-patel-immigration-cps-migrants-max-hill-b1791407.html
*40% of children in prison are on remand
*2/3 won't get a jail term;
*New report @_YJB shows from Oct 2017 to Dec 2019 the overwhelming majority of children remanded to prison were from ethnic minority communities & over a quarter were Black
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/952483/Ethnic_disproportionality_in_remand_and_sentencing_in_the_youth_justice_system.pdf
Some inconvenient truth to go with the government’s cornflakes this morning: the outrageous delays in criminal justice were caused by government, not Covid.
Me in today’s Sunday Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-secret-barrister-all-rise-this-trial-wont-be-starting-until-2023-g296lhbnj
Am coming to the conclusion that a 2 week firebreak for criminal courts is the only sensible option. It will allow for a proper review of practices and procedures over Covid safety.
Men who are still allowed to call themselves Barristers:
• Man convicted of PWITS following death of his teenage boyfriend at chemsex party
• Man who followed lone female + upskirted her with his phone
• Man who grabbed female barrister by the neck + sexually assaulted her
Compare and contrast with the sexual assault case from yesterday.... https://twitter.com/barstandards/status/1352620268137684994
Barrister Matthew Boyden prevented from practising for three years. Read more at: https://buff.ly/3sIPcsR
