What has 20 years of banning headscarves done for France? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

doughtystreet.co.uk/event/climate-…

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Super happy to announce TX dates for our series ‘ #Defiance : Fighting the Far Right’ on Channel 4. Week after next! Please put a reminder in yr diaries. And an appeal to the desi crew: please forward to your family, friends & bredren social & WhatsApp groups. This is our history🔥

Ten years ago, same sex marriage was legalised in the UK.

Not too long after, my dad died.

The country has transformed since then. Would my dad have changed with it?

Would he have finally set foot inside a gay bar for a pint with me?

For The Guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“Demands for cull as feral pigs cause havoc and terror above Loch Ness”

The terror British (and especially Scottish) people have of wildlife is embarrassing.

(Not feral pigs, btw, wild boar, a vital native species which poses scant risk to people.) inverness-courier.co.uk/news/action-de…

Across Wales, meetings are taking place in town halls where communities are desperately trying to solve the issue of river pollution. One solution 👇

nation.cymru/news/welsh-pub…

Cab rank rule allows barristers to turn down work outside their specialism OR if the rates of pay aren’t enough. Reasons why someone without much money, or on low paid legal aid, can’t find a barrister….

John Craven is probably the nicest, kindest and most supportive colleague I’ve ever had working in telly.

And sticking his neck out for other people like this, at risk of the tiresomely predictable backlash, is classic him.

Of course you don’t JUST need the cab rank rule to ensure that everyone, especially the marginalised and unpopular, has access to legal representation, you also need a properly funded legal aid system.

Really chuffed my report about abuse in asylum hotels in Liverpool has been shortlisted for best written news story at this year's Amnesty Media Awards.

There's so much more to be uncovered from inside those hotels. Glad to have shed light on some of it.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m…

It’s a category error to compare WASPI losses attributable to government maladministration of notification of state pension increase to the Post Office prosecutions or infected blood scandal. These caused wrongful loss of liberty and loss of life respectively, not financial loss

A tsunami of drivel about women’s state pension age and compensation for maladministration from an assortment of politicians and commentators. It’s unfair to younger taxpayers to burden them with the cost of non means-tested payments to a large cohort, some of whom are prosperous

The journalism we need.

Looking at the data more widely, the annual poverty figures show 600,000 more people are now living in absolute poverty compared with last year - half of them children.

Really pleased to see this information, which includes an adjournments precedent I talked through at a recent presentation - great work Migrants Organise and thank you LexisNexisUK for the time to contribute to this issue so important to the rule of law

I appreciate people honestly differ on this, but my own view is that at the root of opposition to cab rank is the idea that the world would be better if certain people couldn’t get advice and representation and were left to their fate.

🚨Scoop w @LHReports: We reveal for the first time that French police boats are pushing back dinghies in the Channel.

Tactics include circling a small boat, causing waves to flood it; threatening passengers with pepper spray; and stabbing boats at sea.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

French and U.K. officials trying to blow the whistle on UK-funded French deliberately deathly tactics.