👋📺Check out our past lectures in 2023 ( Lord Anderson David Anderson, Professor Christopher McCrudden..) and our 2024 Lecture Series so far (Professor David Howarth and Justice David Goddard) vimeo.com/showcase/statu…

Tomorrow (30 April, 4pm) we will continue our inquiry into UK-EU data adequacy with a session focusing on law enforcement.

We will hear from Dr Nora Ni Loideain (Dr Nora Ni Loideain) and Martin Kelly (former Home Office official).

📺Watch live: committees.parliament.uk/event/21067/fo…

‘Almost beyond belief’: axing of UK teacher recruitment scheme will worsen crisis, say critics theguardian.com/education/2024…

The paper below on LLM use in intelligence analysis was pub'd by GCHQ chief data scientist Adam C & Richard Carter last September. This week I heard them present more on it at The Alan Turing Institute. What was interesting was that Adam C struck an even more sceptical note on intel uses (1/3)

May also help explain the attraction of the UK to migrants?

New from Free Movement: UK treaty with Rwanda ratified, Safety of Rwanda Act now in force | Sonia Lenegan freemovement.org.uk/uk-treaty-with…

Yes, The Times and The Sunday Times totally misses the point. Hugh Grant made clear it is not about the financial outcome. It is about seeing The Sun face accountability at trial over the most serious allegations of illegality.

Looks like the Rwanda Bill and the IP(Amendment) Bill are getting Royal Assent tomorrow: bills.parliament.uk/bills/3540 and bills.parliament.uk/bills/3508

Rwanda: I write about possible legal challenges

In truth what the Act is doing is making it lawful to send people to Rwanda *whether it is safe or not*

instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/explai…

The 🇫🇷 press have all (including all local press) covered the story of adoption of 🇬🇧 controversial Bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda…. Here is a 🧵 of the coverage 1/7

Putting #RwandaBill in context: my interview for ABC’s ABC Radio National Breakfast in Australia abc.net.au/listen/program…

Well worth 7 minutes of St George's Day to hear Lord Anderson on the Rwanda Bill.

From 3.15pm, #HouseOfLords considers UK House of Commons changes to the #InvestigatoryPowersBill .

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“You can’t make a country safe just by saying it’s safe,” David Anderson tells Mark Landler & Stephen Castle, as Rishi Sunak finally pushes through his 'Safety of Rwanda bill' through parliament.

nytimes.com/2024/04/22/wor…

Lord Anderson of Ipswich (Crossbench), 'We are in the end game now'

'The benefits of the Rwanda bill remain to be seen'

'It's costs will be measured not only in money but in principles debased'

'Disregard for our international committmments'

'Avoiding statutory protections…

This degree of media attention on parliamentary ping-pong for a Bill is unusual. So important to stress that it is a standard, normal part of the legislative scrutiny process. What is unusual (historically, tho not in recent years) is the Govt's intransigent attitude to amdts.

I probably wouldn’t agree with Lord Sumption on every other issue; but I think that he nails the political importance of the EU against the background of European history very elegantly. And small nations acting together within the EU can end up with a surprisingly strong voice.