This is the Court Of Appeal Judgement in relation to Lucy Connolly's failed appeal against her sentence. It's inconvenient for the Go Fund Me Queen, and Reform, because it contains the facts of her case and why her appeal was refused. 📌 judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…

AOC: New York City has chosen the ambitious pursuit of universal childcare, affordable rents and housing and clean and dignified public transit for all. We have chosen that over the distractions of bigotry and the barbarism of extreme income inequality

Bekki Hills Thank you. A veteran in UK media recently told me my only ‘mistake’ was not to wait until it was ‘safe’ to hold these characters to account. In my mind that’s not a ‘mistake’; it’s doing the job.

Just an unending PR disaster zone, isn’t it. Not only a government of vicious, joyfully cruel genocidal fascists but whiny little pricks about it into the bargain, forever hurling abuse at children’s entertainers and so on.

Fun as it is to see Peston stating outright what the situation is, here’s what’s going to happen: government and press will brazen it out until it drops out of the headlines, then everyone will get right back on their previous bullshit. This is what they always do, without fail.

According to this leading headline in The Guardian, Maduro has been captured, not kidnapped - not an inverted comma in sight. Edward Herman called it 'normalising the unthinkable'.

If this is accurate, with no legal sanction,with no UN decision, what difference in international law is there between Trump’s attack on Venezuela & Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.If the UK government stands for the rule of law, Keir Starmer must condemn this bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yq…

CND condemns Trump’s illegal military intervention against Venezuela. Read our full statement here. cnduk.org/opposing-milit…

The Bush admin engineered a coup in Venezuela in 2002 Chávez was taken hostage and flown to an island for 2 days It was reversed because the people fought back US has been at war with Venezuela since 1999 because it slipped the imperial leash. No greater crime in Washington

Starmer’s response to Trump attacking Venezuela: “I always say and believe we should uphold international law.” Really? After your unforgivable stance on Israel Keir Starmer, you’ve got no leg to stand on …and the moral high ground will never be yours to claim.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi THE ENEMIES ARE WITHIN, NOT WITHOUT. x.com/i/status/20074…

Marina Purkiss Keir Starmer Yvette Cooper - will there will be a strong denunciation from foreign and commonwealth office very soon? Get that pot of white wash out! Lather it on thick n heavy eh!? Gaza? Wot genocide? Venuzuala? Pah! Local domestic issues! I can hear the strident calls for fuck all now.

What a great day for Vladimir Putin! I can picture him in the Kremlin, watching the EU & the UK play dumb while Trump trashes Int. Law, their media reporting Maduro's abduction as an 'arrest'. I bet he's thinking: Should I also detain Zelensky and subject him to Russian justice?

Yanis Varoufakis Authoritarians take notes when democracies treat law as branding. If “abduction” gets laundered into “arrest,” the lesson is: norms are optional. That’s how deterrence dies - by euphemism and selective outrage.

Hang on… Does this mean… …the FIFA Peace Prize was bollocks AFTER ALL?!

The US has bombed Venezuela, the latest in a long list of military interventions, bombings and coups in the region and beyond. If you cannot say this is illegal all your talk of human rights, the law and democracy is so much hot air.

So felons can't be Presidents?

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs.

I guess Putin made a mistake in not kidnapping Zelensky during Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Would the BBC and the Guardian have calmly explained back then that the Ukrainian president had been "captured" and was due to face trial in Moscow?

This is the most terrifying speech I’ve heard in my lifetime. America is lost… #DonaldTrump has taken over a sovereign nation and now saying he needs to send more National Guard to keep control of US cities. Do not be deluded…this is dictatorship in broad daylight…