Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@qoto.org

This article from @davidallengreen on yesterday's Supreme Court judgement also links to a 15-minute video, where Lord Reed, the President of the court, delivers a top-class clear explanation of what the whole thing was about. If you want the gist of it, and you like your info in audio form, I highly recommend it!

The article adds further analysis, inc some of what the govt could've done instead.

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/on-yesterdays-supreme-court-judgment

#refugees #Rwanda #UKLaw

Joe Biden gave a press conference after his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping. He was knowledgeable, calm, articulate, and presidential. That’s what we need in the White House. Not a bloviating miscreant, not a malignant narcissist, not a would-be despot who wants to round up his political enemies and destroy our democracy.

Not cheerful, but important. Spread the word about what Trump has planned.

democracy-ish | Crushing the Vermin?! on Podbean https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-iki28-1be6e39b

My new Coppola Comment post highlights NIESR's call for a large increase in public investment to revitalise the UK economy. Chartfest. https://coppolacomment.substack.com/p/the-sorry-state-of-uk-investment

#FediHelp

I need to open a new current account in the UK. Before going with the classics, does anyone here has some suggestion of ethical banks?

#FediTips #Banking #EthicalBanking #Finance #ClimateDiary

Congress was a chaotic place yesterday, not only because the GOP Speaker once again had to rely on Democrats to keep the government from shutting down, but because threats and fights broke out in the open. It would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/failures-and-fisticuffs?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Hello science friends! Can anyone point me towards some resources that I could use learn how to do a de novo genome assembly from long reads (@nanopore)? Mammalian species, no reference genome exists. An equally exciting and daunting task.... Please share #neuroscience #genomics

Me on the Rwanda court decision at @FT

https://www.ft.com/content/c040946a-c294-4a89-808e-46c8b2f2f414

The UK government was told *one year ago* that the Rwanda arrangement should be a treaty and not a mere MoU

Here is the House of Lords report from October 2022: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5803/ldselect/ldintagr/71/71.pdf

The Home Office ignored this prescient report

The Supreme Court explicitly states that today's Rwanda appeal decision does not depend on ECHR.

In other words: UK leaving ECHR would not make a difference to this decision.

#UKPolitics
Enjoy the moment that the Rwanda deportation plan is stopped by the courts, by all means.

But this was always going to happen andbthey knew that at the start, they wanted to be seen to be stopped from fullfilling the will of 'the people'* by "Liberal judges" and the dastardly Human rights laws...because those laws are the true target. If they stay in power that's what comes next.

*gullible racist cunts

Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days #OTD in 1889.

In 1888, Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) into fact for the first time. A year later, at 9:40 a.m. on November 14, 1889, and with two days' notice, she boarded the Augusta Victoria and began her 24,898 mile journey. via @wikipedia

#books

Still perplexed about the large number of people from Germany and Austria who confuse "never again" with "never again but if this one country does it it's fine".

This is really personal for me having grown up in Austria (and having had actual Nazi grandparents) and I don't understand it.

Israeli politicians are using the exact same tone and language when talking about Palestinians as my grandfather did when talking about Jewish people. It's heartbreaking to have to hear this garbage again.

I’m sure appointing the man whose poor judgement led to Brexit is the best way to restore the nation’s international credibility ruined by Brexit.

Today a record-breaking 85,000+ people joined the #klimaatmars in Amsterdam! Among them were 200+ scientists who also refuse to remain silent.

The science is clear, and so are the demands of those who showed up today: we need immediate climate action!

#decrisisisnu #klimaatmars #climatecrisis

We now regularly hear that even conservative, Trump-appointed judges have ordered states like Alabama and Louisiana to redraw their Congressional maps. What this means is that these courts AGREED these state had engaged in racist gerrymanders to dilute Black votes. Shameful.