Media law trainer & consultant. Legal commentator, author, journalist, husband of Wild Guide author @sarahbanks21, dad-of-three. Cymro. @dbanksy.bsky.social
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David Banks retweeted
We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps:
-It’s ‘sleight of hand’
-It’s ‘bated breath’
-It’s ‘lo and behold’
-It's 'buck naked'
-It’s ‘brass tacks’
-It’s ‘free rein’
-It’s ‘toe the line'
David Banks retweeted
This has gone viral in France.
The wonderful black woman is a credit to France.
The smug, haute-bourgeois blonde an embarrassment.
David Banks retweeted
Myriam was a 7-year-old French Jewish girl. She witnessed a terrorist break into her school and kill two of her classmates.
She tried to run but tripped while grabbing her schoolbag, causing her ballet slippers to fall out. She stopped to pick them up. He chased her and grabbed her by the hair, shooting her in the head at point-blank range.
The man was Mohamed Merah, and a rap song honoring him and other Muslim terrorists has become the unofficial anthem of the ‘student protests’ in France.
🚨 ALERTE - Des élèves ONT BLOQUÉ le lycée François Villon, à Beaugency (45), en écoutant MRH, un titre faisant référence à des TERRORISTES ISLAMISTES.
« À la Mohamed Merah, v-esqui' les caméras. Bataclan, je l'ai shooter à l'œil, chasse à l'homme, Salah Abdeslam »
« J’ai pas peur, j’ai pas peur de l’enfer, le pacte est intact, à part Allah qui peut m’arrêter. Bataclan, faisaient les morts, allongez-vous, je vais en shooter à l’œil ».
Me, 40-ish years ago, in the windowless cubby-hole that was the office of the Evening Leader in Wrexham. HAIR!!!, but at least none of it grey. Not the state-of-the art content production device on the desk. A chief reporter once threw one of those at a hack who missed a story…
Any recommendations for a 12-string electro-acoustic, £2k-ish budget? No bargain basement please - I’ve done a few of them, ready to upgrade.
David Banks retweeted
Interesting privacy case
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c674…
This is happening like clockwork on major incidents now. Do these people get no data protection training?
Tiger attack medical records in potential breach, trust says bbc.in/4jk1bK2
David Banks retweeted
The unexpected part of the trial of Russell Brand?
Re appreciating the court sketch artist. Better than photography - banned thankfully - for greater insight.
Some favour Priscilla Coleman, capturing courtroom relational drama.
For me, Elizabeth Cook goes to the soul.
David Banks retweeted
GB News presenter forced to pay 'substantial' damages to Leeds councillor over riot claims
itv.com/news/calendar/2026-1…
David Banks retweeted
Depressing thread, showing the way policy and institutional capture can take root in a political party, and see standard practices and processes (and abiding by the law) chucked out of the window. The Lib Dem definition of transphobia was such that supporting the equality Act
"Lib Dems seek court order to evict former member with incurable cancer from her home...Ms Hayes was expelled in 2022 shortly before she was due to stand in the election to be the party’s federal president after a complaint by the then incumbent president Lord Mark Pack" 🧵independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
David Banks retweeted
When after the Holocaust a few Dutch Jews managed to return to Amsterdam, the Dutch authorities tried to charge them property tax for the period in which their homes had been occupied by the Nazis who had deported them.
I wonder how many people are aware of that.
Two years after Israelis were hunted through the streets of Amsterdam, the Dutch answer is to ban the victims, not the attackers.
Alkmaar’s exclusion of Hapoel Be’er Sheva fans rewards those who threaten and incite violence and runs counter to the very spirit of sport.
This exclusion of Israelis comes amid a wave of antisemitic attacks in the Netherlands, fuelled by anti-Israel incitement from Dutch politicians and public figures.
Banning Israeli fans from attending the match, like boycotting Eurovision, is yet another stain on the Netherlands, as the country increasingly becomes one of the world’s leading hotspots for antisemitism.
David Banks retweeted
It is sickening that the USA is now lifting sanctions on Russian fuel, and transparently ridiculous to blame Ukraine for the spike in prices that obviously began with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Putin is murdering innocent Ukrainian civilians every day. The Ukrainians are fighting for their lives. And yet the White House is apparently determined to force American drivers to bankroll Putin’s slaughter. It won’t work and I doubt it will make much difference to the price of fuel.
If we want Russian oil and gas back on the world market then let’s end this war - with a free, sovereign and independent Ukraine.
David Banks retweeted
Dominic Lawson on why Jeffrey Archer was not a gentleman but a monumental con-man.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…
Well if the invasion happens and we have to hide there, no Russian will ever find you, they’ll be wandering past the Billy bloody bookcases for months…
Denmark’s IKEA stores are preparing to serve as emergency shelters and temporary hospitals during crises, with plans to use display beds for accommodation, restaurants for food and generators for backup power reut.rs/4icdarZ
