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Greg Lawton retweeted
In awarding this year’s #NobelPeacePrize, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wants to remind the world that the rule of law – national and international – underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts non-violently. Peace requires justice.
History has shown that a world operating without the rule of law is unjust, unwise and inhumane. The judges – those who guard the thin red line between order and chaos – are therefore highly deserving of our praise. But today, as these same judges are sanctioned, and their institutions are attacked, we need people of courage, vision and determination – qualities that 2026 peace laureate Navi Pillay demonstrates in her work on the bench.
#NobelPrize
Greg Lawton retweeted
The #NobelPeacePrize for 2026 goes to a person who with exceptional courage and integrity has led the way towards a more comprehensive global legal order. This year’s laureate Navi Pillay has been instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide are prosecuted.
#NobelPrize
Greg Lawton retweeted
Congratulations Justice Pillay!
The committee in granting her the Nobel peace prize: “An international legal system in which war criminals are held to account and the victims of abuse see justice served is a precondition for a peaceful world.”
May this justice start in Palestine
Greg Lawton retweeted
“They call us terrorists? Look at these children. They bombed them and killed them. They had committed no crime. They were innocent.”
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the United States and Israel at the UN General Assembly today, accusing them of killing innocent Iranian children and being the real terrorists.
Holding up images of children who had been killed in US-Israeli attacks, Pezeshkian condemned the bombing of schools, sports facilities, hospitals and civilian infrastructure.
“Those who are terrorists and train terrorists tell us that we are terrorists. We are only defending ourselves. We are not terrorists.”
Pezeshkian insisted that Iran would not bow to foreign aggression, declaring that a nation unable to defend itself would be crushed.
Perhaps the most pernicious and insidious effect of the now-defeated Assisted Suicide Bill was that it would have materially diminished the onus on politicians to create a society worth living in. It created an interest for MPs to vote in favour of the bill. Explains the 270?
I’ve not been able to find the clip of Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles on Whose Line is it Anyway?, given the props of two traffic cones for improvisation, and placing them side by side on the ground - saying “Here lies Dolly Parton.”
RIP Dolly.
Greg Lawton retweeted
🚨 NEW: Apple is now taking fresh legal action against the Government to overturn its demand to view encrypted data from UK users
It comes after the Government backed down from applying the order to US users’ data
Greg Lawton retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Andy Burnham says the assisted dying debate should wait until after palliative care and social care is fixed
Congratulations Spain! Not only did they win, but beat the dirtiest team in the World Cup, its backer FIFA and cabal of dodgy referees
Greg Lawton retweeted
The Secretary of State responsible for the media has quit X — along with her department — because of what she says is the spread of misinformation, dubbing the platform a danger to democracy.
Despite professing to be a champion of free speech, Lisa Nandy also turned off comments on her post.
Lisa Nandy has served as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in the most authoritarian government in modern British history.
If she truly believes in free speech, was she not concerned that around 30 people a day are arrested for allegedly “offensive” social media posts? Why was she in the House of Commons only last week spearheading government plans to dictate what content citizens see online?
And if Lisa Nandy cares so deeply about democracy, why was she so quiet when the Government sought to cancel a significant proportion of this year’s local elections?
Most concerning of all, Lisa Nandy — a close ally of our next Prime Minister, Andy Burnham — would, if she remains in post, likely be the minister charged with leading the Government’s campaign against Britain’s free press, acting on the wishes of Burnham and Hugh Grant.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said: “DCMS is supposed to counter and deal with misinformation, not run away because it’s all too much.”
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Normal society: citizens rely on the state to prevent abuses of their rights by corporations.
The UK in 2026: citizens rely on corporations to prevent abuses of their rights by the state.
The UK government is in zugzwang on the 4chan enforcement. Every available move makes its position worse.
Its options:
1) Let the enforcement slide. Least bad option. Requires Labour admitting they inherited an unenforceable law.
2) Escalate the fines. Worst option. Produces more hamsters.
3) Block the site. Acceptable from our perspective. That would be the UK censoring its own people, not my client, and ineffectively at that, since the block is defeated with a VPN.
We have always known this is where this ends, because 4chan's lawyers have been in the "protecting free speech" game a lot longer than the UK has been in the "online censorship" game.
Greg Lawton retweeted
One of the greatest threats to internet freedom and privacy are these manipulative laws, now spreading, that force people to prove they're of a certain age to use social media platforms and other sites. The UK Government, naturally, is now seeking this.
The defense of these laws is emotionally powerful by appealing to child protection, but the real goal is online surveillance, an end to anonymity, and control over political content that young people can access. Few have done a better job reporting on these tyrannical threats than @TaylorLorenz. Read this:
Farewell, Aragog
And farewell, esteem of the BBC
Former defence secretary Gavin Williamson announces death of pet tarantula bbc.in/3PiCAJ7
