A worthy cause, but don't forget that Newcastle also has an Amnesty Bookshop! www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...

Disgraceful, but at least charging for toilets at train stations was reversed.

New report: UK needs digital sovereignty strategy to address threats from reliance on big tech The UK’s over-reliance on a small number of tech giants for its digital infrastructure is a matter of national security that must be urgently addressed, warns a new report by Open Rights Group.

NEW: ORG's report sets out the need for Digital Sovereignty.

UK national security teeters on our over-reliance on a handful of foreign-owned tech firms, meaning the plug could be pulled on our digital infrastructure.

We need to pursue open source systems that are in our control.

Find out more ⬇️

Important speech on assimilated law by Lord Sales @supremecourt.uk supremecourt.uk/uploads/Spee...

How this tiny country became the best at night trains in Europe YouTube video by DW Planet A

Oh

I am in a film on Deutsche Welle today about night trains 🙂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGlv...

Geese are vicious. Poor you.

Pottery firm Denby appoints administrators in 'necessary step' The 217-year-old firm says it appointed FRP Advisory as administrators on Tuesday.

Terrible news about an iconic British business. #SaveDenby @catherineatkinson.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Top deck seat on routemaster, showing handy 'foot shelf' under seat in front.

This is the seat in question! Third row from the back on the right hand side, facing forwards.

Yes! Have been trying to use it to research parliamentary amendments and finding that it points you to the wrong ones. So essential to doublecheck rigorously.

Farewell to the Boris bus Overweight, overpriced and overheated – it was a 12-ton metaphor

Overweight, overpriced, overheated: if anyone out there is in the market for a 12-ton metaphor for Boris Johnson’s contribution to British national life, you’re in luck.

Great news. However, I will miss my favourite seat on the top deck where you can rest your feet on a convenient ledge under the seat in front! Must be some mechanical stuff in there?

Great news indeed!

Poet Adrian Mitchell's treasure trove of books given to charity shop You will be able to buy the rarities at the Amnesty International second hand store

Outstanding collection donated to @amnestyuk.bsky.social bookshop.

www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/poet...

📊 The #CJEU publishes its judicial statistics for 2025: a very high level of activity accompanied by a reduction in the length of proceedings.

To learn more, click here 👉 curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...

#JudicialActivity #EU

R.C. Bray Home to award-winning narrator R.C. Bray.

Anything read by R. C. Bray. 😍

rcbray.com

EXCLUSIVE: Usdaw General Secretary writes to PM 'frustrated' regarding changes to Employment Rights Act - LabourList A letter to the Prime Minister regarding issues with the Employment Rights Act implementation from Usdaw has been leaked to the press...

Delivery of the New Deal for Working People is a key test for this govt.

The Chair of @labourunionsuk.bsky.social @joannethomas.bsky.social has written to the PM seeking assurances it will deliver the Employment Rights Act as promised.

labourlist.org/2026/03/lett...

Londoners 'disproportionately' affected by fraud, Met Police says According to the City of London Police, some 40% of fraud victims nationally are in the capital

AI a key danger, as well as use of cryptocurrency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm marching with Together Alliance and thousands of others on 28 March in London to show that hope is always more powerful than fear.

Stand with us. Join the alliance: togetheralliance.org.uk

@togetheralliance

How true! Lawyers are not (just) a cost centre.

So disappointing to see major hospitality brands step back from the Better Chicken Commitment when demand & supply of higher‑welfare chicken are growing.

Food service companies should push ahead, not step away.

Good regulation can support growth without increasing risk The debate about regulation and growth has become stuck in an Animal Farm world of less regulation good; more regulation bad, or vice versa, depending on political persuasion. The more serious questio...

Well said @omarsalem
... www.cityam.com/good-regulat...

🗓️Next Wednesday MEPs are set to vote on the update of air passengers rules ✈️
🎙️Don’t miss MEP Novakov and shadow rapporteurs press conference after the vote at 14.30 (21 January).

More 👇
link.europa.eu/dpDqTp

A smiling Kyren Wilson.

For the second night in-a-row, Kyren Wilson produces some scintillating snooker - from the brink of defeat - to win the final two frames for a 6-5 victory.

Last night Neil Robertson, tonight Wu Yize. It's Wilson versus Higgins for The Paul Hunter Trophy on Sunday.

📷: James Fearn/Getty Images

Hurrah!

How do you feel about lawyers!? Not always popular, obviously... 😉

Hi, have just posted about this event, and also sent you website message on possible Amnesty one. Thanks again!

Poster for Adrian Tchaikovsky event celebrating 10th anniversary of Children of Time at Waterstones Gower Street 27 November.

Very interesting discussion last night at Children of Time 10th anniversary event. About spiders obviously but lots more besides! @aptshadow.bsky.social

'Abundance', De-regulation, and the Demolition of Democracy Centrists laid the groundwork in the US and Europe.

Regulation is tightly linked to open, uncensored democratic debate and agreement.

De-regulation removes the democratic element and consigns society’s great power to ‘the invisible hand’ of markets.

open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...

In a significant decision in Farley v Paymaster 1836 Ltd (trading as Equiniti) (Equiniti), the England and Wales Court of Appeal has lowered the bar for claimants seeking compensation for breaches of their data protection rights. The Court decided that in England and Wales court proceedings the concept of "non-material damage" arising out of infringements of data protection law is aligned with the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) (for example, as explained in 2023 in the Austria Post case). There is no so-called “threshold of seriousness” that a claimant has to overcome to be entitled to compensation.

Court of Appeal lowers the bar for data protection compensation www.farrer.co.uk/news-and-ins... (England and Wales)

Michael Farley & Anor v Paymaster (1836) Limited (trading as Equiniti) caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/202...

Subject to (likely) appeal.

#dataprotection #databreaches

about to head out to final day of amazing test Match -thanks to both India and England for serving up a treat. But can I also thank
1) ground drainage technology
2) floodlights
3) umpires being pretty relaxed about the light
which means despite dark days and downpours we have had lots of cricket