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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

The articles I’ve read suggest they’ll purchase the company for approx $14 billion and have promised to invest an additional $14 billion in the USA (see link below). It’s the additional $14 billion investment that the Senator is trumpeting.

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Trump warms to Nippon Steel, backing ‘partnership’ with US Steel — The Guardian

Biden had blocked Japanese acquisition, citing national security, with Trump previously agreeing he was ‘totally against’ it

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Quite what happens to a society that dehumanises its neighbours and turns its conscripts into criminals? What happens to Israel when those young people living through this bloodshed in the rest of the world get old and ascend to power? Even if one cared not for Palestinians, this is sheer folly.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The rhetoric of “Hamas uses human shields”has been an all-purpose “get out of caring about civilian casualties” card for the IDF since the start of the war.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Has any one else noticed an increase in the phenomenon of deputy district judges and recorders jumping through hoops to avoid determining applications they have said they find difficult for (frankly) spurious reasons?

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Shona Murray @shonamurray.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Every moment of this horror is beyond comprehension

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Also, the claim "Africans were active in the slave trade" here is completely decontextualized. No one disputes that happened in some cases. What is relevant is how the right brings that up completely out of context to avoid reckoning with systemic racism and Jim Crow in the US.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Watching events in Gaza in the last few weeks, I’ve increasingly been reminded of the quote from the film Gandhi: “Whatever moral ascendancy the West once held was lost here today. India is free, for she has taken all that steel and cruelty can give and she has neither cringed nor retreated.”

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 24/05/2025

I cannot get my head round the pain that seeing 9 of your 10 children killed must involve.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

The idea that any form of Judaism as practiced today - Orthodox, Reform, or otherwise - reflects "authentic Judaism as practiced for thousands of years" is a complete nostalgic fantasy, just as most imagined claims for complete continuity between modern identities and ancient history tend to be.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Keep asking these questions, Peter Alexander. Bravo.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Make this make sense. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Sam Vimes @samvimes6.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

There is nothing in life so precious as the memories that we make with loved ones. To see somebody realising that their memories are being robbed from them reaching out and clutching onto their partner looking for reassurance and love hits like a hammer. #Dementia

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Stephanie Harris @mllesharris.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Really hoping that Springsteen adds a cover of Peter Gabriel’s Biko to his set list.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The published revised report is here: www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Charity Inquiry: Keeping Kids Company

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Delighted to have acted for the Charity Commission in the Batmanghelidjh judicial review. I have been surprised by the Good Law Project’s press release describing the outcome. Those interested may find it helpful to read the order made by the court and compare it with the GLP press release.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Well I have slept on it. But I can‘t get over it. "Island of Strangers“ is a horrible thing to say. And honestly, as someone who spends her professional life trying to see the British side, constantly agonising whether I am too harsh or judgemental, I am deeply upset today. (I don‘t live in 🇬🇧.)

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

If you wouldn't accept "we are at risk of becoming an island of strangers" from Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage you probably shouldn't accept it from Keir Starmer. Don't pretzel yourself trying to explain why it's ok from the guy in the red tie.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I find it fascinating that Starmer’s disgraceful speech didn’t touch on the harms of foreign money/influence on our politics (eg Russian influence on the Brexit referendum), our social media, our housing market, and the city.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

This is a consequence of govts of all stripes allowing the housing market in London and the SE to be treated as an investment by foreigners and not focussing on the proper function of housing being to house our people. I don’t expect Starmer to have the courage to do better.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Probably fear that it’ll explode the London property market. There is so much foreign owned housing in London (some of which is deliberately left empty) that if it all went on the market, we’d likely see a crash and the electorate won’t forgive the party that causes this crash.

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Jemma Forte @jemmaforte.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Well done Labour Anyone who thought you represented real change now despises you. Anyone who didn’t, still won’t. People who weren’t that convinced but hoped for the best are out of patience. You’ve managed to turn off everyone. Quite the achievement!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

2025: Keir Starmer suggests that pressure on housing and public services is because of migrants 2020: Keir Starmer, "Poor housing, poor public services are not the fault of the migrants, they're political failure"

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The House of Representatives is struggling to pass the Senate-passed and GOP leadership-backed Antisemitism Awareness Act, because far-right House Republicans are concerned it will mean they could be called antisemitic for saying Jews killed Jesus: punchbowl.news/article/poli...

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Big hurdles for the Antisemitism Awareness Act

After a messy Senate markup last week, Hill Republicans are facing a real struggle to pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Red blade = the Dark Side. I don’t make the rules.

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Michael Gove queried whether the barristers at @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social would be prepared to act for him. Michael, if charged for your admitted cocaine use, not only would they be prepared to defend you (you see, they have principles) but they might even get you off, confession notwithstanding.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This week the @thespectator1828.bsky.social podcast had a fantastic advert for @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social by Michael Gove. Well worth a listen. Frankly, if I weren’t happy where I was and if I was willing to routinely defend the underdog pro bono or at legal aid rates, I’d be tempted to join.

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Chambers of horrors, the ‘Dubai-ification’ of London & the enduring obsession with Diana

This week: the left-wing radicalism of Garden Court

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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Alongside what doesn't look like a big swing between the parties nationally, this seems like quite a remarkable result?

Screenshot showing Pierre Poilievre has lost his seat to the Liberal candidate, with the Liberal vote share up 19% and the Conservative vote share down 6%.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It's not rocket science.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Personally I think it looks fabulous. It definitely deserves at least one more outing.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Boo Hiss!!! :-) I was briefly in a robing room this week at a combined court centre. I forgot how awesome they are and briefly regretted giving up crime. Then I heard about a “case dinner” and was well jealous!

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Thank you. I’ll have a look/read.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

The juxtaposition between Republican enthusiasm for wide Presidential immunity and their enthusiasm for arresting judges for acts taken in their own court houses is proving fairly illuminating.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Thank you. I’ve tried Google and read articles on his u turn but not really found much else. If you’ve the time and can be bothered, if you could share a link that would mean I’d be better informed that would be much appreciated. Either way thanks so much for taking the time to respond.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

For personal reasons I’ve not been following the news closely. Is your post due to Starmer’s response to the decision of the UKSC on the EA2010 definition of a woman or has Labour done something else? Genuinely not trying to bait or be rude.

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I’m rather envious of the criminal bar tradition of “case dinners”. We don’t have these at the property bar (or may be I just don’t get invited). Have case dinners always been something unique to crime or is this something that just withered on the vine for the civil bar.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 26/04/2025

The marathon is tomorrow. Still plenty of time to sponsor me via the big donate button at BillableHour.org. But it’s time for the story of my lowest marathon moment. /1

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Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The Budapest Memorandum explicitly did not contain a security guarantee. The signatories (including Russia) agreed to “respect” Ukraine’s borders (i.e. not invade) but did not guarantee them. It’s morally right we support Ukraine. But the USA is not breaching any guarantee by not doing so.

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Mark Shore @markshore.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Norwegian trade delegation to their minister, confused: He keeps mumbling "I just want a taste"? Minister, decisively: It's a small price to pay. Trump [baffled and angry, looking at a huge gift basket of lutefisk, rakfisk, and pickled herring]: What the fuck is this?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Had the opportunity to share this article with my students this afternoon, and a few of my Jewish thought it was the funniest story they had seen in days.

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BLUEY Bluesky @monkeybrennan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Yeah. Imagine some guy who was clearly guilty getting off because the trials took too long and he was elected president!

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This is deranged. Jan. 6 defendants were repped by one of the best public defender offices in the U.S. They were more likely to be released pretrial & got comparatively light sentences. SCOTUS threw out a bunch of convictions, which almost never happens. They got gold-plated due process!

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