Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 8hjust when you thought it couldn’t get worse 35479169
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMartin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Watson is a well-paid lobbyist for a company whose founder has said he does not believe in democracy, whose global CEO published a fascist manifesto and whose UK CEO was hired, in part, because he's the grandson of Britain's most notorious fascist. But sure, opposing Palantir is mob rule. 03515
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”. 301116463
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthAaron C. Davis @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026NEW: A private equity executive took a top Pentagon job last year. Then a consulting firm he’d kept ties to starting winning major defense contracts - including a no-bid, quarter-billion dollar deal to advise his office. 823671
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Holborn and St Pancras byelection: Polanski is an utter failure and it's time for him to go iandunt.substack.com/p/holborn-an... 7934453
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 09/10/2026NEW: Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document, The Right Way, overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn, seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comTories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet errorExclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data 98771336
Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Did she come up with this idea on stage? It can't have been planned because this is the obvious first-order impact. There can't have been numerous people discussing this as a possibility and none of them thought of this. Or are they really that thick? 000
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Badenoch speech: The Tory leader is having an argument with herself and she's losing inews.co.uk/opinion/bade... 18416112
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW. 531932540
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.” 81853556
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered. 239102153243
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthOz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero. 6797231
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthSteve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 01/10/2026NEW: How does Burnham’s conference speech land with voters when they see it it? In short, very well it seems. A thread on some new video testing of the PM’s speech among voters by @persuasionuk.bsky.social Top line findings and some caveats below! 🧵👇 614051
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthTariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Same goes for the Chelsea years of cheating under Abramovich, which Chelsea are very lucky to get away with a light touch penalty because the new owners brought it up (which they legally were required to do). Taken together about 20 years+ of cheating under league’s nose. 13 PL titles between them 15612
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 01/10/2026I will never forget all the cynical gainsaying and disinformation about the strike on Al-Ahli hospital ten days into Israel’s destruction of Gaza. ‘Fog of war’. Almost three years later, fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals remain even partially functional and there is no fog. Only dust and rubble.theguardian.comNew Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in GazaSatellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire 6383145
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMartin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million." That is an absolutely massive sporting fraud. www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...premierleague.comPremier League Statement: Manchester City FCAn independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation. 622188
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMartin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is not merely the worst cheating scandal in English football history, it must have a claim to be one of, if not the, most sustained and serious act of cheating in professional sports history. 57218
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMartin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There has to be a culture change among owners. Anyone who fundamentally does not accept the right of the league to rapidly judge and punish its members, and who reserves the right to employ any means necessary to prevent this, can have no place in the league. 0133
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026Class solidarity.hollywoodreporter.comThe Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing. 642162614
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthDan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026To live in a world with minute, irrelevant distinctions of religion and nationality. What a dream. 447324
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 23/09/2026When the people fought the #blackshirts in the 30s, and then again in the 40s and 50s, they were beaten by the police who were sent to protect the fascists. Many antifascists were arrested. The press and politicians decried the antifascists. All bad enough, but it would be worse now. 1/2 122
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHome Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in KentUsually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025. 44949318
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New Post: Why I Love AI Next month it'll be twenty years since I went to university, learned to program, and studied AI. I wrote about why I loved it, why I still love it, and why, unfortunately, it no longer exists. www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/i... 31558165
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthDylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I mean, at this point, it's fairly unambiguously paramilitarism. You've got a non-state actor using violence to further political objectives. It's flagrantly in breach of democratic principles several times over. Inaction would be the most ultimate failure of a democratic government. 732170
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Geoffrey Lean: 18 years ago, scientists drew up 9 planetary boundaries not be transgressed if the world is to remain safe and secure. Today they report we have crossed a record seven—with ocean acidification joining others like climate change and biodiversity loss. The only two boundaries to haveoceanographicmagazine.comSeven of nine Planetary Boundaries now at record breach levels - OceanographicSeven of nine Planetary Boundaries breach safe limits at record levels, a new report warns, as ocean heat and extreme weather intensify. 211470
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMarkus W. Gehring @mwgehring.bsky.social · 21/09/2026To all those who think that the AfD is 'just another party', please review the facts - they are meeting with indicted international war criminals. I think this level of treasonous betrayal must have criminal consequences www.reuters.com/world/putin-...reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: Putin envoy and far-right AfD prepare talks to get Russian gas back for Germany, sources sayRussian President Vladimir Putin's top economic envoy and Germany's far-right AfD leadership have begun preparations to meet next year to discuss restarting gas supplies to Europe's biggest economy, t... 43315
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026In the last decade, the IDF prosecuted one (1) soldier for unlawfully killing a Palestinian in the occupied territories. Elor Azaria served 9 months in prison. Today Israel's president, Yitzhak Herzog, pardoned him and expunged his criminal record. A clear message of 100% impunity. 8710290
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea. 10830433
Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hilariously awful! I still prefer it to My Way. 100
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Trump and Hegseth have wasted so many munitions in Iran the US is now warning allies of delays of up to 5 years in key weapon supplies, Bloomberg reports. 713549
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The Pentagon is covering up some US deaths from the Iran War, according to six US officials familiar with internal casualty data, WaPo reports. At least 22 military fatalities and 3 contractors have occurred since the conflict began, more than listed in the Pentagon’s public casualty database. 925394
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026What on earth is happening? 23833111338
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers. 1052352687
Aeddan ap Garth @ihavenodsinmyname.bsky.social · 15/09/2026@forwalesseewales.bsky.social This, and another MS defecting... Emergency Ep! 000
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMartin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Worth noting that all but one of the venues that are apparently demanding Macklemore be dropped for supporting Palestinians are owned by NFL teams - the same people who blackballed Colin Kaepernick for protesting about racial injustice in the United States. 48223
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthHOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 14/09/2026🧵 Peter Keeley, a former MI5 agent who spent 15 years undercover in the IRA, now works for Stephen Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson. He’s supplying covertly-procured information while being supported by the British taxpayer. hopenothate.org.uk/lennons-secr...hopenothate.org.ukLennon's Secret AgentA former MI5 agent who operated as an IRA bomb maker is now working for Stephen Lennon. Despite still being supported by the British taxpayer, Peter Keeley appears to have broken the law by supplying ... 13421331
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthLuke Turner @luketurner.com · 12/09/2026As Ben Delo's record £36m Reform donation is headline news, I can't emphasise enough that the media ought to be reporting on Delo's heinous funding of antisemitic conspiracy theorists in the High Court – anonymous contributors to the horrifying neo-Nazi account shown below. bsky.app/profile/luke... 12620396
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Delo’s lawyers are now sending out letters to journalists saying it is breach of privacy law to publish information about Delo’s conviction for an anti-money laundering offence in the US. Another public relations success for Farage. 1413944
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthLoki @lokideburca.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Dear Irish journos,don't mimic yank media when Trump lands,don't ask him about his trip,don't ask him how he feels about being in "Oireland",detach yerselves from the schmaltz and bs,ask him about Epstein,ask him the difficult questions,and if one of your colleagues is shut down pick up the baton. 617454
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, admits errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, NOT VANDALISM, caused the pool’s blue liner to peel and break loose. Atlantic is being paid $14.7 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/c...nytimes.comReflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for DamageThe contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show. 675105934079
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I’ve long thought the assisted dying bill was a major party of why things went so wrong for Keir Starmer so early. A deeply personal conscience issue which had to be decided by brand new MPs only just finding their feet and forging alliances. 137015
Reposted by Aeddan ap Garthlucaswaldron.bsky.social @lucaswaldron.bsky.social · 09/09/2026New analysis from @propublica.org: Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. www.propublica.org/article/ecto... 10296164
Reposted by Aeddan ap GarthWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Surprising this story isn't getting more coverage...portsmouth.co.ukProtestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotelMisinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel 921086480
![Article 8 privacy and data protection
Further, and in any event, we remind you of the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 the "Act).
We refer you to the chronology of events set out at (2) above. You will therefore appreciate that pursuant to the Act our client's conviction is spent, as of 14 December 20244.
A conviction which is spent for the
purposes of the Act is that person's private information pursuant to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. As the Supreme Court put it:
"As [the conviction] recedes into the past, it becomes a part of the person's private life".
That principle was upheld more recently in NT1 & NT2 v Google LLC®.
Our client therefore has a reasonable expectation of privacy in that information. In all the circumstances, given the lack of any legitimate or genuine justification for publicising it, whether on X, Substack or otherwise, there can be no public interest in the publication you have threatened and already effected, let alone one which is sufficiently strong to outweigh the compelling Article 8 rights of our client.
NT1&NT2 also clarified that a person's criminal conviction, particularly if that conviction is spent, constitutes personal data and is therefore protected by UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 ("DPA").
2(1999] UKHL 45
Section 1(1) and 1(4)(a), Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974
* Section 5(2), ibid
5 R(L) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2009) UKSC 3 at (27]
• (2018] EWHC 799 (QB)
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Dr J T D Wilson
10 April 2026
The provisions of the UK GDR concering the processing of personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences are detailed and onerous, imposing a higher duty of care on controllers and processors of such information, which in this case is you.
It is highly unlikely that the journalism exemption under the DPA® would be applicable in these circumstances, given that (a) you are not a journalist, and (b) in any event, not only - for the …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:movn6xzezospl7lnkhy7nzpt/bafkreidkd36t4s5z47luqrplaqxizdb42nj2icbdagyxai6dsrygjnt5wi)
