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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ah, you see it is *social* and *environmental* factors that explain the lower IQ of race realists then? Hmm.

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 18/08/2026

"GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today warned that the UK’s revised Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions, and Associations, in force as of 5 August, may place transgender and gender-diverse persons at heightened risk of discrimination and exclusion." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

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UK: Revised Code of Practice risks institutionalising discrimination against transgender and gender-diverse persons, warn UN experts

GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today warned that the UK’s revised Code of Practice for Services, Public Functions, and Associations, in force as of 5 August, may place transgender and gender-divers...

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It’s a while since I read it but IIRC he addresses its purposeful use as a tool, and it’s legal function. Vaguer standards can allocate more power to decision makers who have interpretive authority.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Different context but you might enjoy Timothy Endicott’s work on vagueness in law.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is a real part of it but there are also cases that would never have got near legal aid because they are hopeless, and which would have been (poorly) litigated and dealt with quickly, but which now seem on their face as plausible as LiP cases which are meritorious - which is bad for everyone.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Absolutely nuts proposal from Westminster council. The GLA should take over licensing for Soho. It is for everyone, not just the lucky few who live there (and seem to hate it) www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Council wants pubs in London’s Soho and West End to ban standing

Sadiq Khan criticises Westminster council’s ‘anti-growth policies’ after it recommends stopping ‘vertical drinking’

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I was arguing with a staunch opponent of AD who was horrified by the idea a high proportion of deaths might end up being via AD down the line - but that just doesn’t grapple with what most deaths are like now, which is to me a lot more horrifying.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The passage below from Stock should be enough to permanently exclude her from respectable public life. If she got her way I’d have been forced out of university in my first year (I was failing until I was allowed a reasonable adjustment for dyspraxia).

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20/07/2026

🚨 Bridget Phillipson remains as the Minister for Women and Equalities After FWS Phillipson publicly stated that trans women should use men's toilets. She recently signed into force harmful & discriminatory statutory guidance which will devastate trans lives. Suggests no change re. trans rights.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Mr Anderson, what good is a flavour, if you don’t have a mouth?

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Hypocrisy aside, ‘not fit for government’ is pretty standard political critique. It’s not exactly stochastic terrorism…

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Processing data queries is ‘reported as taking four to five minutes compared to thirty seconds’ on existing systems." Even with ethics/data issues aside, this is damning. Asking Trusts to set aside ethical concerns for improved functionality would be one thing but if the tech just isn't good...

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Enjoyed writing this (rather shocking) case up for the Admin Court Blog - interesting case for anyone involved in strategic litigation, looking at the nature of the public interest test for JR permission when the claim has become academic.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“Are you really 42% chud?” “Does Mr Beast shit in the woods?”

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I haven’t told my (entirely Jewish) family yet but I expect they will approve, somehow.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

This was mine too. Guess I’m Catholic now.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Not necessarily the main point here but ‘the most attacked and endangered politician’ for ‘well over a decade’ is an insane thing to say given Jo Cox was assassinated 10 years ago.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This seems to be a (slightly) underrated reason that many who would traditionally support a labour government (me included) completely lost faith in Starmer.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This kind of crap from the BoD really undermines those of us who are trying to push against antisemitism across the political spectrum. Infuriating.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

What’s nice about the law on this occasion is that one of the reasons lots though the decision was bad was that it appeared to be biased be predetermination, and for once that is straightforwardly a reason that it was unlawful.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Uncanny how talk of mass deportation, while a regime very visibly attempting to do exactly that across the pond goes violently mad, isn’t a vote winner among the people who’ve chosen to make Britain their home despite being born elsewhere.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Well yes, but they’ve all seen what you have to do if you win, so maybe that’s why.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

When the bench for Ammori (the Palestine Action JR) was enlarged there were noises (including from the Guardian) that it was some sort of stitch up to fix the result for the government. That was obviously rubbish at the time, but is even clearer now that the government have lost!

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I’m not attached to any specific solution. Though I’m not sure I agree with the flaw - in this case it probably would help, and even if he were wealthy, it would still defang the financial risk for a confident defendant. County court has benefits, but you do lose the protection of e.g. Steyn J here.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

A very good example of why the status quo on defamation is not sustainable from a costs perspective. Maybe anybody issuing a libel claim should have to provide security for costs of the amount required to reach at least the first substantive hearing.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Years ago, when I was a teenager, I heard @marcusbrig.bsky.social on the Now Show say that the best way to resist the temptation to have cocaine for breakfast was not to keep it in the fridge. Good lesson for mechanisms of state oppression too.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

At uni I did a course on privacy and national security - at the time, it felt largely hypothetical. Clearly bad these capabilities existed, and there discrete (and very bad) cases of misuse, but saying ‘the government could become generally authoritarian and misuse them’ was a seen as bit gauche…

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Would he not prefer an Extraordinary Nobel Prize for War given his renaming of the relevant department?

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 19/01/2026

The European Convention on Human Rights was a benefit to British troops, not a burden, writes the Commander Legal for the Iraq War in 2003👇 🔗 www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/5542abd... via @telegraph.co.uk It was a force for good, ensuring humane treatment and proper accountability. #ECHR

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Right! It serves neither function nor beauty. The simple read is that creating a novel form of human interaction is a very compelling high but is hard to achieve twice.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The things $77bn could have done in that time, instead of failing to create something that would have been socially dire. Even just old fashioned billionaire stuff like libraries, parks, museums. This is what happens when people don’t understand humanity(/humanities).

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I booked a pub quiz recently by phone, turned up and the booking was nowhere to be found. Bar staff asked around. Answer: “oh, you spoke to the chef but she was busy making pies and forgot to note your booking”. Never been less annoyed. Maybe the perfect excuse.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 12/11/2025

This is an appalling judgment to read. Two Chief Constables found in contempt of court for misleading the court about the existence of video footage. But this was only discovered when the matter made it to the Court of Appeal. Incredible perseverance. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...

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Judges set to decide fate of police chief constable guilty of contempt of court

Exclusive: Ivan Balhatchet, Northamptonshire’s chief constable, could face up to two years in jail or a fine for repeated failure to obey rulings

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

They do a lot of inquest JRs involving article 2 (though by no means all), and I’ve often thought it looked in those cases like they thought it would be useful to have a backup judge with paracetamol and a cool damp cloth.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

If we want to rebuild the defences against authoritarianism (as we should) we'd be better off using the instruments we already have. Dismantling Henry VIII powers, getting dirty money out of elections, even changing the electoral system could all be done more easily than writing a new constitution.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

This Bill had 8 sponsors: Chris Philp (Shadow Home Secretary), Matt Vickers (shadow home affairs team) as well as Katie Lam (opposition assistant whip) and 5 backbenchers, class of 2024 publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

A civil remedy for wrongful arrest is all well and good but how many people were prevented from protesting by the chilling effect this sort of arrest has?

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Quite apart from being banally evil, this is monumentally stupid from Jenrick. England & Wales courts have a deserved global reputation for fairness and expertise which makes them a genuine national asset. Politicising the judiciary in this way will end badly on so many levels.

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Lewis Graham @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled, 20 years after the landmark Hirst case, that an applicant prisoner's inability to vote in a UK General Election did not breach the Convention. Hora v United Kingdom (23 September 2025): hudoc.echr.coe.int?i=001-244851 Some quick thoughts from me: 1/7

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HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights

The HUDOC database provides access to the case-law of the Court (Grand Chamber, Chamber and Committee judgments and decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries from the Case-L...

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Reupping this story as I think it raises an important question: If the police can stop a protest/action by saying it's "at risk" of breaching traffic laws - there is not a single protest in the country that could not be shut down. A major free speech issue at stake here.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 09/09/2025

British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I expect Glasman would, if his liberty or future security were placed at risk, want and be able to benefit from excellent lawyers. But that is plainly not a position he thinks everyone should be in.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

It's also a bit of a grey area on what exactly was wrong, isn't it - the error of law was a failure to take into account plainly relevant considerations. That is less a matter of 'getting the law right' and more a matter or giving the proper thought to the issue to the standard the law requires.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Court made absolutely clear that this was neither a comment on the merits of government policy nor a matter of ECHR law. It's been said so often it is now priced in but it bears repeating: Farage has no desire to base his politics on what is truth. A straight up, obvious, bullshitting liar.

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Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Ideology is political. Value is secret second thing.

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