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Malcolm Hawkes

@malcolmhawkes.bsky.social
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Barrister, extradition & human rights law Иногда, хочется поболтать или читать по русский All things #ITFC. All views my own (he/him)

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Malcolm Hawkes @malcolmhawkes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Great thread on Russia in the 1990s:
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/09/2026
George W Bush’s impunity led to Trump’s lawlessness | Kenneth Roth
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George W Bush’s impunity led to Trump’s lawlessness | Kenneth Roth
The reluctance of later administrations to repudiate Bush-era torture and endless detention laid the groundwork for recent violence
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/08/2026
Brexit has held our economy back. I welcome steps to strengthen our relationship with the EU that help businesses grow and create jobs. From architects and engineers to tech firms and creatives, London thrives when talent and expertise can work across borders.
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 03/08/2026
🧵Right-leaning newspapers are trying to blame Europe's raging wildfires on everything EXCEPT fossil fuels 1. The Wall Street Journal Frontpage story: "Greece fights wildfires as Europe crisis spreads" WSJ editorial: "How green policies fuel fires in Europe"
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Malcolm Hawkes @malcolmhawkes.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A most outrageous attack on Rajiv Menon KC, an affront to justice and the very rule of law:
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"There's a value in what we produce because we feel – and an AI chatbot can't feel... But I don't find anything wrong with someone who finds genuine happiness with an AI companion" For my new 'Human Interview', I met AI & Society Prof at KCL @drkatedevlin.bsky.social to explore connection & tech 👇
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‘There’s a Value in What We Produce Because We Feel – and an AI Chatbot Can’t Feel’
Byline Times' Editor in Chief meets Kate Devlin, Professor of AI and Society at King’s College London, to explore how relationships with AI companions aren’t particularly new, why she believes the und...
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
America is slowly changing and capitalism is not noticing. Free grocery stores are popping up, pay what you can restaurants are opening, barter systems and trade apps are allowing people to exchange household goods from clothing to small appliances, thrift stores are seeing new surges. /
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Doughty Street Chambers Crime Team @doughtystcrime.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲; 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗸 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝘄𝗸𝗲𝘀 & 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 ➡️ www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/greek-p...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Keir Starmer, "I want to remind you what Nigel Farage said about Brexit" "He said it would make us richer. Wrong. It made us poorer" "He said it would reduce migration. Wrong. Migration went through the roof" "He said it would make us more secure. Wrong again. It made us weaker"
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future iandunt.substack.com/p/rejoin-is-...
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Rejoin is coming
Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Strategic Defence Review, which Robertson spearheaded, came out in September 2025, as I was writing the last chapter of my book, which is focused on foreign policy and strategy. I read that entire document and interviewed a number of experts about it. A few thoughts. 🧵
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
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Malcolm Hawkes @malcolmhawkes.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Appalling:
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Nick Ames @nickames82.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
“Football club is apolitical” simply doesn’t cut it when that football club has been naive enough to let a political party trample all over it for its own self-advertisement - anybody could have seen what Reform and Farage were going to pull at Ipswich & it appears they were hardly discouraged.
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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The people who told us austerity was crucial, Brexit would be brilliant, Boris Johnson’s amazing and Liz Truss is an economic genius, are now insisting the country should join an illegal war #BBCLauraK
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 27/02/2026
The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis. Hmmmmmm.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Huge change to political donation rules to close loopholes on foreign cash Labour’s Steve Reed today unveils legislation to stop foreign donors interfering with UK politics - while also letting 16 and 17 year olds vote in elections for the first time 👏 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Huge change to political donation rules to close loopholes on foreign cash
Labour frontbencher Steve Reed today unveils legislation to stop foreign donors interfering with UK politics - while also letting 16 and 17 year olds vote in elections for the first time
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HJA Civil Liberties @hjacivillibs.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Women suffer most from spiralling court backlog: a fifth of prisoners in England and Wales have not been tried or sentenced, with that figure rising to a quarter of all women in prison www.opendemocracy.net/en/crisis-pr...
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Revealed: Women suffer most from spiralling court backlog
Women disproportionately locked up as number of English and Welsh prisoners held on remand rises by 44% in 10 years
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Carole Cadwalladr, "It goes back to this black hole of Brexit and nobody wants to talk about Russian interference in this country in relation to politics and the effect it has had" "There's a refusal to have an inquiry which parliament called for and Boris Johnson refused to have"
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Carole Cadwalladr, "He's not that cuddle cosy golf club English pub figure" "He is in a relationship with the US far right and with the European pro-Kremlin far right" "What happened in Brexit, we saw that money that force that influence, those networks coming together"
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/01/2026
It’s weird that Trump can stand up to allies but not Russia
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
“1) Greenland has been owned by Denmark since 1380 and is today a fully integrated but self-governing part of Denmark. Very much like Alaska is part of the USA.” 2/
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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
@jarlov.bsky.social: [Conservative MP Denmark] “Let's get the facts straight regarding #Trump's newest statements about #Greenland:” 1/
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Naz Saad @nazishmunch.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
@seryndippyt.bsky.social and I wrote about migration in @bylines.scot Part 1 bylines.scot/society/a-ne... Part 2 bylines.scot/society/a-ne...
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A new approach to integration – the cost of division - Bylines Scotland
Political fear and scarcity have stripped humanity from our immigration debate, turning neighbours into strangers – Nazish’s story
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
If ministers want to publish the assertion - "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" - they should be able to say what they think that means I hope that demonstrably untrue claim will now be retired
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KE Salisbury @kesalisbury.eurosky.social · 06/12/2025
This has made grin, so I'm sharing it 😍 @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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‘Empathy that lasts a lifetime’: charity bridges gap between Bradford schools
Pupils from schools with differing demographics meet and play under charity scheme set up after city’s 2001 riots
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Brexit ‘badly damaged’ our economy says David Lammy, the deputy prime minister also says rejoining the EU customs union would boost economic growth. More and more people are realising the sky doesn’t fall in when you tell the truth about Brexit!
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’ The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit.
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Brexit: the trillion pound ‘mistake’
The recent NBER report suggests the Treasury’s 2016 analysis – slammed by Brexiters as a ‘hoax’– actually understated the impact of Brexit
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Dismal framing. Every aspect of most asylum seekers’ lives is controlled & paid for by the Home Office. They can’t work, are told where to live & have no autonomy or dignity. So they aren’t *choosing* to use taxis & don’t need to be “banned” from doing so. The HO just needs to get its act in order.
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Government to ban asylum seekers from using taxis
The ban is set to come in February and any exemptions will have to be signed off by the Home Office.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
From the CWS Archive. June 2022 and August 2020.
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Malcolm Hawkes @malcolmhawkes.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Crippled the criminal justice system by decades of underfunding? The only solution has to be removing the fundamental right to trial by jury: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 11/11/2025
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 04/11/2025
Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years. Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇 🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR There are thousands more. #ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int
The European Convention on Human Rights
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Prof John O Brennan @jobmaynooth.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Superb piece by Ben Tonra in today’s Irish Tines, on Ireland’s strategic choices in a predatory world, with the necessity of a strategic pivot towards Europe increasingly apparent. Everyone interested in foreign policy making should read this.
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The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
IS RUSSIA ABOUT TO CROSS INTO ITS ‘TOTAL WAR’ MOMENT In February 1943 Josef Goebbels made his Total War speech. It followed the defeat at Stalingrad and openly acknowledged the dire situation Germany faced. He declared a state of total war - because up to the point, Germany had been cosseting its
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 25/10/2025
"You left Europe because you wanted less boats, you have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment." Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union. Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
An elected MP, Reform’s Sarah Pochin says there are too many Black and Asian people on TV - so plain racism - and the coverage of it is buried. Silence and ignorance is complicity, causing lasting damage. When we see racism it’s what we do next, individually and collectively, that matters.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Another tough interview for Nigel Farage: the Stephen Collins cartoon
There are lots of parties that aren’t Reform UK operating ‘under the radar’
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 22/10/2025
People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home. I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Suggest you jump in on this poll. —> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...? And share…
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Thanks for all the really amazing support from Question Time tonight! You heard it several times (including even from Reform!): @greenparty.org.uk are surging. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk #BBCQT
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Join the Green Party
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𝔇𝔢𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔰 𝔅𝔞𝔯𝔯𝔢𝔱𝔱 @pickpear.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2025
By way of a reminder folks... You voted for Cameron Everything got worse You voted for Johnson Everything got worse You voted for brexit Everything got worse You voted for Truss Everything got worse If you vote for Farage You have no idea how bad your life will become.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?
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Malcolm Hawkes @malcolmhawkes.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This is fantastic and very welcome news. As a cyclist, I’ve really noticed a difference - long may it continue!
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Zack on Bold Politics podium
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The ECHR is much more than a treaty. It’s a quiet promise - a shield against abuse of power, a lifeline for the vulnerable, a declaration of who we are as a nation. In an age of upheaval and division, we must not let it be torn up for political convenience
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