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23 Aug 2017
Scotland's press don't hold power to account at all. They advocate on behalf of power, against challenge.
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David Halliday retweeted
Jun 13
When I worked at the Scottish Parliament, there were some MSPs who were shocked to find out that the workplace smoking ban meant that the smoking room in the Parliament building had to close. They couldn’t believe the law applied to them. They huffed and puffed about it, complaining to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body - trying to argue that they were exempt from having to comply with the law.
Same energy.
Jun 11
'When it comes to the idea of trans women using women's bathrooms, absolutely they should'
Scottish Greens MSP Q Manivannanan has urged the Scottish Parliament to lift its ban on trans people using toilets in their lived gender in the building 👇
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I'm old enough to remember when three points was almost certainly going to see us through. We now need to keep defeat at the hands of Brazil and Morocco as low as possible and hope that as many as possible third v fourth games in other groups are draws. Is that right?
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That well-known weapon of choice for terrorists: the sledgehammer.
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Protect the dolls.
A man pretending to be a woman, suspected of murdering a little boy, publicly assaulted female journalists.
Naturally Australian media referred to him as "she".
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Social media ban "unenforceable" and "incredibly high risk" - online safety charity
"This looks like policy making being done on the back of a fag packet and frankly that is incredibly high risk when we are talking about children's safety. We should be following the evidence" - Andy Burrows of Molly Rose Foundation
Even online safety campaigners don't want this and say it is irresponsible @Keir_Starmer @uklabour
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Judges are the wrong - and at the very least an inefficient - target for ire in a democracy. All of our anger should be reserved for and directed at the Labour Party. It is the revolting, disgusting Labour Party that could end all this tomorrow.
Jun 13
Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes.
Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead.
As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence.
Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.
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David Halliday retweeted
Jun 12
🚨 In more than 25 years of working on terrorism cases, I never thought I would see terrorism legislation used in a way that blurs the line between genuine national security concerns and the policing of political expression and protest.
The sentencing of the Filton 4 raises profound questions about the direction of our justice system. Counter-terrorism laws exist to protect the public from serious threats, not to chill political dissent, including direct action protest.
If we are not careful, we risk setting a dangerous precedent, one that many will view as driven not by principle, but by a desire to shield Israel from criticism.
I strongly oppose what happened in this case today.
Jun 12
🚨BREAKING: Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists
Amnesty opposes the use of terrorism powers in this case.
It is completely disproportionate to punish protesters for criminal damage as if they were terrorists, a sentence which stays with you for life.
The defendants in today’s case were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make an example of them.
Today's decision shows how direct action protesters could be treated in the future.
The use of terrorism laws against direct action protesters must end.
Together we must continue calling out the abuse of power and fighting for our right to protest.
Read our position:
Criminal Damage, Direct Action, Terrorism: Misuse of counter-terrorism powers in the UK: amn.st/6015B87ZCx
ALT Filton 4 sentenced as terrorists, use of terrorism laws against protesters must end
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David Halliday retweeted
Jun 12
This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1
Jun 12
🚨 BREAKING: Four Palestine Action activists have been jailed for a total of 22 years for causing £1.2m worth of damage and fracturing a police woman's spine at an Israeli weapons factory
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David Halliday retweeted
Jun 12
🚨 9 Ayda Tanınmaz Hâle Geldi:
Filistinli sporcu Moazaz Obayat'ın, İsrail hapishanelerinde geçirdiği 9 ayın ardından çekilen görüntüleri
Öncesi ve sonrası arasındaki çarpıcı değişim, tutukluların maruz kaldığı koşulları gözler önüne serdi
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David Halliday retweeted
Jun 13
Mientras se celebra el Mundial en EEUU, los agentes de la Gestapo de Trump, el ICE, andan secuestrando y electrocutando a la gente por las calles solo por parecer latino.
Vean como torturaron a este hombre con un taser, aún siendo 5 contra 1... era un ciudadano estadounidense legal, que hacía de voluntario comunitario en un barrio latino.
Solo imaginen que en Rusia, China o algún pais así enemigo de EEUU, se celebrara un mundial en estas condiciones, te lo contarían hasta con mensajes en avionetas.
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David Halliday retweeted
Jun 11
This from the @EHRC is just not good enough.
How are users of the guidance to know to look up this "clarification" note.
And it is still misleading.
Organisations collect and share data on the sex of their customers all the time. It's not sensitive or special purpose data.
And the fact that a man is inappropriately trying to go into the women's toilets doesn't make his sex sensitive data.
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If I hadn't studied Jeremy Bentham at university I'm not sure I'd have understood what was meant by the Panopticon that Shabana Mahmood posits as the ideal relationship between state and citizen. This is it. Literally.
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It was meant as a means of power controlling prisoners. Even in that context it was controversial.
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David Halliday retweeted
Jun 8
I’m pleased to see this and would just add that I thought we had a basic human right to privacy?
Jun 8
Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
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"A parent who wants a child-lock on their kid’s phone can switch one on today. For free. They just have to turn it on. It requires parenting, not state control."
Starmer Calls for Spyware on All Phones
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"[T]he cheapest applause line in British politics." Absolutely spot on.
Starmer Calls for Spyware on All Phones
reclaimthenet.org/starmer-ca…
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David Halliday retweeted
Jun 9
In Gaza, Israel burned both people and land with white phosphorus while much of the world looked away.
Today, the same scenes are unfolding in Lebanon before the eyes of the world, yet meaningful action remains absent.
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David Halliday retweeted
This unqualified bore says his secondhand opinions are “not up for debate.” Yes they are. At a university all opinions are up for debate. If you cannot defend your opinions rationally, either they are indefensible or you are too stupid to defend them. In either case you have no right to force them on students who have expressed their wish to attend a lecture by doing so.
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David Halliday retweeted
Jun 7
Listen to how @michaelpforan *encourages* students with dissenting views to stay, listen and challenge him.
Isn’t this a model of what the academic & student relationship should be?
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David Halliday retweeted
Jun 7
Vote at 16 but a very protected, censored and infantilaised relationship with media until 16
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🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer will announce a social media ban for under-16s in the UK in the next two weeks
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