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Nigel Briggs

@lawlecturer.bsky.social

Human rights, criminal law, space law, books, films and F1. Allotments. Leeds fan MOT. "listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go" e.e.cummings

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MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d ago

Not happening, Donald! Just days after claiming it would be a “great discredit” if he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, the prize went to South African anti-apartheid lawyer and human rights judge Navi Pillay.

Trump Denied Nobel Peace Prize Yet Again; Winner is South African Anti-Apartheid Judge Navanethem “Navi” Pillay

Pillay was honored for her courage in defending international law and justice as a pioneering South African judge

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The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 4mo ago

⚡️Armenia's Pashinyan declares victory as results show commanding lead over pro-Russian candidate. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory on June 8 in the country's parliamentary election, after preliminary results show a commanding lead for his Civil Contract party.

Armenia's Pashinyan declares victory as results show commanding lead over pro-Russian candidate

Armenia's parliamentary election on June 7 saw the country's highest voter turnout since 2018, as citizens cast their ballots to determine the makeup of the National Assembly — and decide whether Yere...

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Jeremy Corbyn@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Palantir has been granted “unlimited access” to NHS patient data. This is the same company that is involved in mass surveillance and genocide. We did not consent to this. Get Palantir out of our NHS, now.

Alice McCool@mccoolingtons.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Cute video to go with our news! Congrats to the other new recruits @luciaoc.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social and @doctorow.pluralistic.net 🤩 You can subscribe to (or become a paying member of) @thenerve.news here: www.thenerve.news/membership

THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 5mo ago

SOME NEWS The Nerve is six months old - and growing! Thanks to the incredible support of our growing community of members, we are delighted to announce four major signings as we expand our team of journalists… @pressgazette.co.uk report follows… (mini 🧵)

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member. We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hannah Spencer: the Green MP speaking to everyday people’s frustrations

Winner of Gorton and Denton byelection was driven into politics by growing gap between super-rich and the ‘rest of us’

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The Rivers Trust@theriverstrust.bsky.social · 8mo ago

💧💩Fountain of Filth: Today we joined other water campaigners to attend the opening of a fountain depicting river users getting sick from dirty water Our waterways shouldn’t be making us sick. Sewage pollution MUST end✊️ Tune in: Dirty Business (9pm on Channel 4) spotlights Britain's sewage scandal

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DrDinD.bsky.social@drdind.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I recommend "The Secret Agent"- it is somewhat slow to develop but it provides the sense of how an authoritarian kakistocracy in 1977 Brazil robs society of money, incentive, and lives. We are at a fork in the road towards that here, folks.

The Secret Agent review: Oscar-nominated Brazilian thriller is an astonishing experience

Wagner Moura stars in Kleber Mendonça Filho's Oscar-nominated historical thriller. Read the Empire review.

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Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Here’s the full story.. and it stinks. How anyone can think Farage will do anything good for our country when we’re already trapped in the tedious, ruinous Brexit mess he’s made, god only knows. This nasty little gobshite will never fix any problems. He IS the problem.

Reform's churchwarden riddle Extract A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works for the family of a highly secretive, Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as the man behind £200,000 of donations to Reform UK. John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old conveyancer whose parish website describes him as an "experienced" and "dedicated" Anglican lay leader. He is the owner of Interior Architecture Landscape Limited, which made seven payments to Nigel Farage's party last summer. The firm, which was originally owned via a trust in the British Virgin Islands, is so small it does not have to file professionally audited accounts. It did not display any contact details until recently and was almost wound up by HMRC after a tax dispute last year. Simpson, known locally as Bill, "does conveyancing, but is not a fully qualified solicitor", according to a Facebook post by a neighbour in the Hertfordshire town. There is no evidence he has any background in interior design. He has no known political affiliation or background in activism. He would not discuss the source of the funds donated to Reform last week. Simpson has long worked for Sasan and Yasmin Ghandehari, a married couple who a spokesman for the interior design company acknowledged were "clients". Last month, the Ghandehari family office sponsored Farage's pass to Davos and a hotel in the Swiss resort for the World Economic Forum's annual gathering. They claimed to have retained the Reform leader as "an honorary and unpaid adviser" in an arrangement first reported by the Financial Times. In response to inquiries, Farage's spokesman said: "[Sasan] Ghandehari has attended a Reform UK fundraising event and they are friends of the party." It is understood the event in question took place at Oswald's, a private members' club in Mavfair. It is illegal for a foreign national or entity to donate directly to a party. Yet a trading British company is automatically eligible to donate.Churchwarden with connection to Kazakh-born tycoon is behind £200k of donations to Reform Extract: They claimed to have retained the Reform leader as "an honorary and unpaid adviser", an arrangement first reported by the Financial Times. In response to inquiries, Farage's spokesman said: "[Sasan] Ghandehari has attended a Reform UK fundraising event and they are friends of the party." It is understood the event took place at Oswald's, a private members' club in Mayfair. It is illegal for a foreign national or entity to donate directly to a party. Yet a trading British company is automatically eligible to donate. There is nothing to stop a foreign investor or owner depositing funds in a UK company which in turn donates to a political party. Sasan and Yasmin Ghandehari have been described as "Iranian-born" and "British" in media reports but it is unclear whether they hold British citizenship. Sasan gave his nationality as Iranian and his profession as "businessman" in a Companies House document dated 2002. The Ghandeharis are prolific art collectors and sit on a fundraising committee for the Tate. They derive their wealth from Sasan's mother, Hourieh Peramaa, who was born in Kazakhstan and fled to Iran as a child before investing in property and becoming a billionaire. Named by Chatham House as a "politi- cally exposed" or "high-risk" person from a post-Soviet state, she is so secretive that there is almost no verifiable information about her and it is not known if she is still alive. She would be 97 if so. The family faced controversy in 2008, when the former head of Kazakhstan's intelligence services claimed they had bought Royal Mansion, a £50 million home in The Bishops Avenue, London — known as "billionaires' row" - for Nursultan Nazarbayev, then the dictator of the oil and gas-rich state. Sasan Ghandehari denied this was the case. However, he acknowledged having a personal relationship with the ruler.