Lottie
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The bread is mouldy and the circus has low attendance - justice reform - she/her
Last thought: schooling shouldn't all be about getting a job. It sounds trite, but it's for *everything* in your life And employers used to train people, didn't they? Why do they now seem to assume everyone starting their first job has all the skills? The state is picking up the tab for that shift
i don't know a nice way to say this but beyond anything else this girl (and rose lyddon back in the day) just seem like they just want attention. like is this not just a weirdly labour-tinted e-girlism
The overarching point of this is what, ironically, makes up Pt 1 of the Gauke Review which led to the Sentencing Bill. Penal populism and sentencing decisions shaped by public opinion fundamentally undermine the efficacy of the justice system. It gives us worse law & worse outcomes across the board.
Lottie@sellottie.bsky.social · 18h agoMaking or changing legislation on the basis of individual cases is disproportionate by nature. Feels like we’re seeing some of the downstream effects of the recent slew of *Name’s* Law here — whatever the morally right take, it creates hyperfocus on the case in question which now backfires on gov
Making or changing legislation on the basis of individual cases is disproportionate by nature. Feels like we’re seeing some of the downstream effects of the recent slew of *Name’s* Law here — whatever the morally right take, it creates hyperfocus on the case in question which now backfires on gov
Oh! Those pesky environmental regs, let’s not worry about those any more. So out of touch!
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · yesterdayUK to strip back procurement rules to focus on job creation, says Louise Haigh ft.trib.al/7S4mjRA
They should create a Letterboxd Sin Bin for the top four films you hate the most
Also (not) sorry to keep banging on about this, but there is not A SINGLE PERSON in new MoJ ministerial team who has ever worked in the criminal justice system—including the former lawyers, all of whom (afaik) worked in civil law. And they haven’t even formally named the new prisons minister yet!
Lottie@sellottie.bsky.social · yesterdayGlad in principle that early release scheme back on. But probation is in a totally unfit state to handle the surge. It tends to go unmentioned in most coverage of the CJS crisis, but is in an equally parlous state to prisons — the 2 services are ping-ponging thousands of people between each other.
Glad in principle that early release scheme back on. But probation is in a totally unfit state to handle the surge. It tends to go unmentioned in most coverage of the CJS crisis, but is in an equally parlous state to prisons — the 2 services are ping-ponging thousands of people between each other.
Correct takes all round here. I like sports — but if I want to take part in them I will actively seek them out. Inserting ‘organised fun’ (games, ESPECIALLY board games) into socialising strikes me as implying that the pleasure of someone’s company isn’t felt to be sufficient on its own.
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 3d agohappy to continue my journey down Unpopular On Bluesky Avenue and say that, though I do love playing video games by myself, which I believe is a different proposition altogether, I basically agree with all of this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Just finished—Natalia Ginzburg brilliant. Deceptively plain writing but an astonishing depth and breadth. Will be thinking about it for a long time!
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Italian peasants had false memories about meeting Gramsci and I have false memories about the ordering of the Despicable Me films
Imagining a new type of person (does all their shopping at London Bridge station)
The Met have reiterated their ambition to one day solve more crimes than they commit.
Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · last wk.When asked why British police screwed up the Andrew Tate case so badly, a "detective blamed the malfeasance on 'overworked, overstretched' officers who failed to take the women’s allegations seriously, partly because two of them were sex workers."
Joani Reid has nothing to offer the Labour Party. There is no merit to her being involved — she’s a vindictive bigot who jeopardised national security whichever way you look at it. She should be a pariah.
Everyone who has ever seriously uttered the phrase “lanyard class” should be asked, with a gun to their head, what they personally do all day
How a trip to Lidl Walworth Road caused me to stop and ask: how do we spend our days?
Belated spot of my letter to the FT published this weekend. Essentially, it's Ecclesiastes 1:9: "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."
The other issue with vocational at 14 is implicit selection. Well off families will ensure their kids do academic courses. This happens at 16 anyway but at least we give everyone a chance to get a set of academic quals.
And good luck finding businesses to offer meaningful work experience to hundreds of thousands of 14 and 15 year olds. As ever a failure to acknowledge that our big challenge with vocational ed is our labour market.
Laura McInerney@missmc.bsky.social · last wk.Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ve thought through how this will be staffed, funded, and the class size implications for GCSE options. They learned that from the last time, right? RIGHT? www.tes.com/magazine/new...
I had it all, and I looked at it and said, "This is a bigger Foot Asylum than I just got out of."
Would be a real shame to let Jodrell Bank close. So near Manchester too!
ChatGPT requests are starting to turn up as evidence in criminal trials and these ones are going to be hard to beat
In many ways I think the Times is the most sinister newspaper in Britain, in part because it's agenda is much more insidious. It's seen as the serious 'paper of record', with editorial prestige. The prosecution of various marginalised groups in its pages has done a lot for elite radicalisation
