Steve Darrell

Steve Darrell

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Vegan, Welsh, I read, play wargames and watch rugby.

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I’m simply going to quote the Secret Barrister on this one “There should be a criminal sanction applicable to politicians who deliberately cause such wanton, avoidable devastation to essential public services. Electoral humiliation is not enough.”

🚨Rishi Sunak was warned by senior civil servants a week before he called the election that he was at risk of breaching legal responsibilities if he failed to take action over prison overcrowding crisis, leaked document reveals www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

Rishi Sunak ‘risked breaching legal responsibilities over prison crisis’www.theguardian.com Exclusive: leaked letters said without urgent action the system in England and Wales would reach ‘critical failure’

The odd things we seem to have to worry about now. As David Allen Green has previously pointed out, constitutional law should not be exciting, or even interesting.

What if a parliamentary candidate did not exist? The latest odd constitutional law question which nobody has really thought of asking before By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/what-if-a-... Non-Substack: davidallengreen.com/2024/07/what...

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The task before James Timpson The significance of this welcome appointment - and two of the immense obstacles that he needs to overcome New, by me At Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-task-b... Non-Substack: davidallengreen.com/2024/07/the-...

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The thing no one's talking about this morning is, whether they're aware of it or not, this has happened whilst the first effects of hard Brexit on our cost of living are being felt. If Labour insist on taking up this baton in full they're going to feel the effects of it next time

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Just remember as you go to vote tomorrow that Johnson partied while people died alone, bunged £40B+ of our money to their pals, made lying the new norm. Truss lost £50B by nearly crashed the economy. Sunak promised much but delivered more pain with record high taxes. VOTE THEM OUT.

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Alien Theories xkcd.com/2953

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This is illuminating on the mindset of the Tories, from Sunday Times’ Tim Shipman’s account of Theresa May’s Brexit troubles. The Cabinet decided the party was more important than the country.

I'm looking forward to reading Empireworld - certainly Empireland was nuanced, and an excellent read

Grateful to Gideon Rachman for these words about #Empireworld in the FT's guide to summer reading, over the weekend. I'll be speaking about it at the @southbankcentre on Sunday July 14th, as part of its You Belong Here festival. Tickets available. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/lit...

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Grateful to Gideon Rachman for these words about #Empireworld in the FT's guide to summer reading, over the weekend. I'll be speaking about it at the @southbankcentre on Sunday July 14th, as part of its You Belong Here festival. Tickets available. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/lit...

Well worth a look, as is the linked page.

New post just out: It's by the god of election analysis himself Sir John Curtice, with colleague Lovisa Moller Vallgarda. They've built a system for classifying voters that offers fascinating insights into this election and the future of UK politics. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/m...

Mapping Voter Coalitionsopen.substack.com A guest post from Sir John Curtice and Lovisa Moller Vallgarda

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The public service of an "Enemy of the People" New, by me At Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-public... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2024/06/the-...

The public service of an "Enemy of the People"emptycity.substack.com What a judge did for fifteen months as a volunteer

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Not that it’s ever likely to trouble anyone, but Reform’s tax and spend plans would crash the pound and send mortgage costs soaring, according to a former Bank of England policy maker who predicted the disastrous fallout from Liz Truss’ mini-budget, Bloomberg reports.

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Telegraph excited by Starmer implying Corbyn would have made a better PM than Johnson. ALMOST ANYONE would have made a better PM than Johnson. Which admittedly makes it quite remarkable that neither of his successors has really been so, but that's far more the Telegraph's fault than ours, isn't it?

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I was thinking how it must be bewildering for Orcs, caught up in marches to war for specious reasons, involved in pointless battles that have nothing really to do with them, but a mad tyrant's desire for power, and I got this Tolkien-inspired parody. @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com

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Good letters in the Times warning of the dangers of populists who promise simple solutions to the terminally gullible, but deliver jack shit, then blame everyone else. And that’s not just Farage. That’s the Tory party since 2016. Let’s get rid. Time for change… and competence.

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From the latest Private Eye

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Pascal’s Wager Triangle xkcd.com/2947

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Reform UK has published its manifesto. They plan tax cuts which they say will cost £70bn; however our analysis shows that they've miscalculated, and the actual cost will be at least £93bn. taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/17/r...

Our take on the Reform UK manifestotaxpolicy.org.uk Reform UK has published its manifesto. They plan tax cuts which they say will cost £70bn; however our analysis shows that they’ve miscalculated, and the actual cost will be at least £93bn.

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God damn it this is not wrong

i think we should stop giving our ai bots female names (alexa, siri) and give them names from the old white boys club (john, james, chad) in honor of how overconfident and annoying they are even when they’re completely wrong or making stuff up

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The strange omission in the Conservative manifesto Why is there no commitment to repeal the Human Rights Act? New, by me At Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-strang... At personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2024/06/the-...

The strange omission in the Conservative manifestoemptycity.substack.com Why is there no commitment to repeal the Human Rights Act?

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"From time to time the party now known as the Conservative and Unionist party has done badly – very badly."

The predicted governing party implosion in historical and constitutional contextdavidallengreen.com 11th June 2024 From time to time the party now known as the Conservative and Unionist party has done badly – very badly. * In 1828-32, the old Tory collapsed as what some historians call the …

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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekX X (so glad I no longer belong)

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(clears throat) Let me be very clear and direct here: FUCK every single ghoul who has spread #vaccine misinformation over the past few years. Watch a child suffering from pertussis just once and it will change you. This is fucking preventable and these babies have no choice. They rely on us.

UK whooping cough death toll rises to 8, people urged to get vaccinesapple.news Since January there have been 4,793 confirmed cases of whooping cough, compared with 858 in the whole of 2023, with one academic describing the size of the current outbreak as 'alarming'.

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This piece from Robert Shrimsley in the FT really nails how the Conservatives have killed themselves.

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*blows dust off*

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Donald Trump is convicted – but it is now the judicial system that may need a good defence strategydavidallengreen.com 1st June 2024 On balance, the prosecution of Donald Trump in New York did not look likely to succeed. The prosecution had to show that certain business records were falsified at the direction of or…

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🔥 65% of 25-34 year olds want to hear about Europe in the election campaign.

Young people want Europe on the election agendanortheastbylines.co.uk 65% of 25-34 year olds want to hear about Europe in the election campaign shows new polling

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🔥 58% of Brits (and 65% of 25-34 year olds) think that our relationship with Europe is an important topic for this #GeneralElection See article here —> northeastbylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

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I would never, never be able to find this much grace in myself.