‘I Never Thought I’d Hear Myself Say I Think My Party is Making this Country Weaker in Preparation for an Authoritarian-Right Government’

Clive Lewis MP (no longer on Starmer’s Christmas card list)

https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/77/clive-lewis-mp-i-never-thought-id-hear-myself-say-i-think-my-party-is-making-this-country-weaker-in-preparation-for-an-authoritarian-right-government/

#Labour #Maladministration #Starmer #Lewis #BylineTimes

Martin Rowson - ways to get yourself nicked

#Cartoon #PalestineAction #Cooper #Labour #Maladministration

Displaying Palestine Action poster in window is legal, police say

Confusion reigns (or maybe rains) on Coopers mandates on Palestine action.

Confused? Well I think we all are including the polis. Yvette Cooper is just a nasty deranged politician.

But after people being arrested for ‘Plasticine Action' t-shirts (with Morph) who can blame us?

http://archive.today/2025.08.26-230724/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/law/article/displaying-palestine-action-poster-in-window-is-legal-police-say-grgp2qttz (archive)

#PalestineAction #Posters #Cooper #Enforcement #Labour #Maladministration

Where the UK fumbles (which appears to be anything related to privacy or competence) the rest of the world should pay attention.

Reports from the UK are already showing how age checks are being used to censor content that falls outside the OSA across the internet. This includes footage of police attacking pro-Palestinian protestors being blocked on X and some smaller websites closing down entirely.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/the_uk_online_safety_act/

#OnlineSafetyAct #Privacy #FreedomOfSpeech #UK #Maladministration

UK has backed down on demand to access US Apple user data, spy chief says

What a surprise! But they have still reduced data security for users in the UK.One correction - this applies to all UK customers and not just new ones.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/19/uk-has-backed-down-on-demand-to-access-us-apple-user-data-spy-chief-says

#IT #Apple #Security #Encryption #Labour #Maladministration #Unworkable

Comment: Farcical mass arrests expose Labour’s failings over Palestine

Yvette Cooper has overseen a brittle form of authoritarianism which, far from preserving the status quo, is fracturing it.

The Home Secretary is now reduced to suggesting that there are things the public doesn’t know about the organisation, which only she does, in defence of the draconian policy.

http://archive.today/2025.08.19-053244/https://www.thenational.scot/politics/25399762.farcical-mass-arrests-expose-labours-failings-palestine/

#PalestineAction #Cooper #Maladministration #Authoritarianism #TheNational

Creasy and Haine - fine words but no solution

Leaving aside the fact that as I understand it, Creasy did vote to proscribe #PalestinianAction, and #Haines could not vote - I am sure this just went through The Commons, didn’t #Creasy release it is unworkable. Incidentally, she voted for the #OnlineSafetyAct, so possibly thought is not one of her strong suites.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/18/proscribing-palestine-action-government-protest

Legislate quickly, repent at leisure.

#Proscription #FreedomOfSpeech #Labour #Maladministration

People talk about ‘laws of unintended consequences’ - I am sure that Labour (and the Tories and Reform) fully anticipate and welcome the consequences.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/13/yvette-cooper-solves-one-headache-for-justice-system-but-may-have-caused-another

#Cooper #Maladministration #PlatingThePrejudice

Starmer’s determination to cling on to the coat tails of the US (I am being restrained here) might have a few dividends.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/12/could_the_white_house_put/

#Maladministration #Encryption #Innumeracy #Stupidity #LawOfForseenConsequences

Wikipedia host loses challenge to Online Safety Act regs

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/wikimedia_foundation_loses_online_safety/

#OnlineSafetyAct #Wiki #incompetence #Maladministration #Labour #IT