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Alasdair Mackenzie
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Asylum and immigration barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, London. All views my own. Also left politics, climate, cats. @AlasdairMack66 on the bird app. @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social on Bluesky. He/him. đłď¸ââ§ď¸ đłď¸âđ ally. "Lawyers have hitherto only understood the law. The point however is to change it."
Signed this along with hundreds of colleagues. It's hard not to feel powerless, isn't it, but hopefully this will add a bit to the increasing calls for a ceasefire to stop this barbarity
Delighted to have played a part with fantastic colleagues in achieving this excellent outcome for these remarkably resilient clients. The fight goes on.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/25/tamil-refugees-diego-garcia-win-fight-against-forcible-return-sri-lanka
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/25/tamil-refugees-diego-garcia-win-fight-against-forcible-return-sri-lanka
Letâs be clear: most refugees âRohingyas, Afghans, Venezuelans, Syrians â donât fly, by jet plane or otherwise, they trudge over the nearest border on foot (or by bus if theyâre lucky) and donât make it any further.
Bravermanâs objection here is that a few have the temerity to make it to the West.
To be clear, the Chief Inspector of Borders & Immigration is about as Establishment a figure as the Home Office can get to mark its homework - a former military policeman, whose predecessors were ex-MI5 & ex-police - but even thatâs too much scrutiny for the Home Office.
Itâs hard for anyone outside the HO to imagine that the problem with the department is that itâs over-scrutinised or excessively responsive to external criticism, but that seems to be the implication of David Nealâs sacking.
Thoroughly healthy institutional culture at the Home Office in which if the supposedly independent inspector shows a bit too much independence, he gets the boot
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/home-office-suella-braverman-david-neal-excessively-critical-independent-chief-inspector-borders/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/home-office-suella-braverman-david-neal-excessively-critical-independent-chief-inspector-borders/
Home Office ministers refusing to meet their own Chief Inspector certainly gives you confidence that the department is being run well and has nothing to hide
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5ea4f858-5188-11ee-a518-203f78f24415?shareToken=85e19d6e7071adc3e045bbd081e25746
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5ea4f858-5188-11ee-a518-203f78f24415?shareToken=85e19d6e7071adc3e045bbd081e25746
Itâs becoming clear that the right has surveyed the catastrophes itâs created & rather than resign en masse from public life, decided to look for others to blame.
The next stage is going to be âCrush The Saboteursâ and âFind Us A Leader Who Makes The Trains Run On Timeâ.
https://mastodon.green/@adambienkov/111041013338457527
Adam Bienkov (@[email protected])
đ´The Truss Delusion: How the Right is Seeking to Blame the 'Global Left' for its own Failures The continued presence in public life of our most disastrous postwar Prime Minister, tells us everything we need to know about how politics really works https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-truss-delusion-how-the-right
Adam Bienkovđ´The Truss Delusion: How the Right is Seeking to Blame the 'Global Left' for its own Failures
The continued presence in public life of our most disastrous postwar Prime Minister, tells us everything we need to know about how politics really works
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-truss-delusion-how-the-right
Afghanistan's female cricketers urge ICC: help us play again
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/s/afghanistans-female-cricketers-urge-icc-help-us-play-again
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/s/afghanistans-female-cricketers-urge-icc-help-us-play-again