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The Lords Amendments to the Higher Education (#FreedomofSpeech) Bill were debated in the #HouseofCommons last night and there was a great outcome—Amendment 10, which seeks to remove the right of students and staff to sue universities that breach their speech rights, was rejected! 
Clause 4 of the legislation creates a statutory tort, which Amendment 10 sought to delete. The FSU's position is clear—the tort is what gives the legislation's new free speech duties teeth, and if it's removed then the Bill is essentially a dead letter.
🔗freespeechunion.org/higher-educati…
🔗freespeechunion.org/higher-educati…
Among the MPs who rose to support the Government's decision to reject Amendment 10 were John Hayes, who described the tort as "an essential method to give weight to the Bill and teeth to the principles it embodies, and one that gives voice to those who currently feel voiceless".
In my last thread for #Castlereagh200, I looked at how #ViscountCastlereagh's final weeks in 1822 linked to 19thC writing on what we now recognize as #MentalHealth.
Now let's return to the framework of individual risk factors for chronic stress. 1/
#twitterstorians #ParlHist
Now let's return to the framework of individual risk factors for chronic stress. 1/
#twitterstorians #ParlHist
Labour intensity (the volume, pressure, and complexity of work), and working time (length and unpredictability of working hours) are well-recognized in biographies of Castlereagh, so I'll zero in on a specific element: the consistent pressure on Castlereagh over a long period. 2/
It's difficult to capture the total demand on Castlereagh, but it is possible to establish a representative picture. I graphed the volume of contributions made by Castlereagh in the #HouseofCommons during each session from 1803-22. (full graph will be in the article) 3/
"Officials working in No 10 claim they have held back information from Sue Gray’s investigation into the partygate scandal due to a “culture of fear” surrounding the probe."
"Three sources told The Independent they have not divulged messages and pictures on their phones after a senior member of staff told them to remove anything that could fuel speculation in the wake of the first party revelations."
"Messages in a WhatsApp group were said to contain photographs of people drinking and dancing, as well as references to how hungover people were the next day."
Here are 10 reasons why @BritishQuakers the #HouseOfLords needs to vote down part 3 of the #PoliceBill on Monday:
'Noisy' or 'disruptive' protests will be criminalised. Most protests annoy someone! And most protests are pretty noisy.
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'Noisy' or 'disruptive' protests will be criminalised. Most protests annoy someone! And most protests are pretty noisy.
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@BritishQuakers What constitutes 'noisy' hasn't been defined. Which means the police can define it according to their whim. If they think a protest is 'noisy' then it's noisy and will be illegal.
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@BritishQuakers What constitutes 'disruptive' hasn't been defined either. So the Home Secretary gets to decide. So a government that thinks a protest is 'disruptive' can make it illegal, even (especially!) when the protest is directed at the government.
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JUST PUBLISHED: The 'Covid pass' Regulations expected to be debated by #HouseofCommons tomorrow (Tues 14/12) #Covid #Omicron #StatutoryInstruments #delegatedlegislation #Regulations #Parliament #scrutiny 1/ legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1416…
& here are the new 'self-isolation' Regulations exempting close contacts of Omicron cases from the requirement to self-isolate, providing they are fully vaccinated, under 18, in a clinical trial or medically exempt 2/ legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/1415…
So, the 3 sets of Regs we expected, to implement 'Plan B', are now published - 1 day before #HouseofCommons is expected to debate them all. This leaves little time for proper scrutiny. Read our briefing about the Regs & how the debate might be organised. hansardsociety.org.uk/publications/b…
re: #care cap in #HealthAndCareBill, procedural point is that gov is trying to make significant unforced policy change by introducing an am. to its own Bill *at report stage* i.e. *after* committee stage, when detailed #scrutiny is - in #HouseofCommons - supposed to happen. 1/6
#HealthAndCareBill committee stage finished 2/11, but gov only introduced its amendment 18/11. Gov may point, rightly, to fact that report stage is now 2 days (original plan was only 1). But this is no substitute for committee stage, when a committee can take expert evidence. 2/6
In these circs, when new policy is added at this stage, MPs ought to have the option of getting a Bill re-committed to the Public Bill Committee so the new content can be scrutinised in detail - Andrew Dilnot can give his evidence to MPs instead of/as well as @BBCr4today. 3/6
The #UKGovernment Torture Report
This is a very short overview of what the #UKAuthorities have done in the case.
#PraiseTheLORD #PraiseGod #Borisjohnson #Downingstreet #PritiPatel #UKParliament #Dailymail
This is a very short overview of what the #UKAuthorities have done in the case.
#PraiseTheLORD #PraiseGod #Borisjohnson #Downingstreet #PritiPatel #UKParliament #Dailymail
In 2005, I set up a business selling CDs, namely mixtape CDs after graduating from Uni.
In 2006, my home was raided & my business was stopped. They said the CDs I was selling were in breach of copyright.
In 2006, my home was raided & my business was stopped. They said the CDs I was selling were in breach of copyright.
It was a complete shock as the exact same CDs I was selling were prevalent on most high streets and supermarkets. They were selling in their thousands in places such as #Tesco & #HMV. And #Woolworths were the actual UK Distributor of these CDs.
#ThisHouse by @mrJamesGraham = brilliant play on #HouseofCommons in 1970s - streaming now #NationalTheatreAtHome ⬇️
Saw again last night ... but went as govt whip + #labour #whips in 2017 + met cast / playwright / sat in Speakers chair on set 1/
Saw again last night ... but went as govt whip + #labour #whips in 2017 + met cast / playwright / sat in Speakers chair on set 1/
As evident from play whips work x party all the time + am v good friends with many Labour colleagues.
However, #NationalTheatreAtHome live version on #YouTube is v special as original cast has my amazing stepbrother playing Jack Weatherill deputy chief whip 👍 2/
However, #NationalTheatreAtHome live version on #YouTube is v special as original cast has my amazing stepbrother playing Jack Weatherill deputy chief whip 👍 2/
Still time to catch #ThisHouse on and:
- celebrate #Harrison/#Wetherill
- savour jokes on Redditch / Leeds United
+ #Donate to keep #theatre going in times now, + in the future, when we will need them all the more ⬇️ 3/
#NationalTheatreAtHome
- celebrate #Harrison/#Wetherill
- savour jokes on Redditch / Leeds United
+ #Donate to keep #theatre going in times now, + in the future, when we will need them all the more ⬇️ 3/
#NationalTheatreAtHome
[Thread] Evening to those following #BrexitShambles. In part 2 of my @BorisJohnson Tweet Analysis (I absolutely refuse to use the term 'deep dive'), I have analysed approximately 900,000 of Bojo's Twitter followers. Why you ask? Well who knows what you may find... #HouseOfCommons
@BorisJohnson Of the 900,000 followers analysed (he has around a million), around 53,000 joined Twitter in July and August 2019. That's around 6%. You can see a clear spike at that time on the graph, well above the average no. created per month, and one standard deviation. What does this mean?
@BorisJohnson Remember, the graph shows when people JOINED Twitter, not FOLLOWED Boris Johnson. If this was a sample of Tweets in a hashtag, it would be highly likely that most of these accounts are fake followers or bot accounts, designed in this case to boost Bojo's follower base, and ego
001/ [article content in this tweet series 001-180 reproduced with permission from Martin Howe QC of Lawyers for Britain @lawyers4britain]
#quote "Leaving the EU on WTO terms: pulling down the barriers to world trade
Introduction: why prices will FALL after Brexit, not rise" /002
#quote "Leaving the EU on WTO terms: pulling down the barriers to world trade
Introduction: why prices will FALL after Brexit, not rise" /002
002/ #quote "Over the past couple of weeks, the media have been full of lurid scare stories about what will happen if the UK leaves the EU on WTO terms, because negotiations with the EU do not result in a withdrawal agreement." /003
#tariffs #NoDeal #Brexit #WTO #ProjectFear #shortages #food #medicines
003/ #quote "One of the most ridiculous and UNJUSTIFIED of these absurd scare stories is that it will lead to higher prices, and even shortages, of foods and medicines." /004
003/ #quote "One of the most ridiculous and UNJUSTIFIED of these absurd scare stories is that it will lead to higher prices, and even shortages, of foods and medicines." /004
