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Jan 16,, 4 tweets, 2 min read
TIL Franz Kafka spent 14 years employed in the Austrian Workmen’s Accident Insurance Institute in Prague; a pioneering official using state powers to protect & compensate injured workers. thenation.com/article/archiv…
this has brought me closer to Franz
one for the social security lawyers @MikeSpencerLaw @JOgilvieHarris
actually, 22 years says historian Robert Kaplan, scirp.org/journal/paperi…

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Jan 12,
Djokovic’s case *should* provoke outrage: people can be imprisoned indefinitely, denied moving around *on a whim* & have no real remedy?

But we debate how this normality should be applied to a special person.

What abt everyone else? Especially ppl from non-white-coded states.
This was not the exercise of a pandemic-prevention power of isolation. It was border control. The silence on such extreme executive power over the bodies of humans is troubling.

But not surprising. Australian Govs of all parties have used it.
Djokovic’s case should also be a teachable moment on the emptiness of “fair procedure” and “judicial remedies” in immigration.

He had the right (upheld by a court) to more time to make representations - but under a system where a politician can do what he likes. +
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Jan 12,
the problem isn’t Boris. It’s how hundreds of politicians, civil servants, police officers, the media, who claim to uphold the law and the truth watched *in silence* while hundreds of them broke the law

That system is just as open to abuse by Gove or Patel. +
Johnson has shown us that UK’s political system could not (so far) keep its standards and constrain a shameless liar willing to push colleagues into complicity.

How would it cope with a *competent* sociopathic autocrat PM? +
Politics is a magnet to narcissists & sociopaths. It needs extremely strong checks and balances, in a lasting structure to defeat and expose cheats & liars and constantly privilege transparent rule-following.

That should be our focus. Not swapping out one crook for another. +
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Dec 29, 2021
normally welcome recourse to courts by ppl saying vaccine passports illegal - cos shows commitment to democratic institutions.

But International Criminal Court such an absurd choice - compared to European Court of Human Rights - that this looks pure stuntery. +
+ anyone can write to the ICC prosecutor. It’s not a formal legal process. Which is generally good, but here signifies that it’s being chosen to avoid the scrutiny a case would get in British or European courts +
+ and if the “lawyer” representing isn’t qualified to act as a lawyer (not a solicitor or barrister, as seems to be case here) that also suggests your using “legal process” as a stunt, and not genuinely / seriously.
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Dec 23, 2021
Electronic tagging in UK for asylum-seekers?

Home Office Anon tells Sun its the cheap, easy answer to stop Channel crossings.

Tl;dr that claim is bogus - but lays the ground for massive extension of the surveillance state.

THREAD 1/
125,000 asylum-seekers in UK. Application numbers historically low, but pending claims high because Home Office officials refuse to decide cases, procrastinating for years instead of issuing permits to refugees & others they can’t remove. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief… 2/
Some asylum-seekers are detained. But vast majority are on “immigration bail”, a scare-criminal-sounding re-labelling of “temporary admission” by May’s Immigration Act 2016 3/
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Dec 22, 2021
Edgy comedians like Bernard Manning had completely lost the crowd 20+ years ago
Shot, chaser.
Merton’s Hitler Q was genuine.

Manning:
"I am an admirer of Adolf Hitler. Not everything about him, of course. I deplore his gas chambers and Gestapo as much as anyone, but I admire him for the things he got right, which I reckon was about 50 per cent."
irishtimes.com/news/racist-an…
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Dec 22, 2021
I first met Laura when she came up to me at court and said “I’m going to be your pupil” (barrister). And I said “but we haven’t decided who your supervisor will b…” and she was like “ok, but it’s going to be you”. And it was…+
+ showing that same vision & tenacity… (she had been a trades union organiser of garment workers in USA) Laura was a superbly intelligent and hardworking pupil, so much so that +
+ towards the end of pupillage Laura was poached to work on tricky international issues at the Special Court for Sierra Leone +
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