Spare a thought for those who were on holiday this week and thus missed the entirety of Phase 2 of this government.

Not “activists”. Criminals.

The most unreal aspect of “Hostage” is that the British PM didn’t offer the kidnappers a state, regardless of whether she got her hostage back.

Has he told the Attorney General?

This is not a response from @attorneygeneral except in the most formalistic sense. It does not address, let alone engage with, any of our points. You don’t uphold respect for international law by dodging questions, refusing to engage or taking refuge in platitudes.

“The position of the UK government in recognising Palestine while hostages remain in dungeons in Gaza is shameful. That is a matter for your private conscience. But we believe that the Government’s policy on this issue is also a significant change from the UK’s policy as long

Justice must be done, and seen to be done. It’s not for ⁦@HMCTSgovuk⁩ managers to decide not to inform judges because they thought it was "more likely to cause more harm than good". The greatest harm is when people lose faith in our justice system.

A privilege to speak to the Holocaust Survivors’ Centre @Jewish_Care. “Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations: ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.”.(Deuteronomy 32:7).

RT @JUSTICEhq: 📣Speeches from Lord Richard Hermer KC (@attorneygeneral) & Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (@DXW_KC , Shadow AG) will kick off our….

To strive, to seek, to find,.And not to yield. #ENGvIND .@bbctms

“Inspired by Bevin, I call our new approach Progressive Realism. Taking the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. Advancing progressive ends by realist means.” (David Lammy, 9.1.25). The hostage families have made clear: the UK’s new policy means it’s less likely that all the

I think this is a shameful policy. But what’s even more shameful is that neither Lammy nor Starmer had the guts to explain this was the policy - or defend it - in any of the interviews they’ve given on the subject. They left it to officials …2/3.

“It was made obvious to us at the meeting that…in deciding whether to go ahead with recognition [of Palestine], the release or otherwise of the hostages would play no part”. Lammy, Hermer and Starmer are highly qualified lawyers. But they’ve each failed a basic moral test. 1/2.

RT @OneEssexCourt: Conall Patton KC is @TheTimes Lawyer of the Week. He is interviewed in today's Times following the 22 July 2025 judgment….

The Government usually tries to shut down debate by characterising political issues as legal questions (immigration, Chagos Islands). It’s now trying to argue that recognition of a foreign state, which has always and universally been regarded as a legal question, is only a