Colm O'Cinneide
@colmocinneide
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Irishman in London, Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at UCL. RTs not endorsements, likes may be just nota bene.
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Joined April 2013
RT @tonyannett: “A starting point, in my view, must be recognition that the Thatcher experiment failed: it did not transform the underlying….
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RT @SaulStaniforth: "They have to call a spade a spade and acknowledge that they are now dealing with an ongoing genocide". International L….
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RT @james_acton32: 🧵How much damage was done to Iran's nuclear program? . An analysis of Friday's reporting of the U.S. government assessme….
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Because such a guarantee would either (i) effectively keep the ECHR/HRA status quo intact in NI, changing nothing of significance & paralleling Art 2 of the Windsor Framework; or (ii) have no real legal effect, & thus be verbiage. The Report sheds no light on this key question.
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One small pojnt about today's Braverman/Prosperity Institute report on ECHR exit & the GFA. It says that Parliament 'would guarantee the non-retrogression of rights' in NI. But doesn't provide any more detail. Which is intriguing. 1/2.
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RT @NC_Renic: We forced a bot to watch 10,000 hours of academic writing then asked it to produce an article. It told us it would start ne….
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None of this was effective in Northern Ireland before the Troubles & the GFA. Which is why the Agreement recognises that external review by the ECHR of UK law & policy as applied to NI is a key 'safeguard'. Rewinding the legal clock back to 1969 is an interesting approach. .
Suella Braverman: 'Long before the ECHR was drafted, our freedoms were protected by a rich body of statute and common law. As Lord Hoffmann once put it, the Convention did not create rights; it reflected the common law. Our system was already protecting people from torture,.
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RT @BGM_22: It’s darkly funny that sci fi invariably imagined AI as pure logic machines and the reality is they’re hallucinatory language i….
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RT @ProfMarkElliott: The Prosperity Institute's report on 'Why and How to Leave the ECHR' makes for interesting reading. A short 🧵 /1. htt….
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Prosperity Institute and Rt Hon Suella Braverman MP outline a roadmap of Why and How to Leave the ECHR
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RT @MuseZack: I would love to read a general interest book about how pretty much every major world cuisine as we know it was completely rei….
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RT @Karl_Schamotta: Fantastic work from @adam_tooze this morning, expressing* a view I’ve come around to: to some extent, recent US financi….
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RT @AlannaSchubach: “…the viral potential of these kinds of stories is a warning sign that our culture is obsessed with shame, surveillance….
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RT @ghostofchristo1: Academics reviewing student complaints have a 3–4 year head start on the rest of the population in understanding what….
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RT @ASPertierra: I get that Lech Walesa wasn’t that old at the time of solidarity and that 1989 wasn’t that long ago but it’s still wild to….
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RT @_sbgrind: You’ve plastered this video all over your social media channels, taking advantage of my autistic older brother for views and….
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RT @PatBlanchfield: An 82 year old grandfather granted political asylum in the US after surviving disappearance and torture under Pinochet….
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Family of Allentown grandfather Luis Leon, 82, said they were headed to a Guatemala hospital to reunite with him after he was taken into custody at a Philadelphia immigration office and disappeared…
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RT @LukeTryl: Obviously it’s only a small handful of by-elections but the fact Reform are failing to hold by elections in seats they won ju….
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RT @MrBenSellers: One of the very predictable outcomes of Labour’s proscription of Palestine Action & the abuse of anti-terrorist legislati….
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RT @jburnmurdoch: NEW:. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment. I dug a little closer and a striking s….
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