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Academic lawyer - health and life science law, ethics and manners @umHLGG Retweet not endorsement.
Maastricht NL
Joined May 2013
From Thursday, 1st September, I will start as a Professor at City Law School at City, University of London. I will also continue with a 0.1 FTE appointment at Maastricht University in my current chair.
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#Oliverscampaign
#SEND Neurodivergent children deserve to be given an education where they feel understood valued & accepted by teachers I have started a parliamentary petition asking for All educators to receive standardised training PLEASE SIGN & SHARE https://t.co/9ewdtHQ7gQ
petition.parliament.uk
Every neurodivergent student should be able to get the education they need. Many neurodivergent students are being failed and denied the most basic support, or adjustments at school.
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Can we please stop calling them “sewage spills”. Spills are accidents. These are deliberate acts of environmental vandalism. The cost of getting privatised utilities to clean them up will now be added to our bills. The water industry paid £1.4bn to shareholders last year
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I have informed the BBC that I won’t be appearing on MOTD tomorrow night.
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🚨Culture Wars Latest: Censoring UK’s most trusted voice on nature is shocking dereliction of BBC’s duty to public service broadcasting. It CANNOT allow truth on nature depletion to be victim in cynical culture wars stoked by populist Ministers #WildIsles
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Exclusive: Decision to make episode about natural destruction available only on iPlayer angers programme-makers
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This is dynamite from Kaveh Solhekol on Sky Sports News. Absolutely nails it. He has the Tories and BBC on toast. Well done!! 👏 Take 2 mins and watch👇#garylineker #ImWithGary #MOTD #ToryFascists
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The Guardian: “BBC suspends Gary Lineker from Match of the Day for impartiality breach”
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The Guardian: “BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ‘rightwing backlash’”
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Exclusive: Decision to make episode about natural destruction available only on iPlayer angers programme-makers
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The Bar Council said the attacks by Sunak and Braverman betrayed “a startling and regrettable ignorance” of the role of lawyers representing clients within the legal framework created by parliament. Reported by the @FT today - https://t.co/V3MwzsFDzA
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PM defends bill to deter Channel crossings as Braverman accused of breaching ministerial code
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The decision by the @BBC to cut @BBCSingers and make a fifth of jobs in its orchestras redundant will have devastating repercussions for the classical music sector and wider music ecosystem. I asked the Government to join the call on the BBC to reverse this decision 🧵👇 1/6
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At some point in all our lives we will be kept alive by a nurse. Morally and practically we should pay them properly. Yet my nursing colleagues have had a decade of real terms pay cuts - I support the #nursingstrike - it’s not about politics it’s about public health. Some say…
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💥 AMAZING by Chris Daw KC @crimlawuk. A must-watch and must-share. "To detain someone, without trial, without access to a lawyer, or the courts, and then deport them - it's abominable. The UK will become an international human rights pariah. There's nothing 50-50 about it." ~AA
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"It's a shame that the rest of the media has to almost follow the trawler like seagulls, an agenda set by the biggest beasts in the jungle." After Gary Lineker was criticised for saying that the government's language around migration is similar to the language used in 1930s
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It is important that people who have a voice speak up about this appalling & corrupt government. So it's wonderful to see the love and support for @GaryLineker today 👍🏼👏🏼❤️ As for the Illegal Immigration Bill....I read it as the Immigration Bill which is in itself illegal🤔
I have never known such love and support in my life than I’m getting this morning (England World Cup goals aside, possibly). I want to thank each and every one of you. It means a lot. I’ll continue to try and speak up for those poor souls that have no voice. Cheers all. 👊🏻
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Mark your calendars for the launch of Dr Cassandra Wiener's new book, 'Coercive Control and the Criminal Law', on 23rd March 2023 at 5:30pm in The City Law School Building: https://t.co/5eSQRklPEi
@CassandraWiener @NewsfromCity @David_Challen
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Braverman's 'Illegal Migration Bill' breaks international law, fails to protect vulnerable lives, spreads fear & misrepresents the truth. It is a nasty, divisive, unworkable & morally abhorrent attack on our values. It must be stopped. Me for @MetroUK 👇 https://t.co/MOp6C9oU8J
metro.co.uk
Let’s be clear, this is a truly grotesque and unworkable plan – and it must be stopped.
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Why must everything of quality be destroyed? BBC Singers to close in corporation’s ‘major review of classical music’
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