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Simon Cox

Only a fragment, yet it still stops you in your tracks: A small survival from Amarna, where art got radically, gloriously strange under Akhenaten. Dating to around 1353–1336 BC 📷 Metropolitan Museum

OH COME ON I CAN ONLY CHANGE THE NAME ONCE A DAY

Been receiving messages like those all morning. Buses are temporarily suspended; full suspension at 5pm. Schools closed at 11; many businesses were due to close at 1. The scale of the damage done is overwhelming. Please consider donating to Anaka Collective, a women-led support org for refugee women

You will recall, less than a year ago, British police were instructed to disclose the ethnicity of suspects of crime as an explicit sop to the far-right after their last attempt to gin up pogroms. Our then-Home Secretary, now Foreign Secretary, lauded the move. Do we think this helped.

You’ll notice the fundraiser is already at £40K after a set goal of £1K. This. This is our Belfast.

An Island of Strangers www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Blake's piece in full. I knew the general outlines, but Blake's piece has a meticulousness, thoroughness, and vividness that exceeds all previous reports. It includesinterviews with victims/survivors and made the UK reopen their investigations.

Ok I am now Team Starmer Must Stay

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I think it’s important to recognise that is legit for lawyers to have political ideas and support causes, and that that isn’t in itself a sign that they’re not independent minded. On the contrary it’s often one way in which independent mindedness manifests itself in my view.

Professor Dickson seems convinced that the CJEU would not strike down a domestic law specifically for the purposes for Northern Ireland. I'm less so. This is what it has the jurisdiction to determine if a reference reaches it, simply by its interpretative powers? 30/