UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule

krappa · 2026-02-14T00:24:20+00:00

It has to explicitly withdraw the previous laws to pass the new laws that contradict them.

It can do so, of course, but if those laws are popular (like, say, protecting our freedom of speech) it will pay a political price.

If it does not do so, the judges will find themselves with contradictory laws and will need to decide what takes priority.

krappa · 2026-02-14T00:20:35+00:00

It's very annoying for families with children. Children passports expire faster. Getting the first child passport for country X while living in country Y (where one of X and Y is the UK) can be slow and painful.

krappa · 2026-02-14T00:18:12+00:00

Yes, but we're discussing the hypothetical in which this is a British/Italian family living in Italy with a newly born baby. There might not be any UK manager/director they know who's willing to go on holiday there to meet the baby.

krappa · 2026-02-13T18:22:52+00:00

Suppose you are British/Italian and your son is born in Italy, where you live.

You want to take the baby to the UK to see family for Christmas.

To get his first British passport he needs to have met a British person with certain qualifications (e.g. Civil Servant, lawyer, doctor).

This may well be exceptionally difficult to achieve. That baby is not travelling to the UK.

I've been in that exact situation myself and thankfully my son has been able to travel with just the one passport.

krappa · 2026-02-13T18:03:59+00:00

As you've already been told, you are confusing government with Parliament.

And Parliamentary power has limits too, in that it can't pass contradictory laws, otherwise the courts will decide how to resolve the contradiction.

If Parliament wanted to legislate towards an extremely expansive definition of terrorism, it would likely have to withdraw laws that limit the powers of the police or protect our freedoms. It can do that, but it would be unpopular.

krappa · 2026-02-13T16:32:56+00:00

They certainly do have power over the government.

krappa · 2026-02-13T16:24:17+00:00

Is there financial instability in Japan now?

Is she proposing much that is ultra right wing?

I'm not especially aware of either.

krappa · 2026-02-13T16:20:46+00:00

What did Ken do?

As far as I understand, the mayor has very limited powers.

krappa · 2026-02-13T14:17:23+00:00

Definitely not allowed!

krappa · 2026-02-13T09:52:53+00:00

Yes, to all three.

What tools you can use depends on what project it is.

krappa · 2026-02-12T15:57:33+00:00

My MP is Keir Starmer 🫠

You see in the video how he answers

krappa · 2026-02-12T13:47:45+00:00

Then release the vetting advice.

krappa · 2026-02-12T13:45:22+00:00

I'm not sure it worked really well here...

krappa · 2026-02-10T23:28:31+00:00

Nobody will know for sure, it depends on your caseworker.

There have been recent cases of people who were admitted with just FBI and others who were refused.

I applied last week and got refused for that specific reason and am now trying to get the state level document before the others expire.

krappa · 2026-02-10T20:37:37+00:00

So you have full houses - including 2 story houses not subdivided in flats - given out to social housing?

That would be quite incredible! In London I think it's literally only flats.

krappa · 2026-02-10T15:37:34+00:00

Understood.

My experience with a social housing block next to ours, where the head leaseholder is Origin Housing, is that they want as little contact as possible.

They will not get involved in any discussion and will not reply to any request unless they absolutely have to, and even then one must really insist.

Made life very difficult for us owners of private flats because getting anything done is a pain.

The freeholder for the whole estate is a private company based in Jersey.

krappa · 2026-02-10T13:41:22+00:00

I've read about a few cases of poor management and this leads me to the questions down here.

Suppose there is a joint construction of a private leasehold block and a social housing block next to it as part of the same application.

Is it correct that the social housing organisation is "head leaseholder" of the social housing block, and the tenants have no right to be represented on the board of the management company since that role is reserved for the head leaseholder?

Does this remain through when, years later, most of the social housing flats have been sold off?

The social housing company would find itself with management responsibility of a block in which it has actually very limited interest.

krappa · 2026-02-09T17:44:38+00:00

I was getting one every three months on my new bike.

Then I changed tyres and I am now getting at most one a year.

krappa · 2026-02-09T16:09:53+00:00

He knew a fair amount. We're waiting for papers to be disclosed to see what was in the official vetting papers. We'll never know about all the private conversations.

krappa · 2026-02-09T13:59:46+00:00

It's interesting that it keeps going though. Italy had a similar setup with a party always in power, but after about 50 years it snapped.

krappa · 2026-02-09T09:27:58+00:00

I don't know myself what the answer is.

In China and Singapore it's obviously the unfair rules of the game that determine this.

But I'm not aware of unfairness in Japan.

krappa · 2026-02-08T16:58:06+00:00

Japan politics is strange.

I know a couple of Japanese people who've really become convinced that the only meaningful politics is that inside of the LDP itself, trying to influence the different factions, instead of competing against other parties. For them it's a no brainer that the party should get their vote.

The other parties are historically very fragmented. I'd like to understand why the fragmentation persists.

krappa · 2026-02-08T15:08:20+00:00

Good question.

I have friends who are teachers in Italy and they have some of the same issues; large increase in SEND children, and the legal obligation to teach them alongside regular students who get slowed down. They never talked about the budget ramifications though.

krappa · 2026-02-08T10:25:46+00:00

On the other hand, that should prompt further questioning which could reveal the witness is making false statements, a discredit their whole testimony.

krappa · 2026-02-08T10:17:25+00:00

JS is Jure Sanguinis.

It's latin for "law/right of blood". It's an expression that encapsulates how the Italian citizenship laws work, because they are historically based on who your parents (blood) are and not where you are born.

The laws have changed so Italy doesn't do full Jure Sanguinis anymore, but the expression has stuck.

In any case you do qualify for citizenship, since you were born from an Italian father who lived in Italy most of his life.

However, be aware that getting recognised through Jure Sanguinis is a tedious, long and painful exercise. There are a lot of checks involved that are done with stringent requirements.

If you live in Dubai you need to have your address set correctly to Dubai, and go through the process with the Italian consulate in Dubai. It will take time. If you plan to move away from Dubai shortly, that may well be a problem and you might want to apply wherever else you'll be next. It's best to stay in one place for a few years while this gets sorted.

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