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davidallengreen

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Law and policy commentary from UK.

I also geek out here about lore and fantasy, which are my real interests, as well as about other cultural stuff.

I am often ironic and not always earnest, and so please don't take some of the things I post at face value.

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Wildly different circumstances, of course, but both Post Office and Afghan war crimes inquiries show how weak ministers are in their own departments.

Post Office ministers were fed false information, Mercer was not given access to information he was asking for.

And as parliamentary accountability requires ministers to be responsible to parliament, there is a huge system failure.

Ministers cannot be meaningfully accountable if they are given false or no information by their departments.

GIGO

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@mikegoatly I should read it

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@lionelb

Also true, and it should not be made easy for them.

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The remarkable witness statement of Johnny Mercer

How a government minister tried and failed to get to the bottom of serious war crimes allegations

By me, at Prospect

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/65403/the-remarkable-witness-statement-of-johnny-mercer

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@CGM

Colin, I link to that in the post.

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@KennyPark

Thank you Kenny

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Just filed my Prospect piece, on one of the most remarkable witness statements ever placed in to the public domain.

Up later.

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@KennyPark Will be about 4.30pm

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It is perfectly proper for House of Lords to insist House of Commons think again with certain types of legislation.

This delaying power is expressly part of the Parliament Acts.

It is not an outright veto.

If Commons in their next session pass same Bill a year from now then it becomes law.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/20/rwanda-bill-likely-to-be-stalled-at-least-till-april-after-seven-defeats-in-the-lords

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@mike

No, there is no absolute veto is the Bill is passed by the Commons again a year later in identical terms.

You would then be looking to the monarch to not give it royal assent.

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I hope you all had a good Spring Equinox.

Only three months now until the days start getting shorter again.

  • in Northern Hemisphere
    ** days meaning time of daylight
    ***equinox was yesterday for most people
    **** typing all these provisos out because someone on Mastodon won’t be able to stop themselves ‘correcting’ this post
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@DavidSteele

Yes, David, only three, else I would not have typed “three”.

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@riggbeck

"Lots of planets have a North"

  • the Ninth Doctor
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@yacc143

The equinox is still the equinox regardless of which calendar is used, if you think about it

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The curious incident of the Afghanistan war crimes statutory inquiry being set up

It may becoming obvious why the government set up this inquiry rather than its usual tactics of denial or derision or deflection of serious allegations

By me at Substack
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/the-curious-incident-of-the-afghanistan

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@chrisgn
I know, already corrected before you posted, thankfully.

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@MultiClassGeek

I think both come from the same underlying problems. The Roberts-Smith stuff is another effect, not a cause.

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@heiso

Quite - look out for next post.

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Remembering when Buckingham Palace was so unhappy with "edited" footage that it led to the resignation of a BBC executive

From 2007:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/oct/06/themonarchy.bbc

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Why the inquiry announced into potential war crimes is interesting – very interesting.

Me back on 15th December 2022.

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/why-the-inquiry-announced-today-into

Suggest you (re-)read this for background, for something coming up soon.

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@davoloid

Just after

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@GavinChait

Absolutely

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William Makepeace Thackeray on manipulations of royal images, 1840

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@mobbsy

Thank you for sharing - fascinating

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Putin and 'democracy'

Allowing elections where there is no prospect of defeat is far more effective for a dictator than suppressing elections.

It is basically saying: "look, elections will not help you".

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@glenatron

Thank you, I will look it up

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