Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
Quite clearly we live in a post-legal/post-law country now. Obviously the requirements are that the citizenry do as the politicians wish, regardless of fact or of law or of any claimed urgent necessity. They are getting us acclimatised to government by press…
Wings Over Scotland
The Valley Of The Dolls
The first and most important thing to note about yesterday’s judgment in the Sandie Peggie tribunal is that it’s a very big victory. The tribunal found that Sandie Peggie was gravely an…
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Scottish Daily Express
Sandie Peggie told she can win appeal against NHS Fife as experts agree judge used 'biased' language
The veteran nurse is mulling over an appeal against the tribunal decision which ruled against her being discriminated against because of her gender-critical beliefs - and said transwomen can use female toilets depending on how they looked
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This blogger has started running the world’s most eye-opening cache of diplomatic reports—Venetian—through decent machine translation.
open.substack.com/pub/romanhelmetguy/p/venetian-report-on-the-ottomans-1534
open.substack.com/pub/romanhelmetguy/p/venetian-report-on-the-ottomans-1534
Substack
Venetian Report on the Ottomans - 1534, June 3rd
State of the Ottoman Court; State of the Army and Navy; Ibrahim's scheming; Barbarossa; Allies and Enemies; the Doge's illegitimate son Luigi
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Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
This blogger has started running the world’s most eye-opening cache of diplomatic reports—Venetian—through decent machine translation. open.substack.com/pub/romanhelmetguy/p/venetian-report-on-the-ottomans-1534
I do like how the ambassador called the Sultan “il serenissimo Lord Turk”.
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‘Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Poland are listed as countries the U.S. should “work more with…with the goal of pulling them away from the [European Union].”’
defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/make-europe-great-again-and-more-longer-version-national-security-strategy/410038/?oref=d1-homepage-top-story
defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/make-europe-great-again-and-more-longer-version-national-security-strategy/410038/?oref=d1-homepage-top-story
Defense One
‘Make Europe Great Again’ and more from a longer version of the National Security Strategy
A fuller version reviewed by Defense One outlines the Trump administration’s plans for shedding old relationships and creating new ones.
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A World of Hurt
https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/sandie-peggie-told-can-win-36378823
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@anyabike: The tribunal can reconsider a judgment of its own motion to correct a simple error. If the quotes attributed to the EAT in Forstater and the Supreme Court in Lee v Ashers were actually from other...…
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Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
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"Dr Michael Foran, a gender law expert from Oxford University, said: “The power that permits reissuing judgments is confined to correcting clerical errors and accidental slips or omissions, not substantial changes of this magnitude.”" https://t.co/VaEuSlfoIT
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Eastern Approaches—Alex Thomson
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As an indigenous person myself, I am haunted by the collective memory of Roman ships coming across the English Channel.
I cannot pass the ruins of an amphitheatre without hyperventilating.
I cannot pass the ruins of an amphitheatre without hyperventilating.
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