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Paul Bernal

@paulbernal.bsky.social wrld.org
Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite. Expect herons.
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Paul Bernal 6h

So what Burnham’s Brexit deal means is that your breakfast will be better quality? Glad to see the Telegraph finally coming out against Brexit.

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Paul Bernal 23h

OK, 10 years and six months is pretty much what I expected. And remember there are other offences still being investigated: Brand will not be let out for a long time.

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Paul Bernal 2d

Paris. The French seem to be more aware of the need for the BBC - and the need to solve its problems - than we are in the UK.

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Paul Bernal 5d

Brand in jail. Danny Tommo on remand. Yaxley-Lennon awaiting sentencing. The Tates in jail awaiting extradition.

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Paul Bernal 7d

Labour supporters were lambasting the Greens for stupid, gesture politics last month. This immigration policy is every bit as much stupid, gesture politics, with the added effect of actual harm to many, many people.

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Paul Bernal 1w

The real risk is not that Rupert Lowe will ever be in a position to implement his deeply racist policies, but that other parties will imitate them. Including the government.

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Paul Bernal 2w

It’s not ‘wrong’ to ‘reopen’ Brexit debates. It’s wrong to treat terrible decisions as irreversible.

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Paul Bernal 2w

I’m all for preparedness for war, but making ourselves dependent on technologies and companies in cahoots with potential enemies isn’t the most obvious choice.

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Paul Bernal 2w

Raptors. There are vastly more red kites, a good few more peregrine falcons, and a fair number more buzzards than in my childhood. Conservation has really worked.

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Paul Bernal 3w

Trump may or may not be a Russian asset. It doesn’t really matter: he acts like a Russian asset.

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Paul Bernal 4w

The whole process of the privatisation of water should be a cautionary tale.

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Paul Bernal 4w

Your irregular reminder that a key driver in Boris Johnson’s otherwise admirable support for Ukraine may have been to distract everyone from his close ties to Russia.

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