Former Premier League referee Keith Hackett said players are “exposed to injury” by delaying an offside flag. “With the introduction of VAR came the process of assistant referees delaying the flag to indicate offside until the outcome – either a goal or possession of the ball by the defence,” he told Radio 5 Live. “This...
Earlier this week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided at least nine restaurants in the nation’s capital, requesting proof that the establishments are not flouting the law by employing illegal aliens. Washington, D.C., presents itself as a so-called sanctuary city for illegal aliens, so the mere fact ICE agents targeted...
This story was originally published in at Prism. San Diego-based attorney Ian Seruelo received three separate reports in March alone about local county Sheriff Kelly Martinez violating California’s immigration policy. The California Values Act, also known as Senate Bill 54 (SB 54), ensures that local law enforcement will not cooperate with immigration authorities to deport...
The government will make it a crime to climb on Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square, it will be announced today. Offenders could face up to three months in prison and a £1,000 fine for desecrating the monument to Britain’s wartime leader. The Churchill statue is not officially classified as one of the UK’s war...
Getty Images Protestors at a UK Women’s March in Edinburgh in January, highlighting a rise in misogyny The Scottish government has confirmed it will not bring forward planned legislation to criminalise misogyny before next year’s Holyrood election. A bill has long been promised to improve protections for women and girls, but ministers now say there...
Foreword by The Bad Side The assassination of Basel al-Araj in 2017—caught on camera and shared, proudly, by the official Twitter account of the IDF—silenced one of the most fearless, inventive voices on the Palestinian radical left. He was thirty-one. A writer, teacher, and militant opponent of the Zionist state, he’d been in hiding for...
The group of 20 human rights experts signed the statement demanding an end to the “unlawful” deportations. A group of UN human rights experts has condemned the Trump administration’s disappearance of hundreds of men to El Salvador as a violation of both domestic and international law, urging both countries’ governments to return the men to...
Malta’s so-called golden passport scheme that lets people become citizens through financial investment is contrary to European law, the EU’s top court has ruled. The EU commission took Malta to court in 2022 over the scheme, which grants foreigners a Maltese passport and thereby the right to live and work in any EU country in...
Yesterday, John wrote about David Brooks beclowning himself on PBS, but I couldn’t resist throwing in my $.02 about Brooks’ idiocy. Brooks, as you know, is the archetypical elitist who firmly believes that you can tell whether a man would make a good president by interpreting the cut of a man’s jib. He let the...
Asylum seekers will be denied the right to stay in the UK if they have been convicted of sexual offences, the government has announced. Terrorists, war criminals and any other criminals whose offences carry a sentence of one year or more can already be refused asylum under the Refugee Convention. Under the changes, this will...
The left’s reaction to the arrest of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan has resulted in exactly the kind of freakout I anticipated it would. This is being treated as the end of America by some Democrats. Understand what this is: If Kash Patel and Donald Trump don’t like a judge, they think they can arrest them....
Cyclists who kill pedestrians by acting dangerously on the road could face life imprisonment under a proposed change to the law. Currently, cycling offenders can be imprisoned for no more than two years under an 1861 law originally intended for drivers of horse-drawn carriages. A government amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill – which...
Reuters Venezuelans who the Trump administration says are gang members have been deported to the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador The US Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to pause the deportation of accused Venezuelan gang members under an 18th-century wartime law. A civil liberties group is suing the administration over planned deportations...
Officials are in “violation of international law” by barring Abrego García access to legal counsel, the senator said. Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) was finally granted a meeting with Kilmar Abrego García in El Salvador on Thursday evening, just hours after he accused Salvadorian officials of violating international human rights law in a press conference...
The US embassy in Zambia has warned its citizens to be wary of a new “intrusive” cyber-security law introduced in the southern African country. The embassy issued an alert telling Americans “in or planning to visit Zambia of a new law that requires the interception and surveillance of all electronic communications in the country”. This...