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As with most members of the legal profession, Sir Keir Starmer would crawl through an open sewer to hear the sound of his own voice. No topic is too obscure, too arcane, on which he would happily hold court. Weighty matters of Human Rights jurisprudence, for example, or the finer points of the Equality Act. … Read more
Atlanta police attend a routine call at a fast-food restaurant where a man has fallen asleep in his car, blocking the drive-through lane. They establish that Rayshard Brooks has been drinking and handcuff him, but he struggles and breaks free, running away with one of their Taser electric stun guns and, reportedly, firing it at … Read more
Stephen King warns that a book publisher’s decision on Friday to cancel a planned memoir by Woody Allen is censorship. ‘The Hachette decision to drop the Woody Allen book makes me very uneasy,’ the bestselling author tweeted on Friday. ‘It’s not him; I don’t give a damn about Mr. Allen. ‘It’s who gets muzzled next … Read more