IMO, there's also likely a correlation with bedroom and overall house size. If kids don't have space to study anywhere except the living room with the TV on, how can we expect them to learn how to focus? I'd love to see some data on that
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The silence is deafening bsky.app/profile/sund...
Are the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities about racism being ignored?
'Politicians must not ignore threats to racial equality today'
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If any legal firm wants to set up a fundraiser to sue Robinson for libel on behalf of Ayeni I will happily contribute. (Assuming he wants to sue).
'Robinson' should be fucking jailed for this. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
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I'm interested in finding a word that can be used to describe what people in less free societies really aspire to, which is mostly more about equality under the law and protecting the individual from the tyranny of the majority than any desire to make the electoral system "democratic"
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I feel Constitutionalism captures the spirit more, but that doesn't work in all context, so I'd prefer something like "Nomokratia"
The closest word that captures a bit of the spirit is "constitutionalism," but that only really works in the context of a Republican constitution
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The closest word that captures a bit of the spirit is "constitutionalism," but that only really works in the context of a Republican constitution
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Yes, but my point is the whole concept is missing as an ideal, not just the word. It would be nice to have something that can be emotive in the sense that words like "democracy" or "freedom" arw
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I feel that (or "Legal State") sounds quite authoritarian almost draconian in English, not something that the average person would see as an ideal. So I'd like to see a completely new word
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Thanks, Ian. I was just lamenting the lack of a term to describe a concept that is really outside the linear democracy-authoritarian scale and should be an ideal in its own right
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Important short thread by @patricklohlein.bsky.social on democracy & the rule of law. Majoritarian democracy without legal limits will degenerate into tyranny. Agata Gostynska-Jakubowska and I wrote a policy brief for @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social on this theme in 2020: www.cer.eu/publications...
Democracy and the rule of law: Failing partnership?
Lack of respect for the rule of law is not just a Central European problem. EU institutions must make defending the rule of law in all member-states a top priority.
It's such a pity that the English language lacks the term "Rechsstaat" as its absence as a concept leads it to be subsumed by the term "democracy" and never appreciated in its own right
