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‘I’m not a quitter’: bank trader vows to continue fight after losing Libor appeal

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 27 March, 2024

Tom Hayes, first banker to be convicted in 2012 rate-rigging scandal, had his case rejected by UK court of appeal

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Tom Hayes, the first banker to be convicted over the Libor interest rate scandal, has said he is “not a quitter” and vowed to continue his near-10-year battle to clear his name after losing an appeal.

Hayes and another former banker, Carlo Palombo, had their convictions considered by the court of appeal in London in a three-day hearing. On Wednesday, it rejected their cases.

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I’m a Garrick member. The exclusion of women is the opposite of liberal. It is out of date and wrong | Simon Jenkins

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 27 March, 2024

I feel strongly that any association of citizens in a free society should be allowed to make its own rules. But this ban is absurd

Do clubs matter? Yes, to their members, and clearly yes to those they exclude. When Alexis de Tocqueville compared American democracy with British, he said America’s roots were in the mob and Britain’s in the club. Americans vote for a president who doesn’t sit in Congress. Britons vote for a member of parliament, a tight-knit Westminster club.

The revived argument over London’s Garrick Club would have been music to De Tocqueville’s ears. Here we go again, a gang of London elitists ruling the land from a Covent Garden palace untainted by plebs or women. And this in the 21st century. Give us a break.

Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist

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[ReTweet] Once again; loud and slow for the people at the back: COOKIE #POPUPS DID NOT COME FROM THE #GDPR.

Mathias Poujol-Rost ✅ • 12 May, 2022 edit

#Cookie popups came from the #adtech industry’s disinclination to comply with #ePrivacy #law and make it so annoying to avoid #surveillance #advertising that people wouldn’t bother

[ Hastags added ; Via https://mobile.twitter.com/MissIG_Geek/status/1524353593385574400 ]

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Mathias Poujol-Rost ✅ • 10 December, 2021

The global push for #law #enforcement to have #access to the large #amounts of #data from our #devices…

Privacy International (@privacyint@mastodon.xyz)

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Illinois judge bars mother from seeing son until she’s vaccinated against COVID

Tim De Chant • news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica • 30 August, 2021

Closeup shot of a judge holding a gavel.

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A judge in Illinois has stripped visitation rights from an 11-year-old boy’s mother because she has not been vaccinated against COVID-19.

Earlier this month, at a child support hearing held over Zoom, Cook County Circuit Court Judge James Shapiro asked if Rebecca Firlit, the boy’s mother, had received the vaccine. She replied that she had not.

The judge said that until Firlit receives the vaccine, she cannot see her son in person, according to a report in the Chicago Sun-Times . Since the hearing, her interactions with him have been limited to phone calls and care packages. It’s unclear what prompted Shapiro to ask the question, and the Cook County clerk’s website was down for maintenance at the time of publication.

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