Tuesday 16th August 2022

[refitman]

Morning all.

[refitman]

[AnatolyKasparov]

Good morefternoon all - it is finally a bit cooler and fresher in these parts.

[tinyclanger2]

Hello all

[AnatolyKasparov]

Hello there, a bit quiet today innit.

Everyone recovering from the excitement of Starmer actually announcing something yesterday, no doubt.

[refitman]

[RogerOThornhill]

Well, who'd have thunk it eh?

Rwanda asylum scheme: Warning over political killings before UK flight

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62566194

The court heard that FCDO bosses had asked the unnamed official, who had some expertise in African affairs, to look at a draft of the Rwanda "Country Policy and Information Note".

This is an official and public document on the country and its human rights record - and it was being updated while the Rwanda flights plan was being thrashed out.

In an email sent to colleagues on 26 April - two weeks after the plan became public - the reviewer questioned the tone of the report and whether it accurately reflected the situation in the country.

High Court judge Lord Justice Lewis was told the official had written in a covering email: "There are state control, security, surveillance structures from the national level down... political opposition is not tolerated and arbitrary detention, torture and even killings are accepted methods of enforcing control too".

Lovely country that we're dealing with...

[Sky'sGoneOut]

It's raining in Yorkshire! I just got absolutely drenched walking home. It was great.

[Sky'sGoneOut]