Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Tommy Robinson Wins Appeal, And Other Stories

British right-wing activist Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, has won an appeal against a contempt of court ruling which was handed down this past May at Leed's Crown Court.  The Court of Appeal ruled that the lower court's ruling had been "flawed", and directed that the case be reheard.  Robinson has been released on bail.

Read more at BBC News, The Sun, the Independent, The Guardian and the Daily Star.
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In other stories:


From Russia Today, South Africa will change their constitution to legalize the uncompensated confiscation of white farmers' land.


From the Express, a former Downing Street Chief Communications Secretary gives his "dark horse" choice to succeed U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May.



From VRT, over 130,000 non-Belgians are registered to vote in Belgian municipal elections.  (Some Californians would say, "That's a problem, how?")




From The Daily Star, an anti-blasphemy party did surprisingly well in Pakistan's recent elections.  (TDS is a Bangla Deshi site, not to be confused with the similarly named British site linked above with respect to the story on Tommy Robinson.)





From Arutz Sheva, IDF troops capture terrorists who launched a shooting attack near Bet El.  (H/T Gadi Adelman for the Tweet)











From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Washington Redskins (and former Virginia Tech) cornerback DeAngelo Hall holds his retirement conference.

And from the Babylon Bee, a man identifies as a woman and gets an immediate 23 percent pay cut.  (That gender gap will get after you.)

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