In response to some recent idiocy: NEW BLOGPOST: No, the Inns of Court are not biased against white barristers thesecretbarrister.com/2025/05/18/n... - ThreadSky

barristersecret.bsky.social • 9 days ago

In response to some recent idiocy:

NEW BLOGPOST: No, the Inns of Court are not biased against white barristers

https://thesecretbarrister.com/2025/05/18/no-the-inns-of-court-are-not-biased-against-white-barristers/

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ellinst.bsky.social•8 days ago

This DEI hysteria is a direct import from Trumplandia.

uttoxorthodoctor.bsky.social•9 days ago

Very good. Thank you.

stefanpaetow.bsky.social•8 days ago

The minute the byline says "Isabel Oakeshott", you can a) discount whatever's written, and b) close the browser, or, if you still do paper, move on to the next page.

jazzbagpipes.bsky.social•9 days ago

You can't really expect hacks like Oakeshott to welcome in a true meritocracy, though, can you? That would be very much a turkeys voting for Christmas scenario.

pollycurley.bsky.social•9 days ago

If anything I would have thought that institutional bias would have been the reverse.

lozzadarlo.bsky.social•8 days ago

Do actual journalists socialise or otherwise remain in the same room as the KGBeebies crowd? (KGBeebies cheerfully plagiarised.)

I don't usually do showbiz gossip but if journalists treat nutters as if they were journalists others may think that nutters are journalists.

I blame that Meghan Markle.

bad-faerie.bsky.social•9 days ago

Oakeshott would pull her own teeth out live on TV to get attention.

She'll not give a shit if the truth is the opposite of what she spouted.

She doesn't even live in the UK anymore and probably needs even more publicity to feel relevant.

Maybe she'll be caught drunk in the UEA and do some time

zakalwe2024.bsky.social•9 days ago

My main worry with your always-informative responses to these ill-informed clickbaity articles, is that the people who need to read them won’t usually see them.

flypie.bsky.social•9 days ago

Just poor people.

pollycomfort.bsky.social•9 days ago

Thank you for an excellent response. Sadly it will fall on stony ground, they’re not interested in facts. Can’t decide if they are ignorant, lazy “journalists” or cunningly creating falsehoods to inflame their base .

stevecyfrin.bsky.social•8 days ago

It baffles me why anyone takes this Oakeshott female in the least bit seriously. She is nothing more than Dickie Tice's latest shag who shot to fame by going into print and accusing David Cameron of face f*****g a dead pig because she was paid to.

Stop giving her the publicity.

vanresia.bsky.social•9 days ago

Speechless

maldenrosselle.bsky.social•9 days ago

Intelligence should not waver with these clowns ,

bradleysp.bsky.social•9 days ago

No surprise coming from the man who thinks you can grow concrete, and the partner of Richard Tice who now lives as a migrant in Dubai.

mantascox.bsky.social•8 days ago

📌

stephenswan.bsky.social•9 days ago

Well said .

bastardacademic.bsky.social•9 days ago

Who is this "we" she speaks of - doesn't she work/reside in another country these days?

marko12345.bsky.social•9 days ago

Countering their bullshit with facts and explanations…however they aren’t interested in that. They just want to manufacture outrage. They are dangerous people.

seaninroundhay.bsky.social•9 days ago

The Inns are all inclusive, they even allow rabbits.

simonfrcox.bsky.social•8 days ago

Omg and thank you.

wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social•8 days ago

Can you imagine being trapped in a lift with those two

notjobloggs.bsky.social•8 days ago

Ironic coming from someone living in the UAE where 88.52% of the population are foreigners.

eviwool.bsky.social•8 days ago

Oakshott and Richard Tice's move to the UAE Jan 25 mean that they have an automatic tax dodge when they have scammed their fortune out of the UK tax payer. Like Lincs Mayor, Dame Jenkyns, living outside your area, (in Leeds) means you don't have to sleep in the bed that you've wet.

notjobloggs.bsky.social•8 days ago

Plastic patriots.

notjobloggs.bsky.social•8 days ago

These lowlifes never let the truth get in the way of a bit of faux outrage

charliesweb2.bsky.social•9 days ago

Oakshott is a trollop and a baggage as well as an idiot.

eviwool.bsky.social•8 days ago

Georgette Heyer fan, CM? 😊

charliesweb2.bsky.social•8 days ago

Blackadder. 🤣

eviwool.bsky.social•8 days ago

😂

eviwool.bsky.social•8 days ago

I've downloaded a few of her works as free ebooks for my Kobo
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks?query=Heyer&sort=default&view=grid&per-page=12

ellis-redding.bsky.social•9 days ago

Is Oakenshott back from Dubai yet? Strange place to hang out for someone with her politics.

fsalt.bsky.social•8 days ago

Even Isabel Oakeshott needs to justifie her salary one way or lying from time to time from the land of freedom of speech.

theangelofhistory.bsky.social•9 days ago

Specifically for Lincoln’s Inn, it’s traditional for Pakistani bar students to join Lincoln’s because that was Jinnah’s Inn & I understand they still like to really stick to that tradition (in a way British bar students haven’t for a couple of generations) so that will pump up the numbers

dennispatton.bsky.social•8 days ago

The Oakshit bint is recycling Trump nonsense. She lives in Dubai... so she ought to keep her trap shut.

robertwoolley.bsky.social•9 days ago

Oakshott and the concrete farmer wrong?

eviwool.bsky.social•8 days ago

Reform surely know all this. They have to push their 'immigrants are out to get you' message so they can get into power. Their real aim, like Donald Trump's is tax cuts for the rich financed by cutting services to the poor.

peterjamieson.bsky.social•9 days ago

Kevin O’Sullivan and Isabel Oakeshott have an uninformed and unresearched opinion about something which they broadcast as a 'Just asking questions' piece - imagine my surprise.

caerdyddpaul.bsky.social•8 days ago

I seem to recall that ‘back in the day’ Gray’s Inn was the primary choice of Welsh barristers.. forty plus years ago we called it the Welsh Inn!

bertiebarber.bsky.social•9 days ago

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