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Presumably there’s nothing preventing Trump standing for VP in 2028, whereby he could remain in administration but technically not president (like Putin when Medvedev was Russian pres). Think that is possible despite 22nd amendment Just thinking through how bad things could get…

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Since I googled “portable espresso maker” I must have seen about 60,000 adverts, videos, clips about the bloody things - every time I look at the computer I feel like I’m in an episode of Father Ted. “Go on father, will you have a cup of tea”

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I've enjoyed using the word pusillanimous since I first heard it used in Look Back in Anger But I don't think I've ever seen anything as pusillanimous or cringeworthy as Elon Musk's appearance before the US Cabinet www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Watching Severance while staying in a hotel with long corridors is… perception altering

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

When in Norway…

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Discarded bouquet of flowers run over on the car park floor Now that’s a valentines I want to hear about

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

This is very good, if you like pastiche of early Bowie www.instagram.com/share/BAFRmx... “Sons and daughters of paupers and kings”

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Walk home at midnight, bump into three storks looking suspicious in the park

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Really enjoying these daily updates: walking from London to New Zealand.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Unexpected problem of the day: the broken front collar stud

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

It’s painful to see the dark side of transparency and the social media attacks on the judges who dealt with the Sara Sharif care proceedings. Particularly when they - HHJ Raeside in particular - are some of most hard working, sympathetic, thoughtful judges. Scapegoating judges isn’t the answer

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Guinness Book of Records certainly is specific these days

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

James Turner KC (1952-2025): an obituary, of an extraordinary life well lived financialremediesjournal.com/content/jame... @frjournal.bsky.social

submitted 39 days ago • 9 comments

List of new silks 2025: kcappointments.org/wp-content/u... Huge congratulations to everyone appointed. I am beyond thrilled for Sassa-Ann Amaouche of @29br.bsky.social

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Apologies if this ruins anyone’s wordle But What are the odds of getting it first time?!

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

If any other middle aged men are thinking about trying out hyrox, this is how you feel after 45 mins

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

This pardon - for anyone who has read the brilliant American Kingpin - is insane. It’s like a scene from the Dark Knight Returns

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

James Turner KC was a titan of the bar - a specialist in several fields, reported hundreds of times, even up to a couple of months of his untimely death (below). A great colleague in chambers. Terribly sad. The passing of a great man.

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

I gave a talk last night about being a barrister at my children’s school. Their questions were all good but one was brilliant “What did I find most surprising about being a barrister” The sort of question you keep going over after the event. My considered response: how useful silence is in court

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

Hello Sunday afternoon (on Film Four now)

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a good line but imagine what Neil Kinnock, John Smith or even Tony Blair would have made of this material in Parliament. They would have had the backbenches rocking with laughter

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

It’s taken a year but we just had a breakthrough. Mackerel came to sit on my knee

submitted 51 days ago • 4 comments

This really is excellent and funny and humane, and also inspiring. A very brave man who was hounded to his death by the Russian state

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Beautiful cold winter morning sky

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Continuing the line of punning family case titles (HO v TL, GAvEL), fair play: this is a really good one www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWF...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

More suet cry the birds. More suet encourages the cat.

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submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment