juliedoughty.bsky.social
lawyer (retired solicitor; academic). Wales now, although still Australian. Child law; media law. Legal blogger in family courts for The Transparency Project.
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love the witty replies but disappointingly, the column goes straight on to look beyond 'Gwynedd in Wales' to New York and London
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I enjoyed Bridge of Spies, for example
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I would think the main reason is he's quite a dull unpleasant character - although a thoughtful re-creation of cold war days might be interestimg
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I would have quoted the post, as I did think it made a good discussion point, but settings don't allow
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PS. I wonder if there is any national monitoring of EPOs? My impression is that they are quite rare in London with LAs being able to issue care proceedings really quickly even in cases involving children not known to them. But elsewhere I think they may still be used to give the LA a week to issue.
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we went to one of his shows when he was in kindly old uncle phase. He drank from his tea flask intermittently. Had taken a visiting Spanish friend who thought it was whiskey! Benn famously teetotal
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oh I didn't think anyone expected much sense from her
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oh, working his audience, perhaps
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who? I don't know anyone who is
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it's a real place. I've been there
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'not often Farage is the sanest person in the building' www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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really! I didn't know him altho went to some shows he did in later life. OH knew him in Bristol politics - vicious
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he's younger than I am but seems to be making a career out of pretending to be a generation older. Kind of opposite to rock stars & movie actors
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"our western values" being a murdered woman and some other person desperate to marry
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he may not have said it. He's often misquoted. I don't recall him as cosy at all. He was really spiky!
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true, I had mostly been using an ancient keyboard and desktop monitor
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although I only quite recently realised quicker to adjust volume on F keys, so what do I know!
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ah of course, you can do that, but fiddly.
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I didn't know there was another way to do that - what do they use?
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obscure example to choose amongst the many different values
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oh and Bonnie & Clyde. Not great acting but seemed iconic
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wonder why the only one of those I got into was Man for all Seasons 😅 but not long after I did get into Easy Rider and Far from the Madding Crowd
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I'm confused by Vance suddenly adopting religious pro-life dogma in a speech about Europe v Russia. Conundrum for Thomas More!
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was that really the list? wow
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it now says "downplays Nazis" - ??
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I wouldn't describe that specific topic he chose as extreme (altho I agree it's wrong) but I simply don't understand the politics. He wasn't at church or a pro-life rally - what is the relevance to military defence v Russia?
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aargh wish I hadn't asked!
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if life in Mexico is better though, why would the US need a 'wall' to stop Mexican people travelling to US?