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Husband, father, solicitor with a focus on personal injury. Wide and varied interests, but generally happiest sharing a great bottle of wine with family and friends.
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JUST A REMINDER ... ... of how close we are today ...

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Also - the claim that the ECHR makes it 'impossible' to deport foreign criminals and terrorists is false - the issue is whether it would breach human rights in individual cases. For instance, over 3500 foreign national offenders were deported in 2022-3: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Reform party MPs at a protest by Conservative MPs, who were demonstrating against something that featured in their own 2017 manifesto.

An excoriating analysis of the dire state of the US Supreme Court, by Lord Sumption, former UK Supreme Court Justice and Honorary Fellow of Magdalen. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/north-...

I watch politics closely and I couldn't give you one sentence on what ANY Tory contender thinks about the economy, or housing, or industrial policy. They only speak of, compete on, and will be defined by one issue. Whoever wins, Farage's takeover is complete. They allowed him to define the contest.

Watched the final 2 episodes of Douglas Is Cancelled. Superb. Reviewers appear to have been provided with the first 2 episodes only, an amusing skewering of modern manners and generational differences. Stick with it. 3 (agonising, brilliant) and 4 fire it in an entirely different direction. Wow.

Well hello Bluesky!