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Oh dear. He's gonna have to give up his title of the Prince of Darkness. Soon he'll just be plain old Peter Mountbatten-Darkness.
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Alev Scott's "Cash Cow", a disturbing expose of the donor egg, donor milk & surrogacy industries, is published tomorrow. In this extract she visits Northern Cyprus. www.thetimes.com/article/1c11...
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
From the official White House account, not realising that penguins are Antarctica not the Arctic.
The White House also saying penguins and Trump have the same sized feet.
And helped you to get silk perhaps! Many congratulations.
Canada sent so many dedicated young people into the hellfire of Kandahar to help the United States.
Now they ridicule us.
JD Vance says he is tired of our "sob stories".
Trump says they never needed us.
Never again, America, Never again.
Being prepared to go to war with your closest allies because you were not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize does seem like the clearest possible vindication of the decision that you didn’t deserve it.
I wrote about their book - also well worth buying if you can get your hands on it - here. barristerblogger.com/2019/05/16/p...
A fantastic opportunity. Roger Dodd - joint author of the seminal Pozner and Dodd on cross-examination - is giving a 2 day advocacy training course at 4 Paper Buildings in April. Yes, I know $3500 is a lot of money, but it will be worth it. www.doddlawclinic.com/all-trial-cl...
This is simply a lie.
Labour knew precisely the scale of the crisis in the criminal courts.
Everybody did.
The backlog was a matter of public record.
But Labour’s manifesto did not contain a *single* idea to address the problems.
And then their cuts to sitting days made the backlog even worse.
Joshua Rozenberg on Geoffery Rivlin's "evisceration" of the Lammy plans.
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Child rape trial delayed after a plug explodes under the prosecutor's bench
Sparks flying, strong smell of burning, a lawyer lucky not to have been electrocuted
But in a sign of how we simply cope with terrible court decay, the prosecutor took a minute, moved along the bench & got on with case prep
For those of us for whom it's never quite the right time to throw things away, it's good to learn from this lovely obituary that Munby's room was "unimaginably untidy, like a scene from Gormenghast."
If this isn't Fascism, what is? This from @davidaaronovitch.bsky.social on the Minneapolis shooting is very good indeed. (And it's well worth a paid subscription to his Substack). open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
How KGB spy Aldrich Ames, who died in prison a few days ago, repeatedly sailed through CIA lie detector tests. www.thetimes.com/article/f9c4...
Turner/Constable exhibit. Only painting behind perspex so that you cant see it properly because of the reflection.
A condition imposed by the gallery lending to the Tate.
Presumably, other galleries are now refusing to lend at all.
Thanks a lot Just Stop Oil.
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
But the response of supporters of President Trump and of his administration has been neither of these. Instead, they have rushed to trash the reputation of the woman, depicting her as a “domestic terrorist” who somehow deserved to be summarily executed by an ICE agent who was acting in “self-defense”. There are also claims that the ICE agents in the footage were injured in the incident but are making “full recoveries”—claims that can be refuted by watching the video. An alternative—and official—false narrative is being created by which the ICE agents did nothing wrong, and everything right, in killing Good. This dishonest construct is one means by which the federal government wants to evade taking responsibility for what seems to have been an extra-judicial murder of a US citizen. Another means to this end is that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is not cooperating with local police for any investigation. By spreading falsehoods and hampering any independent investigation by Minnesota police, the federal government is seeking immunity for the violence its agents are inflicting on people in America. These tactics are part of a broader strategy to ensure that those with federal executive power can do exactly what they want, without any remedy to those affected: government outside the law.
NEW
Death in Minnesota
The significance of the reaction to the killing of Renee Nicole Good
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
In Gorgan, the military administration building is reportedly on fire, new footage shows a significant blaze. With Iran under a total internet and mobile blackout, only scattered clips are making it out. At this point, we can only guess what’s really unfolding on the ground.
Iran has completely lost connectivity, and no information is coming due to a nationwide internet shutdown
Still gives you the same hangover though.
Blog by my favourite go-to barrister @barristerblog.bsky.social , on the use of biased "experts" at trial. This relates to a murder case 38 years ago. Resonates with me re my current appeal, also Lucy Letby.
barristerblogger.com/2025/10/08/p...
We make it with honey that has seen better days.
Membrillo!
The Manchester synagogue attacker called 999 and pledged allegiance to Isis before being shot dead, the police have said
His tactics mirrored advice issued by Isis through official propaganda on the use of vehicles and knives, and announcing allegiance before death
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...
New post | On China, the Official Secrets Act and 'enemies': Is the Prime Minister wrong?
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/10/08/o...
The dreadful case of Peter Sullivan has had the attention it deserves. It was one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British history and I've written about it. barristerblogger.com/2025/10/08/p...
