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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 1h

In fact of course they did raise taxes quickly on the better off (on private schools and farms) but that's been forgotten about.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 1h

I'll back tax rises, but it's so easy to say Labour would've won anyway without tax pledges, should've gone back on their pledges instantly and should "simply" do so now. If tax rises come I bet the government gets little to no credit from those who wanted them, just criticism about polls.

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Public Law @publiclaw.bsky.social · 23h

In memory of Conor Gearty, Public Law's 2007 symposium on his Hamlyn Lectures, "Can Human Rights Survive?" is available to read here: www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/content/dam/...

www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk

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Adam Wagner KC @adamwagner1.bsky.social · 15h

It has been quite a journey

www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-our-...

OPINION: Our pride at standing with hostage families as they moved heaven and earth for their loved ones - Jewish News

Adam Wagner and Adam Rose, who have represented the seven British-linked families, offer their thoughts on what impact the British government might have had on getting us to this day

www.jewishnews.co.uk

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LexisNexis UK @lexisnexisuk.bsky.social · 1d

As we marked #WorldMentalHealthDay last Friday, it’s the perfect moment to pause & remember that caring for your #wellbeing is just as important as keeping up with your coursework as a #LawStudent.

Take a few minutes to explore practical ideas👉 https://ow.ly/sOeW50XatCN

Three students sitting on grass in a park, studying and discussing law materials together on a sunny day.

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Pants, Manchester @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 1d

Yet another new [1] bot account from everyone's favourite library [2]. @madenlaid.bsky.social posts whenever a made statutory instrument is laid before Parliament.

A made then laid statutory instrument being one that is made - signed into law by the minister - *before* being laid before Parliament.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 1d

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Susanne Baumann @germanambuk.bsky.social · 1d

His Majesty King Charles III has announced that he will host German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender for a State Visit from 3-5 December. It will be an incredible moment for 🇬🇧🇩🇪 relations and the first State Visit by a German President in 27 years.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 1d

I think an important aspect of radicalisation on the right is that they now tend to see any public health effort whether public or private, and however mild, as controversial "nannying".

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, you're right about Paris.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 1d

"Giving reasons is bad..."

Imaginable that a Supreme Court in any other common law jurisdiction would do this.

What does that tell you?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 1d

I bet beer isn't actually at London prices! It's not in North West England in my experience, outside Manchester (it's got dearer, but not London dear). I think chainification means a lot of casual dining (e.g. Pizza Express, maybe Nandos) is London prices everywhere now.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, to be fair I suppose parts of Paris are the same.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 1d

And I'm in a relatively high earning household. If you have relatively low earnings it must feel as if London is really excluding you.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 1d

I mean shops really, I think. In some places I feel I'm walking past shop after shop that's beyond my budget. Restaurants too sometimes. I don't think the European cities I know are the same, or anywhere else in England. It does remind me of how I often felt in New York when I was there ages ago.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, this is London's problem. If you're not really well off, then for maybe 10-15 years it's gradually been feeling as if more of it isn't for you.

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 3d

I don't understand his implication that Biden, Trump or Israel could have done this deal earlier. Has Hamas ever before agreed to release *all* remaining hostages within a few days of a ceasefire? I don't think they have, till now. I think that's the key change from what's gone before.

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Sophie Pedder @sophiepedder.bsky.social · 3d

Despite everything else going on, France last night honoured Robert Badinter, the former justice minister who ended the death penalty in 🇫🇷 in 1981. He entered the Panthéon in a moving moment of national tribute that the French do so well

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 4d

I am pro-NATO because I am anti-imperialist.

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Russell Sandberg @sandbergrlaw.bsky.social · 3d

I am thrilled to sign a contract with @hartpublishing to author a book provisionally titled ‘The Life and Works of Glanville Williams: Writing the Law’.

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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 3d

Just had a tremendous wander around legal London with a visitor from the remote north, Mr. @scottwortley.bsky.social

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Carl Gardner @carlgardner.bsky.social · 4d

And with the early with-it PR and technology Benn.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 5d

Reading the judgment in Sussex Police v XGY [2025] EWCA Civ 1230, I come across this.

With the greatest respect to the illustrious panel, might we please stop writing like this? “Bar Council” doesn’t need to be defined. English does not work like that. You only need to define to avoid confusion.

Screenshot reading: The Bar Council of England and Wales (the Bar Council) was subsequently given permission by this court to intervene and to make written and oral submissions.

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Katy Derbyshire @katyderbyshire.bsky.social · 5d

Sorry to use you as a dumping ground, but I just talked to a guy who’s thinking about getting into literary translation by “using software” and post-editing. Because it would be too time consuming the long way. He was also unimpressed by my suggestion that good translation takes practice.

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