Today I shall be doing my very best to go about my day with ‘a lightness and a joy…’ that you would all expect
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I’m no American constitutionalist, but I’m going to suggest a first year law student would get laughed at if they came up with this guff.
Has it really come to this? 🤦‍♂️

Thus far I have been struck by the altogether underwhelming, unremarkable and frankly pedestrian quality of POL’s senior executives and their legal counsel.
Each contributing in their own way to one of the most grotesque miscarriages of justice in legal history.

I’ve never previously been a fan of nationalised industries.
But I might well have changed my mind.
My only gripe: I’d start with the water companies (and I wouldn’t wait 5 years). bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

This is all slightly surreal. Call an election, and then maybe we can talk about these things? 🤔 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

This is frankly scandalous.
It is the choice this government has made.

Perhaps these public buildings could be repurposed and called a Court? And maybe they could be next to the ones Ministry of Justice sold off over the last 10 years? Just a thought 🤨

An important day at #PostOfficeInquiry as Susan Crichton’s name comes up a lot.

“After so many setbacks, the passing of the bill was a political win for Rishi Sunak….”

But in every other way it represents a complete failure: the reputational damage; the absurdity of Parliament asserting that which isn’t true; the grotesque cost. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

“Voters are realistic enough not to expect a Labour government to be a congregation of saints, but they already look at the Tories as a cesspit of sinners….”

Excellent commentary by ⁦Andrew Rawnsley⁩ on the pros and cons of the Angela Rayner affair theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

There will be no immediate by-election.

Shameful. Pretty much sums up this government. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…

I was on The Bar Council when Liz Truss LC failed to support the judges. Robert Buckland attended the meeting as attorney or solicitor general and tried to justify her stance. We indicated if she didn’t support the judges we would pass a motion of no confidence. She then spoke up.

While the Tories have been pressurising Greater Manchester Police to investigate Angela Rayner 🌹 over a possible £1,500 unpaid tax bill …

They have been sitting in an allegation that one of their MPs has stolen over £20,000 from Party funds (£14,000 + the £6,500 ‘ransom’?)

We have reached that ‘David Mellor’ moment. A scandal so improbable, it has to be true.
It’s a point that all Tory Governments reach shortly before being swept from office for 10 years.
It is time 🤦‍♂️

“Knowing what I now know about Horizon and the way it was used to wrongly prosecute and bring civil claims against sub-postmasters, I very much regret not reading the expert's report and counsel's advice…”

So just massively incompetent not corrupt? 🤔 bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

The inalienable right of jurors to acquit for any damn reason they wish. Let us hope that right is not forgotten here. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/6570…