Atticus Finch KC
@atticusfinchkc.bsky.social
Lawyer, liberal, leftie.
MUFC, F1 and cricket fan.
MUFC, F1 and cricket fan.
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What to do about foreign talent?
A debate raged in the court of Qin 2,200yrs ago:
‘Important officials told the King of Qin: “People from [other] states who come to serve Qin merely travel here to cause dissension in Qin on behalf of their own rulers. We request the complete expulsion of aliens.”
A debate raged in the court of Qin 2,200yrs ago:
‘Important officials told the King of Qin: “People from [other] states who come to serve Qin merely travel here to cause dissension in Qin on behalf of their own rulers. We request the complete expulsion of aliens.”
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
What to do about foreign talent?
A debate raged in the court of Qin 2,200yrs ago:
‘Important officials told the King of Qin: “People from [other] states who come to serve Qin merely travel here to cause dissension in Qin on behalf of their own rulers. We request the complete expulsion of aliens.”
A debate raged in the court of Qin 2,200yrs ago:
‘Important officials told the King of Qin: “People from [other] states who come to serve Qin merely travel here to cause dissension in Qin on behalf of their own rulers. We request the complete expulsion of aliens.”
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Justice is still, just about, clinging on in the USA 👏
Breaking news: The ruling deals a blow to Donald Trump’s attempts to use the Department of Justice to punish two of his political opponents. on.ft.com/43NbWvO
November 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Justice is still, just about, clinging on in the USA 👏
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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Wow. Pope Leo XIV with one of the most eloquent and profound statements about algorithms, art and cinema you are likely to read.
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Wow. Pope Leo XIV with one of the most eloquent and profound statements about algorithms, art and cinema you are likely to read.
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1) No, it isn’t.
2) This is performative cruelty and nothing else.
3) The people you’re pitching this for will never, ever, ever vote for you.
2) This is performative cruelty and nothing else.
3) The people you’re pitching this for will never, ever, ever vote for you.
November 16, 2025 at 9:44 PM
1) No, it isn’t.
2) This is performative cruelty and nothing else.
3) The people you’re pitching this for will never, ever, ever vote for you.
2) This is performative cruelty and nothing else.
3) The people you’re pitching this for will never, ever, ever vote for you.
I have childhood memories of the UK in the late 70’s. There were power cuts and blackouts, uncollected rubbish on the streets, football hooliganism, National Front marches and race riots, and IRA bombs. Only three TV channels, limited overseas travel and the most exotic food was a Vesta curry. 🤪
The rot really set in when the woke brigade cancelled Spangles.
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I have childhood memories of the UK in the late 70’s. There were power cuts and blackouts, uncollected rubbish on the streets, football hooliganism, National Front marches and race riots, and IRA bombs. Only three TV channels, limited overseas travel and the most exotic food was a Vesta curry. 🤪
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It's an interesting Q as to whether if there was an indisputable smoking gun linking Trump to the crimes the GOP would have the guts to properly turn on him (impeachment etc...).
“In an email from January 2019, Mr. Epstein wrote to Mr. Wolff of Mr. Trump: “Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.””
Starting to see why Mike Johnson kept the House shut down for weeks rather than allow the 218th signature to release the Epstein docs…
Starting to see why Mike Johnson kept the House shut down for weeks rather than allow the 218th signature to release the Epstein docs…
"In one email, Epstein told Maxwell, 'I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.' He added that an unnamed victim 'spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned.'"
“'I have been thinking about that,' Maxwell wrote back."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
“'I have been thinking about that,' Maxwell wrote back."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
It's an interesting Q as to whether if there was an indisputable smoking gun linking Trump to the crimes the GOP would have the guts to properly turn on him (impeachment etc...).
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photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty
Congrats India! As a semi-Saffer I’m sad that Wolvaardt’s brilliant knock was in vain, but that was a great WCWC final. Some great bowling and batting on display, and so inspiring for young female cricketers.
November 2, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Congrats India! As a semi-Saffer I’m sad that Wolvaardt’s brilliant knock was in vain, but that was a great WCWC final. Some great bowling and batting on display, and so inspiring for young female cricketers.
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The chief executive officer of the USA is raising revenue through import duties without consulting the representatives of the people; exactly 250 years on from the start of the American Revolution.
Sing it, Alanis.
Sing it, Alanis.
October 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The chief executive officer of the USA is raising revenue through import duties without consulting the representatives of the people; exactly 250 years on from the start of the American Revolution.
Sing it, Alanis.
Sing it, Alanis.
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These maniacs are sad that advertisers are presenting black & brown people as family members, professionals and users of washing machines rather than iklwa hurling zulus, untrustworthy agents of Vichy, dockyard lascars in opium dens and double crossing Crusader infantry
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
These maniacs are sad that advertisers are presenting black & brown people as family members, professionals and users of washing machines rather than iklwa hurling zulus, untrustworthy agents of Vichy, dockyard lascars in opium dens and double crossing Crusader infantry
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Having said that, I am amazed that the USA has allowed themselves become a dictatorship. If there was any doubt, Bannon’s latest statement about Trump staying on in 2028, and Trump demolishing part of the White House to erect a massive vanity project should be a bit of a giveaway.
October 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Having said that, I am amazed that the USA has allowed themselves become a dictatorship. If there was any doubt, Bannon’s latest statement about Trump staying on in 2028, and Trump demolishing part of the White House to erect a massive vanity project should be a bit of a giveaway.
Wow, I seem to have suddenly got a load of followers. Welcome, all of you 🤗. Just to manage expectations, I’m not an American lawyer campaigning for social justice (although Atticus Finch is my literary hero). Brace yourself for slightly more British commentary than the handle might indicate 🙂
October 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Wow, I seem to have suddenly got a load of followers. Welcome, all of you 🤗. Just to manage expectations, I’m not an American lawyer campaigning for social justice (although Atticus Finch is my literary hero). Brace yourself for slightly more British commentary than the handle might indicate 🙂
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“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs
What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?
www.thenerve.news
October 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Thank you St Joseph of Cupertino! 🙏
August 14, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Thank you St Joseph of Cupertino! 🙏
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Not for the first time I am begging angry people to put the phone down, walk through actual streets, go to actual pubs, stand on the touch line at local sports clubs, browse Saturday markets, chat with ramblers on footpaths and rediscover beauty & contentedness.
Lionel Shriver tells those of us who live here what our country looks like if you leave it + rely on the media ecosystem of the very online right as a proxy for reality
July 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Not for the first time I am begging angry people to put the phone down, walk through actual streets, go to actual pubs, stand on the touch line at local sports clubs, browse Saturday markets, chat with ramblers on footpaths and rediscover beauty & contentedness.
This is next level genius. For those of you not familiar with the flag next to the Stars and Stripes, it’s the Apartheid-era South African flag.
February 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This is next level genius. For those of you not familiar with the flag next to the Stars and Stripes, it’s the Apartheid-era South African flag.
Happy New Year (from France )! Hope it’s better than 2024
December 31, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Happy New Year (from France )! Hope it’s better than 2024
I think a lot of people feel this. I found myself watching a Two Ronnies Xmas special the other night and realised it wasn’t very good, but I was pining for something lost.
Thinking about @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com's reasons to hate Xmas piece and I think the reason I have grown to dislike it is partly that I loved it so much as a kid - the presents, going through the Radio times, the food, the holidays....
..and now I just don't care about it and that's sad.
..and now I just don't care about it and that's sad.
December 13, 2024 at 1:36 PM
I think a lot of people feel this. I found myself watching a Two Ronnies Xmas special the other night and realised it wasn’t very good, but I was pining for something lost.