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Claire Bradley

@clairebradley.bsky.social

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Legal academic, legal researcher and highly experienced teacher. Specialist in EU law and research interests in the history of the Bar, legal rhetoric and historical legal advocacy. www.advocacy.website

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Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 13m

10/10 for client care mind you. She was saved by her barristers thoroughness.

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 18m

That l can well believe : )

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 19m

l can believe it. That's an impressive feat of memory though! Chapeau to your dad

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 22m

lt was horribly confusing so l know what you mean. Painful is right!

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 23m

Thank you Stephen - l will look forward to that : ) And enjoy Greece

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Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 25m

The defendant was acquitted so her life may be said to have been saved by a shot...

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 25m

The shot- the grocers- the apothecary- the scales were all brought before the Court. They enabled counsel to argue (successfully) that no part of the arsenic had been used.

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 25m

They found that the same number of these different parcels of shots of arsenic varied more in weight than the difference referred to as detected in the arsenic the defendant had bought.

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 25m

Dan Brown and his colleague swung into action and visited all the local green grocers and took from various uncut bags of No 8 arsenic the requisite numbers of shots of arsenic and weighed them in the most accurate scales available.

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 25m

The arsenic she had bought from the greengrocers was weighed, and found to have lost 24 grains in weight.

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 25m

l was reading this story recently about a US lawyer called Dan Brown (19th century). He was instructed in a case where a mother bought a half ounce of arsenic from the green grocers, a few days before the death of her child. She was charged with murder.

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 49m

Enjoy! l love languages - when l was a kid l wanted to be accomplished (in the Victorian sense) and be able to speak seven languages. 3 left to learn!

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Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 51m

Unless you were trying to make it easier for wives to poison their husbands...a one stop poisoners shop.

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Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 54m

One mistake l did make was trying to learn Greek and Russian at the same time. Too confusing!

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Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 56m

When l was a kid l used to love the Asterix and Obelix books. l was trying to learn Greek and a Greek friend was impressed by my ability to translate one of the A&O books that was written in Greek. l didn't have the heart to tell him l knew that book by heart!

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Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 1h

lt has to be said that the Victorians were utterly profligate in their use of arsenic. You used to be able to buy it from the green grocers! l do not understand why you would sell a potentially fatal poison along with your fruit and veg...

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Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you, yes all good. How about you?

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

We found that the UK’s top scientific institutions, from the Met Office to the UK Health Security Agency, have inadequate institutional defences.

If an incoming government wanted to weaken the role of science and evidence in policy making, it could do so shockingly fast. 2/11

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 7h

This is a timely, excellent and important report on how "arms length" bodies in UK are vulnerable to political manipulation.

Kudos @chrischirp.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social for putting this together.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 10h

Being tired doesn't help. l'm sure once you get there you'll relax 😎

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 10h

I don't think it makes you sound ungrateful. Winter in the UK is grey and draining and it's often the bit before a holiday when you realise how tired you are. l'm sure you'll perk up once you get there!

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 11h

Lands End will do custom hemming www.landsend.co.uk/Hemming/co/m...

Hemming | Lands' End

www.landsend.co.uk

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 11h

How come?

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 11h

Frome.

Claire Bradley @clairebradley.bsky.social · 21h

You amaze me with some of the stuff you know! lt's quite the education following you. l was in the Uffizzi in Florence, which included a section on old instruments and thought of your thread on your instruments collection.