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Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 22h

It's good to see when the Reform Party don't have it all their own way. All we need is one or two strong voices to push back against their right-wing narrative, and they begin to fold.

Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Laine. I know just how Bukowski felt -- it's an age thing 😂.

Once again, because I feel like it, I’m starting with a poem by Charles Bukowski. This one is from Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, and is called “316 and One Half.” I’m not going …

Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 1d

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Everything changes . . .

Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 1d

“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

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Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 1d

How the hell does Farage attract so much attention?

I start today’s post with a reading of Charles Bukowski’s poem, “Style”. (Here is a link to him reading it live.) I have a style: a style with my writing, a style with my dr…

Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 2d

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Style

Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely painting. It reminds me of Eric Ravilious' style.

This was the headline that grabbed my attention: “One in three legal workers planning to get out” And the first paragraph made this claim: One-third of workers in the legal services sec…

Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

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I hate my job

ANEMONE - Official Trailer [HD] - Only in Theaters October 3

Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone else a fan mrmattmccarthy.com?

Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

I can't wait to see this youtu.be/HVqoyMi98OI?...

YouTube video by Focus Features

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Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

I know the feeling . . .

Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

I've pre-ordered & re-shared; if I do win I'll pass the copy on to a friend of mine who I know will very much appreciate it. PS. I loved your performance in Tinker Tailor.

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Not all of us are but it's a sh*tshow of the 1st order.

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Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Rumpole of the Bailey's favourite poem ("...trailing clouds of glory...") www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45536/...

The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose, The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare, Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious bir...

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Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

So we can be pretty sure -- perhaps 100% -- that he never set foot in a court and had to address a DJ or a High Court Judge and yet he's now singled out 35 of them that don't fit his idiotic idea of how judges should be and behave. He's a loon.

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Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

I was going to share a Hunter S. quote but thought this much better www.sensitiveskinmagazine.com/hunter-s-tho...

Hunter S. Thompson The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved

Hunter S. Thompson's classic article, "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved," originally published in Scanlan's, June 1970.

www.sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 4d

Photographer Josef Koudelka Scotland, 1977.

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Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Love seeing this.

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Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Please do read this thread.

Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 4d

The judicial oath:

I [name], do swear by Almighty God that I will well and truly serve our Sovereign King Charles the Third in the office of [judicial role], and will do right to all manner of people after the law and usages of this realm, without fear or favour, affection or ill will.

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Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Wikipedia says he was a solicitor but not for how long. (I'd love to know which firm hired him!) For someone who was once part of the profession, he seems to have a very poor grasp of the law; but then again, I'm sure all the bellicose nonsense is to please his baying audience.

Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Jenrick, Badenoch or Farage. How the hell did these people ever get into politics? What does it say about the people who voted for them?

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Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 4d

Today, I'm deep into the murky world of dissecting online terms and conditions (...it goes with the legal territory) and, ye gads, I'm left wondering if anyone actually reads these things? I'm guessing not given the slightly specious nature of the drafting.

Right now, you’d be hard-pressed to find any good news, let alone anything that was positive. It’s bleak, dark, negative. It’s no wonder the kids feel so despondent. But then agai…

Julian Summerhayes @juliansummerhayes.bsky.social · 4d

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Doom & gloom