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Max Hardy

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Barrister | TV legal consultant (Mr Bates, Landscapers, Criminal UK, Defending the Guilty) | Legal blogger & media commentator | Kalisher Trust Trustee Blogs, lectures, podcasts, profiles here: https://linktr.ee/MaxJLHardy

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 2d

“so how about next week you try to be more of a bo-YES-bo?” - chimp therapist

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 2d

Hardy boy: How are babies made?
Me: I’ve explained this before.
HB: Yes, but where does it happen?
Me: What do you mean?
HB: Do you have to go to hospital?
Me: No, that would be weird.

Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 3d

Jilly Cooper was sauce. Now everything's just coarse.

Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 4d

A simply extraordinary thread which ends up as an allegory about the perils of discarding things that were made to last. It’s a crying shame how little value is attached to ‘brown wood’ furniture.

Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 5d

This could be a long and rambling thread. Be patient with me.

I bought an old mahogany bureau on Ebay. I didn't really want a bureau as we're meant to be downsizing, but it was a beautiful piece & obviously very old. Google lens suggests the brass chased handles are Queen Anne. That's 1702-1714 😯

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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 6d

In memoriam...

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 7d

Killing innocents never was and never will be a righteous act. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, whatever you believe.

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 9d

@barristersecret.bsky.social on a book tour

Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 9d

Nursery. Accident form:
‘Your 1yo was bitten by a friend.’
That is not an accident.
That is not a friend.

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 9d

Just longing for the ‘Do your spellings’ phase of parenting to end.

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 15d

Hamilton House of God

Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 15d

You should have said you were JWs.

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 16d

Told the older Hardy boys that we are taking them to a Scottish dancing class on Sunday and I honestly think they’d rather go to the dentist’s.

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 19d

This gesture by the French scrum half Pauline Bourdon Sansus is the most French thing that ever happened

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Stansaid Airport @stansaidairport.bsky.social · 20d

A very successful morning training the new Baggage Handlers.

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 20d

Piccadilly Polly

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 23d

Just seen a Substack note refer to Brunhilde as Broom Hilda and, tbf, it kind of works.
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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 25d

A while back, America parted ways with us because it found our politics very disagreeable. Perhaps the time has come to follow suit?

Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 25d

6yo: Maxie, your hair’s going away. You’re turning bold.
#SundayNightBlues

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 26d

May he defend our laws indeed

Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 26d

You know you’re living in strange times when Last Night of the Proms feels like the least jingoistic thing happening in Britain at the moment.

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 27d

Only met Conor Gearty shortly before his untimely death. Told him I was Catholic but descended from William of Orange's Lord Chancellor and Ulster Covenanters, he smiled. We are ALL humans before we're labels. Human rights are for ALL of us; whatever our labels. May he RIP.

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 28d

20 years of practice in criminal law has taught me that it is generally unwise to assume a motive for a killing before the killer has been identified.

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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 29d

Murder is never a cause for celebration.

Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · Sep 9

MAGA faithful perhaps finally discovering how much proximity to the compromised compromises. When you’re on the road to perdition, turn back.

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Sep 8

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ

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