Gareth Thomas
@profgaretht.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof, UEA Law School; Chair, Suffolk Law Centre; Exec Member, Law Centres Network; Founder, UEA Law Clinic. Posts on access to justice, employment & discrimination law, art, music, architecture, gardening, classic cars, Cymru, and NCFC 💛💚
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Gareth Thomas
@profgaretht.bsky.social
· Dec 22
Howdy folks - my first post on here, and feeling like the new boy in school - not sure where to go, or what to do!
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I've never known anyone who was obsessed with immigration who wasn't an out and out loser and an absolute racist bigot.
I'm saying it because it's simply not said enough.
I'm saying it because it's simply not said enough.
February 11, 2026 at 10:50 PM
I've never known anyone who was obsessed with immigration who wasn't an out and out loser and an absolute racist bigot.
I'm saying it because it's simply not said enough.
I'm saying it because it's simply not said enough.
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Wouldn't have got this response under McSweeney
Downing Street weighing in on Jim Ratcliffe's comments about immigration. A Number 10 spokesperson said “Jim Ratcliffe should immediately apologise. His offensive remarks are wrong and play into the hands of those who want to divide our country.”
February 11, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Wouldn't have got this response under McSweeney
It would have been better if I’d called him Old Frank, but 🤷♂️
February 11, 2026 at 10:59 PM
It would have been better if I’d called him Old Frank, but 🤷♂️
Will do! (Had my ears bent back on this subject many years ago by my then-colleague and dear friend, Mike Radford)
February 11, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Will do! (Had my ears bent back on this subject many years ago by my then-colleague and dear friend, Mike Radford)
Frank’s incensed and…
Meh 🤷♂️
Meh 🤷♂️
February 11, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Frank’s incensed and…
Meh 🤷♂️
Meh 🤷♂️
Oh FFS. Are there no grown-ups in No 10?
‘Due diligence vitally important’ in next top civil servant appointment – Lord McDonald
www.channel4.com/news/due-dil...
www.channel4.com/news/due-dil...
‘Due diligence vitally important’ in next top civil servant appointment – Lord McDonald
Another high profile departure from No 10 in the wake of the Mandelson scandal is due to be Britain's top civil servant.
www.channel4.com
February 11, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Oh FFS. Are there no grown-ups in No 10?
This is arrant nonsense.
It’s a challenge that can and should be fulfilled by the state providing adequate funding in support of access to justice for all.
It’s a challenge that can and should be fulfilled by the state providing adequate funding in support of access to justice for all.
Master of the Rolls: Expectation that justice should be available to everyone provides a challenge that can only be fulfilled by the adoption of new technologies and AI
www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69894
www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/69894
February 11, 2026 at 5:51 PM
This is arrant nonsense.
It’s a challenge that can and should be fulfilled by the state providing adequate funding in support of access to justice for all.
It’s a challenge that can and should be fulfilled by the state providing adequate funding in support of access to justice for all.
Disgusting racism. And shame on Sky News for not calling him out on it.
February 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Disgusting racism. And shame on Sky News for not calling him out on it.
Green seats too 😍
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Green seats too 😍
Playing the trombone while blowing your own trumpet has the makings of an excellent circus act (which would be appropriate, given the clown-show that is UKHE)
February 11, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Playing the trombone while blowing your own trumpet has the makings of an excellent circus act (which would be appropriate, given the clown-show that is UKHE)
Alternatively, you could follow the well-worn academic tradition of blowing your own trumpet.
February 11, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Alternatively, you could follow the well-worn academic tradition of blowing your own trumpet.
Please don’t put words in my mouth. It’s not a fine way to behave - it’s shabby, and callous - but it won’t ruin his life, and I doubt it will discourage people from seeking what are very highly paid positions, with the knowledge that those who fail, very often fail upwards.
February 11, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Please don’t put words in my mouth. It’s not a fine way to behave - it’s shabby, and callous - but it won’t ruin his life, and I doubt it will discourage people from seeking what are very highly paid positions, with the knowledge that those who fail, very often fail upwards.
Important work. Keep ‘em coming!
February 11, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Important work. Keep ‘em coming!
People discover they are to lose their jobs by hearing of it over their cornflakes every day. They may not be personally named in the press, but neither do they get a £250k pay-off and the inevitable peerage.
February 11, 2026 at 1:27 PM
People discover they are to lose their jobs by hearing of it over their cornflakes every day. They may not be personally named in the press, but neither do they get a £250k pay-off and the inevitable peerage.
Yet another deeply depressing dull, damp, dismal day.
It’s reminded me of my favourite Max Boyce line:
“Excuse me, can you tell me, is that thing in the sky over by there* the sun or the moon?”
“I don’t know. I’m from Port Talbot.”
(* For the uninitiated, this is a South Walian form of words)
It’s reminded me of my favourite Max Boyce line:
“Excuse me, can you tell me, is that thing in the sky over by there* the sun or the moon?”
“I don’t know. I’m from Port Talbot.”
(* For the uninitiated, this is a South Walian form of words)
February 11, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Yet another deeply depressing dull, damp, dismal day.
It’s reminded me of my favourite Max Boyce line:
“Excuse me, can you tell me, is that thing in the sky over by there* the sun or the moon?”
“I don’t know. I’m from Port Talbot.”
(* For the uninitiated, this is a South Walian form of words)
It’s reminded me of my favourite Max Boyce line:
“Excuse me, can you tell me, is that thing in the sky over by there* the sun or the moon?”
“I don’t know. I’m from Port Talbot.”
(* For the uninitiated, this is a South Walian form of words)
But people are, every day, and most don’t land on their feet like he will.
February 11, 2026 at 12:51 PM
But people are, every day, and most don’t land on their feet like he will.
Is that the Law Society or the Ritz Hotel?
Just asking.
Just asking.
February 11, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Is that the Law Society or the Ritz Hotel?
Just asking.
Just asking.
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Toby Young, Matthew Elliott, Daniel Moylan, Claire Fox, Daniel Hannan, Michael Gove, Therese Coffey (a Brexit convert), Paul Goodman, John Moynihan, Ruth Lea, Stewart Jackson, Michael Hintze, Charles Moore, David Frost, Theo Agnew; & now John Redwood.
Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.
Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.
Ex Tory MP John Redwood has been made a peer, as Lord Redwood on 31 January, and was formally introduced in the Lords on Tuesday
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Toby Young, Matthew Elliott, Daniel Moylan, Claire Fox, Daniel Hannan, Michael Gove, Therese Coffey (a Brexit convert), Paul Goodman, John Moynihan, Ruth Lea, Stewart Jackson, Michael Hintze, Charles Moore, David Frost, Theo Agnew; & now John Redwood.
Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.
Rewarded for the Brexit calamity with peerages.
I love this from him.
February 11, 2026 at 10:07 AM
I love this from him.
I like this suggestion, provided recipients are required to stick the gold stars on their foreheads for the rest of the semester.
February 11, 2026 at 9:25 AM
I like this suggestion, provided recipients are required to stick the gold stars on their foreheads for the rest of the semester.
The first house we owned - a lovely C15th cottage in South Norfolk - was disgracefully demolished by Tesco 20+ years ago to make way for a supermarket car park. I still mourn it, and take great care to avoid driving past there, because it would be too painful to see it gone 😢
February 10, 2026 at 11:40 AM
The first house we owned - a lovely C15th cottage in South Norfolk - was disgracefully demolished by Tesco 20+ years ago to make way for a supermarket car park. I still mourn it, and take great care to avoid driving past there, because it would be too painful to see it gone 😢
They should be bollocked for that
February 10, 2026 at 11:23 AM
They should be bollocked for that
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The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
This is pretty menacing.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
February 10, 2026 at 10:31 AM
The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.