Sean Jones KC
@seanjones.org
King’s Counsel. Serious about Law, but only about Law.
General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook.
Trustee of FRU
Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board
Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal.
General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook.
Trustee of FRU
Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board
Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal.
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Sean Jones KC
@seanjones.org
· Oct 6
Announcing @billablehour.bsky.social's very first Halloween T-shirt by the fabulous @soengery.bsky.social. Links in the reply. Also available in extra Goth.
As usual, all proceeds go to @savechildrenuk.bsky.social /1
As usual, all proceeds go to @savechildrenuk.bsky.social /1
There are lots of good reasons to charge people in expensive homes more tax, principally all the good the revenue can do. But if you want to help those struggling to buy at all you need to build more affordable homes.
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
There are lots of good reasons to charge people in expensive homes more tax, principally all the good the revenue can do. But if you want to help those struggling to buy at all you need to build more affordable homes.
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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This #buyastrangerabook day offer is still unclaimed.
@tadethompson.bsky.social is offering to buy two people a book each of their choice, up to £15!
So, if there's something in particular you'd like, just get in touch.
UK only.
@tadethompson.bsky.social is offering to buy two people a book each of their choice, up to £15!
So, if there's something in particular you'd like, just get in touch.
UK only.
IT'S WEDNESDAY!
It's #buyastrangerabook day.
The grooviest of all the days.
I'll give out TWO books.
FOR FREE.
If you'd like one, let me know.
Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.
It's a thing! Look.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
UK only.
It's #buyastrangerabook day.
The grooviest of all the days.
I'll give out TWO books.
FOR FREE.
If you'd like one, let me know.
Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.
It's a thing! Look.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
UK only.
Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This #buyastrangerabook day offer is still unclaimed.
@tadethompson.bsky.social is offering to buy two people a book each of their choice, up to £15!
So, if there's something in particular you'd like, just get in touch.
UK only.
@tadethompson.bsky.social is offering to buy two people a book each of their choice, up to £15!
So, if there's something in particular you'd like, just get in touch.
UK only.
I can't and don't comment on the specific case, but I would like to say that I remember 2005 tolerably well and it was not a time when racial epithets were just nice harmless linguistic colour.
Nigel Farage asked about Reform MS Laura Anne Jones (who the Senedd Commissioner found had used a racist term in a staff WhatsApp chat in August 2023 while discussing TikTok writing: “No chinky spies for me.”)
"Well, she used a word that colloquially, probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago."
"Well, she used a word that colloquially, probably was meant in a nice way 20 years ago."
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I can't and don't comment on the specific case, but I would like to say that I remember 2005 tolerably well and it was not a time when racial epithets were just nice harmless linguistic colour.
I have to tell you now, no such reassurance has been received …
November 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I have to tell you now, no such reassurance has been received …
I trust Zelensky will have the good manners to thank Witkoff for explaining to the Russians that the only way there will be peace is if UKR hands over Donetsk.
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I trust Zelensky will have the good manners to thank Witkoff for explaining to the Russians that the only way there will be peace is if UKR hands over Donetsk.
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Trump envoy reportedly told Kremlin official that Ukraine must cede land for peace deal
Trump envoy reportedly told Kremlin official that Ukraine must cede land for peace deal
Steve Witkoff told Yuri Ushakov in October phone call that peace would require Russia gaining control of Donetsk
Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff told a senior Kremlin official last month that achieving peace in Ukraine would require Russia gaining control of Donetsk and potentially a separate territorial exchange, according to a recording of their conversation obtained by Bloomberg.
In the 14 October phone call with Yuri Ushakov, the top foreign policy aide to Russian president Vladimir Putin, Witkoff said he believed the land concessions were necessary all while advising Ushakov to congratulate Trump and frame discussions more optimistically. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Trump envoy reportedly told Kremlin official that Ukraine must cede land for peace deal
I was idly looking out of the train window when we went into a tunnel, the window became a mirror and the reflection meant my eyes met those of a fellow commuter. Now I have to go and live on Mars with Elon Musk.
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I was idly looking out of the train window when we went into a tunnel, the window became a mirror and the reflection meant my eyes met those of a fellow commuter. Now I have to go and live on Mars with Elon Musk.
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I’m 60, and a professor. HE will probably survive just about long enough to take me to retirement, but not much longer. A kind of ‘merrie old England’ version of Oxbridge will survive, but the rest will be unrecognisable in a decade or so.
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I’m 60, and a professor. HE will probably survive just about long enough to take me to retirement, but not much longer. A kind of ‘merrie old England’ version of Oxbridge will survive, but the rest will be unrecognisable in a decade or so.
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Despite endemic delays in the criminal justice system, the High Court has said that a judge at a busy London court should not have ordered a defendant to be held in custody for five months beyond the statutory time limit.
rozenberg.substack.com/p/the-laws-d...
rozenberg.substack.com/p/the-laws-d...
The law’s delays
If custody time limits can easily be extended, what’s the point of having them?
rozenberg.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Despite endemic delays in the criminal justice system, the High Court has said that a judge at a busy London court should not have ordered a defendant to be held in custody for five months beyond the statutory time limit.
rozenberg.substack.com/p/the-laws-d...
rozenberg.substack.com/p/the-laws-d...
My iPad is updating 115 apps. There is one I really need to open. We are now left with 12 to go. The App I need is still not updating.
November 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
My iPad is updating 115 apps. There is one I really need to open. We are now left with 12 to go. The App I need is still not updating.
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Buy Lev's books for Christmas. Or for any other reason. They are very good indeed.
Every year I stop myself from posting “now look here you lot, my books would make an excellent Christmas present” in October because it’s way too early, and then I forget until it’s way too late.
Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
Hope I’ve hit the sweet spot this time.
levparikian.com/index.php/sh...
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Buy Lev's books for Christmas. Or for any other reason. They are very good indeed.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
Rubio: The peace plan was developed with UKR input.
Which was?
Rubio: They shouted “FFS” and flipped the table.
Which was?
Rubio: They shouted “FFS” and flipped the table.
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Rubio: The peace plan was developed with UKR input.
Which was?
Rubio: They shouted “FFS” and flipped the table.
Which was?
Rubio: They shouted “FFS” and flipped the table.
Trump is calling Zelenskyy ungrateful and arrrrggghhhhh*^%#}*%#{{##%€$¥€>~?
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Trump is calling Zelenskyy ungrateful and arrrrggghhhhh*^%#}*%#{{##%€$¥€>~?
Just watched the last episode of Once Upon a Time in Space and my love affair with the BBC is back on.
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just watched the last episode of Once Upon a Time in Space and my love affair with the BBC is back on.
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I guess the challenge here is that while this might be personally lucrative for MAGASuperFan1488 from Uganda (which fine I guess, go get that bread Grifter King), the West descending into technofascism is not going to be good for ANYONE.
Those deaths because of USAID cuts weren't in Kansas.
Those deaths because of USAID cuts weren't in Kansas.
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I guess the challenge here is that while this might be personally lucrative for MAGASuperFan1488 from Uganda (which fine I guess, go get that bread Grifter King), the West descending into technofascism is not going to be good for ANYONE.
Those deaths because of USAID cuts weren't in Kansas.
Those deaths because of USAID cuts weren't in Kansas.
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Moose is great, I mean really great.
I genuinely hate having to plug my work on here. I would rather post my cartoons and drawings without a link to my website, but unfortunately social media is an important element of our business, so I have to do it. I do appreciate the reposts and thank you for the support since I came to Bluesky.
November 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Moose is great, I mean really great.
I realise this is simplistic, but it seems to me that rather than starting from the position that Russia will win in the end and that, if UKR doesn’t accept that, the US will help accelerate the process, the US could say to Putin “we’re not going to let you win”. The dynamic depends on US will.
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I realise this is simplistic, but it seems to me that rather than starting from the position that Russia will win in the end and that, if UKR doesn’t accept that, the US will help accelerate the process, the US could say to Putin “we’re not going to let you win”. The dynamic depends on US will.
Ten Pole Tudor - This should be the national anthem.
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Ten Pole Tudor - This should be the national anthem.
Steve Hilton is running for CA Governor. Yes, that Steve Hilton.
November 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Steve Hilton is running for CA Governor. Yes, that Steve Hilton.
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Being in my forties has introduced the phenomenon of seeing a friend in a public place and NOT revealing myself to say hi, because they look too tired to deal with me right now.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Being in my forties has introduced the phenomenon of seeing a friend in a public place and NOT revealing myself to say hi, because they look too tired to deal with me right now.
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Exactly this. The plan is asking Zelenskyy and all Ukrainians to trust their lives and futures to the word of the man who invaded them and the word of the man who betrayed them.
Moreover, Zelenskyy knows deals w Trump & Putin are worthless - neither cares about past commitments unless they need to instrumentalise them. Europe needs to understand that its security as well as UA's is at stake, & increase all forms of pressure on RU. It can do a lot even without the US. 2/2
November 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Exactly this. The plan is asking Zelenskyy and all Ukrainians to trust their lives and futures to the word of the man who invaded them and the word of the man who betrayed them.
Here’s an interview with my nephew www.babystepmagazine.com/single-post/...
Introducing:Possibly Jamie
Possibly Jamie isn’t just making pop—he’s bending it, queering it, and blasting it into bold new territory. The Glasgow-based producer and singer-songwriter fuses classical music smarts with chaotic, ...
www.babystepmagazine.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Here’s an interview with my nephew www.babystepmagazine.com/single-post/...