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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 56m

Thanks. It's just started working again for me. Maybe it was a temporary error they fixed, or maybe my computer was just grumpy at being woken up.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 59m

Ditto all the lawyers who rage quit X and pretended to delete their accounts only to slink back a couple of weeks later, accounts miraculously undeleted.

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 24d

Not that I’m on there to get it first hand but it seems like the journalists and pundits who stayed decided there literally is no line, the owner of the site who *every day* proves how fucking terrible he is can apparently do absolutely anything and they will shrug and scoff at the idea of leaving

ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 24d

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 2h

We had to commission a special bat survey which cost c.£400 (but might have easily been £1K) as a condition of planning permission to demolish a conservatory. It was the most insane & pointless piece of bureaucracy. So stupid, in fact, that the ecologist first wrote about our loft in error...

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 1h

Can anybody else access CJSM? I'm getting this error when I try to log in.

Screenshot from Firefox, which says it cannot connect to www.cjsm.net due to an invalid security cerfiticate.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 10h

Apparently, they were the lucky ones. Their architect said another family was delayed building their house for 9 months while they waited for their 'bat licence' to be granted.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 11h

Watching Grand Designs. I really think this country needs to make building easier. Family in this episode spent £6500 & were delayed in building their house as a bat might be in the roof of the old house. Turned out the was no bat! How can you stop building for a bat let alone an imaginary one.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 15h

"We will reimagine income tax. Our innovative new system will cost you, the taxpayer, 75% less money each year and will raise 200% what the government currently takes in so we can provide you with better public services and free pizza once a week".

If you're going to BS then just go for it.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, the news also mentioned that judgment but I can't say I've read it.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 20h

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has written an open letter to One Nation Conservatives who feel abandoned by their party urging them to join the Liberal Democrats, following Kemi Badenoch’s conference speech today

Full text of the letter:

Dear friends,

Our country is at a crossroads.

The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch is becoming more extreme and out of touch, chasing Nigel Farage instead of focusing on the issues that really matter to people. Meanwhile, Reform UK is growing in strength - threatening the tolerant, decent values that hold our communities together.

I know many One Nation Conservatives are deeply concerned about the lurch to the hard right in our country and under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership. Her plans to tear up the Climate Change Act and withdraw from the ECHR show she is abandoning traditional British values of tolerance, decency and the rule of law.

So my message to the millions of One Nation Conservatives who feel let down by their party and reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is to come and join us. Help us save our country and defend the values we all hold dear.

We will stand strong where others back down. We will not pander to Reform. We will fight to protect our environment, stand up for decency and the rule of law, and stop Trump’s America from becoming Farage’s Britain.

So if you share those values, now is the time to join the Liberal Democrats.

With best wishes,

Ed Davey

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16h

I’m gonna defend Liz Truss, because I like to be blocked by two or so people every day, and say that her plans were 100 times more reasonable than these, in that she thought she would have enough time to bounce Tory MPs into backing spending cuts. Much less daft than anything Badenoch has said.

Chairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 16h

There's a touch of the Liz Truss about Kemi Badenoch. Both in the tax cut paid for by fantasy figures and also a belief there's This One Special Trick The British State Doesn't Want You To Know About! that will somehow solve everything.
Be rude to some civil servants and the UK's problems vanish!

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 15h

According to the news, the CPS wanted a statement saying China was a threat to UK security or an enemy nation in 2022 and the government said no... well they didn't provide statements that said either of those things.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 15h

PPE is a degree that I'd happily see consigned to the dustbin of academic history.

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 1d

this of course is where we were sitting waiting to give evidence as witnesses - we just got plonked in a closed cafeteria at 9am. Around 3pm someone found us and told us 'oops' your trial collapsed - come back in 6 months please!

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out there's only really one interview room for all the courts so far as I can tell as the other one is reserved for the duty solicitor.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d

Not very long ago, this would have meant the end of his career.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 1d

I can currently hear two other solicitors consultations with their clients as they are being held in public waiting areas because there is no where else to go. Imagine if you went to the doctor and you had to discuss your problems in the waiting room!

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 1d

"... journalists who pop up and try to knock me down..."

Yes, their job is to challenge you. The fact Jenrick dislikes it so much says a lot about the quality of his argument.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most frustrating things about magistrates courts is the way every interview room has been turned into an office. I'm at Uxbridge and can only find two rooms for all 4 courts. Needless to say they are all busy & there's nowhere private for me to speak with my client.

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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 2d

Chaos in the Crown Court today as two unrepresented defendants with the exact same name appeared in a hearing in a large multihanded case… one over a link from prison and one in the dock from bail. No one knows how the random same-named man was linked in to us from his prison but he was NOT happy.