The OBR is like that person on TikTok who works for a billionaire as his daughter (= Reeves)’s PA, tiredly doing the sums and looking at the damage but secretly happy none of this is actually their problem

Genuinely what is the point of the BBC if it can't even get niche points of royal protocol correct?

More seriously - the sheer speed with which those who decry "activist lawyers" shift towards using the courts themselves when they realise courts can be used illiberally too.

Those who loudly decry courts and lawyers often only do so when they are losing the cases: it is not a principled objection.

Barristers have to take any client who can afford their fees, the area of law doesn’t matter

Copenhagen + Epistemic = 53% and Mathematical Tool + Subjective = 55% which adds up a bit better

Not entirely sure that’s the point being made here.

It is (1) people don’t like to be attacked and (2) Persian national identity is long-standing and exists independently of the current regime.

It’s not that Iran doesn’t like to be attacked because Persian identity is old.

tr: “What place can be under the law and judges when you, as much as was in you, raised royal domination? Was that why Tarquin was expelled, so that many years later Mark Antony could install an illegitimate King in Rome?”

Substitute contemporary places and people as appropriate…

#classics #cicero

That’s insane

Wait so a black British person whose grandparents came over on Windrush would be classified as “white British” under this “research”??