AvailableLawyers®

@Knowledgepoint What about the slightly larger police station in the middle of Hyde Park? Is it still there?

London’s most famous hidden police curiosity is the Lilliputian Police Station, located in the southeast corner of Trafalgar Square. Built in 1926 inside a hollowed-out ornamental lamppost, designed as a secret observation post it remains the smallest police station in the UK.

@SVPhillimore Or weight?😂

Really? So if a man is a woman because he says so, what stops him also being 3 years old - if he says so? Where do we draw the line at what lie is true and will be protected by law? Why is it only sex? Why not age or race? Can you explain?

@QcWynter To be appointed by Starmer, you would first need to have a long history of failure and misjudgement.

I rather fancy the role of Prime Minister's "Special Envoy to Everyone about Everything about All Things". I have no chance of being appointed by Starmer but perhaps a future leader will see this & bear me in mind for when I have retired and started to curl up into a furry ball.

@yuanyi_z Stalking mare

Catherine West has more spine than the entirety of the Cabinet.

@sciencegirl In daily use ever since?

The spiral staircase in Lednice Castle's library made in 1851. Carved from a single oak tree without nails

@MaryKenny4 Generally speaking, people only listen to advice if they're paying for it.

Also, you’ll be blamed if things don’t work out!

@kelvmackenzie Minimum terms are only set for indefinite, life sentences. Deportation is for the Home Office and is automatic for sentences over one year.

Where do they find idiot judges like Fiona Barrie? Appearing in front of her was an animal called Ismat Ullah, a Pakistani who came here on a student visa and stayed illegally. He pretended to befriend a homeless woman, then punched her , throttled her and raped her several times. Instead of pointing Ullah was a piece of filth, she said it must have been “difficult” for him to be in custody when English wasn’t his first language and sympathised with his mental health issues. Have you noticed all these migrants criminals play the mental health card - including the Golders Green attacker. She gave Ullah, 28, 15 years but there was no order for a minimum term nor a deportation order at the end of the sentence. Why? Judge Barrie has been on the bench for 17 years. Do us all a favour and stand down.

@MannGeorgia A good time to enjoy the old Thames sailing bargemen's songs. This one recounts a hazardous cargo delivery from Surrey Dock to Yarmouth. youtube.com/watch?v=5mRsPg…

The sunshine in our boat!! And I only crashed it at the end!

@JDwithTW Charles probably got about $10 when he sold it to the used book store. Hard times.

Had I been invited to the lunch with King Charles, I would have brought along the copy of the Senate Manual that he was given during his 1970 visit to the Capitol, which he must have accidentally misplaced because I found it in a used book store for $20

@ANNVYSHINSKY Surely essential if always surrounded by career politicians?

Different jobs should be treated differently and I don’t know where I stand on drinking in Parliament (probably not bothered by it on balance), but many need to realise that alcohol is not essential to resting or socialising.

@houghhough @timothy_stanley You can't get a divorce from the grim reaper.

@timothy_stanley And you're unlikely to be pressured to walk down the aisle ...

After a gay marriage, you can change your mind.

@VinnieSull1van @PubHistoryTours @Lost___London @ChelseaDan5 Were the readings still accurate?

Behold a WWII British Royal Air Force Navigational Compass from a Spitfire or a Hurricane Mosquito RA at the wonderful antique market in Greenwich, London. We took the time (whilst on @PubHistoryTours) to properly appreciate some of the artefacts on the stalls. Just imagine what it's been through! ⏳️

@GeoffreyBoycott 1 Not Out

1

@OrinKerr I began in the 1970s. Copies were carbon copies. Carbon paper was used when the original was typed. Photocopying was expensive and messy. Of course there were no printers.

I wonder how many older lawyers default to using pens with blue ink instead of black ink because, back when you would file a paper original and a paper copy, blue ink was the way the clerk could tell which was which, so by default it just made sense to use pens with blue ink.

@CrimBarrister For some years there have been specialist judges, barristers and police officers for rape cases. What will be new about the proposed specialist rape courts?

💣 Though we must guard against any suggestion that ‘specialist rape courts’ should not have juries… since we know the long term aim of many special interest groups is to remove juries from sex cases

@BGatesIsaPyscho No lifejackets?

NASA 🤣 It’s honestly like they want to be found out.

@nickwallis Prosecutions or not, there will certainly be enormous civil claims.

It is the biggest medical scandal of our time. The sooner wider society realises the horrors we have been visiting on young people the sooner it will stop. Then there should be prosecutions.

@benonwine This Waitrose is just a few yards from the Marks & Spencer that was overrun by teenagers a few days ago.

SACKED after 17 years… for stopping a thief. A Waitrose worker in Clapham Junction has lost his job after intervening to stop someone stealing Easter eggs. Walker Smith, 54, had given 17 years of service only to be shown the door for trying to do the right thing. No warning. No loyalty. Just gone. What message does that send to staff and to every other would be shoplifter wanting an easy target. Do your job… but don’t actually protect the business. Waitrose have ABSOLUTELY no loyalty to their staff they are quite happy to dispense of Loyal partners like yesterdays rubbish.

@watergypsi Brings back memories for those of us who listened to Radio Luxembourg in the 1960s youtube.com/watch?v=ydQ8I-…

@OrinKerr @danepps "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." - Pascal

Mostly agree. It’s like writing an appellate brief: even if the trial court made 15 errors, you need to pick two or at most three and focus on them. Also, dissents are best known for how they are presented in casebooks; the shorter the dissent, the better the presentation is going to be of it in a casebook.

Agree or disagree: the length of a dissent is inversely related to its persuasiveness.