Christopher Sharp KC

@Matt_Pinner The date does not exist

I'm giving you an IQ test. What is wrong in this picture?

When’s the last time you saw a hedgehog? 🦔 Their numbers are falling, so I just signed a petition to make hedgehog highways - tiny gaps in fences to help them - mandatory in ALL new builds. Add your name: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/hedgehogs

@benonwine The oncoming car is driving on the WRONG side of the street

Not sure I understand? 🤷‍♂️

@TheGriftReport Why use such a manifestly false image to make a legitimate point and thereby undermine it?

@benonwine I remember two (actually I do remember only one)

My son doesn't believe we only had 4 TV channels. Do you remember that?

@LibDems ✔️

Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID. That’s not the kind of country we want to be. Liberal Democrats have always stood up to defend civil liberties against government overreach. We will fight tooth and nail to oppose these plans too.

@holland_tom I asked it to “translate” a page of secretary script C17th records I was researching. It made stuff up and came out with a product which was the direct opposite of the true meaning. 😡

AI is rubbish at history. It just makes stuff up. I gave ChatGBT a go yesterday, thinking it might boost my productivity, and it fed me a completely bogus quote by Pindar. But making sure it WAS bogus took time - so far from boosting my productivity, AI had actively sabotaged it.

@creepydotorg Mercator

Please explain it to me like I’m 5 years old….

Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition 38d.gs/zcpv

Petition: Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter" petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7137…

Because there’s a lot of nastiness, but then there’s this

@jeni_balseiro @SaveRedlandLibr

@SaveRedlandLibr #StreetArtSaturday

RT’d for #StreetArtSaturday

@SaveRedlandLibr Kalaw station, Myanmar, 4297 feet above sea level

RT’d for #StationSaturday Memories of Knotty Ash train station in #Liverpool

@holland_tom This relief figure in the church of the Holy Rood, Buckland Newton may well be pre-Saxon (no-one really knows) and the church has much else of interest historicengland.org.uk/etl/1118892/6b…

Wimborne Minster: built on the site of an abbey founded in the early 8th century by the formidably austere St Cuthburga, sister of the law-dispensing king of Wessex, Ine, & wife of Aldfrith, the scholarly king of Northumbria who was always having bust ups with St Wilfrid

Off into the wilds of Dorset, there to explore the riches & reminders of #DorsetPre1066

@holland_tom Check out the Roman town house in Dorchester and also the Dorset museum in Dorchester Fabulous Roman mosaics. Eg….

Prepped and ready to go!

@holland_tom Did you miss the chained library in the minster?

@BarbaraRich_law @craigmorrison22 @Grant2982888331 @sarafina_mucci @Elaine_Ellinger When I was called to the Bar 50 years ago there were many Islamic students - we tried to sit with them at dinner because they would not share in the wine, so more for us! They returned to their countries providing some British soft influence where they went. So everyone wins!

@craigmorrison22 @Grant2982888331 @sarafina_mucci @Elaine_Ellinger Not only an English barrister but a member of Lincoln’s Inn. You are right about the OP’s ignorance, agenda and sheer innumeracy. But she has blown her dog whistle and plenty of them have turned up to wag their tails at her

Call to the Bar – Trinity Term, 25 July 2024 lincolnsinn.org.uk/news/call-to-t… Asking why a prestigious British legal institution would have a call list that is 80% (36 out of 45) Islamic in a country where Muslims are roughly 6.5% of the population is not only logical — it’s essential. Does Lincoln’s Inn operate under DEI recruitment policies? Are children from England’s historic population now being overlooked in favour of more politically protected identities? Are the children of significant donors given preferential treatment? Are interviewers so afraid of bias accusations that they favour “safe” minority candidates? Such disproportionate representation raises serious concerns—not only about academic objectivity but also about the long-term impact on the British legal system. Islamic principles are inconsistent with English law. What happens when loyalties conflict with constitutional and secular norms? We’ve already heard Sadiq Khan—a British lawyer and Mayor of London—state that religion is an immutable characteristic and cannot be changed - this is an Islamic principle, not a British one. [The Guardian, Aug 8, 2024] If any readers can answer these questions, please comment below. What is going on here?

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