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Michelle Styles

@MichelleLStyles

Author of warm, witty and intimate historical fiction in a wide variety of time periods. Beekeeper. Poultry keeper. Cat and collie dog keeper.

Northumberland UK Katılım Ağustos 2010
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Michelle Styles
Michelle Styles@MichelleLStyles·
Coming 20 Nov 2025. 2nd chance marriage of convenience Viking set. Sequel to Secret Princess for the Warrior. VIKING'S ROYAL MARRIAGE BARGAIN
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Neil Blair
Neil Blair@NeilBlairTBP·
This - every word. Some of us having been screaming about this for years 👇👇👇👇
Ashley Rindsberg@AshleyRindsberg

Another day, another antisemitic attack in the UK. Ambulances belonging to Jewish ambulance service Hatzola were fire bombed in Golders Green, London's most well known Jewish neighborhood. At a kids' birthday party yesterday, hours before this happened, I was speaking with another Jewish parent. The topic of conversation was (as it always is) "Where is the red line?" Meaning: at what point do you say, right, darling, time to pack the bags? Is this it? The ambulances firebombed for merely being associated with Jews? Or was it the synagogue terror attack in Manchester on Yom Kippur? Could it have been the smearing of feces across synagogue doors just meters from the ambulance attack? Maybe it was the four men arrested, days ago—two in my own area—for surveilling Jewish schools, preschools, and synagogues on behalf of the psychotic extremists in power in Iran? Should it have been the Golders Green "convoy" where Muslim men in blacked out cars shouted "Jews, we will murder you and rape your daughters"? (All charged dropped.) Was it the two years of hate marches in central London? Could it have been the black flag of jihad flying across the city, including at a rally for then-mayoral candidate Sadiq Khan? (He excused it.) Was it the Hamas flags and banners, the Hezbollah flags and banners? (None charged.) Might it be the man who attacked a Jewish grocery store in, again, Golders Green with a machete, screaming about the Jews? (No jail time.) Could it be the dozens of violent attacks against Hasidic Jews in Stamford Hill, their own neighborhood? Could it be the NHS doctor openly denying the Holocaust and making slit-your-throat gestures at Jewish patients? (Case dismissed.) Maybe it was the other NHS doctor who wrote on social media that "‘virtually every Jew has some feelings of supremacy," then posted a sign with the words "rape, steal, cry, kill, cheat, lie" arranged around the Star of David, then refused to refer a Jewish boy with cerebral palsy for specialist treatment? (9 month suspension.) Might it have been the woman, proudly diverse, on a London bus in the center of town who shouted at my wife and children "Are you Jews?! Are you Jews?!" (Driver ignored.) Perhaps it was when the @guardian—bastion of tolerance—proclaimed just last week that a bakery that happened to be founded by a Jew should be verboten. I could go on and on and on. But let's be clear: that mythical when-you-know-it's-time-to-leave line has been crossed, trampled upon, spit on, torn up, ridiculed, and read to filth. This month, Wales' richest Jewish person, legendary tech investor Michael Moritz, announced he was seeking citizenship *in Germany* because of the "hostility" to Jews in the UK. So look at the image below and tell me: are we simply waiting for outright catastrophe? No, friends. It's time to make your plans. Get your affairs in order, as they say. This is not a place that wants Jews in its midst. They might say otherwise—the talking points are designed to sooth—but the writing is on every single wall.

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Marika Cobbold@Marikacobbold·
Sign outside a wine shop on Oxford.
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Amanda Craig
Amanda Craig@AmandaPCraig·
The sequel to A Vicious Circle, set 30 years later, High & Low is out 7 May ⁦@AbacusBooks⁩.
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The CBA
The CBA@TheCriminalBar·
Retired judge savages David Lammy's plans to axe jury trials and says they will put the judiciary 'in the firing line' and WON'T save any money | Daily Mail Online dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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Tom Holland
Tom Holland@holland_tom·
A great day. Huge thanks to everyone who has contributed to the campaign against the Stonehenge Tunnel. Especially in my thoughts today is Kate Fielden, who first recruited me to the Stonehenge Alliance. Wishing she was still with us. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…
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The Bar Council
The Bar Council@thebarcouncil·
"Some 3,000 of the Prime Minister’s fellow lawyers say that juries have not caused this crisis... Let us be clear: the Prime Minister’s backbenchers oppose it, his professional colleagues oppose it, and, in a previous life, he opposed it, so why is he forcing through a policy that is unjust in principle, unworkable in practice and opposed by everyone?" Thank you @DavidDavisMP for asking the Prime Minister to rethink plans to curtail jury trials. #JusticeNeedsJuries
Sky News@SkyNews

"This is about getting the balance right." Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer defends the government's plans to scrap jury trials for cases likely to carry a sentence of fewer than three years. trib.al/ABmSNKF 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

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The CBA
The CBA@TheCriminalBar·
“I see it not only as appropriate but my responsibility to make it as plain as I can that I have grave security concerns if there are going to be judge alone trials,’ the Lady Chief Justice said. ‘It's a very different environment to be working in” dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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The CBA
The CBA@TheCriminalBar·
Lead letter to @thetimes from a group of black lawyers: Curbs on jury trials; Sir, Flora Page KC, who represented wrongly convicted sub-postmasters, is right about the “tyranny” of @DavidLammy’s jury reforms (news, Mar 13). Keir Monteith KC, @gardencourtlaw; Jason Lartey, president, London Criminal Courts Solicitors' Association (@lccsa); Nneka Akudolu KC, 2 Hare Court, Chambers of Jonathan Laidlaw KC; Garry Green KC, @DoughtyStreet; Shina Animashaun, Garden Court Chambers; Letitia Duffus, Garden Court Chambers; Michael Etienne, Garden Court Chambers; @MirandaGrell , Staple Inn Chambers; Leon Lynch, @25Bedford Chambers; Danielle Manson, @MatrixChambers Chambers; Thalia Maragh, Garden Court Chambers; Mark Robinson, Garden Court Chambers. And many more black and other ethnic minority lawyers who back this letter alongside all criminal barristers and solicitors of all backgrounds who both prosecute and defend. #IBarNone Now read a retired judge His Honour Gary Burrell KC 👇🏿👇🏽👇🏻
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Michelle Styles@MichelleLStyles·
If you have never visited @NAM_London , you are missing a treat. So much history (including the diorama of Waterloo, the Cold War exhibition, and Skinner's Horse memorabilia) and now this. Perhaps where the medals should have been all along. x.com/NAM_London/sta…
National Army Museum@NAM_London

We are pleased to announce that the National Army Museum will be the new home of the @LordAshcroft collection of Victoria Crosses and George Crosses. Find out more: nam.ac.uk/press/lord-ash…

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Michelle Styles@MichelleLStyles·
Happy Mothering Sunday
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The Bar Council
The Bar Council@thebarcouncil·
More than 300 KCs and 22 retired judges are among the 3,236 legal professionals who have signed our letter calling on the Prime Minister to stop the government's jury trial proposal ahead of a parliamentary debate on new legislation to restrict jury trials today. Our letter urges the government against draining valuable time and resources from our criminal justice system by attempting to force through an unpopular, untested and poorly evidenced change to our jury system. Among the signatories alongside Bar Council Chair and Vice Chair, Criminal Bar Association Chair and Vice Chair and all Circuit leaders are legal leaders, including the former Director of Public Prosecutions Sir David Calvert-Smith, @JUSTICEhq Chief Exec Fiona Rutherford, @APPEALcharity_ Co Director Emma Torr and 4 former Chairs of the Bar Council as well as two former Chairs of @TheCriminalBar. Several well-known on-screen faces have also signed the letter including 'Judge Rinder’ @RobbieRinder, ‘chaser’ @TheShaunWallace and both barrister contestants from this year’s Traitors series, Harriet Tyce and Hugo Lodge. @Kirsty_Brimelow said: "This letter and its more than 3,000 signatories demonstrate the unequivocal principled and practical opposition to the restriction of jury trials from not only the Bar, but the legal profession as a whole... “It’s not too late for the government to listen to us as experts and as a profession and stop before bulldozing our jury system. We are ready to support a turn to the efficiencies that will increase productivity and will actually make a difference to the backlog and delays.” Read more: lnkd.in/eRYvXJma #JusticeNeedsJuries
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