Jonathan Broad

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Jonathan Broad

Jonathan Broad

@jhrbroad

Tall, devilishly handsome and supremely fit. Well, one out of three isn't bad.

Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Jonathan Broad
Jonathan Broad@jhrbroad·
@BarbaraRich_law @nmdacosta @kesleeman Also the substance of his claim is that Gove just likes being involved in political drama and doesn’t care all that much about the issue at hand. Which seems (i) unlikely and (ii) not exactly Machiavellian in the sense I’ve always understood it.
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Barbara Rich
Barbara Rich@BarbaraRich_law·
@nmdacosta @kesleeman Isn’t Campbell accusing Gove of being “Machiavellian” just a touch “potkettleblackian”?
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Jonathan Broad
Jonathan Broad@jhrbroad·
…change, that it remains a crime for everyone else outside the provisions of the Abortion Act, that there are practical obstacles to a woman ending her own pregnancy outside the provisions of the Abortion Act. But it is (or will shortly be) legal in a way it wasn’t before.
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Jonathan Broad
Jonathan Broad@jhrbroad·
@Mrs_FelicityFox @Madz_Grant @janewest73 The text of the clause specifically removes that Act’s provisions - “For the purposes of the law related to abortion, including…the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929, no offence is committed by a woman acting in relation to her own pregnancy.”
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Felicity Fox ☮️💜
Felicity Fox ☮️💜@Mrs_FelicityFox·
@Madz_Grant @janewest73 We have a law that still cover this. “pro life” are pushing false messaging to do exactly what’s happening now. Make pro choice uneasy, but it’s a false narrative. I assure you infanticde is still covered within British Law. It’s within the 1929 infant protection act.
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Jonathan Broad
Jonathan Broad@jhrbroad·
@MadelaineLucyH @IrkedDinosaur In England and Wales a 9 year old is below the age of criminal responsibility in any case, so this is a terrible example with which to support amending the law to make it legal for women to terminate their own pregnancy at any time and for any reason.
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Madelaine Hanson
Madelaine Hanson@MadelaineLucyH·
@IrkedDinosaur A nine year old girl doesn’t know what pregnancy is. She will break her pelvis and face lifelong complications from birth. Understand now?
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Madelaine Hanson
Madelaine Hanson@MadelaineLucyH·
The “late self induced abortion” fear assumes women ignore MONTHS of obvious physical change and then suddenly opt for the most difficult, risky, stigmatised option available. That’s just not how people behave. Women act early. When they don’t, it’s because something has gone wrong (access, knowledge, safety) not because they fancied waiting
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Jonathan Broad
Jonathan Broad@jhrbroad·
@Jingerella66 @fleurmeston The new clause states that in relation to abortion “no offence is committed by a woman acting in relation to her own pregnancy”. If no offence is committed, the act is legal. It is the same term used in the Abortion Act 1967 rendering legal abortions carried out under that Act.
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Jingles ♀️🐈 🐈‍⬛🧵🧶 🇬🇧
Jingles ♀️🐈 🐈‍⬛🧵🧶 🇬🇧@Jingerella66·
No, it hasn't. 185 Members of the House of Lords voted to stop criminal charges being brought against pregnant women who procure their own illegal abortions. They haven't suddenly been made legal, they are still illegal. It is a fact that most of these women are either suffering from immense mental problems, or they are being coerced by others. Either way, they are not of sound mind. Like suicides, they see no other way. So, instead of them being charged with murder and imprisoned, they will be given the appropriate psychiatric help. They will never walk away from the life sentence of guilt. They could be rape victims, victims of domestic abuse, victims of misogyny because they're carrying a girl... whatever they're going through, they aren't doing it because, why not? That is the only thing that has changed in this bill. Sadly, the HoL didn't vote to make the obtainment of abortion pills only through face to face appointment and assessment. That might have helped an already abused system, but there will always be abusers and those abusers are criminals.
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Fleur Elizabeth
Fleur Elizabeth@fleurmeston·
There's confusion about what the abortion vote was. What's been approved is women performing their own abortions at any point up to birth. Their campaign doesn't stop here. They want "full decriminalisation" - abortions for any reason, at any gestation, performed by doctors.
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Liam Holman
Liam Holman@Liam_Holman99·
Before, it was illegal to abort a stillborn baby after 24 weeks. A grieving mother would have to carry their dead child to term with all the risks that come with it. The bill that the Lords just passed decriminalised it.
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Jonathan Broad
Jonathan Broad@jhrbroad·
As a sentence which makes you doubt a journalist’s understanding of a topic “The lease for North Lodge had previously been surrendered and the lease was transferred to a third party” is something of an eye-opener! thetimes.com/uk/royal-famil…
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Jonathan Broad
Jonathan Broad@jhrbroad·
@BertDalziel I don't think “this currently illegal thing happens very infrequently so it doesn’t matter if we make it legal because it probably won’t happen” works as a consistent argument.
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Jonathan Broad
Jonathan Broad@jhrbroad·
@BertDalziel But there will be cases when it happens. And so I think there are only two defensible positions: (i) the behaviour of Ms Catt should not constitute a crime, and therefore abortion decriminalised for the woman, or (ii) it should constitute a crime, and the law remain as is.
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Bertha Dalziel (high value man)
Bertha Dalziel (high value man)@BertDalziel·
The legal limit for a woman having an abortion is 24 weeks unless it turns the baby is going to die or have severe medical problems. Abortions where gestation is 24 weeks or over account for a minuscule number of abortions (0.1% of the total). 24 weeks = 5 and a bit months not 8.
Sharron Davies HoL MBE@sharrond62

I categorically do not believe in aborting healthy, viable babies up to full term for any reason. Women will be coerced & made to abort over sex selection. The 10 day pill will be abused without face to face consultations checking dates leading to women ending up in hospitals. Our abortion rules are some of the longest in Europe. We have great abortion rights for those in medical need. There is no justification for aborting a viable healthy baby at eight & a half months! And I’m a feminist who believes in choice but I also believe we find better ways to help distressed mothers in need.

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Bertha Dalziel (high value man)
Bertha Dalziel (high value man)@BertDalziel·
even in the event that abortion is decriminalised for women, it will still be illegal for drs to carry it out in anything but strictly prescribed circs described above, and they would also be struck off.
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Jonathan Broad
Jonathan Broad@jhrbroad·
@OliverKamm @PhilipHensher That’s surely just a bit of word play from The Telegraph’s tweet writer rather than a serious analysis of the letter (which makes no such claim).
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Oliver Kamm
Oliver Kamm@OliverKamm·
A nice example of assuming, in English usage, that something you don’t like must be recent. This use of “pass” is well-established: it’s in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, when Sir Bedivere says of Arthur: “He passes to be King among the dead…”
Telegraph Letters@LettersDesk

Passing fad

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Toddington
Toddington@HXValley·
I'm hearing the WASPI women are calling on Peter Mandelson to resign for taking a £373,000 loan from Geoffrey Robinson.
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Jonathan Broad
Jonathan Broad@jhrbroad·
@RichardBratby I first heard G&S’s Patience at a G&S Prom in the mid-2000s under his baton. It was simply superb.
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Richard Bratby
Richard Bratby@RichardBratby·
Immersed in the recorded legacy of Charles Mackerras, who I worked with a few times and it really is incredible. Such an unfussy, versatile, supremely musical artist that we really did take him for granted.
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Barbara Rich
Barbara Rich@BarbaraRich_law·
@sergeantdixie @ajwillshire Yes, that was a well-aimed hit. But I would have had no confidence in him as Lord Chancellor and minister for justice. His judicial appointments proposal doesn’t stand up to serious scrutiny either. It would just replace the JAC with an appraisal committee with a different name
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Andrew J. Willshire
Andrew J. Willshire@ajwillshire·
Imagine leaving your resignation speech "lying around". What an absolute moron. Yet more evidence that he's no loss.
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford

BREAKING: It sounds like Kemi Badenoch's team got hold of a copy of Robert Jenrick's resignation speech after it was left 'lying around'. It was a 'near final' text He cancelled a speaking engagement this weekend, and the thinking was that he was due to announce his defection in the next 24 hours The Tories were also aware that he met Nigel Farage in December. One source said that the meeting took place in Parliament

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@BarbaraRich_law @nmdacosta @kesleeman @Mrs_FelicityFox @Madz_Grant @janewest73 @MadelaineLucyH @IrkedDinosaur