John Bolch

@Familoo @WiFLaw @suesspiciousmin @seethrujustice @PEmbarrassing @carlgardner @nearlylegal FWIW my blog ran from January 2006 to December 2023.

@WiFLaw @suesspiciousmin @seethrujustice @PEmbarrassing @johnbolch @carlgardner @nearlylegal Oh yes! I get a google login page too. @johnbolch your site seems to be busted!

1/3 WiFL members should already have received an email with suggested resources when preparing for a family law pupillage interview, but we are also going to set them out here for non-members.🧵 @suesspiciousmin - a helpful blog with regular case analysis and family law updates

If you are British, what do you feel when you see such imagery? For me, I cringe with embarrassment. Anachronistic clap trap, the lot of it that serves only to perpetuate our class ridden society. When will we grow up and move on? #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

@Charonqc Oh dear. Things OK here. Thought of you the other day when I watched this video, filmed not far from you: youtube.com/watch?v=8-YV1p…

@johnbolch Good morning, John... How goes it....? Recovering after getting knocked down at RED traffic light in Perth... 7 days in hospital....Driver drove off and ran over my false teeth. No teeth now!

@LifeAfloat An elephant.

What do you see? 😊

@holland_tom Square drive?

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"We knew we’d all have to live in the chaos that had always attended Johnson – but as it turned out, a great many people had to die in it." - Sad, confused, deluded: spare a thought for the friends of Boris Johnson at this difficult time | Marina Hyde theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@CharlieChessCat The RSPCA called him 'Ed'. May expand that to 'Edward'. 🙂

@johnbolch Absolutely adorable! 😻 What will be his/her name?

New member of the household...

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@nearlylegal Well, they can always nip out to Foyles while you're speaking, as I may have been known to do during certain lectures. 😉

@AdamWagner1 @metpoliceuk Another disturbing aspect of the police behaviour that isn't getting much attention is that it was reported that the police erected barriers to obscure Republic's banners. Obviously, such action is not the function of the police.

My thoughts on the @metpoliceuk "regret" x.com/adamwagner1/st… I do think that the public statement is important but it should be seen as the beginning of a reckoning with the Met's general approach to disruptive protest and its responsibility to facilitate protest, not the end.

I agree with @JoshuaRozenberg - the Public Order Act is both too wide and too rushed. A lethal combination for rights

@Otto_English And that assumes that patriotism is a "good thing" per se. Seems to me that it is responsible for much division in the world.

It's not unpatriotic to disagree with the concept of monarchy. It is however very, very fucking stupid to think that it is. #thoughtfortheday

@ObiterJ @pjm1kbw @AdamWagner1 @mcdermottkc_ 'Nipped in the bud'? There had been no trouble - Republic hadn't even set up! They had liaised with the police beforehand. Police knew what they intended, and had not indicated any objection. Hopefully, false imprisonment damages will be sufficiently high to make police rethink.

@pjm1kbw @mcdermottkc_ @AdamWagner1 Your thoughts on this?

@pjm1kbw @ObiterJ @AdamWagner1 @mcdermottkc_ Whatever. Obviously just one arrest without just cause is one too many.

@johnbolch @ObiterJ @AdamWagner1 @mcdermottkc_ It’s not 52 demonstrators who were arrested; it’s 52 in total for various offences throughout the day from a crowd of many hundreds of thousands.

@pjm1kbw @AdamWagner1 @mcdermottkc_ Six too many, and not quite as planned. See this, including 30p Lee's genius contribution: theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m…

@johnbolch @AdamWagner1 @mcdermottkc_ Apparently there were only around six arrests; the main (Not My King) protest went ahead in Trafalgar as planned.

@AdamWagner1 @pjm1kbw @mcdermottkc_ Thanks for that. Not sure why in this instance the police might have had reason to believe an offence was about to occur.

@johnbolch @pjm1kbw @mcdermottkc_ Not explicitly but if the police reasonably believe an offence is about to occur they can arrest, and potential protest related offences have been hugely increased. I don’t know the background to this so difficult to comment

@pjm1kbw @mcdermottkc_ @AdamWagner1 Well, we can all hope for a better future. Or is that not allowed either now?

@johnbolch @mcdermottkc_ @AdamWagner1 Thank you. As a royalist I doubt it will be 😉

News Essentials: 6th May 2023 dlvr.it/Sncc6L