Tim Wilson
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Tim Wilson
@digginggardener
Landscape Gardener with Urban Jungles. BA Archaeology. #eattherich IG: the.digging.gardener
Poole, England เข้าร่วม Eylül 2015
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@digginggardener Carlisle very soon and Vindolanda in May looking forward to both
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It was great to get back to #Vindolanda this week and the dig is progressing well. Plenty of archaeology this year along with Magna and Carlisle exploring its Roman past. #archaeology #HadriansWall

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@JohnCleese If you don’t want it, don’t buy it. It’s not a difficult concept.
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@the_stone_club @KPW1453 It’s such a well kept site isn’t it. Would be a wonderful project to excavate one with modern techniques.



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@MichaelRosenYes Don’t rise to him Michael. The idiot doesn’t deserve the engagement.
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I'm always happy to hear explanations for how my son died. Usually I listen to doctors. They tell me that it was meningococcal septicaemia (sepsis). Can you explain why I should listen to you instead?
Neil Oliver@thecoastguy
And bollocks to the meningitis nonsense as well.
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@RupertLowe10 Support from a haunted Victorian Coat Stand is not the flex you think it is old Ruppie.
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I am pleased to have Jacob Rees-Mogg’s support for my legal action against an administrative body related to Parliament - my argument is aimed at empowering elected MPs over unelected officials.
On Tuesday 17 March my Barrister, Christopher Newman, and I were in the Administrative Court in London at a hearing in front of High Court Judge Martin Chamberlain.
It is a significant case for the power of parliament, and therefore the power of the voters.
As the MP for Great Yarmouth, I am seeking to challenge the legality of the processes of the ‘Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme’, also known as the ICGS - importantly, it is entirely legally separate from Parliament. The scheme’s genesis is driven by the ‘Me Too’ movement in 2018.
The ICGS are seeking to use the doctrine of ‘Parliamentary Privilege’ to assert that they are, in effect, beyond the scrutiny of the law. Parliamentary privilege exists to allow MPs to do our job away from legal threats, it does not exist to protect bureaucratic bodies.
As Jacob Rees-Mogg, former Leader of the House of Commons, points out in his analysis:
“As the ICGS is independent, it cannot in its workings be a Commons body, as it would then not be independent. It is really very straightforward and Rupert Lowe seems to be right."
This is arguably the most significant constitutional case in years with the ICGS now arguing the polar opposite of the position the state took in the case of R v Chaytor where MPs unsuccessfully tried to use Parliamentary Privilege to avoid prosecution for abuse of expense claims.
ICGS staff are not legally qualified, and this administrative body is outside the orbit of the Chamber and has no link to MPs. It has not reported to a Parliamentary Committee of MPs since 2020 when all links were severed and a panel was inserted.
It is our argument that this body cannot claim to be above the law - it is not right that a bureaucratic body separate from Parliament is attempting to use parliamentary privilege, designed for elected politicians, to avoid reasonable scrutiny.
Rees-Mogg ends his article:
“Thus if Lowe wins, he will not have harmed Parliament, but defended it. For through cowardice we – and I was an MP at the time – abdicated our privileged responsibility and gave it to unelected boffins, who are not so much better than elected politicians after all, but much harder to eject.”
We expect a Judgment after Easter, around 14 April 2026.
For anyone interested, please find below links to the relevant Court documents and media coverage:
Our skeleton argument.
#wTfvSth2a99a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">drive.proton.me/urls/C66EX752H…
Jacobs Rees-Mogg article published - ‘Rupert Lowe and Parliamentary Privilege’.
letters.jacobreesmogg.com/p/rupert-lowe-…

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@sacha_coward You should totally buy one just to see how factually incorrect it is, that’s assuming it’s legible to begin with. I foresee a whole series of you tearing it apart. 👍🏼
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@TheRealJamieKay I wonder WHAT EXACTLY she was told she couldn’t say. 🤔🤔
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A new public fountain has appeared in central London, but look closer & you’ll see that it’s a actually a fountain of filth. The water is black, the human victims of the sewage crisis are vomitting streams of liquid, whilst surmounted by a smug water executive with a briefcase stuffed with cash.
The fountain commemorates one of the biggest environmental crimes in British history, where water companies stole tens of billions of pounds that was supposed to be spent on our sewage system, gave it to shareholders and executives and illegally poured billions of lites of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas instead. The channel 4 docudrama about the sewage crisis, #dirtybusiness, starts at 9pm tonight. Watch it, get sad, get angry and then join the thousands of people around the country demanding an end to the sewage crisis.
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Come with me to visit a Secret Stone Circle.
Most speed along unaware of the ancient stones that have seen many a traveller pass by, perhaps some took the time to stop and commune with the ancestors.
#Hiddendorset #dorset #stone #stonecircle #AncientHistory #archaeology #History
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Fed & Watered.
Back we go to see the wreck dismantled and removed.
#archaeology #dorset #shipwreck #ship #maritime
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@bettanyhughes Love to see a happy Historian! My face was similar on Thursday when we went to see a 17th Century Shipwreck being excavated. 🤘🏼
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Good morning! Exploring in a bamboo forest in #Japan and discover an abandoned rock-cut chamber tomb…so exciting, as you can tell I am very happy! X

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