I don’t know why Starmer is blaming civil servants for appointing Mandelson, if he wants to blame someone he should blame the King as he was his ambassador.

Integritas, you honestly couldn’t make it up.

I'm not sure my French is good enough to understand the full subtleties of Libé's review of the Michael Jackson biopic

Just Get Married Feel the fear and do it anyway

Rarely have times seemed less propitious for the institution of marriage but it remains the making of (many) men: open.substack.com/pub/counselo...

It seems increasingly likely that Starmer will cease being Prime Minister before ever revealing why he wanted the job or what he hoped to achieve beyond the partial abolition of jury trial.

Northampton couple who met on bus ride double decker to wedding The pair are now married after meeting during their commute last summer.

Everything is terrible. So here is a NICE THING.

Rather self-defeating to do this on a public platform but if you go in the back entrance there's none of that.

Just One Of Those Things - Defending Andrew Malkinson Miscarry at one time meant merely mistake.

Following today’s conviction of Paul Quinn of the appalling crimes for which Andrew Malkinson was wrongly convicted I’m circulating a piece I wrote about representing him in his long battle for justice: open.substack.com/pub/counselo...

Man guilty of 2003 rape Andrew Malkinson wrongly jailed for Paul Quinn, 52, is found guilty of the rape for which Andrew Malkinson was jailed for 17 years.

Paul Quinn has been found guilty by a jury in relation to the sexual attack that Andrew Malkinson was wrongly convicted of in 2004 and wrongly spent 17 years in prison for: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

40s, married, with kids and never having used a dating app really does feel like having caught the last chopper out of Saigon sometimes.

Please can someone tell the police that unless someone is going to die or come to harm they should not redact anything from evidential documents. Redacting the address of where an offence took place is worse than pointless.

Pink blossom is déclassé

A voice for victims of crime | Keir Starmer Keir Starmer: Justice isn't just about sentencing: it's about encouraging victims to come forward in the first place. Labour's planned law will help

Revealing 2014 article by Sir Keir Starmer suggesting the possibility of judges questioning young and vulnerable witnesses in criminal trials. Is he opposed in principle to jury trial AND the adversarial process? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘The Gentleman’s Relish’ & advertising solely that it’s delicious on hot toast narrows the market and culinary options. I’m surprised it lasted so long, especially as nobody knows Latin and there are no gentlemen any more. Shame to miss the double century though.

A movie couple who would definitely have a podcast

Masks & Armour - Finding Your Feet It's that time of year when old hands wish the fledglings well and regale them with tales of their own puking terror and early days train wrecks.

This is the week pupil barristers get to their feet for the first time. And every barrister, however senior, can remember their first time. I wrote this about the experience: open.substack.com/pub/counselo...

There’s no relief more tainted and corrupting than waking up to find that Trump was just threatening to be a genocidal maniac.

But which civilisation?

Give blood. Save lives. 🩸 0️⃣➖#76

Can the Secret Service say they are protecting the President (from himself) by taking him into custody? Asking for the world.

If the absolute folly of the King's State Visit to America is seriously going ahead the most useful thing he could do is remind Trump that the English people beheaded one of his ancestors for claiming Divine Right as his own.

Anyone else feel like Artemis losing contact is like the astronauts playing hide and seek with the whole world?

Childbirth in black and white Why written accounts of birth should be taken from parents.

If written accounts were routinely taken from parents after childbirth might it save lives and improve maternity care? open.substack.com/pub/counselo...

The Americans won’t impeach Trump even if he does use a nuclear weapon against Iran. At the moment the only thing preventing that is the unwillingness of military personnel to follow his orders.

Sitting in total darkness and total silence with a 1,000 people before the Vigil Mass last night felt, whether one believes in God or not, like something we need to do much more of.

he started it and is not finishing it

My wife is German and is entirely indifferent to how the children address me

Cecilia Deganutti

On 4th April 1945 Italian partisan and Red Cross nurse Cecilia Deganutti (codename 'Joan of Arc') is burnt alive in the crematorium at the Risiera di San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste [Thread] >> 1

You’re doing better than me I’m just Maxi to mine…

Trump’s motto, Paradise Lost indeed -
"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n"