Another patient, antiphonal & contemporary BBCFreeThinking — on crime & punishment. Even the edgy silences speak
@drmatthewsweet.bsky.social talks to @stephemmabrown.bsky.social , @scouttzofiya.bsky.social, @joannahs.bsky.social, Stephen Shapiro, Jonathan Sumption
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Be brave, guys.
This is it. Politics. This is what you wanted. Here you are. And here it is. An issue. That matters. And your chance - to do the right thing.
If any Labour MP wants to talk about how we really shorten the backlog & how we really help victims - I’ll talk to you.
Backbench MPs should be asking themselves: am I willing to be a vehicle for this? What is my job here? Is it to do as I’m told? Or am I more important than that? Is *this* more important than that? Was I elected to do this? Was *this* in our manifesto?
And is there any evidence it will work?
It’s *classic* Starmer to use the dying vapours of his evaporating authority to panic-run the dismal policy of restricting jury trials.
How fitting for a former lawyer: one last go, one final verdict, one more time.
And how fitting if it was the verdict that finished him off.
Thanks @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social for brilliantly hosting Free Thinking - Crime and Punishment, Medieval to Modern with @stephenshapiro.bsky.social, @joannahs.bsky.social, @scouttzofiya.bsky.social, Jonathan Sumption and me.
If you missed it, catch up on BBC Sounds ⬇️
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Great to see @joannahs.bsky.social on #politicslive educating politicians on the reality of jury trials and the world criminal lawyers, who should be getting investment ( and medals) not token attacks on our rights ...
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I know right. Nearly spat out my tea.
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Oh HELLO YOU. Huge love to you, you cheeky rascal ❤️❤️❤️
I’ve paid my humble brag for this insufferable post. You can do the same for your humble brags here:
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These are exceptionally generous words from my professional colleagues in the year I took time off to have and raise my baby.
Thank you, you lovely people - I adore working with you all 🥹
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I see.
Gromit is dead 😖
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I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.
normalise going into the softplay centre in a hazmat suit
Just a little sip of water to gather everyone’s thoughts and silently scream into the abyss.
‘And what happened after…that?’
*winces*
We are all on this voyage of discovery together, members of the jury
When defendant four realises, mid-trial, that he’s toast and decides to raise the temperature a bit by dropping the cutthroat in cross-examination :
I can assure you I’m not deliberately ignoring that 🫶
I’ve just seen someone posting their ‘ancestral’ history to confirm they are a ‘native’ so that was completely normal and not at all weird
Ha that’s so nice! Thanks. I have no idea how to do that!
