Jolyon Maugham KC
@goodlawproject.org
Founder and Director, Good Law Project. King's Counsel. Hon Prof at Durham University.
Live your values. Fight the power. Keep the receipts.
He/him.
https://goodlaw.social/nm7n
Live your values. Fight the power. Keep the receipts.
He/him.
https://goodlaw.social/nm7n
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
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George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016.
He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.
He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.
December 25, 2025 at 9:35 AM
George Michael died on Christmas Day in 2016.
He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.
He will be remembered for his incredible songwriting talent, his gorgeous vocals and for the greatest non-apology video of all time, following his arrest for cottaging.
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Big love to the at-home Carers, many who have never had a day off in years too.
December 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Big love to the at-home Carers, many who have never had a day off in years too.
Thinking of everyone, especially in the LGBT+ community, estranged from their parents; I hope you have made your own family with someone who loves you. Warm thoughts to you today from all at Maugham Towers.
December 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Thinking of everyone, especially in the LGBT+ community, estranged from their parents; I hope you have made your own family with someone who loves you. Warm thoughts to you today from all at Maugham Towers.
My advice, as someone who enjoys a wonderful relationship with parents from whom he was once estranged (before the age of internet chatrooms): if you want your children back, start with self reflection and contrition. Oh, and don't write for a newspaper that hates them.
Sarah Ditum: the voice of parents, some driven mad with hate by the very newspaper for which she writes, who rejected their children and now struggle with the consequences.
Sarah, I'm pretty sure hectoring them from the pages of The Times won't bring them back.
Sarah, I'm pretty sure hectoring them from the pages of The Times won't bring them back.
December 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
My advice, as someone who enjoys a wonderful relationship with parents from whom he was once estranged (before the age of internet chatrooms): if you want your children back, start with self reflection and contrition. Oh, and don't write for a newspaper that hates them.
Two of these five are UK citizens. Have we seen any statement from the UK Government?
A grim sense of Russia about these US travel restrictions, of testing and testing how far it can go and how strong is the pushback it gets. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Statement by the European Commission on the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on certain EU individuals
The European Commission strongly condemns the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on five European individuals, including former European Commissioner Thierry Breton.\nFreedom of expression is
ec.europa.eu
December 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Two of these five are UK citizens. Have we seen any statement from the UK Government?
A grim sense of Russia about these US travel restrictions, of testing and testing how far it can go and how strong is the pushback it gets. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
Statement by the European Commission on the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on certain EU individuals
The European Commission strongly condemns the U.S. decision to impose travel restrictions on five European individuals, including former European Commissioner Thierry Breton.\nFreedom of expression is
ec.europa.eu
December 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A grim sense of Russia about these US travel restrictions, of testing and testing how far it can go and how strong is the pushback it gets. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
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It's crazy that labour is even more homophobic than reform.
This poll also shows how stupid it is that people believe parents are transing away the gay when they're far more transphobic than homophobic.
This poll also shows how stupid it is that people believe parents are transing away the gay when they're far more transphobic than homophobic.
We really are a nation that loves animals and hates children. These figures are so shameful (via @natacha.bsky.social).
December 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It's crazy that labour is even more homophobic than reform.
This poll also shows how stupid it is that people believe parents are transing away the gay when they're far more transphobic than homophobic.
This poll also shows how stupid it is that people believe parents are transing away the gay when they're far more transphobic than homophobic.
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Same! This case even came up at an ethics conference I was at recently and 90% of ethicists in the room thought it was up to the teenager
Whilst the preference of a Jehovah's Witness for death over a blood transfusion seems bizarre to me, I don't really understand why this young person should not be able to decide for themselves?
Teenage Jehovah's Witness can receive blood transfusion, judge rules
The child told medics she didn't consent to receiving a blood transfusion even in the event of a medical emergency.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Same! This case even came up at an ethics conference I was at recently and 90% of ethicists in the room thought it was up to the teenager
Whilst the preference of a Jehovah's Witness for death over a blood transfusion seems bizarre to me, I don't really understand why this young person should not be able to decide for themselves?
Teenage Jehovah's Witness can receive blood transfusion, judge rules
The child told medics she didn't consent to receiving a blood transfusion even in the event of a medical emergency.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Whilst the preference of a Jehovah's Witness for death over a blood transfusion seems bizarre to me, I don't really understand why this young person should not be able to decide for themselves?
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More anti-renewables astroturfing from the BBC, quoting exactly three (3) villagers opposed to a solar farm, and zero data.
Plans to build a huge solar farm set to be opposed by villagers - BBC News
Villagers have expressed concern about plans to build a 373 acre solar farm nearby.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
More anti-renewables astroturfing from the BBC, quoting exactly three (3) villagers opposed to a solar farm, and zero data.
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An absolutely enormous amount of work over 5+ years to get to this result.
A huge credit to my client Ian McGrail who has kept going despite the many barbs and arrows flung at him over that period.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
A huge credit to my client Ian McGrail who has kept going despite the many barbs and arrows flung at him over that period.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Gibraltar’s chief minister made ‘sinister’ interventions to protect friend from police
Inquiry finds Fabian Picardo was ‘grossly improper’ to protect James Levy from a search warrant
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
An absolutely enormous amount of work over 5+ years to get to this result.
A huge credit to my client Ian McGrail who has kept going despite the many barbs and arrows flung at him over that period.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
A huge credit to my client Ian McGrail who has kept going despite the many barbs and arrows flung at him over that period.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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One of my few real opinions is that you shouldn't be having kids if you aren't ok with the possibility of them being one of the types of person that exist
We really are a nation that loves animals and hates children. These figures are so shameful (via @natacha.bsky.social).
December 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
One of my few real opinions is that you shouldn't be having kids if you aren't ok with the possibility of them being one of the types of person that exist
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Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
We really are a nation that loves animals and hates children. These figures are so shameful (via @natacha.bsky.social).
December 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
We really are a nation that loves animals and hates children. These figures are so shameful (via @natacha.bsky.social).
Goodness me, these judicial comments are astonishingly damming of the Campaign Against Antisemitism. news.sky.com/story/regina...
Reginald D Hunter: Summons against comic by Campaign Against Antisemitism quashed for seeking to have him 'cancelled'
The judge said the CAA "misled" him over comments Hunter made to Heidi Bachram on X, and failed to inform him of a previous compliance probe.
news.sky.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Goodness me, these judicial comments are astonishingly damming of the Campaign Against Antisemitism. news.sky.com/story/regina...
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We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people.
Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6
Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6
December 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
We’ve today formally written to multiple public bodies about BBC reporting on transgender people.
Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6
Here’s who we’ve contacted and why. 1/6
Blindingly obvious and exactly what I said to the New York Times at the time. So the question is, why did the useless British media carry, hysterically, coverage of a UK (Not Very Good) Lawyers for Israel press release? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bob Vylan: No charges over IDF chants during Glastonbury set
Avon and Somerset Police says the incident
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Blindingly obvious and exactly what I said to the New York Times at the time. So the question is, why did the useless British media carry, hysterically, coverage of a UK (Not Very Good) Lawyers for Israel press release? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Orwell will rise from his grave and chisel his words from the front of a BBC which has become a national embarrassment.
How on earth does the email "not indicate any wrongdoing"?
Pathetically craven from the BBC.
Pathetically craven from the BBC.
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Orwell will rise from his grave and chisel his words from the front of a BBC which has become a national embarrassment.
How on earth does the email "not indicate any wrongdoing"?
Pathetically craven from the BBC.
Pathetically craven from the BBC.
December 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
How on earth does the email "not indicate any wrongdoing"?
Pathetically craven from the BBC.
Pathetically craven from the BBC.
We're keen to challenge the predicate to the case brought by the (revoltingly homophobic) Christian Institute: that upholding the rights of those protected by the Equality Act is a contestable and political stance. So, thanks, I guess to them.
Supporting LGBT+ rights is political in a way that breaches the civil service code and opposing them is not political in a way that precludes charitable status is a... complex position to hold, although one managed by former LGBA hate group with charitable status trustee Kathleen Stock.
December 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
We're keen to challenge the predicate to the case brought by the (revoltingly homophobic) Christian Institute: that upholding the rights of those protected by the Equality Act is a contestable and political stance. So, thanks, I guess to them.
Supporting LGBT+ rights is political in a way that breaches the civil service code and opposing them is not political in a way that precludes charitable status is a... complex position to hold, although one managed by former LGBA hate group with charitable status trustee Kathleen Stock.
December 23, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Supporting LGBT+ rights is political in a way that breaches the civil service code and opposing them is not political in a way that precludes charitable status is a... complex position to hold, although one managed by former LGBA hate group with charitable status trustee Kathleen Stock.
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"Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power".
Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
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December 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power".
Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed
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Doesn't free speech include the right for students to protest speakers? @adamserwer.bsky.social is right, they don't want the right to free speech, they want the right to monolog without any criticism.
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Doesn't free speech include the right for students to protest speakers? @adamserwer.bsky.social is right, they don't want the right to free speech, they want the right to monolog without any criticism.
"The number of young people seduced by Reform’s populism has also been exaggerated. The brilliant Zoe Grunewald wrote recently about how, statistically, it is middle aged men who are most at risk of far-right radicalisation."
Wrote a counter piece with (I hope) a bit of balance on the issue - tashthinks.substack.com/p/the-kids-a...
The Kids Are Alright....
...Mostly
tashthinks.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"The number of young people seduced by Reform’s populism has also been exaggerated. The brilliant Zoe Grunewald wrote recently about how, statistically, it is middle aged men who are most at risk of far-right radicalisation."