Mary Aspinall-Miles
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Running from the Law
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'Will you hear me sing when all our words have flown away?'
An extract from 'Incantation', the final movement of my recent piece Going, Going, Gone, which celebrates words in the English language that are going obsolete.
Full thing here open.spotify.com/track/2MY8Vv...
An extract from 'Incantation', the final movement of my recent piece Going, Going, Gone, which celebrates words in the English language that are going obsolete.
Full thing here open.spotify.com/track/2MY8Vv...
Bernard Hughes - 'Incantation' from Going Going Gone (extract)
YouTube video by Bernard Hughes
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May 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
'Will you hear me sing when all our words have flown away?'
An extract from 'Incantation', the final movement of my recent piece Going, Going, Gone, which celebrates words in the English language that are going obsolete.
Full thing here open.spotify.com/track/2MY8Vv...
An extract from 'Incantation', the final movement of my recent piece Going, Going, Gone, which celebrates words in the English language that are going obsolete.
Full thing here open.spotify.com/track/2MY8Vv...
Have had to use the block function on here for the first time. Guess online folks gonna be online folks. 🥴
May 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Have had to use the block function on here for the first time. Guess online folks gonna be online folks. 🥴
Well worth your time to listen
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Documentary - Autism, Empathy And Psychopaths - BBC Sounds
Why society must rethink the damaging stereotypes about autistic people and low empathy
www.bbc.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Well worth your time to listen
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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This person is Attorney General of the United States - a part of the executive - declaring war on the Courts headed by John Roberts.
That she should be impeached and gone by noon tomorrow is a given. However, there is no way now Roberts can duck this fight and have any credible role.
That she should be impeached and gone by noon tomorrow is a given. However, there is no way now Roberts can duck this fight and have any credible role.
Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."
April 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
This person is Attorney General of the United States - a part of the executive - declaring war on the Courts headed by John Roberts.
That she should be impeached and gone by noon tomorrow is a given. However, there is no way now Roberts can duck this fight and have any credible role.
That she should be impeached and gone by noon tomorrow is a given. However, there is no way now Roberts can duck this fight and have any credible role.
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Through all his troubles, neither the DOJ/FBI nor any state authorities ever subjected Donald Trump to arrest, preferring in every case to proceed by indictment and voluntary surrender. It’s notable that a sitting judge and pillar of the Milwaukee community was not extended the same courtesy.
April 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Through all his troubles, neither the DOJ/FBI nor any state authorities ever subjected Donald Trump to arrest, preferring in every case to proceed by indictment and voluntary surrender. It’s notable that a sitting judge and pillar of the Milwaukee community was not extended the same courtesy.
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Shall mourn Pope Francis.
Lux aeterna luceat ei..Requiescat In Pace
But will add this: this is one of the most important conclaves in living memory. Possibly longer.
Lux aeterna luceat ei..Requiescat In Pace
But will add this: this is one of the most important conclaves in living memory. Possibly longer.
April 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Shall mourn Pope Francis.
Lux aeterna luceat ei..Requiescat In Pace
But will add this: this is one of the most important conclaves in living memory. Possibly longer.
Lux aeterna luceat ei..Requiescat In Pace
But will add this: this is one of the most important conclaves in living memory. Possibly longer.
I wanted to be a Criminal barrister for the oral advocacy. Now my life is a paper trail of emails, “attendance” notes, defence statements and endless advices ….
April 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I wanted to be a Criminal barrister for the oral advocacy. Now my life is a paper trail of emails, “attendance” notes, defence statements and endless advices ….
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Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.
April 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.
When I was younger I used to giggle at a #StarTrek character called Deanna Troy. The ship’s counsellor and an empath who would interpret situations etc
Now I see it as prescient.
Now I see it as prescient.
April 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
When I was younger I used to giggle at a #StarTrek character called Deanna Troy. The ship’s counsellor and an empath who would interpret situations etc
Now I see it as prescient.
Now I see it as prescient.
The British model is far from perfect but I fear this coming our way more heavily and readily now.
The stances taken on the COVID regulations gave a glimpse.
The stances taken on the COVID regulations gave a glimpse.
i'm watching a group of conservative law professors insist that there is a grand debate over birthright citizenship that somehow escaped generations of scholarship and only popped into existence after a right-wing president announced an effort to nullify the 14th amendment.
April 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The British model is far from perfect but I fear this coming our way more heavily and readily now.
The stances taken on the COVID regulations gave a glimpse.
The stances taken on the COVID regulations gave a glimpse.
Worth reading the review. All I kept asking myself as I did was “How is this going to be funded?” Closely followed by “ And how is this going to play out in real time conditions?”
🔺NEW: Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, suggests that ‘echoes’ of the year-long inquiry’s recommendations could be included in sentencing and court reforms
Proposals by Times Crime and Justice Commission could become law
Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, suggests that ‘echoes’ of the year-long inquiry’s recommendations could be included in sentencing and court reforms
www.thetimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Worth reading the review. All I kept asking myself as I did was “How is this going to be funded?” Closely followed by “ And how is this going to play out in real time conditions?”
For the good of my blood pressure and mental health, do I listen to Rod Liddle (for it is he!) on Times Radio discuss whether ADHD even exists…. 🙄😬
March 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
For the good of my blood pressure and mental health, do I listen to Rod Liddle (for it is he!) on Times Radio discuss whether ADHD even exists…. 🙄😬
Well worth a listen to today’s episode of the Law Show on BBC Radio4 on expert evidence. Will add this caveat: juries determine cases on all the evidence they have heard and that can include the Defendant’s evidence if they choose to give it.
March 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Well worth a listen to today’s episode of the Law Show on BBC Radio4 on expert evidence. Will add this caveat: juries determine cases on all the evidence they have heard and that can include the Defendant’s evidence if they choose to give it.
A thing about public attitudes to Crime that has struck me of late: the use of adverbs & adjectives in media briefings by Police &/ CPS but especially Police. Often turns up the heat but with no explanation from Defence or evidential context.
That’s why published sentencing remarks matter.
That’s why published sentencing remarks matter.
February 25, 2025 at 10:59 AM
A thing about public attitudes to Crime that has struck me of late: the use of adverbs & adjectives in media briefings by Police &/ CPS but especially Police. Often turns up the heat but with no explanation from Defence or evidential context.
That’s why published sentencing remarks matter.
That’s why published sentencing remarks matter.
Also if you don’t know who Curtis Yarvin is or what his philosophy is, go look him & it up. Then some of what is happening in the US may make a little more sense.
February 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Also if you don’t know who Curtis Yarvin is or what his philosophy is, go look him & it up. Then some of what is happening in the US may make a little more sense.
Another US state governor, this time, New York, setting out what it actually means to be a republican with a small “R”https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1WgEwY/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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February 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Another US state governor, this time, New York, setting out what it actually means to be a republican with a small “R”https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1WgEwY/
This speech by the Governor of Illinois is eloquent as it is powerful. He’s not bending a knee to any monarch, real or self-delusional:
vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1W84aA/
vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1W84aA/
TikTok - Make Your Day
vm.tiktok.com
February 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This speech by the Governor of Illinois is eloquent as it is powerful. He’s not bending a knee to any monarch, real or self-delusional:
vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1W84aA/
vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1W84aA/
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experimental drag act of a fancy lawyer who's also a dainty little dog: welcome to the stage, Bichon de Reya
February 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
experimental drag act of a fancy lawyer who's also a dainty little dog: welcome to the stage, Bichon de Reya
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"La guerra es la forma que tiene dios de enseñar geografía a los estadounidenses". Ambrose Bierce, citado por Anthony Beevor.
February 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
"La guerra es la forma que tiene dios de enseñar geografía a los estadounidenses". Ambrose Bierce, citado por Anthony Beevor.
My history degree is making my teeth itch in terms of current world politics.
February 19, 2025 at 10:56 PM
My history degree is making my teeth itch in terms of current world politics.
Am not sure how many folks in the UK realise what is being done to websites/data repositories in the US. Some have just been wiped away…. It’s like deleting the whole of the ONS.
Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.
February 19, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Am not sure how many folks in the UK realise what is being done to websites/data repositories in the US. Some have just been wiped away…. It’s like deleting the whole of the ONS.
Sticking to what I vaguely know about: all the Crown courts in my area are like ghost ships. Nothing much going on. Guess they are waiting for a new financial year for more sitting days ? Backlog what backlog?
February 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Sticking to what I vaguely know about: all the Crown courts in my area are like ghost ships. Nothing much going on. Guess they are waiting for a new financial year for more sitting days ? Backlog what backlog?
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The test of basic legal literacy in the UK is whether you think UK judges use gavels.
Not a single person involved in the production and publication of this cartoon would pass that test.
Not a single person involved in the production and publication of this cartoon would pass that test.
This whole rule of law thing and the UK Govt having to respect legal commitments (which in most of the recent "controversial" cases, have been imposed on it by Parliament, and applied by the courts). The Telegraph has only found out about all this, and they're very unhappy.
February 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
The test of basic legal literacy in the UK is whether you think UK judges use gavels.
Not a single person involved in the production and publication of this cartoon would pass that test.
Not a single person involved in the production and publication of this cartoon would pass that test.