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Max Hardy
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Barrister | TV legal consultant (Mr Bates, Landscapers, Criminal UK, Defending the Guilty) | Legal blogger & media commentator |
Kalisher Trust Trustee

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#75
January 5, 2026 at 3:09 PM
When your life is under the control of a mob boss having your life under the control of a bigger mob boss is not an improvement.
January 4, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Think Greenland needs to get ready to become Redwhiteandblueland.
January 3, 2026 at 9:44 PM
‘No that’s the USA, you’re the President there, Mr. President.’
January 3, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Dim Sum for lunch.
Hardy boys using chopsticks to cast spells.
Me: Will you STOP, none of the Chinese children are doing that.
Chinese kid at next table: Wingardium Leviosa!
Me: Ok fine.
January 3, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Is Putin on Trump’s deposition list?
January 3, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Was a ‘product’ ever more aptly named than Grok? Its users presumably being Grokles.
January 2, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Reposted by Max Hardy
Having Grok “apologise” for creating CSAM is like punching someone in the face and then having the Sooty puppet on your fist apologise.
January 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
London, never change. PSA don’t EVER cycle to Tottenham Hale, probably should have known that after 45 years.
January 2, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Pupil barristers, do not say this in court, ever.
January 2, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Juries don't just serve justice they serve society. This post explores how contracting jury trial will fray the social fabric. open.substack.com/pub/counselo...
At your service.
Why jury service doesn't just serve justice.
open.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Proper snow in Berlin. About to find out if the Hardy boys are Handschuhschneeballwerfers [saps that have to wear gloves to throw snowballs].
December 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Bought my mother some flowers in Italy and the florist produced a bouquet fit for the Queen of Sheba. I commended her and she looked at me and said firmly:
“La mamma è la mamma.”
December 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Only in Italy would they have to clarify that the drinking fountain does not provide sparkling water.
December 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Have just had a gelato so sublime it was almost a spiritual existence. Whoever brings panna cotta with marron glacé flavoured ice cream to Britain will be rich beyond imagining.
December 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Reposted by Max Hardy
With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.
December 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Reposted by Max Hardy
NEW

Jane Austen as a writer about law

Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, by me

(And also why there is only one good adaptation of her works.)

emptycity.substack.com/p/jane-auste...
Jane Austen as a writer about law
Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice
emptycity.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
What I like about taking a taxi in Italy is that you’re warmly encouraged to join the heckling and hand gestures against other drivers.
December 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
In defence of a Happy Christmas: open.substack.com/pub/counselo...
In defence of a Happy Christmas
Christmas is a time to spare a thought for those less fortunate than ourselves.
open.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
You think you’ve heard every family story going then your sister casually drops meeting John Hamm at the Ritz and telling him about her brief career in advertising.
December 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Thurifer was swinging the censer enthusiastically at Midnight Mass last night and a much younger acolyte kept encroaching into its path and it was like watching a dad stopping his kid from running in front of the swings at the playground.
December 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
In praise of London's wonderful Community Sauna Baths: open.substack.com/pub/counselo...
Blowing Hot. Blowing Cold.
Some time after the invention of the Internet but before the invention of social media Sir John Soane’s Museum started having occasional candlelit evenings.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
If you've never heard Alison Krauss sing The Wexford Carol accompanied by Yo-Yo Ma this is a real treat: open.spotify.com/track/2OVCLE...
The Wexford Carol
open.spotify.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Taxi from the airport into Turin and the driver managed to fill the entire journey talking about what he will be eating for Christmas lunch. Anchovies with salsa verde and spaghetti with clams and yellow tomato sauce were two highlights. Beats turkey...
December 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Reposted by Max Hardy
Day 22 #ArtAdventCalendar

Snowy seal // Pencil & white charcoal on moleskine paper
December 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM