Johnny Morris on a boat
@nbjohnniefaa.bsky.social
‘Continuous cruiser’ narrowboater with wide interests. Left wing, Rejoiner, keen but rusty botanist He/him 🏳️🌈
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Basically, this proposes that magistrates’ decisions on matter of factual guilt will be un-appealable.
So the vast majority of criminal convictions will result from unchallengeable panels of semi-professionals…
So the vast majority of criminal convictions will result from unchallengeable panels of semi-professionals…
This does seem pretty much guaranteed, especially combined with increased use of magistrates, to risk fundamentally restricting people's rights. I am genuinely confused how it is getting so little attention, unless I have seriously missed something.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...
December 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Basically, this proposes that magistrates’ decisions on matter of factual guilt will be un-appealable.
So the vast majority of criminal convictions will result from unchallengeable panels of semi-professionals…
So the vast majority of criminal convictions will result from unchallengeable panels of semi-professionals…
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Cow Parsley hanging!
Find us at Cley Village Hall, Norfolk, Sat 6th Dec, 10am-4pm
#cley #norfolk #cleynext-the-sea #eastanglia #norfolkmakers #designermaker #unique #handmadegift #norfolkcrafts #norfolkcraftfairs #handpainted #kilnfired #traditionalcrafts #glassartist #glass #art
Find us at Cley Village Hall, Norfolk, Sat 6th Dec, 10am-4pm
#cley #norfolk #cleynext-the-sea #eastanglia #norfolkmakers #designermaker #unique #handmadegift #norfolkcrafts #norfolkcraftfairs #handpainted #kilnfired #traditionalcrafts #glassartist #glass #art
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Cow Parsley hanging!
Find us at Cley Village Hall, Norfolk, Sat 6th Dec, 10am-4pm
#cley #norfolk #cleynext-the-sea #eastanglia #norfolkmakers #designermaker #unique #handmadegift #norfolkcrafts #norfolkcraftfairs #handpainted #kilnfired #traditionalcrafts #glassartist #glass #art
Find us at Cley Village Hall, Norfolk, Sat 6th Dec, 10am-4pm
#cley #norfolk #cleynext-the-sea #eastanglia #norfolkmakers #designermaker #unique #handmadegift #norfolkcrafts #norfolkcraftfairs #handpainted #kilnfired #traditionalcrafts #glassartist #glass #art
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NEW BLOGPOST
Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
Today, the government has confirmed that it intends to remove the right to trial by jury in the vast majority of cases in the Crown Courts. Serious criminal allegations, carrying up to three years …
thesecretbarrister.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
NEW BLOGPOST
Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
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Transphobes can afford to march across the country threatening to sue every institution they meet into submission.
Parents of trans children daren't raise their heads for fear of a deluge of abuse and threats.
Is this justice? Is this liberty?
Parents of trans children daren't raise their heads for fear of a deluge of abuse and threats.
Is this justice? Is this liberty?
December 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Transphobes can afford to march across the country threatening to sue every institution they meet into submission.
Parents of trans children daren't raise their heads for fear of a deluge of abuse and threats.
Is this justice? Is this liberty?
Parents of trans children daren't raise their heads for fear of a deluge of abuse and threats.
Is this justice? Is this liberty?
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December 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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December 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
So, happy 50th anniversary to Melody Maker’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody: “Queen, with a suitably baroque vocal orchestration, contrive to approximate the demented fury of the Balham Amateur Operatic Society performing The Pirates of Penzance”
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Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.
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Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
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My charity @protect.earth is five years old this week.
Some stats. 🧵
- Planted 157,453 trees
- Created 4,985m of hedgerow
- Removed over 15 acres of invasive species (Japanese knotweed, rhododendrons, bamboo and Himalayan balsam)
- Run 5 free hedge-laying courses for Welsh farmers.
Some stats. 🧵
- Planted 157,453 trees
- Created 4,985m of hedgerow
- Removed over 15 acres of invasive species (Japanese knotweed, rhododendrons, bamboo and Himalayan balsam)
- Run 5 free hedge-laying courses for Welsh farmers.
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My charity @protect.earth is five years old this week.
Some stats. 🧵
- Planted 157,453 trees
- Created 4,985m of hedgerow
- Removed over 15 acres of invasive species (Japanese knotweed, rhododendrons, bamboo and Himalayan balsam)
- Run 5 free hedge-laying courses for Welsh farmers.
Some stats. 🧵
- Planted 157,453 trees
- Created 4,985m of hedgerow
- Removed over 15 acres of invasive species (Japanese knotweed, rhododendrons, bamboo and Himalayan balsam)
- Run 5 free hedge-laying courses for Welsh farmers.
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It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
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If I were Tory leader I'd simply avoid saying things a 12 year old RE student would know to be bollocks.
November 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
If I were Tory leader I'd simply avoid saying things a 12 year old RE student would know to be bollocks.
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And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
And still, there are those who say that Americans can’t do irony.
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“It’s only fair that you pay back the costs of going to university because you’ll get a better paid job at the end of it … but we’re going to make you pay back those costs even if you get a job at near minimum wage because we’d otherwise have to tax millionaires.”
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage on.ft.com/3M2AYkD
Threshold for repaying student loans to converge with minimum wage
Surprise move from chancellor means some university graduates in England may have to pay back debts sooner
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
“It’s only fair that you pay back the costs of going to university because you’ll get a better paid job at the end of it … but we’re going to make you pay back those costs even if you get a job at near minimum wage because we’d otherwise have to tax millionaires.”
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🔥💣
Friends: do you know a Megan, who recently hurt her ankle in a Trade Joe’s parking lot and had surgery? Because her pissy ginger boyfriend is talking shit about her at Denver airport and thousands of women on Threads from *at least four* continents are gonna hunt him into his last days.
Pass it on.
Pass it on.
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🔥💣
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This is just pathetic. You’ll get a bit less untaxed interest. That’s it. If the difference between taxed & untaxed interest on eight grand was keeping you above water, what are you blowing your 100k income on?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'We make £100,000. The cut to cash Isa limit is a big blow'
BBC News hears from people with a range of incomes about what they think of the Budget.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is just pathetic. You’ll get a bit less untaxed interest. That’s it. If the difference between taxed & untaxed interest on eight grand was keeping you above water, what are you blowing your 100k income on?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Thanksgiving with the Other Side
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thanksgiving with the Other Side
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One might well also ask what David Lammy, as Foreign Secretary & Justice Secretary, is supposed to have done to farmers, except be Black in public...
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
One might well also ask what David Lammy, as Foreign Secretary & Justice Secretary, is supposed to have done to farmers, except be Black in public...
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The abolition of the two-child benefit cap, which punishes children for their parents' circumstances, is the best part of the budget, potentially lifting almost half a million children out of poverty.
It may also be the part that comes under fiercest attack. So it needs celebrating and defending.
It may also be the part that comes under fiercest attack. So it needs celebrating and defending.
And the two child benefit limit is abolished. An enormous victory for those who have campaigned tirelessly for eight long years through successive governments. This will lift at least 450,000 children out of poverty. Fewer kids will be hungry. No more women forced to disclose their rape.
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The abolition of the two-child benefit cap, which punishes children for their parents' circumstances, is the best part of the budget, potentially lifting almost half a million children out of poverty.
It may also be the part that comes under fiercest attack. So it needs celebrating and defending.
It may also be the part that comes under fiercest attack. So it needs celebrating and defending.
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Labour being ****s, joining forces with the lying rightwing ****s who’ve decided that disabled people don’t deserve “free cars” (they’re not free).
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves expected to scrap £300m in tax breaks for Motability scheme
Plan to remove relief from scheme that helps provide cars for disabled people likely to concern some Labour MPs
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Labour being ****s, joining forces with the lying rightwing ****s who’ve decided that disabled people don’t deserve “free cars” (they’re not free).
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
‘Stopham Bridge in Autumn’
Artist: SR Badmin
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Right.
November 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Right.
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It's 2029, and a Reform government has sworn in its first batch of politically appointed judges. Suddenly, the Labour Party remembers why jury trials mattered.
November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It's 2029, and a Reform government has sworn in its first batch of politically appointed judges. Suddenly, the Labour Party remembers why jury trials mattered.
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Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...