Tom de la Mare
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Could a match be any more Spursy?
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Could a match be any more Spursy?
Treasury Imps? www.thelawyer.com/the-chosen-o...
The chosen ones: Government appoints six KCs to support Treasury Devil
Attorney General Lord Hermer KC has appointed six silks to a new panel known as the Attorney General’s Senior Treasury Counsel Group. The six KCs will support the Treasury Devil, Blackstone Chambers’…
www.thelawyer.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Treasury Imps? www.thelawyer.com/the-chosen-o...
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Superb…
September 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Superb…
Wow. As a triangulating set of comments on a man's best character (when he had so much to be conceited about, or worse), this takes some beating. What a man. Enough to bring a tear to the eye. More like him desperately needed: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
‘Always the coolest, calmest man in the room’: friends and film-makers remember Robert Redford
Everybody loved Robert Redford. Directors and co-stars including Ralph Fiennes, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Judd Hirsch, Norman Reedus and F Murray Abraham explain why
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Wow. As a triangulating set of comments on a man's best character (when he had so much to be conceited about, or worse), this takes some beating. What a man. Enough to bring a tear to the eye. More like him desperately needed: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
This story, if true, is a disgrace: www.theguardian.com/environment/....
Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
This story, if true, is a disgrace: www.theguardian.com/environment/....
“First they came for the gardeners, and then they came for the carpenters” etc, etc. This is plainly ridiculous: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester
Samuel Rowe, who was returning from allotment, seeking to overturn caution for possession of offensive weapon
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“First they came for the gardeners, and then they came for the carpenters” etc, etc. This is plainly ridiculous: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Lots of stand outs but I thought Leah Williamson was superb - not a foot wrong in the actual match. Even her saved penalty was decent producing a great save. Carter and Bronze also brilliant. Bronze also wins the “clearly most fun at a party award”.
July 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Lots of stand outs but I thought Leah Williamson was superb - not a foot wrong in the actual match. Even her saved penalty was decent producing a great save. Carter and Bronze also brilliant. Bronze also wins the “clearly most fun at a party award”.
Beautiful, admirable daylight robbery!
July 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Beautiful, admirable daylight robbery!
Finally something I can agree vigorously on with JRM.
May 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Finally something I can agree vigorously on with JRM.
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Every word of this. www.ft.com/content/dcc4...
Alf Dubs and Jacob Rees-Mogg: citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish
Shamima Begum made grave mistakes. But she is our responsibility and no one else’s
www.ft.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Every word of this. www.ft.com/content/dcc4...
If anyone deserved to discover they had an original Magna Carta right now it is Harvard.
May 15, 2025 at 6:51 AM
If anyone deserved to discover they had an original Magna Carta right now it is Harvard.
Blackfriars is pretty hard to beat for stations with views from the platform. Where else would you nominate?
March 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Blackfriars is pretty hard to beat for stations with views from the platform. Where else would you nominate?
If Reform breaks apart what next? Provisional Reform? Real Reform? Continuity Reform? People’s Reform of Great Yarmouth (Splitters)?….Reclaim Reform? Reform Reclaimed?
March 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
If Reform breaks apart what next? Provisional Reform? Real Reform? Continuity Reform? People’s Reform of Great Yarmouth (Splitters)?….Reclaim Reform? Reform Reclaimed?
Trump is going to buy a Tesla. Yep, that’s going to repair the brand damage. I can see sales booming in Harlan County etc.
March 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Trump is going to buy a Tesla. Yep, that’s going to repair the brand damage. I can see sales booming in Harlan County etc.
25% of those polled indicate an intention to vote for Reform: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK refers MP Rupert Lowe to police
The party alleges the Great Yarmouth MP made
www.bbc.co.uk
March 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
25% of those polled indicate an intention to vote for Reform: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Events across the Pond mean it has never been more important that we have principled and effective political and legal limits on wide delegations of rule making/rule dispensing power, esp Henry VIII powers. What is needed IMO is an enforceable articulation of the principle of separation of powers.
March 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Events across the Pond mean it has never been more important that we have principled and effective political and legal limits on wide delegations of rule making/rule dispensing power, esp Henry VIII powers. What is needed IMO is an enforceable articulation of the principle of separation of powers.
Those Georgetown ULC graduates who have just taken a job at Perkins Coie must be feeling pretty narked this morning. This is what a full blooded executive assault on the Rule of Law looks like.
March 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Those Georgetown ULC graduates who have just taken a job at Perkins Coie must be feeling pretty narked this morning. This is what a full blooded executive assault on the Rule of Law looks like.
Strong Henry VIII vibes in this EO.
March 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Strong Henry VIII vibes in this EO.
Reposted by Tom de la Mare
Doing tutorials on the rule of law this week. The US continues to provide an embarrassment of teachable moments.
March 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Doing tutorials on the rule of law this week. The US continues to provide an embarrassment of teachable moments.
Taken from the Zimbabwe/Mugabe “Rule of Law Playbook”.
Here is how the White House “condemned” the threats
March 6, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Taken from the Zimbabwe/Mugabe “Rule of Law Playbook”.
The Oval Office - What even was that?
February 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Oval Office - What even was that?
Gene Hackman. What an actor. No one did menace/tough/bad guy like him: FC1 and 2, Mississippi Burning, Unforgiven. But then, my personal fave, The Converstion. What a film.
February 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Gene Hackman. What an actor. No one did menace/tough/bad guy like him: FC1 and 2, Mississippi Burning, Unforgiven. But then, my personal fave, The Converstion. What a film.
Bowling fast at CDC, Medicaid, DoJ, FBI; batting very hard for the Tate brothers (“friends of ours” due some payback for helpful social media influencing). These people are who their actions say they are.
February 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Bowling fast at CDC, Medicaid, DoJ, FBI; batting very hard for the Tate brothers (“friends of ours” due some payback for helpful social media influencing). These people are who their actions say they are.
The question the White House Press Corps have to ask themselves is “At what point do we become complicit”? Holds power to account - not holdouts to power accounts.
February 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The question the White House Press Corps have to ask themselves is “At what point do we become complicit”? Holds power to account - not holdouts to power accounts.