Carl Johnstone
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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?
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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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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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Dominic Grieve. 👏👏👏
August 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Dominic Grieve. 👏👏👏
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I posted once on the other place that a view like the one below is almost completely the result of human activity.
July 14, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I posted once on the other place that a view like the one below is almost completely the result of human activity.
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What do we think?🤔
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
June 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM
What do we think?🤔
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious.
Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story!
So, what’s going on here?
Let’s take a look!👀
🧵
1/13
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In terms of political strategy, Labour have absolutely failed to tie Reform to Brexit... or indeed to Donald Trump.
May 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
In terms of political strategy, Labour have absolutely failed to tie Reform to Brexit... or indeed to Donald Trump.
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XKCD is often subtly political. You know shit is bad when it’s pretty overt.
April 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
XKCD is often subtly political. You know shit is bad when it’s pretty overt.
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Round of applause for this social media person
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Round of applause for this social media person
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Since Slack is down I have no choice but to email staff and ask them to send me five bullet points of things they got done today.
February 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Since Slack is down I have no choice but to email staff and ask them to send me five bullet points of things they got done today.
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No one should be in any doubt that an objective of Trump, Vance, Musk and others is to break-up the EU.
February 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
No one should be in any doubt that an objective of Trump, Vance, Musk and others is to break-up the EU.
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Have you noticed how they’ve used the lack of employment law and lack of data protection law in the US to their advantage? Firing people who refuse to break the rules.
This is why libertarians and Brexiteers want to rip up rights and regulations. They stop them.
This is why libertarians and Brexiteers want to rip up rights and regulations. They stop them.
Musk's minions fed sensitive data from the Education Dept into AI, including data with personally identifiable information for people who manage grants, and also sensitive internal financial data.
AI via Azure is being used to analyze disbursements, from contracts to grants to trip expenses.
Gift!
AI via Azure is being used to analyze disbursements, from contracts to grants to trip expenses.
Gift!
Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts
Department of Government Efficiency workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Have you noticed how they’ve used the lack of employment law and lack of data protection law in the US to their advantage? Firing people who refuse to break the rules.
This is why libertarians and Brexiteers want to rip up rights and regulations. They stop them.
This is why libertarians and Brexiteers want to rip up rights and regulations. They stop them.
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Elon Musk | American History X
I cut the clip. You decide.
I cut the clip. You decide.
January 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Elon Musk | American History X
I cut the clip. You decide.
I cut the clip. You decide.
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If you have the AUDACITY to play video games on "easy" or "story" mode...
I want you to know that I think that's a perfectly acceptable way to enjoy a video game that you paid for because you're supposed to enjoy your favorite pastime any way you like.
Real life's hard enough. Enjoy your hobby.👍
I want you to know that I think that's a perfectly acceptable way to enjoy a video game that you paid for because you're supposed to enjoy your favorite pastime any way you like.
Real life's hard enough. Enjoy your hobby.👍
November 11, 2024 at 9:43 PM
If you have the AUDACITY to play video games on "easy" or "story" mode...
I want you to know that I think that's a perfectly acceptable way to enjoy a video game that you paid for because you're supposed to enjoy your favorite pastime any way you like.
Real life's hard enough. Enjoy your hobby.👍
I want you to know that I think that's a perfectly acceptable way to enjoy a video game that you paid for because you're supposed to enjoy your favorite pastime any way you like.
Real life's hard enough. Enjoy your hobby.👍