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Lawyer, writer, gardener. Irish-Italian. www.cyclefree.co.uk
You do realise, don't you that the consultation process is not about deciding what the law should say nor about how it should be interpreted. The Supreme Court has already decided that and set it out very clearly in its judgment.
May 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is simply untrue. The Supreme Court's judgment sets out the law. Nothing further is needed. Anyone ignoring the judgment is putting themselves at legal risk. Anyone advising them to do so is being very foolish indeed.
May 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I said this of her in July 2023.
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Note the last sentence. Have seen nothing since to change tht view.
A Missed Opportunity
It is not easy for a Cabinet Minister to make a good impression or even achieve very much. Staying out of trouble is a high bar these days. Maybe much worthwhile work is being done behind the scenes w...
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February 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
We may even - one day - get an answer to the mystery why no-one in government noticed the obvious conflict of interest caused by having the same person in charge of the Judicial Appointments Commission and the CCRC.
January 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The 2nd describes what should happen now. Though it begs two obvious questions:
(1) How far the government in charge for 14 years was responsible for this?; &
(2) If it thought it a problem, why nothing was done about it.
January 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Hello - well I will share my headers and my better posts on here. So don't be too sad! X has become pretty unpleasant too. All social media these days requires picking one's way thro stinky mud. I hang on in there precisely not to cede ground to the loons. Ever the optimist!
January 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Yes - it risks repeating 2 common failures: (1) inflating the housing market rather than building more; & (2) believing that lifting restrictions on banks will lead to growth rather than banks taking badly understood & unsustainable risks.
January 17, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I agree. He is too gentle. But at least he has tried. Most men have just averted their eyes- in both horror and embarrassment.
January 8, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Or cats. Bears aren't an improvement, let's face it. When Vance thought to insult us by calling us cat ladies, a lot of women thought "you fool, there's good reasons for that choice".
January 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
On 2 maybe - but the impulse for their appallingness towards women has a fundamentally different quality. A man may well not be a rapist etc but still see women as somehow contingent on male permission, as there to serve him. That attitude affects so much else beyond sex.
January 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Robert Crampton has tried to write about it here - www.thetimes.com/article/a458...
As a man I followed the trial in horror
The perpetrators were all ages, from all walks of life — and they were all willing to commit rape
www.thetimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
I have many thoughts on this. But 2 for now.
1. Male sexuality has a very dark side with which women are familiar but which men are far too unwilling to confront.
2. A lot of men still find it very hard to see women as fully human, as no more than a support animal for men.
January 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
We have to assume now that the US under Trump is no longer an ally and may become a hostile actor. The implications - both financial and strategic - are immense.
January 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Yes - it is worrying. NATO is either dead or has to go ahead without the US. The implications of either simply have not been addressed by NATO members, as far as anyone can see.
January 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
She is singularly lacking in charm. Now charm can be overrated but a politician - esp a leader - should have some ability to connect, charm, persuade & appear interested in others.

For someone who became leader at her second attempt she seems very vague as to why she wants to be leader.
December 31, 2024 at 12:40 AM
I think the answer to that is "Oh yes she can."
See www1.politicalbetting.com/index.php/ar...
Regulating for Growth – politicalbetting.com
www1.politicalbetting.com
December 30, 2024 at 9:30 PM