John de Waal KC
@johndewaalkc.bsky.social
Barrister at Gatehouse Chambers and Mediator at The Property Mediators. Proud Austrian citizen. Lives in London and Buckinghamshire, happiest in the mountains.
View from where I am mediating today.
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
View from where I am mediating today.
View from where I am mediating today.
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
View from where I am mediating today.
No doubt Reform and the racists will be acknowledging his heritage - won’t they?
November 4, 2025 at 1:50 PM
No doubt Reform and the racists will be acknowledging his heritage - won’t they?
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Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday?
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Did you happen to leave your @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk purchases on the Metropolitan line yesterday?
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
Did one of your friends do this and send an anguished message to the group chat?
If so, Darren has just done you a very good turn. 👇
View from where I am mediating today (yes, a boundary dispute).
October 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
View from where I am mediating today (yes, a boundary dispute).
Fans of #CurbYourEnthusiasm will recall the episode about the ‘cut off time’. When do you think it is? I get up early and go to bed early so for me it’s 9pm. I say this because I was called 3x last night by one persistent person after 9 which I consider very unsociable.
October 28, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Fans of #CurbYourEnthusiasm will recall the episode about the ‘cut off time’. When do you think it is? I get up early and go to bed early so for me it’s 9pm. I say this because I was called 3x last night by one persistent person after 9 which I consider very unsociable.
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The reform party nativity scene.
No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.
And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.
And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
October 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The reform party nativity scene.
No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.
And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.
And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
I spent yesterday with my 96yo father who lives in a care home not far from Katie Lam’s constituency. His carers are overwhelmingly from South Asia or Africa who have I hope IRL. They look after him brilliantly. 1/
October 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I spent yesterday with my 96yo father who lives in a care home not far from Katie Lam’s constituency. His carers are overwhelmingly from South Asia or Africa who have I hope IRL. They look after him brilliantly. 1/
Ray of hope here.
Good point from @adambienkov.bsky.social - if the massed ranks of the right wing press with BBC boosting, plus the vast amount of money (and foreign social media bots) couldn’t get Reform over the line, what will?
🔴The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Ray of hope here.
LAFRA J/R dismissed. Useful LinkedIn post from counsel for govt. Great news for tenants.
October 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
LAFRA J/R dismissed. Useful LinkedIn post from counsel for govt. Great news for tenants.
I am doing a remote mediation today and someone has brought their 11-month old baby, which is wonderful, but I’m not sure how he’s going to sign the confidentiality agreement…
October 17, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I am doing a remote mediation today and someone has brought their 11-month old baby, which is wonderful, but I’m not sure how he’s going to sign the confidentiality agreement…
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View from where I am mediating today.
October 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
View from where I am mediating today.
View from where I am mediating today.
October 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
View from where I am mediating today.
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The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
October 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
Isn’t Jenrick revolting?
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Isn’t Jenrick revolting?
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Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?
October 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?
Misogyny is often precursor to terrorism.
October 3, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Misogyny is often precursor to terrorism.
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A call for those outside the Jewish community to share a message of solidarity when Yom Kippur ends at 723pm tonight. Please do join if you can. This is an initiative coordinated by the Together coalition, talking among networks of all faiths + none this afternoon
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On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
October 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A call for those outside the Jewish community to share a message of solidarity when Yom Kippur ends at 723pm tonight. Please do join if you can. This is an initiative coordinated by the Together coalition, talking among networks of all faiths + none this afternoon
bsky.app/profile/sund...
bsky.app/profile/sund...
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Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete
Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act
Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete
Late night mediation.
September 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Late night mediation.
Personally, I’m in favour of a good citizenship test for all those who go on right wing demonstrations and marches, if they fail they could be re-educated in British values of tolerance and liberalism. Immigrants are not the problem.
September 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Personally, I’m in favour of a good citizenship test for all those who go on right wing demonstrations and marches, if they fail they could be re-educated in British values of tolerance and liberalism. Immigrants are not the problem.
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How did the White House end up brokering a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
In a new article for @foreignaffairs.com, Senior Fellow Thomas de Waal unravels how a shared rejection of Russian dominance in the South Caucasus drove both parties down "an unlikely road to peace."
In a new article for @foreignaffairs.com, Senior Fellow Thomas de Waal unravels how a shared rejection of Russian dominance in the South Caucasus drove both parties down "an unlikely road to peace."
Just published, my piece on the U.S. Armenia-Azerbaijan deal and its prospects. There is a lot of hard work still to be done, I argue, but the shared coincidence of interests that neither country wants Russia as a guarantor has been transformative. www.foreignaffairs.com/armenia/unli...
An Unlikely Road to Peace in the South Caucasus
How common cause against Russia enabled an American deal.
www.foreignaffairs.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
How did the White House end up brokering a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan?
In a new article for @foreignaffairs.com, Senior Fellow Thomas de Waal unravels how a shared rejection of Russian dominance in the South Caucasus drove both parties down "an unlikely road to peace."
In a new article for @foreignaffairs.com, Senior Fellow Thomas de Waal unravels how a shared rejection of Russian dominance in the South Caucasus drove both parties down "an unlikely road to peace."
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TLDR: Make racism shameful again. While you’re at it add fascism too.
September 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
TLDR: Make racism shameful again. While you’re at it add fascism too.
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A political party, that's topping the polls, lauding someone who called for human beings to be burned to death should be a moment for national self-reflection.
This is not who we are nor who we should become.
Reform UK are a plague on our national humanity. We must never permit them to govern.
This is not who we are nor who we should become.
Reform UK are a plague on our national humanity. We must never permit them to govern.
September 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A political party, that's topping the polls, lauding someone who called for human beings to be burned to death should be a moment for national self-reflection.
This is not who we are nor who we should become.
Reform UK are a plague on our national humanity. We must never permit them to govern.
This is not who we are nor who we should become.
Reform UK are a plague on our national humanity. We must never permit them to govern.