Gareth Thomas
@profgaretht.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof, UEA Law School; Chair, Suffolk Law Centre; Exec Member, Law Centres Network; Founder, UEA Law Clinic. Posts on access to justice, employment & discrimination law, art, music, architecture, gardening, classic cars, Cymru, and NCFC 💛💚
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Gareth Thomas
@profgaretht.bsky.social
· Dec 22
Howdy folks - my first post on here, and feeling like the new boy in school - not sure where to go, or what to do!
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If the opinion of some blokes who played teenage chess counts for nothing then what is the country coming to?
December 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
If the opinion of some blokes who played teenage chess counts for nothing then what is the country coming to?
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The UK has gone quite, quite mad.
It's ridiculous that we (just about) survived 14 years of the Tories, only for Labour to allow the madness to take hold and spread.
Some of the stuff in those bullets is just breath-takingly evil.
And it's not winning Labour ANY votes. Just helping Reform.
It's ridiculous that we (just about) survived 14 years of the Tories, only for Labour to allow the madness to take hold and spread.
Some of the stuff in those bullets is just breath-takingly evil.
And it's not winning Labour ANY votes. Just helping Reform.
December 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The UK has gone quite, quite mad.
It's ridiculous that we (just about) survived 14 years of the Tories, only for Labour to allow the madness to take hold and spread.
Some of the stuff in those bullets is just breath-takingly evil.
And it's not winning Labour ANY votes. Just helping Reform.
It's ridiculous that we (just about) survived 14 years of the Tories, only for Labour to allow the madness to take hold and spread.
Some of the stuff in those bullets is just breath-takingly evil.
And it's not winning Labour ANY votes. Just helping Reform.
What fresh hell is this? I’ve been quoted £300+VAT by a local ACSP to perform this task. And all so that I can remain a trustee of a charity?
Sort yourselves out, Companies House!
Sort yourselves out, Companies House!
Having made several attempts to verify my identity with Companies House (including a trip to the Post Office) in order to remain a charity board member, only to be told that I’ve been wasting my time, and need to pay an ACSP to do it, I’ve concluded that this entire process is an utter shitshow
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
What fresh hell is this? I’ve been quoted £300+VAT by a local ACSP to perform this task. And all so that I can remain a trustee of a charity?
Sort yourselves out, Companies House!
Sort yourselves out, Companies House!
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
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Christmas sorted. Prints, homewares, cards and t-shirts inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Designed in Manchester. Made in the UK. gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Christmas sorted. Prints, homewares, cards and t-shirts inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Designed in Manchester. Made in the UK. gailmyerscough.co.uk
Having made several attempts to verify my identity with Companies House (including a trip to the Post Office) in order to remain a charity board member, only to be told that I’ve been wasting my time, and need to pay an ACSP to do it, I’ve concluded that this entire process is an utter shitshow
December 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Having made several attempts to verify my identity with Companies House (including a trip to the Post Office) in order to remain a charity board member, only to be told that I’ve been wasting my time, and need to pay an ACSP to do it, I’ve concluded that this entire process is an utter shitshow
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Nativity photo from Seattle.
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Nativity photo from Seattle.
It’s taken almost a year, but I’m pleased to see that I’ve now got more followers on here than I had on the hellsite formerly known as Twitter.
Which is nice 😊
Which is nice 😊
Howdy folks - my first post on here, and feeling like the new boy in school - not sure where to go, or what to do!
December 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It’s taken almost a year, but I’m pleased to see that I’ve now got more followers on here than I had on the hellsite formerly known as Twitter.
Which is nice 😊
Which is nice 😊
I wonder how long it will be before the reinventors have to reinvent their CVs?
Accenture has started calling its nearly 800,000 employees “reinventors” www.ft.com/content/6689...
Accenture dubs its 800,000 staff ‘reinventors’ as it adapts to AI
Move follows in footsteps of Disney’s ‘imagineers’ and Amazon’s ‘ninja coders’
www.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I wonder how long it will be before the reinventors have to reinvent their CVs?
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The Nathaniel Mathews Award is back for 2025 with a new winner: Southwark Law Centre’s Rachel Lovell!
Rachel has done fantastic work preventing homelessness in South London over the past year. Read about her achievements:
👉 www.lawcentres.org.uk/news/law-cen...
Rachel has done fantastic work preventing homelessness in South London over the past year. Read about her achievements:
👉 www.lawcentres.org.uk/news/law-cen...
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The Nathaniel Mathews Award is back for 2025 with a new winner: Southwark Law Centre’s Rachel Lovell!
Rachel has done fantastic work preventing homelessness in South London over the past year. Read about her achievements:
👉 www.lawcentres.org.uk/news/law-cen...
Rachel has done fantastic work preventing homelessness in South London over the past year. Read about her achievements:
👉 www.lawcentres.org.uk/news/law-cen...
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Visiting Norwich Science Festival in February? Interested in the connections between AI, history, film & technological change? Come hear our talk "Do Humans Dream of Electric Gods?" with a spot of terrifying robot futures on screen for good measure! Suitable for adults & kids 12+, tickets free:
Do Humans Dream of Electric Gods? | Norwich Science Festival
Join UEA's Dr Lorna Richardson and Dr Geraint D’Arcy for a deep-dive in to cinema, history, and AI.
norwichsciencefestival.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Visiting Norwich Science Festival in February? Interested in the connections between AI, history, film & technological change? Come hear our talk "Do Humans Dream of Electric Gods?" with a spot of terrifying robot futures on screen for good measure! Suitable for adults & kids 12+, tickets free:
This thread took an unexpected turn 🤭
1 December is the day we must mark the sad passing 504 years ago of Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ Medici – or Pope Leo X, as he was also known. Leo was not one of those popes memorable for a sordid life, but is known for two things. Firstly, this:
December 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This thread took an unexpected turn 🤭
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Yes. They cry that they’re studiously non-partisan but their political editor takes it upon himself to essentially accuse the Labour chancellor of lying. Something that would simply *never* have happened - did not happen - with the Tories in power, when there was far more ammunition.
December 1, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Yes. They cry that they’re studiously non-partisan but their political editor takes it upon himself to essentially accuse the Labour chancellor of lying. Something that would simply *never* have happened - did not happen - with the Tories in power, when there was far more ammunition.
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Mason declares that in his judgement we have been misled by Rachel Reeves.
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Mason declares that in his judgement we have been misled by Rachel Reeves.
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.
There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.
#r4today
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I was able to retire at 37 by flying economy, forgoing a daily coffee AND earning £350k per year is the new “I bought my first home at 22 by avoiding avocado toast, Netflix AND getting a £400k gift from my parents.
Fascinating thing about this story is that you could easily write a better and IMO more accurate one about a woman who has fallen in love with someone 17 years older, and has concluded 'I don't want to run the risk of not getting to enjoy my time with you' and has lived frugally to achieve that.
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
December 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM
I was able to retire at 37 by flying economy, forgoing a daily coffee AND earning £350k per year is the new “I bought my first home at 22 by avoiding avocado toast, Netflix AND getting a £400k gift from my parents.
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Our media has become the story. What they decide is newsworthy, what they scream about, who they accuse, who they excuse, who they blame…
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
I must have missed the wall-to-wall coverage of demands for an investigation into Nigel Farage's lies about being a racist
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
Or about whether he knew Nathan Gill
Or about who bought his house in Frinton
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Our media has become the story. What they decide is newsworthy, what they scream about, who they accuse, who they excuse, who they blame…
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
They have an agenda entirely of their own. Not one rooted in public interest or national responsibility. But one that is deeply rightwing and undemocratic.
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Brexit, the gift that keeps on taking. You NEED some Myerscough Merch in your life!
The EU are removing their de minimis threshold next year. So that will be the EU added to the growing list of places that I can’t sell to.
As a small business it’s getting harder and harder to keep going.
Fuck brexit and all who sail in her. 🤬
As a small business it’s getting harder and harder to keep going.
Fuck brexit and all who sail in her. 🤬
a man sitting at a desk with a panda bear on his arm
Alt: A Panda smashing up an office
media.tenor.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Brexit, the gift that keeps on taking. You NEED some Myerscough Merch in your life!
Fools
In Timothy Snyder's book 'On Tyranny' his first edict is "Do not obey in advance".
Cambridge wants to obey in advance.
Cambridge wants to obey in advance.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Fools
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"We don’t have a lord. We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs..."
Oh God I needed this so much right now. Good old fashioned funny chaos and farce instead of constant depression in politics.
Looking forward to them setting up their own rival parties.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Looking forward to them setting up their own rival parties.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana dropped as Your Party leaders
Members vote in favour of 'collective leadership' option, with a ‘lay’ chair – who cannot be an MP
www.independent.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"We don’t have a lord. We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs..."
Splitters!
Oh God I needed this so much right now. Good old fashioned funny chaos and farce instead of constant depression in politics.
Looking forward to them setting up their own rival parties.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Looking forward to them setting up their own rival parties.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana dropped as Your Party leaders
Members vote in favour of 'collective leadership' option, with a ‘lay’ chair – who cannot be an MP
www.independent.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Splitters!
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Are there any other countries whose "patriotic" publications pay foreigners to write about what a hellhole they think their country is?
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Are there any other countries whose "patriotic" publications pay foreigners to write about what a hellhole they think their country is?
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Turned on the Sunday politics shows (never a good idea). Heard the leader of the Conservative Party say:
"I remember when they were all calling Liz Truss a lettuce"
Switched off.
"I remember when they were all calling Liz Truss a lettuce"
Switched off.
November 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Turned on the Sunday politics shows (never a good idea). Heard the leader of the Conservative Party say:
"I remember when they were all calling Liz Truss a lettuce"
Switched off.
"I remember when they were all calling Liz Truss a lettuce"
Switched off.
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Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello….
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
230,000 Deaths and the ‘Calculated Silence’ of the Medical Establishment About the COVID Inquiry
The Covid Inquiry Report is a devastating critique of the medical establishment which led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century, argues Anthony Costello
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Hard-hitting truth-telling from UCL Prof Anthony Costello….
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...
“The Covid Public Inquiry is a devastating critique of medical advisers, civil servants and politicians who led the UK to the worst public health disaster in a century. More than 230,000 deaths.”
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/230000-dea...