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Rob Linham
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Human rights policy expert, former 🇬🇧 diplomat, Somerset CCC member, music fan, proud Brightonian. Views may not be mine, certainly no-one else's. He/him.
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...an overall greater measure of satisfaction than would otherwise have been the case?
Sir Humphrey Appleby - the quintessential civil servant in dark suit, tie and somewhat smug expression - raising a tea cup in the manner of a toast.
December 25, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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Are you, or do you know, a distinguished lawyer with the highest experience in leadership, collaboration, legal reasoning, and decision-making? We'll soon open the competition to find three exceptional candidates to succeed Tim Eicke KC as ECtHR judge. judicialappointments.gov.uk/applications...
The courtroom of the European Court of Human Rights: a curved brown judicial bench with many blue chairs sits in front of a white wall, with a large blue carpet with twelve gold stars in front of it.
November 18, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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Geneva, for the second time this year: having run the UK delegation to the Human Rights Committee back in March, it was nice this time for the Committee on Racial Discrimination to concentrate ‘only’ on answering questions in MoJ's remit. Doing it in 32° heat was somewhat less fun.
A group of 20 people, including the author, grouped on a flight of steps and smiling for the camera. They are smartly dressed. There are tall columns and large windows behind them. The top of a large building in bright sunshine against a blue sky. The building is pale green and dark orange, with tall elegant windows. There is a blue UN flag flying, and the sign says "Palais Wilson".
August 23, 2024 at 9:51 AM
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As of right now, the Wikipedia article at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A4... records that it *was* destroyed "little by little throughout December" by jackdaws, but gives the row a yellow background rather than the red one used for when it burned.
A screenshot of a table on Wikipedia's website, with columns for year, security additions, date of destruction, method of destruction and notes. The rows for 2020 and 2022 record that it survived, with a green background, whereas 2021 records that it was destroyed by fire on 17 December. The 2023 line records the date of destruction as "little by little throughout December", the method of destruction as "eaten by jackdaws" - both on a yellow background - and in notes says, "Due to the straw used to construct the goat containing higher than usual amounts of seed, the goat was severely damaged by flocks of jackdaws foraging for food."
January 1, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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I've greatly enjoyed Wikipedia's editors trying to decide whether this year's Gävle Goat has been destroyed or not. This is what it looked like as the New Year dawned, somewhat threadbare thanks to the birds hanging suspiciously around the scene of the crime. 🧵1/3
The Gavle Goat, a large wooden frame in the shape of a long-horned goat standing in a town square with trees and buildings all covered with snow. The goat is adorned with red ribbon, but most of the straw used to build around the frame has been stripped away, some piled around the base of the structure.
January 1, 2024 at 10:04 AM
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After all these years, I finally accept that my career is basically Person Who Sits Behind Other People.
Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk, wearing a suit, white shirt and dark tie, speaking in a wood-panelled room in Parliament, with three more men in suits - including the post's author - sitting behind him in a row watching him speak.
December 13, 2023 at 10:16 PM