Barbara Rich

Worse than ridiculous. This conspiracist obsession with Fabians is rooted in his attack on the impartiality of the Court of Appeal judge who presided over the Bell Hotel ruling. Barrett is not neutral here, but has been involved in urging councils to seek these injunctions to close asylum hotels

I imagine you must have seen “advice from a random stranger on social mores” before?

The GLP had just won a case about publishing PPE procurement contract details on a website in good time. Exactly the sort of thing that would prompt passers-by to repeatedly offer their congratulations to our hero

It just doesn’t have quite the vainglorious improbability of that London park scene. I mean, I’ve spent hours of my life walking in London parks. Have I ever seen anything like the image it conjures up? No

Honestly, the platitudes which have flowed from this are as rapidly and completely numbing to the mind as dental anaesthetic is to the jaw

One for the Little Book of Maugham. This is one of my perennial favourites

His organisation has raised £££ millions over the years to pay lawyers to argue cases it supports in the Royal Courts of Justice. But he thinks this graffiti on the walls of that same historic listed building shouldn’t have been removed (as its artist no doubt expected it to be)

Of course he does. This is performance for his audience. The tragic pettiness and petulance of it, though

Or they could have left Dame Karen Pierce in post

I wondered if you were being serious or sarcastic for a moment!

That lost world. I had a friend, now sadly dead, who went to work as a solicitor at an old-fashioned firm in a small town in Herefordshire. Visiting in the early years of this century I was shown the senior partner’s desk standing on its linoleum floor exactly as it had done since the 1940s

I’m afraid not. Another feature of that semi-digital era was that large offices had a post room and messengers who delivered letters within and outside the building, and iirc it was mostly the post room messengers who enjoyed this form of lunchtime entertainment

Enjoyable read. I’m so old that I can remember working just outside the City in Aldgate in the mid 1980s, in offices now either converted or demolished into apartments. It was the frontier of the expanding City and the old East End, where the local pubs still advertised strippers at lunchtime

It’s the latest instalment of a fairly long history where this offender is concerned

At the very least there should be a code of conduct obligation on all Parliamentarians and their staff to delete and correct social media posts which are straight up misrepresentations like this

Some people who are aligned with or sympathetic to Jenrick’s “Lawyers for Borders” movement think it would be better if judges were appointed by the Lord Chancellor as they were before 2006. Would you trust this man as Lord Chancellor making those decisions?

Justice secretary suggests Jenrick risked collapse of murder trial with tweet Judge said shadow justice secretary’s comments during trial of Elias Morgan were ‘ill thought through’

Jenrick’s post on X has now been community noted but has not been corrected or deleted. As in this story about another of his social media posts and a court case, he appears to have put political ambitions ahead of the interests of justice www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Perhaps not with those shoes, though

Not even Kim Jong Un would wear those sunglasses

She is the niece of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Compulsive serial offender and a deeply vicious and malicious individual

This trial exposed the use of aliases, all connected with The View, that I first came across in 2021

Oh yes. I have no doubt. And will never have anything to do with a CIC unless I know the people behind it or can see its work at first hand

Be extremely sceptical of anything from that source or its associated magazine or podcast. I have been vilified by it for exposing her use of it for laundering her reputation and engaging

And some more - IPSO complaint against Times article in August 2021 under headline “Fraudster Farah Damji linked to justice campaign” dismissed

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0954...

Back in Bronzefield prison where she belongs

Absolutely. I’m a council tax payer in Islington and she was benefiting at our expense. There was ample information in the public domain about The View to do better due diligence than the property company or the Mayor’s office did

And some of the back catalogue
1. Failed judicial review of custody time limits decision in recent trial
2. Supreme Court of Ireland extradition ruling against her
3. High Court of Ireland ditto
4. Previous criminal appeal, reduced sentence, otherwise dismissed
5. Failed vexatious FOIA request

It still raises my eyebrows that she had the Mayor of Islington in his regalia at the official opening of her The View cafe (which alias was she introduced to him as, I wonder?) supported by a property company as its social justice project, only a few days before she was arrested for these crimes

You can see how attractive a proposition it sounds for Conservative/Reform councillors: please the residents by closing the local asylum hotel and alleviating their fear of crime/removing a flashpoint for protests, and sticking one to the government on immigration policy. Until it all unravels