Max Hardy

“so how about next week you try to be more of a bo-YES-bo?” - chimp therapist

Hardy boy: How are babies made?
Me: I’ve explained this before.
HB: Yes, but where does it happen?
Me: What do you mean?
HB: Do you have to go to hospital?
Me: No, that would be weird.

Jilly Cooper was sauce. Now everything's just coarse.

A simply extraordinary thread which ends up as an allegory about the perils of discarding things that were made to last. It’s a crying shame how little value is attached to ‘brown wood’ furniture.

In memoriam...

Killing innocents never was and never will be a righteous act. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, whatever you believe.

@barristersecret.bsky.social on a book tour

Nursery. Accident form:
‘Your 1yo was bitten by a friend.’
That is not an accident.
That is not a friend.

Just longing for the ‘Do your spellings’ phase of parenting to end.

Hamilton House of God

You should have said you were JWs.

Told the older Hardy boys that we are taking them to a Scottish dancing class on Sunday and I honestly think they’d rather go to the dentist’s.

This gesture by the French scrum half Pauline Bourdon Sansus is the most French thing that ever happened

A very successful morning training the new Baggage Handlers.

Piccadilly Polly

Just seen a Substack note refer to Brunhilde as Broom Hilda and, tbf, it kind of works.
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A while back, America parted ways with us because it found our politics very disagreeable. Perhaps the time has come to follow suit?

6yo: Maxie, your hair’s going away. You’re turning bold.
#SundayNightBlues

May he defend our laws indeed

You know you’re living in strange times when Last Night of the Proms feels like the least jingoistic thing happening in Britain at the moment.

Only met Conor Gearty shortly before his untimely death. Told him I was Catholic but descended from William of Orange's Lord Chancellor and Ulster Covenanters, he smiled. We are ALL humans before we're labels. Human rights are for ALL of us; whatever our labels. May he RIP.

20 years of practice in criminal law has taught me that it is generally unwise to assume a motive for a killing before the killer has been identified.

Murder is never a cause for celebration.

MAGA faithful perhaps finally discovering how much proximity to the compromised compromises. When you’re on the road to perdition, turn back.

Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/4nGGdnJ

Report of the independent review of bullying, harassment and sexual harassment at the Bar Read the report of the independent review of bullying, harassment and sexual harassment at the Bar

Sobering to read @thebarcouncil.bsky.social report on bullying, harassment and sexual harassment. As a largely self-employed profession it's incumbent upon each of us to consider its contents & how we individually & collectively can banish these behaviours: www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/ind...

Now explaining the 3 minute warning to the 8yo.

Is it really to too much to ask that we might have politicians who appeal to our most noble and hopeful ideals and not our worst, most hateful and fearing urges?

The Times reviews #TheCutThroatTrial. The verdict?

Book of the Month!

“This warty portrait of a crumbling judiciary rings horribly true…A hugely entertaining and disturbing debut.”

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And, with suspicious timing, the book is 40% off today on Amazon, if you fancy.

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1035...

"Mom, can we go to the misery?"

"No. We have misery at home."