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Over 3,200 lawyers including retired judges, past and present Bar Council Chairs and a former DPP call on Prime Minister to stop jury trial proposal More than 3,200 lawyers including a former head of the CPS, retired judges, senior barristers, solicitors and academics have urged the Prime Minister to stop the government's jury trial reforms ahead ...

Bar Chair Kirsty Brimelow KC said: "This letter and its more than 3,000 signatories demonstrate the unequivocal principled and practical opposition to the restriction of jury trials from not only the Bar, but the legal profession as a whole..."

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More than 300 KCs and 22 retired judges are among the 3,236 legal professionals who have signed our letter calling on the Prime Minister to stop the government's jury trial proposal ahead of a parliamentary debate on new legislation to restrict jury trials today.🧵

Pasts Imperfect (11.2.23) The Stoicism Renaissance, Medieval Tattoos, Historical Queer Icons, and More

Yup. See @sentantiq.bsky.social : pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf...

Treasurer Helen Davies KC talking to students in the Parliament Chamber, a wood panelled room with Chandelier

Professor James Lee, Inner Temple Bencher, speaking to students at Dinner to the Universities

A view down a one of the long candlelit dining tables at dinner in the Inner Temple Hall. At the far end is the top table, where Helen Davies KC stands under a portrait preparing to give a speech.

A silver pegasus candelabra with lit candles

A very warm welcome to the nearly 130 students from 47 universities - including around 50 of our PASS scholars! - joining practitioners and senior members of the Inn for this evening's Dinner to the Universities. We hope you have a wonderful evening!

🏇 Race week brings huge investment to Cheltenham and sustains a lot of our local businesses. But it also presents challenges. I have been working for years to clean up bad behaviour by a minority of racegoers. My message to racegoers this week - have fun, spend money, and please respect our town.

Oil be the judge of that...

You won't find folk in Fishponds parking like that.

Photo of Victoria Hills of the CIOB at the Essex Build Expo CIOB exhibition stand.

Photo of Victoria Hills speaking at the Essex Build Expo event.

An excellent day on Friday, starting at the sold-out Essex Build Expo, hearing about the ambition of Essex County Council to create opportunities for #construction professionals. Encouraging to hear recognition of the importance of the #BuiltEnvironment sector.
#CIOB #building #LoveConstruction
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Poll: Should King Charles still visit the US after Trump-Starmer Iran row? Have your say: Ed Davey has urged King Charles to scrap his US trip as Trump’s attacks on Sir Keir Starmer put the state visit in question

Have your say: Ed Davey has urged King Charles to scrap his US trip as Trump’s attacks on Sir Keir Starmer put the state visit in question trib.al/w5j8i2t

An evening of Local York with Susan Major & John Shaw - Waterstones York | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about An evening of Local York with Susan Major & John Shaw - Waterstones York today.

We have a book talk coming up at Waterstones York on 25 March. @suemajor.bsky.social will be talking about Micklegate and John Shaw from YAYAS on Hugh Murray's book on early York photographers. Booking details www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev... @yorkfhs.bsky.social @balhnews.bsky.social

Photo of His Majesty King Charles III and Prime Minister Carney meeting at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Ontario.

During his visit to Canada last year, His Majesty King Charles III reminded us that no nation can live unto itself. 

In a more uncertain and divided world, the Commonwealth remains a constant — uniting nations to work together for democracy and for the common good.

In case you're looking for some extra cash . . .

They sell it in Greggs:

Axiomatically unwoke.

AI-generated photograph of parts of a Glasgow street added together with purported scenes of the railway station fire.

I won't republish the source of this because clicks are what they want, but this is a fabricated "photograph" of a scene which does not exist, at the wrong end of Union Street.

I think you’ll find that Baton Sinister III, billionaire founder of Datascrape Systems was lately appointed US ambassador to Equatorial Dhobi.

Oh, be fair. It was a Trump brand baseball cap and you can’t blame the poor chap for trying to find a way to make a fast buck out of the deaths of fellow citizens who died because of his crass, stupid, unnecessary, vainglorious, illegal, immoral, vile war.

Never mind the endless Jane Austen adaptations, here's a period drama I'd watch:

Prison Break, except it's 1740s London & the hero is a 5 ft 4 Herefordshire woman called Elizabeth, with massive hands & massive feet

Come on @netflix.com it's what we all want

The MAGA strategy to end democracy in America is similar to that used by other "populist" parties, and is something carefully developed by the Russian intelligence services over many decades.

Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty This week, MPs will vote on the second reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill. Don’t let the anodyne name fool you – this is one of the most revolutionary pieces of legislation in our…

The Courts and Tribunals Bill will remove your right to a jury trial for serious criminal offences.

Toff magistrates/judges will decide your fate.

Chances of miscarriage of justice will increase. Working class, poor, minorities will be the biggest losers.

Exactly 3 years ago, Georgians fought back hard against the first tabling of the Russian law (Foreign Agents law). Two nights of intense crackdowns and clashes resulted in the withdrawal of the bill.

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📷 Raymond Red Rodgers

Given Trump's illegal war that is devastating the Middle East and pushing up energy bills, Keir Starmer should advise the King to call off April’s state visit to the US.

A state visit should not be given to someone who repeatedly insults and damages our country.

One of Sweden’s most dangerous weapons.

An equal defence, is a stronger defence.

🇸🇪 Armed Forces, International Women’s Day 2026

Good morning, John @rentouljohn.bsky.social & thanks for the repost this morning. I ran out of space to detail the 2 watercolours at Dreweatts next Wednesday: they are "The River Deben near Waldringfield" tinyurl.com/2bdvjaba & "Sham Castle, Bath" by W J Steggles tinyurl.com/5f73jejz both from 1934

Do it

I did - & never looked back. Sleeping, especially, was so much better. And lost weight.

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

Russia is aiding Iran’s war effort by providing intel on US military targets, sources say | CNN Politics Russia is providing Iran with intelligence about the locations and movements of American troops, ships and aircraft, according to multiple people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue, ...

Super shocking. Given that Russia helped our enemies during Vietnam, Korea, and both gulf wars, who could have guessed this would happen. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...

SWANSEA: Child sent home for being drunk after coming to school as Dylan Thomas for World Book Day A Swansea primary school has confirmed an eight-year-old was sent home this morning after appearing to be drunk while attending World Book Day dressed as Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. The child, who arr…

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Does anybody know what Trump means when he demands Iran’s “unconditional surrender”? Does Trump himself know? Maybe he wants them to come out with their hands up, waving a white flag. He must’ve been watching a movie.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.