Sean Jones KC

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Been at this an hour now. I wish it would just admit it has failed.

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Hello members of the House of Lords 👋 Welcome to the debate on jury trials. Pull up a seat - everyone disagrees and the entire thing is on fire. But, sadly for you, it lands in your lap today👇🏼

How do we “sell” rejoin: Hope? Fear? Anger? “Common Sense”? Nostalgia?

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

Are Israelis who are disinclined to vote for Netanyahu but will be guided by Trump a significant demographic?

The “war mad Fabians” ?!?

The news from Serbia is grounds for elation (although the enthusiasm with which it is suggested that all the new representatives should be academics suggests the enthusiasts have never sat on an academic committee)

Just floated this with P and she did a very good impression of a Chancery Master who has had a bad day.

One last shot at turning my frown upside down before the new week begins - I’m going to see the Social Reckoning which I’m hoping will be a light-hearted treat.

The storm is raging outside, the streets are deserted, the wind is howling. And just beyond the noise of the hammering rain and gusts of wind I can faintly hear an ice cream van.

The Govt’s suggestion that we should be prepped for disaster may finally give me the tissue thin justification I have needed to buy something I have always secretly wanted but cannot identify an actual need for:

Bloody woke, allowing children to grow up breathing cleaner air.

After the agony of Chelsea v Spurs yesterday I am at the Wimbledon Bookfest to hear @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social talk about a Reform Govt and @snellarthur.bsky.social talk about global climate collapse as a way of lifting my mood.

Just a reminder for Elon et al

Pleased to see that Slow Horses is renewed to cover the most recent two books. But without revealing spoilers, it’s hard to see how the basic plot premise of one of them is consistent with what has happened in this series.

Our plan, I gather, is for a “distinctively British” approach to AI which will have none of the risks but all of the benefits. No other nation would have thought of just having the upsides. Makes you proud. 🇬🇧

Contemplating the Facebook Nostalgia Paradox. Life was much better in the old days. *but* Life was much harder in the old days meaning that those alive then are the moral superiors of those who weren’t.

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Almost everything.

This, apparently, is what James Bond should look like.

Reading this was the most fun I had today.

I really miss Horizon. :-( @BBC

The closing date for this position is next Friday.

It’s about now that I get worried that US news outlets start reporting that Trump’s team says he’s getting very different numbers from his pollsters and then results that look impossible start rolling in.

I think the Bank of England can probably relax.

“I introduced you to a contract killer as a joke” suggests that some work is still needed if you’re going to be doing a tight set at Edinburgh.

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Hahahaha

I'm a committed humanitarian. Humans are all I eat.

There is a free speech angle to this: Should Sophie be able to freely express her views *and* not be condemned & ostracised for it via loss of opportunity/income etc.? The answer is No, her views are not protected in law. She is in the FAFO space. rolandmcs.substack.com/p/has-free-s...

Well, not if you have to salvage it first, no.

Invasion, mass murder, rape, kidnapping of children - all fine

I guess now we find out how many Reform voters had convinced themselves the allegations of racism were bad faith attacks on patriots and for how many it was always the point.

First the problem was Europe was not giving enough financial support to Ukraine. Now the problem is it’s giving too much?

Trump’s notion that Europe should just go back to energy dependence on Russia and military dependence on the US is mind-melting.

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At one friend’s shotgun wedding another persuaded the DJ to kick off proceedings with Too Much Too Young.

Good morning everyone and especially to those upon whom it is now dawning that they have to run the Amsterdam marathon.

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