Adam Rowlinson

Eternally frustrated with the criminal justice system

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

"I think this will be the World Cup that really underpins just how dirty the game is."

Melissa Reddy picks apart Gianni Infantino's 'astounding' and 'disrespectful' statement 🔊

[Joe Lycett @joelycett]

https://t.co/FqoC3hSFM8 🌈

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

I do roll my eyes when I hear "I don't know what I'm doing here" on #ImACeleb.

It's an entertainment TV booking. You're on there for one or more of...

1) a paycheque
2) to boost your profile
3) to rehabilitate your image

Simples

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

For those who have asked, after careful consideration, I have decided to vote NO to the government's offer to the Criminal Bar.

My reasons for doing so are no better nor worthy of note than anybody else's, but what is Twitter without solipsism? So here goes.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

IT.

HAS.

BEGUN.

Cast your votes for @LawPawCalendar 2023, in support of the wonderful @BillableHour16.

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

New MSE price cap rise calculator. Please share.

As the cap is both regional, and based on standing charge and unit rates. We've built a calculator to ESTIMATE your personal increase - the team has just finished plugging in the data, so its now live.

https://t.co/gWUbiLESTv

[Tristan Kirk @kirkkorner]

Not a happy picture in London's courts this week.

81 new trials listed for Monday
17 still listed on Tuesday
64 trials didn't get on.

Many (not all) because of unavailability of barristers due to strike action.

Someone has to fix this urgently.

[Joanna Hardy-Susskind @Joanna__Hardy]

Can’t wait for them to film a burglary case at Snaresbrook. The prison van is late. The builders fixing the roof are making a racket. None of the loos work. Counsel are on strike. That angry swan is marauding in the car park.

The cameras roll.

A bit of the ceiling falls down.

[Birmingham 2022 @birminghamcg22]

First Opening Ceremony dress rehearsal: ✅

We’re excited to share this incredible show with the world this Thursday!

If you watched tonight’s rehearsal, don’t forget to keep it secret! 🤫 #B2022

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

If you read one thing this year, please let it be this post by @Joanna__Hardy. It is without a shadow of the doubt the best thing that's ever appeared on this blog. It is just stupendously, heartbreakingly, achingly brilliant.

https://t.co/IdNJPDwH3v

[Doctor Who @bbcdoctorwho]

The future is here! Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor. ❤️❤️➕🟦 #DoctorWho

Read more here ➡️ https://t.co/KoxPmoNAdL

[Scott Bryan @scottygb]

I wrote about the strange melancholy after watching Heartstopper
https://t.co/Zt4OdbO4KX

[Quentin Sommerville @sommervilletv]

If you don't recognise these tactics, then you haven't been paying attention. From Kharkiv's frontline, #Ukraine @dcinfocus and Feras. With thanks to our local team. @BBCNews @BBCWorld Graphic content warning.

[Andy Hughes @AndyHughesCrime]

Everyone should watch this. Sky News team comes under fire from Russian forces in Kyiv, despite making it clear they’re journalists.

Two colleagues were hit by bullets - corespondent Stuart Ramsay and Camerman Richie Mocker. They’re lucky to be alive. https://t.co/dU6ccny9lR

[BBC News Press Team @BBCNewsPR]

Last week ⁦@bbcnickrobinson⁩ presented ⁦@BBCr4today⁩ from #Kyiv. This is his journey out of #Ukraine and the plight of the people he met en route https://t.co/82x9fWV1fm

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

As somebody who meets their fair share of young men involved in crime, I am glad this brave MP has revealed an uncomfortable truth.

Not a day goes by without reading a Pre-Sentence Report in which a robber/drug dealer/murderer attributes their downfall to women playing Dr Who.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

So what happens with the courts? Are we back to packing hundreds of people in a corridor in an unventilated court building? Back to unmasked jurors sitting atop each other in boxy courtrooms? Who is “taking personal responsibility” in the courts?

[Tristan Kirk @kirkkorner]

The rise in the Crown Court backlog, in the 18 months before the pandemic.

This was deemed acceptable, courthouses were shutdown, and it has nothing to do with Covid-19.

[NHS @NHSuk]

How to demonstrate your coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination status to show that you’ve had the full course of the COVID-19 vaccine, and access this status when travelling abroad ⬇️

https://t.co/Y2M9mVTK5M

[Signal @signalapp]

We wanted to use Instagram ads to highlight how ad tech invades your privacy. Instead, Facebook shut our account down: https://t.co/RCtGrIp60y