Chris Bryden

Civil, Chancery & Family barrister @ 4 King's Bench Walk; legal writer; confused Lib Dem. Any views expressed are not necessarily those of my Chambers. Yet.

[British Poles @britishpoles]

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[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

@michaelwhite Yes. It is just you said calamite and I was checking you didn't mean the fossilised extinct plants.

[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

@michaelwhite Catamite?

[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

@nfmusic This means war

[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

@KarlTurnerMP @UKLabour Where is he on jury trials? Will defect if he promises to stand up for justice.

[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

@TrumpDailyPosts Trump

[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

@SilenceInPolish Did you feed your youngest after midnight again?

[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

As a constituent of yours, could I ask that you make up your mind and set out your position, so that your party can stop damaging the country by continuing to dither?

[Rupa Huq MP @RupaHuq]

Surprised to see my name on this list when I haven’t either signed any letter supporting the PM or called for the PM to go??

Not very courteous of colleagues to put names down without their approval

[Family Law News @familylaw]

N'Djosse v Adeyeye [2026] EWHC 1033 (Fam) (01 May 2026): Judgment identifying parties in case where the father had been committed to prison for breach of orders requiring him to return child from Nigeria, and had mistakenly been released early. https://t.co/p7aRGcHOWZ

[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

@Cairo_xprsk 21

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@Simi_2210_ 179

[The Purple Pimpernel @Eyeswideopen69]

Five unconditional failures in fourteen years.

And still they claim “only the Tories can fix” the Britain THEY broke

When your house is on fire, you don’t call an arsonist.

[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

Why can't people reply to a tweet by the actual Mayor of London? Also, could we maybe take a zero-tolerance approach to criminality and disorder over all weekends? And weekdays?

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Actions have consequences - which is why @MetPoliceUK will be taking a zero-tolerance approach to criminality and disorder over the Bank Holiday weekend, with extra officers deployed and dispersal powers available.

[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

@kirby_pj Or "Labour MP is suspended for representing his constituents to the best of his ability". This is so disappointing

[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

@mamboitaliano__ And still going!

[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

@ubereats_uk I get nowhere with your "customer service". Food I ordered did not arrive and you are refusing to offer a refund for what I paid for. Please explain why.

[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

@Unity_MoT @AmericanGwyn @TheSimonEvans Thank you for this

[Unity @Unity_MoT]

The literal translation of 'doom' from the Anglo Saxon is 'that which is put down' so it carries a lot of connotations from the legal - Alfred's Doom book is a legal code but also a code of ethics and a collection of judgments and precedents that lays the foundations of what would become the common law- to the moral, spiritual and prophetic and even encompassing notions of fate and predestination.

Its a term that does a lot of heavy lifting in British and Northern European folklore and in modern literature that draws on those traditions, from Tolkein and Michael Moorcock right through to stuff like Game of Thrones.

There's a richness of meaning that you could easily spend a seminar exploring without achieving much more than scratching the surface.

[Chris Bryden @BrydenLaw]

@KarlTurnerMP How does it look for tomorrow?