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A barrister. Catholic. Read PPE once upon a time.

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New post, on the dystopian realities revealed by a Commercial Court judge giving a judgment about OnlyFans CRM providers:

https://t.co/AzGiMl30oE

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A dramatic, glowering sky over London this evening. I hope it is not a portent.

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There's threats to kill, then there's threats to kill a radiologist but then there's the ultimate - threats to kill an NHS radiologist. It would, I suggest, be just as bad if the victim had been a private sector estate agent.

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@AlsoKnowne @kymeriandawn I recall his extremely fine palate being a plot point in one story. And he's a bit of a diletante, I think.

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"Loveluck" is such a wonderful name. (I wish her all the best in her job too.)

[Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck]

Thrilled to have joined the @guardian’s brilliant Investigations team for the next year. Got a story?

[email protected]

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@AlsoKnowne @kymeriandawn Lord Peter Wimsey would now be working in wine

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@ladygreenkirtle So, the World Cup, eh? Reckon this could be Scotland's year?

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@AlsoKnowne @kymeriandawn To be fair, we were also the beneficiaries of the superior training of the Belgian police force.

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@sigourneybeaver This is the world we live in now. Sinn Féin, with a straight face, saying that no one should terrorise innocent families. (In fairness, the son of Pat Finucane is probably allowed to say that ...)

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@residentadviser If you think that the EU is just Erasmus + a bit of free trade and some farm subsidies, and you're pro *that* EU, then you haven't really understood it. Few Brits do. You have to understand why it was so hard for us to get in in the first place - why De Gaulle said no.

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@residentadviser Yes. When the Brexit debate was going strong - and therefore the few actually pro-European Brits were audible - I wrote this, exploring the differences between how we & Europeans think about the EU (and how we think about Europe & Australia): https://t.co/ltbTLBKGfc

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@gerardkelly33 @richardvadon @SimonMagus @residentadviser That said, it's not just a question of resources. Hard working immigrant families who put a high value on education can do it.

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@gerardkelly33 @richardvadon @SimonMagus @residentadviser There are grammar schools in Kent. Competitive independent schools have entrance tests too. Lots of parents prepare their children for both and see what they get.

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@whatsinitforme @CptHastings1916 It's not that everyone in the world has the right to come here. It's that once someone is here (and has been for a few years), quietly and peacefully, it's a big ask to uproot them and send them to poverty or worse elsewhere.

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@BarbaraRich_law Lovely pictures. They capture something of the foreign-ness of Greenwich - like the monumental capital of a potentate with aspirations to being European. It's nice to have moments of grandeur like that in our determinedly domestic city.

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@SimonMagus @residentadviser He's blocked me too and I don't know why. I'm generally interested in his views. Strange.

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@CptHastings1916 Large-scale swift demographic change -sure. No-one thinks that the Americas are unaffected by European immigration. But inculturation is very strong. All those Americans with Polish or Irish names are not Polish or Irish - they're American. Same true of many Brits.

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@CptHastings1916 The genetic history of the British Isles is pretty interesting for us gentiles, I grant you. But I wouldn't draw any political implications from it.

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@CptHastings1916 That kind of rupture is precisely why what's important is not numbers (or genetics) - it's culture. And the boomer who knows that people with different genes are well able to become fully British is right about that!