Thomas Grant

QC, writer and occasional actor. Author 'Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories' (2015). Currently writing 'Civil Fraud' and 'Court One: The Old Bailey'.

[Thomas Grant @ThomasGrant15]

@LustForLanguage Very much a choice - and done in strict pursuit of the interests of the nation - maintaining the Anglo/French entente cordiale

[Thomas Grant @ThomasGrant15]

Super photo. A friend of mine - a former diplomat - told me last week that he had once danced barefoot with Bridget Bardot in St Tropez.... https://t.co/ea15dProG2

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In Somerset waiting for my friend Peter to bring me a Campari

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Indeed. A forgotten classic https://t.co/LeLbSkRR10

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Working in the Alps with my cuttings from 1963

[Thomas Grant @ThomasGrant15]

you are right Fabian. There was a campaign about it in the 1970s https://t.co/VBdDClZBJX

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Especially if you are a chancery lawyer this is a brilliant tweet https://t.co/78c8Eny8Ze

[Barbara Rich @BarbaraRich_law]

A novel about proprietary estoppel has been short-listed for the Booker prize

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My article in the Times today

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And these perforated figures are apparently to be seen emptying themselves across France

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And a recent iteration of the flowerpot theme...

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Seen last week in a French museum of contemporary sculpture....

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The paraphernalia of a French civil wedding in Provence last week - image of the President required for its validity

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and just in the historical moment between film of Dr No and publication of Spy Who Came in From the Cold. He was acquittted

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2/2 evidence of hollowed-out shoe heels; false cigarette packets with one-time pads secreted; meetings with Soviet handlers in parks

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1/2 Currently writing about trial of Dr Martelli on spying charges - the sensation of July 1963 at high point of cold war; now forgotten.

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I wonder if Farrow consciously adopted the gamine look of Seberg? I do not think she ever attained the upper slopes of chic Seberg reached https://t.co/lUKXW8gLl9

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Has any party been more mythologised than Capote's Black & White Ball? The feast of Trimalchio? https://t.co/DtUH1EKSw9

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Thanks - in despair I went to Lillywhites of Piccadilly - daughter iffy but accepting https://t.co/EhrH9cXooy

[Paul Magrath writer @Maggotlaw]

@ThomasGrant15 Nice cosi tho. Hope daughter likes. Where did you get it?

[Thomas Grant @ThomasGrant15]

When you send a text to your wife about buying a swimsuit for your daughter and you press "tweet" by mistake https://t.co/TCytFuZAib

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I bought it because my phone had lost battery and I had to make a decision

[Thomas Grant @ThomasGrant15]

I bought it because my phone had lost battery and I had to make a decision