Philip Farr

Criminal barrister. Have wig, will travel. Prosecution or defence, without fear or favour.

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@RupertLowe10 Quite right Rupert. Let’s cancel all coverage of the arts, unless of course it’s something you sanction…. 😬

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@ClarkesLatin @BarristerSecret I think where you’ve gone wrong here, Ed, is believing that something printed in the Daily Mail can accurately be described as “reporting” of a case….

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@michaelgove Then tell us who should have been “allowed” to take these cases, Michael

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@RealDonKeith @bryan1973 @HawksmoorTweets There’s a fairly obvious distinction you’re missing - Robinson is a racist bellend

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@IsabelOakeshott More hard-hitting journalism there Isabel, casually stoking up a bit of conspiracy theory for clicks… 🙄

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@IsabelOakeshott @RobertJenrick @KemiBadenoch I thought that would be your response. Lock em up and throw away the key, eh? Never mind any notion of due process…

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@AllisonPearson No it isn’t. It’s about deterrent sentencing in the context of widespread serious public disorder. Just as happened in 2012. Why don’t you post a link to the carefully reasoned Court of Appeal judgment?

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@IsabelOakeshott “If she had been better represented”? The legal advice she was given was beyond reproach. I’ll just leave a copy the judgment here for anyone who wants to read it, rather than your grifting.

https://t.co/VeAWQNFNv0

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@Bugbeargrowling @IsabelOakeshott If you knew the first thing about the law you would know that the Sentencing Guidelines Council is an independent body. Try actually reading the guideline rather than latching on to a sound bite written by someone intent on fomenting anger

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@JaneMoxon381219 @AWumman @danwootton @Howlark1 I think it may be you who is failing to see the bigger picture…

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@EdKrassen This was a reminder to Farage not to fawn over Putin, not a direct rebuke to Trump. Twisting words to suit either a left or right wing narrative is both unhelpful and dangerous.

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@GoodwinMJ Can you define the “elite consensus” and “urban elite” that you keep banging on about, because I haven’t got a clue what you’re talking about and it sounds rather like dog whistling?

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@RichardJMurphy He essentially said that the NHS is full of data, and that using AI to harness that data was an obvious way to improve efficiency. To transpose that for “he does not see the reason for much of what junior doctors do” is disingenuous, in my view

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@LozzaFox @SadiqKhan I wouldn’t bank too much on the “working” here if I were you. For some reason your services aren’t as much in demand as they used to be…

[Pete Kennedy @PeteKennedy]

@CJCHowarth @afjmcloughlin What were the practical, legal and constitutional differences with the Law Lords, other than they are no longer members of the legislature, and moved to a building across the street?

[Will Hutton @williamnhutton]

@afneil That’s my point. The Tory party didn’t set out to produce those outcomes - they result from a fundamental misreading of what creates capitalist dynamism and a good society. Instead of reflecting on why policy produced the opposite of what it intended, you double down on failure.

[emily m @maitlis]

For anyone newly following me from the US , this is how we stand for elected office in the UK ….

[Philip Farr @philfarr100]

@danwootton Whose money are you launching it with?

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Strangely enough, the New York Times is not owned by Murdoch.