Rob Linham

Human rights expert @MoJGovUK, former 🇬🇧 diplomat, @SomersetCCC member, music fan, proud Brightonian. Views may not be mine, certainly no-one else's. He/him.

[Rob Linham @radinden]

So here you go... (all?) 81 cases involving an interpretation under section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998: https://t.co/sHJxYCnAmz (🧵7/7 and out)

[Rob Linham @radinden]

...an overall greater measure of satisfaction than would otherwise have been the case?

[Rob Linham @radinden]

In the manner of one of our most distinguished civil service forbears, albeit of the fictional variety, may I just briefly intrude upon your attention to discharge a by-no-means disagreeable obligation by taking this opportunity to express, with all due deference... (cont.)

[Rob Linham @radinden]

....with appropriate perspective - to have presented themselves in a manner that you might have found at the very least not to have been at all remotely disagreeable, and even - one might venture to the point - conducive to having produced... (cont.)

[Rob Linham @radinden]

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[Judicial Appointments Commission @becomeajudge]

The application process for a national selection exercise for the role of European Court of Human Rights Judge elected in respect of the United Kingdom will be opening soon.

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[Judicial Appointments Commission @becomeajudge]

The application process for a national selection exercise for the role of European Court of Human Rights Judge elected in respect of the United Kingdom will be opening soon.

Click the link below to read more 👇

https://t.co/MvlE5mxaCo

[Rob Linham @radinden]

@alysjones96 One of those five-word stories?

[Rob Linham @radinden]

Irresistible force meets immovable object: recycling truck with collections to make meets scaffolders' lorry determined to block the road. Phenomenal stand-off ensues.

[Rob Linham @radinden]

@garybrannan Are you making it with Bramleys or something a bit less sharp?

[Rob Linham @radinden]

I’ve been burned too many times to start hoping, but maybe? Perhaps? Possibly?

[Somerset Cricket 🏆 @SomersetCCC]

The current @CountyChamp table with 2 games still to play......

#WeAreSomerset
#SOMvSUR
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[Somerset Cricket 🏆 @SomersetCCC]

SOMERSET WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT HAS JUST HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??????

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#WeAreSomerset
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[Rob Linham @radinden]

@garybrannan No you won't. Still listen to the album too.

[Rob Linham @radinden]

@MarkLabbett @SomersetCCC Oh probably - I’m just causing mischief. A bigger scandal is whoever has left all the lids off the hot food to let it get cold - assuming there’s any left to get cold, of course!

[Rob Linham @radinden]

Discovered there’s a spot in the back of the stands at @SomersetCCC where you can see the press and commentators’ catering. Not going to reveal who got themselves a full 20 minutes’ head start on the lunch dishes.

[Rob Linham @radinden]

@MarkLabbett @SomersetCCC I’ll just stick to my sandwich and chuntering in the back row!

[Rob Linham @radinden]

Geneva, for the 2nd time this year: having run the UK delegation to the Human Rights Committee back in March, it was nice this time for the Committee on Racial Discrimination to concentrate ‘only’ on answering questions in MoJ's remit. Doing it in 32° heat was somewhat less fun.

[Rob Linham @radinden]

Thought for the #WhiteSox fandom: is that nun who threw out a good first pitch a few years ago available? Feel like we could use her skills right now.

[Rob Linham @radinden]

…and other tough times. It was a jolt, too, to realise that I’ve been back for three years, almost as long as I spent there; and looking through the approval signatures, to remember my first ambassador, the late Christopher Yvon, whom we lost far too young. Where does time go?

[Rob Linham @radinden]

This weekend, I cleared out my travel receipts from my time in Strasbourg, having punctiliously kept them just in case someone audited me (they didn’t). It was bittersweet to glance through them: so many fun trips and so much important work, but also so many Covid tests… (cont.)