Thomas Felpersham 🇺🇦

Connoisseur of everything. Craftsman & psychogeographer. Academic in hiding. Campaigning for complexity. Favours the wines of Alsace #gewurztraminer4life

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@OnTheWoolsack It’s a bit like the Project 2025 / Schedule F idea.

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@OnTheWoolsack You’d need some interestingly worded legislation to achieve this.

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@prep_propaganda When someone indicates they are a whisky enthusiast and then they get out a bottle of Macallan 🤦‍♂️

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@BBCNewsnight The tagline: “Chancellor: September - October 2022” is just beautiful 🤌

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@legalstyleblog @RajivShah90 That’s interesting, good (and bad) to know!

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@gifford_head @davidtorrance @yuanyi_z Yes, scratch that - I think it only applies to the Law Officers. I guess Alex Chalk was one of a few Law Officers to become Lord Chancellor later.

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@davidtorrance @gifford_head @yuanyi_z Perhaps the convention is limited to the Law Officers in that case. That how Alex Chalk got his.

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@jameswmullen @davidtorrance @yuanyi_z And for those of us who have had the pleasure of working in Government, we all know there’s a certain KC who basically makes it up as he goes along.

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@jameswmullen @davidtorrance @yuanyi_z I agree with you up to a point: I’ve come across several KCs who were very good when they took Silk but over time just let it all hang out and attempt to survive on assertion rather than analysis. I understand it’s quite a big issue at the tax bar.

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@davidtorrance @yuanyi_z That’s my understanding, same with the Attorney and Solicitor General.

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@yuanyi_z @davidtorrance It’s unmerited in the sense that they didn’t have to apply for it or provide evidence of their work or be interviewed. It’s given as a courtesy. It then creates an awkwardness on return to practice - I doubt Suella Braverman KC would be trusted with much more than a noting brief

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@gifford_head I remember the main court at Lambeth County Court (RIP) having this feel

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@PronouncedAlva Nowt wrong with a gently political roasting at an event like that

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@PeteApps I fear that the different-coloured-ties problem represents a Government that’s been housetrained by the Civil Service to continue the status quo

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@Madz_Grant @msolwilliams It’s been a majority view since at least the 1950s.

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@philipmurraylaw @kimleadbeater (That’s a genuine and respectfully-intentioned inquiry by the way)

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@philipmurraylaw @kimleadbeater So is your objection to the Bill is a practical one? I had perhaps wrongly assumed your objection was a principled one, as a Catholic.

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@nmdacosta Then improve it at Committee stage.