@maxjlhardy
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Applications for the Advanced International Advocacy Course (The Keble Course) are now open! ✍️
The Inner Temple is offering funding to cover the cost of the Keble Course for 5 of its members. This course gives practitioners in England & Wales a unique opportunity to improve their advocacy skills.
Is it hypocrisy, irrationality or just fatuity by the Government?
Exhibit A: This anti-democracy has no place in public life
Exhibit B: This democracy has no place in public life
Which is it Sir Keir?
If international women get a day then so too should domestic men: open.substack.com/pub/counselo...
Someone needs to tell Trump that war is not something he can turn on and off like the sprinklers on one of his golf courses.
Suspect in a 2026 station refurb TFL might not go with a bastard heraldry theme. Do think ‘Baton Sinister’ would make a great name for a band though.
bruno mars is called bruno ares in greece
Autistic people enjoy parallel play? Well, first of all it's called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
When the Trumptanic goes down Farage is not allowed on the lifeboats.
Oh sure, “you’re not supposed to drink WD40”. Then why does it come with a straw?
The Labour Government is about to strip power from you the people and vest it in the hands of the magistracy and the judiciary. If you like democracy you won’t like this.
Remembering Holly and Jessica: counselofperfection.substack.com/p/rememberin...
Every once in a while an actor reminds us all what a relief it is they don’t write their own lines. Thank you Timothée.
Someone should tell Chalamet that given his job is pretending he might want to have more respect for people that can do his job but with Olympian level physical agility and Parnassan level vocal dexterity.
1914: War is Hell
1939: War is Hell
2026: War is Hell Yeah!
A nightmare first date
Take a bow, @privateeyenews.bsky.social.
Why? He’s no Winston Churchill.
If I were Trump or Hegseth, I would not be in any great hurry to accelerate Christ’s return.
A call out to Class Reps everywhere.
As long as the Prime Minister can separate the UK/US relationship from the UK/Trump relationship he won't go far wrong.
The Hardy Boys are obstinately refusing to attend World Book Day as 'The Hardy Boys' and instead want to go as Harry Potter characters. Do they not learn about cliché in Year 2?
25.03.26 – Harris Academy, St John's Wood 0930-1230
Volunteers sought for Kalisher Trust's mock trial exercise. All materials provided & negligible prep. A small team of barristers/pupils is required.
Travel paid & a modest gratuity available for loss of earnings.
Please DM.
Any idea what percentage of American materiel is being used up in the Middle East? Asking for a friend. The friend is America.
Trump really was bored of peace.
St David's Day Rhapsody
Is this the Rhyl life?
Is this just Anglesey?
Caught in Hay-on-Wye
No escape from Llanelli
I thought Operations Epic Furry was the thing about litter boxes in schools?
When is Trump proclaiming himself Shah of Iran? He may not speak much Farsi but he’s completely fluent in Farcey.
Pinch, punch, first of the month.
A bleak, stark oil painting in shades of brown and cream of waterlogged fields under a flat white sky dotted with bare elm trees
Other work of the Ladybird artists.
‘February Fill Dyke’
Artist: Rowland Hilder
