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Nick Diable

@defencebrief.bsky.social
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UK based criminal defence lawyer

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I mean this is just the dumbest possible moment to come up with this line, when he has visibly stood up to US aggression and kept us out a war she would have weekly joined.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 08/04/2026
COUNTERPOINT: You seem to be able to cope with some of them just fine. www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 08/04/2026
I think she would look fetching in a beret
Baghdad Bob in a beret
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The school photographer at my son's school takes the year group photo by taking individual photos and editing them together. It looks really bad & must be 50x the work of just taking the photo properly.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
My psychology degree is 25 years old, so maybe I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure bipolar doesn't make you antisemitic or go to the lengths of writing songs & selling Nazi merch. I can't believe there was no pushback that West had to overcome on either of those things. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK
West was due to headline the festival in July but drew criticism over past antisemitic comments.
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Mark @quigonsmith.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Starmer (rightly in some cases) gets a lot of shit but fuck, imagine Badenoch or Farage in charge at this particular moment.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I really hope the SRA is finally going to put a stop to solicitors who behave as badly as this guy.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure without apparent military value is a war crime. Shouldn't be surprising since America elected a war crimes advocate, who in his first term pardoned convicted war criminals, and in his second made the public champion of those war criminals SecDef.
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Eliza Downes @eliza-upstairs.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I bring this one out every Thanksgiving.
Tweet by moon pie responding "just stuff them up there, I guess" to a request for Thanksgiving recipes
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Uptown Sinclair @tuckfriendly.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 02/04/2026
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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The Artemis moonshot is a great American achievement. By the way, one crew member is Canadian. The service module, which keeps the astronauts alive, is built in Bremen. The communications depend on ground stations in the US, Spain and Australia. Dear America- don't give up your friends too easily
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Tommy Robinson accidentally posting on the wrong account.
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Another e.g. of a relatively small policy but one which helps address an every day irk, and a costly one too. Over past year Government has seemed to get much better at doing more of these tackling 'every day frustrations' policies and small cost of living fixes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions
Consumers will be able to cancel unwanted subscriptions 'at the click of a button', the government said.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 01/04/2026
it's ridiculous that this "London has fallen" bullshit has been allowed to fester for so long. The best time to deal with this was a few years ago, and the second best time is now
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Oh the irony. BBC News - Estate agents accuse Rightmove of charging excessive fees www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Estate agents accuse Rightmove of charging excessive fees
The online listing portal is now being pursued in a class action, launched on behalf of potentially hundreds of estate agents.
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Ghost of Lepa Radić @ghostofdonknotts.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Well, with my understanding of the metric system: he wasn't speeding, the fine was less than $1, and he isn't old enough to have a driver's license.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Someone in the FT comments last week tried to justify Trump's wild swings by likening them to individual poker hands. I'm not a poker player but if Trump is trying to play a game of poker then his approach feels like he's putting all his cards face up and shouting BINGO. www.ft.com/content/77e5...
ft.com
Donald Trump says US could withdraw from Iran ‘whether we have a deal or not’
US president signals growing impatience with a war that has sent energy prices spiralling
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I’m totally with President Trump. We had an empire once. We won the World Cup. We won the Falklands War. We voted Brexit. Let’s get OUR OIL back! Time to stop being woke wimps & invade the Straits of Hormuz. Let’s make Britain great again & help this brave, likeable President.🇬🇧
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Put Dulcolax in Trump’s trough, Charlie!
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Carol Ritter @planecrazy53.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Yup, a noose. Nice people eh?🤬
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The Foggy Jew @hmcevansoneya.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Okay I know we are all sick of hearing about the Burkes but you have to admit going on the run, realising nobody cares, then turning up to a prison to get arrested on purpose, all so you can get some more attention, is a very funny bit
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Martin McDonald @martymcd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
In fairness, even South Africa didn't do this and I'm not even defending SA here
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I'm sorry but if Israel is bringing back hanging but only for Palestinians then that's an apartheid state and no decent country should be supporting them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks face death penalty under new Israeli law
The new law, passed on Monday, was pushed hard by the far-right and Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Channel 4 News trying to link the sale of vapes to child sex crimes is just bizarre. There may be good reasons to restrict the sale of vapes but this isn't it. I had a client who used his guitar to abuse young boys but that's not a reason to ban guitars. It's a reason properly monitor sex offenders.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The discussions I have read about Dean Acheson’s responsibility for the Korean War after he omitted one word from a 1950 foreign policy address now seem so quaint that I might just give up and live on a swampy planet in a little hovel.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I stupidly agreed to go to Aberystwyth Mags tomorrow morning. Now I'm discovering that there are no hotels* with vacancies for the night so it looks like I'm going to have to leave about 4am 😭 *of the sort I feel comfortable showing up to about midnight anyway.
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Ben Knight @benjamin-knight.com · 31/03/2026
Call out for other UK lawyers with an interest in domestic modern slavery (drugs) matters. Looking to build a bit of a practitioner group for a project, and just got better comms. Please share.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The UK should retaliate by speeding up the transition to renewable energy and cut our reliance on oil. Who would that hurt? The USA because that's where the UK currently buys the biggest share of its oil!
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Alex Finley @alexzfinley.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Right, like when one country in the alliance threatens to invade another country in the alliance.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Trump really is a moron. He's their president and doesn't know that the UK buys the majority of its oil from his country!! In fact the UAE comes number 11 on the list of oil importers to the UK. www.ft.com/content/b2c8...
ft.com
Middle East war live: Trump tells allies to ‘go get your own oil’ as frustration over Hormuz closure mounts
US ‘won’t be there to help you anymore’, president warns
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Maybe I'll be proven completely wrong here, but my thought was that troops would go in after 4pm eastern time on Thursday, ie when the markets close for the long weekend!
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Bizarre that Rosindell thought he'd be able to use the Romford Conservative Association offices despite defecting from the Romford Conservative Association to another party. These Brexiteers continue to live on a completely different planet to the rest of us.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/03/2026
'Death was not our fate': Syrian father crosses seas to save his ailing son reut.rs/4dnTLm9
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'Death was not our fate': Syrian father crosses seas to save his ailing son
Abdulaziz Aldarwish decided ​to take drastic action after his son Yahia's young kidneys failed.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
A bonus historical anniversary today:
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Do American "Christians" ever read the Bible? I'm no church-goer but I do remember from school something about an EU style directive prohibiting the killing of other people. All woke nonsense I'm sure, but aren't Christians supposed to be pretty woke!?!?
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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Take this 1973 quiz: Can you still be shocked? Would this have shocked you then? How about now? Ten questions, so let's get started.
1 YOUR local cinema is showing a film you thought was about ballroom dancing in Paris, but it turns out to be a torrid full-frontal pornographic sex movie. Would you:-
(a) Immediately rush out and demand your money back.
(b) Grit your teeth and sit through it, then spend the next four days writing protest letters to Mary Whitehouse, Lord Long-ford and Victor Sylvester.
(c) Nod off and resolve to find out more about a film before you go to the cinema next time.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/03/2026
Blimey. Even a plurality of *Reform voters* say that the US has had a negative impact on the world in recent years: Positive: 30% Mixed: 30% Negative: 35% Source: YouGov
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Aside from the continuity & contamination issues, which are serious enough in themselves. Doctors don't just swab for DNA they also perform an examination using various tools to provide corroborative evidence that rape, as opposed to consensual sex, took place. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
dailymail.co.uk
DIY evidence kits are a risk for rape victims, police say
Survivors are being 'misled' by claims they can get justice by self-swabbing for their attacker's DNA.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Reading the FT who say "EXCLUSIVE" Trump says he's considering seizing Kharg Island to steal Iran's oil. I'm not sure where the exclusive is because this has been obvious for a while now. www.ft.com/content/3bd9...
ft.com
Donald Trump says US could ‘take the oil in Iran’
US president tells the FT he is considering seizing strategic Kharg Island even as negotiations continue
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
You only come to think like a lawyer because you do the thinking yourself, putting things together and then apart. If you use AI as a substitute for this essential work, then whatever you are doing, you ain’t lawyering.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
We're not doing this AGAIN are we?? Don't the "they've cancelled..." crowd ever get fed up of looking stupid?
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If only the UK had moved faster on switching to green power and away from fossil fuels. Little Marco's "we made this mess, what are you going to do to clear it up" plea just highlights how unreliable both the USA and fossil fuels have become.
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
No evidence of 'family voting' in the Gorton & Denton byelection say the Police after Refuk complained. Seems enough voters just hated Matt GPT To my mind the Democracy Volunteers group have some questions to answer on this, not least because they never reported any issues to election officials.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Reform has suspended one of its 73 Scottish candidates on day one, over diverting Covid grants to personal accounts. Defending candidates who said Humza Yusuf "not British" & who supported Britain First + Tommy Robinson, saying those posts were prior to selection! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform UK suspends Scottish candidate less than a day after announcing him
Stuart Niven found to have diverted Covid grants to personal account as party faces criticism for candidates’ Islamophobic remarks
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
My son's school was criticised by OFSTED for poor communication. The communication has been confused over the years. Today the head left, as a parting fuck up the school accidentally sent one kid's school report to EVERYONE!! Teaching is good. Leadership is fecked.
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Reform UK said I was 'bullying' when I pointed out their colleague was jailed for beating up his former partner. Now, they're trying to sneak him back into their party. So I'll say it again: James McMurdock was jailed for beating up his former partner. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Screenshot of a Times article covering McMurdock’s past.
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