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Nick Diable

@defencebrief.bsky.social
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UK based criminal defence lawyer

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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It's only a joke and is something I heard plenty of people saying when I was a kid growing up in the east end. Honestly, sometimes bluesky is so po faced I just want to stay away.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Sorry, I didn't realise there was a prohibition on using certain phrases.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Ahh fair enough. I did wonder but sadly the Waybackmachine hasn't visited their page before. Makes a lot more sense in that context.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I'm genuinely hearing that it's "all mouth and trousers" right now. And I'm as British as they come me old mucker.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Ahh yes Kemi "Turnabout" Badenoch who desperately wanted to join the war only to change her mind when she realised how unpopular it was with Brits.
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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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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I mean the picture clearly says Moon not NASA and the bio states they aren't NASA and are "just a couple of space nerds".
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Apologies, it was a 30 month probation not prison.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Come on, let's be more honest with readers. "Convicted banking criminal who was pardoned by US President (& fellow felon) Donald Trump" would be a more honest opening line.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Nice, but a bit harsh and I'm not sure the Barbie angle isn't overdone these days.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Hmm did the autism also force him to commit a banking fraud that earned him a prison sentence that Trump pardoned (surely not after being bribed, right?). Why are so many criminals attracted to Farage and Reform? Why is Farage and Reform so keen on taking money from criminals?
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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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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I want to like Leavitt but she's no Comical Ali. Maybe we need to get her a decent nickname. Lampooning Leavitt maybe?
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HELL 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 · 08/04/2026
There was an episode about him on the Private Eye podcast recently. Sounds like attempts were made but he threatened them with legal action and they all backed down - rather a sorry state of affairs when the SRA can be intimidated with the threat of legal action!
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ahh I see. Thanks for that.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Wait, your mum knew that a guy was releasing dangerous large cats into a place where you, her child, was playing and she decided not to tell anyone - not even you - about it as a warning? She was just chill about the possibility you or a friend might become a tasty snack?
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
My gf bought our son's one as he's leaving school this year. It really is shit though. Worst thing is that she bought one that's too small so you can't make out the kids well; however, you can still see it's a badly done composite & the kids at the front appear to float because of the bad editing.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I can't work out why they'd do it. When I was at school, it took about 10 minutes to get everyone in the room and to take the photo. They must have spent hours taking the individual photos and then creating the big image... and it looks awful. Just do it properly.
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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
Sadly, I've noticed that it's really common online for people to see very bad behaviour and instantly assume it's caused by some mental health issues when it's far more likely that the person is just an arsehole.
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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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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
It's being reported by both the BBC and the FT.
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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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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This makes me really angry. The @srasolicitors.bsky.social will come down like a ton of bricks on young solicitors who make mistakes yet they've spent years allowing people like Milne to continue practising and using their status as solicitors to intimidate people.
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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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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
And let us never forget that their original Apollo missions, of which experience and learning I'm sure Artemis owes much, was achieved mainly with help from a certain cohort of Germans who, frankly, should have been tried for their war crimes along with the other Nazis.
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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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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Of course. Here I am thinking this is some clever academic or publishing term and it's just paragraph said funny! Knew I wouldn't be bright enough to work it out!! Thank god I'm a lawyer not a detective I guess.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Were they never suspicious that you didn't have a ticket? Did they never match 3 numbers? I'm not that lucky with the lottery but even I get two or three numbers matching every month or so.
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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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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I feel stupid asking this, but the blog post keeps referring to "grafs" as in "the fourth graf". What does graf mean? I googled it and the only definition it gave me was about historic German nobility. I could probably work it out if I were cleverer but I guess I just ain't.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Great. Let's just get on with it and rejoin the single market & security agreements. We'd have a worse deal than before we left; however, it would still be better than where we are now.
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Not sure about the red velvet either. I love a red velvet cake but in a hot cross bun it sounds a bit vile.
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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
Typical unelected woke leftist communist anti-Trump hater judge getting in the way of the world's greatest and most tasteful architect-president just because he hates the USA. How dare he suggest that the president of the USA should follow the laws of the USA. Bonkers.
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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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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Disappointed. You could have had "Savage negotiator though"... it was right there!
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
You're Savage.
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Put Dulcolax in Trump’s trough, Charlie!
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Nick Diable @defencebrief.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
BTW look closely at the pin on his jacket... it's a golden noose!!
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