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John de Waal KC

@johndewaalkc.bsky.social
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Barrister at Gatehouse Chambers and Mediator at The Property Mediators. Proud Austrian citizen. Lives in London and Buckinghamshire, happiest in the mountains.

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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Giving your partner ‘dates to avoid’ when they are trying to fix a family event.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Near Liverpool St in the City - looking north.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
View from where I am mediating today.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
America is a barbaric country.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In Gibraltar as part of a @middletemple.bsky.social Amity visit.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I sat on a jury in a rape case earlier this year. Counsel for the Crown was in his 80s and plainly not up to the job. Instructing competent prosecutors would be a start.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Every lawyer should read @johnhyde.bsky.social’s compelling book on the Post Office scandal.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
View from where I am mediating today
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
View from where I am mediating today.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 05/09/2026
I’m flat out begging politicians to stop trying to win votes with a little light xenophobia. All you do is feed the racists without ever satiating them. Stop legitimizing hate
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Who will decide whether a politician has lied and what will the sanction be?
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The voice of sanity 👇
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A short free post davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/icarus-fal...
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Icarus falling
A further thought on the tragic Arday affair
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Out of interest, alert didn’t reach my uk mobile abroad - how does that work?
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
*writs* idiots
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Prof Neil Martin @thatneilmartin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Jack Grove on his THES/Arday story. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/i-wa...
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I was reported to police over Arday case. I was just doing my job
My investigation into alleged plagiarism was undertaken seriously – journalistic enquiries should not be a matter for Scotland Yard, writes THE journalist Jack Grove
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The judge's sentencing remarks said it would be difficult to imagine a more serious case of racially aggravated harassment bsky.app/profile/thea...
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 20/07/2026
Unless this “honesty” involves the recognition that immigrants are *not* the root cause of the UK’s problems *but* actually a part of the solution to them, this will be completely pointless. I cannot stress this enough. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham to say UK must be honest about its challenges as he prepares to become PM
Labour leader will visit king to accept role on Monday and will start making cabinet appointments that afternoon
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Could summarise this article as Don't Look Back in Anger, or at the very least don't treat this as the basis for a political programme. But this is where US and European politics is, arguing over which imaginary past is superior. Is Burnham really there? Too early to tell.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It’s one of the great ironies that people across the world who’ve spent years and years whipping up hate and dividing countries are now complaining that people hate them.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Just imagining a scenario where England won the world cup and Count Binface won the Clacton by election...
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
View from where I have been mediating today.
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 01/07/2026
Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Thankyou for your post and especially the observation about the courage of your daughters. I became a father the same way: knocked on a door in Worthing in 1997 and it was opened by a little girl who said “Hello Daddy”. I was lost - still am. What a privilege it is to adopt.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
View from where I am mediating today.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I am the parent of two adopted children. I have often worried about how slight the background checks were and that two people determined to adopt a child to abuse him or her could easily get past. This is what happened here. I am enormously distressed.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Yes - to Martin Clunes!
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Yes I also do this with Austrian and UK passports.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
My pet hate: lawyers who post articles on LinkedIn about cases without posting *a link to the judgment*.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
As those of us who’ve been through the KC appointments system know well…
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Leyton by-election 1965. Patrick Gordon Walker. Just saying…
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Today’s newsletter: the United Kingdom doesn’t have the antiracism movement that its politicians, or much of the British Jewish community, thinks it does:
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Anti-racism movement is not ‘muted’ — it has been left to shrink
Instead of asking more from depleted groups, Westminster should focus on how to rebuild and better resource them
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This is so true. I live in GG during the week and am constantly in awe of the residents’ driving and parking strategies.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Farage (like Trump) gives people permission to blame others for their own failures and dissatisfaction with life. Racism, homophobia, sexism etc become patches to cover their own sadness. Right wing politics are a cancer hiding behind a mask of change.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
View from where I am mediating today.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Coincidentally, I received a letter from HMRC last month with a demand for £91 underpaid in January, so hard agree.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Good morning from the south coast of Sri Lanka.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
View from where I am mediating today
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
I wonder if on one of the Indian channels some middle-aged comedian is being sent around Britain, getting the Thameslink to St Albans, sampling pey wet in Wigan, poignantly observing that there are homeless folk on the streets even in Knightsbridge, and so forth bsky.app/profile/jack...
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 03/03/2026
What they’re basically saying is that Starmer and the UK isn’t allowed to operate an even moderately independent foreign policy outside of the United States. That is both ahistoric, wrong and weird for people who constantly tell us how sovereignty is what matters most.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.
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Mark @peelacres.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Best analysis I have read yet.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
View from where I am mediating today.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Illegal migrant in small boat stopped from entering sovereign territory without a permit.
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Thomas de Waal @tomdewaal.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This piece by my Berlin colleague Alexandra Prokopenko is essential reading on Russia. The Russian economy is in a slow death spiral, bankrupting itself on fuelling the Ukraine war--and yet the leadership is not changing course, as it believes everyone else is also failing.
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John de Waal KC @johndewaalkc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I’m on for it. Let’s *have* the debate. Let’s reason it out.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Jim Radcliffe pissed me off, so I wrote this about the inconvenient truth of migration. tl:dr - no, just fucking read it. Some basic mathematics - you know, COUNTING THINGS - might make you reconsider, you stupid twats. (I'm not trying to make friends) open.substack.com/pub/russinch...
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The Indisputable Maths of Migration
How Demography, Not Dinghies, Will Decide Britain’s Future
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It makes you wonder whether the whole ‘war on woke’ over the last few years was waged just so that men like Ratcliffe could be disgustingly racist again without any accountability. PM tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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PM tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants'
Sir Keir Starmer said comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner were
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