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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 46m

Oof! Feeling very hungry now!

Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 1h

If the QR code is too techy for you (as indeed it was for me!!), her fundraising page is here: givestar.io/gs/ultra-whi...

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 1h

Our amazing Legal Triage Officer, Tharika, is doing a boxing 🥊 fundraiser for Suffolk Law Centre in Ipswich next month. She’s only small, and I feel we should be wrapping her up in cotton wool, but she’s intent on fighting for access to justice! There’s a fundraising link in the QR code below 👍

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 2h

Is that the cuckooing case? Absolutely horrific.

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 12h

“12 feet long from the tip of his snout to his anus”

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 20h

They’ve been languishing for the last 10 years tbf

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Someone upset that they can no longer find anything after the recent reorganisation?

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Forbel Tripel at £1.49 is a steal, but don’t tell anyone 😉

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wrong answers only? Charles was always my favourite

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Delighted (and hugely relieved) that Suffolk Law Centre is one of the beneficiaries of this life-line funding, but Law Centres and other organisations providing early legal assistance desperately need a sustainable, reliable, long-term income stream. With that, we could do so much more!

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Law Centres Network @lawcentres.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Early legal assistance not only resolves people’s problems; investing in it is also proven to save public money. It is essential public infrastructure, and it needs a sustained funding settlement.” (5/5)

atjf.org.uk

£15 million investment in free legal support for communities across…

Today we are launching the Legal Support Grant programme, funded by the Ministry of Justice and supporting 48 organisations across England and Wales with…

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Law Centres Network @lawcentres.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"The money will help them strengthen their trusted local services, resolve legal problems and relieve hardship for more people. "Still, the £15 million is not of the scale required to fix the sector’s wider funding shortfall. (4/5)

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Law Centres Network @lawcentres.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“To these Law Centres, this grant round offers needed resource at a time when funding for the legal, advice and rights sector is becoming harder to attract, and many services need to turn people away. (3/5)

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Law Centres Network @lawcentres.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

LCN’s Head of Policy and Profile, Nimrod Ben-Cnaan, said: “We welcome this grant round. It is great to see eleven Law Centres, nearly one-in-four of the organisations funded, recognised for their vital role in helping people to access justice and unlock timely help. (2/5)

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Law Centres Network @lawcentres.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We're pleased to share that 11 Law Centres are recipients of Legal Support Grants from The Access to Justice Foundation. The £15 million programme will support 48 organisations across England and Wales over the next two-and-a-half years. (1/5) 🧵

A quote from LCN’s Nimrod Ben-Cnaan, which reads:

“To these Law Centres, this grant round offers needed resource at a time when funding for the legal, advice and rights sector is becoming harder to attract, and many services need to turn people away.”

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Jaguar’s Cybertruck - a huge white elephant (other colours are available…) Leaving all else aside, why build a grand tourer that has boot space sufficient for only a long weekend?

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perhaps, subliminally, I’m a pea-counter? I’m not entirely comfortable with that revelation. Maybe I missed my vocation as an accountant?

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🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

HE consultants in the UK act as a parasitic force that rolls out the same template 'plan' for restructuring universities, regardless of the success of that plan at other institutions, and against any and all evidence of their own apparent past failures

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🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

there needs to be a wide-ranging investigation into the role of highly-paid consultants siphoning off vast quantities of cash from UK universities, and their role as silent partners in the radical reshaping of UK institutions that is taking place right now

facehugger from Alien attached to Kane's face

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Did she not think to ask someone, “How does this work?” The lack of curiosity is staggering.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Britons are eating 74 per cent less peas? Fewer, surely?

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ah, good thinking! My grandparents skipped across to Ystrad Mynach, where my mum grew up. They lived in the same coal board house for over 50 years.

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Paul Foot on Archer is well worth reading. He certainly had his number.

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mine were further down the valley in Mountain Ash, although my great grandfather went adventuring to Texas (the streets of Laredo) as a young man. Fortunately for me, he came home again 🤣

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Rest easy, folks. Harvey Nicks in Leeds is to be “aligned with the Flannels proposition”. Do these marketing bods realise how utterly stupid they sound?

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 06/10/2026

A rather more honest Jeffrey Archer obituary by @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I kept coming back to Coghlan: "You're a liar. He's a liar and he knows it. He's even putting his wife through it. I've got nothing he's got money. I can't even go back to work" brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/here-lies-...

brokenbottleboy.substack.com

Here lies Jeffrey Archer

The death of one of Britain’s most infamous liars brings back memories of Monica Coghlan.

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Mine were from the small impoverished mining communities in SE Pembs - hence why they ended up in the Cynon valley.

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Would love to come, but it’s too much of a stretch from my corner of NE Suffolk

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Fair do’s, that’s a pretty comprehensive rending of garments!

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So lovely! There’s nothing quite like walking the paths our forebears walked, and touching the walls they touched. I started on this quest with my youngest a few months ago, in Pembrokeshire. It affected me much more deeply than I’d expected.

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wise man! When my kids were young, I used to tease them by saying I wouldn’t buy any Xmas goodies from stores that started their Xmas promotions before Advent.

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Kind of you to put a positive spin on my mischievous quip!

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Now that’s dedication. I’m usually rooting through the few remaining ones, stunted & misshapen (as are the trees), just before Xmas.

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One of my former Aber colleagues, visiting for a conference in the mid-80s, said “It’s very nice. I’ve always liked Lego.”

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just now in JL Cambridge. It’s only 5th October, and folks are still in shorts and t- shirts. Bah Humbug.

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Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And Series 1 Twingos. Sooo many Twingos!

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 05/10/2026

Amazing! Apparently, we can blame a lack of recruitment of overseas student on universities not spending enough money on consultants. Government immigration policy & hostile environment not mentioned (Covid & Brexit given a nod). Less of an article more of a plea to give parasitic consultants cash.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 05/10/2026

They asked five consultants about whether universities should spend more money on hiring consultants, guess what they said? It’s embarrassing that this is badged as journalism.

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