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Sean Jones KC

@seanjones.org
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King’s Counsel. Serious about Law, but only about Law. General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook. Trustee of FRU Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 6h
Professional fellow feeling should require me to feel some sympathy for Senator Schmitt having his big perjury gotcha disintegrate so completely that even the quarks evaporated, but he stood by what he said even though the intense cringe force he generated should have made standing impossible.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 7h
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 12h
I have reached a new “pocket-dialing” personal best and seem somehow to have managed to buy a copy of the White Stripes’ “Icky Thump” from iTunes. It could be worse.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 17h
Ann Smiley:
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 20h
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Have you got a copy of Fly Tipping by RAF Fairford? You do? Oh that's wonderful. My name? Fairford. RAF Fairford.'
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I am a barrister who once spent time seconded to the CPS serious crimes unit making charging decisions. Today, you can pretend to be one too and work through the decision-making framework in a very serious case. The police have multiple suspects in custody and the phone just rang. 👨 👨 👨 👨 👨 📱 👮‍♀️ 🚨
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mstblue⭐️⭐️ @mstblue.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Buy a share!
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 28/09/2026
More from the culturally ancient Roman barrister …
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 28/09/2026
Chelsea Pitch Owners checks ownership power — it is the democratic safeguard every fanbase craves www.nytimes.com/athletic/762...
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Chelsea Pitch Owners checks ownership power — it is the democratic safeguard every fanbase craves (Gift Article)
The group gives Chelsea fans the kind of tangible say over their club’s future home that fans of most rival clubs can only dream of having
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 27/09/2026
Millionaires who breathlessly announce that they are leaving the country because a social policy subject risks mildly inconveniencing them should never be allowed back over the border.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 27/09/2026
On the one hand I now feel after a 10K how I used to feel after a marathon. On the other my tube travel is now free.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 27/09/2026
Off into central London to annoy @dankaszeta.bsky.social (Sorry Dan)
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 26/09/2026
Halfway through 70 Up and I’m worried I may not have the mental fortitude for part 2
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 26/09/2026
Lord Pannick is an exceptional advocate, with a team full of some of the very best lawyers. But he is now a wizard. Even an exceptional advocate can do no more than paint their client in the best possible light. What is possible depends on what has actually happened and not on a silver tongue.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 26/09/2026
Oh my God, this is how far he has sunk.
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 26/09/2026
Since becoming an adult I have discovered all sorts of pleasures I could not have imagined as a kid: sushi; a really comfortable reclining chair; and weirdest of all the intense satisfaction of telling someone you admire how great they are.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 25/09/2026
@richardmoorhead.bsky.social Saw this in the @theathletic.com profile of Pannick and thought of you!
This was not the first time Lord Pannick had gained mainstream notoriety. A comment he made in the 2016 Brexit hearing in relation to precedent involving the royal prerogative -
"You say De Keezer, I say De Geezer" - was later printed on T-shirts, with money raised from sales going to charity.
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The Inner Temple @innertemple.org.uk · 25/09/2026
Be the change, see the change 🙌 Seeing a young barrister’s confidence grow and the real-life changes that come from that transformation is what Yaa Dankwa finds most rewarding as a mentor. Register and become a mentor today 🫱🏾‍🫲🏼 : buff.ly/GwkFH0u #mentoring #valuingourvolunteers
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 24/09/2026
Brexit, the Sitcom Mr Brexit no longer enjoys life as Europe’s most divorced man. Rooting for his phone amongst the discarded cans he texts his ex wife to tell her he’s willing to move back in with her but there will have to be changes. She will have to change. He stares at the phone waiting.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 24/09/2026
Anyway, my masters is done and so I'm looking for more project work and potentially the right permanent job if it comes along. If you've liked the cut of my jib and think I'm right for something, or know someone who might - you can check my website. www.jmoxley.co.uk
jmoxley.co.uk
John Oxley | Writer, Strategist and Political Commentator
John Oxley advises on strategy, public affairs and communications, with a decade working alongside senior leaders in politics, law and business.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 24/09/2026
English dad. Irish mum. Born in Durban. Moved to the UK when I was 18 months old. Lived in Nottinghamshire, Kent, Essex and London. My Irish family and Scottish in-laws are adamant I don’t get to wriggle out from being English.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 23/09/2026
I believe trying to define what Englishness is to be a mug’s game. Any attempt to introduce precision results in absurdity. But angry white men in Union Jack underpants do not have a special insight. If your definition is more inclusive it is not watering down any objective standard.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 23/09/2026
We had a biology teacher who had the job of ensuring everyone left assembly in an orderly fashion. He maintained discipline by picking a random victim each day, bellowing "you boy!" and then lifting him by the little tuft of hair above the boy's ear. One day he attended armed with an air rifle.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 23/09/2026
Home decluttering continues. I've now reached the many plastic toolboxes of random tools, piles of assorted screws and weird furniture-related fittings. My plan is to solve my problem by buying more tools. Specifically a single pre-filled box of household basics. Any recommendations?
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 23/09/2026
So is their legitimate concern that people may not drown?
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 22/09/2026
Since he seems to love life afloat, maybe the answer is to press him when he steps ashore and send him off on an Arctic patrol vessel for a couple of years.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 22/09/2026
My rejoinaphilia might be tempered if we were to end up with France and Germany both being run by the far right.
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Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
a little thing by me on the importance of teaching legislation and legislative interpretation as a discrete subject (underpinned by despair that in the UK we generally don't teach enough of this in law degrees (never mind how little there is in conversion courses))
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In Support of Teaching Legislation and Legislative Interpretation as a Discrete Subject – Edinburgh Private Law Blog
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 22/09/2026
It’s the freedom to move into a camp that you’re forced to live in. Wut?!
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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An excellent early example of Dealing with Mansplaining by the 1848 women of Vienna (from Christopher Clark's superb 'Revolutionary Spring')
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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bluesky / Twitter
Ralph Fiennes in The Grand Budapest Hotel Ralph Fiennes in Coriolanus
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 21/09/2026
Bluesky/Twitter
Morse and LewisLewis and Divorceman
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 21/09/2026
I thought I’d resurrect a very popular thread I once posted on the other place. As barristers we are trained to question very young children, and it pays dividends in this scenario. Here are my top tips: Finding Out What Your Child Did At School - a parent’s questioning toolkit
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 21/09/2026
Next up for Gove he joins Celebrity Hunted and no-one looks for him.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 21/09/2026
Of course reparations for the slave trade is an utterly fanciful idea just so long as you ignore the fact that we paid reparations … to those who *invested* in the trade and not its victims.
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Little Professor @littleprofessor72.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@seanjones.org Making me tired THINKi9ng about it!
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 20/09/2026
In theory I favour a principle where the political beliefs of a company’s owner are irrelevant to whether they are awarded Govt contracts. But where billionaires get Govt contracts and use the money to buy Govts the principle is dysfunctional.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NEW MRP JUST DROPPED: All but four constituencies in GB support UK membership of the EU. In those four, the most popular option was 'Don't Know' (Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness).
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows a brain. The brain is saying "I'm 30 and YOUNG! I only recently fully developed!"
The second panel shows a heart. The heart says "I hear ya! I can keep going for DECADES more!"
The third panel shows a spine's face. It weakly says, "I am old".
We zoom out and the spine is using a walker. It continues, "so very old".
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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
These people won't be happy until they see a pile of bodies and then put down the matches, point at someone else and say 'see? *You* made that happen'. People of Piddington, meet your new friends. You voted for it, remember?
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 19/09/2026
I have enjoyed Ludwig but the lens they have used keeps making me think I’m developing a migraine aura.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 19/09/2026
I feel like we’ve all let Jim Ratcliffe down and I hope we are all ashamed of ourselves.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 19/09/2026
How quickly the dickheads screaming at the RNLI have forgotten that they were knuckling round shouting “ALL lives matter” just a few months ago.
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 18/09/2026
Let’s show some community and decency
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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