thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Possibly but doesn’t that one turn on its facts? He was summarily dismissed on a misconceived basis (Starmer not understanding how security vetting works). I didn’t think anyone thought Robbins was underperforming. 110
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It would be to everyone’s benefit if everyone just accept that it’s not a court of “law” in any meaningful sense. 011
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The other line I use regularly as a parent is from Armando The Great Adult: “an acceptable pasta sauce!” 🍝 050
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Jigsaws are amazing for putting you in a headspace for a good chat with someone who is usually very shy 010
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I feel sorry for Tom Basden who’s been caught in his orbit. Bet the money is good though. 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Dead Ringers has been noticeably more spiky recently, very good stuff. 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I never knew how much New Yorkers loved rats 🐀 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026It also explains why the CoA (Civ Div) has handed down almost 20 judgments this week. 010
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026We will see! Given the importance of the issues it would be good for least one court to deliver a judgment that would get more than a 2:2 at undergraduate level 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026They are obviously going to agree with the Court of Appeal. We should invent a drinking game: whenever they use the phrase "deference to the executive on matters of national security" or similar you have to drink a glass of Château Lafite. 330
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026If you think Brits are good at jams, take a stroll down a French confiture aisle. 020
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026You could say that, but it’s been well reported that Starmer & Co thought they’d be better because they weren’t as corrupt as the Tories, which is why they didn’t plan for Government. And then he accepted lots of free clothes, which left him wide open. To be PM you need to be good at politics! 100
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I find listening to him on Not Another One fascinating and confusing in equal measure. 110
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 30/07/20264. Starmer’s assumption that he’d be a better politician because he considered himself morally superior to those degenerate Tories was enraging for those on the Right. His hubris made him an exceptionally easy target. 110
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Surely it has to be The Canterbury Tales, imagine Nolan selling that to a Hollywood exec. 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is why we can’t have nice things 020
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 25/07/2026She did a great podcast about it, where she was gracious towards Nolan but also felt that he didn’t nail the complexity or cunning of Odysseus especially well. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...podcasts.apple.comWhat Translator Emily Wilson Thinks of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey'Podcast Episode · Plain English with Derek Thompson · 22 July · 59min 030
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This area of law is a total shambles. 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026She might be the most influential septuagenarian around. Well done her agent! (At least she’s real: the Telegraph have been known to completely fabricate editorially useful poor people) 160
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026It’s treating symptoms rather than causes. BUT, sometimes treating symptoms is fine! Doctors swear by paracetamol. 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Log onto any Reach website and my first reaction is "I am being, or about to be, scammed" 060
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 22/07/2026But when we say “authentic to the source material” do we mean the the original oral tradition the story emerged from, the first time it was committed to writing or one of the numerous translations since then? 110
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026At the Wigmore Hall, they consider anyone under 35 young, so I doubt you can call yourself old there yet. 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026You'd think the free-market right would be happy with a lot of private schools going to the wall, given how terrible they are at business. (I have long thought there is surely a huge market for mid-priced private schools that charge roughly the same as private nurseries) 010
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026If Ellie Reeves can finish her tenure without being absolutely bodied by the Lady Chief Justice, we can chalk that up as a success. 001
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026The ones from Postcard have that quality, although I’m afraid I rather like the smoke - what I’m after is a tea-version of Laphroaig. 010
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Fortnum’s does the only Lapsang in a bag - sometimes at work you just need to dunk & go! 110
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I’m not sure it’s a good idea to appoint someone as Chancellor when they don’t want to do it 010
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Yes, very true - it's just an awkward role nowadays. Will be interesting to see who Burnham chooses for the role. 010
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026There's a distinction between providing legal advice in a political environment and providing politicised legal advice. Unfortunately, the office of Attorney General is now so blurred that Government appears to get less of the former, and more of the latter (which, incidentially, has limited value) 110
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I’m not a criminal lawyer but it always seemed a bit unfair that you go through a trial, a jury can’t decide whether you’re guilty, so you have to go through it all over again. 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 16/07/2026This feels like quite a 2026 reaction to not having information: in the old days people were more patient and just waited to find out information. But now it seems to create hysteria! 1100
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Bridget Christie did a whole programme where this was the premise 110
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Despite it running for almost 20 years, I couldn’t point to a single thing the Legal Services Board has done. 110
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Euro 96 was my first experience of grief 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Better than: “Nice to meat you” 🥩 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Ah yes, that famous newspaper of record 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Everyone’s against the London School of Economics. 130
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I expect when Andy Burnham takes over he’ll settle this case. Unless Burnham thinks he can overturn the Shoesmith case and therefore give Ministers the power to summarily and arbitrarily dismiss anyone in the public sector (which most Ministers would love) 010
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026We’re all Peter Mannion in the end 140
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I would have thought his chances of winning are high given that PM completely misunderstood how the vetting process operates. 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Yes, it’ll be “yesterday’s news” because it’s no longer politically useful. 000
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The point made in the thread is that the PM wasn’t his employer (just as Ed Balls wasn’t Sharon Shoosmith’s employer) 110
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Applying it retrospectively is going be interesting in Strasbourg (Lord Reed’s Supreme Court won’t be interested). 030
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026This will sound uncharitable but I’ve detected from the usual suspects on X that if they can pin this on a person of colour / a migrant they could potentially spin this as an “assassination” (which might be useful in Clacton) 020
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 13/07/2026If the fire was near a journalist then we’d be talking. 100
thomasfelpersham.bsky.social @thomasfelpersham.bsky.social · 12/07/2026There’s a cool “modern” trailer for Terminator 2 that doesn’t give the whole plot away - apparently Arnie is still the bad guy! youtu.be/GMejQs5Q5_4?...youtu.beTerminator 2 Judgment day (1991) | Modern Trailer | (HD)YouTube video by Michael Edwards 120