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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Always a melancholic moment when you get the message that your blood donation has been issued.

Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When former Assistant Grand Master is awaiting sentence for child sex abuse offences, you’d think the Order would want to keep a low profile. Sort of political Streisand Effect?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Regional bodies?” I think the phrase you are looking for is, “Water Boards.”

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is an interesting variation on the DAG Something Must Be Done Act 2014; the new Nothings Needs to be Done Bill.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Almost feel sorry for Shan Masood. Comes in to a lost cause: series all but lost, openers both out for ducks, and with miserable scores in series. But digs in, stops the rot and almost scores a ton. Out to a very good catch.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In my imagination I see a Mike Peyton cartoon of crew of a capsized yacht clinking to its hull in Fastnet-like conditions, with RNLI alongside. Coxswain is hailing crew, saying that to comply with Platform Patriot, crew must show ID to prove they have right to enter UK before they can be rescued.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As far as I am aware, no Irish nationalists have ever attacked an RNLI station or crew in the Republic. Irish Free State urged RNLI to stay. RNLI retains the Royal in its name in Ireland. Whereas English nationalists seem all too keen to do exactly that.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Some Farage context for latest Reform financial scandals. As the Google AI footer states, AI can make mistakes…. share.google/aimode/XZGB8...

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Crew of a tug have a small problem with a stowaway rodent.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I suppose the acid test for the assertion that memoir=fiction (cf autobiography=fact) will be the first successful defence of a libel action alleging libellous quotation in a memoir. Otherwise only a publisher’s puffery?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Make a novel smaller. Faffling hills.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Make a band bigger: Emperor Crimson

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is joyous!

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

You know you're getting older when p̶o̶l̶i̶c̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶i̶c̶e̶r̶s̶ Newcastle new signings start looking younger.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wicket first ball (lbw to Ollie)! And a review lost. Can this get any better? #ENGvPAK

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I blame all the “market will decide”, ex post regulators and competition/consumer law types. But then I am an ex ante active regulatory dinosaur (Oftel not Ofcom etc).

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Rioting in Thetford again? Norfolk and good? HT Russ Abbot.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Garda Síochána constable, LFB fireman, department store manager, homemaker.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Which should not be a surprise, given that Burnham is a Cooperative Party member.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Allow Jackdaw and Rosebank to go ahead, but tax profits at 100%-(average WACC in tax year)? Hypothecate tax revenues for investment in green initiatives (grants for domestic insulation, heat pumps, solar panels etc.)?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Disappointed that an ex-in house lawyer (and one in my field, too) goes public like this. What does it achieve?You wouldn’t do this in business; you’d flag it to the new boss’s team, to save the business embarrassment. After all, we in housers want to the seen as trusted advisers, no?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Conversation over lunch about school playground skipping and clapping songs and group skipping on long rope. As my children are all mid 20s to early 30s, no idea if these still exist. Do they?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Why are waterless or closed-loop water cooling systems not mandatory for data centres in UK (& Ireland)? Or EU? Etc. OR Why are open-loop water cooling systems permitted?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I wonder what the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury at the time the VIP Lane was established thinks about the subsequent waste of £10 billion, given their current mantra of “cut welfare” to fund, for example, their claim that there is a £5 billion “black hole” in defence spending plans?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

No-one “deserves” security. It is not a prize. Other words exist: warrants, needs, requires etc.. Typical Jenrick (just now on R4 Today).

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So, do we hope for all major parties to withdraw for a Martin Bell for the 2020s, or just let Reform and Restore fight it out in Clayton?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Half of me wants to know what policies Restore has to reverse demographic change. The other half really does not want to know.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I suggest that the publisher only pay his royalties etc. by cheque that he has to pick up in person, as sending money by computer bank transfer is satanic.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Henry Nowak Finbar Sullivan Grace O'Malley-Kumar Barnaby Webber (Ian Coates) Laurent Bonomo Gabriel Ferez All students, except Ian, whose murders I remember. Admittedly I had forgotten the French students’ names. Whilst a lot of focus on race at the moment, maybe missing vulnerability of students?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Silence of Sarah Wynn-Williams is reported to be effect of restrictions under a California interim arbitration award obtained by Meta. There is also mention in some reports about an employment settlement with non-disclosure terms. A surprise, as I had thought CA anti-SLAPP laws were the strongest.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

So today I’m hearing a lot about welfare reform, now as a euphemism for benefit cuts. Why nothing about tackling causes of increasing poor health? This is good on the what, but I miss the why: The role of changing health ifs.org.uk/publications...

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The role of changing health in rising health-related benefit claims | Institute for Fiscal Studies

Is the working-age population less healthy since the pandemic? What role is changing health playing in rising health-related benefit claims?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

If I were PM, I’d simply piss off and distance myself irretrievably from Reform (and any further erosion of refugee (aka “illegal immigrant”) rights) by sending in an Art 49 TEU application. No plan? No matter. Didn’t see much planning before Art 50 TEU notice went in.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

So West proves that even Labour rebels can u-turn and fail to deliver?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Reminds me of Dan Neidle battles, where one party thinks it can impose confidentiality obligations on another, which in general, they can’t?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Beginning to think I should use a stop watch to time how long it takes Mel Stride to mention his only solution to anything posed to him by an interviewer (being to cut welfare benefits - never with any details of which ones and by how much).

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Been repotting some potted acers. Using ericaceous compost, of course, which comes in pink bags from garden centre near me. If you are a 70s child, like me, you’ll know what my earworm is right now.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

So at what point does a regime that believes in striking first, bombing a country back to the Stone Ages and not worrying about war crimes resort to nuclear weapons?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Not seen this before, but present SCOTUS seems to like citing very early E&W authority to justify bollocks, with precedent we’ve all moved on from in E&W. Is there a legal equivalent term for the Chortlemuffin effect?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I often wonder how the American voters could have been so stupid as to vote for Trump, given the predictable outcome. But then I remember the horror of turning on the radio at 6am on 24 June 2016 and hearing the referendum result, and realise that we are no different in the UK.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Badenoch has a touching faith in PM powers. Couple of weeks ago, it was to increase number of Type 45 destroyers. This week it is to create operational North Sea gas drilling wells in North Sea. Starmer can be criticised for many things, but being unable to time travel is not one of them. #PMQs

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Amazed how little I’ve heard about this in UK, whereas lots of discussion amongst my colleagues (I cover MEA). I have found a number of ME public authorities’ website are effectively off air.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Commando comics’ simplified history of WW1 and WW2 stated that Yanks always turned up very late to any “scrap,” once all the heavy fighting had been done by brave Tommies, and would then claimed all the credit. So 1970s schoolboys would claim UK hesitating to join USA Iran adventure is payback.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Getting strong déjà vu: you can argue the rights or wrongs of use of US bases in UK indefinitely. It doesn’t change anything. Been going on since at least 1986: hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1986...

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Libya - Hansard - UK Parliament

Hansard record of the item : 'Libya' on Tuesday 15 April 1986.

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Did Rubio really hold a presser outside the Steam Pipe Trunk Distribution Venue?

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Wonder how many Commonwealth MPs there are, who Farage will certainly go after under his disenfranchisement plans?

Who can stand as an MP?

To stand as a candidate in a UK Parliamentary General Election you need to be at least 18 years old and be either:

a British citizen or
a citizen of the Republic of Ireland or
a citizen of a commonwealth country who does not require leave to enter or remain in the UK, or has indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
Who is disqualified from standing as an MP?

Certain groups of people are not allowed to stand, these include:

members of the police forces
members of the armed forces
civil servants and judges
people who are subject of a bankruptcy restrictions order in England or Wales or a debt relief restrictions order
people who have been adjudged bankrupt in Northern Ireland
people who have had their estate sequestrated in Scotland.

From Parliament website

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

David Frost John Cleese Ronnie Barker Ronnie Corbett

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Andrew Sharpe @tmt-lawyer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Whilst this may be an appropriate response for an AG of the current USA administration, I don’t recommend it for any LiP (or counsel!) appearing before an overworked judge in a court in E&W.

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