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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One thing I learned while being a corporate lawyer was not to make pronouncements about colleagues' legal specialties (crime, family, road traffic, property etc etc) about which I knew absolutely nothing, or only enough to be dangerous.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I can believe this. In the countryside/light traffic you can get around almost entirely on regenerative braking, with the brake pads only needed for coming to an actual stop, and for the unexpected appearances of other drivers, animals, pedestrians, rocks in road etc.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I imagine the point is that churches are subject to Faculty Jurisdiction, which replaces Listed Buildings Consent. But I think the point holds regardless: listed status represents a public judgment about the public interest in preserving something as valuable. That in turn informs Faculty decisions.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Very true. And in rural areas there are often just too many church buildings. Listing them makes any kind of rationalisation even harder.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

That logo is crying out to be a slightly-animated ITV ident from the 70s or early 80s, and accompanied by a short fanfare.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Mery crafty notes, withouten peer!

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Some of us are doing our best to be untrendy social liberals!

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Usual argument about artist and their art, of course, but it's hard to enjoy the nostalgia any more.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Mine too (early 20s). Very sad. Between reading the books and watching the films together, HP was a big part of their childhood, that we no longer want to revisit.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

If only Brussels had spent more time brainwashing sense into us during all those decades of EU membership. (It's a bit like the lie that US Democrats rig elections, and yet the Republicans control the government...)

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I hardly dare look outside to see whose field or garden my dustbin is in.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

No thank you to "special privilege". Also, Palm Sunday is not a "pageant".

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Quite a lot of it, yes. There are new signs, gates, fencing, fingerposts: a fair bit of it already needs renewing, or has moved in the very loose ground. Doesn't feel like a prestigious new project, sadly.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

It's obviously a bit premature to pronounce it a forever war, but a quagmire seemed to be constructed and jumped into with the first days. And in moral terms, an abyss too.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In some places, it's not much of a construction. Near me, little more than a trodden way through dunes in places.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I filled up with gas this morning and noticed the degree of winning going on, prominently advertised at the pumps.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Speaking from among the British public, I think we might just put with, welcome and encourage this sort of thing rather longer than Mr Farage likes to pretend.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

"One of the wonderful things about Iftars is they always tended to invite people who were not Muslims: they were cross-faith events. I personally felt the more they were held in public places - Villa Park, Edgbaston, the city centre, a way of sharing .. under British values" - Sir Andy Street

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I read in this everything I read in my first term at university doing constitutional law, plus the very credible rider (which nobody pointed out at the time) that it only works in the public interest if there is decency and goodwill in government. So, what steps should we be taking now?

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I shall no longer be drawing my bedcurtains, lest the sparks which my mobile phone is liable to emit at petrol stations should cause a conflagration. I shall pull my nightcap about my ears and ask the servants to bank the fire well.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I spent Boxing Day creating a spreadsheet for the last ten years' attendance at Christmas services, and then learned how to do graphs in Excel. But it's starting to look like amateur hour in comparison!

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I spent 20 years being not very eminent but can't think of any occasion on which the eminence of opposing counsel (or solicitors) played a role in bringing the parties to a settlement. I remember quaking in my own boots once or twice, but it would have been quite improper to factor that in.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Leaving aside the attempt to make it a pejorative term, how can anyone entertain the suggestion of DEI hire in respect of someone who (whether you or I agree with him) has consistently been the democratic choice of a constituency (more than once, of a majority of those who cast a vote).

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 06/11/2025

Which one is more English?

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

YouTube (Google) is no better. I complained about an advert for an electric heater that claimed 300% efficiency. Not upheld.

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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 01/11/2025

"You left Europe because you wanted less boats. You have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment." Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union. Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

One year in practice before everything I had studied was swept away by the CPR. Not soon enough to avoid having the White Book literally thrown at me by the QB Practice Master (on my first time solo in court) for not having brought the stamped originating summons for the order to be endorsed on it.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Although we can do something to mitigate the impact of a collision, it still feels like preparing a door that shuts automatically after the horse has bolted.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My guess would be one or more of (a) changing their mind; (b) chickening out; (c) acting inconsistently; or (d) not following the(ir own) rules.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Why stop at the decalogue? Leviticus 19:34 should be next. And will older children have Matthew 5:21-22 on the wall too? 'Thou shalt not kill' is a bit unambitious without it.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Prejudice interacts with a pile of societal anxieties and hang-ups about toilets and changing rooms that often begin in school.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

It's not sufficiently understood by many people how often women are challenged aggressively (or just subject to unpleasant remarks) in toilets, changing rooms. Happening before UKSC ruling and sadly no surprise if it got worse.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The hours I spent... the delight of the 6502 Second Processor edition...

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Pretty poor that Parliament couldn't have clarified its own definition in the Equality Act 2010, at some point in the intervening decade and a half. Many people will assume that some kind of value judgment is being made here, not merely statutory interpretation. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Legal definition of woman is based on biological sex, UK supreme court rules

Judges say Equality Act definition excludes transgender women, after gender-critical campaigners’ challenge

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Surely we need to tackle our excessive energy costs if we are going to save this and other heavy industries?

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I thought this was only me. The relief of no longer being alone in the nightmare.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I'm grateful for the nostalgia, but not for the earworm theme at this late hour.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Hand scanners! Did anyone have one wide enough to do a useful paper size? Or one that didn't always veer off subtly to one side?

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Re national church, there isn't a single hierarchy, just a collection of Dioceses. Very limited central power of command. Parishes are all independent charities, which their Dioceses cannot command, and have freestanding safeguarding obligations like other charities. Archaic. Hard to change.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The Diocesan safeguarding adviser (who I trust to help me make the right judgment call) is only an adviser, and cannot prevent me from making a referral into the secular system.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Without wishing to minimise the appalling failings of the Church of England, things feel robust at the bottom of the structure in a way that they didn't in the past. No-one, and no rule, stops me from going directly to the LA, or the police, if I believe someone has been or is at risk of harm.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Thank you, Ben. Sad to see Historic Houses members being co-opted into a political argument that surely doesn't help them. I shall continue to enjoy NT and HH properties without considering them "competition" for one another!

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Historic Houses is a non-profit association of heritage attractions that are still in family or other private ownership. It doesn't/can't impose 'wokeness', 'anti-wokeness' or anything else on its member properties. It would be nice to see HH correct the record.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Slightly unfair to illustrate this with a museum piece Land Rover narrower than many modern cars and designed to be light enough to transport by helicopter, on display at an enthusiasts' rally and probably exempt from VED. Substitute a Range Rover, Cayenne, X5 etc and I'm with you 100%.

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Stephen Tudway @tudway.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I first saw this image at the age of 5 or 6 in a book on my parents' shelves, that perhaps ought not to have been left accessible to small children. I remember mostly horror, but also that the Spaniard must surely have done something horrific to deserve this.

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