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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Cape Verde to win the World Cup on penalties. You heard it here first…

Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Just finished listening to the audiobook of Peter Chappell's "What if Reform Win." The phrase 'barristers on Bluesky' did make me laugh much more than it should have.

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It is the weirdest experience of my life when a South Asian judge weirdly mispronounces my surname as "My-sra." I get that its not a common surname in the UK, but Misra/Mishra is a pretty common surname across North India. I've never heard this variation before either... 🤯

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Can anyone explain to me why Britain has such an aversion to the mixed tap? Why is the set up you can have one scalding hot tap and one ice cold tap?

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

It’s so fascinating to watch the European diaspora turn the logics of European imperialism on Europe. The last time that was done was by Germany in the 1930s. History doesn’t repeat but the rhyme scheme can be seen…

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The messaging is now that there is no other "viable" option but for removing trial by jury. How will this solve crumbling courthouses, lack of lawyers and judges, delays in production? The inefficiencies that plague our courts are almost never caused by juries. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan...

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Victims’ commissioner for England and Wales warns against U-turn on limiting jury trials

Exclusive: Claire Waxman says justice system risks collapse and no other viable way to drastically reduce courts backlog

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The thing is, ICE is not a symptom of some factual cause like this. It does not matter that 'illegal' migrants are not casting ghost votes. The supporters of ICE and its actions do so irrationally. You cannot attack it with rationality... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/u...

nytimes.com

Initial Review Finds No Widespread Illegal Voting by Migrants, Puncturing a Trump Claim

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Gentle reminder that when Europeans and/or members of the European diaspora move country, they are *migrants*, not expats.

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I keep on saying this. This may shock people. Londoners, in general, *like* London. We are usually proud of the city and enjoy living there. It does, like everywhere, have problems. Running campaigns of “London is god awful” will not win you the mayoralty 🤷🏾‍♂️. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Reform London mayor candidate accused of talking down capital with ‘pity’ remark

Laila Cunningham tells press conference that people pity Londoners for having to live in a city that is ‘no longer safe’

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 03/01/2026

Thinking about the libertarians who insisted, prior to the election, that Trump was the "hold your nose and vote for him over Harris" candidate because, among other things, he'd practice more foreign policy restraint.

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The big question is, will Venezuela end up forced down the Puerto Rico route or the Hawaii route. #USColonialism

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I wonder what the grifty grifters who were all about how the current crop of fascists would drain the swamp and mark a clean break from endless forever wars for regime change and oil theft feel about Venezuela right now...

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Good to see that the inaugural FIFA peace prize earn its stripes. After all, does anything say peace quite like unprovoked military strikes on a nation, with no declaration of war and then kidnapping their leader?

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Does anyone else find it really weird that the London Conservative leader, Susan Hall, spends half her time telling people that London (still the best City in the world) is just god-awful? Like does she really not understand why she lost the mayoral election?

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Can anyone in the publishing industry explain to me why, in history books, the glossy photo pages are always mid chapter, and not between chapters?

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

When did people stop taking their backpacks off when standing on the Tube at rush hour? Do they not know that a special place in hell awaits them?

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Every time I see the justifications for the curtailment of jury trials, it includes this estimate that trials will be 20% faster without juries. Maybe that’s true. The thing is, it’s like telling me that raising the speed limit to 90mph will make journeys on the motorway faster. Maybe that’s true:

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Does anyone else find it weird that when you’re flying in Europe (the mainland), the airport staff always ask if you can remove your Kara and always sigh or roll their eyes when you say no? Is it just outright lack of familiarity?

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The thing with painting over zebra crossings to make St George’s Crosses that I don’t understand at all is: isn’t it super disrespectful to your flag to paint it somewhere people will literally trample on it?! 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Like many bookworms, I have a (bad?) habit of buying more books than I can realistically read since my last trip to the bookstore. So it is that over 6 years have passed with “The Luminaries” sitting on my shelf. Having just finished Part 1 - it’s beautifully written. Delicate as the night sky.

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

God bless the Piccadilly Line train driver who held the northbound train at Finsbury Park for changers from the Victoria when there are severe delays and it was 12 minutes until the next one. #notallheroeswearcapes

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Listed for PTPH at 10am. D is serving prisoner. D had his first appearance by CVP. For no discernible reason, listed for all parties to attend. D is serving in the Midlands. Matter listed in Kent. Informed by the cells that the ETA is 15:30. This could have been avoided by producing D by CVP.

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

I did not have scores level as my prediction for the end of the first innings there…

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

So what do we call that then? The Bumrah Blast? The Bumrah Burst? Whatever you call it, that folks, is how you bowl on a flat pitch 😍😍

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I’m only being semi facetious when I say this. Never mind intermediate courts and all that jazz. Let’s hold criminal trials in the Tower of London. There’s cells, it’s a military base so security is sorted, there’s room. It’s open to the public. What barrister wouldn’t want to appear there?

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Is the real subplot of the Lords Test just Bumrah v Archer? If so, looks like Reddy is gearing up to defang that narrative

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Brave of Gill to not chuck in the declaration after his 150. I’d back the bowlers to finish the job with a 592 run lead…

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

@vuelingairlines.bsky.social. Out of interest Vueling, what’s the point of wheeling my parents to the gate then leaving them there. Then asking us to leave them and sit in another area. How were they supposed to use the bathroom if they needed? Both flights, just terrible service.

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

@vuelingairlines.bsky.social - thanks for sending me from queue to queue despite being told my parents need wheelchair assistance. Thanks for making them stand in queues for over 85 mins only for the check in lady to tell us that you should have processed us first. Stay classy! 🤷🏾‍♂️👏🏾🤦🏾‍♂️

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

What a month of music already! Watched the inimitable Kailash Kher at the Royal Festival Hall to start the month, and have the legendary Gurdas Maan in the middle. All I need now is an equally exceptional act to close the month...

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The thing about people losing their minds over Starmer’s pivot is that this is Labour through and through. The changes to British and Commonwealth Nationality were done by a Labour government. The Liverpool trade union colour bar was Labour etc etc. Plus ça change some might say 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Fewer things grate on my soul more than hearing Urdu pronounced “err-doo”.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Finding it more amusing than I probably should that the MAGA crew are only now just discovering that the head of something called The *Roman* Catholic Church, that has its own Nation City State isn’t “America First”. Who might have guessed this would be so? 😂

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Is there any delivery company more unapologetically crappy than Evri? My heart sinks every time I see that’s the courier any retailer chooses…

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Is there anything more annoying than companies that use automated option services that loop to "Have you heard of the internet? Goodbye." Firstly: If I could solve the problem online, I'd not be calling (it's obvs quicker). Secondly: Why can't there be an option to stay on to speak to a human?

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

On Friday, the European Commission issued a proposal that would make it easier to hunt wolves in Europe. The proposal would align European Union laws with the Bern Convention, which decreased the status of wolves from "strictly protected" to "protected."

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EU proposes ending wolves' 'strictly protected' status in Europe

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission proposed on Friday making it easier to hunt wolves in Europe, citing their growing number and the threat they pose to livestock as reasons for downgrading t...

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Who else but Virat Kohli would do that eh? 🎉🎉🎉

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I’ve often used the Indian experience of the East India Company as a cautionary tale about unfettered corporate power. After 1857, the State taking over was partial recognition of the problems. But now we have the new “nabobs” who have just bought the US Empire, and people are cheering it 🤷🏾‍♂️🤯

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

When I was a student (2005-2010), the London nightlife was fully exceptional. A wide range of nights to choose from and some top clubs. Almost all of which are gone. London’s nightlife will never recover at this rate… www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

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Met object to opening of Soho jazz club claiming it will 'cause uptick in crime'

Exclusive: Famous Blue Note Jazz club wants to open late-night venue in Covent Garden - but police say ‘vulnerable’ club-goers could become victims of crime

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I agree, the current Labour rhetoric on migration (and the EU for that matter) offers nothing to anyone out of step with jingoistic nationalists. However, people who keep saying they're a "minority" or try to minimise them are not paying attention. If we didn't have FPTP elections, they'd see that

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Away from home on an inquest in the West Country, so staying Bath. Found the most divine Nepali restaurant. Getting Tharu and Maithil flavours with every bite. If anyone is going to Bath, try Yak Yeti Yak, you won’t regret it.

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Really? People who brought you concepts like “flood the zone” aren’t good faith actors?! And in other news, the Pope has been confirmed to be Catholic… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

theguardian.com

Far-right populists much more likely than the left to spread fake news – study

Amplifying misinformation is now part of radical right strategy, says Dutch study of tweets by MPs in 26 countries

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I can see why Potter might feel aggrieved with that game. But… he didn’t win at the Bridge when he was the home manager, it’s just not his stadium 😂😂. I’ll take a lucky win though.

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I bet a poll would find that the majority of people also support better public services and lower taxes too 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

It’s been a while, but last night I had a dream that was fully in Hindi. Usually I dream in Hinglish. A full Hindi dream is rare but welcome :).

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Is it just me, or does every Chelsea fan’s heart leap into their throats when the ball goes near Sanchez?

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Vishal Misra | विशाल मिश्रा @viziervish.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

It is incoherent to point out that the threat from Reform comes mostly from immigration policy and then to suggest public contemplation of Single Market membership for Britain. The forces of Brexit-Trumpism etc asre not going away. The old ways cannot combat them. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

economist.com

Sir Keir Starmer should aim higher in his reset with the EU

And he needs to be clearer about what Britain wants

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