Journalist in Muswell Hill, London (and Broadstairs). News editor Law Society Gazette; free data fan. Views personal, retweet not an endorsement, obviously.
Joined May 2008
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26 Nov 2025
The UK's utterly bonkers approach to nuclear power is at last receiving some attention. lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-…
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Michael Cross retweeted
1 Aug 2025
BREAKING: MOTOR FINANCE - Supreme Court upholds lenders’ motor finance appeals.
Judgment timed for this afternoon (Friday) on advice of Financial Conduct Authority to avoid ‘market disorder’.
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30 Jul 2025
In a boost for open justice, Commercial Court documents will have to be made public from October.
Anxious litigators are assured that ‘genuinely confidential’ material will be redacted.
@michaelcross reports ⬇️
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10 May 2025
🌞Blogs - @Mother__in__law and the meaning of life, what journalist/author/tutor Hilary did next,Solicitors and VE Day by @michaelcross, restoring confidence in the super-exam and applying for the deproscription of Hamas.
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16 Jul 2024
The Gazette's virtual swear box (£1 for every mention of 'Queen's speech') now contains £3.
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9 Jun 2024
A further - unfinished - chapter in the Craig Wright saga. #craigwright lawgazette.co.uk/law/satoshi…
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6 Mar 2024
'£2 billion will be invested to update fragmented and outdated IT systems across the NHS.' Welcome to 2003! #groundhogday
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14 Mar 2023
What is going on with barristers on twitter?
If we comment outside our specialism, don’t we have a responsibility to the public make it clear. Being a barrister isn’t a magic cloak that gives expertise on all areas of law.
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14 Feb 2023
Obviously the biggest news of the week...
Legal London loses its Spoons lawgazette.co.uk/obiter/lega…
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4 Feb 2023
I just bought tickets to Nine Below Zero, Broadstairs Blues Bash @ Broadstairs ... ticketweb.uk/event/broadstai… via @TicketWebUK
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4 Jan 2023
Crikey. Didn't we have one of these in about 2004? #groundhogday Cabinet Office launches consultation on departmental data sharing gov.uk/government/news/cabin…
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2 Jan 2023
Pouria Hadjibagheri and the UK’s abandoned open data revolution spectator.co.uk/article/pour… via @spectator #freeourdata
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24 Oct 2022
As an adherent of the journalistic tradition 'Always go for the local angle' I can only congratulate @ArtificialLawyer on this heroic scoop...
24 Oct 2022
Legal Tech Company Founder’s Cousin to be UK Prime Minister ! artificiallawyer.com/2022/10…
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31 Aug 2022
My friendly, historic local is under threat, writes Kat Thomas.
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23 Jun 2022
Another dataset that @charlesarthur and I were banging on about, all those years ago. #opendata #freeourdata gov.uk/government/news/local…
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27 May 2022
Will be sorry to lose the shipping forecast on R4 longwave - when all else fails at sea, it can still be a lifesaver - but it's hard to justify funding from licence fee these days. Any other ideas? #BBCcuts #shippingforecast
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19 Mar 2022
I've signed the call for a new #NurembergTribunal to investigate #Putin and his cronies for the international crime of #aggression. #StandWithUkraine Sign & RT: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en…
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9 Mar 2022
As if any were needed, the discovery of Shackleton's Endurance is also a tribute to the skills of Captain Frank Worsley (1872-1943), who knew exactly where he was when the ship went down.
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