The Government reveals design for new Mayors' ceremonial clothing.
Jonathan Easton KC
@jonnye47.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. Dog wrangler. Planning Silk at Kings Chambers. Occasional punster. Living with bowel cancer, which I'm hoping will f*** off. Views are entirely my own, which should be pretty clear from the nonsense I spout 99% of the time.
sure, everybody hates snake oil — until their snake starts squeaking
I can't sleep so I'm compiling a playlist entitled "Out Out With Joe Pesci".
🧵1 New followers: welcome! Lovely to see you all. Thought you ought to know that I have Stage 4 #bowelcancer. As well as posting dog & landscape pics and musings on #planninglaw I sometimes share my #cancer experiences. I haven't been that forthcoming recently as things have been tough.
There are tons of historic short films (newsreels, corporate videos, documentaries) available to watch for free on the British Film Institute's ‘Britain on Film’ subsite. 🎥🎬 Browse with a map here... player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-f...
Yes I know which one of us looks better in my bespoke lid, designed one night last week at 2am. #legal-lid
When working away, which family member do you miss the most? 1️⃣ Partner 2️⃣ Child/children 3️⃣ Dog(s) 4️⃣ None of the above. 📊 Show results
Damn, I knew this guy was good but it's well worth watching and paying attention to @ishankolhatkar.com's sage advice. 👇🏽 Even seasoned (sage being a lovely seasoning) advocates should be able to set aside their curmudgeon sticks and learn a thing or two.
Ishan Kolhatkar@ishankolhatkar.com · 2y agoEffective Presentation Skills - the curated collection. Huge thanks to everyone who engaged with my video series on Linkedin. I've curated a page on my website with links to all the videos, along with a little spruce up of my home page. www.ishankolhatkar.com/presentation...
🚨 Planning x health 🚨 In our plan-led system there are many moments we can design-in things that can improve the health of communities. But too often we're not joining up these dots. These excellent research papers by Chang & Hobbs et al show that perfectly. Link: www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...
⚠️ This amazing new collection of aerial photos may cause you to lose a large chunk of your day looking for your Nana & Grandad ⚠️ 📷Considering that they were taken by a chap leaning out of a 1930s biplane, the quality of the pictures is astonishing. 📷 historicengland.org.uk/images-books...
Air Pictures Portleven Collection | Historic England
Aerial photographs of the 1930s taken by early commercial photographer Arthur William Hobart.
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Not sure how effective I can be at cross-platforming but couldn't resist sharing this @linkedin.bsky.social post by my pal @joecannonlondon.bsky.social. There are good humans in the legal profession, including at the highest levels. www.linkedin.com/posts/jonnye...
Jonathan Easton KC on LinkedIn: #cancer
This is an incredibly heartening post by Josef and an attitude to which I'd hope that most Judges, and Planning Inspectors for that matter, would…
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apple.news/AfWomlEsbTGm... Dammit, those C&A and Dolcis gift vouchers will have to elsewhere now Sure they're still in date.
Keir Starmer and his top team to stop accepting donations for clothes in major u-turn ahead of party conference
Sir Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves will no longer accept donations to pay for clothing.
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This post raises interesting points but I can't get past the need to take some form of action against #inappropriategavels.
Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 2y agowww.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... This is interesting, we all know academic publishing is a racket but is it legally a breach of competition law?
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,779,656!
Sunset over Morecambe Bay, courtesy of 19. IMHO there are few better seaside vistas .....
This is what Chat GTP considers a "planning barrister working from home" to look like. Seems reasonable.
Outstanding thread. Bravo 👏🏼 Bsky needs more of this!
John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 2y agoOkay I think you are ready for this BlueSky. Let's talk cheese history. More specifically, Yorkshire Dales cheeses, and how WW2 and rationing almost wiped out cheesemaking in northern Britain. This is the story of the near-death of the world of one of the world's great cheeses: Wensleydale. /1 🧵
The full conversation between Pooja Agrawal, Shelly Rouse and Gilian Macinnes about LPA capacity and skills, part of which features in Episode 128 of the podcast, is now available on the 50 Shades YouTube channel. youtu.be/_qG_hZsxsKE?...
Labour of Love - LPA Capacity & Skills
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Quick question on which I'm convinced there must be some hifalutin learnin': is there an optimal time of day to get the best results from a customer services call centre? For context, a family member has managed to hook themselves into a crappy phone contract .....