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family law solicitor, and fan of that show you like, probably.

Liverpool, England
Joined May 2010
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Robert Ieuan retweeted
Govt wrong to keep the Plan 2 student loan threshold frozen at £29,385 for three years. This means more graduates on low incomes paying a 37% marginal tax rate and no effort to repair a breach of trust.
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Robert Ieuan retweeted
Dual income pensioners bringing in sub £70k will receive a winter fuel stipend. Bizarre when you consider graduates/millennials/young families will earn far less (thank you stagnating wages) and receive no help. Is this policy designed to help people, or to appease the press?
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This is an essential read for anyone involved in NAI cases. I was fortunate to be before an attentive & experienced judge that fully supported my right for M to cross examine the experts. This was the consequence of that respect for the parents Art 6 & 8 rights. Family reunited.
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Have said this before but these analyses always exclude tuition fees, which are a de facto income tax for everyone but the richest graduates. My top rate of income tax is 55%, not 40%, and it will continue to be until I turn 55.
NEW: Is Britain really a high tax country? Our collective tax bill is at its highest share of GDP since the 1940s But actually, the tax and NI paid by the average worker are at their lowest in decades. What’s going on? 1/7
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this is so cool, shame it had to happen in front of jimmy fallon
Amanda Seyfried performs a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “California” on The Tonight Show.
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Robert Ieuan retweeted
I pay an extra 15% tax each month because I went to university. Now I’m in my 30s, I’m seeing more clearly how our student loans system helps widen, not close, the gap.. Your parents’ income at the time you go to uni makes a big difference to your future financial security.
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Robert Ieuan retweeted
criminal defense attys don’t ask to be relieved because of guilt. common reasons are: 1. payment issues 2. breakdown in communication or hostile actions from the client 3. the client asking atty to commit criminal acts or ethics violations
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ lawyer quits sex-trafficking case: ‘Under no circumstances can I continue’ trib.al/qRrNU8w
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Solid reminder here from Robbie. Start to plan your pubs carefully. Do you really need to go out this weekend? If so, take precautions.
Didn't even cop the six nations is back this weekend. Looking forward to hearing everyone talk about it tomorrow before losing interest in a few days.
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Every time I watch It’s A Wonderful Life I never fail to cry, and then I think of this as Lynch himself swells up in tears. Rest in Peace.
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Robert Ieuan retweeted
God.
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Robert Ieuan retweeted
if a movie that looks like this wins best picture I will become the joker
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Robert Ieuan retweeted
Not defending the hair-raising first instance judgment, but neither the tweet nor the headline makes clear that the Home Secretary successfully appealed this decision. I'd be v surprised if he isn't deported given the appeal judge's comments. bailii.org/uk/cases/UKAITUR/…
🚨 NEW: A paedophile convicted of sexually assaulting his stepdaughter has been allowed to remain in the UK as deporting him back to Africa would breach his ECHR right to a “family life” [@Telegraph]
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Robert Ieuan retweeted
it’s so cool how everything just sucks now
Coca Cola’s annual Christmas commercial has been created with AI this time.
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Robert Ieuan retweeted
can't say im a bit fan of the increasing pathologization of totally standard behaviours where medical terms are wrenched out of context to now all refer to You, God's Most Precious Angel And Incredibly Smart Gifted Child Who Is SO Brave
If you were a big reader as a kid, you were disassociating.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
While, technically, being deeply engrossed in reading is an example of mild dissociation, this incorrectly applies the psychological context of coping with stress/trauma or struggling with psychosis. Pathologising normal behaviour is trivialising to those with real disorders. wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociat…
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Gendering art and people’s reactions to it. Whether it was that silliness with Miami Vice or men shouldn’t be allowed to comment on the Substance or whatever else. Enough.
As a leftist, is there anything you’ve seen that can be considered woke that you actually think is bad?
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THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) Cinematography by Ted D. McCord Directed by Robert Wise
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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says lawyers are reporting that the new o1 reasoning model can do the work of a $2000/hour paralegal
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Robert Ieuan retweeted
If someone can convince me of the need for the hard-pressed BBC to fly a helicopter over Westminster because it’s Budget Day, I’m all ears.
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Or the parents in the Family court who go months without any form of contact with their children because hearings simply cannot be accommodated for months. Nowhere near as bad as in crime but equally, my god, the cost…
If cuts to the Justice budget are seriously in the offing then the Chancellor and PM should have a chat with complainants of crime who are being told to wait for justice until 2026/7. You may not be able to put a price on prompt, proper justice. But, my god, there is a cost.
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