Many congratulations on the forthcoming 5-0! Not out to score gratuitous points BUT Yvonne and I married on 15.12.67! Academic and liberal activist twin daughters AND one sixteen year old grandson later, he and I are the only ones sans a professorship, doctorate or high class Uni degree.
I can but humbly echo the plaudits and appreciation - rightly- bestowed upon you by earlier contributors, Joshua.
As to the subject of early release- which many of us have long been advocating, please, please, please: no party political point scoring from a Shabana Mahmood who ought to know better or from the Labour electioneering machine. Rather in anticipation of that shoddy and unprincipled tactic rearing its ugly head I have LONG been giving my own M.P. and my Labour activist friends severe earache over this and urging a worthier and more defensible line. Short term though unworthy TACTIC it may be; strategy IT IS NOT! Time for an adult recognition of the shameful pit we have collectively dug, either as an unseemly calculation or through our timidity in having failed to speaking out. If in a pit…….
Congratulations upon your lifetime achievement award - for a a truly wonderful career making complex legal situations understandable and accessible to the widest audience. It's vital, particularly now , for there to be understanding amongst all age groups of the need for an independent judiciary and a fair and just rule of law.
Congratulations and well-deserved
Thank you!
Many congratulations on the forthcoming 5-0! Not out to score gratuitous points BUT Yvonne and I married on 15.12.67! Academic and liberal activist twin daughters AND one sixteen year old grandson later, he and I are the only ones sans a professorship, doctorate or high class Uni degree.
I can but humbly echo the plaudits and appreciation - rightly- bestowed upon you by earlier contributors, Joshua.
As to the subject of early release- which many of us have long been advocating, please, please, please: no party political point scoring from a Shabana Mahmood who ought to know better or from the Labour electioneering machine. Rather in anticipation of that shoddy and unprincipled tactic rearing its ugly head I have LONG been giving my own M.P. and my Labour activist friends severe earache over this and urging a worthier and more defensible line. Short term though unworthy TACTIC it may be; strategy IT IS NOT! Time for an adult recognition of the shameful pit we have collectively dug, either as an unseemly calculation or through our timidity in having failed to speaking out. If in a pit…….
Congratulations and well deserved for inspiring us by demystifying some complex legal concepts and arguments. Look forward to your podcasts.
Thank you!
Joshua, a richly deserved tribute to honour your lucid and informative broadcasts and your thought-provoking columns. John
Very kind of you to say so
Richly deserved 👏🥳🥂
Thank you!
Congratulations upon your lifetime achievement award - for a a truly wonderful career making complex legal situations understandable and accessible to the widest audience. It's vital, particularly now , for there to be understanding amongst all age groups of the need for an independent judiciary and a fair and just rule of law.
Thanks so much, Joy — especially as we first met when our respective lifetimes were rather shorter!