Alexander Learmonth KC
@alearmonth
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Barrister specialising in trusts and inheritance (New Square Chambers), baritone, editor of legal textbooks, Pic (c) samgibsonphotography
London
Joined August 2009
We shouldn’t trivialise and stigmatise mental health diagnoses. It’s enough to just say that Trump is just a terrible person.
Narcissist personality disorder
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Kamala Harris told us exactly what was going to happen.
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Was it for this that the US spent 80 years building power and alliances? Not to be a force for good. But instead to impoverish neighbours, threaten those it protected, rob minerals from war-torn countries, and break its promises to 100s of millions of the poorest in the world? 🧵
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This February, our Contentious Probate 2025 conference is taking place at @CalClubLondon. A pertinent and ongoing issue that many legal professionals encounter several times throughout their career. Chaired by STEP’s ‘Advocate of the Year’ @alearmonth ⬇️
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I’m leaving X now. Musk is either evil or insane and either way he’s dangerous. You can find me on LinkedIn if you’re a colleague or on Facebook if you know me socially. (Very tempted to leave Facebook too, mind.)
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It’s just occurred to me. Why has it only just occurred to me?! Elon Musk is going to run the US now and for the foreseeable future.
#Trump: “You’re not gonna post that are you? I didn’t have my hair on.” Musk: “Of course not.” Musk: …
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I've #justsponsored sam nicholls, who's fundraising for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity on @JustGiving. Donate now
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I would not have watched this anyway.
While prepping to interview Boris Johnson tomorrow, by mistake I sent our briefing notes to him in a message meant for my team. That obviously means it’s not right for the interview to go ahead. It’s very frustrating, and there’s no point pretending it’s anything other than
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This! ⬇️ The solution to all your Christmas present needs. But only if you help ensure it gets made by pledging on the kickstarter! Do it now!
Word: The Knitted Christmas Jumper Kickstarter Campaign is LIVE. You have until 29 September to pledge to get your exclusive one-off, one-time-only knitted Christmas jumper. https://t.co/oiih2moRpQ
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Dangerous man
CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential
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The Grenfell Report Phase 2 is almost 1700 pages long but there is an excellent and readable summary at the start of volume 1, pages 9-32 here: https://t.co/EKlsssmVlA. So many things going wrong, all ultimately about government and regulators pandering to private interests.
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Blair is right of course. We don’t just elect people to do what we’ve already decided should be done. Ina representative democracy, we (should) elect them to make better decisions on our behalf, devoting their energy, time, experience, and political judgment to that task.
Tony Blair: “I remember a conversation in the Brexit debate He said to me ‘you're this typical elite, trying to say you know more about it than I do’ But do you know what I said to them? I DO know more because I've been prime minister for 10yrs” https://t.co/AznNEWkZVB
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My mate Alastair Brookshaw: "It's Hard To Speak My Heart" from Parade https://t.co/hHH9aXrRKc via @YouTube worth a watch!!
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Two tier justice? Cutting through the online myths – The Secret Barrister
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Yesterday the @Telegraph published a comment piece by Viscount Matt Ridley about renewable energy, littered with misleading claims. What to make of it? 🧵
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It wasn't just that they failed it was that they *deliberately chose* not to process claims on the absurd basis that 100k people could be sent to Rwanda. A decision cheered on by many of those now complaining about the number of asylum seekers in hotels.
Let’s state what should be obvious about the resentment of asylum seekers living in hotels - that this is a product of past government’s total failure to process claims and that successful applicants want nothing more than to work for their living.
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Socratic dialogue with the thugs and their apologists.
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I have never forgotten telling man after man in cell after cell how long they would get in prison for the 2011 London riots. Once enthusiasm for lobbing bins at police has waned, once your pals have been arrested, once the booze & adrenaline subside - you realise. Then regret.
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