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3 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Anyone raising #Norms arguments who has not been thoroughly consistent as to those alleged norms will go on mute .... I will accept but ignore (as it is boring) partisanship etc but spare me the hypocrisy.
Also (speaking as someone without for some time now) if you do have living parents - whether or not this pandemic is on - then why are you here online arguing about things you cannot change? At least call them, or if you can, see them. Nothing else really matters by comparison.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk etc
Since you came to my TED Talk ....

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4 Jan
I am starting a thread below to thread together all of my legal writing as well as others' writings on Constitutional Law, Roman Law, Public Law (generally including criminal law) & national security law, that I find interesting and which may influences my own thinking. GC Image
The Crown and the Republic

strategycounsel.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-cr… Image
The Case for Constitutional Federalism Image
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2 Jan
For those who may be watching "The Sound Of Music", herewith the the Imperial Austro-Hungarian Navy dress uniform of Captain Georg von Trapp, which you can view in the Austrian Military Museum @HGM_Wien in Vienna (one of the best military museums in the world)
Not an expert on the von Trapps but it has an obvious juxtaposition of traditional Catholic Salzburg (‘the Rome of the North’) amid the impending Nazi Anschluss where ‘olde worlde’ Austria is being overcome by the modern & tyrannical Germany. Captain von Trapp-the last Austrian.
Captain von Trapp’s basic error was not double-tapping the delivery boy Rolf in the grounds of his estate. Rolf had already harassed his eldest daughter. He then became a Nazi toady. The Captain had a large estate & no one in 1930s Austria would have missed Rolf. Just saying...
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31 Dec 20
Watching Gladys on Sky & she has done very well here. The media are now a feral mob baying for lockdowns while Gladys rightly mentions the trade-offs. Next time that Gladys fronts this crazed herd to discuss "Team NSW", she should just wear a NSW Blues Origin jersey.
If @GladysB was on the Left of politics, the ABC would have already had Gladys hosting a special socially distanced "Songs of Praise" from an Armenian church - albeit the ABC would censor any of the parishioners who were not 'diverse lifestyles affirming'.
A very well done to @GladysB and Dr Chant. Gladys has had a difficult 2020 with all the Maguire/ICAC stuff (which media with their own messy private lives relished reporting) but Gladys has done a very good job, resisting the media herd's panic, and all of NSW are in her debt.
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30 Dec 20
Kudos to Boris on "Dickensian Squalor". But much of the rest of this is shopping list liberal idiocy & why the 1922 committee should keep its revolvers loaded.
I am usually all for hammering Kier Starmer - another Blairite popinjay from central casting - but Labour voting yes to this good enough EU deal puts the issue behind the UK & ironically will help Labour rebuild trust with its own northern supporters who were adamant Leavers
Am convinced British Labour's recruitment policy is from some student union and straight into Parliament. The basic weakness of Boris as a Tory is he was also involved in all the student politics nonsense. True Tories should want to turn Cambridge into church schools (again).
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28 Dec 20
Wonderful piece by Gideon Haigh on the duly famous wartime dissent of Brisbane's Lord Atkin in Liversidge v Anderson [1942] AC 206 & the enduring value in a judge being right for posterity even if their Zeitgeist says they are wrong

theaustralian.com.au/life/lord-atki…
The full text of Liversidge v Anderson [1942] AC 206 is here - Liversidge was a man of unusual associations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Li… & had been (perhaps understandably) interned in 1940 and Sir John Anderson was Home Secretary & the detaining authority

bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/…
"It has always been one of the pillars of freedom, one of the principles of liberty for which on recent authority we are now fighting, that the judges are no respecters of persons and stand between the subject and any attempted encroachments on his liberty by the executive...."
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27 Dec 20
Wonder if CNN etal will be promoting this statement of concern by the 'highly principled' military caste concerned for the direction of their constitutional state? Whither, indeed?

nytimes.com/2020/12/27/wor…
Nation-States often make settlements within themselves to get ahead - sometimes you want a "culture of forgetting". In Spain's case, there was a general agreement to put the Civil War & after behind it. The Spanish military was a genuinely national institution so it esp did this
In NATO HQ/exercises in the 1970s, it was not uncommon to have visiting older Spanish staff officers (Spain was not a member) wearing German decorations (that Germans could not wear) the Spanish oficers had won as youth fighting in the Blue Division against the Soviets.
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