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Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🇲🇹 🇳🇱 🥪 Profile picture
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Feb 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
From Alec Salmond’s submission to the Scottish Parliamentary Enquiry, before the Crown Office manages to get it ‘unpublished’. Please RT beyond the ability of anyone to do anything about it:

‘[I ...] am very clear in my position that the evidence supports a deliberate, ..
.. prolonged, malicious and concerted effort amongst a range of individuals within the Scottish Government and the SNP to damage my reputation, even to the extent of having me imprisoned. That includes, for the avoidance of doubt, Peter Murrell (Chief Executive), ..
.. Ian McCann (Compliance officer) and Sue Ruddick (Chief Operating Officer) of the SNP together with Liz Lloyd, the First Minister’s Chief of Staff. There are others who, for legal reasons, I am not allowed to name.’

Among those he can’t name is, I believe, St Nicola ...
.. herself. Others will doubtless include one or more of the complainants in the failed criminal prosecution, some of whom should be facing perjury charges.

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Oct 19, 2023
A ramble down memory lane.

In the 1980s I worked for a leading criminal law firm, TV Edwards. They are still going now. I was based in their tiny two-man office in Harlesden, right across the road from Willesden County Court. Ours was very much a legal aid practise & me & my ..
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The main office was (& is) over on the Mile End Rd in East London, where the serious criminals operated. Consequently, they got involved in some big cases. They pioneered the technique of examining notebook ..
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The firm had been founded in the 30s by old Tom Edwards who, even in my time there, …
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Jul 9, 2023
Civilisation collapse. (Let’s discuss something cheerful 🙂)

Been reading about the late Bronze Age collapse lately. Never heard of it until recently but it’s a very big deal. Somewhere around 1,200 BCE a whole bunch of highly advanced civilisations were ..
.. wiped out & a dark age descended over the eastern Med & the Middle East. Among the affected were the Mycenaeans, Hittites, Ugarit & Amorite states & the Canaans.

Now these states formed part of a globalised world of interdependent trade. The shipwreck that was recovered ..
.. off the Anatolian coast dates from the late 14th century BCE. It’s cargo was well preserved & included goods from far & wide. I find its design & construction remarkable. We’re not looking at a Welsh conical or a dugout canoe. An architect designed it & ..
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Jun 24, 2023
I was once told by a civil airline pilot that anyone from the lowliest mechanic right on up could point out safety concerns without fear of reprimand. The opposite seems to have applied at Oceangate.

Some parts of the design ..

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Those who know something of the engineering problems have identified the ..
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May 17, 2023
I’m presently absorbed by the Bronze Age Collapse which occurred in the decades around 1200 BC. The eastern med & middle & near east then formed a globalised world of delicate interdependence which was swept away by a combination of drought, famine, invasion & natural ...
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We too live in a world of interdependence whose fragility is on display in the arcane world of trade, with its mysterious rules of origin, ..
.. customs, tariffs & treaties. The Bronze Age civilisations were likewise bound by trade so that when one collapsed its neighbours were weakened.

I see little comprehension of the fragile relationships, long in the making, among our rabid right wing politicians. It’s ..
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Apr 1, 2023
Right! Fuck the EU, screw The Netherlands & a pox on all foreigners!

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.. to react as required when upbraided in loud, distinct English. ‘Unhand me you ruffians, or you’ll be hearing from my solicitor’ I said, to no avail. Nor were they amenable to reason when I conveyed by gestures that I was in the middle of a game & risked losing on time. ..
.. Luckily, the custody sergeant back at the nick had a shred of humanity & fluency in English, so I was bundled back in the car & returned at speed to the venue, with blue lights on.

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Feb 16, 2023
This is Henry, 6th Duke of Norfolk. He inherited property from his elder brother Thomas but refused to pass it on to his younger brother Charles, as had been stipulated by his father, the Earl of Arundel. Charles sued. In 1682 the House of Lords ruled against Charles, deciding ..
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