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Francis Hoar

@francis_hoar

Barrister, practise in election/public law, commercial and employment law. Legal commentator. History, architecture, skiing, singing.

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Judge Kirill Gevorgian: Fall of Russia’s Top Judge Once Heralded as ā€˜The Voice of the ICJ’ - a biography of the Kremlin’s judge, who served as the International Court of Justice’s Vice-President and gave the tribunal’s non-binding advisory opinion on the British Chagos Islands

Judge Kirill Gevorgian: Fall of Russia’s Top Judge Once Heralded as ā€˜The Voice of the ICJ’ - a biography of the Kremlin’s judge, who served as the International Court of Justice’s Vice-President and gave the tribunal’s non-binding advisory opinion on the British Chagos Islands
Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The High Court has lifted its injunction blocking the Chagos deal. Keir Starmer, David Lammy, and their friends will have to bear the shame of this deal forever.

Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the name of anti-colonialism, the Chagossian people are being fed to the wolves, all to appease the Prime Minister's friends. A disgrace.

Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The cession of British territory must be ratified by act of Parliament according to unbroken constitutional usage. MPs and peers can and should block this deal.

Coffee House (@speccoffeehouse) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yes, it was the Tories who initiated discussions. But the decision not to resist the ICJ ruling is squarely on Starmer’s shoulders. āœļø James Heale spectator.co.uk/article/the-ch…

Dia Chakravarty (@diachakravarty) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Back in February No 10 announced the ā€œbiggest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold Warā€. It wouldn’t tell us then if that increase included payments to Mauritius over Chagos Islands. We now know that it does. This is a terrible, terrible administration.

Marcus Walker (@walkermarcus) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is impeachment territory. We’ve agreed to tell an ally of China every time military action is planned from Diego Garcia? Actual lunacy.

Dia Chakravarty (@diachakravarty) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The only interest this deal would serve is that of those who wish to establish the political supremacy of international law over Westminster and would achieve this, de facto, by voluntarily accepting this advisory opinion and setting a precedent. telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025/0…

ross kempsell (@rosskempsell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For years dim / gullible panjandrums of the political class - sadly from all parties - swallowed spin about the Chagos Islands. They ignored Chagossians themselves like Misley - furious that the Islands have been signed away to Mauritius by Starmer. So sad

Helen Edward (@helenedwardcwo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This Bill will do the opposite of its intention. Matthew Elliott: Laudable though it is to give employees rights, what if doing so means people can’t get employed conservativehome.com/2025/05/21/mat… via @conhome House of Lords Matthew Elliott

NPRG (@cpthastings1916) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Quite a lot of snarky replies to this along the lines of "Er OK my dude, having a normal one, are you saying that having to walk through a metal detector at a station makes your life worse??!!?" To which the answer is, obviously yes. Slightly worse, but definitely worse.

Liam Halligan (@liamhalligan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Labour ministers are taking the Blackadder approach to managing our public finances - sticking their heads in the sand and refusing to face reality. It’s approach they are, I believe, collectively willing to test to destruction … My latest weekly ā€œEconomic Agendaā€ column

Eylon Levy (@eylonalevy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

šŸ’„ British Foreign Secretary David Lammy misled Parliament by making up a Netanyahu quote Lammy addressed Parliament last week about Gaza aid. He quoted Netanyahu saying Israel would let in ā€œjust enough to prevent hunger.ā€ There's only one problem: āŒ Netanyahu never said it.

EFTA 4 UK (@efta4uk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ā€œ the UK will never reverse its frightening decline while those in power engage in the kind of self-harm represented by the Chagos Islands capitulation and so much elseā€ thetimes.com/comment/column…

Julian Jessop (@julianhjessop) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ICYMI, here is a selection of independent views on the Chagos handover... 1⃣ From RUSI - "The UK’s surrender of Chagos is a symptom of strategic ineptitude" (1/3) rusi.org/explore-our-re…

Open Source Intel (@osint613) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This might be the first ā€œfamineā€ in history where the ones being ā€œstarvedā€ are threatened by their own rulers for accepting food. This isn’t a rumor. It’s a warning from the official page of the Hamxs Ministry of Interior. I’m not sure why Trey Yingst isn’t covering this.

This might be the first ā€œfamineā€ in history where the ones being ā€œstarvedā€ are threatened by their own rulers for accepting food.

This isn’t a rumor. It’s a warning from the official page of the Hamxs Ministry of Interior.

I’m not sure why <a href="/TreyYingst/">Trey Yingst</a> isn’t covering this.
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Great Dominic Lawson piece on the absurdity of buying large quantities of oil & gas from Norway, while running down our own North Sea industry. dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…

Great Dominic Lawson piece on the absurdity of buying large quantities of oil &amp; gas from Norway, while running down our own North Sea industry. dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…