@radinden

This account is no longer in use: I'm radinden on Instagram, Bluesky and Threads, and will see you there.

 Brighton, United Kingdom
Joined April 2009
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In the manner of one of our most distinguished civil service forbears, albeit of the fictional variety, may I just briefly intrude upon your attention to discharge a by-no-means disagreeable obligation by taking this opportunity to express, with all due deference... (cont.)
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....with appropriate perspective - to have presented themselves in a manner that you might have found at the very least not to have been at all remotely disagreeable, and even - one might venture to the point - conducive to having produced... (cont.)
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...an overall greater measure of satisfaction than would otherwise have been the case?
Sir Humphrey Appleby - the quintessential civil servant in dark suit, tie and somewhat smug expression - raising a tea cup in the manner of a toast.

ALT Sir Humphrey Appleby - the quintessential civil servant in dark suit, tie and somewhat smug expression - raising a tea cup in the manner of a toast.

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Are you, or do you know, a distinguished lawyer with the highest experience in leadership, collaboration, legal reasoning, and decision-making? We'll soon open the competition to find three exceptional candidates to succeed Tim Eicke KC as judge of the European Ct of Human Rights
Judicial Appointments Commission@becomeajudge18 Nov 2024
The application process for a national selection exercise for the role of European Court of Human Rights Judge elected in respect of the United Kingdom will be opening soon. Click the link below to read more 👇 judicialappointments.gov.uk/…
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The application process for a national selection exercise for the role of European Court of Human Rights Judge elected in respect of the United Kingdom will be opening soon. Click the link below to read more 👇 judicialappointments.gov.uk/…
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Irresistible force meets immovable object: recycling truck with collections to make meets scaffolders' lorry determined to block the road. Phenomenal stand-off ensues.
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I’ve been burned too many times to start hoping, but maybe? Perhaps? Possibly?
Somerset Cricket
@SomersetCCC12 Sep 2024
The current @CountyChamp table with 2 games still to play...... #WeAreSomerset #SOMvSUR @WPAinsurance
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SOMERSET WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT HAS JUST HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????? #SOMvSUR #WeAreSomerset @WPAinsurance
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Discovered there’s a spot in the back of the stands at @SomersetCCC where you can see the press and commentators’ catering. Not going to reveal who got themselves a full 20 minutes’ head start on the lunch dishes.
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Geneva, for the 2nd time this year: having run the UK delegation to the Human Rights Committee back in March, it was nice this time for the Committee on Racial Discrimination to concentrate ‘only’ on answering questions in MoJ's remit. Doing it in 32° heat was somewhat less fun.
A group of 20 people, including the author, grouped on a flight of steps and smiling for the camera. They are smartly dressed. There are tall columns and large windows behind them.

ALT A group of 20 people, including the author, grouped on a flight of steps and smiling for the camera. They are smartly dressed. There are tall columns and large windows behind them.

The top of a large building in bright sunshine against a blue sky. The building is pale green and dark orange, with tall elegant windows. There is a blue UN flag flying, and the sign says "Palais Wilson".

ALT The top of a large building in bright sunshine against a blue sky. The building is pale green and dark orange, with tall elegant windows. There is a blue UN flag flying, and the sign says "Palais Wilson".

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Thought for the #WhiteSox fandom: is that nun who threw out a good first pitch a few years ago available? Feel like we could use her skills right now.
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This weekend, I cleared out my travel receipts from my time in Strasbourg, having punctiliously kept them just in case someone audited me (they didn’t). It was bittersweet to glance through them: so many fun trips and so much important work, but also so many Covid tests… (cont.)
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…and other tough times. It was a jolt, too, to realise that I’ve been back for three years, almost as long as I spent there; and looking through the approval signatures, to remember my first ambassador, the late Christopher Yvon, whom we lost far too young. Where does time go?
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It's Brighton, of course there's a man taking his bathtub for a walk.
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Say what you will about the Harry Potter franchise (but do so somewhere else, please), but it was surprisingly adorable watching the reactions of groups of foreign teenagers approaching Kings Cross “Platform 9¾” with various shades of shock and excitement.
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If no-one's yet done a horror film in which swarms of flying ants take over the world, they need to get on that. My back yard today would provide the perfect setting.
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Right, is it safe to emerge? We’re all done with doing democracy for a bit? Time to see what’s now in the in-tray…
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Congratulations to @alain_berset from 🇨🇭for his success in being voted in as the next #SecretaryGeneral of the Council of Europe! He will take over from @MarijaPBuric in September.
PACE
@PACE_News25 Jun 2024
Alain Berset, a former President of the Swiss Confederation, is to be the new @CoE Secretary General. Watch again the announcement of his election and acceptance speech... youtu.be/mzA5Om9AsgY?si=E5UX…
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