Edward Henry KC

“To the coming Generations: The ambition of the wicked is to be strong; the duty of the righteous is to be stronger” Winston Churchill

My dear mother, Barbara, slipped away from this life in the early hours of yesterday morning after a short illness. I was fortunate to have been able to be with her right up until the end. A joyful and active life of nearly 85 years. Rest in peace, mum and rise in glory.

A merry band of Suffolk based women kindly decided to celebrate my being awarded an MBE. We had a lovely chatty lunch, talking and laughing and drinking. @WomensRightsNet

Very disappointed with this result. There are two lines of authority on non-cross admissibility directions and I argued that R v Adams ought to be followed. The Court disagreed - we’ll have to wait and see if they’ll certify a question for the Supreme Court or not. They ought to.

Fabulous letter from the great Deborah Moggach in today’s Times.

It is the tercentenary of the birth of the Revd John Newton, curate of Olney, who unusually was a slave, then a slave trader, then converted to Christianity and became an Abolitionist. He wrote the hymn Amazing Grace and lived (just) to see the African slave trade abolished.

My parents died years ago. I was very close to them. I still miss them terribly. I know I always will. I long to believe that their essence, their personalities, what I loved so much about them, are - really and truly - still in existence somewhere. I wouldn't ask very much,…

ozzy osbourne’s top ten favourite beatles songs and why:

Heroic performance from a brave, pain wracked and frail man. RIP the legend that was Ozzy Osbourne.

“We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. ... We have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among ‘the children of this world,’ in art and song.”

To me, the #LordAshcroftGallery is about more than medals. It is about the extraordinary people who won them and their incredible stories of bravery and patriotism. Time is running out to visit - please do try and go before it closes - @I_W_M London

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I have been a Black Sabbath fan almost my entire life. And when I say Black Sabbath I mean the band with Ozzy Osbourne in it. Everything else was business. They were just immense. A thundering voice and noise direct from the working class.

To go out in huge style, performing to tens of thousands just before your death, raising millions for charity in the process, well, not many people can say that of their final curtain. What a classy farewell. #ozzy

Our ‘lowest level’ criminal justice system has lost its most important and overlooked quality of all: Mercy.

ROT.

Netanyahu has overseen slaughter in Gaza, the decimation of the reputation of Israel and the radicalisation of a new generation of terrorists. I hope more pro Israel voices will see what a disaster he has been not just for Israel but the wider world thetimes.com/article/9f7308…

Saul Bass, who did the titles was a great artist. When paired with Bernard Herrmann's music something brilliant invariably happened

.@JamesClear on the danger of choosing the easy path:

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

From hospital workers in Scotland to swimmers on Hampstead Heath women largely want to undress and change their clothes away from the sight of men they are not intimate with. The amount of legal obfuscation deployed in various places to ignore or deny this simple truth is amazing