It’s the sister association of Médicins avec Frontieres, that well known charity of medical professionals who are keen to not travel beyond their respective arrondissements. AGMs have been a particular challenge for them.

No, they are a ginger group which advises and assists local authorities in seeking planning law injunctions to close migrant hotels in their area. They were initially successful in the Epping case, then unsuccessful, but have made an impact on headlines. Not unlike many other lawfare-mongers

Not for the first time I prefer my version of reality….

Well, it’s a more benign vision, but unfortunately not reality. I don’t want to see Barrett as a Reform government’s Attorney General

In the second sentence you can lose Barrett as the apostrophe s and AG….

Sure, but my point is that other people do. People with strong views, and people with votes. He engages that audience and it trusts and likes him. Legal Twitter/X/Bluesky largely doesn’t engage that audience, and it doesn’t trust or like us/them either

The 33% who like fascism ain’t ever going to listen to the likes of us

You have the luxury of your professional status and a remote living location to be unlikely to come across them frequently, if at all. But their animated ignorance and where it may tend concerns me a lot

I knew a garden designer who thought Cerastium tomentosum is a crime (Latin name coz it's lawyers)

TBF that stuff is a war crime.