I self-harmed by watching a 10 minute clip of him on GB News dissecting the Epping judgment. His comments about Bean LJ were not merely disrespectful but were rude and debasing. His legal analysis was, unsurprisingly, inexpert.
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And I doubt whether it was made clear, as it should have been, either that he is a former Conservative councillor or that he is associated with the group that has been encouraging these injunction applications
sep 1, 2025, 9:24 am • 2 0 • view
What possessed you man?!
sep 1, 2025, 9:26 am • 2 0 • view
Intrigue. It was posted with approval by a misguided Facebook friend. I've not thought about Barrett since leaving Twitter, so thought it mind flood back the nostalgia. It was as appalling as I remember.
sep 1, 2025, 10:00 am • 4 1 • view
I would say that the Twitter user demographic has shifted and grown in a way which aligns with and is receptive to him as a law explainer. It’s a demographic which is largely legally illiterate and which to an extent flirts with lawlessness
sep 1, 2025, 10:06 am • 2 0 • view
I admire those good lawyers who've stayed involved to try to counter the 'expert' spreading of legal illiteracy, but I fear that my social media experience is far healthier through not engaging on X.
sep 1, 2025, 10:15 am • 2 0 • view
There are still good people there too (I’ll have been to the weddings of two Twitter/X friends this year by the end of this month) and it is a lot more fast-moving than this site, with better in-depth engagement and information on many subjects. But it has changed for the worse overall
sep 1, 2025, 10:20 am • 2 0 • view
Alas for employment lawyers Blue Sky hasn’t really taken off as an engaging space, which is a shame.
sep 1, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
That is a shame
sep 1, 2025, 2:15 pm • 1 0 • view
But he knows everything about law from a particular point of view….
sep 1, 2025, 9:23 am • 1 0 • view
Always law Sean. Never politics
sep 1, 2025, 9:26 am • 0 0 • view