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Ex-care kid. State school oik
Legal 500 Barrister (chambers in Manchester and London)
Politics snarker
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1st UK Law podcaster
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Ben Knight
Note when idiots lie about Labour signing that contract (the Tories signed it) they invariably turn off replies.
Marlowe_UK
Farage is so very desperate to get arrested or at least spoken to by the police for his incitement.
He needs it so he can invite further and claim he's being silenced (despite never shutting the fuck up).
After a shitty week, I got home to a dead fridge freezer. And everything defrosted. And fully so.
Just what I wanted.
So I find myself facing that obvious question.
Do I NEED a fridge-freezer?
I'm absolutely thrilled to say that my Cambridge Element on deception is now published! It's a review of 80 years of deception research and introduces emerging linguistic perspectives to analytical approaches.
This Element is free to download from 9th-23rd June 2026.
#ForensicLinguistics
#Deception
Guessing prosecution counsel still referred to it as sophisticated OCG where all three men were in leading roles on the guideline.
Ben Knight
Ben Knight
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - The Linguistics of Analysing Deception in Written Texts
Stewart Lee was brilliant tonight: "If you're unsure of which toilets you can use feel free to shit in a bag and mail it to Graham Linehan, he sorts through them by hand"