Jolyon Maugham lets slip

This is interesting in terms of Jolyon's motivations twitter.com/BigBillMoon/status/1426253515350069249?s=19

Ha ha ha!!

"DOMINIC LAWSON: The return of the fox-killing barrister and a vainglorious bid to exploit the PPE crisis"

"Attention-seekers sometimes pay a price for their vanity. One such is the lawyer Jolyon Maugham, who on December 26 last year tweeted: 'Already this morning I have killed a fox with a baseball bat. How's your Boxing Day going?'

The publicity-hungry QC later pointed out he was acting to protect the chickens he kept. But this hardly assuaged the fury of his erstwhile fan club." . . .

. . . "But yesterday he popped back up, proclaiming that the Good Law Project was launching new crowd-funded litigation against the Government, this time suing it for 'failure to procure and provide adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS and other care workers' —on the grounds that 'those failures have contributed to the death and serious illness of healthcare and other care workers'.

The Good Law Project is joined in this claim by the Doctors' Association UK, founded in 2018 by Samantha Batt-Rawden, a registrar in intensive care medicine who was instrumental in organising regional industrial action during the junior doctors' hospital contract dispute."

A certain GP was for a short while (until he disgraced himself bullying women on Twitter?) the "Media Rep" for the Doctors Association and therefore responsible for this self-aggrandising tweet?

twitter.com/TheDA_UK/status/1049013339597299712

Archived:
archive.is/oX3Tm

Meanwhile, just days earlier . . .

No need to read beyond the headline. Ouch!

Jolyon aside, that is a very interesting article. Some good work from the HSJ.

Jolyon is back, though on the hunt for PPE masks for NHS staff.

mol.im/a/8306063

Dominic Lawson does not seem to like him much.

I heard the interview. It was straight from the trans lobby playbook of threatening suicide at any hint of criticism. Seriously, he must have had all sorts of shit thrown at him over Brexit, but this is what made him feel suicidal. I think not. I think he realised he screwed his own left liberal credentials in one reckless tweet. To have the magnificent Chris Packham have a go at him must have stung. Funny, he decided it was ok for CP to criticise him because CP is "pure" (i.e., a vegan). The rest of us, who eat dairy and meat, must not have an opinion when someone else beats a defenceless animal to death, because that would be hypocrisy. Because of course, these two things are one and the same. What a fucking dick. And the R4 interviewer was a simpering idiot.

He advised himself. In doing so he's embracing the old adage "a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client".

In the real world, people may occasionally have to dispatch a wild animal in unexpected circumstances.
Sensible people sit down, have a calming cuppa and feel bad about it. They don't
Tweet about it in flippant tones. If JM didn't realise that's how the initial tweet and then the kimono part came across, then he's got somewhat poor judgement - as a lawyer, words and how they're interpreted are surely part of his trade?

Here's yesterdays times piece alluded to upthread

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lawyer-who-killed-fox-humanely-was-savaged-by-rspca-trolls-r5ck3v7rj?shareToken=ef4398f9e64a2d14146cf72055d2a377

Oh boohoo Poor Jolyon, cry me a fucking river. Honestly. Does he have no clue about the real world? In the real world, which is demonstrably not Twitter, people don’t go around murdering foxes with baseball bats while wearing their wife’s kimono although I see he’s claiming it was a batik cotton dressing gown wtf What an insufferable dickhead this man is.

People like Jolyon Maugham love being the victim. It's like the time Toby Young got his Office for Students job offer rescinded when it turned out he'd written some pretty nasty tweets over the years. But it was poor Toby who was the victim.

It's a damn shame this animal killer isn't being prosecuted

Words fail me.

Caroline Flack: relentlessly scrutinised and savaged by mainstream and social media over a period of many years for her appearance, her relationships, her demeanour, her career choices and her personal life (in other words, for not doing 'woman' in a universally pleasing way: for being an adult human female in the public eye)

Jolyon Maugham: criticised on twitter for a couple of days in the week between christmas and new year for boasting about clubbing a wild animal to death with a baseball bat.

Not so very similar, you arrogant, entitled misogynist.

Jolyon M should not be on twitter for his own sanity.

He's just generated another twitter hate storm, the idiot.
50 retweets and 111 replies already.

But to cap it all he has pleaded Poor Me over the twitter storm and compared himself to Caroline Flack.

I know right! Couldn't believe my ears.

He can talk about twitter pile ons, and play the victim, all he likes - he's just the guy who clubbed a fox death in his garden now. In a kimono.

I give it 2 years, and he'll be transitioning too

It was interesting that one of the key parts of his justifiication was the risk he'd faced of killing himself. In response to his stupid act and then more stupid boast on twitter.

First instinct: how can I make myself the victim of my own actions to silence my critics.

I'd not listened to him speak before. He got the tone very badly wrong.

Not only back on Twitter.
On radio 4 Today right now, claiming his actions were within government guidelines re dispatching snared foxes (his fog was tangled in netting which is quite different from being snared imo but anyway the RSPCA decided it was within Gov guidelines so no case).

But to cap it all he has pleaded Poor Me over the twitter storm and compared himself to Caroline Flack.

"without his loving supportive family etc etc I'm not sure I'd be here now".

Sorry Jolyon that cuts no ice with me you arrogant, kimono wearing fox killer.

I rather like this one FannyCann:

pbs.twimg.com/media/EPnE2C8WkAA8Mlq?format=jpg&name=900x900

Or if that doesn't work, try twitter.com/Nolanshepshed/status/1223225214424752129/photo/1

One less opinionated righteous man on twitter telling women what they should be thinking

Sadly there's plenty left

He's back to say goodbye twitter. I suspect it was Claire's demand to avert a divorce.

twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1223214764853223425?s=21

The ratio is fun though.

What with all the kimono talk, this thread title has taken on a whole new meaning for me.

Jolyon Tweet Watch: Day 18 and still no tweets.

Will tomorrow - a bright new Monday morning - be the day??

Or has he left twitter forever?

Only time will tell....