From the Treasurer
In last year’s Middle Templar, then Deputy Treasurer, I wrote an article...
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Foreword from the Under Treasurer
Welcome to this entirely online version of Middle Templar. Given that most of last year’s printed...
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PopularBonfires, Banners & Beyond – The Restoration and the Inn
‘Shouting with inexpressible joy; the ways strew’d with flowers, the bells ringing, the Streetes hung with tapissry’, wrote Middle Templar John Evelyn of the mood in London on Tuesday 29 May 1660. After 11...
Book Reviews
PopularSecond Helpings by Master Simon Brown
Book Review by Master Gerald Barling It is rare for a sequel to match up to the original work. Master Simon Brown’s Second Helpings (Marble Hill Publishers Ltd. 2021) is an exception: in pure entertainment value...
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My Journey from Albania to the United Nations via the English Bar
Last year, I was appointed by the President of the United Nations Human Rights Council, upon the...
Our Friends from the North
It is just after 19:00 on Tuesday 29 June as I begin to write. A few minutes ago, Harry Kane...
Read MoreThe Midland Circuit Society
Writing in the Middle Templar in 2020, Master Blondel Thompson noted that, ‘Covid-19 has...
Read MoreWales Circuit Society
Although we are expectantly emerging from this pandemic to some sense of normality, the last 12 months have still restricted events here in Wales, as they have everywhere else in the United Kingdom. Few would have thought that...
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MTYBA Fifth Annual Dinner
Nathan Law speaking at the MTYBA Annual Dinner On the evening of Friday 30 July 2021, Middle...
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Internet Advocacy – Remote but not detached
In the mid-2000s I spent many Fridays waking up much earlier than I really wanted to, packing my...
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Legislative scrutiny: The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021 and new noise-based conditions for protests (A Human Rights Perspective)
Introduction The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill has been the subject of recent...
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PopularMaster John Mitchell
1948 – 2021
Richard John Mitchell, known to us as John and Dad, was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, to Edith and Kenneth Mitchell. His brother Peter was born 16 months later. When Dad was young the family moved to Hutton in Essex. Dad...
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