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Ishan Kolhatkar

5 years

Last night I cooked an eight course tasting menu with matching wines for four of my best friends. A thread with pictures (and some unnecessary videos) if you like that sort of thing. 1/several

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

Man on the tube just told me I don’t have to wear a mask anymore. I explained I had an exemption. “What exemption?” I told him that I didn’t have to say.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

A rare personal and serious thread from me. This weekend marks 30 years since my Father died. Naturally I miss him and have dealt with my grief privately, but this thread is about the Police Officer who had to break the news to me. /1

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@ishkolhatkar

5 years

*Public legal education klaxon* ‘Pressing charges’ is an Americanism that is inaccurate and unhelpful. He, like any complainant, can choose to cooperate or not with an investigation but ultimately a Police Officer or Crown Prosecutor will decide if the matter goes to court.

Christopher Hope📝

@christopherhope

5 years

BREAKING Nigel Farage has now made a statement to Northumbria Police and told them that he will press charges for assault against the man who threw milkshake over him.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

7 years

1. You've misunderstood the case 2. The Death Penalty. 3. Might you stop legislating what women can do with their bodies?

Ted Cruz

@tedcruz

7 years

Our hearts weep for #CharlieGard Our prayers are w/ him. Pls read & ask WHY govt should have power to decide who lives & dies. It's wrong.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

🎶🎶🎶 Forming the intent to drive home for Christmas 🎶🎶🎶 - Mens Rea

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

6 years

The Tommy Robinson episode is yet another example of the paucity of public legal education. Much of the nonsense on here could be avoided by people having a basic understanding of how the justice system works instead of conflating it with American TV shows.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

“Hello I’m calling from EDF energy about smart meters. Just for security can I have the first line of your address” “You rang me” “Yes, but it’s for security so I know who I am speaking to” “You rang me on my mobile. Could I have the first line of your address?” “No” “Same”

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

Tube jerked to a halt. On autopilot I assumed we had reached Euston so I got up. We hadn’t. Carriage juddered on. Flaying around I grabbed a handrail. It was a random bloke’s arm. My response:“Whoops a daisy” Can never use the Northern line again. Walking to/from work from now on

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

Applied for pupillage in 2001 to one of the few sets that took forms by email. Received a response that read: Dear Mr Kolhatkar Please see the attached document. Yours sincerely etc The attachment was called flatrejection.doc

Eden Dranger

@Eden_Eats

5 years

What was your harshest rejection? I’ll go first. One time, a super charming guy I had a crush on took me out to dinner a few times, invited me to a swanky gala, had me over for Thanksgiving, and then introduced me to his buddy as “a girl I wish was my sister”.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

6 years

Anyone else incapable of throwing cables away? You know, just in case it’s 1998 again. #scart

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

Thanks for listening. If you want to find out more about COPS they can be found here @UK_COPS or on the web at: To quote my fav philosopher, 'Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it' /end

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

A lot. A parking lot in Philly. #FourSeasonsLandscaping

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

Bus driver: Woah, you can’t get on the bus with a bottle of champagne Me: It’s not an open bottle and as exciting a short Sunday night journey on the 307 can be, it will remain shut Bus Driver: How do I know that for sure? Me: Well, firstly, I don’t have the correct glasses

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

Instead, this evening, I've made a donation to COPS - Care of Police Survivors - a group that helps the families of police officers who have lost their lives on duty, rebuild their lives. An Officer helped me. I hope that in some way I can help their loved ones. /7

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

A year on, I managed to make contact with the Officer, I went on the Jeremy Vine show to tell my story and yesterday a family friend found this photo. Losing someone in the pre digital age means fewer photos exist. First new one of Dad and I that I’ve seen in over two decades.

Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

A rare personal and serious thread from me. This weekend marks 30 years since my Father died. Naturally I miss him and have dealt with my grief privately, but this thread is about the Police Officer who had to break the news to me. /1

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

@UK_COPS Back to frippery, nonsense, trying to be funny (mainly failing) and posting far too many pictures of food. Oh and joining @Adam_Creme in our (rightful) disdain of goats cheese. / the real end

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

Discussion on here as to what happens to QCs on the demise of Her Majesty. It seems: 1. 1901 Demise of the Crown Act preserves title 2. Post proclamation, title changes to KC without the need for new letters patent 3. All juniors will henceforth be known as ‘The Sunshine Band’

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

The Police do amazing work. Much of it unseen. Like most professions we are more likely to see the odd person who brings them into disrepute than acknowledge the dedication of the majority. I've worked with them and cross-examined them but always with a level of respect /8

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

When a member of the public asks a question prefaced by telling you they lost two loved ones, it shouldn’t be the second person to answer who is the first to offer their condolences.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

This is ‘Stop everything you are doing and listen to every word’ powerful.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

5 years

Incredibly powerful, must-watch moment. Thank you, @esglaude .

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

That he checked the next day to find out how I was and many times thereafter. I can't imagine that Police Officers sign up to the job thinking that they would have to carry out such awful tasks. But he did and with real skill and as I say, compassion. /4

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

When your brand is in free fall.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

6 years

I’m a teacher. The idea that someone would arm me is utterly preposterous. Sure it would spice up your advocacy but I once fell off a futon so a lethal weapon is probably beyond me.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

I just wrote an Excel formula so beautiful that I punched the air in delight. I'm also single. These facts are not unrelated.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

43 today. Starting with a traditional birthday breakfast and an awesome mug. Now we’re sucking diesel.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

I later discovered that he insisted on being the person who told me, knowing that my Mother, family and friends would not have been capable of doing so. That he stayed in the house until he was sure that I was okay and in case I wanted to speak to him again /3

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

Many times over the last 30 years, I've wanted to thank him. To tell him that I'm okay. Or that I've become okay as time has passed. To tell him that I can vividly remember him telling me and that I appreciate the way he did. /5

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

I often think about the Officer, but this weekend particularly. I remember his name, his rank, his uniform, his face with a neat moustache and most importantly, the clear, kind and compassionate way that he told a 10 year old that his Father was dead /2

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

But I haven't. I have no idea if he's still alive or if indeed he would remember. Police Officers regularly have to do things that the majority of us would baulk at doing once. My respect for them really does stem from that one terrible moment /6

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

So that I could spend £400 on a book and then £400 a year later on the next edition that was ever so slightly different.

Bloomberg Law

@BLaw

4 years

Why did you become a lawyer? Wrong answers only.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

All of the following capable of being simultaneously true: 1. Pride in the UK & Union Jack 2. Horror at the flag being associated with hate groups 3. Laughing at politicians and their arms race on flag backgrounds 4. Point 3 not cancelling point 1, for they are different things

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

1 year

(Not) Criminal offences (but should be) Possession of a phone without intent to use headphones Actual bodily taking two steps into a train and then stopping preventing others from boarding Fraud by false representing chips are crispy when they aren’t #NCOBSB

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

6 months

Like Attorneys General.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

6 years

One of the greatest diagrams known to man. I wonder if someone might construct one in the same level of granular detail for the Hindi conundrum of Aap, Tum and Tu?

Marie Le Conte

@youngvulgarian

6 years

There's a French man trying to explain the tu/vous thing to someone at the table next to me in the café and I just had to interrupt to show them this, which I'm delighted to say actually helped:

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

Proper Chefs are always banging on about ‘height’ in presentation. So there we are.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

2 years

@BarristerSecret @DavidMuttering LEGAL FACT: In the second ever criminal trial in England @ Wales, the defendant was accused of selling spirits in illegal measures. He was in fact selling a popular hot beverage made from infusing a herbaceous leaf. And so the phrase, ‘Not Gill, Tea’ became common parlance.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

The dangers of an open question in cross examination neatly displayed below.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

I’m not Jewish, indeed I’m not religious but the message of Rosh Hashanah is one that I believe we can all benefit from. Seeking forgiveness, not repeating mistakes, improving ourself in the year to come; that sort of reflection, resonates. Shana Tova.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

1. Sure (a) Does this help? (i) How about now?

Bloomberg Law

@BLaw

4 years

Tell us you're a lawyer without actually telling us you're a lawyer.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

2 years

Bank holiday. No kids. LFT negative. I’m off to do the only reasonable thing in the circumstances: afternoon drinking. A friend’s cellar is ‘too full’ (his words) so I’m going to help because #Selfless There will be pictures and crisp pairings…

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

Socially distancing minutes before playing RUGBY, is the height of bonkers.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

Election night snack prep. Looking forward to this. On one side, mature, mellow and dependable. On the other, orange, pungent and divides a room. Also, cheese. #OrangeAndPungent

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

I wonder how quickly the government would renegotiate legal aid rates if solicitors and the bar did Gangnam Style outside the Bailey at 1pm each day? My guess is less than a week.

nonouzi

@Gerrrty

4 years

Lawyers from Rouen dance outside the courthouse in protest against the governments pension reform #GreveGenerale #Greve22janvier #France #Macron #reformedesretraites

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

Look, while we are at it: Witness box, not witness stand. The privilege against self-incrimination, not pleading the fifth. Jam then cream, not the lunacy of the other way round.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

When the true picture emerged, they immediately resigned.

Benonwine

@benonwine

3 years

Without saying your age, say something a young person today wouldn't understand.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

@GaryLineker Pro. It’s not the tech, it’s the application of it.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

2 years

Back at Twickenham for the first time since March 2019 1/2

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

She’s in a family full of eccentrics.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

6 months

@FelicityHannah Phew. It's hard enough disguising the packaging of a drum kit what with all the cymbals that give it away.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

High Court Divisions.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

2 years

@RosieisaHolt Is it possible to cry with laughter and despair at the same time?

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

Well Ladies and Gentlemen, I, the self appointed Supt. Ted Hastings of the Quiet Coach have been out quiet coached. I’ve just been asked by a fellow passenger to stop eating my crisps because “It’s the quiet coach”. I’ve served a Reg 15 on myself.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

Kenneth Clarke Chris Grayling Michael Gove Liz Truss David Lidlington David Gauke Robert Buckland Dominic Raab 🎶🎶🎶 We didn't start the fire 🎶🎶🎶

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

1 month

Tradition in my house is cake for breakfast, for everyone, when it’s someone’s birthday. Plus you get to wear the birthday crown.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

The big reveal: A harebrained idea. #CueBallSmooth

Ishan Kolhatkar - @BPTC_Lecturer

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

Am I the only person who didn’t take A Level Magna Carta? Because it seems virtually everyone else did.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

I'm watching episode 3 of Quiz on catchup. Last night I paused the credits to see if I could find who the legal consultant was. Turns out there either wasn't one or they went uncredited. Someone else on the crew has a connection with the law but that's a different point

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

“Sure, let’s stick some online advocacy demo filming in for 31st July BECAUSE IT’S UNLIKELY TO BE THR HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR” 🙄

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

6 years

Was he playing Penne Lane?

Liz Day

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6 years

You join me at Cardiff Crown Court where a man is trying to get a guitar and a pasta salad through security...

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

6 years

You however are a Premier League referee. You try and explain that the throw-slap rule is nonsense. Other people call you elitist and wrong. You give up. The Throw-slappers somehow claim they are right. You despair.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

Pupillage form advice. Please don’t say you ‘relish the prospect of being self-employed’ unless you want members of chambers to ask you which of the following you are most looking forward to: * VAT returns * Paying tax on account * No holiday pay * Sorting your own pension

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

@BarristerSecret Your phone learns from what you search. Bottom line, stop looking at Peter Andre pictures from the 90s.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

Railway Byelaw 10(3) made under Section 219 of the Transport Act 2000 by the Strategic Rail Authority and confirmed under Schedule 20 of the Transport Act 2000 by the Secretary of State for Transport on 22 June 2005.

Dr. Ajayita

@DoctorAjayita

4 years

What's stopping you from doing this?

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

2 years

Can we go back to normalising kids being on planes. Couple next to me with an 11 month old. Felt the need to apologise to everyone around them. I first flew when I was sixth months old. Adults are a problem on planes, not kids. The 11 month old and I had a good chat. Same level.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

1. Asking for help is a sign of strength, not a weakness. 2. There's a difference between listening and waiting for your chance to speak. 3. People are more productive if you bring a selection of Haribo to meetings. Starmix, Tangfastics and Pinballs as a minimum.

Bernard Richmond 💙🇺🇦

@phatsilk_qc

5 years

At the start of the academic year with so many people at the beginning of their journey, I’m starting a thread for all my friends & followers who have ESTABLISHED themselves in their profession to list 3 things that they have learnt along their way (positive and inspiring please)

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

1 year

While 16 does their GCSEs, they are alternating a week with their Mum and a week with me. My week has just begun and it’s a rare night of just me and 16 🥰. Something special: Pan fried salmon, Jersey Royal, British asparagus, Samphire, Isle of Wight tomatoes and Beurre Blanc.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

Birthday dinner: Beef Wellington A thread.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

My local Turkish shop sells fresh baklava. Oh dear. This is not good.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

Chorizo Mac & Cheese. Béchamel enriched with Gruyère, Parmesan, Chorizo, chilli flakes and parsley. Topped with breadcrumbs and a bit more cheese and chorizo. #CookWithIsh

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

PARISH NEWS (Short thread) After 9 very happy years at BPP, today was my last day. I leave behind many wonderful colleagues and for now, being a tutor on the Bar Course. I had a lovely send off with a number of thoughtful gifts and this questionable one.. (1/3)

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

Because it’s just not the same when you have to fight on the roof of a rail replacement bus service.

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@DBentleyMiller

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Why don’t people fight on the roof of trains anymore?

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@ishkolhatkar

5 years

Siri, what would happen if Jay from the Inbetweeners became President of the United States?

Aaron Rupar

@atrupar

5 years

TRUMP: "When I took over our military, we did not have ammunition. I was told by a top general, maybe the top of them all, 'Sir, I'm sorry sir, we don't have ammunition.' I said, I will never let that happen to another president."

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1 year

A good day. Promotion at work. (Thank you to all the cool cats on LinkedIn who have said nice things). Now6 schooled me in why comparing him to a tortoise putting on his shoes in the morning was a mistake - yes, slow and steady line was deployed. Cacio e pepe. Glass of white.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

Hello, I’m a BPTC Lectuter. You might know me from my greatest hits “That’s interesting but I can’t solve your civil dispute in my crim lit class”, “Cross-examination is not mind control” and “Quash is what you do to an indictment. Squash is nice roasted and in a risotto”.

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@ishkolhatkar

5 years

@jayrayner1 Keep whisking. Shout ‘Hollandaise means Hollandaise’ and get on with it.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

PSA: I'm going to be on the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2 today (Fri 22nd) at 1pm talking about my thread below. I consider this fair warning so you can turn off your radio / have a nap / listen to 6Music instead.

Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 years

A rare personal and serious thread from me. This weekend marks 30 years since my Father died. Naturally I miss him and have dealt with my grief privately, but this thread is about the Police Officer who had to break the news to me. /1

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4 years

Once upon a time I was falling in love But now I'm only falling apart Nothing I can say, but

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1 year

Best Inn of Court. No contest.

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@ishkolhatkar

5 years

Just your standard Wednesday editing a book of recipes from lawyers on twitter including some of your own, when you discover that someone who’s books you’ve bought, read and used for years has purchased a copy. No pressure. 😬

Nigella Lawson

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@Isadora_Drunken @BarristerSecret @savechildrenuk @BillableHour16 @CrimeGirI @snigskitchen @BPTC_Lecturer Have ordered!

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5 years

Resting Silk face.

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3 years

Gray’s, Inner, Lincoln’s, Middle.

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4 years

Unique is a binary state. You can't be very or quite unique. You either are, or you are not. This is one of many hills I'm willing to die on.

BBC Archive

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#OnThisDay 1974: Nationwide went to look at a “the beast” – a very unique Rolls-Royce that could reach speeds of 200mph.

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4 years

Merry Christmas from Chez Kolhatkar. Treacle cured chateaubriand, roast potatoes, roast carrot and Brussels sprouts, broccoli and Swiss chard Gruyère gratin. Guigal Côtes du Rhóne. (Yorkies shop bought. Only one oven and homemade would have ruined other timings).

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5 years

Last week, politics collided with something I know a little bit about: fried chicken. I bring you a thread of Westminster political parties as menu items in a fried chicken shop [Thread with pictures]

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@ishkolhatkar

3 years

Raising a glass this evening to Uncle S, someone special to me when I was growing up, who sadly died on Christmas Eve. He was my Dad’s best friend and my Mum’s first cousin. That’s how my parents met. Also, the reason why I’ve been an NFL and Bears fan for 30 odd years.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

6 years

I don’t expect or want everyone to be a lawyer. I don’t think the public are stupid. It is however, impossible to have a sensible public debate when people are ill informed or deliberately mislead by those with an agenda.

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@ishkolhatkar

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17 today. Taller than me, starting to gain ground in Dad jokes and my Only Connect watching buddy. Immensely proud of all they are and will achieve. (I’m wearing sunglasses to mitigate a lack of rizz. Also, rizz has overtaken yeet as the word they’d most like me to stop using)

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

4 years

Forgot to buy crisps or snacks so have been eating dry Shreddies instead. That’s normal isn’t it. Perfectly normal. Good.

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@ishkolhatkar

5 years

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight? Mum: *nudging me* that should've been you Me: Not now Mum Mum: Not asking for a smartarse to help, are they? Me: Mum, there's a medical emergency happening right now Mum: Go and see if an unnecessary pun helps

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

5 months

2023 has been quite a year Promoted. 55k miles flown & 2 new countries. Much food cooked. Red shoes worn with black tie, to Inner & an Ambassador’s residence. Phenomenal trip to Champagne. Memorable trip with 7! & 17 to the US. Met the most amazing person and couldn’t be happier.

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

1 year

Anybody for warm focaccia? If you know my address and can get here before I eat it all, you are welcome to a wafer thin slice #CookWithIsh

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

A mention to fix but all the Silks have turned up and there’s no way they’ll let just one of their number speak. (HT @GazWeetman for the video below)

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

“Can you stay this size forever?” “Dad you are going to have to live with me growing bigger. I’m going to be 5”

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

2 years

Shocked, humbled etc

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

2 years

"Mum, Dad, why is it called epiphany?" "Well, hundreds of years ago, back in January 2022 everyone, and I mean everyone, had a moment of sudden and great revelation or realisation that they were an expert in the criminal law of England & Wales. They took their phone and tweeted"

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

If there’s one group in society you’d expect to know first hand that disputes are complex and rarely, if ever, the fault of one side alone, it’s lawyers. Yet some (not all) on my timeline seem certain that blame in the Middle East falls squarely on one side. /1

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

This is a little too close to home

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

1 month

Birthday dinner at The Devonshire with Hannah. Delicious food and a perfect Guinness, with the most wonderful person 🥰 /1

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Ishan Kolhatkar

@ishkolhatkar

3 years

Ordinarily I’d say: Dinner with people who’d grace many dream dinner tables, and @Adam_Creme But after the last 14 months I can’t begin to tell you how much I appreciate top notch food & wine, sitting inside and excellent company. And @Adam_Creme

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