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Michael Molcher

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@2000AD.bsky.social Brand Manager Eisner Award-winning author of 'I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future' & 'The Art of Judge Dredd by Jock' History weirdo with @englishcivilwar.bsky.social

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  1. The Royalists Take Rotherham ⚔️💥

    The fighting in the English Civil Wars was not just reserved for major cities and sweeping battlefields. In May 1643 the Parliamentarian town of Rotherham was captured by Royalist forces led by William Cavendish, the Earl of Newcastle.

    📷: Lee Brook

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  2. If there were really justice in this cold, unfeeling universe, there are people whose gleefully-committed sins should hang about their necks like chains so heavy that they spend every moment of eternity in unthinkable agony. There is no hell hot enough, nor depths frozen enough for them.

    Johnson & Cummings killed 23,000 people.

    If a lockdown had been imposed on 16 March, a week earlier than it was, it could have cut the number of deaths in England in the first wave of the virus by almost half, saving 23,000 lives, the Covid inquiry says.

    www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

    Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10

    ‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response

    Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10

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  3. I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future, available from all good book stores.

    A copy of the book I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future by Michael Molcher

    Another government of former human rights lawyers who forget that Judge Dredd was a satire, not a role model. Reminds me of the jury I was on where the forewoman said the defendant must be guilty because he ‘didn’t look sorry’.

    www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

    Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog

    MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul

    Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog

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