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Holbrook logs in to Twitter A barrister has been expelled from chambers for tweeting that a black teenager was "stroppy" when she challenged her school for banning her afro. Barrister John Holbrook had tweeted on 17 January that the Equality Act "undermines school discipline by empowering the stroppy teenager of colour." His tweet was in response to a video by the Equality and Human Rights Commission describing how it had assisted teenager Ruby Williams and her parents, when Williams was sent home repeatedly by her school for having an afro hair style. Holbrook was pilloried on soci...

THE mother of a girl described as “a stroppy teenager of colour” by a council lawyer has thanked the authority for dropping his services. Brighton and Hove City Council said it has “immediately” withdrawn instructions from lawyer Jon Holbrook after a series of Twitter posts came to light. The senior barrister tweeted that the Equality Act was “empowering the stroppy teenager of colour” in response to the story of pupil Ruby Williams, who was sent home from school because of her Afro hair. Lawyer Jon Holbrook Ruby’s mother, Kate Williams, now campaigns against Afro hair dis...

The latest targets in the culture wars are two people who devote themselves in different ways to promoting liberty and the rule of law. Yet both now find themselves accused of crimes against the dogma

A single tweet criticising a politically correct court decision has cost a London barrister his career. Jon Holbrook, a top-ranked barrister with an unblemished professional record and thirty years at the bar, was expelled by his chambers after social justice warriors took exception to his comment on a court case involving alleged racial discrimination. Here is the tweet that got him cancelled: The Equality Act undermines school discipline by empowering the stroppy teenager of colour. https://t.co/XLZYQg1Lmw Holbrook subsequently fell victim to a Twitter pile-on by the usual offendotron suspe...