Who wants the academic version of this (because the last 6 years of PhD reading has almost obliterated memories of books I'd read before)? Come on, don't be shy.

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

It's been two full years since we re-started the Admin Court Blog (@admincourtblog.bsky.social). In the past year, we have published 73 blog posts which have had over 27,000 visitors. Thank you for all the support :) @finishedloading.bsky.social @samuelwillis.bsky.social @anuragdeb.bsky.social

Remembering the hilarious thread of the dangers of trying to be fashionable in Ireland as I walked out of the house in a trench coat and was promptly met with "Go Go Gadget" by a passing admirer 😂

The NI legal year ended a month ago, and the new legal year starts a month ahead of England and Wales and Ireland, for um, *NI July* reasons.

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6d ago

seeing a barrister friend who's just informed me that tomorrow is apparently the end of the legal year, what delightful phrasing, looking forward to criming again from Saturday onwards

@dphinnemore.bsky.social kindly links the Assembly Research Paper I did on this below, so this is just a reminder to look out for more such papers and briefings from across the Assembly Research Service. We publish a lot! 😊

David Phinnemore@dphinnemore.bsky.social · last wk.

On the Windsor Framework... and for the next EU-UK Joint Committee... clarification that the end of EU customs duty relief for low value items does not entail handling charges for consumer parcels moving from GB into Northern Ireland. eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

On the Windsor Framework... and for the next EU-UK Joint Committee... clarification that the end of EU customs duty relief for low value items does not entail handling charges for consumer parcels moving from GB into Northern Ireland. eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

Remains to be seen what impact moving control of EU relations out of the Cabinet Office will have on intergovernmental relations, esp vis-à-vis any decision-shaping on the UK's part in areas of devolved competence. In 3rd countries like Switzerland, EU+IGR are necessarily intertwined.

Simon Usherwood@simonusherwood.bsky.social · last wk.

More important UK-EU news today 'Greater role' covers a very wide range, given previously minimal involvement under LAB but given coming wave of dynamic alignment will FCDO be the right people to manage line depts?

The people who think Emily Wilson's LRB review of The Odyssey is mean, unhelpful or misguided need to meet Reviewer 2 😏

I'm at the stage of my thesis edits when I have to remind myself that a sentence shouldn't run the length of a paragraph* *That's just for the thesis though; the monograph will be one long sentence running over 300 pages and there's nothing anyone can do about it

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last wk.

motherfucker I am French and I mostly read 20th century European fiction; my sentences are going to keep running on and on and on and there's nothing any of you or indeed any of us can do about it

Happy Pride, Belfast 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Gen Z did it 😊 And the memes did not disappoint. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3... Dharmendra Pradhan: India education minister resigns after Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protests - BBC News

Dharmendra Pradhan: India education minister resigns after Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protests

Thousands of young people, led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), have been out on the streets demanding Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation.

bbc.co.uk

For UK devolution, the value of historical enquiry is, regrettably, yet to be fully understood. Westminster once enacted constitutional settlements for a quarter of the planet. Those tell us a lot about the present devolution settlements instead of pretending those settlements sprang from the sea.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2w ago

In my historical methods training, I was always taught “we start with a historical question.” I would never use “I’m testing a hypothesis” in my work. I might have a working theory or a working hypothesis, but I’m certainly never *testing* it. That’s ripe for cherry-picked, law office history.

I spent a few years in India's education system, until 2005. It was brutal then, and has only got exponentially worse. Years of cutthroat competition & extreme financial and emotional cost. Your entire human worth reduced to your grade. India's youth have been catastrophically failed.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thousands of young people from India’s Cockroach Janta Party are marching on parliament. It’s the latest protest movement that has been sweeping across the Global South - the young who feel they’re being ignored by the elite.

A crucial report into gendered institutional abuse in Northern Ireland will be published today. Well worth reading for myriad reasons, not least because the independent panel was tasked with developing the kind of human-rights-centred approach survivors in the Republic have been denied.

@uk-news.bsky.social · 4w ago

Report into Mother and Baby homes to be published today https://www.europesays.com/uk/1073005/ An extensive report into mother and baby Institutions, Magdelene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland will be published…#uk #news #uknews

Ah the nostalgic taste of an Indian summer 🌞

I love horror (the more nightmarish the better and no, I won't be seeking therapy), but I would definitely watch these two in any genre.

Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · last mo.

just read about Camp Miasma and you're telling me Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson have gay sex in a movie? you're telling me they're gay in a horror movie which I won't be able to watch because I'm a little baby? you're telling me this on a Thursday and expecting me to go on with my week?

Not for the last time, I regret saying yes to things. But, you could do worse than listen to these fascinating people. And me 🙃

Colin Murray@colinmurray.bsky.social · last mo.

Looking forward to binge consuming constitutional law scholarship at the ICON·S conference at UCD in Dublin next week. If you are going, please message to let me know, as I'm bound to miss folk in the 2000+ attendees, inexplicably indexed by first name... www.icon-society.org/wp-content/u...

I liked the relentless optimism around the power of local news in Disclosure Day, but only because I remember a time before AI slop. The film may have landed more realistically a decade ago.

I recently went to Dishoom for the first time, intrigued at seeing vada pav on a restaurant menu. Would recommend (though the lahsun chutney needs to be spicier), but the experience of eating it straight from the street vendor as you dodge motorbike bros and watch unbothered cows, is unbeatable 😌

South India: dosa, idli, vada and of course, only Indian filter coffee.

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 2mo ago

Let’s do some discourse. Who has the best breakfasts? My vote is Mexico: huevos rancheros/divorciados, chilaquiles, molletes, tetelas, papas con chorizo, churros, migas… plus café de olla I dunno, I think they figured it out?

Courts in the UK constitutional set-up are not known for quashing primary legislation on ordinary JR grounds. So what happened in the BIOT case? I argue here that the judgment was neither mystifying nor mundane, but an important reminder to look beyond the UK for insights about its own constitution.

Administrative Court Blog@admincourtblog.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The quashing of primary legislation: mystifying or mundane? administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/t...

For ICON-S Dublin attendees this year, there will be a roundtable on my book, Judicial Individuality on the UKSC, at 2:30pm on Day 1 of the event (29 June). Join me, @aoifemod.bsky.social, @colinmurray.bsky.social and @anuragdeb.bsky.social for a discussion on judicial behaviour on the UKSC

My first paper for the Assembly is about changing customs fees in NI. If you shop online from overseas sellers, this may interest you. So open a browser window, get some coffee and enjoy the dry and technical resplendence of customs on this sunny afternoon 😎 www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets...

I am not involved in this but my colleagues at Manchester have organised a great conference on the Future of Constitutional Reform taking place at UOM on 20-21 May Details and programme here: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/20/c...

Conference: The Future of Constitutional Reform in the United Kingdom

The public law team at the University of Manchester Law Department, in collaboration with the UK Constitutional Law Association (UKCLA), is holding a two-day conference on the topic of “The Future …

ukconstitutionallaw.org

For the *huge* proportion of Bluesky interested in doctoral study in small democracies, policy in the Crown Dependencies, and/or Atlantic Archipelago insurrection, some project ideas ...

Three ideas for a PhD project.

One of the striking things about a UK PhD in an area like law or history is how we look to a candidate to have the fundamental idea for what they want to spend four years becoming a world expert in…

edgelawblog.com

British legal discourse around its constitutional structure and practice (& problems that arise in those) has learned practically nothing from its own constitutional experiments around its empire for a quarter of a millennium.

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Fun game for the historians in the house! What’s a thing you’ve changed your mind about, not through research or a new find, but just through living? Mine is: I now absolutely do believe that the Nazis were always going to open a second front against the Soviets no matter what.

The NI comparison underlines how Higgs was a *bewilderingly* contra legem/against the grain interpretation of the Equality Act.

Lewis Graham@lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Most(?) academics celebrated the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Higgs v Farmor School last year. We didn’t. See why here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @anuragdeb.bsky.social @samuelwillis.bsky.social

Most(?) academics celebrated the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Higgs v Farmor School last year. We didn’t. See why here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @anuragdeb.bsky.social @samuelwillis.bsky.social

There was also a logistical reason why a broad power of secondary legislation was favoured under s2(2) ECA 1972. Dynamic alignment may leave little room for legislative manoeuvring. Parliament may thus have to pass Bills where amendments are difficult/impossible. A bad use of its limited time.

Mark Elliott@profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New post Some thoughts on the suggestion by pro-Brexit politicians that the government's proposal for "dynamic alignment" with EU rules would be a constitutional affront or would be an undemocratic subversion of the 2016 referendum. (It wouldn't.) publiclawforeveryone.com/2026/04/13/t...

RIP Asha Bhosle, legend of music. Long before she was made famous in the west thanks to Cornershop, her honeyed voice lit up Bollywood classics, including this masterclass in sensual poetry: youtu.be/pwsjRraWgdA?...

HD In Aankhon Ki Masti Umrao Jaan Rekha 1981

YouTube video by Anill Babbilwar

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