Self-employed people! Sorry to put a downer on your Sunday, but in case you'd not seen, the Government wants us to pay our tax *monthly* like we're employees or something With the World Cup and all the politics, I'd missed the consultation they put out last month, which is here: 1/

Timely Payments in Income Tax Self Assessment (ITSA)

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If you include "independent" in the statutory name of a body it means people may doubt its independence. If you write that it must "aim to be" independent it means the doubt has good cause. If you tell the body it must act like it's part of a system, you are as good as making the doubters' case?

Rather late but I have just finished reading this. I loved it. How can we get David Edmonds to write a biography of Jonathan Glover?

Uehiro Oxford Institute@uehiro.ox.ac.uk · 3y ago

For our first Bluesky post we're so pleased to share the latest video from the Uehiro Centre, featuring Dave Edmonds - the biographer of the late philosopher Derek Parfit - discussing his new book 'Parfit: A Philosopher & His Mission to Save Morality'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Von...

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

Next up for @rcem.ac.uk caring for autistic patients & those with learning disabilities or complex needs in the ED: Alice Munro, EM Cons, talking about her experience of developing a sedation pathway so people with learning disability can tolerate interventions. Come get some ideas!

Caring for autistic patients and those with learning disabilities or complex needs in the ED - RCEM

An updated one-day online study day looking at the barriers to healthcare and resultant health inequalities faced by neurodivergent patients and those with a learning disability in the ED.

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A startup company called R3 Bio raised money to create nonsentient monkey “organ sacks” as an alternative to animal testing. They also pitched an ethically charged vision for what the CEO calls “brainless clones” to serve the role of backup human bodies. www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1...

BA (A Child), Re (DOLS in Hospital) [2026] EWHC 653 (Fam) (20 March 2026): Judgment authorising deprivation of liberty of 13-year-old with mental health difficulties, who had been detained in a windowless room in a hospital accident and emergency ward. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

Does open justice apply in the Court of Protection? Public hearing in Court of Appeal on 25th March 2026 It's an appeal against Poole J's judgment on disclosure of position statements Background info blog here (with links to earlier blogs) openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/09/23/l...

“Let me talk about my partner’s death”– Court of Protection told

By Daniel Cloake, 23rd September 2025 Editorial note: Judgment in this case has now been published: Re Carl Gardner, Deceased (Duration of Transparency Order). This blog is reprinted, with permissi…

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Can confirm this is fascinating

Scott Wortley@scottwortley.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is fascinating. Brief from Penn and teller in a criminal case

“If you don’t control her, she will turn EVIL.” What do teenage boys see on TikTok? To find out, Lily Isaacs posed as a 19-year-old called Joe. She was fed a diet of porn and misogynistic dating advice https://bit.ly/4sFAC3v

What do teenage boys see on TikTok? | The Observer

To find out, Lily Isaacs posed as a 19-year-old called Joe. She was fed a diet of porn and misogynistic dating advice

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Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced… economist.com/britain/2026...

48 hours without lungs: artificial organ kept man alive until transplant. The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Who would have thought it?

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous

Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

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Wow, OpenAI's ChatGPT just repeatedly denied that Maria Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, despite multiple corrections from me, with sources... open.substack.com/pub/briandav...

Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social

📢JOB ALERT: @bindmans.com seeks to recruit two Court of Protection solicitors, one permanent position and one locum maternity cover for 12 months. Applications close 28 November. www.lag.org.uk?id=217547

Bindmans – Court of Protection solicitors

Bindmans – Court of Protection solicitors (1 x locum maternity cover for 12 months; 1 x permanent)

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Open justice is supposed to enhance public trust + confidence in the justice system - but in this case it had the opposite effect. What does the Supreme Court need to do differently to make sure COP observers have a better experience next time? openjusticecourtofprotection.org/2025/11/10/w...

When open justice undermines public confidence: Scrutinising the Supreme Court

Justice is not a cloistered virtue; she must be allowed to suffer the scrutiny and respectful, even though outspoken, comments of ordinary men

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How might philosophical thinking shape research, policy, and public debate? “The point is to change it”: Essays on Philosophy in Public Life, explores this question by bringing together perspectives from 21 leading philosophers across the UK, US, and Europe. 🧵 Read essays: bit.ly/philosophyesays

Sara Ryan's brilliant new book. www.stephenunwin.uk/thoughts-and...

Critical Health and Learning Disabilities by Sara Ryan — Stephen Unwin

Sara Ryan’s new book, Critical Health and Learning Disabilities , came with some serious trigger warnings. This, I was told, presented an entirely negative vision of the lives of people with learning...

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📢 Panel Highlight: Update on Community Care Cases From the Last 12 Months Sian Davies & Sam Fowles of @39essexchambers.bsky.social will unpack the most impactful recent community care cases, providing attendees with a comprehensive update. Book your place today: tinyurl.com/6sc8z4dv

Well worth a watch. Thank you for sharing.

JazzReads📚🏀@jazzreads.bsky.social · 11mo ago

So exhausting..

We're delighted to partner with @publiclawproject.bsky.social & @39essexchambers.bsky.social on this training based on our book 'Making Lawful Decisions' by @stevebroach.bsky.social and @torbc.bsky.social. Book now to secure your place & receive a discount on the book: shorturl.pulse.ly/mltceu8krj

Public Law Project@publiclawproject.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

interesting to see The Guardian describe the justice system as 'transparent' although not sure how much Lady Hale would agree. New book on her observations of a range of courts www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

Baroness Hale on her stupendous, eye-opening life in the law: ‘People are capable of treating tiny children very, very badly’

She was the first female president of the supreme court, causing a ruckus when she ruled against Boris Johnson’s suspension of parliament. Now she has written an insider’s take on the UK’s underfunded...

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Big changes proposed today for social care for disabled children by Law Commission: a duty to meet need, with national eligibility criteria, rights to advocacy for children and parents/carers, rights for children to take/participate in decisions #socialcare www.communitycare.co.uk/2025/09/16/n...

Well … philosopher Hilary Putnam told me that when IQ tests were piloted women did better than men. When the results were analysed women did better on some types of question, men on others. So the mix was readjusted so that men and women came out equal, on average.

Critically Speaking with Therese Markow@criticallyspeaking.bsky.social · 12mo ago

That men’s IQs are higher than women’s. What a creep wapo.st/4mBXOge

Signs of autumn 🍂