Paul Magrath writer
@maggotlaw.bsky.social
Freelance writer and editor. Law Reports editor at The Times. Also Transparency Project @seethrujustice.bsky.social and Courts and Tribunals Observers' Network. Currently doing MA Creative Writing at City, University of London
That explosion at the end of Mahler's Sixth. It's like a bomb going off at the end of a film. open.spotify.com/album/0dZSUE...
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 - Album by Gustav Mahler | Spotify
Gustav Mahler · album · 2021 · 4 songs
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Why are they sitting on a massive fur coat? In summer?
Paintings of London@paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · last wk.'The Tale', St John's Wood (1878) by James Tissot (Private collection)
I loved The Goodies as a child and still have my 7” single of the Funky Gibbon. As a family treat my dad took us to a live recording of a Goodies episode in the TV studios. They did their own warm up, making jokes about each other and engaging with the audience. They were lovely.
I don't normally comment on ecclesiastical law, but this one was a bit special. So long, Marianne. www.iclr.co.uk/blog/comment...
Westminster tries where other councils seem to fail Dangerously parked e-bikes seized by council www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dangerously parked e-bikes seized by Westminster Council
The bikes will be released when the operator pays a penalty for its customers' poor parking.
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Open justice depends on observers and reporters transparencyproject.org.uk/finding-a-jo...
Finding a journalist to attend your family court hearing
We get many requests to The Transparency Project for one of our legal bloggers to attend court hearings and/or to suggest a journalist who can attend and report
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This could so easily have been a parkin offence.
Sally@sirin.bsky.social · last mo.Manchester headline
Should Andy Burnham’s new constituency be called Makerwish, perhaps? Fulfilment not guaranteed.
NO CONTEST? Burnham would come to Downingsinane without a further election. Sounds like a coup, albeit a bloodless one.
Are we talking about hallucinating evidence? UK police officer under criminal investigation over alleged use of AI
“I did what I could, not what I ought to have. That’s what we do, writers. We don’t do what we ought. We do what we can.” —Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam, The Art of Fiction No. 251
“What I really believe is that there are no minor characters in life or in art.”
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Though I would never use AI for creative writing, it has its uses in the law, one of which is rendering a complex fact-finding judgment simple enough for the litigants themselves to understand, particularly when they have learning difficulties. transparencyproject.org.uk/make-it-simp...
Make it simple! Make it clear! Using AI to improve clarity and understanding of a judgment
In what we think may be a first, the judgment in a recent fact-finding case was handed down with two additional versions, generated with artificial intelligence
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Guillotines on every platform in the land to deal with people who don't use headphones/people who don't stand on the right/people who don't move down the bloody carriage and platform/people who don't let passengers off the train first. Sensible policies for sensible people.
Zoë Grünewald@zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 3mo agoCan we start compiling a list of every policy you'd like to see a new Labour leader make? Big or small, what would actually start to make the country feel better for people?
Tanks for nothing, comrade! (Or some equivalent pun must be in order. Come on the tabloids! You can do it! ) Steve Rosenberg: This year's Victory Day parade in Moscow felt very different www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rosenberg: This year's Victory Day parade in Moscow felt very different
The BBC's Russia editor reports from a Red Square with none of the military hardware which the Kremlin normally showcases to project power internationally.
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Social change has been slow in some parts of London, and some dwellings still have outside toilets.
Latest roundup (March 2026) from Transparency Project @seethrujustice.transparencyproject.org.uk transparencyproject.org.uk/family-court...
Family Court Reporting Watch Roundup: March 2026
Welcome to the Roundup, where we correct, clarify and comment on media reports of family law, explain and comment on published family court judgments, and highl
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It’s Holy Week so out comes this old favourite. (Bach never fails.)
Thieves steal 12 tons of KitKat chocolate bars in Europe, according to Reuters (whose picture research is not great: these were bars not cereal). Who for? Surely no self-respecting European would want to eat such low grade so-called chocolate. www.reuters.com/business/thi...
Thieves steal 12 tons of KitKat chocolate bars in Europe
Twelve tons of KitKat chocolate bars went missing in Europe last week after thieves made off with the truck transporting them, Swiss food giant Nestle said on Saturday.
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"..a complete worked example of Google inventing itself a new fact about an important figure in Edinburgh local history, and people will believe it, because it is Google.."
Vin Kennedy@vinkennedy.bsky.social · 4mo agoThere's a beautifully-researched piece on the subject of invented AI history below. The author points out that the inaccurate AI version will become the source for more AI training and, even worse, will overwrite the true history for future human researchers. Ten minute read: tinyurl.com/mr26nvrts/
