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
Friction maxxing, please. UK universities told to go analogue to stop AI cheating giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
UK universities told to go analogue to stop AI cheating
Office for Students says technology poses ‘generational risk’ to sector’s integrity and reputation
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Student canteen latest - penne con chicken tikka marsala. Cultural inappropriation much?
A taste for crime. First substantive post on my CSI column. paulmagrath.substack.com/p/in-sicily-...
In Sicily, on the Montalbano trail
In the first of my crime series reviews, I revisit an old favourite.
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Great news that Justin Bates KC will be trying to keep the Nearly Legal housing law blog going despite the very sad death of its founder, Giles Peaker. Justin needs help, though. If you are into housing law, take a look: nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/08/tech...
Technical difficulties and plans for the future - Nearly Legal: Housing Law News and Comment
I am sorry that the site has been down for a few days. It was nothing more complicated than missed payments to the hosting company which Giles had been unable to authorise, for obvious reasons. I want...
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Why do so many fancy restaurants put so much salt into their food? Do their chefs taste anything? Can they taste anything?
Thing that was someone else’s fault is now everyone else’s fault.
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 · 4mo ago'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 · 5mo agoManchester 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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