Constitutionally there is no issue, but are any of you on Bluesky expert on the Labour Party rules - could Rayner (or whoever) run as Labour leader saying they be leader of the Labour Party but deputy to a Prime Minister Burnham?

We know that homelessness and precarious housing are closely connected to early, preventable deaths, but are we learning lessons to seek to prevent future deaths? That is what research published today examines: homelessinquests.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

For those interested in health, planning, local authority discretion, see below...

Dr David Williams@drdgwilliams.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Delighted to say that my TRUUD paper with @ekd.bsky.social and Michael Chang has now been published. The paper reviews Health Impact Assessment (HIA) policy content in England. Our paper recommends national guidance on trigger points, metrics and expertise in reviewers. doi.org/10.1080/2374...

Very much looking forward to 'A “charter for scroungers and scrimshankers”: A biography of the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977' by @lwdsc.bsky.social on 4 March - come join us if you can: www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...

2026: Event - Annual Janine Sargoni Lecture of the Bristol Socio-Legal Centr | University of Bristol Law School | University of Bristol

bristol.ac.uk

U turn coming on Andy Burnham decision in 5, 4, 3, 2....

Rereading old science fiction, and amused to see Isaac Asimov predicting Large Language Models (and the critique of them) in 1953 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mon...

Robert Jenrick: the Tories don't have the competence to fix broken Britain and deliver change. Also Robert Jenrick: can't even manage his own basic security, as Badenoch gets a copy of his planned defection speech before he delivers it.

Very interesting to see this expansion of Rent Repayment Orders - is positive to see streamlined data systems and cross government working to seek to improve PRS standards www.gov.uk/government/n...

Taxpayer cash protected as crackdown on rogue landlords expands

Hundreds of thousands of people will benefit from an expansion of a trial to tackle poor housing and protect taxpayers’ cash from rogue landlords.

gov.uk

I haven't seen it reported elsewhere, but there has been another Prevention of Future Deaths report by a Coroner for a very small child which highlights mould in the family home. The details are distressing.

Imagine spending 20 years waiting to see if a reconsideration every few years would uproot you again. Never leaving the system. Constantly wondering whether you'd need to challenge a new decision made, thinking about evidence and getting legal help. Never feeling safe. It's inhumane.

Every year, the number of people who die while homeless grows. 1,286 in 2021. 1,313 in 2022. 1,474 in 2023. These are not estimates, but are verified numbers. BBC News - UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

bbc.com

FAO SOCIO-LEGAL COLLEAGUES @slsauk.bsky.social I've just been asked to circulate the below online event, taking place on Monday morning (and details which have been sent to me are in the thread below, including the Zoom link)

Anyone interested in issues of deaths of people who are homeless or precariously housed, and the ways in which institutions change (using a framework of discursive institutionalism), come along (in person) on Thursday 2 October at 17:15 to my Centre for Death and Society public lecture in Bath.

Hallucinating is inevitable in Large Language Models. “Governance must shift from prevention to risk containment,” Dai said. “This means stronger human-in-the-loop processes, domain-specific guardrails, and continuous monitoring.”

Nick Miller@nickdmiller.bsky.social · 11mo ago

When asked “How many Ds are in DEEPSEEK?” the DeepSeek-V3 model with 600 billion parameters “returned ‘2’ or ‘3’ in ten independent trials” while Meta AI and Claude 3.7 Sonnet performed similarly, “including answers as large as ‘6’ and ‘7.’” www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Public law practitioners: have you been involved in litigation regarding automated decision making by Government, or do you think you might be in future? The @publiclawproject.bsky.social are keen to speak to you.

Really hope the SRA are listening (not holding out a lot of hope) www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/hundred...

Hundreds sign petition calling for SQE reform

Anonymous trainee says the exam has taken a severe toll on their mental, financial and physical wellbeing.

lawgazette.co.uk

There is a risk that this will get missed over the summer, so just to flag up this important call for evidence on human rights and the regulation of AI from the Joint Committee on Human Rights (and deadline for response is 5 September) - committees.parliament.uk/work/9220/hu...

New inquiry: Human Rights and the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence - Committees - UK Parliament

The Joint Committee on Human Rights has launched a new inquiry to examine how human rights can be protected in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

committees.parliament.uk

Arriving a bit late to bluesky, but here we are. Follow if you're interested in case commentary and news from across the range of topics that fall under the wide umbrella of human rights law, such as this, on the approach taken to article 2, police and suicide.

Jasper Gold@jaspergold.bsky.social · last yr.

An unusual and thorough example of nearly every aspect of a Coroner's decision being overturned.

Apparently now corrected, because I wrote about it. bsky.app/profile/near...

Nearly Legal@nearlylegal.co.uk · last yr.

I’ve been told that the same search now returns an AI comment that this does not happen and cites my site as the source. So you have to run a site considered as authoritative by Google and explicitly call out the nonsense to get it corrected…

Amongst other issues, we know large language models hallucinate, and so are at best unreliable and at worst dangerous, and yet regulation appears out of the question. Frustrating.

Nearly Legal@nearlylegal.co.uk · last yr.

In which I get both furious and very worried about google's AI putting incendiary falsehoods about evicting council tenants to house asylum seekers at the top of the search results. This is dangerous stuff (albeit unintended, though that might be worse). nearlylegal.co.uk/2025/07/arti...

Important reporting work being done here by the Law Society Gazette on reforms to special educational needs provision - www.lawgazette.co.uk/features/sen...

SEND reform, legal rights and Whitehall's weasel words

The 'parents of disabled children' club was one I didn't want to join, and yet was shattered to leave with the death of my daughter in February. Re-engaging with these issues at this time, I find extremely difficult.

lawgazette.co.uk

🚨🚨BREAKING: Section 21 Eviction ban has been DELAYED until Spring 2026! Read our full statement by our Deputy Chief Executive @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social, below 👇

Reading Prevention of Future Deaths reports which relate to the deaths of people who are homeless, and responses to them. The name of the person writing this response, dated 1 April 2025, is redacted, but their office - Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Housing etc - isn't 🤔

More than 2/3rds of UK students work during term time and spend less time than ever on independent study - www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/06/12/s...

Student Academic Experience Survey 2025 - HEPI

This year’s results indicate that the student experience has evolved away from the ‘traditional’ model of many students living close to campus, spending a lot of time on campus and only undertaking pa...

hepi.ac.uk

"AI is not regulated. But, worse than that, generative AI is still an unknown. As the months pass, who knows what else we might find out about it? We already know that it steals, fantasises and lies." www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...

More caution please, Sir Geoffrey

Generative AI enthusiasts are rushing us too quickly towards its adoption in the law.

lawgazette.co.uk

A long and detailed assessment which merits careful reading - Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza

Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza

bbc.co.uk

Eloquently stated “…if you can’t tell the difference between a supplier list and a blank cheque, you’ve no business near the corridors of power…” eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/loc...

Exposed: Reform UK doesn’t know how government spending works

Reform UK just confused a procurement framework with a spending scandal – and revealed they don’t understand government

eastangliabylines.co.uk

This is a very good piece which succinctly explains the importance of understanding the fundamentals, given how the world can (will) change

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · last yr.

Column here!

*Help me tell the full story of the Civil Service* I'm still recruiting for this research and in particular am looking for more participants from grades AO to HEO (incl FSers). Especially women and those whose role is outside the policy profession. DM or email amy.gandon@gmail and pls share!

Amy Gandon@amygandon.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 Calling all Civil Servants (past & present) 🚨 As I shared last week, I'm relaunching my research on the Civil Service - building on my 2022 project interviewing 50 officials about govt through Brexit, the pandemic & political upheaval. Here's who I'm looking for:

Am really struck by the way enforcement is defined in the Renters' Rights Bill as either imposing a financial penalty or instituted criminal proceedings, so that informal means of enforcement won't be enough to satisfy the new duty to enforce. Will be interesting to watch how it plays out!