Richard Moorhead

@richardmoorhead.bsky.social

Law prof in UK, and Australia (Exeter and Monash). Blogs on lawyers https://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/ and PO Scandal https://richardmoorhead.substack.com/ Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. Plastic Geordie. OBE

Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions!

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FT Exclusive: Billions of dollars of Rosneft’s foreign earnings were funnelled through a Kremlin-backed money laundering network, putting the state oil group at the heart of Russia’s efforts to circumvent sanctions and supply its war in Ukraine. ft.trib.al/eYbw0gW

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One of the bits of my working life about which I am proudest was to be able in some v small ways to support @zeldaperkins.bsky.social in her #metoo work. I will never forget watching some very accomplished women fall apart as they told their stories. Heartbreaking, rage inducing, powerful, true.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 11mo ago

This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke... Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

The Cut article from 2018: Cuomo halted investigation into Weinstein case after $25K donation from his former lawyer

They’ve closed the Portsmouth RNLI station. This is who we are now. The silent ‘majority’ have just been too bloody silent. They no longer live amongst us. We live amongst them. We have all got to do more and bloody loudly…

So I'd hope the government looks carefully at the impact on the smallest businesses. Our report suggests an allowance - e.g. a business can simply keep the first £1,000 of tourist tax they collect.