"Lads let's give them a four goal lead and see if we can still win".

What a way for Andy Burnham to start his premiership!

It's coming home.

This is regrettable. Spahn made a personal decision to have a child via surrogacy while defending the ban in Germany politically. Nobody can and should be expected to support all policies of their party, least of all on highly personal decisions. Moral absolutism will destroy our societies. 1/2

Tagesschau Bot@tagesschau.bsky.social · 3w ago

Unions-Fraktionschef Spahn tritt zurück #Eilmeldung

It is really difficult to imagine something that is more clearly in the national interest (regardless of your political outlook) than the longterm viability of human life on the planet. Climate change is an existential risk to all of us and future generations. 1/n

Lewis Graham@lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social · 4w ago

For those interested, here is the report: policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/u... The PolEx authors advocate for ignoring the ICJ’s climate opinion and withdrawing from the ICJ’s jurisdiction altogether. Endorsements from judicial figures including Lords Burnett and Sumption, who should know better

Reminded of Patrick O’Flynn, then Ukip’s economy spokesperson, describing Farage as “snarling, thin-skinned and aggressive” back in 2015.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · last mo.

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage threatens a Sky News journalist who asks about his undeclared gifts from convicted criminal George Cottrell "You harass my family anymore, there will be serious consequences"

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage threatens a Sky News journalist who asks about his undeclared gifts from convicted criminal George Cottrell "You harass my family anymore, there will be serious consequences"

Working on it.

Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · last mo.

If Cambridge is clever enough, they go fully analog from now. Paper books and humans doing things.

It is not a easy ban to enforce, many of the crucial details still need to be figured out - but all in all, this seems like a positive step. Social media has its benefits but the balance sheet is decidedly negative for society. The less we rely on it, the better. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When will social media ban start, and which platforms are affected?

The measures will see apps including TikTok and Snapchat blocked for UK teens early in 2027.

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Nigel Farage’s hyperactive press engagement - which involved a weekly press conference - suddenly stalled after revelations about his mysterious secret £5mn gift from a reclusive Thailand-based crypto billionaire www.ft.com/content/2678...

Nigel Farage scales back press events amid scrutiny over £5mn gift from crypto investor

Senior figures suggest Reform leader has been working behind the scenes on party strategy

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"Speech" is an action. It is an action like riding a bicycle, selling fish, or baking bread. If someone invoked "freedom of action" as a reason for not regulating a harmful activity, we'd see straight through it. Speech can be just as harmful as any other activity. /1

This is bordering on outsourcing your thinking to a chat bot. You learn stuff by researching and reading the source material yourself and thinking about it - not by letting someone else summarise (allegedly) salient sources. The fact that it is a probabilistic text predictor doesn't make it better.

SpinningHugo@spinninghugo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm working on a big project with lots of citations. AI can check the accuracy of every citation I've used, and then create a list of cases, statutes and articles across several jurisdicitions that don't appear on the topic, and give me a summary of each for me to read and check. In 45 seconds /3

A big shout-out to the team at the Koala Unit at North Manchester General, and Dr Ben in particular. When empathy and medical knowledge go hand in hand, it can really make a difference, especially to the parents of a newborn @mft-edi.bsky.social

Also the people reclaiming Dworkin today are — ironically enough — Vermeule and co. Which shows that as an interpretive strategy, it’s pretty weak and easily contorted into something Dworking would have hated. Too bad for him.

Exactly. Remove the underlining (and underdeveloped) liberalism, and Dworkin's legal interpretation is indistinguishable from common good constitutionalism. Vermeule deploys it towards deeply illiberal and undemocratic ends in service of a Catholic theorcracy without issue.

Paolo Sandro@paolosandro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Respectfully, but NOPE

On back of MPs letter about #TattleLife the UK ICO said it was investigating. But how can it regulate #onlineabuse when it failed to update its policy guidance for #GDPR despite saying it would do so for +5 yrs, then deleted this & now says it holds no info? More at inforrm.org/2026/03/31/e...

Personne ne pleurera un tyran sanguinaire. Bon débarras. Mais ne venez pas me dire que cela valait le coup de tuer 80 écoliers à Minab (et de violer allègrement le droit international — une fois de plus).

Four years into a wade of imperialist aggression they clearly intended to last weeks at most, the Russian government has bought death and misery to hundreds of thousands for nothing.

The lawyering skills on display from all of these people is shockingly poor. What should a judgment of a court on an issue like this look like? Start with a brief outline of the facts. Then quote in full the text relied on for the power. Then interpret the text. Not here. /1

SpinningHugo@spinninghugo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Settling down for some delicious lawyering. Let us see how the three resisted the bleeding obvious. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

After the first few weeks, when everything was cancelled, the COVID years were horrendously busy. I can still remember crying when trying to upload online lectures Of course it was a shit time for students, but universities didn't choose lock down and weren't doing online teaching for fun.

Grumpy Philosopher@stevecooke.org · 6mo ago

During the pandemic, I rewrote my content for online delivery, learned a whole new set of skills for remote teaching, & paid for the tech to provide the best experience to students out of my own pocket, while struggling with caring for a family & suffering from Covid. So yeah, see below.

Great stuff from Mark here as usual - well worth your time! Not the biggest fan of a JR theory based (mostly) on ultra vires and voidness ab initio (imho,it struggles with non-statutory powers and common law) but undeniably convincing framework for the PA case, highlighting shortcomings on remedies.

Mark Elliott@profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In a new post on the Palestine Action case, I ask whether, given the High Court's conclusion that proscription was unlawful, the Metropolitan Police is right to say that the organisation remains a proscribed one. publiclawforeveryone.com/2026/02/17/i...

I did not vote for her in any of the German general elections, but Angela Merkel is undeniably among the most successful Chancellors of Germany post WW2. Delighted we are recognising her achievements. www.cam.ac.uk/news/former-...

Former German Chancellor nominated for honorary degree

Eight distinguished individuals have been nominated for honorary degrees at the University of Cambridge. This year’s nominations recognise outstanding

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Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.

I'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 7mo ago

The Trump administration has discussed offering asylum to Britain’s Jewish population, a lawyer for the president has said. Robert Garson, Trump’s personal lawyer, said that the UK was “no longer a safe place for Jews” ⬇️

This isn't even a situation where the law needs to 'catch up' - all of these are criminalised by a statute from *1994*. This is a situation where the police are simply failing to do their job

Your periodic reminder that the *blatantly illegal* use of force by great powers does not mean that: (a) international law, or more specifically the prohibition on the use of force is dead, or (b) that international law is a pointless endeavour. 1/2