Diaries of a nobody: Is the unexamined life worth living? “He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances.” James Joyce (1914) Dubliners He's done it again. My son's lastest YouTube video essay plough's furrows that I've always been ruminating upon…

CFP for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography, Concepción, Chile: 17-20 March 2026 “the South should not be reduced to a source of raw data that are to be inserted or simply included into the Northern theory factories” Diana Ojeda & Nicholas Blomley (2024) ‘Grounding…

The lines from the ledge(r): ink, paper, photograph, mountain "I started to draw pictures. Not of people, or buildings or street scenes. Of mountains. It was fun at first, then a fascinating pastime, building a mouontain on a blank sheet of paper...Memories crowd in on you as you delicately bring…

Counting the days, my son: competence, diffraction and failures of communication. “Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops being hypnotized by the cloudy…

“Two o’clock and all’s well!” On the comforts of the local night watchman Watchman! What of the night? No light we see,-- Our souls are bruised and sickened with the sight Of this foul crime against humanity. The Ways are dark---- "I SEE THE MORNING LIGHT!" John Oxeham (1916) ‘Watchman! What of…

Is it hard to enforce the law dressed as a cartoon animal? "This counter-reverie, this turn back towards the serious rather than the fanciful, is something that contemporary British psychogeographic writings mention only with distain (if they address it at all), but for a legal geographer this is…

@muellershewrote.com here’s a lighter retort to the tariff shit show: It’s not tariffs, it’s not love, it’s actually cellar-door…. This short video investigates the actual most beautiful ‘word’ in the English language youtu.be/vyR1fg2fWmA?....

Pleading in the bin store: everyday compliance and futurity "The Building circular – an iron cage, glazed – a glass lantern about the size of Ranelagh – The Prisoners in their Cells, occupying the Circumference – The Officers, the Centre. By Blinds, and other contrivances, the Inspectors concealed…

Legal Geography – a Place-first approach "It is time to address the places of law and ask: How and why does place matter in legal geographical scholarship? What can be found beyond the generic legal places? And What are the unexplored or underused potentials of place in legal geography?" Päivi…

It’s not tariffs, it’s not love, it’s actually cellar-door…. This short video investigates the most beautiful ‘word’ in the English language youtu.be/vyR1fg2fWmA?.... @stephenfry.bsky.social