CSLG/CFL Hybrid Seminar: Dot Reid (@dotreid.bsky.social) (@uofglasgow.bsky.social & @robinsoncollege.bsky.social) on 'Inheritance and Complex Families: What Scots Think About Who Should Inherit', 20th October, 1pm BST, @cambridgelaw.bsky.social & Zoom. Registration: bit.ly/4hf1OBt

Likely not wholly coincidental, but I see Hart have published not one but two books on free speech today (one by my colleague @proftomkins.bsky.social): likely a nice review essay opportunity for someone. (Here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-the-la... and here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/free-spee...)

The reoffending and those with school/care problems are the real shockers to me. Goes to show this is a societal problem that can't be fixed with getting even 'tougher on crime'. I'd dare suggest the focus should be on poverty/inequality and education, but that means Govt deviating from status quo.

I’m teaching succession, so here’s my annual reminder that IKEA has a chopping board called “legitim”!

No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils www.theguardian.com/education/20...

“If he’s not an out and out crackpot, the theory floated by wild conspiracy theorists is that Donald Trump is some kind of Russian asset. I cannot say how absurd this is do not believe a jot or tittle of it. And yet…” My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/69483/...

The view from Poland - the election of Donald Tusk could turn out to be important to all of us

The University of Glasgow School of Law is recruiting for a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Administrative Law: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

I have a quote in this New York Times article. It's great to see Scottish land reform covered in this publication. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/r...

“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create” www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Danish activists have a petition to buy California from the US for $1 trillion. 200,000 signatures so far. That big theme park there would be renamed Hans Christian Andersenland.

Astonishing

While China is stealing our technology and actively undermining American industry, Trump is cracking down more than twice as hard on maple syrup and avocados from Canada and Mexico. How does that make sense?

this interview - Lynn Barber on Marianne Faithfull - is the sort of brilliant, bonkers thing nobody writes anymore. It reads like a meeting of fabulous monsters www.theguardian.com/film/2001/ju...

My response to Trump’s remarks in the Capitol Visitor’s Center:

Attorney General had a previous practice at the Bar, represented a client in accordance with the cab-rank rule, and was paid for it

Metal man with missing body: one of the 2 sculptures at the waterfront in Marseille by French artist Bruno Catalano

And so we move into the next phase of reality’s Squid Game: the end of fact-checking. From now on, what happened, what you think happened, and what you wanted to have happened, are all of equal value. Other than people getting killed, what could possibly go wrong? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The anxiety secret: how the world’s leading life coach stopped living in fear

The population of Plains, Georgia is 573. Jimmy Carter knew his neighbors and they turned out to bid him a final farewell. 🇺🇸

Nature's very own firework show - a beautiful and very active #Aurora for over an hour here in #Shetland this evening. #auroraborealis #northernlights @stormhour.bsky.social

It’s time for THE charger. Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU. It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need! #DigitalEU

Gloomy December. The doldrum days of the dead of winter. These are the shortest days and the endless nights. So wish for the moon and long for the light… —Liz Lochhead, “Spoken Song” published in A HANDSEL (Polygon 2023) #Christmas #poetry birlinn.co.uk/product/a-ha...

TONIGHT at 10pm on BBC Scotland you can watch Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland's Girl Bands from the comfort of home! And it'll be on iPlayer afterwards. Tell all your pals!

Must watch Channel 4 report on the mass graves in Syria, with over 100,000 dead estimated to be buried in just one site. The challenge to forensically document these sites will be huge. www.channel4.com/news/true-sc...

Lecturer in Scots Private Law (Property) (R&T) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLC686/l... and Lecturer in Common Law (LTS) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLC680/l... @uofglaw.bsky.social

Tomorrow, a new phase of the #GeorgiaProtests begins as the illegitimate Parliament moves to select the next President. Here’s a 🧵 for anyone trying to understand what’s happening in 🇬🇪, how it started, what people are protesting, and the forms #TerrorInGeorgia has taken. 1/

Hard not to escape the conclusion that the Korean political system is more resilient than the US system

The Nov 2024 update to Who Owns Scotland is now published. No new properties this month but all 3600 landholdings covering 73.97% of rural Scotland updated. The project is financed solely by subscription income. Please subscribe at whoownsscotland.org.uk

Unionists just cannot understand the secret of the SNP’s success … here’s the answer to the mystery My column in @heraldscotland.bsky.social on why polls show the SNP set for a fifth historic term, and support for independence is at its highest in years www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

⏰Reminder ⏰ You have until Wednesday 11 December to submit evidence to our inquiry on Social Care: The Cost of Inaction. Share your views and experience: committees.parliament.uk/work/8583/ad...

This really hits the nail on the head about Glasgow. Some creative thinking is required to address. It's really not fair.

Buying a face cream has become unspeakably complex - do I need serums, droplets in brown bottles that look like an old chemistry lab, retinol or collagen or both or neither or are they the same thing anyway, different pots for night and day. I got discouraged, gave up and came home with none 😢

I’ve decided in this new space to share more things that make me smile, as a tonic to a Scottish winter. Here’s one from Dick van Dyke and Coldplay youtu.be/o4OlL0OpbW8?...

This is all sorts of wonderful. Dick Van Dyke. Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video) (Directors' Cut) -- youtu.be/o4OlL0OpbW8?... #dickvandyke

My Spotify Wrapped artists of the year goes 1. Charli XCX 2. Waxahatchee 3. Family Stereo 4. Joni Mitchell 5. Anthony Szmierek, which is all about as Bedsit Disco Queen as you can get really and proves I never change haha

NEW 🚨 Britain's electoral laws are broken - but successive governments have done nothing Musk's proposed $100million donation to Nigel Farage shows we are on the cusp of a real crisis for British democracy But it can be fixed. Here's how, by me democracyforsale.substack.com/p/musks-100m...

"He also owns.. holy relics ... bit from the Crown of Thorns, a hair from the shirt of Thomas More, a fragment of the True Cross. Was Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale considered too common to be taught at Eton?" Excellent piece on the horror of Rees-Mogg tv www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...

lost track of the number of journalists writing that farmers will get hit with IHT above a £1m threshold *for their entire estate* ignoring the reality that it’s £1m of land per person on top of existing IHT threshold of up to £1m (£3m max) feels like a major comms failure by government as well

So much misinformation around today on who will be affected by changes to inheritance tax - and lobbyists pretending the data isn't clear to obfuscate. We have detailed data on estates so the truth is in fact very clear if you care to look 🧵

Tax due if parents hand on £3m house: £940k Tax due if parents hand on a £3m farm: £0 A reminder of significant tax advantage to farmers vs everyone else AFTER these changes

I have long thought parent songwriters should refrain from releasing songs about their baby to the world? Doubt I’ve ever heard a good one.

UK weather: Met Office issues woolly jumpers alert as Arctic blast arrives

I presented latest findings on who owns Scotland to Revive Coalition conference on the Big Land Question. Data from new edition of my book as at 30 June 2024. From 2012-24 private landownership has got more concentrated despite all the "efforts" to reverse this trend.

Lecturer in Commercial Law at University of Glasgow www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKK682/l...

@campbellmat1.bsky.social welcome Mat

A tale of two platforms: BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀

Took me a while fomo but finally closed mine yesterday.