Paragraph by @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social neatly explaining why I (so far) haven’t found any role for AI in my writing (professional or non-professional). (From open.substack.com/pub/henryjef...).

A politician if he is to succeed must be able to win the confidence of his machine, and then to arose some degree of enthusiasm in a majority of the electorate. The qualities required for these two stages on the road to power are by no means identical, and many men possess the one without the other

Fun fact: the magical child safety solution which Jess Philips cited in her resignation letter is a vendor-specific offering, which benefited from an intense PR and lobbying campaign, and was previously praised by ... Prince Andrew. I always keep the receipts. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/20/t...

So, Timothy Chalamet, if no one cares about ballet anymore, why is *every* channel on my TV showing Swan Lake right now?

"Anyone would be better than Keir Starmer" *Wes Streeting enters the room* "NOT YOU"

I feel like Wes Streeting would be the current politician most likely to work with the Daleks then get exterminated ten minutes before the end of the episode.

So long as Starmer retains the confidence of Bobson Dugnutt he's going nowhere

nice funny number

Casual no tie Starmer comes across less as 'everyman' and more as 'she's turned the weans against us'

The assumption that the govt wants to win the next election might not be correct. As I wrote here, "the Labour right is behaving as if its incentives are not to win the next election but to get cushy jobs outside politics after it." chrisdillow.substack.com/p/bad-incent...

it took me too long to realize that this was "horseshit" censored and not new slang i didn't know about yet where "horses" meant bad

Don't hesitate - get your copy of this must-read today!

The average number of UK constitutional crises per year is actually 322. The perception of the English, who live in a cave and have never heard of the Act of Union, is an outlier and should not have been counted

Over the moon! The top law & technology conference in the UK and Ireland will come to Scotland next year - it's been 32 years since Strathclyde hosted it and 9 years since a Scottish university had such a privilege. Going to BILETA changed my career, I'm sure many have similar stories to share!

Any and all scientists and engineers that built the running robot: I curse you. May the bread you eat taste as ashes in your mouths

Days like today, you can really tell that the Bluesky coders have 'harnessed the power of AI'.

👇 Don't complain about public sector organisations staying on Twitter/X if you don't follow those that are here. There aren't many rail companies here, which is a pity because many of them are terrific at using social media to explain why things go wrong, and what they're doing about it

Good news! We've reopened all platforms at Glasgow Central 🎉 😀 We're so pleased welcome passengers back to Scotland's busiest station. 🛠️ We've also been able to deliver an extensive package of maintenance and renewals while the station was closed!

Out Now! Argues that Scotland’s unique law of voluntary obligations makes proposed statutory reforms to contract law misguided and harmful to the legal system’s coherence. Get your copy here ➡️ tinyurl.com/3ca9a77t @unistrathclyde.bsky.social #ScottishLegalSystem #LawOfObligations #AnthemPress

It's amazing isn't it, the hereditary upper house was an indefensible anachronism, but the policitians managed to make it into something far worse.

Very glad to see this in print! It's a good read, I promise you that (and unilateral promises are legally binding in Scotland!) Why not buy a copy for yourself, your significant other, your children or your pet? You and they are sure to love it!

The most depressing thing about the Scrubs revival is that it clearly means that JD's script for Dr. Acula never got picked up by a network and so their universe, as ours, was robbed of that majestic artistry.

World book day, is it? I suppose it's too late to convince you and your children to dress up as 'Engaging with Engagement Analysing the Formation of Promises, Contracts and Voluntary Obligations in Scots Law'? Oh well, you can at least buy yourself a copy here: anthempress.com/books/engagi...

A reply to this post, by our Dr Jonathan Brown @sartoriusdoctor.bsky.social, is also now available on our website. www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l...

New on the Strathclyde Law Blog, a post by our Roddy Cairns, on the treatment of a Ukrainian athlete who insisted on wearing a particular helmet. www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l... #StrathLawBlog

The slow and seemingly inevitable march towards the "Assaulting a Man Named Dave (Scotland) Act" continues apace, to be followed thereafter by the "Assaulting a Man Named Steve (Scotland) Act" and the "Assaulting a Woman Named Rita (Scotland) Act" and so on... www.scottishlegal.com/articles/cal...

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

McHarg and McCorkindale join forces with @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social and Jo Hunt to form what some are* calling a kind of devolution Avengers. On devolved law making following the Supreme Court’s 28(7) judgments: * I am

New report out today on the impact of the Supreme Court's s.28(7) jurisprudence, with @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social, @chrismccork.bsky.social and Jo Hunt. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

"UK political commentariat doesn't understand why Starmer and Reeves are loathed by everyone, and I don't understand why they don't understand because it's pretty obvious"

SLN reports that the Law Society has issued guidance to solicitors on the abuse of NDAs: www.scottishlegal.com/articles/law... Timely to point out that an article by Leslie Dodd and I on that subject appears in this week's Scots Law Times. Are Neil Gaiman's NDAs enforceable? Not under Scots law.

This week's Scots Law Times will publish an article on the (ab)use of 'Non-Disclosure Agreements' (NDAs). These have been used to 'buy silence' from people who might otherwise disclose allegations of abuse or wrongdoing. Our argument: NDAs are void in Scots law, as examples of 'unlawful agreements'.

Today the scottish parliament is voting on stage 1 of the dog theft (scotland) bill an utterly pointless piece of legislation criminalising the theft of dogs, something which (it will astonish no one) is already criminal. A gesture. I find this sort of legislation inexplicable.

textbooks ARE the summary!

trump is urgently redirecting all scientific funding to a manhattan project scale endeavor focused on making a microscopic camel 🪡

'Comrades, now that we're quorate, I propose we call a doctor.' 'All the best doctors have left or RFK Jr. fired them.'

I HATE marking. Despise it. I become an unrecognizable procrastinator to avoid it, scrubbing toilets and the like. But feedback is the heart of the relationship btwn teacher and student. My life has been transformed by single comments. To deprive students of that defeats the purpose of pedagogy.

Marking can be a personal torment because I so desperately hope each student has been able to give each piece of work a decent go (increasingly harder in these economic times). Feeding marking into GAI slop machines is against all that it means to be in education and care about student progress.

Fascinating argument here- as the Scottish Parliament legislates to recognise Scots as an official language, it's suppressing Scots in legislation. Sadly the national Kirk is guilty, too- we seem to have stopped using "anent", although I think we still talk about congregations "furth" of Scotland

New on the Strathclyde Law Blog, a post by our Dr Jonathan Brown @sartoriusdoctor.bsky.social on the recently passed Scottish Languages Bill and the treatment of the Scots language in the lawmaking process. www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l...

The Scottish Languages Bill has passed and so, under its auspices, the Scots language will become an 'official' language of Scotland. I've written a wee blog here about why, despite this, the Scottish Parliament doesn't actually seem all that committed to Scots. www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l...

Broke: keep the Elgin Marbles in London Woke: return the Elgin Marbles to Greece Bespoke: move the Elgin Marbles to Elgin Catherdral, Moray.

Alasdair MacIntyre's deid and, though I can't think of anything clever or insightful to say, I just feel the need to pass comment on the fact that that's a wee bit sad. A lad o' pairts gone and unlikely to be forgotten for some considerable time.

To raise a joke that no one who lacks a familiarity with Scottish political twitter circa 2014-15 will possibly be able to understand: Pope Pizzaballustrade Lanyard?

The @altlaw.bsky.social conference was hosted at the University of Strathclyde last week. Fair to say it was a roaring success, in large part down to the organisers, @mrandall89.bsky.social and Roddy Cairns. Of course, as (joint) winner of the Stan Marsh Prize for Best Paper, I would say all that...

Today at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, it's day one of the @altlaw.bsky.social 2025 conference. Our head of School Prof Adelyn Wilson started proceedings, then passed to Dr @mrandall89.bsky.social to explain the background to and themes of the event, before Dr Larysa Zhdankina's opening keynote.

New on the Strathclyde Law Blog, a post by our accelerated LLB student Callum Butterworth. Callum was a George Joseph Bell Summer Scholar in 2024 (supported by Edinburgh Legal Education Trust), when he studied the property law rules around joining moveables together. www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l...

Adidas entering its slam poetry era