Overturn this! 😎

BlueSky tonight

i am losing all control at ‘springtime for frankenstein’ (from mel brooks’ memoir)

If I could say one sentence to cats and make them understand it, it would probably be "If you are going to puke, please do it on a hard surface."

'On average the raw lifetime earnings gap for those aged 37 in 2022 who went to university, and those who could have but did not, was £290,000. And this includes a 3.5 per cent discount rate (applying Treasury Green Book rules) that lowers the value of earnings in later life'. 1/3

Was stuck by this comment under Ewan Murray’s report from Miami last night for @sport.theguardian.com in regards to the gulf that exists between how much fun Scotland fans have before a game and the sheer lack of it during them and how there’s really no need for any handwringing about that.

If you have tradespeople working in your home please train a fan on them and offer lots of drinks. Traditionally they aren't the best at looking after themselves in the heat but you do have a duty of care to provide safe working conditions.

When an immigrant stabbed a man in Belfast a few weeks ago, the image of that attack was on the front page of most of the UK papers. Jeffrey Donaldson is not on the front page of the Times, Telegraph, Express, Mirror, Star, Metro, Morning Star, i paper, Guardian, Herald, Journal, or National

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Scarborough, yesterday. *credit Fred Brown.

how many cars are on fire

Released 40 years ago today. Still the greatest day off.

Signatures at 20 - the maximum allowed while it is still not public, still being checked for community standards As and when released, will let people know Would be good to start to see numbers ticking over Thanks

I’m so bloody cross I’ve lodged a Parl petition!!! I’m waiting for five people whom I’ve emailed to sign it then it will be up and running @paulbernal.bsky.social @graemehayes.bsky.social @dohertylawteach.bsky.social

Let us have a rapid global campaign to have the Somalian referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan referee at least one match in Canada or Mexico. FIFA should facilitate, not impede, that. The Canadian/Mexican government should pursue it too

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

I see the Champions League final is still free-to-air on ZDF in Germany. I also see Firefox's built-in VPN allows you to reroute via Germany.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

This is what courage looks like.

NEW: A positive TV story..! ‘Men and boys need to see this’ How Jo and Kush have countered toxic masculinity - and Race Across the World has quenched a thirst for uplifting TV. PS: Casting and producers work hard on this one... www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

this is a masterpiece

Petition to rename universities "Brain Forges". "Britain needs brains. Brains are essential to Britain's national security interests. We can't rely exclusively on imported brains." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

when someone says they don’t allow their pets on the furniture

I'm pleased to announce this fantastic launch event, organised by my wonderful colleague Prof Rob Heywood, as the first event of our Law School's newly invigorated Social Justice Research Group www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c... We are hoping to offer it as a hybrid event Please RT

I have curated this year's @publiclaw.bsky.social Special Analysis section "The Public Order Act 1986 at Forty", with six excellent contributions which together, I/we hope, offer an insight into the rich tapestry of contemporary protest law and policing in the UK, through that historical lens.

I'm brave enough to admit that I would, in fact, buy this the day it goes on sale or see it opening night. Yes, I would.

I gave a short keynote at the Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference last week. Why law degrees need to take lawyering more seriously... substack.com/home/post/p-...

Quite the quote from the John Blake, the former director of fair access at the Office for Students www.thetimes.com/article/1cb6...

These NY Times oral histories—of what the Trump administration is doing to federal agencies—are a public service. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We are advertising a Grade 8 teaching and scholarship permanent lectureship at the School of Law, University of Leeds. Deadline 26 April. One of the few UK HEIs that is hiring right now...! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

"Unlike Parisians or the Latin peoples, we have no taste for great barracks divided into apartments, which give the streets of Paris such a uniform air. We like to climb our own staircase. Like our cousin the Anglo-Saxon, we have a love of 'home', the familial hearth" - Brussels mayor Charles Buls

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

Many networks saying Trump is about to escalate to war crimes, ignoring the 165 schoolgirls he killed in a double tap strike. On day one. The single greatest US military atrocity since My Lai in Vietnam has been relegated to an afterthought. Mainstream media has horrifically failed us.

Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.

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List of all the countries in the world that ban all Afghan women from studying in their sovereign Higher Education institutions: 1. Afghanistan 2. United Kingdom Must make you proud to wave your flags, UK patriots with legitimate concerns. Wave them!!!

Food banks - specifically the 1,600 run by Trussel...just how busy are they? Here is the annual data for 2015 to 2025. Other than a blip due to the 1st year of COVID, usage went up in each full year under a Tory government. 2024 was half-Tory, half-Labour - and usage fell. 2025 fell even more.

I really, really need academic organizations to think more critically about travel (conferences, talks, and meetings) during the Trump administration. Sadly, most are not.

MANCHESTER! 👇👇👇 www.coldwarsteve.com/2026/03/20/o...

Thanks, Ryan, and congrats on your win! Would you mind sending this message to legislators and college presidents across the country? Signed, Professors everywhere

[Sade voice 🎵]

my view on this is that publishers should stop it with the 80k wordcount obsession, so many contemporary non-fic books are obviously 40-50k pieces of work stretched to the extent that they become very boring to read - just let people write cheaper, shorter books! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded. 2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning. Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription, delete your account. And tell at least one person why. My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...