Part of my evidence put before the court today attests to the unique nature of the proscription based on some research I conducted, and part speaks to the chilling effect on academic teaching and research in the area www.bbc.com/news/article...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

I think if I worked in a production company and was allowed to commission a movie with a €70m budget was based on one tweet, it would be this one.

Things have changed a bit, but this - produced before The Ashes started - is basically perfect…

non-brits and young folk: don't sleep on this. Arena was an incredible documentary series on arts and culture. Hard to imagine how it could exist today. If you know Paris is Burning, that was an Arena doc. So was the Wisconsin Death Trip film. So much gold here.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

the BBC should apologise with a montage of all the times Trump showed support for 6 Jan and they should get the person who does the end of World Cup montage to do it

I don't think enough people talk about how great BBC Bitesize is. Secondary school textbooks are now vanishingly rare and Bitesize content is (a) not in a terrible app, (b) engaging and interesting and easy to understand, and importantly (c) FREE. A properly great digital public good.

One reason China has to be optimistic about their century defining strategic competition with the United States is that they're the only side in it not actively trying to lose.

For the love of God do it to save this child if for no other reason

A bleak dystopia where Sharia law predominates, while economic and cultural divisions mean that the different communities live parallel, segregated lives. Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …

Remember the Year of the MOOC from a decade ago? The one where tech bros predicted the end of all but 3-4 universities because who needs campuses when everyone can just take MOOCs and learn everything? Hits a little different now after pandemic pedagogy, huh? The tech hype cycle is a helluva drug.

That is not to say that at all Frequency in a place is not the same as cumulative If this is the level of legal analysis, discussion and definition, we are in serious trouble www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

Grok has been fed a diet of raw Policy Exchange papers for days and now doesn't feel too great....

Did the authors of the papers you're feeding into the data stealing machine consent to you giving away their intellectual property? 🙁

2025 remake of Castaway: Tom Hanks' character makes no attempt to get back to civilization

unconscionable

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old “The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?” Treasure magazine, 1964 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

A letter from @crwerren.bsky.social @suzmd.bsky.social @storiesfromjack.bsky.social and me on the plans to allow cumulatively disruptive protests to be regulated by the police www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

The conflation between pro-Palestine/anti-genocide protests and the attack on the Manchester synagogue is disgusting, dangerous, and deeply cynical.

In memoriam...

Remembering Cissy Houston on her birthday. I love this version of JJ Cale's Cajun Moon that she recorded with Herbie Mann youtu.be/t8Cm1HzqatQ

This only happens to you once

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Damn, he's good, and right.

Michael D’s finest moment: the President of Ireland calls for Israel to be excluded from the UN. Why can’t other leaders speak the truth about Gaza like this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGsZ...

A new Explainer out from @aoifemod.bsky.social and me detailing the UK's ECHR commitments under the 1998 Agreement in response to recent speculation. It is short, because there is very little to say - the UK's obligations are evident on the B/GFA's plain text: caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...

'Maybe it's time we stopped putting dodgy men in these jobs of huge power and privilege in the first place.' The Peter Mandelson row is 'an insult to everyone else who could have done his job brilliantly', @maitlis.bsky.social tells @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social.

That is literally the opening of Les Miserables.

wow

For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.

Hi! I was homeless. That's me he wants to kill. If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can. This guy would have killed me for being homeless.

Timeline cleanse

The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Scene: Jim Ratcliffe's Monaco office, the air hangs heavy with the overpowering stench of defeat and tax-free income. Minions cower. "Sack more dinner ladies. SACK THEM ALL!"

Hello it’s me Sam Altman I have a zillion dollar idea it’s a chat bot that tells teenagers to kill themselves and you can generate csam with it and it poisons the air and water and it’s wrong most of the time and we’re going to put it in your refrigerator and stuff 👍 I need more money for this btw

Holy fucking shit

Multi-ethnic working class area where I live: no flags. V.white middle class area where I grew up: flags everywhere The latter unlike the former has not been "forgotten by Westminster" or "left behind by globalisation". These people are mostly just racists. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/o...

In just 10 years, the UK's electricity sector has gone from #1 emitter to #6 emitter... what a transformation 👏🇬🇧 Now to see what clean power can do to help cut the other sectors..

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