Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.

The is the biggest national embarrassment in American history.

In the space of two minutes he confused Greenland and Iceland four times by my count. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump: "World War 1 -- they lost 100 million people. It actually ended World War 1. A lot of people don't know. The Spanish flu in World War 1 ended the war."

Which begs the question about who's funding Policy Exchange. Who is planning to benefit from untrammelled executive power, free from judicial constraints (whether domestic or not)? And are the academics who put forward these 'papers' paid or not? If so, can they still be considered academics?

Some people resist evil quietly. Not with speeches or slogans — just by deciding, again and again, to do the right thing when no one is watching. That’s how I ended up reading about Gino Bartali. 1/8

Reminder that the new Policy Exchange paper on the ECHR will get a lot of traction in the media because this debate is about vibes, not facts. Those defending the ECHR need to think about how to influence vibes too. ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/09/a...

Universities are the softest of soft political targets, but chasing praise is going to help. There's no money for a redefined moral mission (meaning what?) and Kim McGuinness has great universities in NE England doing local work, but doesn't seem to notice: politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/attacki...

European alternatives for digital- HOPING for more ethical and sustainable futures, we shall see. Now is the opportunity. european-alternatives.eu

Macron now refers to "intimidation or threat", explicitly comparing US behaviour in Greenland to Russia's approach to Ukraine. Sweden's PM says: "We will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed". Much, tougher language from Europeans than we have seen before, responding to the US escalation.

Boycott Estée Lauder now! Its owner is the oligarch pushing for the annexation of Greenland. Boycott their owned brands whilst you’re at it.

The Government staying on X is pathetic: Ministers need to show some moral backbone inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...

Dit.

Oxford West & Abingdon MP Layla Moran has become the first Oxfordshire MP to quit X (formerly Twitter). She said “I can’t sleep knowing that I’m leading traffic to a site that actively enables sexual exploitation of women and children.” Her Bluesky profile is @laylamoran.bsky.social .

Still using X? Or even worse, paying for it? If the hate speech wasn’t a good enough reason for you to leave, I wonder if Musk’s AI stripping clothes off your daughters and wives at the request of other users is? Those with big followers in mil hist should check themselves @almurray.bsky.social etc

I lost my father, when I was 8, at the hands of other people. The amount of sadness I feel for this woman’s children is overwhelming.

It's unfair to say that X is only a site for Nazis *or* porn - it's also a site for Nazi porn.

Seeing a performer successfully hype the crowd with "When I say constitutional, you say crisis!" makes me wonder if we're doing public law conferences all wrong

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

I covered this in my premium last week, it’s laughable! www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...

Come work with me! (And, thankfully, other people)

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

And just like that, the historic Employment Rights Bill lands. Sick pay from day one. Day-one parental leave. Unfair dismissal rights after six months. Ban fire-and-rehire. Bereavement leave. Protections for pregnant women. Tougher redundancy rules. Fair Work Agency to enforce rights. #ukpolitics

I've just sent the following email to the editors of The Journal of Comparative Law:

It's much worse than this. The 'review' is pervaded by the most astonishing case of anti-Italianism I've ever seen on print, and it beggars belief how any journal could even remotely consider to publish it. It's so unhinged that it becomes hilarious at times, but only because we're not the targets

This moved me more than I can say. It made me very happy, too!

ICYMI Government claim that Judicial Reviews will be up 30% this year & will “drown the courts” is false, they’ll be down about 15% in 2025 #Planning #Speirgorm

The FIFA Peace Prize looks like the poster for 28 Centuries Later when the zombies develop space travel and invade another planet.

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...