Apart from the unnecessary hardship this will inflict on individuals, this will be bad for integration and social cohesion, bad for the economy, and will increase irregular migration. [And, as @robfordmancs.bsky.social has shown, it's hugely unpopular and out of step with the British public]

We have registered a new corporation.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

Remember when opponents of the right to die legislation said it would lead to people being encouraged to die to relieve the burden on the state, and were told that this was alarmism? Yeah.

“Assisted dying would appear to mitigate some of those problems, curbing the pensions bill, the NHS bill and the care bill.” The New Statesman says the quiet part out loud: kill granny to save money. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

I'm sure Paolo is as committed to discriminating against you as he is to blacklisting CGC practitioners, if it is any comfort.

Excellent post pointing out the criticisms of the Constitution and Delegated Powers Committee

Stephen Tierney: The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – a dangerous licence for executive law-making ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/09/12/s...

As I take a different view, fair to repost. The important analysis is at pp 3-4, where the, brief, discussion of the text of the GFA occurs. I don't for example, find counting the number of times the ECHR is mentioned an aid to analysis. /1

Politics is hard. You never know how people are going to react. But I really feel "do not appoint the guy who's best friends with a paedophile to a big embassy" is not a hard one to get.

The select committee on the constitution of the House of Lords rejects the idea that it is not entitled to reject the Leadbeater assisted suicide bill. Lord Falconer in utter shambles.

A lot of people slagging off Justin Webb. But here's an experiment you can do at home. Run "Charlie Kirk" through the search function. Click "latest" to create what is effectively a river-sample. You'll see that perhaps 1 in 3 English-language tweets are expressing either glee or satisfaction.

This makes the point very well that "remigration" is nothing but a euphemism for ethnic cleansing. We should stop allowing supporters of the latter to use the former. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I don't think anyone who's salivating at the prospect of mass political violence or civil war has the foggiest idea of how bad these things are in real life. It's beyond their memory and their imagination.

If you don't have anything good to say at this time, don't say anything.

Decolonisation latest.

"If Canada’s judges are the keepers of the flame for Canadian values, elected governments are its temple eunuchs." My review of a new book about Canada's longest-serving judge and what it says about the state of the legal profession. thehub.ca/2025/09/06/a...

My colleague @yuanyiz.bsky.social read Clegg's Internet book so you don't have to.

Very sad to learn the death of Lady (Hazel) Fox KC. Her book on state immunity is absolutely extraordinary. I didn't realise she was Lord Denning's daughter-in-law. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/aug...

In robotics the idea of an “uncanny valley”: Past a certain point, more a humanoid robot looks like a human being, more we are creeped out by it. It is Clegg’s tragedy that he is in the uncanny valley of technocrats. (£) www.thetimes.com/culture/book... @yuanyiz.bsky.social doesn't agree with Nick

Thanks to @yuanyiz.bsky.social 's review this astonishingly stupid quote from Clegg's new book is going to be rattling around my head all day

If you've not read one of the prof's literary reviews before you are in for a rare treat

My review of Sir Nicholas Clegg's new book, 'How to Save the Internet', in today's @thetimes.com. Unpaywalled link. www.thetimes.com/article/b68c...

Fun Case of the Day: State Employees Association, Inc. v. Lau, 877 P.2 531 (Nev. 1994). The question: What does the term, "year" mean in the Nevada Constitution? At stake: The incumbent governor's eligibility for reelection. law.justia.com/cases/nevada...

Reflecting on the Graham Lineham story this morning, unless there is something more that hasn’t been reported, assuming that the Met Police was responsible for this ‘operation’ I think the Commissioner should resign.

Current status!

I read the report yesterday and reread theGFA, and while I still think Ekins is wrong, it is more persuasive than I was anticipating, and I think there is wriggle room where I was not expecting any

As I told you before, Paolo, it would be common courtesy to tag me when you make your sneaky little comments about something I've written. Not that I don't appreciate living rent free in your head.

“Semantic obfuscation" is an interesting name for statutory and treaty interpretation.

That's the problem with mixed marriages: you never know what reprehensible things they believe in.

Journal editors who are too cowardly to stand behind their authors shouldn't be journal editors.

I see that this website is predictably back to claiming that because they would *prefer* the Good Friday Agreement requires ECHR membership, because it might have been a good idea to include that requirement, it in fact does.

Sad to see so many attacks on Labour's most distinguished living ex-lord chancellor (Jack Straw).

To paraphrase @yuanyiz.bsky.social , The Conversation is where academics tell on themselves.

I'm reviewing Sir Nick Clegg's newest book and the first pages are already showing some promise.

Gordon Chang is as insightful about Korean politics as he is about Chinese politics (derogatory). thehill.com/opinion/inte...

There is a lot of talk about toppling imperial monuments in London. Meanwhile, this is what is happening in Madras/Chennai in India.

My review of Dan Wang's new book in @thetimes.com, probably the best China book of 2025 thus far. Free link below. www.thetimes.com/article/0463...

Shocking attack on the rule of law. Will Lord Hermer resign to protest against this?

If you're into the Kriegsmarine, fine, but why would you put up the Bismarck?? Why not a ship that didn't get sunk in a huge upset? #sad

This claim may seem unbelievable. That's because it's not true. The count of 67 journalists killed during WWII comes from the database of a private organisation which does not pretend to exhaustivity and which basically only includes English-speaking embedded journalists killed in WWII.

Some excellent observations on the use of social science evidence in courts by Huscroft JA of the Ontario Court of Appeal, in his excellent decision which declines to strike down first-past-the-post as unconstitutional.

I'm teaching a new course on Chinese foreign policy and it's been some time since I've taught it. Any reading list recommendations?

A Canadian MP has announced a campaign to prevent the expansion of assisted suicide and euthanasia to people with mental illness.⚠️ https://righttolife.org.uk/news/canadian-mp-launches-campaign-to-block-expansion-of-euthanasia-and-assisted-suicide-to-people-with-mental-illness

Sorry sorry I was just trying to buy a book from Cambridge University Press.

Pleased to announce that I'll be leading a new SSHRC- funded project on supreme military command authority and Commanders-in-Chief in a historical and comparative perspective.

Jasmine Bhatia at Birkbeck and I are hiring a research assistant for our project on irregular migration, organised crime and European asylum governance. If you're a postgraduate or early postdoc and have an interest in those areas, send us a CV! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT307/r...

Jasmine Bhatia at Birkbeck and I are hiring a research assistant for our project on irregular migration, organised crime and European asylum governance. If you're a postgraduate or early postdoc and have an interest in those areas, send us a CV! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT307/r...