Government ministers still using X.

But he said he loves flags and hates trans people? I don't understand what went wrong?

Reading stuff on agonism today and man... Source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Keir Starmer Thomas Frank 🤝 Both in jobs until May at the latest

What an AI essay looks like to somebody who doesn't know the topic Vs What an AI essay looks like to somebody who does know the topic.

When a prime minister blames an advisor.

Person who lied to become Labour leader, and threw trans people, immigrants, Palestinians, and human rights under a bus is somehow a decent person and a man of integrity.

Robespierre would have loved a good Olympic Opening ceremony. What are the Olympics if not The Festival of the Supreme Being(s)?

Last year, Trump insulted Micheál Martin and Ireland by inviting Conor McGregor to the White House on St Patrick's Day instead of him. And still Martin comes crawling back to prostrate himself before the Manhattan Mussolini.

We're getting a third Gruffalo book before The Winds of Winter, or The Doors of Stone.

Without commenting on the substantive content of the law, and with condolences to the family of Grace Lynch, it's disappointing to see the Irish government following the unfortunate practice of naming laws after a specific victim as a form of performative lawmaking. www.rte.ie/news/politic...

New video in my Coffee Time Constitutional Law Series: Does the UK Have a Separation of Powers? youtu.be/lW-8gEYAvRo?...

My piece on refusing declarations of incompatibility as amounting to "double-counting" deference has an official home in the latest issue of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...

Keir Starmer would appoint a fox to guard a chicken coop if Morgan McSweeney told him to. His entire premiership has been the Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes bit.

*abolishes jury trials* www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have a new blog post out on Article 3 ECHR and Chișinău, where I argue that what is being contemplated in relation to Art.3, far from tinkering with the right's edges, threatens the core of the right against torture, and the integrity of the human rights edifice. www.echrblog.com/2026/02/arti...

"Bills of Attainder are back. Peter Mandelson shows us that none of us are safe from Starmer's wrath" --me for The Telegraph

Can't believe they did that to The Odyssey... youtu.be/YDDEqgmGIVg?...

It was the best of times; it was the blurst of times. #COYS

Always good to know that a large part of one of your lectures covers an "archaic procedure".

The fleggers have once again been out and about in Stirchley. It's clear intimidation and designed to make non-British people feel unwelcome. Birmingham City Council's inaction is pathetic.

When you ask Chat GPT to come up with a government policy for you.

somebody from labour in about 5 minutes: We are still cleaning up the mess of Suella Bravermans open borders policies

Reform ❌️ ReTory ✅️

It's a good day to reshare this story about the young Suella Braverman being accused of vote-rigging and defending herself by saying "You can't prove anything".

tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging

Given the BBC's reporting on Gaza, can anybody really be surprised that they present damning evidence as "conflicting accounts" when it clearly refutes the official line of an administration it prioritises?

Distracting myself from the awfulness of the world by exclusively reading and listening to content on the awfulness of Tottenham Hotspur.

Reading any British media website

The final Faithfuls were all such NPCs. Rachel and Stephen really deserved that. #TheTraitors

The politican partisanship of the existing Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation is increasingly undeniable.

My 16 month old son got his hands on a gilet (neither his mam nor dad got it for him) and now all he wants to talk about is crypto and Tesla stock.

The world should focus on monasteries for book production rather than this new-fangled printing press.

Me as an Irish person in England when Springwatch is on the telly in June

Spurs are going to get relegated but win the Champions League. #COYS

Stock market go down. Insiders make bets. Trump changes rhetoric. Stock market go up. Profit.

Please use my s**tty product or my s**tty product investment will fail.

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...

The Irish Dept of Justice has two speeds: 1. This is very complicated and takes a lot of time (ie, we don't want to do it.) 2. This is urgent and we need to guillotine it through the Oireachtas (ie we want to do it but we don't want any meaningful scrutiny). www.irishlegal.com/articles/jim...

Makes sense to get an expert on illegal land-grabbing and war crimes on board.

The only times I think I've seen a British court depart from that assumption was the Inner House in Cherry re Boris Johnson, and then again in Vince. Even in circumstances when I think "oh, come on", the tendency is to accept claims at face value.

“Lord Peter Hennessy …your good chaps theory is taking a helluva beating right now”

One good thing about Trump is that he's demonstrating the danger of arguments that declarations of emergency is a political question that should be non-justiciable. I didn't think we'd need yet another example to really hammer the point home and yet here we are.

Opinion: Here are four ways to reduce prison overcrowding, none of which require new jails