Did not twig I was listening to a mockumentary until a UK university tutor was introduced and they clearly worked in a cinematic universe.

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for 30 Seconds Before Vanishing Day to all who observe.

I would go to see the Rocky Horror Goon Show.

Came across this on LinkedIn, and not sure they are on Bluesky!

This is nearly here - the first 2025-2026 event with the Centre for Law, Criminology and Social Justice Research as one of of the partners.

Anyone use www.ecosia.org instead of google? It seems OK so far, and not having to skip past a paragraph of AI blurb each search is a definite plus.

You see, THIS is why I am on social media.

Tooting my horn here, but this is my only article that has been cited in an amicus brief to SCOTUS, and plagiarised by a judge of the Court of Appeal. Anyway, here I am making the point in question.

Work klaxon but I made this precise point about the absolutely definitive instance of jury nullification, from London in 1670, as long ago as 2012

This raises the age-old change-of-status drafting question: if the letters patent are the operative document shouldn't they declare that "Prince Andrew" is no longer entitled to hold and enjoy (etc.)?

Z Cars, never missed a single episode of it or Softly, Softly -

It's always a pleasure to see your work used, but for me especially so for sustained study of a topic that (uniquely) drew on both my law and religion and Manx law specialisms! tynwald.org.im/spfile?file=...

V pleased that my Public Law article on judicial retirement (written with @bymyong.bsky.social) is now open access - see the link in Peter's post below. For those interested, some highlights of our research in this thread: bsky.app/profile/did:...

OBLS is committed to making our research available as widely as possible. So a pleasure to share that @patrickcobrien.bsky.social article on "The decline of the judicial retirement convention, 1950-2020" is now available open access here: radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/...

Great to be in such good company! www.um.edu.mt/sst/currenti...

I am away seeing Suzanne Vega live. This sign at the hotel reminded me there is no eacape from legal education ...

These are, without exception, fantastic. The Alien themed one is particularly great!

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🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween... #halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster

Shouldn't this be Great Britain's?

This was a lot of fun. I got to use de Bracton and cast shade on those new-fangled activist judges in the recent "case" of M'Naghten. Thanks to Chris for being a great sparring partner with an encyclopedic knowledge of Dr Lecter.

Interesting judgment from the Turks and Caicos Court of Appeal on residence rights of same-sex spouses has just been published: tcilii.org/akn/tc/judgm...

This is an unusually busy and anxious fall for me for a number of boring personal reasons, so I’m experiencing the news more as intermittent flashes of horror than as a steady drip of dread. Important to mix things up imo

Guernsey, I'm looking at you.

Question for Danny Kruger after his big speech: “in adverts, customer service is typically both friendly and efficient. Does that drive Sarah Pochin mad? Yes or no?”

She must be seething about the meerkats, who are wildly over represented

I often end up discussing with dissertation students why "irreversibility" understates the impact of a long prison sentence, and is not that great a distinction from capital punishment. Finally been struck by the one word that I can offer as a replacement - "non-interruptability".

"Suggested loophole" (at the very most)? Given the last sentence of the 12th Amendment, you really have to work to find such a loophole. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Always a pleasure when a Brookes colleague is able to get their research out open access. Particular pleasure when it is me, and it is diamond open access! "Environmental patriarchy in a small democracy" here:

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Congratulations to our Visiting Fellow, Dr Eric Baskind, for the open access appearance of his Professional Doctorate thesis on "Formulating an ethical, therapeutic, and safer approach to managing challenging and violent behaviours". Best wishes, Peter.

Always a pleasure when a research student graduates, redoubled when they worked on Manx law! Terence McDonald, as a veteran advocate, carries off a gown rather better than me. Practice makes perfect.

(whistling innocently).

Mitchell and Webb's Downfall. The sequence just before the Russians get to the bunker where Keitel, Jodl, Burgdorf, and Krebs play Numberwang is amazing.

Brookes' colleague Patrick O'Brien is fascinating to speak to. Here is a chance to hear some of his ideas, online or in person at UCL: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

Interested in the Macabbi Tel Aviv controversy? You need Brookes' own Rich Hester's interview with CNN ... video.snapstream.net/Play/aHu6Ss7...

But in this country it is good to fine a Ministry from time-to-time pour encourager les autres. Or something.

Brookes is committed to open access to our research. Congratulations to ace Brookes colleague Max Morris for "Queering discourses of prostitution, homosexuality, and age of consent : how social media troubles traditional and contemporary constructions of sex work", now available open access.

Interested in the Macabbi Tel Aviv controversy? You need Brookes' own Rich Hester's interview with CNN ... video.snapstream.net/Play/aHu6Ss7...

My position on Linux remains "I aint reading all that but I'm happy for you, or sorry that happened"

Lovely when an alum remembers us fondly. Great to show Dr Irfan Chattha (LLM, 2013) around the new campus!

This latest "barrister meets AI" disaster is something all stage 1 law students should read. It is vital about the key skill of case reading - you mustn't use AI to substitute for the skill of being able to find cases and find key content in cases: tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/ui-202...

Great to see a refresh of the Oxford Brookes Law School webpage. A dedicated page for our research in the Centre for Legal, Criminology and Social Justice Research is on the way! www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brooke...

New favourite example on the difference between anonymous and anonymised has just dropped.

Great to see a joint celebration of the new work from Brookes' Max Morris by Oxford University, the Oxford Sociology Network, and our new Centre for Legal, Criminological and Social Justice Research. 14th November - free, but you need to sign up:

The only justification for a t-shirt with a joke which only a tiny number of people will get, and even fewer consider a joke, is that it tickled me.

I'm interested in Nunavut because of electoral reform proposals, and this story has almost nothing to do with law. But this is a really thought provoking and well-written article I'd recommend.