We’re delighted to launch our brand-new Legal Spotlight: Lunch & Learn Series 🔉 The Vanishing Numbers of Statements - Christopher McFarland, Sinclairslaw (06.05.26) 🔉 School IDPs vs LA IDPs - Ffion Davies, Geldards LLP (03.06.26) 🔉 School Exclusions - Cathrine Grubb, Civitas Chambers (02.09.26)

Fox calling Farage woke. At this point, nothing surprises me anymore.

Just for perspective, while I think on. Based on my reckoning, there have been seven Labour Prime Ministers and three have had to deal with questions about Mandelson. You know, if we are playing the "how could Starmer have known he was unsuitable" game.

Worth remembering that the Windrush Lessons Learned Review identified how language/politics had an influence on how the Home Office operated. Producing the outcomes of that (continuing) scandal.

Headline of the Day.

JIMMY FALLON IS INSIDE YOUR HOUSE

Looking forward to heading over on Sunday. It's a fantastic day out. (My strategy is when I get home I announce I haven't bought a spinning wheel, so look very restrained)

Wonderwool Wales, the premier wool and natural fibre festival in Wales, is all set for a bumper 20th anniversary show this coming weekend, with the organisers reporting record advance ticket sales and exhibitors

Some people who have migrated from legacy benefits like ESA to UC are finding less money in their pockets. Under transitional protection, they were told they would not be worse off, but a technicality in who manages Council Tax Support means that many are. wearecitizensadvice.org.uk/why-some-esa...

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

A family of four living for four years in one tiny room with three single beds. A mum forced to share a single room with two beds with her two teenage sons for three years. Converted hotels have never been suitable places for people to live. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

🚸 New UK Home Office statistics reveal that children are still being strip searched in police custody in Wales 🚸 @drrhiancroke.bsky.social latest blog is a stark reminder that this practice remains a serious ongoing violation of children’s rights in Wales childrenslegalcentre.wales/strip-search...

Khajiit has wares if you have coin

I am not defending, I am explaining. He's attempting a taiji sword form move (see 1:00), one that is usually practiced slowly, but since he wants to look "cool" he is thrusting as if doing a fist-under-elbow punch from the hand form. This is when I take sword from student. youtu.be/XwhkskTm2Uc?...

Giles was such a good guy. He is going to be so missed. www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/tribute...

Oh for heavens sakes

Born on this day in 1959, Happy Birthday, ROBERT SMITH! 🎉 Read about more anniversaries and obscurities from Horror History in The Grim Reader, Rue Morgue’s bimonthly newsletter. ow.ly/7YRK50YzZos

Check this out - a Cherrywood Fabrics had a quilting challenge last year with a set color palette and the theme "Abyss." Hundreds of quilts were entered and they are *incredible.* Check out this amazing handiwork! cherrywoodfabrics.com/pages/the-ab...

Good Reuters story on the government's "earned settlement" proposals and the care sector. www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...

We've seen some incredible abstracts come in for #NightTideMag's second virtual horror symposium! This year's theme is: THE HORROR OF CONTROL Got an idea on control in horror cinema, comics, television, gaming, and performance? 👻 Details below - deadline is May 18th! nighttidemag.com/2026/03/31/h...

Jonathan Keir Harker Starmer 🤝 Not having enough questions about their good friend, the Prince of Darkness

hawking a line of branded Mountain Goats smart glasses. no matter where you look things look a little bleaker and also the wearer cannot remove the glasses once worn. I’m disrupting this sector

No it isn’t. And if it was, you’d be bad at your job

NEW | On an odd choice… WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/why-did-bb...

Also a reminder that Robert Smith has consistently leveraged against ludicrous ticket pricing, including obtaining refunds for fans who were conned with added on fees.

Fascinated by proper pop icons like Robert Smith and Prince, who seem to have woken up one day, thought 'I have an idea for a Look' and just 100% nailed it. Like that Look was already out there and they just walked into it somehow.

Long thread alert 🧵 1. Domestic abuse survivors who don't fit neatly within Appendix Victim of Domestic Abuse face a real dilemma. We've explored the options available and the risks each one carries.

Finally started reading Dungeon Crawler Carl. So far having a good time.

Last night I heard the very sad news about @nearlylegal.co.uk the much respected and admired Giles Peaker. He was a one of a kind housing lawyer, and I spoke to him only last month at the annual SHLA conference. A thoroughly decent human being. www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/legenda...

Across the African continent, wars and humanitarian crises are killing civilians, displacing millions and eroding already fragile institutions. These are not “forgotten crises.” They are crises the world has repeatedly chosen not to act on. Changing that choice is the real challenge.

Now THAT'S a headline

Sci-fi fans gathered together in Cardiff Bay on the weekend to bid farewell to an iconic tourist attraction which has attracted visitors from around the world - but a famous Welsh artist's cryptic message means this might not be the end.

Good policy should always begin by considering the needs of the most vulnerable and excluded people. I'm also interested in how this plays with tentative proposals in the digital ID consultation to introduce digital ID from either birth or at the age of 13.

New from FM: Home Secretary accepts she can grant further leave on the five-year route without the no recourse to public funds condition | Nakita Hedges

Well shit. I never actually got to meet Giles Peaker, but he was very generous with his time when helping me with some background questions for my thesis. His wit and sense of justice were true beacons in dark times. Heaven has one hell of a housing team these days.

Awful news about Giles Peaker, @nearlylegal.co.uk, a brilliant legal blogger and a real pioneer. A great figure in using the internet for the public understanding of law.

I was discussing the concept of mise en scene with someone and I couldn't remember the precise definition so I looked it up. I ended up on the BBC GCSE Bitesize website and found this picture. The error in the caption could start entire WARS.

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Good. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

girls want one thing, and it's to be this weird little dude absolutely lost in the sauce

From yesterday: High Court warns Home Office against imposing unrealistic evidence standards in trafficking cases | Karen Staunton

Barack Obama and Zohran Mamdani sing ‘Wheels on the Bus’ to kids in NYC

I love this 👇

Also regularly quoted in our house

Christopher Reeve was the best Clark & Superman because of this wonderful scene where his change of posture, gestures & tone of voice are all perfectly calibrated within a beautifully composed shot. No CGI required to show his transformation. He & Margot Kidder are much missed. #SupermanDay

Images taken before disaster in a Dark Heresy or Call of Cthulhu campaign:

IT'S SUPERMAN DAY

When the warlock who has been on the ceiling snipping the BBEG with eldritch blast for 5 rounds decides to neck and unlabelled potion which makes their mouth disappear for 3 hours...

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