Are Gilbert & Sullivan headlining?

Cometh the hour… cometh the [man] (or woman?)

I don't normally comment on ecclesiastical law, but this one was a bit special. So long, Marianne. www.iclr.co.uk/blog/comment...

Westminster tries where other councils seem to fail Dangerously parked e-bikes seized by council www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Open justice depends on observers and reporters transparencyproject.org.uk/finding-a-jo...

This could so easily have been a parkin offence.

This 100% www.thetimes.com/article/432b...

Should Andy Burnham’s new constituency be called Makerwish, perhaps? Fulfilment not guaranteed.

Want to walk along the pavement? Too bad! #Limescale @london.gov.uk @rbkc.gov.uk

Starmer has performed his final u-turn

NO CONTEST? Burnham would come to Downingsinane without a further election. Sounds like a coup, albeit a bloodless one.

Mr Lemon says hi

Are we talking about hallucinating evidence? UK police officer under criminal investigation over alleged use of AI

“I did what I could, not what I ought to have. That’s what we do, writers. We don’t do what we ought. We do what we can.” —Jane Gardam

Inkilterra - Isgro at the Estorick

Though I would never use AI for creative writing, it has its uses in the law, one of which is rendering a complex fact-finding judgment simple enough for the litigants themselves to understand, particularly when they have learning difficulties. transparencyproject.org.uk/make-it-simp...

Guillotines on every platform in the land to deal with people who don't use headphones/people who don't stand on the right/people who don't move down the bloody carriage and platform/people who don't let passengers off the train first. Sensible policies for sensible people.

Tanks for nothing, comrade! (Or some equivalent pun must be in order. Come on the tabloids! You can do it! ) Steve Rosenberg: This year's Victory Day parade in Moscow felt very different www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Social change has been slow in some parts of London, and some dwellings still have outside toilets.

Ooh luvverly! Powdered soup and Angel Delight!

Latest roundup (March 2026) from Transparency Project @seethrujustice.transparencyproject.org.uk transparencyproject.org.uk/family-court...

It’s Holy Week so out comes this old favourite. (Bach never fails.)

Thieves steal 12 tons of KitKat chocolate bars in Europe, according to Reuters (whose picture research is not great: these were bars not cereal). Who for? Surely no self-respecting European would want to eat such low grade so-called chocolate. www.reuters.com/business/thi...

"..a complete worked example of Google inventing itself a new fact about an important figure in Edinburgh local history, and people will believe it, because it is Google.."

Lord Mansfield’s magnificent magnolias (Kenwood)

He’s been locked out!

Sounds painful. Also a tad over the top, whatever your view of critics.

How are things here in Hot Take City? Still keeping calm and carrying on?

People are making a fuss about the posh car used by the police when arresting Andrew M-W but I assume it was because it had to be a Land Rover Defendant.

Now I'm waiting for a bad poem, McSweeney among the Nightingales.

Eheu. Hope no one was hurt. Angel / Goswell junction.

L’age de pierre indeed!

The NS&I (not on here apparently) bot when you ring them is so clever it can even offer to transfer you to a human and then cut you off, just like a real human!

Welcome to International Hot Take and Performative Indignation Day, only on this channel (and all the others)

Well spotted - Kusama on Naoshima

If you haven’t been on the Hello Kitty bullet train you really haven’t lived

Helpful summary of trumped up libel claim against the Beeb, via Inforrm’s blog inforrm.org/2025/12/20/u...

Osaka, I have questions

Rice enough to eat?

Translation apps - what’s not to love?

"We recently announced that Netflix will acquire William Shakespeare, including his plays, sonnets, narrative poems and indeed also his biography and everything he ever said. This unites our leading entertainment service with William Shakespeare's iconic stories. 'All the world's a Netflix!'"

Say what you like about the 70s but productivity in the area of Xmas songs was through the roof.

Now this is surely one area where new tech - including AI - could be used to reduce cost? But issues around judicial editing and transparency would still need resolution. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Never apologise. Never explain. But always say thanks. You'll be welcome again.

And they can keep their wives, unlike the left footers ab initio.

How long before this person is described as a “Walter Mitty” character? Article from The Times: 'Fake' rear-admiral charged after attending remembrance parade. www.thetimes.com/article/faa4...

In Hungary, judges are being doxed – their names, addresses, and private data leaked and publicized for supposed political leanings. TAMÁS MATUSIK traces how this new wave of intimidation exposes the fragile state of judicial independence in Hungary. verfassungsblog.de/hungary-judg...

Taking a selfie in ancient times, on the iScroll