Forbidden sundae

My office is very festive

Forbidden Guylian at Manchester Museum

'Made in Manchester' was a Financial Times Best Book of 2024. Now in paperback.

Interesting quiz

My song Without Music has been commended in the UK Songwriting Contest 😊

A playlist of some of my songs open.spotify.com/playlist/41T...

Almost 30,000 people flocked to Durham Cathedral to see three rare copies of the Magna Carta. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.

ManReg and the @malg-uom.bsky.social recently co-hosted a brilliant seminar by Professor Andrew Harding (NUS), on the topic of “Common Law Transplantation and the Interface with Customary Law in SE Asia”. @uomsoss.bsky.social

Happy to share this new paper from me www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Another trip to the Rylands imminent!

We were delighted to host Nabil Khabirpour (Cambridge) in the ManReg Public Law Seminar Series. Nabil delivered an eloquent talk entitled “A Tale of Two Cases and a Story Yet Untold: Access to Justice and Legal Advice under the Civil Limb of Article 6 ECHR”. @uomsoss.bsky.social

This arrived today. Can't wait to read!

Extremely tasty cauliflower tantan ramen at New Wave Ramen

Women's rights activists Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst (Manchester Libraries).

New release: 'Key Ideas in Constitutional Law' by David Feldman Examines how constitutions, and the UK's in particular, emerge from disagreement and power tussles ➡️ https://bit.ly/4nyPUUu #ConstitutionalLaw

Terrifying monster in Manchester Printworks

It would be such a twist if Macron did it

"Disabled people say no to assisted suicide" - at the People's History Museum

Good news: carbon intensity has declined Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17% Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%

Alan Turing memorial in Manchester

This is why they call Manchester the Venice of the North

Welcome home to all the hostages 💙

Seeing Downtown Abbey at the movies today. Where is the Abbey located? Is it downtown LA? I'll find out

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

A story from last year about your Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Please consider supporting Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation after the terror attack in Manchester www.charityextra.com/heatonpark

The ManReg Public Law Seminar Series, now in its third year, resumed for 2025-26 with a brilliant seminar by Professor @robertthomas223.bsky.social on "The Impact of the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman on Special Educational Needs and Disability in England". @uomsoss.bsky.social

Thrilled to share this call for papers for a conference on the Future of Constitutional Reform in the United Kingdom at @uomlaw.bsky.social with the support of @ukcla.bsky.social ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/03/e...

After transporting them back from Australia, I now have my undergrad degrees from UNSW in Manchester. Office decoration continues!

@uomsoss.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social

Maybe to turn this around, Starmer can offer to give away more UK territory (while paying billions to the receiving country). An inquiry into the TV show Adolescence might be another great idea

Campus looking very scenic as another academic year at the University of Manchester Law School (@uomlaw.bsky.social) begins!

OK but they are both in a lot of trouble from having their brain sliced open like this

Although buses are unreliable, they can be a great option if you don't care whether you are going anywhere or not. If you're at peace with the universe - going or not going is basically the same in the scheme of things - it's perfect

Bluesky is missing out by not having Grok to summarize your identity

Sencha is great though gyokuro is amazing. They make gyokuro by putting the tea plant in the shade and making it suffer. You can taste the pain

To quote One Piece: 嘘か本当かじゃねー！新聞はエンターテインメントだ！

The Well (2025 Remix) is out on Spotify 😊 open.spotify.com/track/3fgU8b...

Nobbys Beach, Newcastle, Australia

This was probably my favourite: talking to David Speirs on Insiders: On Background iview.abc.net.au/show/insider...

AI sucks www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

“Making these copyright cases rather than privacy and defamation means that the public interest in the footage and any consumer rights to know, as well as animal rights, can rightly be ignored. This is clearly not the purpose of the Copyright Act…” www.uts.edu.au/news/2025/08...

Ocean Baths in Newcastle, Australia

Pleased to share this new remix of my 2021 song The Well youtu.be/4PO9rmbta-8

Thanks to UNSW Law & Justice for hosting me as a visiting scholar for the next three weeks! Looking forward to a productive visit

"Australians have expressed support for a significant increase to the country’s emissions-reduction target as the Climate Change Authority prepares to recommend a much more ambitious 2035 goal." www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Gail's is the best thing about the UK

Come and join us at Oxford Brookes Law School! We’re a lovely friendly department, with several permanent Lecturer and Senior Lecturer posts: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ986/l... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ993/s...