1860 map of Edo (now Tokyo) at the @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

Manchester Cathedral

Aaaand we're back! We hope you all had a happy and restful time over the holidays - and that you're as excited about a new year full of research and innovation as we are! Just for now, though, here's today's very frosty Old Quad ❄️ Happy New Year - here's to 2026! ✨ 📸@joeh1rst on Instagram

Goodbye Tokyo!

"In Defence of Classical Administrative Law", by @philipmurraylaw and me, has now been published in the Cambridge Law Journal on FirstView. It is available via the following link (open access): doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Osaka Aquarium

Kenrokuen, Kanazawa

Happy new year! May 2026 be one of peace and happiness

New glasses

Representing Manchester everywhere

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Beautiful views on descent to Tokyo

The Views is available in paperback or ebook at amzn.eu/d/3VuQ4Sg

Merry Christmas from all of us at The University of Manchester! 🌟 We hope you're all having a wonderful winter break. Thanks to our Instagram follower oe_perspective for the photo.

Thank you Stockholm Writers Festival for interviewing me again about my novel: stockholmwritersfestival.com/blog/2025/12...

Merry Christmas! 🌲

Winter Landscape, Mossley, painting by Manchester-born artist Harry Rutherford (1903-85).

🧵 The first five pages of @theviewsnovel.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who has bought copies of @theviewsnovel.bsky.social so far!! 🥰

Pleased to share that my novel is now available on Amazon, ebook or paperback. Please pick up a copy! amzn.eu/d/3VuQ4Sg

Thanks for listening to Without Music! More coming in 2026. (From my Spotify for Artists Wrapped)

Inokashira Park

Breakfast of champions

We were pleased to host a book launch for Professor David Feldman’s ‘Key Ideas in Constitutional Law’ as the 5th event in the 2025-2026 ManReg Public Law Seminar Series. @uomsoss.bsky.social

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.