"NQSWs risk being left jobless by seven-month gap before ASYE replacement". Yet more unecessary disruption from the MacAlister Review reforms (now Minister MacAlister's reforms). The problem with the ASYE was never that it needed to be twice as long! www.communitycare.co.uk/content/news...

An unusual appeal judgment was published earlier this month – a successful appeal by a Cafcass guardian against a court order that she arrange and supervise contact sessions between a child and the father. The judge had put the guardian in the... https://transparencyproject.org.uk/?p=30906

Why do people want to be High Court Judges but not District Judges? I think it is everything else: the terrible state of the court estate, especially outside the High Court; the lack of administrative support; the volume of the work; and perhaps the lack of prestige.

The term ‘draconian’ being used to describe Orders for no contact (where there are findings of abuse of children) needs to Get In the Bin.

so you suppose I’m afraid of the devil?

(getting convicted of a crime i committed) The government is being weaponized against me

*me gazing out upon the majestic beauty of nature as the sun crests the horizon casting warm light across the verdant fields* This is bullshit

it is pleasant to read about whales through their own spectacles

This next giant expensive bottle of coconut water is going to be the one one that finally lets me know if I like it.

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

attending to a whale

The government is considering whether to raise the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales. Currently 10 years, it compares with the age of 12 in Scotland and 14 or higher in most European countries rozenberg.substack.com/p/decriminal...

Family Court judge HHJ Hesford in Chester added Judicial Copilot versions of the judgment for the parents and their intermediary

Every time I open Bluesky,

It's not possible for my empire to have problems. My courtiers are always nervously smiling and telling me everything is great

As presaged in the King’s speech, the government’s Courts and Tribunals Bill was reintroduced in the House of Commons yesterday. Will the government’s plans to limit jury trial ever reach the House of Lords? Listen to my interview with the chair of the bar. rozenberg.substack.com/p/judges-or-...

Reporting like this is so valuable - observing the day-to-day (dys)function lends more to proper consideration of whether justice is being done and being seen to be done in English Courts, than sporadic and scandalous examples. Up with this sort of thing (the justice and the reporting!)

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

a remake of baywatch only with sea lions

The US government has released conclusive proof that aliens are real, and the people you think are your friends are inviting the aliens to parties that you’re not invited to

slide bravely

Like, guitar music can survive without running around writing that everything girls like has cooties, which is all this junk has to say on the matter. I thought Paul Morley nailed this tiresome Rockism dead back in the 80s.

No offence but what the fuck is your problem, the Northern Line.

Writers are like: this protagonist is cool and sexy. He's an alcoholic writer and he's divorced.

Staff at Pentonville prison wrongly failed to detain a man who had carried out a “brutal abduction of a young boy from his mother”, the High Court said on Friday. Keeping the father in custody had been perhaps the only hope for reunification of mother and son. rozenberg.substack.com/p/child-abdu...

Fascinating that British political discourse is still haunted by the ghost of The Dinner Party: an event that's shifting, protean, always happening somewhere, capacious enough to hold all your enemies' decadent iniquities, and never happening either at your house or that of any your friends

Luke can’t really fly an X-wing at all. R2 is actually flying things for him as an astromech and he also takes the shot after Luke does he stupid move of turning off the targeting computer because of the Force woo-woo. All this and he doesn’t even get a medal, no wonder he is cursing there

if you strike me down, i shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine at occasionally giving luke hints

‘Vetting decisions need to be kept away from politics.’

To cast the Stormtrooper roles for Tatooine in "Star Wars: Episode IV- A New Hope", they mostly hired locals from the Tozeur region of Tunisia who met certain height & weight requirements. Filming took place in 1976, when big hair was in vogue. So, under the masks, this is what they looked like:

famously the only joke allowed on Wikipedia is, in their List of Whales, any entry that is missing a photo says [cetacean needed] apparently some unfunny losers have made it their job to find public domain images of whales to eradicate this joke only one instance of [cetacean needed] remains

In this 2022 article I argued that instead of segregating social work students into different routes, we should champion a social justice approach where SW students from different experiences and backgrounds learn side by side. Remains firmly my view bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

A Roman goes into a bar and asks for a Martinus. The barman says, 'Don't you mean a Martini?' And the Roman says, 'If I'd wanted a double I'd have asked for one.'

You never really forget how to misquote sayings. It’s like buying a bicycle.

The power of Crufts compels you

King Charles: "The U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances."

Gandalf seeing the Balrog:

Did a thing for the Observer. observer.co.uk/style/featur...

Hello, this is your long time doctor. Ahead of your appointment, please fill out these 800 forms providing us with information we already have. Thank you

I agree with Alex.

Boastful Quaker Oats ad, Chicago 1891

Whatever you do,

Before she authored Cook Books, Nigella Lawson gave romantic advice and there was nothing wrong with it

if I knew hot people could still feel depressed and unloved I would have chosen to be smart instead

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time