Recent posts by UK Constitutional Lawyers on Bluesky

To be fair, cancelling Jimmy Kimmel does seem like an appropriate way for MAGA to honour Charlie Kirk’s totally insincere support for freedom of speech.

cancelled? I bet he'll be doing loads of newspaper interviews going on about how he's been "cancelled". Probably get a comedy special with millions of viewers about being "cancelled" im sorry im sorry im trying to delete it

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In Free Speech News today.

Lots of lawyers saying many times that laws require people to want to use them and others to enforce them and this is what happens if you don't have those things.

So Victor goes into the bathroom as Mrs. Meldrew’s coming out, and he sees there’s another man in there – er, what was he doing in there, well of course we know (the viewer) that he’s there for legitimate reasons, but Victor says ‘What the hell do think you’re doing’… very funny

Supermarkets weep www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Janey Godley's legacy lives on. @ashleystorrie.bsky.social

tldr: "respect the problem" is the first commandment. making the decision that compromise is impossible and conflict inevitable is *difficult*, particularly for someone who, admirably, doesn't hop from take to take.

I always decline invitations to take part in debates as I don’t want to commit in advance to defending anything without reservation. Discussion is something completely different, cooperative rather than fiercely competitive.

I actually think one might want to walk a few hundred metres in Ezra Klein's shoes before delivering the take. There's a tendency to look at him (still!) as a kid blogger, on roughly the same level as Matthew Yglesias or Amanda Marcotte. He's not! He's in a very different position these days ...

Out of curiosity, how the ever loving hell is Kate's broach getting more coverage than the thousands of people protesting the autocratic sex offender getting a second state visit?

Tonight's episode of The Oz Katerji Show is now on YouTube, featuring Polish journalist Michal Kujawski discussing the latest developments following Russia's unprecedented drone incursion into Polish airspace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0xX...

In the hereafter, Orwell rotates and vomits

Haha people can’t go fishing because haha they know we might murder them hahaha. We’re so cool.

Bonk. on.ft.com/3K8fqSv

Reminds me of the thought I had the other day that retirement is the process by which you stop doing the one thing you are good at and start doing other things that you can’t do very well.

yes yes state dinner but Camilla is far too keen on this clunker of a tiara

I keep obsessing about the banned coinbase ad m.youtube.com/watch?v=l0bm...

Captain, my Captain!!

We scored their first for them. Gave a way a penalty for the second and Gusto gets an assist for the third. 😬

I've heard various lovely, easy going jazz recordings featuring Chris Thile playing mandolin but, I confess, I didn't realise he was *this* good. youtu.be/NsPKkAXFVn8?...

My voice? My LIKENESS? But… why

Exactly. Politics in the US is no longer a debate about which policies to adopt within a liberal framework of accepted rules. It's now a blood sport and one side playing it like it's still cricket won't work

Very, very classy reply from Swedish pm Ulf Kristersson to Orban's crass posturing

A UK-US tech deal appears to have become a bunch of investments that multinationals would probably have made anyway, because that's how they operate. Once again our politics will fail to learn lessons from this in a clash of glib soundbites. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Sweet through ball to Kane from Gusto. Inch perfect.

Trump to King Charles at the UK state banquet: "We are as a country, as you know, doing unbelievably well. We had a very sick country one year ago. And today, I believe we're the hottest country anywhere in the world."

Right, I have seen altogether too much Trump in my timeline today, and nowhere near enough cats, and you all need to fix this now, please.

King Charles to Trump: "In two world wars we fought together to defeat the forces of tyranny. Today, as tyranny once again faces Europe, we and our allies stand together in support of Ukraine to deter aggression and secure peace."

I'm genuinely confused as to how this is a story in a national newspaper

Viscount Hood might be Lord-in-Waiting (whatever that is) but someone needs to get him a special costume as it looks like Trump was welcomed to 🇬🇧 by the deputy manager of Stansted Airport. I’d be happy if he’d been met by an arrest warrant, but if you’re going to do the State visit, do it right.

In other words, the pilot scheme is working: it was designed to discover & overcome the obstacles to returns www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

You gotta love Bernie..

also an argument that had every historian of genocide deeply frustrated, given that it hasn’t been true of any modern genocide to date

🧵NEWS re the assisted dying bill. @politico.eu's London Playbook newsletter reported earlier that a deal was being negotiated between Lord Falconer (the BIll's sponsor in the Lords) & Baroness Berger who had tabled 2 motions to commit the Bill to a select committee if it gets a 2nd Reading on Friday

Benedict Cumberbatch reciting powerful words by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish at the Together for Palestine concert at Wembley, London. Happening right now and live streamed (link below).

Lately I have been much enjoying reading @dsquareddigest.bsky.social’s substack. Today’s edition was a particularly good one in terms of sticking in the back of my mind (which is, indeed, the very premise of the newsletter)

Some good jobs here. The nice folk at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk are looking for Exec Directors for Research & Innovation, and for Impact & Influence, as well as a Director of IfG Academy. You’d work with @drhannahwhite.bsky.social and her excellent team micro.green-park.co.uk/ifg/

Never let it be said that we do not recognise excellence in question-asking.

Britain to pay Palantir £750m in defence contract as Trump visits www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Really enjoyed this conversation - hopefully you'll enjoy listening to it.

Livestream of the Together for Palestine fundraiser event happening right now at Wembley, London 👇🏽 www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...

Worth reading Obama’s comments. More worth reading the replies to this post to get a sense of how insane this place is sometimes…

Hello Stuttgart. I’m passing through

Guy who helped Facebook ruin the internet worries about the UK ruining its own internet.

This government, this "Labour government" has ignored, repeatedly, protections for people who have been trafficked and faced modern slavery. We don't need to further weaken protections, we need a damn government which protects those who need it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Massively enjoying Dan Wang's "Breakneck". It's exactly my kind of non-fiction book - keeps the pace up. Every other page I find I'm going "you can't say that!" while the book looks over its shoulder with a cheeky grin and goes "just did, mate"

Alright mate. We can’t all be deputy prime minister and bugger off to Silicon Valley to make millions www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just got a live FaceTime stream from there at the time of Francesca Albanese’s powerful speech.

Boris Johnson claimed to have reduced immigration at a dinner last night telegraph.co.uk/gift/46599a4...

Wondering why today's Lab->Reform defecting councillor is described as the first in England? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

Absolutely desperate to pay this company a considerable sum of money to watch a game of football and they're just not having it

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It's like "Where's Walley" but for balance at this stage when you look at the coverage of the Stop Trump protests, anti-genocide in Palestine, and then the far right riots at the weekend. Covering doesn't equate to "balance". The way something is covered does. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Well intentioned dissent is >> ‘consensus’ IMO but obvs the suspicion here is that Miran’s dissent is partisan.

Every day we stray further from God’s light. on.ft.com/47I9rO9

Live now discussing Poland and Russian drones with Michal Kujawski: twitch.tv/OzKaterji

I LOVE that the Economist is now writing about TSITP, thereby proving that I am not a ridiculous, juvenile, nostalgic freak, but a totally normal and serious adult who is simply in tune with the Zeitgeist. (We can talk about geopolitics again tomorrow.)

Ok so this meets the threshold but Musk calling for violence on X prompts no action taken to penalize X?

Baroque scenes of late-stage capitalism - on.ft.com/4n6g7dA

What does the US-UK nuclear deal mean for engineering? I explored the ramifications for IMechE www.imeche.org/news/news-ar...

Gatwick-Alicante, 8ish on a Friday morning. We were the only people on the flight not on a stag or hen.

Lisa Cook still participating, despite the attempts by Trump to get rid of her. New Trump 2.0 appointee Miran voting for a larger cut (and against Trump 1.0 appointee Powell), of course, to please Trump.

fuck off, Ocado

Trump’s far-right radicalisation of US politics is encouraging populists in both France and the UK—and alarming their mainstream opponents, writes Andrew Adonis.

Anyone else going to the Edelman thing in Soho?

Andy Burnham gave a good speech at a gala dinner this week, I hear. “I love this job,” said the mayor of Greater Manchester. “I am very happy where I am. I have no ambition to be [pause] ambassador to the US”

'In the letter, seen by Research Professional News, [Adrian] Smith said he was sure that many fellows “will share my concern at the events of the last week and the growing tendency to resort to the language of violence in pursuit of political programmes'. 1/2

As much as I find this government's attacks on marginalised communities and the most vulnerable utterly abhorrent, if you're switching from Labour to Reform don't pretend that you feel "Labour has left you". Own the fact you never believed in protecting those who need it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Today's constitutional

I highly recommend people watch the new Office spinoff The Paper, if only to witness this song in all its glory, almost certainly to be used as reaction gifs by journalists forevermore.

'The European Research Council (ERC) has announced changes to its grant eligibility criteria for the 2027 calls for proposals, with scholars able to apply for a starting grant directly after finishing their PhD.' 1/3

Wrote about why it will be hard for the government to turn things around when food prices keep going up: www.economist.com/britain/2025...

St George's chapel at Windsor is so beautiful - my mum worked for the Dean at the end of the 80s. It hurts my heart to see that orange barbarian inside it.

As late as 1 Oct and only ‘to discuss’!! I’m sorry but they lost my respect.

BBC News reports that "Trump salutes during national anthem." Definitely what the nation should focus its attention on at this moment in time. www.bbc.co.uk/news

“By carefully balancing the intimate rhythms of the everyday with major political debates & vociferous activisms, Riley has produced a compelling & readable work… consistently anchored in the messy web of feelings that continue to make empire such a powerful feature of British life.” I’ll take that!

"GuildHE represents many of what Research England refers to as “less research-intensive and smaller specialist institutions”, so our interest was especially piqued by proposals to explore differentiated tracks and lighter-touch assessments for these providers. There is good intention here." 1/3

Seems like driverless taxis are starting to take off in California - hitting 4 million miles in May ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org

And if you do take this long it looks like you don't agree with the ethical problem, you are just responding to the fact that others think there is an ethical problem.

📚 A 19th-century religious scandal... 📚 The eclectic wisdom of a cinematic genius... 📚 The criminal evolution of humankind... 📚 A romp through the Ukrainian countryside... 📚 A millennia-spanning vision of Britain... This month’s Books in Brief:

And if you do take this long you look like you are only doing it because others have ethical standards and you care about not being popular, not because you have ethical standards yourselves.

"The insinuation of those who see population decline as a disaster is that human societies cannot flourish without expanding. The evidence for that is flimsy" www.economist.com/briefing/202...

If you’ve experienced authoritarianism previously in your life as a citizen & now you live in a democracy at risk of being demolished you gotta speak up. You gotta tell those with no lived experience how awful & terrifying it is. How degrading to your dignity as a human. You gotta warn the careless.

Is 'moral hazard' the first or only factor to consider here? 'The Texas-based company, which has made splashy headlines for its plans to reestablish wooly mammoths and dire wolves, said it has also developed gene-edited chickens that will act as surrogates for the dodos.' 'Bringing back'? Hmmmm.

About bloody time too

If you're into Web3 and Bitcoin, come join our podcast on Teams and ask us anything! The best question will win a £1,000 prize. teams.live-invited.com/meet/7772968...

So interesting to witness the slow death on non-AI enabled Google. If I now Google 'Times Higher Education' its top 3 offerings are: 1) #Amazon: Buy Craft Supplies Now/Save on Arts & Crafts; 2) Post-16 Education Options (Skills for Careers); and 3) Times Higher Education home.

Als je lang in een nieuwe land woont kan je meestal begrijpen wat soort politieke figuren de lokalen leuk vinden and wat ze in hen zien. Maar soms gewoon niet. Er is altijd een waarvan je de aantrekkingskracht volledig niet kan begrijpen.

Love London and Londoners.

Today's proceedings at Windsor should be watched with the aid of a sick bucket.

This is a brilliantly nuanced piece by @rostaylor.bsky.social - hard recommend for your commute reading this evening

There is a case for sending your kids to a state school, but you’ll barely hear it - because having the option is a privilege in itself.

Technology is a vital resource to support place-based working. But how effectively are services making use of tech to support this? Join us at #Lab25 on Mon 29 Sept with John Denham, Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe @pwc-uk.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-la...

girl are you the SEC because you keep sending me "no action" letters

Now is the time for world leaders to come together and work to bring the bloodshed in Gaza to an end. We have a responsibility to stop this and bring the perpetrators to justice.

Are you an early career researcher interested in themes of truth, justice and peace? We are hosting a symposium in Bonn to encourage collaboration between UK and German scholars. We'll cover travel, accommodation and visa costs. Apply by 29th October www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/the-...

🏺 Dystopian obviously, but also I don't even see how this process would save time or cognitive workload. Same with so much genAI, e.g. using it for historical/archaeological illustration is neither fast nor reliable, just cheaper than paying an artist e.g. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...