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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you're interested in the environment and human rights, consider coming to our conference at Lancaster Castle on 17-18th September. Registration link here: forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"Lads let's give them a four goal lead and see if we can still win".

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Stefan Theil @stheil.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

What a way for Andy Burnham to start his premiership!

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Stefan Theil @stheil.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This is regrettable. Spahn made a personal decision to have a child via surrogacy while defending the ban in Germany politically. Nobody can and should be expected to support all policies of their party, least of all on highly personal decisions. Moral absolutism will destroy our societies. 1/2

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Stefan Theil @stheil.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It is really difficult to imagine something that is more clearly in the national interest (regardless of your political outlook) than the longterm viability of human life on the planet. Climate change is an existential risk to all of us and future generations. 1/n

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Reminded of Patrick O’Flynn, then Ukip’s economy spokesperson, describing Farage as “snarling, thin-skinned and aggressive” back in 2015.

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Politics UK @politicsuk.com · 06/07/2026

🚨 WATCH: Nigel Farage threatens a Sky News journalist who asks about his undeclared gifts from convicted criminal George Cottrell "You harass my family anymore, there will be serious consequences"

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Stefan Theil @stheil.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It is not a easy ban to enforce, many of the crucial details still need to be figured out - but all in all, this seems like a positive step. Social media has its benefits but the balance sheet is decidedly negative for society. The less we rely on it, the better. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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When will social media ban start, and which platforms are affected?

The measures will see apps including TikTok and Snapchat blocked for UK teens early in 2027.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Nigel Farage’s hyperactive press engagement - which involved a weekly press conference - suddenly stalled after revelations about his mysterious secret £5mn gift from a reclusive Thailand-based crypto billionaire www.ft.com/content/2678...

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Nigel Farage scales back press events amid scrutiny over £5mn gift from crypto investor

Senior figures suggest Reform leader has been working behind the scenes on party strategy

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

"Speech" is an action. It is an action like riding a bicycle, selling fish, or baking bread. If someone invoked "freedom of action" as a reason for not regulating a harmful activity, we'd see straight through it. Speech can be just as harmful as any other activity. /1

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Stefan Theil @stheil.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is bordering on outsourcing your thinking to a chat bot. You learn stuff by researching and reading the source material yourself and thinking about it - not by letting someone else summarise (allegedly) salient sources. The fact that it is a probabilistic text predictor doesn't make it better.

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

A big shout-out to the team at the Koala Unit at North Manchester General, and Dr Ben in particular. When empathy and medical knowledge go hand in hand, it can really make a difference, especially to the parents of a newborn @mft-edi.bsky.social

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Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Also the people reclaiming Dworkin today are — ironically enough — Vermeule and co. Which shows that as an interpretive strategy, it’s pretty weak and easily contorted into something Dworking would have hated. Too bad for him.

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Stefan Theil @stheil.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Exactly. Remove the underlining (and underdeveloped) liberalism, and Dworkin's legal interpretation is indistinguishable from common good constitutionalism. Vermeule deploys it towards deeply illiberal and undemocratic ends in service of a Catholic theorcracy without issue.

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David Erdos @daviderdos.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

On back of MPs letter about #TattleLife the UK ICO said it was investigating. But how can it regulate #onlineabuse when it failed to update its policy guidance for #GDPR despite saying it would do so for +5 yrs, then deleted this & now says it holds no info? More at inforrm.org/2026/03/31/e...

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Philip Murray @philipmurray.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

As a Catholic, cycling my kids to their local CofE primary school, past a load of neighbours our and about joyfully celebrating Eid, I’m so glad we don’t live in the sort of country the Shadow Justice Secretary and Leader of the Opposition now stand for.

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Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Personne ne pleurera un tyran sanguinaire. Bon débarras. Mais ne venez pas me dire que cela valait le coup de tuer 80 écoliers à Minab (et de violer allègrement le droit international — une fois de plus).

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Four years into a wade of imperialist aggression they clearly intended to last weeks at most, the Russian government has bought death and misery to hundreds of thousands for nothing.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The lawyering skills on display from all of these people is shockingly poor. What should a judgment of a court on an issue like this look like? Start with a brief outline of the facts. Then quote in full the text relied on for the power. Then interpret the text. Not here. /1

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Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

After the first few weeks, when everything was cancelled, the COVID years were horrendously busy. I can still remember crying when trying to upload online lectures Of course it was a shit time for students, but universities didn't choose lock down and weren't doing online teaching for fun.

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Stefan Theil @stheil.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Great stuff from Mark here as usual - well worth your time! Not the biggest fan of a JR theory based (mostly) on ultra vires and voidness ab initio (imho,it struggles with non-statutory powers and common law) but undeniably convincing framework for the PA case, highlighting shortcomings on remedies.

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Stefan Theil @stheil.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I did not vote for her in any of the German general elections, but Angela Merkel is undeniably among the most successful Chancellors of Germany post WW2. Delighted we are recognising her achievements. www.cam.ac.uk/news/former-...

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Former German Chancellor nominated for honorary degree

Eight distinguished individuals have been nominated for honorary degrees at the University of Cambridge. This year’s nominations recognise outstanding

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.

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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This isn't even a situation where the law needs to 'catch up' - all of these are criminalised by a statute from *1994*. This is a situation where the police are simply failing to do their job

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Stefan Theil @stheil.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Your periodic reminder that the *blatantly illegal* use of force by great powers does not mean that: (a) international law, or more specifically the prohibition on the use of force is dead, or (b) that international law is a pointless endeavour. 1/2

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I suspect this is technically true, and can be seen as such so long as one understands that part of what he means by "respect" is that if Russian troops walk into your territory and start demanding you pay taxes to Moscow and cetera then you meekly accept this state of affairs. Do that and no wars!

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

“What disturbs us is less what happened years ago, hurtful as it was, but rather your refusal to acknowledge your past behaviour or apologise for it” If Farage was made to acknowledge his past behaviour or apologise for it, his career would have ended years ago. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Nigel Farage told to apologise by 26 of his school contemporaries

Open letter to Reform UK leader expresses ‘dismay and anger’ at his response to racism and antisemitism allegations

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I've just sent the following email to the editors of The Journal of Comparative Law:

Dear editors of JCL,

hope this finds you well.

My name is Paolo Sandro, I'm an associate professor of law at the University of Leeds.

I'm writing to you to express my utmost dismay at your decision to publish Pierre Legrand's disturbing 200 pages attack against the authors of OUP's a very short introduction to comparative law.

I'll limit myself to one point (one of too many, unfortunately): attacking people on the basis of their nationality, as Legrand's does over and over again in the text, is a textbook case of racism.

This would be already clearly unacceptable in everyday discourse, but it is hard to fathom how you thought this could be even remotely ok in what is supposed to be a scholarly critique among colleagues.

To make things worse (if possible) Legrand belittles, in almost every conceivable way, these two colleagues for, among other things, not citing him (or not citing him enough) in their book. It's disgusting.

For what's worth, I think you have severely failed in your duties as journal editors, and you owe - besides the prompt retraction of the piece - the most profound apology to the two colleagues targeted.

Kind regards,

Paolo Sandro

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Feel like I'm going mad. The Budget's 'headroom' is based on frankly irresponsible and wildly optimistic claims about what Labour will do in the final year of the forecast, and on ignoring a bunch of upward pressures on spending, and the claim is that she was being exaggeratedly *pessimistic*?

ft.com

Suggestion Rachel Reeves exaggerated fiscal pressures is absurd

Chancellor was instead far too optimistic about public finances and government’s ability to secure cuts

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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

In der Ukraine gibt es Korruption. No shit, Sherlock. Aber sie wird durch unabhängige Institutionen verfolgt und aufgeklärt. Das ist der Unterschied zu Russland. Da fallen die Aufklärer aus dem Fenster.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

It's such a bizarre framing. Labour MPs think taking 450k kids out of poverty is putting the country first! That's why they wanted it to happen! It's not because they personally benefit.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.

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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 25/11/2025

When it comes to modern war, Ireland is a high-value target: its waters on the western fringe of Europe contain three-quarters of all undersea cables in the northern hemisphere. Despite this, is unprotected and unprepared. An #FTEdit 🧵 on why this determinedly neutral nation is Europe's weak link 👇

A quote card on a beige background. The quote reads:
“We’re a member of the EU but we’re not a member of Nato… If you wanted to strike at the European Union without any fear of Nato retaliation, then Ireland is ground zero.”
Attributed to Cathal Berry, former second-in-command of the Irish army’s Army Ranger Wing.

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Stefan Theil @stheil.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

An interesting tax factoid on the UK - rendered somewhat less impactful by the fact that the top 10 percent of earners do not rely on their income nearly as much as the average and lower earners. Capital income and leverageable assets is where it's at for the middle and upper income brackets. 1/2

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Distressing for the victims, depressing for everyone. What did the Professor of *moral philosophy* not understand? archive.is/2025.11.19-1...

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Lewis Graham @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Good post on the available space for reforming article 8 cases in domestic law, featuring an expert demolition of some dubious claims about family life in the Wolfson Report

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Daniella Lock @daniellalock.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Thank you to @alangreene.bsky.social for hosting me and @colinmurray.bsky.social on the new Counter Terrorism podcast to talk about the proscription of Palestine Action. It was great to have this chat. The hearings for the full judicial review of the proscription take place on 25-27 November.

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