Alan Greene

When a prime minister blames an advisor.

Person who lied to become Labour leader, and threw trans people, immigrants, Palestinians, and human rights under a bus is somehow a decent person and a man of integrity.

That's very good!

Not pictured below: a supreme being.

Robespierre would have loved a good Olympic Opening ceremony. What are the Olympics if not The Festival of the Supreme Being(s)?

Last year, Trump insulted Micheál Martin and Ireland by inviting Conor McGregor to the White House on St Patrick's Day instead of him.
And still Martin comes crawling back to prostrate himself before the Manhattan Mussolini.

We're getting a third Gruffalo book before The Winds of Winter, or The Doors of Stone.

Law to ban scramblers in public to be called Grace's Law Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said legislation banning scramblers in public places will be called Grace's Law.

Without commenting on the substantive content of the law, and with condolences to the family of Grace Lynch, it's disappointing to see the Irish government following the unfortunate practice of naming laws after a specific victim as a form of performative lawmaking.
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YouTube video by Dr Alan Greene Does the UK have a Separation of Powers?

New video in my Coffee Time Constitutional Law Series:
Does the UK Have a Separation of Powers? youtu.be/lW-8gEYAvRo?...

Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly This article argues that utilising the discretionary nature of declarations of incompatibility under section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) as a form of ‘remedial deference’ is irreconcilable wi...

My piece on refusing declarations of incompatibility as amounting to "double-counting" deference has an official home in the latest issue of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly.
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Keir Starmer would appoint a fox to guard a chicken coop if Morgan McSweeney told him to.

His entire premiership has been the Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes bit.

Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.

*abolishes jury trials*
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Article 3 ECHR and Chișinău: what are the stakes? By  Natasa Mavronicola , University of Birmingham    Article 3 ECHR is under pressure. At a recent informal ministerial conference in Strasb...

I have a new blog post out on Article 3 ECHR and Chișinău, where I argue that what is being contemplated in relation to Art.3, far from tinkering with the right's edges, threatens the core of the right against torture, and the integrity of the human rights edifice.
www.echrblog.com/2026/02/arti...

"Bills of Attainder are back. Peter Mandelson shows us that none of us are safe from Starmer's wrath"
--me for The Telegraph

Christopher Nolan has lost his integrity by making them The Soggy Bottom Girls.

YouTube video by Screen Bites I Am a Man Of Constant Sorrow | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | Screen Bites

Can't believe they did that to The Odyssey...

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It was the best of times; it was the blurst of times. #COYS

It's such a weird way to describe a key constitutional statute.

Always good to know that a large part of one of your lectures covers an "archaic procedure".

The fleggers have once again been out and about in Stirchley. It's clear intimidation and designed to make non-British people feel unwelcome. Birmingham City Council's inaction is pathetic.

When you ask Chat GPT to come up with a government policy for you.

somebody from labour in about 5 minutes: We are still cleaning up the mess of Suella Bravermans open borders policies

Reform ❌️
ReTory ✅️

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It's a good day to reshare this story about the young Suella Braverman being accused of vote-rigging and defending herself by saying "You can't prove anything".

tfw when the imperialism is boomeranging

Given the BBC's reporting on Gaza, can anybody really be surprised that they present damning evidence as "conflicting accounts" when it clearly refutes the official line of an administration it prioritises?

Distracting myself from the awfulness of the world by exclusively reading and listening to content on the awfulness of Tottenham Hotspur.