John Doyle

The cover to Iain M Banks' "Against a Dark Background"

The cover to Iain M Banks' "The Player of Games "

The cover to Iain M Banks' "Canto di Pietra"

The cover to Iain M Banks' "The Algebraist"

Iain M Banks sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/banks_... as born on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Mark Salwowski, Mark Salwowski, [couldn't identify] and Lee Moyer):

Ah fair play. My mistake!

I'm pretty sure Gib is part of the UK, both in their Constitution and the UK's

The UK borders Spain....

New report out today on the impact of the Supreme Court's s.28(7) jurisprudence, with @profnicolamcewen.bsky.social, @chrismccork.bsky.social and Jo Hunt.

www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

My first trip to the new ICC Permanent Premises yesterday was great. I was a wee intern in the old buildings more than a decade ago. How time flies...

I think you've made logical points here but forget that smaller forces means less integration on cross-jursidictional matters (like extradition or MLA cooperation) which means those cases maybe don't get solved. The ideal would be smaller operational units in a bigger overall system

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’

“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”

BELGIAN WHISTLES

The benefits of learning from good practice

Niche and i like it.

Surely that's just a virgin pickleback?

For auld lang syne my dear, for auld lang syne…

Also someone known to many Edinburgh law students from their exams who, until this morning, I thought was fictional.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Current highlight of the day is my wife trying to describe the Christmas classic 'Jingle All the Way' and calling it 'Jolly Jingle Times'

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

YouTube video by Michael M Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody but all the lyrics are 'are you hanging up your stocking...

youtu.be/-k4yjCo8JWs?...

Merry Christmas from Amsterdam 🎄

Pretty sure those rules aren't UK wide....

Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet

Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night

UK intergovernmental relations under Labour: a fragile reset, with potential challenges ahead - Bennett School of Public Policy As the prospect of nationalist First Ministers across the UK’s devolved governments grows stronger, Alex Walker examines whether Labour’s promised ‘reset’ of intergovernmental relations can withstand ...

For #devolution anoraks/those with a passing interest in how this blessed realm is governed, this is an interesting piece by @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk @alwalker.bsky.social of the current UK Govt’s ‘reset’ of intergovernmental relations & how IGR might be shaped by next year’s devolved elections

Nominative determinism at its finest.

I think about this a lot. Take care Scott.

Wine and niche border history? Yes please

I watched this recently and it was great and surreal. The tension and twists are expertly done.

Surreal at Schengen Castle