Richard Beckwith

Canary Wharf looking good in the sun

What a result! Well done Spurs
#COYS

Happy Australia Day! 🇦🇺

I told you: now the bill's sponsors (this is the disgraceful barrister-Labour MP Jake Richards) are saying that the High Court approval should be dropped because there aren't enough judges to approve the applications (as we told them).

Happy Thanksgiving!

The birth of a star as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope

Assisted dying, Private Members’ Bills and government neutrality The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is — quite rightly — attracting a great deal of attention from politicians, commentators, civil society organisations and others. Strong views exist on …

Just reposting my piece from yesterday on the constitutional questions raised by the assisted dying Bill. The more I think about it, the odder the Cabinet Secretary’s position on ministerial neutrality seems.

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Please do car parking apps

Weird Al out here asking the big questions, like, "Why hasn't Weird Al hosted SNL?" Weird Al out here asking the big questions, like, "Why hasn't Weird Al hosted SNL?"

Its a fair question
www.avclub.com/weird-al-ask...

How mayors can help improve public services A short bonus post this week (my main one is coming at the weekend) as I have a report out on mayors and public services which may be of interest to readers.

Good article - makes a lot of sense. There’s needs to be more devolution and mayors are the (now) obvious way to do it
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Tory leadership hopeful named his daughter Thatcher Robert Jenrick says he made the move because he respects “strong women.”

This is not a serious politician - please do not elect him leader of the opposition
www.politico.eu/article/tory...

Struggling to see how she wins the election while losing her own seat

Had no idea this existed

Why can’t Werner score?

Oh Spurs

A trio of somewhat depressing blog posts about open justice not going quite as it ought to in the family court…
First up, our legal blogger @maggotlaw.bsky.social's account of trying and failing to observe a family court hearing in the magistrates court

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Spurs looking much better but keeper looks shaky and 2-1 isn’t the greatest of leads

That’s better! 1-1

0-1 after a minute. What’s going on Spurs?

Talks ongoing about guideline hourly rates for counsel Lord Justice Birss says there needs to be a better way to assess counsel fees.

No reason why GHR couldn’t exist for counsel

www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/talks-o...

New Champions League format is already a disaster; there is no sport without jeopardy This is what UEFA wanted: A bloated Champions League with no jeopardy for the big clubs. They got what THEY wanted anyway.

The new champions league format sucks

www.football365.com/news/new-cha...

Well that changed. But Spurs so poor tonight

Glad Spurs got the goal but this is still pretty embarrassing

New social media platform, same old terrible Spurs performance

“I don’t know” says Trump in response to a quote he gave

Trump continuing to undermine NATO collective security is both worrying and not a good look

Trump saying it’s in US interests to get Ukraine done shows he’d just throw Ukraine under the bus giving into to Putin

‪How would you deal with Israel-Hamas? Trump answers that he’ll end the Ukraine war‬

Victor Orban isn’t the endorsement Trump thinks it is

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