Chris McCorkindale

Not a word of a lie
- we visited their Aberdeen restaurant and were told they were out of bread for the table but offered to pull together a plate from left overs at other tables 😂

the coop this evening with possibly the most baffling musical choice i have ever experienced in a supermarket

Amazing!

Two things stand out about this picture:

1. a political leader embracing rather than demonising asylum seekers;

2. the beautiful clothes the Afghan girls are wearing, and which they are free to show in public.

Text of programme, for "Praeceptor Noster: Seminar in Honour of Professor John Blackie", 27-28 November 2025, University of Strathclyde Lord Hope Building, then Day One details, including Opening and Welcome (Douglas Brodie and Jonathan Brown), Keynote Address (Lord Hodge), and the various speakers including Leslie Dodd, Matt Dyson, Gillian Black, Chathuni Jayathilaka, Laura McGregor, Elspeth Reid, Jonathan Ainslie, Andrew Simpson, Kenneth Norrie, and Jonathan Brown.

John Blackie seated at his conference.

Douglas Brodie introduces keynote speaker Lord Hodge (seated next to Jonathan Brown).

Today (and tomorrow morning) at @UniStrathclyde, the Law School is hosting the event "Praeceptor Noster: Seminar in Honour of Professor John Blackie", to celebrate the career and contribution of John (formerly of this parish) with the great and the good of Scots law.

How Dougie Imrie overachieved at Morton and why Raith Rovers fans should be excited How Dougie Imrie overachieved on the smallest budget in the Championship at Morton and why Raith Rovers fans should be excited about new manager.

🗣️Straight talker
🙌 Hands-on coach
✍️ Recruits well
💪 Hard worker
🧠 Shrewd tactician
🤝 Fosters team spirit

How Dougie Imrie overachieved at Greenock Morton and why Raith Rovers fans should be excited about their new manager.

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social👇

www.heraldscotland.com/sport/256503...

Gary 'Mani' Mounfield of Stone Roses dead at 63 - latest tributes The musician rose to fame with the Stone Roses in the 1980s

That’s a sore one.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Parliamentary sovereignty A short research briefing on the principle of parliamentary sovereignty, its origins and contemporary application.

Parliamentary sovereignty is one of the most deceptively difficult things to write about accurately, concisely and accessibly.

Credit to David Torrance & @paolosandro.bsky.social for showing the deceptively difficult is not the infuriatingly impossible.

commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Just about time to watch the highlights again 8 or 9 times then bed.

My bad - was BBC not Sky. But still… carve it in stone.

Shoot! Shoot! He’s done him! He’s done him! He’s done him!

BBC Radio 4 - Currently, If at First You Don’t Secede If at first you don’t secede, should you really try, try, try again?

Me and @caitlinsmith.bsky.social have teamed up to make another BBC Radio 4 documentary. If At First You Don't Secede asks if there is any way through the current impasse on independence. It's on this coming Sunday (November 23) at 1.30pm if you fancy a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

5 key points as legal experts grilled by MSPs on routes to independence referendum

Legal experts have weighed in on what could trigger a second independence referendum under questioning from MSPs

We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.

Someone has to bleep over Colm’s expletives.

First Greggs Festive Bake if the season. Get the trees up.

Lord Bracadale has resigned as chair of the Sheku Bayoh inquiry. The Court of Session was due to hear a judicial review on whether he had demonstrated apparent bias next month. www.shekubayohinquiry.scot/sites/defaul...

Yes but you do infamously revel
in your module’s 40% fail rate.

Fast and Furious prequel?

Conor Gearty obituary A skilled and persuasive human rights lawyer who fought for civil liberties in the face of over-reaching anti-terror law

Conor Gearty obituary - The Guardian

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

Very in keeping with the hormonal teenager on too much red bull tone of anonymous briefings from Labour over the last year.

An absolute golden rule that anyone who says “the grown ups are back in the room” is fundamentally for the watching.

The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.

Really sad to read about this. An impressive figure but also a supportive academic colleague, interesting, nice and always fun company. Will be sorely missed.

Well don’t just stand there!!!

This is the future liberals want.

*ahem*

This will be terrific:
@bymyong.bsky.social consistently illuminates aspects of the constitution that the rest of us - unjustifiably - ignore