Simon Boyes

A post it note with the words "Vonte Mack no matter what" written on it.

If you know, you know...

I may even have ALERTED him. But I like to imagine I had the power to alter...

Slightly more niche, but I still retain the very polite reply from Mick Wadsworth (manager of the now defunct Scarborough FC) after altering him to the possibilities of the Bosman case. Despite the polite, cheerful dismissal it was only a year later we had 🇫🇷 🇳🇱 and 🇮🇹 players in the squad. #justsaying

A stage with musicians and lights

Tonight's entertainment was provided by Mercury Rev. Took me a while to get into the newer material, but spot on once we hit some good late 90s standards?

Fabulous stuff from Anna Erhard tonight. Clever, irreverent, genre-defying. Left with the biggest smile. Highly recommended.

A band performing in a music venue.

And a gig in a venue no bigger than your front room...

An Egyptian mummy case

When you're in the pub, but worried you might be incurring the wrath of Tutankhamen...

It certainly looks like the approach from City is to lawyer 'opponents' into submission. I wonder how enthused the Commission might be to be drawn into an internecine scrap of this kind.

I suspect that's true. I don't know enough (yet) about the law in this area to make an assessment. Politically, the Commission has been supportive of FFP/FSR, and I wonder if it would regard adding another layer of complexity as being unhelpful to that cause.

Interesting to see how the jurisdictional issues play out here. Not unusual in sports cases for EU law to be applied apparently externally where the impact of any issue manifests internally: Walrave (competition outside EU) and Bosman (regulator outside EU) as obvious examples.

A band t-shirt emblazoned with the words "Fentanyl Czar" and an image of a crown.

Fentanyl Czar is a great name for a band.

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A further rise with new leadership in 2020 with decline-bump-decline through to, and after, GE 2024.

This seems to be a pattern for the Labour Party over the recent past. A bump associated with a new and/or general election, followed by subsequent decline. A big rise in 2015 into 2016 coinciding with the GE, new leader AND further leadership contest followed by a decline before a 2019 GE bump.

So, UK Govt increases spending on e.g. transport, there's a corresponding uplift for Scotland? I've been dimly aware of Barnett, but not au faint with the detail.

Ah, thanks, but I'm right in thinking that Rachel Reeves wouldn't have been in a position to provide the funding referred to under present arrangements?

Genuine question - I don't have mastery of the detail by any s stretch of the imagination - but am I wrong in thinking that ports and ferries etc are a devolved matter?

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I had just the same experience. Binged it. Loved it. Googled Season 2. Pah!

I was thinking Inspector Gadget

Ryan Giggs: What happened to coaching career of Man Utd icon? BBC sports editor Dan Roan asks what happened to the coaching career of former Manchester United player and Wales manager Ryan Giggs.

The Beeb confused about why clubs might be less than keen to bring Giggs on board. Digging deeper, it turns out lots of women now enjoy football and might be annoyed by him. Sheesh. Ryan Giggs - what happened? - www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Government has no control over sports governing bodies; they are self-regulatory. See Thatcher's attempts to coerce the British Olympic Association to boycott Moscow in 1980, for example.

The Labour vote is certainly concentrated in West Bridgford and surrounds, meaning the Tories tend to dominate local government because of FPTP. The writing was on the wall for the incumbent with Rushcliffe returning majorities for both Labour's PCC and East Midlands Mayoral candidates in May.

A terrible MP. Big on photo ops, short on action. West Bridgford isn't particularly representative of the constituency as a whole, though, which is more semi-rural in nature and with significant pockets of deprivation.

Quite. I'm no scholar of the language of law, but the major part of my job as a teacher of it is helping students learn how to encode/decode from/to 'ordinary' expression.

This is what I'm here for...

Hart took me back 30 years, and reawakened the pain of a first year jurisprudence module 😱

The International Sports Law Journal The International Sports Law Journal (ISLJ) is a quarterly (four issues per annum) peer-reviewed journal in the emerging specialty area of international ...

Anyone interested is #sportslaw? Take a look at the International Sports Law Journal. Lots of free to read open access articles & information on how to submit an article to us:
link.springer.com/journal/40318

Here's a starter pack of Public and Constitutional Law BSky accounts. It's mostly UK and Commonwealth lawyers/blogs, including some parliamentary people and govt lawyers. I've got a much longer list too (which includes US lawyers/blogs)
go.bsky.app/25qHVZa

1) No current projects: combined lack of required intellectual/emotional energy and too much teaching (NB I LOVE teaching) Box files of half-started/finished stuff await reinvigoration.
2) Ideas around judicial deference and judicial restraint which influence the way the courts interact with sport.

Well, now everyone is here, I suppose I'd better start trying to say interesting things...