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CSLG/CFL Hybrid Seminar: Dot Reid (@dotreid.bsky.social) (@uofglasgow.bsky.social & @robinsoncollege.bsky.social) on 'Inheritance and Complex Families: What Scots Think About Who Should Inherit', 20th October, 1pm BST,
@cambridgelaw.bsky.social & Zoom. Registration: bit.ly/4hf1OBt

Cover of Tomkins, On the Law of Speaking Freely

Cover of Wragg, Free Speech Theory

Likely not wholly coincidental, but I see Hart have published not one but two books on free speech today (one by my colleague @proftomkins.bsky.social): likely a nice review essay opportunity for someone. (Here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/on-the-la... and here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/free-spee...)

The reoffending and those with school/care problems are the real shockers to me. Goes to show this is a societal problem that can't be fixed with getting even 'tougher on crime'. I'd dare suggest the focus should be on poverty/inequality and education, but that means Govt deviating from status quo.

LEGITIM chopping board, white, 34x24 cm LEGITIM chopping board, white, 34x24 cm

I’m teaching succession, so here’s my annual reminder that IKEA has a chopping board called “legitim”!

No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy

No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Donald Trump is surely not a Russian asset. But how else to explain his behaviour? It’s difficult to make sense of the turmoil one man has unleashed on the world in five short weeks

“If he’s not an out and out crackpot, the theory floated by wild conspiracy theorists is that Donald Trump is some kind of Russian asset. I cannot say how absurd this is do not believe a jot or tittle of it. And yet…” My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/69483/...

The view from Poland - the election of Donald Tusk could turn out to be important to all of us

The University of Glasgow School of Law is recruiting for a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Administrative Law: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Who Gets to Own Scotland? A new land-reform bill aims to unwind a long history of inequality. But centuries of feudalism are difficult to shake.

I have a quote in this New York Times article. It's great to see Scottish land reform covered in this publication.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/r...

The End of the Postwar World Trump and Vance are sending a dark message to America’s allies.

“Now is the moment to recognize the scale of the seismic change unfolding, and to find new ways to live in the world that a very different kind of America is beginning to create”

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Why California? O Sunshine Galore: Let's face it, Denmark's weather is... well, let's just say it's cozy. California has 300 days of sunshine a year. Imagine swapping your rain boots for flip-flops! Tech Dominance: Gaining an extra bunch of Tech bros? Great! It is what every democracy needs. Avocado Toast Forever: California grows 90% of the U.S.'s avocados. That's right - we'll never run out of avocado toast. • To protect the free world: Most people say we have the best freedom. Colossal freedom. O Disneyland: We'll rename it Hans Christian Andersenland. Mickey Mouse in a Viking helmet? Yes, please.

Danish activists have a petition to buy California from the US for $1 trillion. 200,000 signatures so far.

That big theme park there would be renamed Hans Christian Andersenland.

Astonishing

While China is stealing our technology and actively undermining American industry, Trump is cracking down more than twice as hard on maple syrup and avocados from Canada and Mexico.

How does that make sense?

Marianne Faithfull: 'You know, I'm not everybody's cup of tea!' Late, rude and unapologetic... and then the interview goes from bad to worse. But after some prompting and wine, Marianne Faithfull talks to Lynn Barber about finding a new lover at last, what she rea...

this interview - Lynn Barber on Marianne Faithfull - is the sort of brilliant, bonkers thing nobody writes anymore. It reads like a meeting of fabulous monsters

www.theguardian.com/film/2001/ju...

My response to Trump’s remarks in the Capitol Visitor’s Center:

Front cover of Private Eye.

Attorney General had a previous practice at the Bar, represented a client in accordance with the cab-rank rule, and was paid for it

Metal man with missing body: one of the 2 sculptures at the waterfront in Marseille by French artist Bruno Catalano

Meta to get rid of factcheckers and recommend more political content Mark Zuckerberg says company will ‘dramatically reduce censorship’ across Facebook, Instagram and Threads

And so we move into the next phase of reality’s Squid Game: the end of fact-checking. From now on, what happened, what you think happened, and what you wanted to have happened, are all of equal value. Other than people getting killed, what could possibly go wrong? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The anxiety secret: how the world’s leading life coach stopped living in fear Famous for her work with Oprah Winfrey, Martha Beck is a bestselling author and self-help superstar. But for 60 years she was anxious and terrified - until she found a simple, uplifting answer All her life, Martha Beck had been anxious, but a few years…

The anxiety secret: how the world’s leading life coach stopped living in fear

The population of Plains, Georgia is 573. Jimmy Carter knew his neighbors and they turned out to bid him a final farewell. 🇺🇸

Nature's very own firework show - a beautiful and very active #Aurora for over an hour here in #Shetland this evening.

#auroraborealis #northernlights @stormhour.bsky.social

A minimalist illustration showing a packaged charger box labeled "one Union one Charger." The box features an image of a blue charger with the European Union flag symbol and a USB-C cable. The scene is set within a holiday theme, with decorative Christmas trees, ornaments, and gift boxes surrounding the charger box. In the top right corner, there is a small EU flag symbol.

It’s time for THE charger.

Today, the USB-C becomes officially the common standard for charging new mobile electronic devices in the EU.

It means better-charging technology, reduced e-waste, and less fuss to find the chargers you need!

#DigitalEU

Gloomy December by Liz Lochhead These are the shortened days and the endless nights. – Carol Ann Duffy, from Mean Time (1993) Gloomy December. The doldrum days of the dead of winter. These are the shortest days and the endless nights. So wish for the moon and long for the light. Chill winds. Relentless rain. Dark to go to work in, darkness home again. But, given just one fine day of sun and sharp, clean frost, our lost, maybe long-lost faith – if for nothing more than the year's turning – comes back like the light comes back. A promise in our bleak midwinter yearning once in a rare and clear blue noon if we wish for the moon. Till then, the light's soul and spirit is locked in its absence, and our longing for it. Whether you believe with the Magi in their miracle – Three Kings bow down low before the Child of Light – or whether we think them Wise Men on a fool's errand, their gifts useless, magnificent, precious, who came following one star and its faltering gleaming till they came to the place, it was a brave as well as a cold coming. Yes. And whether it was a refugee waif or the Saviour that was born, whether some shepherds on the night shift saw angels, or a meteor storm, believe in the light's soul and spirit that's in its absence and our longing for it.

Gloomy December.
The doldrum days of the dead of winter.
These are the shortest days
and the endless nights.
So wish for the moon
and long for the light…

—Liz Lochhead, “Spoken Song”
published in A HANDSEL (Polygon 2023)
#Christmas #poetry
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TONIGHT at 10pm on BBC Scotland you can watch Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland's Girl Bands from the comfort of home!

And it'll be on iPlayer afterwards.
Tell all your pals!

True scale of Assad’s slaughter revealed at Syrian mass grave His prisons held hundreds of thousands of people: relentlessly tortured and abused, many of them did not survive.

Must watch Channel 4 report on the mass graves in Syria, with over 100,000 dead estimated to be buried in just one site. The challenge to forensically document these sites will be huge.
www.channel4.com/news/true-sc...

Lecturer in Scots Private Law (Property) (R&T) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLC686/l... and Lecturer in Common Law (LTS) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLC680/l... @uofglaw.bsky.social

Tomorrow, a new phase of the #GeorgiaProtests begins as the illegitimate Parliament moves to select the next President. Here’s a 🧵 for anyone trying to understand what’s happening in 🇬🇪, how it started, what people are protesting, and the forms #TerrorInGeorgia has taken. 1/

Hard not to escape the conclusion that the Korean political system is more resilient than the US system