Adam D.A. Manning

Today's conundrum : the difference between something being insidiously invidious and something being invidiously insidious. #tricky

University lecturer in law, substitute University lecturer in law, substitute

Two year international law teaching oriented gig in Helsinki.
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Signs you're getting old:

You refer to Twister as "a young man's game."

Giving up prunes for Lent. Who’s with me?

Lateral thinking is often the best way forward.

Telegraph censured for fabricated story of banker’s struggle to pay school fees Watchdog upholds complaint it breached code with article about impact of VAT on a family that did not exist The Telegraph has been reprimanded by a press standards watchdog after it published an entirely fabricated story about a wealthy banker complaining of the impact of school fee increases. Ian Fraser, a freelance journalist and author, complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) that the Telegraph had breached the editors’ code of practice in an article headlined: “We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays.” Continue reading...

Telegraph censured for fabricated story of banker’s struggle to pay school fees

The True Price of Every ChatGPT Prompt | Earth Day AI tools like ChatGPT rely on energy — and water-hungry data centers. As prompts soar, emissions rise, raising urgent questions about sustainable AI growth now.

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I know in this new and happy age everyone is looking at their phones while they walk around, but yesterday I happened to see someone using two phones at the same time as they were walking round the shops. A glimpse of the future perhaps.

Reading a book on geography entitled, "Longitude and Lassitude". It's ok but not sure I have the energy to go far with it.

Today’s adventure in law has been about learning how in this new and happy age, we can still send faxes, albeit using email. I have been told, and have the email to prove it, that the answer to one of my questions was “fax-specific”.

One of the trickiest things to do I always think is to take a compliment well. Generally, the best thing to do is simply say “Thank you” in a sincerely appreciative way.

(Alongside thanking one’s team, supporters and everyone who voted for you, of course.)

My top tip is that if you don't win an election, the only proper thing to do is to congratulate the winner. Anything else is just sour grapes.

Celebrate incredible women composers this March! 🌿✨

Join us for a special concert marking #InternationalWomensDay

📍 Chandler’s Ford Methodist Church
🗓 Saturday 28 March 2026
⏰ 7.30pm
🎟 Adults £16 | Under 18s £5 www.ticketsource.co.uk/southamptonc...

#choral #music #vivaldi #gloria
#IWD2026 💜🎶

Portsmouth School of Law is seeking to appoint a full-time Teaching Fellow or Senior Teaching Fellow... who will play a key role in delivering our new Professional Legal Practice LLM

Details at:

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Apply by 19/03/2026

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I think he might have got rather carried away with his computers.

I was busy this week drawing up a new book about library fines, but it's been shelved.

A photo of astronaut Sally Ride inside the Space Shuttle Challenger.

For LGBTQIA+ History Month, an article about Sally Ride, astronaut and scientist. www.biscoes-law.co.uk/site/blog/co... #LGBTQIA #LGBT #SallyRide #Astronaut #NASA

What nonsense.

It's Decimal Day. Where's the point in that?

Brushing fraud: Britons told to beware of mystery parcels as new scam soars Fraudsters use stolen personal details to send out products, then post a fake verified and positive online review

Brushing fraud: Britons told to beware of mystery parcels as new scam soars www.theguardian.com/money/2026/f...

A photo of astronaut Sally Ride inside the Space Shuttle Challenger.

For LGBTQIA+ History Month, an article about Sally Ride, astronaut and scientist. www.biscoes-law.co.uk/site/blog/co... #LGBTQIA #LGBT #SallyRide #Astronaut #NASA

Such a great series!

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

If only Trump was being held to the same standard.

The poetic justice of the USA Olympic hockey team getting smoked by Canada on the ice of all places is going to be so sweet.

Maybe, but the 5th Viscount Ridley has written this sort of contrarian nonsense for some time. His view on climate change hasn’t arrived today with the morning milk.

Wore a rather striking black and white striped shirt with a bow tie at the office today, and couldn’t help thinking I looked like a member of a barber quartet bravely attempting a solo career.

I am trying to imagine a law officer in front of the Justice Committee responding to questions about failure to investigate sex trafficking and child sexual abuse by saying “What about the FTSE? We should all talk about that” and I am delighted and relieved to say I simply cannot imagine it.

Ah, so grumpy! Didn’t he write something grumpy about Shakespeare as well?