I've been playing around with it for research (where it is of very limited use) but really avoid it for writing: writing, especially editing what I wrote, is so intimately linked to thinking, I really cannot cope with an intermediary.
Shout out to Man in Seat 61 for all your slow travel guide needs: www.seat61.com/index-mobile.... Travelled to Italy by train recently and had a blast. Dublin later this year.
Slightly related: highly recommend the new Voyager game if you're into that - amongst other things a great nostalgia tour through the delta quadrant.
Also the people reclaiming Dworkin today are — ironically enough — Vermeule and co. Which shows that as an interpretive strategy, it’s pretty weak and easily contorted into something Dworking would have hated. Too bad for him.
Exactly. Remove the underlining (and underdeveloped) liberalism, and Dworkin's legal interpretation is indistinguishable from common good constitutionalism. Vermeule deploys it towards deeply illiberal and undemocratic ends in service of a Catholic theorcracy without issue.
Given the repression and discrimination non-citizens face in the US and effective control of gov over all people in its jurisdiction (whether legitimate or not): wouldn't it most beneficial to first nations to grant citizenship at birth to everyone? It can always be renounced later.
On back of MPs letter about #TattleLife the UK ICO said it was investigating. But how can it regulate #onlineabuse when it failed to update its policy guidance for #GDPR despite saying it would do so for +5 yrs, then deleted this & now says it holds no info? More at inforrm.org/2026/03/31/e...
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As a Catholic, cycling my kids to their local CofE primary school, past a load of neighbours our and about joyfully celebrating Eid, I’m so glad we don’t live in the sort of country the Shadow Justice Secretary and Leader of the Opposition now stand for.
Personne ne pleurera un tyran sanguinaire. Bon débarras.
Mais ne venez pas me dire que cela valait le coup de tuer 80 écoliers à Minab (et de violer allègrement le droit international — une fois de plus).
Four years into a wade of imperialist aggression they clearly intended to last weeks at most, the Russian government has bought death and misery to hundreds of thousands for nothing.
The lawyering skills on display from all of these people is shockingly poor.
What should a judgment of a court on an issue like this look like?
Start with a brief outline of the facts. Then quote in full the text relied on for the power. Then interpret the text.
Not here.
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After the first few weeks, when everything was cancelled, the COVID years were horrendously busy. I can still remember crying when trying to upload online lectures
Of course it was a shit time for students, but universities didn't choose lock down and weren't doing online teaching for fun.
Great stuff from Mark here as usual - well worth your time! Not the biggest fan of a JR theory based (mostly) on ultra vires and voidness ab initio (imho,it struggles with non-statutory powers and common law) but undeniably convincing framework for the PA case, highlighting shortcomings on remedies.
I did not vote for her in any of the German general elections, but Angela Merkel is undeniably among the most successful Chancellors of Germany post WW2. Delighted we are recognising her achievements.
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Brilliant! Only note is that you are clearly missing a dramatic, North American movie trailer style, voice over! 😉
Completely unoriginal thought but: it's frustrating that the actual experience of living in large cosmopolitan multicultural city (London Uk in my case) is actually pretty dope, but a lot of politics is organised around this being a nightmare scenario that must be apologised for and avoided.
As someone who is generally supportive of the Bill - the Lords are doing what they are constitutionally supposed to do. You shouldn't expect to pass such a complicated piece of legislation on such a contentious issue with anything other than utmost, serious scrutiny.
I'm good thanks. I think I probably won't move to the country where the authorities pump out neo-Nazi memes and masked militias roam the streets.
This isn't even a situation where the law needs to 'catch up' - all of these are criminalised by a statute from *1994*. This is a situation where the police are simply failing to do their job
Alright, we're good!
Fair. I think the sincerity is very much up to whether it matches my honest intention - which I this case it very much does. I generally don't acknowledge a possible mistake insincerely.
My bad, likely jumped the gun!
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Most states live up to their obligations most of the time - international relations are repeat games. The fact that some great powers violate int'l law is no more evidence of its demise than the commission of assaults is for criminal law, or torts are for private law. 2/2
Your periodic reminder that the *blatantly illegal* use of force by great powers does not mean that: (a) international law, or more specifically the prohibition on the use of force is dead, or (b) that international law is a pointless endeavour. 1/2
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
I suspect this is technically true, and can be seen as such so long as one understands that part of what he means by "respect" is that if Russian troops walk into your territory and start demanding you pay taxes to Moscow and cetera then you meekly accept this state of affairs. Do that and no wars!
