“You have died of dysentery“

Alan Renwick to succeed Meg Russell as Director of the Constitution Unit In May, Alan Renwick will succeed Meg Russell as Director of the Constitution Unit. Tom Fleming will become Deputy Director. A new lecturer is also set to join the Unit next year.

We are set to enter a new era on 13 May as @alanrenwick.bsky.social takes over from Meg Russell as our Director.

Tom Fleming will become Deputy Director and a new lecturer will join us next year.

We can also confirm that our annual conference will happen on 24 and 25 June.

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"THE RULE OF RECOGNITION IS NOT AN ADEQUATE MODEL FOR PARLIAMENTARY SOVEREIGNTY!", I bellow, before turning and walking away amid Michael Bay-style pyrotechnics.

”We demand the right to speak at universities which no longer exist”

Shocked to discover that this isn't about the funding crisis and excessive regulation

Salve reginos, matter misery discordiae

Some unkind people are going to suggest that Call the Manager Catholicism has in fact been a thing since the Reformation, but why split hairs

Move over á la carte Catholicism, Call The Manager Catholicism is in town.

A poster for someone’s new album, intended to be called “Cruel World” in keeping with the general gothic aesthetic of the image in the poster. But poor font choice has led to the first word reading as “Cruet”, which I think is a small jug. Look, I had twenty minutes on a platform waiting to change trains. You begin to obsess about things, you really do.

Good luck to whoever this is but you have accidentally called your new album Cruet World. Maybe a different font next time?

2026: the noise from other people's phones in the coffee shop is so loud that I have had to put in headphones and play recorded coffee shop noise to get work done.

ah lads

Fair enough! Sorry, I don’t mean to pile on.

Honestly, from what I’ve seen I think there’s been remarkable empathy for the protestors position, given their actions. Shutting down the country isn’t something you just get to do because you’re unhappy that you’re not the boys in charge of the negotiations with the govt.

"Can the legal fiction of parliamentary intention survive Acts of Parliament that have no author? -- Discuss".

I sympathise, and it's not like this is new or original as you say (cf also Gilet Jaunes and the Canadian trucker protests). But if this is the mainstream view in farming you all need to be pressing the IFA etc to take a firmer line.

Folks, it was already failing 25 years ago with Bush v Gore, and possibly before even that. Constitutional checks can’t survive hyper-partisan institutions

Supposedly Bertie Ahern as Taoiseach refused to have an official meeting in some UK govt office until the portrait of Cromwell was removed.

Um, not positive. School history basically (and correctly) teaches Cromwell as genocide - siege of Drogheda, "to hell or to Connacht" etc. Was a genuine shock encountering his essentially positive reputation in UK constitutional history for the first time.

Apologies for v boring Bluesky-style literal response, but as a practical response to the visual clutter specifically you can tell the OS to send screen grabs somewhere other than the desktop (I've created a specific folder for them precisely because the clutter was driving me mad)

Look if there was ever a World Cup to miss, it‘s this one.

We could have ham and eggs if we had some ham, but we’ve no eggs.

Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website A newly granted Google patent could let the search giant replace your brand's landing page with an AI-generated version you have no control over and only your buyers see.

I'm no expert, but I think there are all sorts of fairly chunky legal reasons (from passing off all the way up to fraud) why Google cannot in fact set up a pretend AI website and present it to their customers as your business

www.forbes.com/sites/joetos...

extract from the article, which reads "The Home Office has said these changes do not require legislation – and therefore would not need to be put to a vote - but opponents are considering using parliamentary procedure to force a non-binding vote to highlight their concerns."

A couple of quibbles with this BBC report on the prospect of a vote on changes to the Immigration Rules.

1. The changes DO require legislation.

2. A vote isn't purely symbolic. It's not much, but it's more than that.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

(detail unpacked in mini-thread...)

This is like watching a drunkard attempt to show bravado by aiming a kick at a puppy while their trousers fall down.

The HO can't even make political capital out of reversing an obviously inoperable policy because they're so terrified of offending a group of bigots that isn't even watching.

This is just to say
I need to buy
the oil
that is in
your country

which
I am invading
and have sanctioned

Forgive me
it is delicious
so sweet
and so oily

I also have a Dworkin joke, but to understand what it means you really have to hear all my other jokes first.

I have a legal realism joke, but the punchline changes depending on what I had for breakfast

Incredible “Cork Dad tells you to get on with your brother” vibes. He’s seconds away from “would ye ever cop on and stop the codology”.

Got to be at least worth renaming a midlands petrol station for

Even if there were a tariff threat, you’d have to hope that other countries can see the profound moral hazard of using their own militaries to bail the US out of the hole it’s dug for itself for no reason.