Reminds me of a phrase in a judgment: 'the minister has taken leave of their senses'

There is, though I am just not sure I am using AI efficiently. Other than pro-forma emails, I want to write everything myself. So if I use an AI as an aid, what happens is the whole process takes much longer than if I stopped second guessing and just pressed send.

Whoever, or whatever, wrote this manifesto does not seem to understand what priests are. The whole manifesto is an incoherent mess of contradictions and irrelevant issues.

This is what they took from us

There is a limited number of duty to report requirements in law. For example: on healthcare professionals and teachers under FGM Act 2003, s 5B. The issue will always be drawing a line as to who could reasonably know about such a requirement, and the knowledge to make a report.

All these things will be lost in time, like tears in rain

US policymakers have spent decades fixating on the Thucydides trap, neglecting self-sabotage as the cause of US decline

I have two questions:
1. Why does the Home Office need to know the founding year of a university that a person will be attending?
2. Were either of these decisions appealled on the grounds of sheer unreasonableness?

No one try to explain to Max Tempers and co the economic justifications for price discrimination

I don’t know enough about other common law Jurisdictions to compare, but just from an internal perspective the protections are weak. The current government seems determined to further weaken protections.

Something I am unsure about is whether she was investigated by a professional regulator before the police got involved. Might have been a useful gate keeping stage to actually ascertain whether a link to deaths existed plus establish if care was negligent.

This is incredible. Close your eyes and pretend you're on a school computer at lunchtime circa 2003

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I am not sure which provision in the Railway Byelaws actually let's TPE do this

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

My excellent colleague @katiedd.bsky.social has just published this remarkable investigation into rampant book banning in a Greater Manchester secondary school library.

193 books including The Da Vinci Code, Twilight, White Teeth and 1984 Graphic Novel

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

Lady Chief Justice, Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, has said that judge-only hearings could threaten the security of judges.

#JusticeNeedsJuries

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/lammy-...

A recurring pattern in UK politics.

Labour in opposition: Parliament must scrutinise treaties and trade agreements properly.

Labour in government: the current system works fine.

Today's House of Lords debate (16 March) on treaty scrutiny will highlight the problem.

On my law degree, there are several EU students who started at the same time as me. Says something when students are willing to come to a country with a different legal system to study the subject.

I am really not surprised that the EU has sought this, so I don't understand how the government was blindsided. A compromise would be good because EU students are very willing to come to the UK to study their undergraduate.

No idea why the government or the DPP even appealed the decision

In fraud cases a jury is useful because of how the statute is written. Take fraud by false representation, the mens rea elements are crucial and rely on the court applying a form of reasonable person test. Because of how jurors are selected, they are better at applying such a test.

Probably why Brosnan's version remains the most watchable for me. He isn't really Bond, at least the Bond of the first two novels. I did enjoy watching Licence to Kill, but Dalton's more accurate version of Bond just isn't as fun to watch.

For some reason the term Krav Maga is now running through my mind

If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

Thank you Dominic

⛔ Protect the Constitutional Right to Jury Trial ⛔

You will have no doubt seen the news that the Courts and Tribunals Bill has now been laid before Parliament

The Government seek to push this legislation through fast curtailing the right to jury trial.

It's probably this and everyone should read it.

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Because?

But not all crown court cases, plus magistrates will be given greater sentencing powers. More cases that could result in a custodial sentence will be heard by magistrates.