david allen green

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2025-03-18 14:50:01

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@nprofile…reyw
Oh the joy of corrections when no comment is made as to the merits of the post.

2025-03-17 10:02:09

NEW
"Oopsie" - the word that means the United States has now tipped into a constitutional crisis
The United States federal government disregards a courts order and jokes about it on social media
By me
Substack:
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/oopsie-the-word-that-means-the-united
Personal blog:
https://davidallengreen.com/2025/03/oopsie-the-word-that-means-the-united-states-has-now-tipped-into-a-constitutional-crisis/
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2024-11-04 08:41:32

Remembering the music of Quincy Jones
https://youtu.be/ZWOhXEWk1K0?si=4kb82Gl4KJ1TPoh1

2024-08-08 07:43:12

For those of you who like 1700s/regency costume dramas, with all the prancing through neat landscaped gardens, please note the mechanical lawnmower was not invented til 1830.

2024-07-21 18:11:26

US Democrats are fretting in July about getting a candidate for a November election in respect of taking office in January.
We would have had five Conservative Prime Ministers in the same time period.

2024-05-05 05:16:17

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
Ownership is easier to regulate than content.

2024-03-14 12:27:02

Why Speaker was wrong not to call Diane Abbott to speak at PMQs
Why she should have been allowed to speak for herself in an exceptional circumstance
And how the Speaker's excuse for not doing so fails to convince
By me, at Prospect
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/65293/the-speaker-was-wrong-not-to-call-diane-abbott-to-speak-at-pmqs

2024-01-18 09:33:55

Techie Query
MacBook user (no lectures please, just practical help wanted).
"Magic keyboard" - bluetooth
1 year old
After long period of no problems, it now often just disconnects
Battery recharged, so not that
And clicking the bluetooth icon on top of screen shows it is still connected even when there seems no connection
I have to turn it off and on again
Is it more likely the problem is with the keyboard than the computer?

2023-11-15 22:16:02

Half-expecting government backbenchers to demand that we leave the jurisdiction of the UK Supreme Court.

2023-11-13 08:55:38

Home secretary sent home.

2023-10-09 09:19:50

"Good morning"
Replies:
Bluesky - "Yay, this is just like Twitter in old days when we just happily said good morning to each other whatever time it was"
Threads - "Please leave that passive aggressive stuff at the bird site, thank you"
Mastodon - "Depends what you mean by good, and which time zone you're in"

2023-09-21 08:33:51

I find it difficult to write about the post office scandal. In part, this because of the complexity and my want to read and master all the relevant texts before doing commentary.
But it is also because the makes me so livid I suspect I would lose all objectivity and my posts would become long rants. So so bad, in so many ways, and because of so many avoidable failures.

2023-09-10 11:19:43

But ministers readily accepted abstract speculations.
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2023-09-09 09:29:52

NEW SUBSTACK
Whatever happened to ‘the best-governed city in the world’?
Some footnotes to my article at Prospect on the Birmingham city insolvency - on historical comparisons and contrasts, and on serendipity in research
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/whatever-happened-to-the-best-governed
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2023-09-04 10:04:17

The government's concrete problem is not an abstract one.

2023-08-29 19:24:07

A post of absolute geeky beauty.
Bravo.
https://tylervigen.com/the-mystery-of-the-bloomfield-bridge

2023-08-24 22:32:01

The four stages of Trump's mix of law and politics
Stage one - the criminal legal process and the political process are distinct and separate.
Stage two - the criminal legal process is for opponents - “lock her up!” and “her emails!” and“Hunter Biden!”.
Stage three - the criminal legal process as a campaign and fundraising tool - the current position.
Stage four - whatever happens next, whether Trump is found guilty on indictment or exonerated.

2023-08-22 06:36:29

One day in the future.
Jonathan WIld, now convicted screams and mocks and disrupts the sentencing hearing, humiliating the families of the victims.
But because of a botched and rushed enactment of a law, there is no power to remove him. He is obliged to be there.
Something must be done! clamour the press and the public.

2023-08-21 16:50:47

NEW SUBSTACK
Performative justice and coercion
Thinking about coercing convicted defendants to hear their sentences
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/performative-justice-and-coercion
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2023-08-15 06:29:38

Here is a question.
If the impeachment process had worked properly against Trump, would all (or some) of these indictments have still happened?

2023-08-12 05:58:34

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@npub18p3…03wh
I hope that gave you as much an Elton John ear worm as it gave me.

2023-08-11 18:09:37

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@npub18p3…03wh
Ah, the spin-cycle of life.

2023-08-11 12:31:51

In my local public library I noticed on the reservations shelf that someone had ordered volumes by Ayn Rand.
Perhaps the borrower was some general researcher, but I did enjoy the thought it was an earnest libertarian missing the irony of using the municipal library system to state-subsidise their access to Atlas Shrugged and other works.

2023-08-10 06:33:16

Am thinking of writing about the differences between indictments and impeachments, and how they are both used to regulate unwanted political conduct.
Any views or information welcome.

2023-07-06 07:17:18

Threads
I know it will irk some of you that some of us have Threads accounts.
My heart is with open protocols and Mastodon.
But.
The reason I do legal commentary is that I think promoting the public understanding of law is a good thing.
As such the wider reach the better - a public good.
I am also a writer, and the wider I can cast links to my Substack which provides financial means for me to justify using time for commentary, the better for me, as a private good.
I am sorry to irk.

2023-07-04 17:01:41

I am sorry to those who came over here with me in November in the hope and expectation that a good chunk of legal Twitter would also come.
Sadly most of the accounts I recommended as they came over then are now fairly quiet on here - many not having posted since December/January.
Am looking out for other legal accounts to recommend - and if you know of any, do let me know.
Any area of law, any jurisdiction.

2023-07-02 07:46:01

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@npub1g0t…tvm4
In the City, it is very common for ambitious "sector" lawyers to be seconded to regulators for a period, or even join for a yew years, before building up their practice advising the regulated.
But how this problem is solved is less obvious.

2023-06-19 07:16:33

Good morning Mastodon followers!
Your thoughts please.
In 2019 Johnson led his party to an 80-majority at a general election.
A PM with a substantial parliamentary majority has the most powerful prize our constitution can bestow.
Yet.
Less than a parliamentary term later, he not only lost the premiership, he is no longer even a member of parliament.
Is this an example of our constitutional arrangements working or not working?
What does this remarkable fall tell us about our constitution?