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2024-05-05 05:16:17

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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.

2023-09-10 11:19:43

But ministers readily accepted abstract speculations.
https://files.mastodon.green/media_attachments/files/111/040/579/146/176/683/original/c1eb9b97fb6408e9.jpeg

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.

2023-08-24 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.

2023-06-19 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?