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Nick Garland1/ Great reporting in The Times on the emerging momentum behind support for compulsory voting, which @ippr.org called for a couple of weeks ago: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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My thought on seeing Nolan’s Odyssey: worthy of its material. Which is the highest praise it could have.
Joe HodsonMy initial and totally spoilery thoughts on Nolan's Odyssey, which I very much enjoyed seeing yesterday with a friend after having just finished reading the poem: It's an Odyssey with a clear sense of troubled conscience - I was glad that the weight of his actions was largely recognised.
Rather a lot of Western civilisation (however you define it) is, after all, not conservative.
NuteIt’s very funny that all indications are that an adaptation of Homer could be one of the biggest movies of the year with both critics and the box office and this is universally interpreted as a catastrophe for the conservative right because they’re poisoned themselves against culture
Thoughts on Labour and free speech - my brief talk last week to the Free Speech Union. substack.com/@georgeperet...
Different views of free speech: my talk to the Free Speech UnionThe Labour tradition of free speech is not the libertarian approach of the FSU. But losing the ECHR - as the Tories and Reform want to do - would, on either approach, harm free speech.substack.com💥In the “Dieselgate” litigation the High Court has given judgment on whether vehicles produced by leading car manufacturers contained prohibited defeat devices. Answer on a postage stamp: very few of them did, and no vehicles produced by my client, Ford, did. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
www.judiciary.ukInteresting piece by my @soclablaw.bsky.social colleague Joe Kelen on Andy Burnham’s reference to the German Basic Law. labourlist.org/2026/07/a-gu...
'German Basic Law: a guide to the law cited by Andy Burnham as a new model for Britain' - LabourListWhat is the 'German Basic Law'? How does it work? And how could it work for Britain?labourlist.orgThe western edge of London is, of course, Park Lane. Everywhere west of that is a suburb of Reading.
Dom WhiteI like this purely for the reason that putting a good bit of North London in the Midlands is first class trolling.
My thoughts for @labourlist.bsky.social on what is in Andy Burnham’s legal in-tray. labourlist.org/2026/07/andy...
'Your lawyers would like a word! Andy Burnham's legal in-tray' - LabourListChair of the Society of Labour Lawyers looks at what the legal issues are that will be consuming Andy Burnham's time.labourlist.org