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Anurag Deb

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PhD candidate at Queen's University Belfast. Looking at legislative drafting. Interested in devolution, public law, politics and climate change. Mostly unserious takes (anything on Stormont) + a few slightly serious ones (N. Tayto > S. Tayto). He/him

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · Nov 7

So, hello new followers. I mostly post unserious takes on public law, occasionally changing it up with slightly serious takes on public law. Sometimes I incorporate the occult into these takes. Welcome

a woman with blood on her face is screaming with her mouth open

Alt: a woman with blood on her face is screaming with her mouth open. Scene from the 2015 gothic horror film, The Witch

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Public Law @publiclaw.bsky.social · 15h

In memory of Conor Gearty, Public Law's 2007 symposium on his Hamlyn Lectures, "Can Human Rights Survive?" is available to read here: www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/content/dam/...

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 16h

What have you got against the words "Writ of Error Coram Nobis" splashed in a hideous font across 200 pages of pure fantasy dressed up like a skeleton argument, Jacob?

Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 17h

I find it interesting that "prerogative writs" as legal remedies at some point became completely untethered to the prerogative. The Indian Constitution empowers the superior courts to issue what used to be prerogative writs. It doesn't define "writ" and it certainly doesn't create a prerogative.

Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 17h

If judges were good historians, they would not be judges 😌

We had a good historian on the UKSC who nevertheless did not use his historical skills in his job. The two sometimes run unexpectedly parallel but never intermingle by design. And nor should they. Ever.

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Are judges good historians?

A Second Opinion is a recurring series by Haley Proctor on the Second Amendment and constitutional litigation. Three years ago in New York State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, […]

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 1d

This writ has expired.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · 4d

The statutory duty to have regard to best interests of children in the context of child refugee families administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/t...

The statutory duty to have regard to best interests of children in the context of child refugee families

When an adult refugee settles in the UK, they can apply for their children and partner to join them – the applicable policy suggests that reunion rights should be granted, in most cases, “automatic…

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Administrative Court Blog @admincourtblog.bsky.social · 3d

When does anxious scrutiny apply? Divergent views on the High Court administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/w...

When does anxious scrutiny apply? Divergent views on the High Court

The rationality (or Wednesbury) test in judicial review operates notoriously as a “sliding scale”, depending on the particular facts in which it is raised. In what is now the leading case on the ap…

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 5d

Good Lord, a lawyer? Acting in their clients' best interests no matter who the clients are? What a story 😱

Jokes aside, tarring lawyers with the characteristics of their clients has a dark history in Ireland.

Donncha O’Connell @donnchalaw.bsky.social · 5d

Is there a barrel bottom that hasn’t been scraped yet in the determined drive to attack the character and professionalism of the Left candidate who’s doing well in polls? Of course Catherine Connolly BL acted for clients on a normal disinterested basis!

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Catherine Connolly did ‘all types of work’ as barrister and represented banks during crash

Presidential election candidate says she was ‘obliged as a lawyer to act on behalf of variety of clients’

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 6d

Shutki as an ingredient in various things. It's a dried or sometimes fermented fish/seafood product from Bengal. So pungent that even a nuclear waste disposal site couldn't contain it. But it's delicious.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 7d

Unrelated but can we please use "begging the question" correctly when writing apparently serious things? Yes I know about the evolution of language. And I will still die on this hill.

Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 7d

Ehm...

1) Because it is an integral part of the UK - not an overseas territority etcs., - & UK wide law applies to it

2) Direct Rule is always a possibility

3) Nice to the Conversative & Unionist Party looking for yet another sea border, as that is so popular.

See caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 8d

It's really very easy to find a country-appropriate reaction to a discussion about political events in a specific country #Áras25

Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 10d

The basic structure doctrine is constitutional law's answer to the ship of Theseus. Those who argue that the procedural validity of an amendment defeats the logic of basic structure don't care much about constitutional substance.

This concludes today's episode of constitutional law trolling.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 10d

Reposted with alt text. Also, from a cursory look, this appears to basically be true, which is pretty funny. Philosophers... debate.

Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003: 2,052
Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today: 0

Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 10d

Solidarity with the two women defiantly trying to have an alfresco dining experience outside a posh deli as Storm Amy hits Belfast.

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 10d

Oh no Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed used to have such good trailers, what happened 😭

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 10d

Mentally ill? What makes you think that?

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 11d

This is very late, because it’s been a very long day. But this is from talking to Manchester’s Jewish community

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Manchester’s Jews left in fear after ‘inevitable’ attack strikes at heart of community

[FREE TO READ] A multicultural city proud of its sense of cohesion reels after atrocity shatters calm on holiest day of the Jewish year

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 11d

Terrible news from Manchester. The attacks on Heaton Park Synagogue’s congregation are utterly horrific. Thinking of the bereaved families & those recovering in hospital. Antisemitism, Islamophobia & hatred, based on religion, are despicable. Condolences to Manchester.

Manchester synagogue stabbing LIVE: Two dead and suspect killed in terror attack

Officers are in attendance outside Heaton Park synagogue following an incident during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 11d

100/10, no notes.

George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 11d

Kemi Badenoch saying “the last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave” is so on-brand it hurts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kemi Badenoch mistakenly says NI voted in favour of Brexit

In a BBC NI interview, the Tory leader said the

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 12d

The ones that come to mind are all from Indian directors, so not a surprise. Irrfan Khan in The Namesake is one of my favourites. He wasn't Bengali, but his character was, and Khan's English accent (as a Bengali character) was absolutely spot on. Sounded a lot like my dad, even.

Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 12d

A personal gripe I have with accents being depicted in Western English language films, aside from Irish accents (esp. NI accents) is about accents from South Asia. A part of the world with over a billion people and hundreds of languages does not sound uniform when speaking English. How could it?!

Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 13d

Good article. It's a real problem, is that the same for other countries?

Harsh on DiCaprio, who in Gangs of NY had been in foster care in the US since a young child. He even says he's lost his accent in the film.

Shout out for Daisy Edgar-Jones in Normal People

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents

From James Norton’s ‘terror’ at playing a Dubliner in House of Guinness to Helen Mirren doing an impersonation so atrocious it went viral – why do actors struggle to play people from Ireland?

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meganmcdermott.bsky.social @meganmcdermott.bsky.social · 14d

New blog from me on EU Import Ban on Forced Labour and the European Commission proposal to add the Regulation to the Windsor Framework.

www.assemblyresearchmatters.org/2025/09/26/e...

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 15d

Famously, the primacy of EU law stops in the application of EU law whenever Member States say so.

Anton Spisak @antonspisak.bsky.social · 17d

Another nail in the coffin of Slovakia’s democracy. Parliament has today approved a constitutional amendment that enshrines recognition of “only two sexes” (male and female), restricts adoption to married heterosexual couples, and ends the primacy of EU law over “ethical and cultural matters”. 1/4

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University College Cork @ucc.ie · 17d

Landmark study on symptom dismissal and diagnostic delays in women’s health launched

The study will explore women's experiences of medical gaslighting and issues including diagnostic delays and patient–doctor interactions.

Read: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

Researchers will examine diagnostic delays, complex overlapping symptoms, and patient–doctor interactions. Pictured are Dr Sarah Foley and Jenny Cooney-Quane, UCC School of Applied Psychology.

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 17d

Digital ID has created heightened anxiety about personal data but has apparently saved India "around $10 billion annually" so who can say if it's bad

BBC News - Aadhaar: 'Leak' in world's biggest database worries Indians - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-a...

Aadhaar: 'Leak' in world's biggest database worries Indians

Officials file a complaint after a report that personal details on the database are being sold.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 19d

It's ridiculous that an intervention before the UKSC is being hyped, let alone backed by the Tories:

1 This Dillon appeal is not about immunity, which the current UK Govt has already agreed to abandon.
2 The UKSC thus has no basis to consider these claims.
3 The end.

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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · 19d

No, it doesn't. The amnesty *itself* (among other things) is under challenge in the UKSC. Does no one read anything before publishing these days?

The Telegraph, "Starmer's plan to scrap amnesty for Troubles veterans faces Supreme Court challenge"

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