David McArdle
@davemcardle.bsky.social
Sports Law, Employment Law, Stirling University Law School, Scotland. Research Fellow, OP Jindal Global University Law School, India. Trustee @ spireitestrust Academic consultant www.23es.com. Insert specious disclaimer here.
"My foot's gone to sleep. Do you mind if I join it?"
how do you politely tell a hookup that they have massively overstayed their welcome?
December 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"My foot's gone to sleep. Do you mind if I join it?"
"...having had training from a local lawyer in the powers of citizen's arrest..."
December 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
"...having had training from a local lawyer in the powers of citizen's arrest..."
If you're in the US, don't buy tickets. Hold your nerve until May and watch the prices plummet...
Looking forward to pulling this clip up and setting it right next to pix of empty stands at the World Cup next year, gonna be great
Q: Are you concerned that if the proposal to review 5 years of social media to get a tourist visa is implemented that there will be a decline in tourism?
TRUMP: No. We're doing so well. We want to make sure we're not letting the wrong people into our country.
TRUMP: No. We're doing so well. We want to make sure we're not letting the wrong people into our country.
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
If you're in the US, don't buy tickets. Hold your nerve until May and watch the prices plummet...
Everyone has an agenda. If you can't hear it, listen more closely.
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Former UK equality chief questions Sandie Peggie tribunal ruling
Nurse Sandie Peggie complained about a transgender doctor using a female changing room in a Fife hospital.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Everyone has an agenda. If you can't hear it, listen more closely.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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tbh that started with Columbus.
Q: Are you concerned that if the proposal to review 5 years of social media to get a tourist visa is implemented that there will be a decline in tourism?
TRUMP: No. We're doing so well. We want to make sure we're not letting the wrong people into our country.
TRUMP: No. We're doing so well. We want to make sure we're not letting the wrong people into our country.
December 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
tbh that started with Columbus.
Same-sex couples to compete in British ice dancing - www.bbc.com/sport/articl...
Same-sex couples to compete in British ice dancing
Same-sex couples will be allowed to compete in British ice dance competitions next year after a change of rules.
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December 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Same-sex couples to compete in British ice dancing - www.bbc.com/sport/articl...
And anyway it's protected by the fur damendment.
This cat is entirely innocent of all Christmas-tree related crime. There's no evidence that the tree simply did not fall over by itself and the cat just happened along afterwards.
What? I didn’t do nothin’.
December 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
And anyway it's protected by the fur damendment.
The biggest lottery is whether you get home in one piece www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
World Cup 2026 tickets: Ballot, prices and visas explained
The main ticket ballot for next summer's World Cup in North America opens on Thursday with 'record high' prices for fans.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The biggest lottery is whether you get home in one piece www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Brilliantly put.
The sad irony.
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Brilliantly put.
'technical legal point'...
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Scottish Power liable for worker's asbestos death, Supreme Court rules
Robert Crozier died after developing cancer from asbestos exposure while working for Scottish Power.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
'technical legal point'...
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Achtung.
As someone just months younger than Nigel Farage, I can say that not only is it untrue that ‘all’ schoolboys were obsessed with Hitler, but *none* of my cohort were. None. Nada. Zilch.
So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
December 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Achtung.
Basically, remember you are in the lair of a paranoid dictatorial nutjob. Wisecracks and 'I'm just here for the fitba' will be unhelpful.
This page is worth its weight in gold for anybody considering travelling to the United States, eg Scottish football fans.
Read it carefully, understand the content, bookmark it, and print out a copy.
Preparation to enter the USA is going to take time and patience. You *must* plan.
#TartanArmy
Read it carefully, understand the content, bookmark it, and print out a copy.
Preparation to enter the USA is going to take time and patience. You *must* plan.
#TartanArmy
As a visa holder living in the US, there is never a wrong time to post this.
December 10, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Basically, remember you are in the lair of a paranoid dictatorial nutjob. Wisecracks and 'I'm just here for the fitba' will be unhelpful.
Popped into a café earlier. Their Christmas Playlist included Green, Green Grass of Home, which seemed a stretch.
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Popped into a café earlier. Their Christmas Playlist included Green, Green Grass of Home, which seemed a stretch.
Reposted by David McArdle
In #winter 2018, Icelandic photographer Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir wanted to show her partner, who was away in the capital, how much it had snowed overnight at their home and posted a photo of herself on FB #womensart
December 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
In #winter 2018, Icelandic photographer Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir wanted to show her partner, who was away in the capital, how much it had snowed overnight at their home and posted a photo of herself on FB #womensart
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Oh look, coverage that isn't premised on the briefings folks got from FWS or Peggie's lawyers.
The ruling panel said the trans doctor’s account of the confrontation was “more reliable and cohesive” than nurse Ms Peggie’s.
Beth Upton evidence on Kirkcaldy hospital changing room row ‘more convincing’ than Sandie Peggie account
The ruling panel said the trans doctor’s account of the confrontation was “more reliable and cohesive” than nurse Ms Peggie’s.
dlvr.it
December 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Oh look, coverage that isn't premised on the briefings folks got from FWS or Peggie's lawyers.
Reposted by David McArdle
“I bring you fun”
“I bring you sunshine”
“I bring you love”
The Three Morecambe and Wise Men.
“I bring you sunshine”
“I bring you love”
The Three Morecambe and Wise Men.
December 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
“I bring you fun”
“I bring you sunshine”
“I bring you love”
The Three Morecambe and Wise Men.
“I bring you sunshine”
“I bring you love”
The Three Morecambe and Wise Men.
A Scots lawyer saying something is 'hugely problematic' would be as condemnatory as they get. It'd be a virtual declaration of war.
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Partial victory for nurse in NHS trans changing room row
A tribunal said NHS Fife harassed Sandie Peggie but dismissed other claims she made against the health board and a transgender doctor.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
A Scots lawyer saying something is 'hugely problematic' would be as condemnatory as they get. It'd be a virtual declaration of war.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Most of the rest have far more in common with DMU than with Oxbridge and the Russell Group.
Good piece from Katie Normington at De Montfort University reminding us the post 92 universities have done excellent research for a long time and that this ought not be endangered by the White Paper call for specialisation
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
wonkhe.com/blogs/labour...
Labour must not repeat history by sidelining research in post-92 universities
The abolition of the binary divide in HE made visible the wealth of research excellence in what became known as the post-92 part of the sector. Katie Normington worries that forcing specialisation ris...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Most of the rest have far more in common with DMU than with Oxbridge and the Russell Group.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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The FAPL is a world away from my interests, but it's horrible to see a famous old club struggle like this. And Wolves are even worse.
December 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The FAPL is a world away from my interests, but it's horrible to see a famous old club struggle like this. And Wolves are even worse.
So... they should kill people who shop at Walmart on a Sunday because that isn't biblical enough?
Genuinely struggle to acknowledge someone even said this
She compares the boat strikes to Jesus breaking the sabbath to heal someone.
December 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
So... they should kill people who shop at Walmart on a Sunday because that isn't biblical enough?
Today's advent calendar window is a camel. And it's about bloody time, a week without a Christmas camel is an outrage.
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Today's advent calendar window is a camel. And it's about bloody time, a week without a Christmas camel is an outrage.
You think about all the shit birds and crap flowers various US states have as emblems, and then realise this fella's gone entirely under the radar. Heartbreaking.
So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 AM
You think about all the shit birds and crap flowers various US states have as emblems, and then realise this fella's gone entirely under the radar. Heartbreaking.
"Benefits include...free lunches when the college kitchens are open."
It's a wholly different world. And good luck to them.
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It's a wholly different world. And good luck to them.
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Master’s Research Assistant at University of Oxford
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December 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
"Benefits include...free lunches when the college kitchens are open."
It's a wholly different world. And good luck to them.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPT086/m...
It's a wholly different world. And good luck to them.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPT086/m...