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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 20h

Which is best depends unfortunately on how rich you are. If you're rich, London is still imo by far the best.

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 20h

I grew up in Belfast during “The Troubles”. The highest number of deaths from violence was in 1972. That year the rate per million people was higher in Detroit, St Louis, Baltimore, and Washington

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 22h

It was, you know, good. Well done.

SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 22h

"In the mid-town area?"

She was so funny. Obviously, clever and beautiful.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 22h

la-di-da

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 22h

It is one of the oddities of US contract law, that the second Restatement is so much worse than the first.

Law isn't always progress, "working itself pure."

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 1d

This is ridiculous. The authors should have just said no.

SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 1d

Why are we having this AI slop forced on us?

Sweet & Maxwell have always been a fairly grubby outfit, but this is a new low.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 1d

Or this from the 14th showing the interesting image of The Peerless (amusingly we dont know which one).

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 1d

Compare the 12th edition, with A Showing at Tattersalls on the cover.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 1d

Peel (the author) makes a good (law) joke about this in his preface:

"a depiction of Salisbury Cathedral, not by Constable, as was also the case in Leaf v International Galleries."

But he must be furious.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 1d

It is ridiculous that Sweet & Maxwell insist, contrary to the author's wishes and his willingness to pay for any cost, on having an AI image on their books.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 2d

Feel guilty "plagiarising" from something I wrote 20 years ago. Feels like cheating (I have no memory of writing some of this stuff).

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 2d

They managed to get away not just with Chitty on Contracts, but Dicey, Morris and Collins on Conflicts as well.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 2d

[Law]

I don't always agree with him about everything, but this piece by Edelman J on statutory interpretation is truly excellent. You can, imo, apply it to the interpretation of any other legal words. Or indeed, words in general.

www.hcourt.gov.au/sites/defaul...

www.hcourt.gov.au

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3d

*sighs*

open.substack.com/pub/jonn/p/n...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 2d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3d

Once you retire, you realise that you were never important to the organisation you worked for. That’s the reality that everyone discovers.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 3d

Hollow laughter

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Ben Zaranko @benzaranko.bsky.social · 4d

I've written about the UK's productivity problem for @theobserveruk.bsky.social. Come for the comparison of the UK economy to a hedgehog, stay for the comparison of Rachel Reeves to a Dickens character.

observer.co.uk/news/busines...

In Britain’s ‘hedgehog economy’, growth is wild, spiky – ...

The spines on the OBR’s charts are a signal to the chancellor to pull all the levers to improve our growth prospects

observer.co.uk

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 3d

What about Habeas Corpus? Did she die in vain?

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 3d

Labour is indeed the best hope of the free market right. The alternatives went mad long ago.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 3d

Remind me, who was it Jack who crushed Weimar Germany's "Antifa" elements?

This is the country of Omaha and Utah beaches. That saved western Europe. How has it fallen into this?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5d

THE SECRET PROJECT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE PAST FEW MONTHS IS FINALLY LIVE

CHECK IT OUT

outsidersartsclub.com

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