Stuart MacLennan
@sensiblestu.bsky.social
🎓 Associate Professor of EU/tax law. 🌹 CLP Secretary (@moraylabour.org.uk); SEC rep (Highlands/NE); National Policy Forum (Scotland). 🏞️ Moravian.
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saw this at the time as a callow youth
When Donald Trump met Saint and Greavsie
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December 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
saw this at the time as a callow youth
When Rod Stewart conducted the Scottish Cup draw
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December 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.
I see the Irish political class is fawning over Zelenskyy all the while spending less than any other developed country on defence, contributing nothing to Europe’s collective security, all the while pretending they’re neutral (which the patently aren’t).
December 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I see the Irish political class is fawning over Zelenskyy all the while spending less than any other developed country on defence, contributing nothing to Europe’s collective security, all the while pretending they’re neutral (which the patently aren’t).
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re the jury proposals in england it looks like they are going for the approach which exists in scotland where the accused in no circumstances has a choice of procedure. Somehow this has operated without civilisation falling apart with specified maximum sentences for sheriffssitting in summary cases
December 2, 2025 at 12:50 PM
re the jury proposals in england it looks like they are going for the approach which exists in scotland where the accused in no circumstances has a choice of procedure. Somehow this has operated without civilisation falling apart with specified maximum sentences for sheriffssitting in summary cases
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Bush was a terrible president but simply impossible to imagine a Republican saying this about Pelosi or anyone else today.
George W. Bush-State of the Union Address (January 23, 2007)
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November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Bush was a terrible president but simply impossible to imagine a Republican saying this about Pelosi or anyone else today.
This is a Liberal Democrat MP basically advocating racial segregation. I am *staggered*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
October 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This is a Liberal Democrat MP basically advocating racial segregation. I am *staggered*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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More good news for the Chancellor ahead of the budget next month!
Here we have an actual and workable wealth tax...which is raising more tax than expected.
Here we have an actual and workable wealth tax...which is raising more tax than expected.
October 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
More good news for the Chancellor ahead of the budget next month!
Here we have an actual and workable wealth tax...which is raising more tax than expected.
Here we have an actual and workable wealth tax...which is raising more tax than expected.
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Imagine how bad the US golfers would be playing if they weren't being paid.
September 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Imagine how bad the US golfers would be playing if they weren't being paid.
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1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.
Not sure day one of the latest ID card rollout went very well at all, not least because the government couldn’t answer the absolute core question about why they’re being introduced.
The case is that digital ID will be required for anyone to get work. The problem is ID is already mandatory. 🧵
The case is that digital ID will be required for anyone to get work. The problem is ID is already mandatory. 🧵
September 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.
I would have thought a barrister would have a clearer understanding of what constitutes a vexatious litigant.
Shabana Mahmood accuses asylum seekers of making ‘vexatious, last-minute claims’
Shabana Mahmood accuses asylum seekers of making ‘vexatious, last-minute claims’
Home Office says it will review modern slavery laws to save PM’s ‘one in, one out’ returns deal with France
Shabana Mahmood has accused asylum seekers of making “vexatious, last-minute claims” to avoid removal to France as the Home Office said it would review modern slavery laws to save Keir Starmer’s returns deal.
After an 11th hour injunction that scuppered Labour’s “one in, one out” scheme, the home secretary said she would stop claimants “suddenly deciding that they are a modern slave on the eve of their removal”, adding that it made a “mockery of our laws and this country’s generosity”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I would have thought a barrister would have a clearer understanding of what constitutes a vexatious litigant.
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I think a key factor of this is that we learned how to do research with books first and then got the internet afterwards. The internet was positioned to enhance your understanding of the world, not BE your understanding of it.
Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13
The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up
September 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I think a key factor of this is that we learned how to do research with books first and then got the internet afterwards. The internet was positioned to enhance your understanding of the world, not BE your understanding of it.
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If this guy pops up in a Columbo you know it’s going to be a good one!
September 12, 2025 at 2:15 AM
If this guy pops up in a Columbo you know it’s going to be a good one!
When someone goes out of their way to point their face in a TV camera it is reasonable to infer that they have granted permission for their image to be used on TV.
I worry that the decades it took to build anti-racism norms are unravelling quite quickly. Clearly the protests/social media drumbeat has created a permission structure that makes people think they can behave like this. Hard to see how it can be easily re-bottled.
Sickening footage from Nuneaton tonight, where a Sky News interview with a local businessman was disrupted by racists hurling abuse.
Another local said, "Warwickshire Council Council has gone to Reform... It's given certain people a licence to be aggressive and racist."
Another local said, "Warwickshire Council Council has gone to Reform... It's given certain people a licence to be aggressive and racist."
September 2, 2025 at 2:16 AM
When someone goes out of their way to point their face in a TV camera it is reasonable to infer that they have granted permission for their image to be used on TV.
I can 🙋🏻♂️
August 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I can 🙋🏻♂️
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I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
August 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.
Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.
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Dear universities,
I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them.
Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case.
Signed,
Everyone.
I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them.
Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case.
Signed,
Everyone.
July 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Dear universities,
I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them.
Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case.
Signed,
Everyone.
I am begging you to stop requiring letters of recommendation for master's programmes. You and I both know you don't read them, so stop asking for them.
Instead, have applicants list a name and get in touch if it's a borderline case.
Signed,
Everyone.
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Just an agonising few kilometres away from the starving, thousands of tons of food aid lies wasting in the sun as the Israeli blockade continues.
Gaza is now being systematically starved. The war crime of the 21st century.
REST OF THE WORLD UPDATE: Still watching.
(🎥 BBC)
Gaza is now being systematically starved. The war crime of the 21st century.
REST OF THE WORLD UPDATE: Still watching.
(🎥 BBC)
July 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Just an agonising few kilometres away from the starving, thousands of tons of food aid lies wasting in the sun as the Israeli blockade continues.
Gaza is now being systematically starved. The war crime of the 21st century.
REST OF THE WORLD UPDATE: Still watching.
(🎥 BBC)
Gaza is now being systematically starved. The war crime of the 21st century.
REST OF THE WORLD UPDATE: Still watching.
(🎥 BBC)
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Increasingly convinced the cheapest way to address this is to reverse local government austerity. Returning English local authority budgets to 2010 levels would cost about £7bn. Factor in population and demographic change and you'd want maybe £15bn. Benefits could be seen quickly and felt widely.
"The truly unnerving thing about the fall of Rome (yes, I’m going there again, sorry) was that most Romans probably didn’t notice it had happened."
Morning all!
Morning all!
The decline and fall of Great Britain
From the graffiti to the economy, a sense of terminal rot has set in.
www.newstatesman.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Increasingly convinced the cheapest way to address this is to reverse local government austerity. Returning English local authority budgets to 2010 levels would cost about £7bn. Factor in population and demographic change and you'd want maybe £15bn. Benefits could be seen quickly and felt widely.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer person!
Greens the first major party to complete list selections for next year; amidst much media discussion around challenges, 6 of their 7 incumbent MSPs were re-selected at the top of their respective regional lists. North East's Maggie Chapman however was beaten by Guy Ingerson and is ranked second.
July 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Couldn’t happen to a nicer person!
“If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of fair play, so be it.”
July 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of fair play, so be it.”