Judith Freedman
LightNews LightNews
banner
judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman
@judithfreedman.bsky.social
2.9K followers 610 following 300 posts

Tax academic, writer and editor, grandmother of 5.

Videos

Judith Freedman, Lady Freedman, is a British solicitor and academic.

Source: Wikipedia
Business 52%
Economics 31%
Posts Replies Media Videos

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 1d
Never happened to me.

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 4d
Terrifying!
milesklee.bsky.social chopped unc crisis hotline @milesklee.bsky.social · 6d
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 4d
AI making up citations. This is happening and is really hard to check if it is not the editor or referee they are citing. Makes good editing more and more important and more and more time consuming.
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 4d
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Reposted by Reece Jones, Guntram B. Wolff, Richard S.J. Tol , and 58 more

benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 4d
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 5d
I’m a lawyer- I would need the scriptwriters to give me some more facts! 😂

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 5d
There is some kind of company in which the other siblings have shares I think - but it is all very vague and with Josh thinking it is all going to PIp it clearly needs a discussion, at least. Likewise Brian thinking he can decide who gets ‘his’ farm when it is apparently shared by family. Confusing

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 5d
Lovely legal discussion around #TheArchers but with all the talk about succession it is completely incredible that there has been no serious discussion of inheritance tax! Even if only to say ‘thank goodness we have arrangements in place to avoid it’ ( not convinced they all do though).

Reposted by Judith Freedman

markpackuk.bsky.social
Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 5d
Christmas carols, as written by Parliamentary lawyers
Christmas carols, as written by Parliamentary lawyers
The Parliamentary Counsel Office has been putting its skills to work drafting legislatively clear versions of Christmas carols. How many can you identify?
buff.ly

Reposted by Judith Freedman

appleandroidapp.bsky.social
Miranda @appleandroidapp.bsky.social · 6d
This provides an interesting explanation of the new criteria applied for tenancy succession.
#TheArchers

www.stephens-scown.co.uk/specialist-s...
Farm succession from one generation to the next with AHA Tenancy
The great benefits of an AHA tenancy created before 12 July 1984 is the possibility of a succession from one generation to the next.
www.stephens-scown.co.uk

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 6d
Are you going to build me a granny flat?

Reposted by Suzana J. Camargo, John Horgan, Steve Peers , and 12 more

milesklee.bsky.social
chopped unc crisis hotline @milesklee.bsky.social · 6d
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 7d
Indeed!

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 7d
I wasn’t on a waiting list- it is an annual check up!

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 7d
The NHS must employ armies of people to constantly rearrange appointments they sent me in the first place. It is so inefficient. This has nothing to do with the strike. I have just had an April 2026 appointment moved to March 2026. OK with me but why?

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 7d
Great letter in The Times today!

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 8d
I don’t want to see. Refuse to go to anything like this now!

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 8d
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
‘Horrified but not surprised’: worldwide Jewish community mourns Bondi massacre | The Observer
observer.co.uk

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 10d
The problem is that it doesn't give me ideas for presents because you have read them all.....On the other hand you do always need socks.

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 10d
😂though that wasn’t really the issue!

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 11d
😂

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 11d
I have just seen the play ‘Oh Mary’ and I shall never be able to sing ‘I’m a little teapot’ to my grandchildren again!

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 12d
But at least you had clean toilets?

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 12d
Indeed.

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 12d
When he says 'I remember Barry Nicholas adamantly refusing to supervise me ' all I can think of is what a wise man Barry Nicholas was.

Reposted by Steve Peers, Martin Tomko, Judith Freedman

londonist.com
Londonist @londonist.com · 13d
Major update to our map of Anglo-Saxon London... we've now added etymologies for each place name, so you can find out what your bit of London used to be called.... and why londonist.substack.com/p/mapping-an...
Mapping Anglo-Saxon London: A Big Update
A glimpse of London, 1,000 years past.
londonist.substack.com

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 15d
Great idea and what could be better than an episode of In Our Time featuring my daughter in law? What a wonderful treasure trove this is.
samfr.bsky.social Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15d
In today's unexpected news, Radio 4 is running episodes of In Our Time selected by celebrities to celebrate Melvyn Bragg's tenure and Frank Skinner has selected one on Emily Dickinson featuring my wife.

share.google/ohHbDDQnLxyH...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Emily Dickinson
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), celebrated American poet.
share.google

Reposted by Lawrence Freedman, Judith Freedman

samfr.bsky.social
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15d
In today's unexpected news, Radio 4 is running episodes of In Our Time selected by celebrities to celebrate Melvyn Bragg's tenure and Frank Skinner has selected one on Emily Dickinson featuring my wife.

share.google/ohHbDDQnLxyH...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Emily Dickinson
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), celebrated American poet.
share.google

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 26d
Shall we see new branches of estate agents doing specialist valuations?

Reposted by Jill Rutter

judithfreedman.bsky.social
Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 26d
I agree with higher taxes on expensive properties but why do it like this with these weird thresholds and cliff edges?
flipchartrick.bsky.social Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 26d
Another one from today’s @resolutionfoundation.org report.

If anyone is complaining about the mansion tax, show them this.

www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...