Chris McCorkindale
@chrismccork.bsky.social
Public law @Strathclyde Law School; adviser @CEEAC Committee of Scottish Parliament; steering group @Scottish Public Law Group; editor @Edinburgh Law Review; chair @Morton in the Community.
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/mccorkindalechristopherdr/
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/mccorkindalechristopherdr/
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🗣️Straight talker
🙌 Hands-on coach
✍️ Recruits well
💪 Hard worker
🧠 Shrewd tactician
🤝 Fosters team spirit
How Dougie Imrie overachieved at Greenock Morton and why Raith Rovers fans should be excited about their new manager.
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social👇
www.heraldscotland.com/sport/256503...
🙌 Hands-on coach
✍️ Recruits well
💪 Hard worker
🧠 Shrewd tactician
🤝 Fosters team spirit
How Dougie Imrie overachieved at Greenock Morton and why Raith Rovers fans should be excited about their new manager.
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social👇
www.heraldscotland.com/sport/256503...
How Dougie Imrie overachieved at Morton and why Raith Rovers fans should be excited
How Dougie Imrie overachieved on the smallest budget in the Championship at Morton and why Raith Rovers fans should be excited about new manager.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🗣️Straight talker
🙌 Hands-on coach
✍️ Recruits well
💪 Hard worker
🧠 Shrewd tactician
🤝 Fosters team spirit
How Dougie Imrie overachieved at Greenock Morton and why Raith Rovers fans should be excited about their new manager.
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social👇
www.heraldscotland.com/sport/256503...
🙌 Hands-on coach
✍️ Recruits well
💪 Hard worker
🧠 Shrewd tactician
🤝 Fosters team spirit
How Dougie Imrie overachieved at Greenock Morton and why Raith Rovers fans should be excited about their new manager.
In @heraldscotland.bsky.social👇
www.heraldscotland.com/sport/256503...
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Parliamentary sovereignty is one of the most deceptively difficult things to write about accurately, concisely and accessibly.
Credit to David Torrance & @paolosandro.bsky.social for showing the deceptively difficult is not the infuriatingly impossible.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Credit to David Torrance & @paolosandro.bsky.social for showing the deceptively difficult is not the infuriatingly impossible.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Parliamentary sovereignty
A short research briefing on the principle of parliamentary sovereignty, its origins and contemporary application.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk
November 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Parliamentary sovereignty is one of the most deceptively difficult things to write about accurately, concisely and accessibly.
Credit to David Torrance & @paolosandro.bsky.social for showing the deceptively difficult is not the infuriatingly impossible.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Credit to David Torrance & @paolosandro.bsky.social for showing the deceptively difficult is not the infuriatingly impossible.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Just about time to watch the highlights again 8 or 9 times then bed.
November 20, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Just about time to watch the highlights again 8 or 9 times then bed.
Shoot! Shoot! He’s done him! He’s done him! He’s done him!
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Shoot! Shoot! He’s done him! He’s done him! He’s done him!
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Me and @caitlinsmith.bsky.social have teamed up to make another BBC Radio 4 documentary. If At First You Don't Secede asks if there is any way through the current impasse on independence. It's on this coming Sunday (November 23) at 1.30pm if you fancy a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Currently, If at First You Don’t Secede
If at first you don’t secede, should you really try, try, try again?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Me and @caitlinsmith.bsky.social have teamed up to make another BBC Radio 4 documentary. If At First You Don't Secede asks if there is any way through the current impasse on independence. It's on this coming Sunday (November 23) at 1.30pm if you fancy a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Legal experts have weighed in on what could trigger a second independence referendum under questioning from MSPs
5 key points as legal experts grilled by MSPs on routes to independence referendum
www.thenational.scot
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Legal experts have weighed in on what could trigger a second independence referendum under questioning from MSPs
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We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.
First Greggs Festive Bake if the season. Get the trees up.
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
First Greggs Festive Bake if the season. Get the trees up.
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Lord Bracadale has resigned as chair of the Sheku Bayoh inquiry. The Court of Session was due to hear a judicial review on whether he had demonstrated apparent bias next month. www.shekubayohinquiry.scot/sites/defaul...
www.shekubayohinquiry.scot
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Lord Bracadale has resigned as chair of the Sheku Bayoh inquiry. The Court of Session was due to hear a judicial review on whether he had demonstrated apparent bias next month. www.shekubayohinquiry.scot/sites/defaul...
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Very in keeping with the hormonal teenager on too much red bull tone of anonymous briefings from Labour over the last year.
An absolute golden rule that anyone who says “the grown ups are back in the room” is fundamentally for the watching.
An absolute golden rule that anyone who says “the grown ups are back in the room” is fundamentally for the watching.
Whatever you think of these messages, the reality is this story and Paul Ovenden's subsequent resignation has provoked pure fury from long-serving Labour aides. Many saying they do not believe Starmer should have accepted his resignation.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Senior Starmer adviser quits over offensive Diane Abbott messages
Departure of political strategy director Paul Ovenden is yet another setback for PM after Mandelson and Rayner exits
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Very in keeping with the hormonal teenager on too much red bull tone of anonymous briefings from Labour over the last year.
An absolute golden rule that anyone who says “the grown ups are back in the room” is fundamentally for the watching.
An absolute golden rule that anyone who says “the grown ups are back in the room” is fundamentally for the watching.
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The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.
September 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.
Really sad to read about this. An impressive figure but also a supportive academic colleague, interesting, nice and always fun company. Will be sorely missed.
September 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Really sad to read about this. An impressive figure but also a supportive academic colleague, interesting, nice and always fun company. Will be sorely missed.
This is the future liberals want.
did you know you can just make little bacon sandwiches with sourdough bread and it's perfectly legal
August 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is the future liberals want.
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This will be terrific:
@bymyong.bsky.social consistently illuminates aspects of the constitution that the rest of us - unjustifiably - ignore
@bymyong.bsky.social consistently illuminates aspects of the constitution that the rest of us - unjustifiably - ignore
Announcing an upcoming event as part of our Current Legal Problems lecture series for 2025-26:
📢 Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution
🗣️ Dr Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social
📅 16 October 2025 | 6pm
🏛️ UCL Laws + online
🔗 Book now: tinyurl.com/yz5bnrey
📢 Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution
🗣️ Dr Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social
📅 16 October 2025 | 6pm
🏛️ UCL Laws + online
🔗 Book now: tinyurl.com/yz5bnrey
Hybrid | CLP - Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution
This lecture will be delivered by Dr Ben Yong, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26
tinyurl.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This will be terrific:
@bymyong.bsky.social consistently illuminates aspects of the constitution that the rest of us - unjustifiably - ignore
@bymyong.bsky.social consistently illuminates aspects of the constitution that the rest of us - unjustifiably - ignore
@seethingmead.bsky.social Our worlds collide as Billy Davies is made assistant manager (with a fancier title) at Greenock Morton ⚽️
July 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
@seethingmead.bsky.social Our worlds collide as Billy Davies is made assistant manager (with a fancier title) at Greenock Morton ⚽️
A minor criticism of Dept Q: if anything it *downplays* just how plush is the Lord Advocate’s office.
July 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A minor criticism of Dept Q: if anything it *downplays* just how plush is the Lord Advocate’s office.
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Thomas Horsley: Reforming the UK Internal Market: The UK Government’s Response to the Review of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/21/t...
Thomas Horsley: Reforming the UK Internal Market: The UK Government’s Response to the Review of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020
On 15th July 2025, the UK Government (UKG) published its response to its review and public consultation on Parts 1 and 2 of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (UKIMA). The Response confirm…
ukconstitutionallaw.org
July 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Thomas Horsley: Reforming the UK Internal Market: The UK Government’s Response to the Review of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/21/t...
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But all that is needed to restore the authority of the Sewel Convention is for good chaps to get along. No risk of bad chap(esse)s getting back into power
July 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
But all that is needed to restore the authority of the Sewel Convention is for good chaps to get along. No risk of bad chap(esse)s getting back into power
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In other words, the internal market will continue to be a shared regulatory space in which the UK Govt will continue to have the legal upper hand, and devolved autonomy will be constrained by the need for intergovernmental agreement.
July 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
In other words, the internal market will continue to be a shared regulatory space in which the UK Govt will continue to have the legal upper hand, and devolved autonomy will be constrained by the need for intergovernmental agreement.
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As expected, a minimalist approach to UKIMA reform - no statutory change, but improved processes for agreeing exclusions, and a commitment to the Common Frameworks as a mechanism for co-operation.
July 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
As expected, a minimalist approach to UKIMA reform - no statutory change, but improved processes for agreeing exclusions, and a commitment to the Common Frameworks as a mechanism for co-operation.
July 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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For #devolution anoraks, the UK Government will today publish a written ministerial statement in @houseofcommons.parliament.uk re. its response to the review of the UK Internal Market Act
July 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
For #devolution anoraks, the UK Government will today publish a written ministerial statement in @houseofcommons.parliament.uk re. its response to the review of the UK Internal Market Act