Stephen Swan
@stephenswan.bsky.social
Barrister (non practising). Constitutional law, criminal law, EU & international law. Legal history, Astronomy & astrophysics, planetary geology, climate science & biodiversity, classics & ancient history, the supernatural & folklore.
TL cleanse - a rose in my back garden earlier this year “Munstead Wood”.
August 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
TL cleanse - a rose in my back garden earlier this year “Munstead Wood”.
I offer up this for consideration :)
July 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I offer up this for consideration :)
Something like this?
July 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Something like this?
Also the old and the new. A first century AD (CE) Roman road in Sofia, Bulgaria incorporated into a 21st century CE Metro station. I walked on and under some 2,000 years of history.
June 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Also the old and the new. A first century AD (CE) Roman road in Sofia, Bulgaria incorporated into a 21st century CE Metro station. I walked on and under some 2,000 years of history.
And this disk will tell other intelligent life who can find the spacecraft who launched them and from whence they came.
June 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
And this disk will tell other intelligent life who can find the spacecraft who launched them and from whence they came.
I offer up Horseferry Road Magistrates Court - one of my old stomping grounds as a prosecutor, now also a block of flats.
May 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I offer up Horseferry Road Magistrates Court - one of my old stomping grounds as a prosecutor, now also a block of flats.
Timeline cleanse: “Gertrude Jekyll” just opening in my garden today.
May 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Timeline cleanse: “Gertrude Jekyll” just opening in my garden today.
My hawthorn tree in full flower just now.
April 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
My hawthorn tree in full flower just now.
Enjoying a glass of rose wine!
April 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Enjoying a glass of rose wine!
Meanwhile away from the UK, EU and US in the garden…
April 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Meanwhile away from the UK, EU and US in the garden…
Lest we forget. Reminiscent of any individuals…
©️ “Hitler’s Henchmen” by Dr Hank van Capelle & Dr Peter van de Bovenkamp, Bison Books Ltd, 1990.
©️ “Hitler’s Henchmen” by Dr Hank van Capelle & Dr Peter van de Bovenkamp, Bison Books Ltd, 1990.
April 26, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Lest we forget. Reminiscent of any individuals…
©️ “Hitler’s Henchmen” by Dr Hank van Capelle & Dr Peter van de Bovenkamp, Bison Books Ltd, 1990.
©️ “Hitler’s Henchmen” by Dr Hank van Capelle & Dr Peter van de Bovenkamp, Bison Books Ltd, 1990.
Don’t know how to paste the link but this speech is exactly right 💯 every last word . Please find it on UT and watch it. It would be helpful if Sir Keir Starmer, the UK Labour Prime Minister, his Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney and the Foreign and Defence Secretaries watched it too.
March 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Don’t know how to paste the link but this speech is exactly right 💯 every last word . Please find it on UT and watch it. It would be helpful if Sir Keir Starmer, the UK Labour Prime Minister, his Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney and the Foreign and Defence Secretaries watched it too.
Meanwhile some Greek bloke called Pythagoras has scarred schoolchildren the world over for some 2, 500 years (and some!!!)
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March 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Meanwhile some Greek bloke called Pythagoras has scarred schoolchildren the world over for some 2, 500 years (and some!!!)
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Door on a church on Ascension Island. 2008 constitutional!
February 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Door on a church on Ascension Island. 2008 constitutional!
Not my field of expertise, but I have just read this research paper; it repays close reading given the Trump-Putin axis against NATO, Canada, Europe & Ukraine. The UK PM needs to move on his ‘red lines’ over the EU, which is the only way he can have a close defence & security pact with the EU.
February 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Not my field of expertise, but I have just read this research paper; it repays close reading given the Trump-Putin axis against NATO, Canada, Europe & Ukraine. The UK PM needs to move on his ‘red lines’ over the EU, which is the only way he can have a close defence & security pact with the EU.
Happy belated Valentine’s Day
February 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Happy belated Valentine’s Day
This looks like a fraudulent account - not Ms Vorderman’s account (perhaps she will confirm). It should be reported for impersonation.
January 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This looks like a fraudulent account - not Ms Vorderman’s account (perhaps she will confirm). It should be reported for impersonation.
@m-jones.bsky.social Svalbard . 81 degrees North. Taken in the pack ice in 2016. :)
November 23, 2024 at 9:19 AM
@m-jones.bsky.social Svalbard . 81 degrees North. Taken in the pack ice in 2016. :)
@clairebradley.bsky.social This is the earliest map of my village (now a town) that I can find. It is dated 1553 & was produced in a case in the Court of Augmentations between tenants & farmers of two manors over common land called “Sparowe Felde”.
October 23, 2024 at 8:22 PM
@clairebradley.bsky.social This is the earliest map of my village (now a town) that I can find. It is dated 1553 & was produced in a case in the Court of Augmentations between tenants & farmers of two manors over common land called “Sparowe Felde”.
…particular, property rights, adultery, divorce, inheritance and assault.
A photograph of part of the Code appears below (and know I don’t as I type this know specifically to what it refers!). More to follow…
Photograph is ©️ mine 4/
A photograph of part of the Code appears below (and know I don’t as I type this know specifically to what it refers!). More to follow…
Photograph is ©️ mine 4/
October 15, 2024 at 12:03 PM
…particular, property rights, adultery, divorce, inheritance and assault.
A photograph of part of the Code appears below (and know I don’t as I type this know specifically to what it refers!). More to follow…
Photograph is ©️ mine 4/
A photograph of part of the Code appears below (and know I don’t as I type this know specifically to what it refers!). More to follow…
Photograph is ©️ mine 4/
Just purchased this excellent & long needed field guide. Well done to Professors Richards & Cummings for producing this - a valuable public service. When I can no longer travel to prehistoric sites overseas I shall retrench to those on the islands of Britain &
Ireland (done some, but not enough!).
Ireland (done some, but not enough!).
September 22, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Just purchased this excellent & long needed field guide. Well done to Professors Richards & Cummings for producing this - a valuable public service. When I can no longer travel to prehistoric sites overseas I shall retrench to those on the islands of Britain &
Ireland (done some, but not enough!).
Ireland (done some, but not enough!).
September 14, 2024 at 2:21 PM
The Central Court of the Palace of Phaistos, Crete with its paving which dates from the Protopalatial period (1900 - 1700 BCE). It was built over deposits dating back to the Neolithic and Early Minoan periods
©️ photograph mine.
©️ photograph mine.
September 11, 2024 at 2:23 PM
The Central Court of the Palace of Phaistos, Crete with its paving which dates from the Protopalatial period (1900 - 1700 BCE). It was built over deposits dating back to the Neolithic and Early Minoan periods
©️ photograph mine.
©️ photograph mine.
Well hardly a shitty pot. This is lovely from Malia, Crete. Posted by way of a timeline cleanse .
September 9, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Well hardly a shitty pot. This is lovely from Malia, Crete. Posted by way of a timeline cleanse .