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timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · 7d

When are you coming to Banbury, England?

timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · 18d

JR bingo here! Nearly a full house!

Tom Royston @tomroyston.bsky.social · 19d

Really important High Court decision today, quashing a local authority’s council tax reduction scheme. The judgment contains many lessons about these schemes. Trafford's scheme was ultra vires, irrational, and unlawfully discriminatory, and breached the PSED @rightsnet.org.uk @nawra.bsky.social

Judgment header of R (LL and AU) v Trafford Council [2025] EWHC 2380 (Admin) (19 September 2025)

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timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · 27d

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Doubt this’ll be the last of these.

UK's first 'super-university' to be created as two merge from 2026

Universities are facing ongoing financial worries, with the regulator saying other mergers could follow.

www.bbc.co.uk

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timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Sep 8

You may have your birthday off, come what may, but this constitutes your leave for the year.

timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Sep 7

Chill Colin - PolEx has sorted it. ;-)

timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’m yet to be convinced that ‘leaving stuff’ constitutes a coherent and sufficient policy package. It seems some differ, including those who ought to know better.

timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Aug 21

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timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Aug 11

Looks great, will check out. Is the answer onwards and upwards to a glorious golden age?

timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Aug 5

Charitably, maybe they mean in respect of the same accused in the same case, which is trivially true.

timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Aug 1

90% of prisoners are locally born, wld be another way of putting it.

Alfie Tobutt @alfietobutt.bsky.social · Jul 31

THE TIMES: 1 in 8 of all prisoners were born overseas #TomorrowsPapersToday

timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Jul 31

Guess ’2008 financial crash’ is sort of the equivalent? (If not quite ‘on all fours’).

timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Jul 7

It’s the bit where McSweeney scrawls ‘let Starmer be Starmer’ on a napkin, and then everything’s grand.

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timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Jun 18

Yes but they won’t be spiritually fulfilled in the way that academics are, and you can’t put a price tag on that.

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timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Jun 16

Room on the broom criminally under-ranked here

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timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · May 3

Campaign in drivel, govern in line with statutory duty.

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timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Apr 23

2:1

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timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Apr 22

The US ones are all also about 3000 pages long so I doubt he has time.

timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Apr 22

It would be a better world if reporting on the Supreme Court trans decision could avoid suggesting that the court has some magic power to define words in general. How long would it take to say ‘in the Equality Act’?

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timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Apr 14

As long as no wee came out, you’re grand.

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timsayer.bsky.social @timsayer.bsky.social · Apr 8

This is going to blow their minds - www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rightwing group backed by Koch and Leo sues to stop Trump tariffs

New Civil Liberties Alliance says president’s invocation of emergency powers to impose tariffs is unlawful

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · Mar 28

New post | The principle of legality and heightened-scrutiny rationality review: The Supreme Court’s judgment in the Spitalfields case publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/03/28/t...

The principle of legality and heightened-scrutiny rationality review: The Supreme Court’s judgment in the Spitalfields case

A few weeks ago, I wrote about Chamberlain J’s judgment in KP v Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs [2025] EWHC 370, welcoming the subtle and structured appro…

publiclawforeveryone.com

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