Nicholas Reed Langen

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At last, I can stop paying TLS 6.99 a month for the single article I sometimes read

It's really much harder for Argentina to score if you don't just let them attack for forty five minutes

they do know we can score more than once, right?

highlight so far is the bbc trying to take advantage of a surfeit of patriotism/alcohol by flogging the tv licence

For anyone inclined to take this syllogism seriously, Rentoul's followed it up with pro-Mahmood guff

Cato really going for the illiterate readership

Prominent public figures when they die deserve to be remembered for what they said and did (like all of us, if we’re remembered at all), for how they used power and influence, how they behaved towards others. Surely that’s what they would have expected?

Norway proving the advantage that comes if you actually get round to shooting

In which PolEx lawyers simultaneously lament the huge reparations orders international courts might impose and claim that the orders are unenforceable and not worth the paper they're written on

I think the weather's winning this argument

For Fathers' Day, Keir Starmer posts a photo of his own father, who died in 2018, and a non-political message. The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes. We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians

Meanwhile the police are arresting priests and quakers

Took a break from book writing to write for the @lrb.co.uk about the Filton Four, Palestine Action, and the ever widening definition of terrorism: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

Took a break from book writing to write for the @lrb.co.uk about the Filton Four, Palestine Action, and the ever widening definition of terrorism: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

To be fair, the Court of Appeal is right here- Palestine Action haven't chucked an axe at Keir Starmer or tried to blow up Rachel Reeves' summer home or smashed windows up and down the west end or set fire to post boxes or stormed Parliament

It's genius policies like this that show McSweeney is back at the helm

I wrote this because oh god some of the stuff I’ve dragged my parents to and they did recently say that, on the one hand it’s lovely when your child still wants to spend time with you and isn’t drunk on vodka in a hedge. On the other… www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/lifesty...

I usually like Sam Knight's @newyorker.com analyses of British politics, but what circle of hell has he dragged this take from:

For the love of god can we please finally have chaos with Ed Miliband

This was supposed to be a joke

Maybe Starmer has gone really mental with the wallpaper

Now that the Filton verdict is out, we can confirm that the senior lawyer who is currently facing contempt of court charges, for eloquently defending one of his Palestine Action clients, is Rajiv Menon KC of Garden Court Chambers

Our latest legal analysis of the first known case of "right to remain" in the UK amid displacement due to climate change has been published by the RLI blog 👇

Why does America get Zohran Mamdani as the leader of its insurgent left-wing movement and we get Zack Polanski

it's hard not to think that the reason we are failing as a nation is down to the fact that the civil servants running the government are just not very bright

🇭🇺🗳️⚖️🇪🇺 There's still time to register for our tomorrow's webinar, where three happy Hungarians and one Polish smile will discuss the aftermath of the earthquake of an election that we had this Sunday. Where do we go from here with the rule of law democracy? How does Hungary start to repair?

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Mixed metaphors coupled with some botched ones for good measure

Great piece from @daniellalock.bsky.social on why the High Court was right to find that the Home Sec had gone beyond the government's own policy in proscribing Palestine Action

This is political suicide by letter, right? He's basically begging them to defenestrate him

American professors, who wants to come to Oxford for a year or two? Get in quick - deadline soon. www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/vacancy-geor...

✍️ In his op-ed, @nicholasrl.bsky.social analyzes the roots of the Labour Party’s current malaise and explores prospects for change to prevent a further ascent of the far right. 🇬🇧🇬🇧 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yhuu2hpf

Palestine Action judgment here www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Good to know Polanski's Greens are just as shitty as every other party going

What a relief, Ganesh wrote this so I know I'm right

Won't someone think of the women too feckless to do some retirement planning

Little more than a wind up doll that bleats 'we inherited a problem'

Paging Keir Starmer

Hungary has granted political asylum to Poland’s former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro. PETRA BÁRD shows why this is not a humanitarian exception, but a challenge to EU asylum law and judicial cooperation — and an example of autocratic legalism in the Union. verfassungsblog.de/ziobros-asyl...