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Devolution anorak, parliamentary history nerd & recovering academic. Any views expressed are not those of my employer (yada yada etc passim) Academic work: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam-Evans-11
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"I've seen a lot of poles, so many of them, too many to count, unbelievable but true, not normally in the daylight..."

Cromwell would be turning in his wicket

I thought I'd aged badly...

“Must, I repeat must, involve attaching cameras to goats”

*Foolishly opens the BBC Weather app*

“When the report he set in motion finally appeared before councillors, its conclusion that Orkney had no realistic prospect of changing its relationship with the UK was accepted without comment…” #devolution #holyrood

First standards of dress and now standards of debate - another... robust intervention from the Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly #stormont #devolution

New @findoutnow.bsky.social poll of Welsh voting intentions for the next Senedd election: Reform 29% Plaid 27% Labour 18% Conservatives 11% Lib Dem 7% Green 7% Write-up and full data tables here: #senedd #devolution findoutnow.co.uk/blog/senedd-...

MPs have just voted by 379 to 137 to add NC1 (disapplying the criminal law re abortion for a woman acting in relation to her own pregnancy). The competing amendment NC20 was debated but cannot be voted upon now that NC1 has passed.

*Adds ‘Ioris twins’ to ‘list of plausible names for American congressmen’*

A dramatic exit from an international gathering, you say?

Well, I can’t see how this could possibly end badly

The Crime & Policing Bill has its first day of Report Stage in @houseofcommons.parliament.uk today. If the programme motion is agreed then the debate on abortion amendments - incl 2 competing liberalisation new clauses (NC1 & NC20) & a more conservative new clause (NC106) - should start around 4pm

I'd be amazed if there were any spoilers for Threads left given that it was first broadcast in the 1980s

At least it should come loaded with snakes

You mean to say they’re…‘Mullah Corner(ed)’?

Very sad!

Wow - first TACO Tuesdays and now Orange Wednesdays?

You mean to say they’re attempting an atomic split?

EXCLUSIVE | DUP councillors are at loggerheads with the leadership whom they accuse of “disrespecting them” and denying them their “democratic voice” in the party.

A key document not just in the Reformation’s democratisation of faith - by bringing the Bible into the vernacular, but also in the preservation of the Welsh language (notwithstanding some of the Laws in Wales Acts provisions about the official legal language) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Call me a nostalgic, old romantic, but I can’t help but think that we really have lost something as a society from the older, more communal ways of exam cheating

I know it’s not the point of this piece, but this lectern sign has sent my parliamentary procedural pedantry senses into hyperdrive

Lucky sod

You’re incredibly lost?

£5 to the first tabloid to run this under the headline ‘Seagullped!’

Hmm, reserving judgement until I listen to some podcasts