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Blackfriars is pretty hard to beat for stations with views from the platform. Where else would you nominate?

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

If Reform breaks apart what next? Provisional Reform? Real Reform? Continuity Reform? People’s Reform of Great Yarmouth (Splitters)?….Reclaim Reform? Reform Reclaimed?

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Trump is going to buy a Tesla. Yep, that’s going to repair the brand damage. I can see sales booming in Harlan County etc.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

25% of those polled indicate an intention to vote for Reform: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Events across the Pond mean it has never been more important that we have principled and effective political and legal limits on wide delegations of rule making/rule dispensing power, esp Henry VIII powers. What is needed IMO is an enforceable articulation of the principle of separation of powers.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Those Georgetown ULC graduates who have just taken a job at Perkins Coie must be feeling pretty narked this morning. This is what a full blooded executive assault on the Rule of Law looks like.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Strong Henry VIII vibes in this EO.

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

Doing tutorials on the rule of law this week. The US continues to provide an embarrassment of teachable moments.

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

Taken from the Zimbabwe/Mugabe “Rule of Law Playbook”.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

The Oval Office - What even was that?

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Gene Hackman. What an actor. No one did menace/tough/bad guy like him: FC1 and 2, Mississippi Burning, Unforgiven. But then, my personal fave, The Converstion. What a film.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Bowling fast at CDC, Medicaid, DoJ, FBI; batting very hard for the Tate brothers (“friends of ours” due some payback for helpful social media influencing). These people are who their actions say they are.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

The question the White House Press Corps have to ask themselves is “At what point do we become complicit”? Holds power to account - not holdouts to power accounts.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

UN. US. WTAF.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Serious question - who is going to be buying new Teslas? Their market to date has been Democrats and Europeans. I cannot see that continuing. Will truck driving gas loving MAGA “drill, drill, drill” types be replacing them? Time to do a Gates and short the stock? Views?

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

The Attorney General of the United States — the chief *law enforcement* officer of the country — just told Apple and Google that they can break the law with impunity. Maybe you like this result; but is this the kind of country you want to live in? open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

submitted 81 days ago • 74 comments

This letter from USA for SDNY Danielle Sassoon should be taught in law schools and circulated in every law firm/chamber across the common law world, not just for its content but for its inexorably and ungainsayable construction as an argument. Brava! and very brave: static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

All this "VAT is a tariff" stuff drives me crazy. How can a non-discriminatory consumption tax be a tariff; and why are US state sales taxes not then tariffs? The fact that is border adjusted (i.e. rebated on export) just makes it trade neutral. Clear piece at taxfoundation.org/blog/trump-r...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments