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How the UK Supreme Court used simple contract law to undo a spiteful government move

A recent appeal decision may lead to a historic damages payout for public sector trade unions

By me, at Prospect - in my now rebranded "weekly constitutional" post

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/69003/how-uk-supreme-court-undid-spiteful-government-move

@davidallengreen Yes. We have the same copy, loved the TV adaptation

@davidallengreen we really enjoyed the 2022 Persuasion. Most people hated it, but we felt the anachronisms made you think.

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"

The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending

And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on

Substack
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-night-till-candlemas

Personal blog

https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story-of-a-forty-year-book-quest-and-of-its-remarkable-ending/

And also...
“the land required for solar panels alone to provide all global energy is … less than the current land footprint of fossil fuel infrastructure”.
Amazing.
Oh and also, also...
“But as far as sheep grazing goes, solar is really good.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/13/farmers-who-graze-sheep-under-solar-panels-say-it-improves-productivity-so-why-dont-we-do-it-more

HAPPY COMMA DAY

Today is when we celebrate good-hearted discussion about where the comma should go in God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen - and why.

And is it exhortation or injunction or what?

And what about the you/ye distinction?

For background, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxfxy-3dGz0

@7ikozu ❤️

@mock His last few days weren't great and when he stopped eating much it became obvious he had little quality of life left. Poor boy but sleeping now.

Not a good #Caturday for us today. Sadly our little Tigger was overwhelmed by his kidney problems and was put to sleep this morning. Bless his little silver paws. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of cat angels sing thee to thy rest..

@davidallengreen So when you post in both places have you found a way to do that which doesn't involve manually copy-pasting?

Please for the love of everything use full stops.
I just had to read a post manually line by line for it to make sense because my screen reader uses them to break the flow of speech, and the next line joined on to the first one changed the intended meaning.
They are not rude, or intimidating or whatever the ridiculous reason is you don't like using them.

Delighted and relieved to see Restore Trust candidates were soundly beaten. None received more than 20,000 votes, while all National Trust preferred candidates received over 40,000 votes. RT spent nearly £100k on attack ads this year. Stay vigilant next year.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/annual-general-meeting/agm-voting-results#rt-results-of-voting-in-the-council-elections

For fans of European TV, season 2 of La Legge di Lidia Poët has just landed. The first woman to qualify as a lawyer in Italy (but then disbarred because she was female). https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81414644

Only Vienna would have a magical musical interlude with balletic gymnastics between tennis matches. Stadt der Musik

As there is nothing we in UK can do to affect the outcome, and as polls are unreliable, may be sensible to avoid looking at US news until the election.

Great news. Defib the cat gets to stay in his ambulance station home
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rd617xe86o

@PhoenixSerenity They weren't fundraising as such - just trying to get a decision overturned. But great that they did!

@vfrmedia Love your tabby point Siamese. I have one too

@noctiluca Cats plus NHS = top story!

A new manager at Walthamstow ambulance station is trying to evict eldelry Defib the cat, who has lived there caring for the crews for many years.
#CatsOfMastodon
Petition here https://chng.it/7fpDyr6Gzs