@bugsie
Multiple Mini-Dachshund owner (servant?), lawyer, West of England resident. Former (amateur...) Saracens rugby player. Interested in the ethics of lawyers and business, as well as the failure of regulations to account for other regulations....
I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
Hello Rigby, I’m Lily !
@joannahs.bsky.social dearest Mr Pickles. We are told that your staff’s relative Daniel has, this morning, been tasked by one of our staff with the job of congratulating you for being a “good boy”. We trust he will deliver this with appropriate treats and cuddles.
Your West Country fan club
Same vibe here….
Oh, hi!
Roy Castle?
The aforementioned 4 mini dachshunds lying on sofa underneath the window
@joannahs.bsky.social dear Mr Pickle, please let us know if you’d like our support in the event you start proceedings for being so negligently left out of this week’s “The Diary” column (which was otherwise excellent). We are sure you could make a good case for neglect…
Yours
Ruby, Coco, Lily & Mimi
Odds being offered on the next leader of the Reform Party including Johnson, Jenrick, Braverman and Rees-Mogg
or is it a precursor to looking to move Farage out and have Reform run by someone more attractive to the wider Conservative base? Cincinnatus may still, yet, give up his plough....
Thank you!! Whatever I do to prepare myself in this situation, I cannot prevent a sense of stumbling. Thought it might just be me…
It's called a Part 36 offer. Here is just one law firm's guidance on it (there are plenty of others...)
www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/guid...
Happy birthday to Mabel. Despite her occasional worries about the world, she would follow you to the ends of it. Which she proved again a couple of days ago.
Screenshot of Govt issued Red Warning alarm sent to everyone’s phones in the area
Well, that’s a new one for me….
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1 Before formulating regulations, be clear about the risk you are trying to reduce (too many organisations assume regulations are needed, but without really investigating why). 2 Make sure that the regulation actually targets the risk (too many organisations want to show that they are 'doing something' but the something may have no relation to the actual risk). 3 Make sure that the regulation will actually reduce the risk, not increase it (if people don't like the regulation, and try to get round it, its possible that you will increase the risk). 4 Make sure that the regulation does not have side effects that are worse than the risk that is being reduced. Once you've done this you can start talking about transparency and simplicity, which is where the discussion too often starts.
I wrote a paper called 'Rules for Regulators' in an edited collection, John-Stewart Gordon ed. Smart Technologies and Human Rights (Brill 2021) and others have encouraged me to share it a bit more widely. Link here.
jonathanwolff.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
Main message summarised below.
This Snow White remake trailer ran before Moana 2 last week. I assumed it was just one that I had erased from my brain — not that it hadn't been released online yet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV46...
I have said it before and will say it again: The BBC's Natural History Unit is worth the licence fee alone. Over the last 50 years, I have learnt more about the natural world from the BBC than anywhere else. It is a magnificent thing which we should cherish.
Interviewing @ChefTomKerridge on #PoliticsHub tonight who gave me the best ever cooking tip:
Cook roast potatoes on the hob THEN LEAVE THEM TO COOL before roasting them using hot oil in the oven
I’m a terrible cook but this really works you’re welcome
@financialtimes.com good morning! is the digital edition app having issues this morning? Nothing I try seems to remedy this…
View looking eastward with foreground in darkness and a deep red on the clouds in the sky from the sun just before sunrise. Trees on horizon are in silhouette
Red Sky in the morning….
Etymology of the day: to be ‘blowing a hoolie’ (or ‘hooley’) was probably inspired by the Orkney word ‘hoolan’, a howling gale, with a touch of the ‘hooley’ that is a very noisy party thrown in.
It is lucky that my husband has a birthday between now and Christmas because there are SO MANY amazing #cookbook recommendations below this post! 👇
Thank you 🙏
4 minature long haired dachshunds all curled up on the sofa and showing no interest in going outside in the rain and wind (no surprise there!)
There’s a storm outside?
Our postofficeproject team won the @ESRC Societal Impact prize last night. Picked from some stellar projects we are as pleased as punch. Watch this video to see why... youtu.be/v99Fj6wjdnA?...
Trials are being adjourned from 2024 to 2026 at one London court with capacity issues.
Imagine getting the call to be told your trial (on either side of the courtroom) was being delayed.
It won’t start on time.
Not by 2 hours. Or days. Not by 2 weeks. Or months.
But 2 years.
The King* is here!
(*of legal journalism. Not the UK)
Excellent news.
Fantastic thread - I would say it brings back memories but actually, I remember oddly little of my visit except the overall shabbiness - it was quietly falling apart by November.
