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The FAFO of Harold Godwinson: how the Bayeux Tapestry tells a moral tale and a constitutional story
The Bayeux Tapestry, as convention requires we call the embroidery currently on show at the British Museum, is a familiar thing.
It is so familiar that it is difficult to look at it and and think about it afresh.
It is the stuff of a tho...
“Look It Up” - a tale of bots and bottery
Once upon a time there was this glorious exchange on Twitter:
As a specimen of its genre it could not be better.
In very general terms, it was a response from a bot.
Reply-guys will quibble, and say it was actually unlikely to be an auto...
Why the boundaries of judicial review matter
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A basic - perhaps one of the most basic - questions in constitutional law is about wha...
The Manchester City decision shows the costs of an aggressive litigation strategy
This is a post is on the decision by an independent commission on Manchester City. In particular, this post critically examines two passages:
(1) the conclusion that that certain factual witnesses for Manchester City gave evidence at the h...
Words and Things
Both law and history are often about the relationship between words and what we can call reality. They are about other things too - physical evidence and artefacts and so on - but usually words are the thing.
One feature of modern politics...
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