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davidallengreen

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Law and policy commentary from UK.

I also geek out here about lore and fantasy, which are my real interests, as well as about other cultural stuff.

I am often ironic and not always earnest, and so please don't take some of the things I post at face value.

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craiggrannell, to random
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Apple: The M4 is fantastic!

British people: fucking horrible motorway.

davidallengreen,
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@craiggrannell

“The M5 is fantastic!”

  • depends on how much you love Bristol and Birmingham really.
ChrisMayLA6, to journalism
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Something to ponder on Saturday afternoon.

here's the ever interesting David Allen Green on why regulating the press/media may be easy to demand but is (now) much more difficult to achieve.

For this of us who see the control of the media & what its owners do with that control as a key problem for the UK's democracy, this is what one can call a 'sobering read'!

#media #regulation #democracy

@davidallengreen

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/on-how-regulating-the-media-is-hard

davidallengreen,
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@ChrisMayLA6

Ownership is easier to regulate than content.

davidallengreen,
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@KimSJ @ChrisMayLA6

Unfortunately that is not easy to implement and enforce practically. It may not be possible at all. You may as well try to regulate in-person conversations.

davidallengreen,
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@ChrisMayLA6 No criticism of your post whatsoever: more about taking the discussion forward!

davidallengreen, to random
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Some have complained about me linking to Substack - and so I will now also post links to my personal blog where I usually also publish my posts.

davidallengreen,
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@TechnicalAdept @Greenbirder

And so I should significantly reduce the circulation of liberal constitutionalist content accordingly?

davidallengreen,
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@TechnicalAdept @Greenbirder

I was already "aware of the reasons given by leaders" - indeed that was the very context of the exchange you are joining.

So the only reason for you adding that (obvious) comment must be critical.

davidallengreen, to random
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New, by me

On how regulating the media is hard - if not impossible

And on why reviving the Leveson Inquiry may not be the best basis for seeing what regulations are now needed

Substack:
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/on-how-regulating-the-media-is-hard

Non-Substack: https://davidallengreen.com/2024/05/on-how-regulating-the-media-is-hard-if-not-impossible-and-on-why-reviving-the-leveson-inquiry-may-not-be-the-best-basis-for-seeing-what-regulations-are-now-needed/

davidallengreen, to random
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This by the chair of the Commons justice committee is important and persuasive on why IPP sentences are wrong in principle and bad in practice.

One telling passage jumped out:

“IPP sentences were introduced in 2003 as a new form of custodial sentence. Designed to appear tough on crime…”

How many stupid law and policy things have been done for that reason.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/series/the-ipp-scandal

davidallengreen, to random
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UK Elections

No idea if Andy Street will win the West Midlands mayoralty, but for the west midlands more generally, the loss of Redditch is significant.

tommorris, to random
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It's weird how in so much of post-apocalyptic fiction, the focus is on what happens after the proverbial nuke goes off... but only in America. The rest of the world is given pretty summary treatment.

The apocalyptic scenario would shift the power structure of nations: economic or military strength, global alliances, political power etc.

Odd that science fiction is able to set constraints of the current time aside (particularly re. science/technology), but struggles to do so with the state.

davidallengreen,
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@tommorris

What do you think of Orwell's attempt to depict UK in 1984 as "airstrip one" in this respect?

davidallengreen,
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@tommorris

Good point.

It is also in that immediate post-war period where the 'baton' as such had not yet passed from UK to USA as 'leader of the Western world'.

Much pre 1940s science fiction was Anglocentric - see HG Wells' War of the Worlds.

davidallengreen, to random
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“That cover pic of me in that small circulation mid-western magazine is embarrassing, but nobody will ever see it. Soon forgotten.”

But on page 16 there was a positive Five Guys review.

davidallengreen, (edited ) to random
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I don’t mind the cold - I prefer cold to heat - and torrential rain is bracing.

But this constant, constant drizzle is so irksome. Neither one thing nor the other. As if the weather is stuck hour-glassing between definite states.

davidallengreen,
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@stevel @ComradeGibbon

That is the spirit!

davidallengreen, to random
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NEW

The placard of Trudi Warner

Why the government sought to criminalise someone for stating a feature of constitutional law—and how it failed

By me, at Prospect

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/65837/trudy-warner-placard-old-bailey-jury

davidallengreen,
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@martinnumber9

Ha ha

davidallengreen, to random
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Coming up by me at Prospect - Trudi Warner's placard and the concept of jury equity

Will be posted about 1pm.

davidallengreen, to random
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Just writing something which has meant looking at a piece by the late Marcel Berlins.

What a great loss to the public understanding of law. Much missed.

davidallengreen, to random
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TRUMP’S CASE - A VIEW FROM AN ENGLISH LEGAL PERSPECTIVE

I am not an American lawyer, but here are some thoughts from an English litigation perspective.

Trump is adept at what he calls (or his ghost writer called) ‘the art of the deal’ - that is a transactional approach based on exploiting leverage. It is only transactional to an extent, as he will also not fulfil a promise if that also suits him.

davidallengreen,
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Such an approach is not unhelpful in pre-trial shenanigans, where it is one party dealing with another party. Pre-trial litigation is often deal-making by another name. But when a dispute gets to court (and most Trump-related litigation does not get to a courtroom) then such bilateral game-playing becomes far less important. A third party - the judge (and sometimes jury) takes power. Trump’s blustering and bargaining is not well suited for this. Bullying will now not be enough.

davidallengreen,
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And there will also be another thing he now cannot control: evidence. And this evidence will feed into the media mainstream, with the added credibility of being on oath. For somebody who is a deft manipulator of the media and his public image this los of information control will also be painful for him.

I have no idea if Trump will be convicted. I suspect it will be hard to get a conviction.

But he is now a fish out of water, at least for a while.

davidallengreen,
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@gadgetgav

I do not know if he will give evidence.

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Or whether the law can.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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As @davidallengreen forcefully argues the Rule of Law is as dependent on our assumptions about it as its actual enforcement;

we expect the law to be upheld even if mostly we just conduct ourselves as if it would be, in extremis, with little experience of it actually being upheld.

The ongoing crisis in the County Court system, which is seeing the enforcement fail for myriad reasons, will thus, in the long term poison the well of our belief in the law!

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/law-and-lore-and-state-failure?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

davidallengreen,
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@gruff @ChrisMayLA6

Well quite.

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