The 20,000% spike at £100,000 is absolutely not a joke - someone earning £99,999.99 with two children under three in London will lose an immediate £20k if they earn a penny more.

who wants one??

Prepping ahead of the Oxford Private Law Research Group symposium on The Laws of Restitution…very excited for 28th Oct!

My - quite personal - speech in House of Lords about the impact on the UK Jewish community of the current crisis in the Middle East.

Here's how insane the HR rules were. James W. Phillips was going around offering to pay people out of his personal spad salary in order to get things done. to be or to do. Dominic Cummings

This was pretty great - very refreshing to see a political leader who clearly has done their science homework to understand a technical topic, AND also has the humility and people skills to be an quality interviewer. Worth a watch.

Cf this with the MSM’s obsession with Rishi’s failure to ask gotcha questions to Musk…

Dworkin preached constructive interpretation (interpret in the “best light”), but when it came to philosophical criticism it was Hart who practiced it.

The Public Accounts Committee report on HS2 is unreal. "Crucially, the Department does not yet understand how HS2 will operate as a functioning railway following recent changes." This is something that is costing us £67 billion even with the cancellation.

One final point on that awful Guardian article about landlords. As a friend notes, the Victorians and Edwardians deliver a stunning improvement in housing affordability - by building a ton of private rental properties (also known as 'London', 'Birmingham', 'Liverpool' etc etc).

Currently reading this, which is excellent on the legal debates before the Civil War. It came out of a Quentin Skinner supervised doctorate.

If you want to encourage British savers to pin even more of their retirement hopes on winning the housing lottery, then messing about with ISA allowances is about as effective a policy as you could hope to come up with. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

OK. I wasn't going to make this personal. But this quote from Ian Mulheirn today has me absolutely frothing with rage. (1/?)

Lecture on Precedent by Justice Edelman "the most basic message from this speech is a simple one. It is a message about the importance of nuance. Lawyers love lists." hcourt.gov.au/assets/publica…

This was THE best Apple WWDC in almost a decade. Summarising top takeaways:

The reluctant Rolling Stones were held to their contract after the students running the ball committee took advice from the great contract lawyer and Magdalen Fellow, Guenter Treitel. By all accounts, it wasn't their greatest performance.

Looking forward to this event tomorrow. It's online so anyone can join. There is a full draft if you have time and inclination!

The Report of the Grenfell Inquiry is all the more compelling because the Chair was chosen on merit: my letter in today’s The Times and The Sunday Times .