Fab night out yesterday at Lyric Hammersmith Theatre to see innovative, hilarious and thought-provoking adaptation of Accidental Death of an Anarchist - would highly recommend lyric.co.uk/shows/accident…

Some good news for once - BBC suspends proposed closure of the BBC Singers bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

Spring is here!

Many, many congratulations to our three new silks, all of whom have significant public law expertise - Nicola Greaney, Fiona Paterson and Katherine Apps nicola greaney Fiona MF Paterson

Have spent all day writing an advice on the correct interpretation of Regulation X(x)(c)(ii)…and each time I type it having to correct Microsoft word’s amendment of (c) to the copyright symbol. Argh! Who can want to type the copyright sign that often?!

I cannot tell you the lengths I will go to for the lovely solicitors who reliably provide a properly indexed and paginated bundle with instructions… I feel palpable pangs of appreciation whenever I get one

Approach to school inspections raises really important questions. I can see the value of a more holistic report but dubious about adjusting standards to reflect Covid/funding issues/background of pupils - surely there has to be a single objective standard bbc.co.uk/news/education…

Give me strength - Social care reform funding halved for England, government confirms bbc.co.uk/news/uk-651717…

Unesco world heritage status: Seven sites win UK backing bbc.co.uk/news/uk-652258…

School set to take Ofsted to court over inspection bbc.co.uk/news/education…

Looking forward to co-hosting this consultation event on 24 May with Kingsley Napley - do hope you can join us, including my colleague Steve Broach KC who is one of our expert speakers

Really enjoyed last night’s Young Public Lawyers’ Group event on consultation - refreshing to hear the non-lawyer perspective. Thanks to Steve Broach KC Farhana Patel The Office for Students (OfS) and Fiona Rutherford JUSTICE for their insights plus Nick De Mulder Kingsley Napley LLP for chairing

Reminder - ALBA Summer Conference 2023 Booking Now Open - mailchi.mp/4f0c5eb7c741/a…

Inexcusable that not a single pundit (and there are many) on tonight’s champions league final is a woman. Come on TNT Sports you can do better than that

Bad enough this is a criminal offence but what really gets me is the absurdly disproportionate nature of the sentence. Shocking this is going on in the UK in 2023 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Caster Semenya wins appeal at European Court of Human Rights bbc.co.uk/sport/athletic…

Wow…and not in a good way: Italian uproar over judge's 10-second groping rule bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…