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Anurag Deb
@anuragdeb.bsky.social
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PhD candidate at Queen's University Belfast. Looking at legislative drafting. Interested in devolution, public law, politics and climate change. Mostly unserious takes (anything on Stormont) + a few slightly serious ones (N. Tayto > S. Tayto). He/him
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Anurag Deb @anuragdeb.bsky.social · Nov 7
So, hello new followers. I mostly post unserious takes on public law, occasionally changing it up with slightly serious takes on public law. Sometimes I incorporate the occult into these takes. Welcome
a woman with blood on her face is screaming with her mouth open
Alt: a woman with blood on her face is screaming with her mouth open. Scene from the 2015 gothic horror film, The Witch
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profjacob.bsky.social
🚨🚨 I am very delighted to peer over my proofs to a new quite comprehensive article analysing the European Public Prosecutor's Office ( #EPPO) to be published in the December issue of #europeanlawreview. 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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cathalmalone.bsky.social
The Government's new stated aim is to make it so unattractive for lawyers to take good cases against the State that they will stop. Not bad cases. Good ones. Successful ones. This new rule only applies if you *win* your case. Doesn't that worry anyone slightly?

m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...
Objectors will be on the hook to pay six-figure legal costs under judicial reviews clampdown
Objectors will have to foot six-figure legal bills for successful judicial review cases in a new move being brought to the Cabinet to speed up the supply of infrastructure and housing.
m.independent.ie
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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rincewind.run
making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us
whysharksmatter.bsky.social David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 4d
BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
anuragdeb.bsky.social
"I believe there is social value to bolstering public understanding of the law."

Absolutely 100% agree with Steve. If the last decade has taught us anything, it's that some of the most explosive public law cases around Brexit have stemmed from an ignorance of/refusal to understand the law.
November 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City mayoral race, capping a meteoric rise from a little-known state politician to one of the country's most visible Democratic figures.
Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York City
Zohran Mamdani has won the New York City mayoral race, capping a meteoric rise from a little-known state politician to one of the country's most visible Democratic figures.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
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colinmurray.bsky.social
I've a new paper out in the Discrimination Law Association's Briefings on the distinct Windsor Framework's rights/equality arrangements applicable to Northern Ireland law, which give ongoing significance of a broad sweep of EU protections even after Brexit:

discriminationlaw.org.uk/assets/docum...
November 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
anuragdeb.bsky.social
This is a word salad invented after a whole month of uncritically swallowing the weirdest corners of the internet, in a basement infested with black mould.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8d
it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops
But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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wendylyon.bsky.social
Wow the IT actually printed my letter

#speirghorm
A chara, - In January 1989, the British Minister Douglas Hogg stated that some solicitors were “unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA”. Three weeks later Pat Finucane was murdered by loyalists. It is widely accepted in Ireland that there was a consequential link between these two events. Will there be a similar recognition of the responsibility political leaders bear for inciting violence in the wake of the horrific arson attack on a centre for international protection applicants in Drogheda on Hallowen night, only days after the Tánaiste described migration numbers as “too high”? - Is mise Wendy Lyon
November 3, 2025 at 7:11 AM
anuragdeb.bsky.social
I had a few US legal academics come for me in the 9th circle of Hell (aka X/Twitter) for a joke about how American law review articles can sometimes be self-indulgent books in disguise.

This is on another level (of dreadful).
"i ain't reading all that i'm happy for u tho or sorry that happened"
October 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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sn0r.bsky.social
Results are trickling in.. and the first ones are from the islands.
October 29, 2025 at 9:25 PM
anuragdeb.bsky.social
Even by the metrics of runaway corporate profiteering the East India Company was overstretched and on the verge of bankruptcy almost throughout the 19th c (until it was formally shut down). This is illiterate even by the worst standards of understanding imperial history. And that is an achievement.
robertsaunders.bsky.social Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 13d
If the model here is that you let a private company conquer a country, co-opt local elites to exploit it for profit and govern it by force, while providing no public services and never worrying about elections, then, yes - this is a really good analogy, Mr Kruger.
"Britain used to administer an empire from a company building around Downing Street in the 1820s,” the Reform MP for East Wiltshire said during a press conference, arguing that in the past the number of staff needed to run departments was far fewer than today."
October 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
anuragdeb.bsky.social
When, instead of reading an actual text, you only read the first two lines of an AI summary.

I've had to mark a few papers like this. At least that problem is a shit understanding of tort law (which may be smacked out of them by courts and costs) and not a billionaire with a global megaphone.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13d
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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georgeperetzkc.bsky.social
Fans of VAT food and drink cases will enjoy this decision, where the Tax Tribunal was entertained with two days of argument on whether Ferrero Nutella chocolate biscuits (pictured) are “covered in chocolate”. caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukftt/tc/202....
40. We agree with the Appellant that the test cannot be one which is determined by whether the chocolate like substance is visible. However, having considered the detail of HMRC's case we do not interpret HMRC's case as one founded only or materially on the visibility of the Ring despite the language used in the Decisions and the review of them. 41. We have carefully considered the arguments put to us and consider that the statutory test requires us to examine the outer surface of the finished product as a whole (see in particular the approach adopted in BN Tartelettes) to determine whether chocolate or a similar substance has been laid over the surface of the finished product so as to thereby form the outer surface of that finished product. In so concluding we do not strictly impute a purpose test for the cover, rather it is a test which can be objectively discerned by the informed consumer by asking: is the chocolate like substance laid over the other elements so as to form, in whole or in part, the outer surface of that finished product viewed sensibly? Picture of the biscuits
October 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
anuragdeb.bsky.social
Welcome to South Asia, where many languages have this. E.g. my māmā (maternal uncle in Bengali), can be my mother's brother or cousin. In the same way that cousins are also brothers/sisters (and you might hear "cousin-brother/sister" from South Asians when speaking in English).

What. A. Scandal.
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
anuragdeb.bsky.social
I am especially fascinated by this bit, as if the tort of defamation is essentially a requirement that you pay for the privilege of trashing someone's reputation (it isn't).
"Coogan starred in the film and was also join writer of the script. Taylor told the Daily Mail that his portrayal in the film was “monstrous” and the film – which portrayed itself as a true story was “nonsense”. He said the film “Created an impression of a male-dominated and misogynistic university intent on minimising Philippa Langley’s achievements, something we never did – we co-operated at every step and I had a good relationship with her. “But in order to make that narrative work, all the brilliant female academics who took part in the project are airbrushed out.” Coogan himself said yesterday: “That is the story I wanted to tell, and I am happy I did.”
October 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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paulfscott.bsky.social
The JCHR's report on the judicial immunity remedial order: committees.parliament.uk/publications...
October 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
anuragdeb.bsky.social
Wasn't the far right berating everyone else for focussing on identity politics or something only seconds ago? Seems quite the about-turn to go from that to caring about skin colour on adverts 🤔
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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jennifercobbe.bsky.social
This is beyond stupid. People flying out from Belfast and back through Dublin having child benefit stopped because HMRC assumes they've left the country

I know GB forgets Northern Ireland exists, but what are they playing at

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Parents in Northern Ireland have had their child support payments stopped as part of the UK government’s crackdown on alleged benefit fraud simply because they returned from a holiday via Dublin airport. So far 346 families have had their benefits frozen, an investigation by NI online newspaper, the Detail, shared with the Guardian, has discovered. The extraordinary mistake comes in the wake of a new anti-fraud system designed to track those who leave the country but do not come back after eight weeks, raising a red flag at HMRC for possible emigration. The problem in Northern Ireland is many families routinely fly out of Belfast but return via Dublin, which is often cheaper and offers many more flights, leaving HMRC with the impression a passenger has not returned.
October 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
anuragdeb.bsky.social
Indira Gandhi ushered in an "elective dictatorship" for 2 years under one of the world's most prescriptive constitutions. A codified constitution is not a solution, it's a beginning.
robertsaunders.bsky.social Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 18d
There is a serious, principled case for a codified constitution, for some of the reasons George sets out.

But botching together a constitution to stop Farage - a constitution that could not command widespread support and that was widely seen as rigged - would deepen our problems, not resolve them.🧵
georgemonbiot.bsky.social George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19d
We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
October 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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lizcarolan.com
With 3 constituencies left to count - Catherine Connolly has received the highest number of votes of any candidate for presidency in the history of the state

According to @womenforelection.bsky.social data - MDH in 2018 had 822k #Aras25
October 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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gavreilly.com
First few official results now coming in for #aras25: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
October 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
anuragdeb.bsky.social
QUB Law is getting in the Halloween mood with photorealistic depictions of parliamentary sovereignty and the royal prerogative
Two skeletons dressed in t-shirts which read "Queen's University Belfast School of Law". One skeleton has the name tag "Boneo", the other one "Ghouliet".
October 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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bymyong.bsky.social
If anyone is interested
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/02/13/b...
October 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
anuragdeb.bsky.social
My heart goes out to the Bloody Sunday families.

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...
Bloody Sunday: Soldier F found not guilty of all charges in Bloody Sunday murder trial - BBC News
Bloody Sunday: Soldier F found not guilty of all charges in Bloody Sunday murder trial
Soldier F - who cannot be named - was accused of murdering two people in Londonderry in 1972, plus five counts of attempted murder.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
anuragdeb.bsky.social
You know, for all our crumbling infrastructure and health service crises, NI bantz are still legendary 🫠

BBC News - King should abdicate if he prays with the Pope - Kyle Paisley
www.bbc.com/news/article...
King Charles should abdicate if he prays with the Pope, says Kyle Paisley
The son of Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) founder Ian Paisley says the King would not be "true to his oath" if he joined the Pope in prayer.
www.bbc.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM