dag
@davidallengreen.bsky.social
Writer about law, lore, and policy. Sometimes ironic.
Liberal constitutionalist.
Birmingham/London.
#AVFC
Liberal constitutionalist.
Birmingham/London.
#AVFC
So I am doing this, and there is nothing like quoting Austen to remind you of your deficiencies as a writer.
Oh well, at least there will be some decent prose on my blog for once, just not mine.
Oh well, at least there will be some decent prose on my blog for once, just not mine.
Am thinking of writing a Christmas/anniversary post about why Jane Austen is our greatest writer about law.
She can deftly describe the most complex of legal relationships - entails, succession, etc - in a sentence or two. And you don’t even notice she’s done it.
Awesome.
She can deftly describe the most complex of legal relationships - entails, succession, etc - in a sentence or two. And you don’t even notice she’s done it.
Awesome.
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
So I am doing this, and there is nothing like quoting Austen to remind you of your deficiencies as a writer.
Oh well, at least there will be some decent prose on my blog for once, just not mine.
Oh well, at least there will be some decent prose on my blog for once, just not mine.
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
The banality of evil.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The banality of evil.
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This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This was exactly Adolf Eichmann's job.
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Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.
A (non-militant) republican here, but that was a fine King’s Speech.
If we are to have a monarchy that is what they should say.
If we are to have a monarchy that is what they should say.
December 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A (non-militant) republican here, but that was a fine King’s Speech.
If we are to have a monarchy that is what they should say.
If we are to have a monarchy that is what they should say.
Just as Clueless is the best adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, Muppet Christmas Carol is the best adaptation of anything by Charles Dickens.
December 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Just as Clueless is the best adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, Muppet Christmas Carol is the best adaptation of anything by Charles Dickens.
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A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
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A wonderful Christmas tale, well worth your time. Now with an unexpected epilogue!
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
emptycity.substack.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A wonderful Christmas tale, well worth your time. Now with an unexpected epilogue!
White Christmas is such a beautiful film to look at, let alone it being a musical To listen to. Every scene is gorgeous.
December 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
White Christmas is such a beautiful film to look at, let alone it being a musical To listen to. Every scene is gorgeous.
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Kyiv is celebrating Christmas. Residents of the capital gathered for caroling on St. Michael’s Square.
I’m genuinely so happy that at least part of our country can gather like this - all thanks to the people defending us this Christmas.
I’m genuinely so happy that at least part of our country can gather like this - all thanks to the people defending us this Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Kyiv is celebrating Christmas. Residents of the capital gathered for caroling on St. Michael’s Square.
I’m genuinely so happy that at least part of our country can gather like this - all thanks to the people defending us this Christmas.
I’m genuinely so happy that at least part of our country can gather like this - all thanks to the people defending us this Christmas.
Scum, all you faithful.
December 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Scum, all you faithful.
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Gods rest you merry, gentlefolk.
December 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Gods rest you merry, gentlefolk.
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"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
emptycity.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Gods rest you merry, gentlefolk.
December 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Gods rest you merry, gentlefolk.
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Funny how that works, huh? [Cartoon by Joe Heller]
December 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Funny how that works, huh? [Cartoon by Joe Heller]
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I wouldn't trust an IT department that didn't hate computers
December 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I wouldn't trust an IT department that didn't hate computers
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The best thing you will read today, probably all week, no you have a tear in your eye. That visceral reaction of reading a story from childhood after so many years
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
emptycity.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The best thing you will read today, probably all week, no you have a tear in your eye. That visceral reaction of reading a story from childhood after so many years
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Becoming an annual tradition, but if you've not read this before, delight in the story. If you have, a chance to delight in it again.
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
emptycity.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Becoming an annual tradition, but if you've not read this before, delight in the story. If you have, a chance to delight in it again.
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If you have ever loved books, or libraries, or lost moments from childhood, this is for you.
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
emptycity.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
If you have ever loved books, or libraries, or lost moments from childhood, this is for you.
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Still as brilliant and heart-warming a post as when I read it first, last year. Librarians 💪💪💪
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
emptycity.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Still as brilliant and heart-warming a post as when I read it first, last year. Librarians 💪💪💪
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
emptycity.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
My popular seasonal post from last year:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
Now with a couple of footnotes one year on:
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
NEW
“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” - one year on
A couple of footnotes to last December's remarkable story of a book quest
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” - one year on
A couple of footnotes to last December's remarkable story of a book quest
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
December 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
NEW
“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” - one year on
A couple of footnotes to last December's remarkable story of a book quest
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” - one year on
A couple of footnotes to last December's remarkable story of a book quest
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni...
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It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant.
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators
State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant.
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...