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How to prepare for the drafting assessment
This blog post is primarily intended for students on the BVS (Bar Vocational Studies), BTC (Bar Training Course), the ICCA Bar Course, and B...
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If you know anyone taking the Bar Course, I have updated my guide on how to prepare for the drafting assessment for 2026.
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And not just Bylines Scotland, the whole network froze or is about to freeze their accounts on Twitter/X. We will continue our mission on other social media sites but that one had become too unethical and toxic for our conscience.
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Bylines Scotland drops X from social media list
A statement from the Bylines Scotland editorial board
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January 17, 2026 at 7:27 AM
And not just Bylines Scotland, the whole network froze or is about to freeze their accounts on Twitter/X. We will continue our mission on other social media sites but that one had become too unethical and toxic for our conscience.
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The same Toby Young who worked hard to remove former Oxford Union president-elect, George Abaraonye, when he exercised his right to freedom of speech? The same Tony Young who remained silent when the government wanted to curb Marieha Hussein, from exercising her right to freedom of speech?
It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 11:29 AM
The same Toby Young who worked hard to remove former Oxford Union president-elect, George Abaraonye, when he exercised his right to freedom of speech? The same Tony Young who remained silent when the government wanted to curb Marieha Hussein, from exercising her right to freedom of speech?
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Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is 25 today.
January 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.
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In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.
Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
Looking for atmospheric food storytelling for your weekend? Chris Bulow has knocked it out of the park with this: on rice, cooking it, and an unexpected restaurant incident.
@salutethepig.berlin
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@salutethepig.berlin
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A fable, an obsession, a bowl.
First, a recipe: https://www.madewithlau.com/recipes/clay-pot-rice
Then a soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U-gRYIuMg
Today is my worst day. Ever.
Not the day our well loved ...
chrisbulow.uk
January 17, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Looking for atmospheric food storytelling for your weekend? Chris Bulow has knocked it out of the park with this: on rice, cooking it, and an unexpected restaurant incident.
@salutethepig.berlin
chrisbulow.uk/2026/01/a-fa...
@salutethepig.berlin
chrisbulow.uk/2026/01/a-fa...
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I found that when I followed someone, looking at those they followed was a good way to find like-minded people. But do interact under posts of those you like, admire, find interesting or informative, the artists, crafts people, musicians...
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM
I found that when I followed someone, looking at those they followed was a good way to find like-minded people. But do interact under posts of those you like, admire, find interesting or informative, the artists, crafts people, musicians...
New Bluesky users: you're starting here afresh. The algorithm selected feed doesn't exist. Follow the people you want to hear from, share the posts you like, interact, and build new community and following. This new world is your oyster! Please be nice; that's how we've tried to make here different.
January 16, 2026 at 9:26 PM
New Bluesky users: you're starting here afresh. The algorithm selected feed doesn't exist. Follow the people you want to hear from, share the posts you like, interact, and build new community and following. This new world is your oyster! Please be nice; that's how we've tried to make here different.
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Disgraced former president Jair Bolsonaro has found a (novel *groan*) way to reduce his 27-year prison sentence
Brazilian law permits inmates to cut their sentences by four days for each book they read. On Thursday, a supreme court judge authorised a request from his legal team to start this scheme
Brazilian law permits inmates to cut their sentences by four days for each book they read. On Thursday, a supreme court judge authorised a request from his legal team to start this scheme
Brazil’s Bolsonaro finds novel way to reduce 27-year sentence: reading books
Former president convicted for coup plot to take advantage of law that knocks four days off jail term for each book read
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Disgraced former president Jair Bolsonaro has found a (novel *groan*) way to reduce his 27-year prison sentence
Brazilian law permits inmates to cut their sentences by four days for each book they read. On Thursday, a supreme court judge authorised a request from his legal team to start this scheme
Brazilian law permits inmates to cut their sentences by four days for each book they read. On Thursday, a supreme court judge authorised a request from his legal team to start this scheme
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Machado giving her Peace Prize to Trump tells the world far more about her than it ever could about him.
Everyone already knows he’s an entitled, narcissistic baby.
What fewer people knew was how craven, self-advertising, and attention-hungry she is.
Everyone already knows he’s an entitled, narcissistic baby.
What fewer people knew was how craven, self-advertising, and attention-hungry she is.
January 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Machado giving her Peace Prize to Trump tells the world far more about her than it ever could about him.
Everyone already knows he’s an entitled, narcissistic baby.
What fewer people knew was how craven, self-advertising, and attention-hungry she is.
Everyone already knows he’s an entitled, narcissistic baby.
What fewer people knew was how craven, self-advertising, and attention-hungry she is.
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A week is a long time, isn't it, Laila Cunningham? It must be so difficult to remember what you've said and written. First, you didn't want Robert Jenrick in the Reform Party. Now, he's "welcome" to join.
January 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
A week is a long time, isn't it, Laila Cunningham? It must be so difficult to remember what you've said and written. First, you didn't want Robert Jenrick in the Reform Party. Now, he's "welcome" to join.
A week is a long time, isn't it, Laila Cunningham? It must be so difficult to remember what you've said and written. First, you didn't want Robert Jenrick in the Reform Party. Now, he's "welcome" to join.
January 16, 2026 at 3:36 PM
A week is a long time, isn't it, Laila Cunningham? It must be so difficult to remember what you've said and written. First, you didn't want Robert Jenrick in the Reform Party. Now, he's "welcome" to join.
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I did not realize quite how bad this “AI” error in hiring ICE officers was www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
January 16, 2026 at 1:06 PM
I did not realize quite how bad this “AI” error in hiring ICE officers was www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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The BBC is set to design and premiere programmes on YouTube.
Not only does this mean pushing the extraordinary success of iPlayer to the sidelines, it means our audience data and licence fee will now go to improve YouTube's algorithm and AI.
This is a public asset quietly handed to Big Tech.
Not only does this mean pushing the extraordinary success of iPlayer to the sidelines, it means our audience data and licence fee will now go to improve YouTube's algorithm and AI.
This is a public asset quietly handed to Big Tech.
BBC to show programmes on YouTube in landmark deal
British public sector broadcaster will make unique shows for the platform and generate revenue from ads overseas
www.ft.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The BBC is set to design and premiere programmes on YouTube.
Not only does this mean pushing the extraordinary success of iPlayer to the sidelines, it means our audience data and licence fee will now go to improve YouTube's algorithm and AI.
This is a public asset quietly handed to Big Tech.
Not only does this mean pushing the extraordinary success of iPlayer to the sidelines, it means our audience data and licence fee will now go to improve YouTube's algorithm and AI.
This is a public asset quietly handed to Big Tech.
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Mark Carney basically explaining that the US under Trump is destabilising the world and that a new world order for trade is being created
Don't Americans understand how much damage Trump is doing to the international world order, and that it'll take years to repair and rebuild relations of trust?
Don't Americans understand how much damage Trump is doing to the international world order, and that it'll take years to repair and rebuild relations of trust?
January 16, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Mark Carney basically explaining that the US under Trump is destabilising the world and that a new world order for trade is being created
Don't Americans understand how much damage Trump is doing to the international world order, and that it'll take years to repair and rebuild relations of trust?
Don't Americans understand how much damage Trump is doing to the international world order, and that it'll take years to repair and rebuild relations of trust?
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Don’t treat smoke inhalation or tear gas exposure with drugs for nerve agent exposure because you will make the victim worse and possibly kill them.
January 16, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Don’t treat smoke inhalation or tear gas exposure with drugs for nerve agent exposure because you will make the victim worse and possibly kill them.
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“I like the frame, gold frame, great frame and big, big frame, bigly frame. It’ll look great hung up in the White House next to the other gold things. Love gold, lots of gold. Did I tell you I’ve got lots of gold. Anyway thanks for coming. What’s your name again?”
January 16, 2026 at 9:07 AM
“I like the frame, gold frame, great frame and big, big frame, bigly frame. It’ll look great hung up in the White House next to the other gold things. Love gold, lots of gold. Did I tell you I’ve got lots of gold. Anyway thanks for coming. What’s your name again?”
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Does it matter?
There was a superb America cartoon when Vance was named as Trump's running mate.
The first frame was Vance saying "I'm sorry I called you a Nazi."
The next was Vance saying "I'm glad you took it as a compliment."
There's nothing but shamelessness. I hope they eat each other.
There was a superb America cartoon when Vance was named as Trump's running mate.
The first frame was Vance saying "I'm sorry I called you a Nazi."
The next was Vance saying "I'm glad you took it as a compliment."
There's nothing but shamelessness. I hope they eat each other.
January 16, 2026 at 8:57 AM
Does it matter?
There was a superb America cartoon when Vance was named as Trump's running mate.
The first frame was Vance saying "I'm sorry I called you a Nazi."
The next was Vance saying "I'm glad you took it as a compliment."
There's nothing but shamelessness. I hope they eat each other.
There was a superb America cartoon when Vance was named as Trump's running mate.
The first frame was Vance saying "I'm sorry I called you a Nazi."
The next was Vance saying "I'm glad you took it as a compliment."
There's nothing but shamelessness. I hope they eat each other.
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These paragraphs from @adamserwer.bsky.social have been stuck in my head for days: "They kill," Dorismond said, "and after that, they kill him the other way—with the mouth." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 15, 2026 at 8:30 PM
These paragraphs from @adamserwer.bsky.social have been stuck in my head for days: "They kill," Dorismond said, "and after that, they kill him the other way—with the mouth." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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He lost to a black woman. He must have hated that so much.
January 15, 2026 at 6:38 PM
He lost to a black woman. He must have hated that so much.
Remember when Nigel Farage called Robert Jenrick a fraud?
January 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Remember when Nigel Farage called Robert Jenrick a fraud?
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Jenrick apparently "left his resignation speech printed out and hanging around" and "someone got hold of it".
He's got the brains of a 4 year old child - and that kid will be glad to have got rid of them.
He's got the brains of a 4 year old child - and that kid will be glad to have got rid of them.
BREAKING Kemi Badenoch has sacked Robert Jenrick from the shadow cabinet, removed the whip and suspended his party membership.
She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
She says she was "presented with clear, irrefutable evidence that he was plotting in secret to defect" to Reform
January 15, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Jenrick apparently "left his resignation speech printed out and hanging around" and "someone got hold of it".
He's got the brains of a 4 year old child - and that kid will be glad to have got rid of them.
He's got the brains of a 4 year old child - and that kid will be glad to have got rid of them.
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It will be necessary for the govt + Ofcom to monitor how far X's statement it will make changes to the Grok App happen or work. But they need to join the dots + investigate the systemic failure of X to uphold the law: its broken complaints system defends unlawful racist hatred 95% of the time
It is time to Make Social Media Lawful Again. Elon Musk has a 'pick and mix' approach to which laws apply to him. But government + regulators risk mirroring that - until they recognise X's routine protection of unlawful racist abuse breaches its legal duties too
www.easterneye.biz/technology-g...
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Why Britain must make social media lawful again
The controversy has illuminated again how US billionaire businessman Musk takes a “pick and mix” approach as to which laws he thinks should apply to him and his companies.
www.easterneye.biz
January 15, 2026 at 8:09 AM
It will be necessary for the govt + Ofcom to monitor how far X's statement it will make changes to the Grok App happen or work. But they need to join the dots + investigate the systemic failure of X to uphold the law: its broken complaints system defends unlawful racist hatred 95% of the time
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Geoblocking implies they *still think it’s ok to do it*. It’s literally a feature, not a bug.
X Safety have posted that they have now made some changes to operate within the law.
This includes "geoblocking the ability of all users to generate images of real people in bikinis, underwear, and similar attire via the Grok account and in Grok in X in those jurisdictions where it’s illegal".
This includes "geoblocking the ability of all users to generate images of real people in bikinis, underwear, and similar attire via the Grok account and in Grok in X in those jurisdictions where it’s illegal".
January 14, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Geoblocking implies they *still think it’s ok to do it*. It’s literally a feature, not a bug.
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January 15, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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