Odd amendment proposed by the Conservatives to the Employment Rights Bill would allow questionnaires from anyone in the public sector who reasonably thinks they have been disadvantaged by the use of positive action under the Equality Act.

About to give a talk on the employment rights bill and this is the view from the picture windows behind me.

And congrats to the Employment Law firm of the year - Shakespeare Martineau

Quite a host for the Personnel Today Awards 2024!

Having brunch at the Creekside Grill, Indian Head, Pennsylvania. The menu offers Trump Burger or Harris battered Haddock. I’m resisting asking whether there is any message behind that.

We spent literally hundreds of pounds chasing the Northern lights across Norway and Iceland. Here they are about 50 yards from our house just outside Cambridge.

One key problem we should be thinking about today is that the stock images that turn up on a search for unfair dismissal always seem to involve a clearly American employee removing their belongings in a cardboard box. Here is the one I use.

Excited to see the Order Paper for the Commons tomorrow. Fair to say this is a very wide ranging Bill

I do play some surprising venues

Breakfast in Madrid this morning. Love that I can choose either coffee or beer as part of the set menu

They’re changing guard at Buckingham palace! Darren delivered some training for Alice!

Training venue today overlooks Buck House!

I still get the urge at this time of year to buy a stationary set, even though I still don't know what a set square is actually for. This one has the right stuff in it (apart from the new-fangled highlighter pen) but I really want a faux leather case with all the pieces held in place with elastic.

Homildon (nowadays Humbleton) Hill where in 1302 Harry Hotspur defeated the Earl of Douglas and took him prisoner. A dispute over ransom with Henry IV was a factor in Hotspur’s rebellion as recounted by Shakespeare in Henry IV part one.

After Flodden yesterday, today we staged an incursion into Scotland. Here’s Walter Scott’s favourite view

Flodden Field, Northumberland. Site of the biggest ever battle fought between Scotland and England… so far.

Today’s Northumberland pic is the original monument to Grace Darling now inside Bamburgh Church.

St Mary’s lighthouse in Whitley Bay - one of my favourite places and very close to where I grew up - is having some work done!