Excited to share that my first legal textbook is now available!

I’ve now got a Mastodon account: @JackBurroughs@home.social

So very grim.

This truly is going be very a government of the very worst people the UK has to offer. The sooner they cab all be voted out of office and never heard from again, the better.

If she truly wanted to accept responsibility for her mistakes, and genuinely believed it was right for her to go, why on Earth would she be taking back the very same job six days later? You clearly can’t trust a word she says.

I was very proud to work with Leigh Sagar on the second edition of this book, which sets out the things a private client lawyer needs to know about all kind of digital assets, from electronic records to cloud accounts to cryptoassets.

@HughLangley Aww, congratulations Hugh!

RT @together_sacr: UK Parliament's Human Rights (Joint Committee) have launched a quick questionnaire asking 👇 Should the Human Rights Act…

The British Constitution permits only rare and brief moments of celebration: that happy period in between the resignation of a monstrous Prime Minister, and the appointment of someone even worse. Make the most of it while it lasts!

RT @SqueakinglyJen: If you want to claim asylum then the *ONLY* way to do that is from within the UK. That is why…

RT @JolyonMaugham: If the Met was investigating you for a criminal offence they would not agree to suspend their enquiry because you told t…

Good thread on proposed changes to Human Rights Act. Looks like it’s going to be an attempt to gut any meaningful human rights protection, pushed through with the kind of vacuous nationalist bluster and outright falsehood we’ve come to expect from this government.

In all seriousness, is there any good reason why the employee element of National Insurance contributions shouldn’t be abolished and added on to the rates of Income Tax instead? By covering unearned income too, would both raise more money and be fairer to everyone #tax

It feels depressingly inevitable.

@GreatDismal I wrote one novel in Pages, but for the latest I’ve used Scrivener for the first draft. I like it, for the flexibility of being able to write anywhere! But then, I did write my first novel on an HP palmtop, so perhaps shouldn’t be taken as an authority on literary ergonomics…

RT @STEPSociety: STEP and @cloudlegalteam @QMUL would like your input into joint research to ascertain the awareness, experiences and conce…

@j_piper1 @AshtonsLegal That’s great Jess! Very well done, and well-deserved.

@TrystanFalcone Here’s some cool little animal buddies I’ve met recently

I guess we’d better expect new rules either today or tomorrow then... “Patel: No new Covid rules 'today or tomorrow' - BBC News”