February 21, 2013 – 3:39 pm
I frequently get comments from female working friends with kids who say, “I don’t know how you combine full-time work, two young kids and blogging! What’s your secret?” It’s a juggle which involves many late nights and a sympathetic, helpful husband. I have often wondered how many balls I can simultaneously juggle, as I’m one [...]
February 6, 2013 – 4:55 am
Facebook. Besides being invented for the social glue that is the ‘poke’ (who do YOU poke and how often and can anyone explain why) it’s for sharing cool stuff like this 1930s aerial photograph of Edinburgh, the legendary city where I live. Originally by Alfred Buckham, I nicked it off SL’s page where it was [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Art, Britain, History, Internet, Politics, scotland
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Tagged alfred buckham, Edinburgh, eye candy de heir, eye candy du jour, Facebook, photography
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October 24, 2012 – 2:45 am
One of my favourite modern films is “Stigmata”. In it, a Catholic priest and debunker of miracles for the Holy See (Gabriel Byrne) stumbles across the case of an American hairdresser (Patricia Arquette) who appears to be exhibiting the signs of Stigmata despite living an unashamedly dissolute party-animal life and being a complete non-believer. What [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Internet, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Uncategorized
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Tagged christianity, holy see, kateri tekakwitha, lily of the mohawks, Roman Catholic Church, society of jesus, stigmata, the vatican
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October 22, 2012 – 6:33 pm
Every now and then, I’m sitting in an examination room at my old English school. There’s been some problem with my A-Level exams, and they’ve asked me to re-sit the History exam some 20 years later to prove it was really me who took the original exam. I am trying my best to write essays [...]
As some of you might have noticed, I’ve been scarce over the last few weeks. This is because I went to London, Ontario to attend the Obligations VI conference (which covers private law: contract, tort, unjust enrichment, property, trusts, equity etc). The theme of the conference was “Challenging Orthodoxy”. If you know anything about legal [...]
This is a post which has been a long time in the brewing (I started it back in May but was interrupted by exams, book launches, and book proposals) but hopefully it’s better for the brewing. There have been a number of posts, articles and incidents in recent months which have made me think about [...]
To William Beveridge it was about eradicating evil – the “giant evils” of squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease. To David Cameron it is about encouraging citizens to do the right thing – to work, to save, to take personal responsibility. The prime minister urges us today to go back to first principles in thinking [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, Funnies, Politics, Public Policy, Welfare
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Tagged benefits, benefits system, david cameron, disability, mark easton, the poor laws, the welfare state, UK conservative party, welfare reform, william beveridge
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My tips for long flights are: Stick to water on the flight; Have salt; Get massages. (Had a massage the evening I left and at the Dubai stopover. So worth it.) Malta Australian cuisine being Mediterrasian means that, when one gets to the Mediterranean, the food is familiar. There are lots of construction cranes dotting [...]
By Lorenzo
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Also posted in Economics, History, Law, Politics, Society
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Tagged Children, culture, Flying, History, Law, Malta, personal experience, Sicily, tort, travel
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I am extremely proud to announce that my book has been published today. Here is the little summary from the publisher’s website: This book defends the view that an award of an account of profits (or ‘disgorgement damages’) for breach of contract will sometimes be justifiable, and fits within the orthodox principles and cases in [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Academia, Books, Economics, England, Equity, Intellectual property, Law, Philosophy, Restitution, Tort
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Tagged account of profit, Accounting for Profit for Breach of Contract, Attorney General v Blake, breach of contract, compensation, contract law, deterrence, Equity, fusion fallacy, heresy, house of lords, Intellectual property, Katy Barnett, law and economics, obligations, performance interest, private law, property law, punishment, tort law, vindication
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I’m blogging about Easter again, sorry. This time spurred by an online conversation between friends about the appropriateness or not of being wished “Happy Easter” on Good Friday. Classicists of the world, wrack off – yes I DO know the entire event was probably lifted from pre-existing pagan rites of spring, but for the purposes [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Art, Australia, Blogging, Britain, Events, Fark!, General, History, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Popular culture, Religion, Skeptics, Society, Terrorism
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Tagged 9/11, christianity, Easter, ground zero, islam, Jesus, Jonathan Jones, Judaism, magnum, New York, photography, september 11th, the guardian, the meaning of 9/11's most controversial photo, The Passion, Thomas Hoepker, twin towers
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