Bryan Heaney

Wonderful to see the new proper pavement being installed at Preston Street school, replacing the 'temporary' (5 years?) footway extension bollards. Decent pavements at every school, please! @Edinburgh_CC

This is the big issue in my view. A self reinforcing circle where everyone assumes everyone else has done the homework so none of them do it themselves. How they could be blind to how contentious the issue was and not think maybe we should get legal advice remains a mystery.

Our Legal Heritage: Robert Louis Stevenson as an advocate – 150 years on scottishlegal.com/articles/rober…

C. S. Lewis, straight in my veins

About to get started on a repair to your tenement building? Did you know that you need to get all the other owners on board before you start. Download our tenement toolkit step-by-step guide to shared repairs. edinburgh.gov.uk/downloads/down…

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@joannaccherry If an order to claw back embezzled funds has been imposed he has to right to these assets so legal aid will be provided. I believe that in England he can still use his money to pay for his defence.

Picking on this one intentionally: there's a reason for this. It's meant to reduce the temperature of debates. By referring to both your friends and opponents in the third person it blunts any invective.

The first time I heard something like this I was 22 and just happened to walk into a cathedral while in France. They were only practicing and it literally stopped me in my tracks. It was like heaven opened up. How did Catholics trade this for what sounds like bad 70s music?

Interesting thread about alienated faculty. Past grievances may be a cause, but in the U.K., having gone all-in on a highly regulated and intrusive funding model that heavily prioritises research (plus research impact), the motivation to pursue a research-driven career, to the maximal exclusion of teaching and collegiality, is also a significant factor.

Have managed to snag an achingly cool Air BnB on holiday. All polished concrete floors, exposed concrete beams and pillars and expanses of glass. The sort of thing that looks glorious in warm climates but if you built it in Glasgow would look like a Soviet era housing scheme.

Pope Leo XIV holding back the tears, as he hears the Our Father chanted beautifully in Ukrainian, by the faithful of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church on pilgrimage in St. Peter’s Basilica for this Jubilee Holy Year.

The “left” went wrong when it decided its main task was to critique epistemology rather than protect the poor.

Read the Penguin reprints of Elmore Leonard's The switch, Swag, and Rum punch. I read a thing about him saying the writer should remain anonymous in the writing. and there is a sense of that. Pared down, economy of language with character and place nailed with concision, or

This #ArmedForcesDay, we are celebrating our officers and police staff who joined us following service in the Armed Forces or are currently Reserves. Inspirational people like Lee, who shared his story in this video from @BritishArmy. youtube.com/watch?v=nsq1g6…

A regrettably skewed presentation of the constitution on @BBCr4today this morning. The interview with @charliefalconer and @IloraFinlay began with @annaefoster suggesting to Lord Falconer that "[t]he role of the Lords is to scrutinise and to improve but ultimately to uphold something that the directly elected members of the Commons have decided to go ahead with." But this isn't right. There's nothing in our constitution to prevent the House of Lords from refusing to "uphold" a Bill sent to them from the Commons, unless that Bill is enacting a manifesto commitment. As my colleague @ProfMarkElliott has said (link below), the existence of the Parliament Acts is premised on this fact. Sometimes the House of Lords will fulfil its constitutional function by voting a Commons Bill down. As the Terminally Ill Adults Bill moves into the next stage of the legislative process, it's incumbent on all of us to state the constitutional position clearly. publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/06/20/wou…

One of the worst features of academia is reliance on especially younger people taking low paid, short-term jobs, going from one such position to the next, irresponsibly encouraged to believe that a permanent job will eventually be theirs. We are all diminished by this exploitative practice.

US Sailors take a break and swim off an Aircraft Carrier, using the torpedo nets to block off sharks

In an increasingly digital society, where technology brings distant people closer together, yet often creates distances between those who are physically close, sport proves a valuable and concrete means of bringing individuals together, providing a healthier sense of the body, of space, effort and real time. It helps to preserve a healthy contact with nature and with real life, where genuine love is experienced.

In a society marked by solitude, where radical individualism has shifted the emphasis from “us” to “me”, resulting in a deficit of real concern for others, sport – especially team sports – teaches the value of cooperating, working together and sharing. These are at the very heart of God’s own life.