Phil Edwards

Visiting fellow (i.e. retired), Manchester Metropolitan University. Mostly on Bluesky these days (invite code on request)

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

OK, I'm out of here. Follow me on Bluesky, where I can be found under the name of philedwards (or use a tool such as Sky Follower Bridge to bulk-follow your Twitter contacts). See you on the other side!

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

If you understood that tweet, please come over to bsky and follow me there. Definite shortage of Kelsenians on my TL at the moment.

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

TFW you realise you've not only written two papers on Kelsen referring to "imputation" without qualification but - and this is the kicker - used it to denote *central* imputation, not peripheral ditto.

Oh, the embarrassment. At least I hadn't submitted them anywhere.

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

@LeeJarvisPols @ManchesterUP @CTProject_SM @AndyWhiting25 Congratulations!

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

Haven't tweeted much using this ID since retiring, and frankly that's unlikely to change. But if you see this & you're in the market for a BSkyB invite, drop me a DM.

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

I appear to have a couple of invitations for BSkyB (I think that's right). HM, as the young folk say, U.

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

@bartleby_era In fact there’s a timeline quite close to ours where I did one of those. When I researched the company that would give me my first job in journalism, I found it was owned by Dave Duke. I wanted the job, so I deliberately didn’t check it wasn’t *that* D Duke. (Happily it wasn’t.)

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

@bartleby_era I honestly don’t think I could be an evil lecturer - I’d get bored. But I’ve also written advertorials and managed databases, so one of those for Evil Megacorp would do it.

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

Got my GDL (with Distinction, thanks for asking)!

I am now officially Someone *With a Law Degree* on the Internet!

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

@RoxyLegane Heh. Looking forward to spending the entire day indoors for precisely that reason. Might venture out around 6.00 if the result goes the right way, though.

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

@CrispinSartwell @danieldennett Crikey.

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

@MashaVelickovic Thanks for that - a tough read but necessary.

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

@ProfChalmers "Well, *that* certainly isn't the correct answer!" quipped Paxman, memorably.

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

So it's really not going to have any real-world effect, and it's only going to enter the broader discourse by way of the news. If you don't want it to get oto the news, there's a simple answer - don't make it a story by shouting about it.

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

Not my union any more*, but I find it very hard to get excited about UCU passing an anti-war resolution. "A campaign group called Stop the War condemns both sides in a war and calls for a peaceful resolution" - it's not "man bites dog", is it?

*I retired last year

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

And I don't think it's a bad thing if one or two people with a platform make the case against war, given how vocally the cases for different levels of war have bee made. (Although even this is unlikely to happen, the UCU GS has said she doesn't support the resolution.)

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

50% means Mcr isn't the worst, but it's still totally unacceptable.

[UCU @ucu]

NAMED & SHAMED - UNI OF MANCHESTER

@OfficialUoM raked in so much last year it's been left with a £98m surplus

But it's waging war on staff who demand a fair wage

Don't let the bosses win. Donate to their local fighting fund now: https://t.co/EnyIlb1hpb

#ucuRISING @umucu

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

@IBrasso I'm doing the Graduate Diploma in Law - just finishing in fact.

The whole area of "legal causation" seems to be a massive fudge, particularly in criminal law.

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

Fascinated by the Woollin direction's definition of (obligue) intention by reference to an actual state of affairs.

What if death or serious injury *wasn't* a virtually certain consequence of the defendant's actions, eh? What then?

[Phil Edwards @DrPhilEdwards]

Metropolitan Police PR, part two.

[Jon Sopel @jonsopel]

A sorry saga. Two days on from #Coronation and police express regret over the arrest of six anti monarchy protestors, and concede no evidence was found that they planned to disrupt proceedings.