Daniel Jackson

He/him. Lawyer. Green. Socialist.

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@PronouncedHare That may be relevant to whether he should have been appointed to the position of Vice-Chancellor, but it doesn't change the fact that the Vice-Chancellor is a position of academic leadership, not just an administrative job.

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@BasicBishopNZ How did Kieran vote?

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@Bob247874 It's surprising that the village of Stansted (population 8,691) manages to get so much international interest in its airport, the fourth-busiest in the UK with 29,758,490 passengers last year.

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@foxcar_joey Major international cities definitely never have significantly fewer people with their city boundaries than in their metropolitan area. This will be a truly unfamiliar issue to international airline executives.

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@TimaruKaBIMARU Ha was wondering if that was it!

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@Bob247874 @cha0s10g1c Yeah their work with either side schtick doesn't make sense with their policies. Working with National would require selling out on their major policy positions.

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@Bob247874 Sorry Bob didn't you know that the Nats are all socially liberal environmentalists who are sadly being held hostage by Shane Jones, Winston Peters and David Seymour?

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@SlumberCrown @lorem_ipsum_93 @nikicaga You might be thinking of his father, the briefly-reigning Kaiser Frederick III, who denounced anti-Semitism and attended synagogue services to show his solidarity with Jews during a period of anti-Semitic agitation when he was Crown Prince.

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@ettingermentum "I'll be completely transparent about my medical condition - in a few weeks" is a pretty odd position.

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@tc1415 Judges can of course make mistakes, but the idea that the judges in the majority refused to make a correct decision is bizarre. Clearly they thought the decision they reached was the correct one.

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@leonfleming @RichardBurgon He has signed the motion.

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@tc1415 It means that the current Supreme Court judges who heard this new case thought it was incorrect. That doesn't tell us whether the new decision or the old decision is correct. They didn't refuse to make a correct decision; they thought they were making a correct decision.

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@PronouncedHare True. But I think my position regarding mitigation of culpability is rather more mainstream that my support for prison abolition.

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@PronouncedHare @Dane_Giraud That seems to have been the impetus for the change.

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@PronouncedHare @Dane_Giraud It doesn't have to be sudden now, in English law

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@PronouncedHare I think lots of things can be morally relevant in evaluating how bad a murder is. They generally don't change the fact that the muder was very bad, but they can have some mitigating effect. Judges engage in this process when sentencing all the time.

[Daniel Jackson @danielneljack]

@Dane_Giraud @PronouncedHare In English law provocation can reduce a murder to manslaughter