A fellow member of the #HouseofLords expressed astonishment that I don't use so-called AI for research or speeches. I am astonished anyone does www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Conor Gearty has been gone a little over a year. Which is a strange and profoundly jarring sentence to write. University College Dublin held a beautiful memorial event in March and have assembled and published the papers which were presented to honour and remember him: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en...

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Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Walter Scott & Hugh MacDiarmid could scarcely have had more opposing visions of Scotland’s past, present & future – or could they? James Robertson & Alex Linklater discuss these two cultural giants & their respective projects for inventing or reinventing the nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMXt...

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