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Glasgow, Scotland
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*at the cost of adding dysfunctionality and inefficiency to the labour market.
Minimum wage increases since 2015 have all but ended ‘low’ pay.
In 2011, 21% of workers were low paid – defined as hourly pay below two-thirds of the overall median. By April 2024 3.4% of employees were low paid on this measure.
Read more: buff.ly/0OSArrI
ALT Chart showing proportion of employees with hourly pay below two-thirds of the median: UK
This is an important case. But it is important to understand the real issue. There are clearly some governmental decisions that the courts simply cannot inquire into. The example given by Lord Reed of the PM’s choice of Chancellor is an obvious one.
Watch this extraordinary 21-second clip on the Supreme Court’s official player.
During my appeal, Lord Stephens presses Mr Crow KC, representing the Attorney General:
[Lord Stephens]
“My understanding is that your submission is that even if the Attorney General throws a dice, that is not subject to any supervision by the courts.”
[Mr Crow KC]
“That is the inevitable consequence of a decision which is not reviewable.”
That is the consequence of the immunity the Attorney General claims: even an arbitrary refusal to let a family apply for a fresh inquest would escape judicial scrutiny.
My brother Geoff was killed on 9/11. Our case asks whether the Attorney General’s refusal to authorise our application can be challenged in court.
The dice example was hypothetical. The question of accountability is very real.
Judgment is awaited.
▶️ 14 October · afternoon · 1:08:16–1:08:37
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#JudicialReview #UKSupremeCourt #911Justice #Inquest
That’s the significance of the rolling the dice example. If the decision is non-justiciable- eg the PM’s choice of chancellor -then it’s neither here nor there whether the PM made his choice carefully and conscientiously or whether he rolled the dice. The court can’t interfere.
Ok. I’m all in on Hector Patterson. I think he should be in the Scotland squad. Incredible competition at 9 at the moment.
‘mon the Mummy!
It's been a while since I've been out and about, but I'm a man but also a mummy, what toilet do I use no I've been kicked out of Kelvingrove?
Help me @JohnSwinney
Even by the standards of US judicial misconduct this is very bad.
“World’s oldest club” doing an absurd amount of lifting here, when what they actually mean is “world’s oldest *open* club”. The Dublin University Football Club (1854) and Edinburgh Accies (1857) say hello.
Blackheath, world’s oldest rugby club and producer of 43 British and Irish Lions, could prove a viable Prem franchise, reports @GavinMairs
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/…
This is an extraordinary case, even by the standards of many recent gender woo tribunals.
New York rent control discourse is a microcosm of thinking at the activist end of the Democrat coalition, and understanding how far from reality it is explains a great deal about Democrat inability to gain traction with swing voters.
We should definitely open Starbucks in the most deprived areas and watch those tech startups bloom.
Coffee shops boost innovation. 10% more Starbucks in an area --> 3-4% more inventions.
People gather over a cuppa. They share ideas, discuss how to untangle a knotty problem, help see an issue from another perspective. These conversations lead to breakthroughs and inventions.
A very fun paper finds that when Starbucks rolled out to a new county, it fueled a coffee-shop culture, urging more and more people to “grab a coffee” together. The authors compare the counties where Starbucks had rolled out to those where it had not yet arrived. And they find that the number of patents in caffeinated counties is meaningfully higher.
This paper underscores how essential the face-to-face encounter is. Starbucks isn’t that old. People Could have picked up the phone and chatted at any time. People Could have dropped an email. Probably they did. But those connections didn’t yield the same insights and creativity.
Turns out that a Cup of Joe really does help the knowledge flow. We talk about how much in-person connection boosts creativity in In Person. It’s out in just few days, so now is a great time to pre-order.
To see the full research use the link in the comments.
#Innovation #InPerson #FutureOfWork #CoffeeCulture #NewBook
This is both extraordinary and yet also not really surprising.
By now you’ve probably heard of the woman who was fired from the Baltimore Rock Opera Society following complaints that she culturally appropriated her Burning Man cornrows. Well, we got ahold of an internal document one staffer sent to volunteers and it’s an employment lawyer’s dream come true. Excerpts below or hear all about it on next week’s episode of Blocked and Reported (up now for Primos, unlocked Monday) blockedandreported.org/p/epi…
