Notices by dag (davidallengreen@mastodon.green)

Saw the Bayeux Tapestry today.

Some observations.

It makes more sense at walking speed - the flow of words and images work well at a steady pace.

There is a lot of white space - facsimiles make it look crowded.

It is both taller and longer than you’d expect.

There are call-backs and pay-offs: it’s quite clever in its coherence and composition.

The reason Trump enjoys the phrase “back to the Stone Age” is that, like a prehistoric man, he tends to cave.

The true mystery of the Louvre robbery now solved.

Wonderful piece.

https://apnews.com/article/louvre-fedora-man-ap-photo-c0d59847ef5f836a0c5ac49de8bff441

One observation on the Louvre robbery, having been there a couple of time recently.

There is immense 'security theatre' for visitors waiting to get in.

And what has happened affirms the general rule: the greater the 'security theatre' the weaker the actual security.

Weapons

Very enjoyable horror film with impressively clever narrative/character shifts like from an early Tarantino film.

Quite (deliberately) funny in parts, but several good scares and genuinely unsettling bits.

**** out of 5

Remembering Terence Stamp as Sir Larry Wildman in Wall Street of 1987, somehow making an international capitalist a good(ish) guy.

Shout out also to the best supporting brick phone and lego computer.

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Why have the terms of the now-discharged Afghan super-injunction not been published?

There can be no good reason for the substantial terms of the court order to be hidden

By me

Substack: https://emptycity.substack.com/p/why-have-the-terms-of-the-now-discharged

Personal blog: https://davidallengreen.com/2025/07/why-have-the-terms-of-the-now-discharged-afghan-super-injunction-not-been-published/

Three levels of legal blogging:

1. Explaining what legal materials say.

2. Explaining what legal materials do not say.

3. Noticing what legal materials have not been published.

BREAKING

Following my request, the UK judiciary has now published the actual Afghan super-injunction.

(Nice to have a win occasionally.)

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Order-Robin-Knowles-J-Redacted.pdf

As time goes past, it becomes more evident that it was Timothy McVeigh's bombing in Oklahoma City on in April 1995, and not 9/11 in 2001, which was the true start of the American 21st Century.

Dear USA

Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.

Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland

@Wyatt_H_Knott

Yes, going well, your laws against things.

“Brexit means we can make our own agreements with the EU, as we pick and choose!”

- UK chooses to make agreement with EU on a handful of issues.

“Brexit Betrayed!”

This week, boys and girls, we are going to find out all about why tariffs are not normally applied to service industries.

For visual commentary on the unfolding effects of Trump's tariff policy, we now go over to our new correspondent Max Quordlepleen.

"An interesting effect to watch for is in the upper quadrant of the north Atlantic, where if you look very carefully you can see supply chains disappearing for large arms manufacturers. Anyone here from large arms manufacturers?

"Well, it's too late to worry about whether you left the gas on now."

One fewer hour of doom-scrolling overnight, in UK.

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“We will deport you if we have evidence against you, and deport you if we do not”

On an extraordinary witness statement from the US government - and how it has adopted the logic of the Ducking Stool

By me, at Prospect

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/69560/well-deport-you-if-we-have-evidence-against-you-and-if-we-do-not

Query - help please?

Somebody once sought to work out all the rules of a sport (I think cricket?), not by reference to the rule book, but just by pure observation and induction/deduction alone from what they saw, match after match.

Ring any bell for anyone? I would love to track this down.

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By me

Thinking about a revolution

Some things are changing rather fundamentally and the way we think should perhaps change too

Includes Monty Python, Yeats, and C.S.Lewis

Substack: https://emptycity.substack.com/p/thinking-about-a-revolution

Personal blog:
https://davidallengreen.com/2025/03/thinking-about-a-revolution/