Clyde built/Falklands anchored: freelance journalist/broadcaster, lawyer, legislative drafter, public policy consultant and tour guide - we multitask here!
Stanley, Falkland Islands
Joined June 2014
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According to an AI analysis of my tweets, I am "like a Swiss Army knife that's been left out in the Falklands' harsh weather - rusty, a bit dull, but still trying to be useful"
Not entirely unfair, but it's not just the Falklands weather that's harsh!
It appears that the Financial Secretary and those advising him may have misread section 77 of the Falkland Islands Constitution and section 9 of the Finance and Audit Ordinance
(The alternative possibility is even more worrying)
Section 9 provides that the mechanism involves a warrant issued by the Governor (either on the advice of Executive Council or as a matter of good governance)
It’s that week of the year when I emerged from the radio station after the Breakfast Show to see the sunrise … and what a sunrise it was!
Then I went on to the first of two meetings today for my other work
#sunrise #FalklandIslands #Falklands #australwinter #midwinter
It’s the 85th anniversary of Saint Valery and I want to pay a little tribute to the men of the Highland Division and the others left behind there
youtu.be/USTFvJ0Rruk?si=V5uu…
I always look for ways to bring my vocation and my avocation together
Reading out provisions of the Hovercraft Act 1968 on the Falklands Radio Breakfast Show* was one of my better ones
(* today’s quiz question was about the mode of transport launched on this day in 1959)
A bizarre correlation I have noticed (no causation is advanced, nor is any political endorsement)
On both occasions (1978 and 2025) when the SNP have lost a Hamilton by election, the Scotland (men’s) football team has lost 3-1 shortly afterwards (to Peru and Iceland)
It occurs to me (but doubtless occurred to others sooner) that the story of the Glenmutchkin Railway is being re-enacted once again
I wonder if AI was sufficiently self-aware to recognise the similarity when that particular bit of human creativity was fed into it
Today would (should?) have been the day of the Governor’s Speech and the Budget in the #Falklands
Both have been postponed until 14 July
The new financial year starts on 1 July
“Business as usual” has been promised
I spent some time recently getting my head round the relevant sections of the Finance and Audit Ordinance
Money can still be released for up to four months (subject to asterisks) but a complication is that this might run out during the run up to the election due in November
Is it just me or is the Jersey Royals* advert not just a little bit derivative?
I just saw it for the first time and recognised references to the Hovis and Sony adverts, as well as the reuse of the song used in a Barclaycard advert - I suspect there may be others
Local knowledge from the #Falklands got me off to a good start in today’s #Connections
Was there any room for actual passengers on today’s final Aberdeen to Penzance train? Or was it too full of journalists, broadcasters and YouTubers?
Surely it depends on context though?
Personally, I think this should really be glossed “not, in itself, defamatory”
(I probably need to read the whole judgment to see if or how this is addressed)
“The law would risk incoherence if imputations of homophobia and homosexuality were both regarded as defamatory”
Johnson J rules that suggesting that a person is gay or in a same-sex relationship is not defamatory
bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/KB/…
Ronnie MB 🇫🇰 (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) retweeted
Delighted to announce my next job. My family & I are excited to soon join the community in the incredible Falkland Islands. I look forward to listening, learning and doing all I can to support the Government in upholding the Islands’ values and prosperity. And to a big adventure!