Louise Locock

@ProfLouiseL
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Health researcher, interested in qualitative methods, patient experience, NHS quality improvement, COVID, rural and remote healthcare. Pro-European, linguist, in love with Italy. Still furious about brexit. Cat fan (other animals welcome). Annoyed by attempts to autocorrect my very deliberate punctuation choices.

Time split between Aberdeen and Oxford, but mostly Oxford now I'm semi-retired.

She/her

Also at @louiselocock.bsky.social
Academic profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8109-1930

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How the UK Supreme Court used simple contract law to undo a spiteful government move

A recent appeal decision may lead to a historic damages payout for public sector trade unions

By me, at Prospect - in my now rebranded "weekly constitutional" post

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/the-weekly-constitutional/69003/how-uk-supreme-court-undid-spiteful-government-move

How the UK Supreme Court used simple contract law to undo a spiteful government move

A recent appeal decision may lead to a historic damages payout for public sector trade unions

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"

The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending

And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on

Substack
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-night-till-candlemas

Personal blog

https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story-of-a-forty-year-book-quest-and-of-its-remarkable-ending/

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas"

The story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending

The Empty City - a law and polity blog
And also...
“the land required for solar panels alone to provide all global energy is … less than the current land footprint of fossil fuel infrastructure”.
Amazing.
Oh and also, also...
“But as far as sheep grazing goes, solar is really good.”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/13/farmers-who-graze-sheep-under-solar-panels-say-it-improves-productivity-so-why-dont-we-do-it-more
Farmers who graze sheep under solar panels say it improves productivity. So why don’t we do it more?

Allowing livestock to graze under renewable developments gives farmers a separate income stream, but solar developers have been slow to catch on

The Guardian
Not a good #Caturday for us today. Sadly our little Tigger was overwhelmed by his kidney problems and was put to sleep this morning. Bless his little silver paws. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of cat angels sing thee to thy rest..
Please for the love of everything use full stops.
I just had to read a post manually line by line for it to make sense because my screen reader uses them to break the flow of speech, and the next line joined on to the first one changed the intended meaning.
They are not rude, or intimidating or whatever the ridiculous reason is you don't like using them.
Delighted and relieved to see Restore Trust candidates were soundly beaten. None received more than 20,000 votes, while all National Trust preferred candidates received over 40,000 votes. RT spent nearly £100k on attack ads this year. Stay vigilant next year.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/annual-general-meeting/agm-voting-results#rt-results-of-voting-in-the-council-elections
Voting results from the AGM

Read about the National Trust's 2025 Annual General Meeting and the results from the day.

National Trust
For fans of European TV, season 2 of La Legge di Lidia Poët has just landed. The first woman to qualify as a lawyer in Italy (but then disbarred because she was female). https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81414644
Watch The Law According to Lidia Poët | Netflix Official Site

In this gripping period drama, Lidia Poët investigates murders while fighting to practice law. Inspired by the true story of Italy's first female lawyer.

Only Vienna would have a magical musical interlude with balletic gymnastics between tennis matches. Stadt der Musik
Great news. Defib the cat gets to stay in his ambulance station home
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8rd617xe86o
Defib the cat: Petition saves Walthamstow ambulance station pet

A cat has been spared from eviction from his ambulance station home after a petition on his behalf.

BBC News
A new manager at Walthamstow ambulance station is trying to evict eldelry Defib the cat, who has lived there caring for the crews for many years.
#CatsOfMastodon
Petition here https://chng.it/7fpDyr6Gzs
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Save Defib the cat. defib@savedefib

Change.org