Hi everyone! Lots of things are thrown at us right now. The truth is, migration is life. We will stay connected, look after each other and spread solidarity and love, to build a society that protects us all. #RefugeesWelcome #NoOneIsIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall

My heart is full today 💜 as I join 200+ brave, thoughtful & determined women in #Scotland to challenge far right claims that their divisive and racist solutions are necessary to protect women & girls ✍🏽 “We believe in a society where all women are safe, supported and free from abuse”

#Justice ✊🏽 finally for Allan Marshall's family, and a reminder that #humanrights still matter - make a difference - in holding states to account for unlawful and harmful abuses of power ⚖️

🗓️ NEXT WEEK: Mark your calendars and join a conversation with legendary civil liberties advocate Aryeh Neier, on Friday 10/3 at 6pm ET. With @jameeljaffer.bsky.social & Anthony Romero. Co-sponsored with @aclu.org & @nyclu.org. In-person in NY & livestreamed. RSVP: knightcolumbia.org/events/defen...

💥 This week’s must read article from Talat Yaqoob FRSE - what we must do, right now, to build a vibrant, powerful movement for + change👇🏾 @talatyaqoob.bsky.social

Straight-A student Ola was denied uni funding - just 58 days short of Scotland's 7-year residency rule. Her case sparked the Our Grades Not Visas movement that changed everything. Hear human rights lawyer Andy Sirel tell the full story on Lawmanity: podfollow.com/lawmanity/view

Let me check I’ve got this right. Someone calling for entirely innocent foreign-born people to be burned alive at a time of serious social unrest is a free speech champion who must be feted. And some calling them & their hideous promoters in politics & media racist is a menace who must be silenced.

This week, the Long View admires Banksy's latest work at the Royal Courts of Justice ⚖️ and explains why human rights lawyers are always asking awkward questions www.linkedin.com/pulse/solida...

The Long View is back!  How to cultivate your defiance: embracing silence 🪷, encouraging resistance, and taking one simple step towards action 🪧 www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-cu...

🎤 New episode! This week, we hear from activist lawyer Harriet Wistrich on her decades-long commitment to seeking justice for women who kill their abusive partners ✊🏼 🎧 Tune in to the @lawmanity.com Podcast here: podfollow.com/1824535187 @h-cwj.bsky.social

We’re representing a family fighting for their home and way of life. ⚖️ This is the first civil court case to test how Scotland’s new UNCRC law works in practice. 📜 It also relies on Article 8 of the ECHR - the right to respect for private and family life. 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just found this baggie of joy in my desk drawer, and unreal how happy this made me 😁 🙌🏽 #JellyBelly #Jellybeans #SaturdayWorkingNotWorking

Legendary director Ken Loach has joined an Edinburgh demonstration against the proscription of Palestine Action The double-Palme d’Or winner said the UK Government’s terror label for the group was a ‘legal monstrosity’

I see UK Lawyers for Israel popping up again today, so let me remind you of perhaps the noblest & most rational use of their boundless legal skills, namely their bid to prevent Scottish pro-Palestine activists from registering a Palestinian tartan with the official Register of Tartans, for charity

Looking for an opportunity to make a ✨real difference ✨ for people in #Scotland?👇🏾

Like the grass, I too, am exhausted by this clown.

🎤 Like all new skills, learning to podcast has been scary, humbling ... and also a lot of fun! We now have 17 interviews in the bag for the @lawmanity.com 2025/26 season 🎧 Check us out: pnc.st/s/lawmanity 

Huge thanks to @halinarifai.com for guidance and to Natalia Uribe for producing the show!

I’ve written for @heraldscotland.bsky.social on Gaza, and the cowardice of so-called world leaders who use statehood as a negotiation tool with the oppressor… www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

Martin Forde concluded Labour operates a hierarchy of racism, where anti-Black racism & Islamophobia are brushed aside. Now we have a Prime Minister who mimicked Enoch Powell with “island of strangers” & suspended the UK’s first Black woman MP twice. It’s institutional racism.

This is excellent - a point by point rebuttal to the justifications of the Moygashel bonfire with effigies of refugees at the top. Thank you @bearlypolitics.co.uk for writing this. www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/hate-but-m...

Wise words from human rights lawyer (and legend!) Alison Pickup, Exec Director of @asylumaid.bsky.social 🌻 on this week's @lawmanity.com podcast 🎤

🎤 New episode!🎤 This week, Alison Pickup of @asylumaid.bsky.social shares ⚖️ how the UK Govt doubled down on #Rwanda removals after losing in court ✊🏼 what must be done to secure justice for #refugees 🌻 wise advice for aspiring human rights #activists 🎧 Have a listen here: pnc.st/s/lawmanity

#WeAreAllPalestineAction ✊🏾 🇵🇸 Royal Courts of Justice, London, 4 July 2025 @ 22.10

🎤 Today, we’re interviewing leading human rights lawyer ✨ Alison Pickup, Exec Dir of @asylumaid.bsky.social on challenging the UK Rwanda #Asylum Policy - and winning at the Supreme Court ⚖️ Curious about #law and #activism? 
🎧 Listen to Episode 1 of the podcast here: pnc.st/s/lawmanity

🚀 Today we're launching something new from Lawmanity: a podcast series on #law and #activism, bringing you 121 interviews with real people using the law to create social change ✨ 🎤 Episode 1 drops today at 10am! Have a listen here: pnc.st/s/lawmanity

Real photo from 1937 LA found in the LA Times

Citizens Advice Scotland told staff it had to enforce sex-based bathroom access due to legal obligations. But lawyers say the charity is misinterpreting the law — and putting itself at risk theferret.scot/citiz...

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Today’s task: standing against racism and fascism in #Edinburgh ✊🏾 to make sure - once again - that any fascist who takes to the streets in #Scotland will be outnumbered, outwitted and definitely out-danced by the glorious people who protest against them! 👏🏽 💃 🥁 #WeAreAllPalestinians #BellaCiao

On 19/4/1943, the world had one duty: to defend the Jews who were being pulverised by the Nazi war machine crushing the Warsaw ghetto. Today the world has one duty: to defend the Palestinians who are being pulverised by the Israeli army in the Gaza ghetto www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Thanks to @king_mountaineering and @hillgoers for a brilliant two days in the #Inverlael #Munros to bag Seana Braigh (third time lucky!) and Am Faochagach ⛰️ #Scotland #MunroBagging #HappyPlace #OnTopOfTheWorld

In 2024, @jena.ng took a deep dive into the public interest litigation landscape in Northern Ireland. Now, blogging for The Baring Foundation, Jen reflects on key moments for social change in Scotland. #AccessToJustice is at the heart of every piece of her analysis: ✍ pilsni.org/news/public-...

“According to the Israeli news website Ynet, the 'Gideon's Chariots' plan - named after Gideon, a biblical warrior who led a few hundred fighters in annihilating the Midianites, an ancient Arabic nomadic tribe - will be carried out in three stages.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-... 1/

Oxfam’s Bushrs Khalidi delivers this clear and urgent message: what happens in #Gaza affects us all 👇🏾

The incomparable Professor Jen Ang @uofglasgow.bsky.social on looking at the law and just peace #RIELASpringSchool2025

In reply to Keir Starmer's harmful (and hurtful) immigration proposals this week, here's a blog from the archives 🎈 TLDR: ✋🏽Don't let other people define your fears 🫱🏼🫲🏾Take actions to reduce fear in others 📣Call it out, and talk about the real change we need to see www.linkedin.com/pulse/politi...

Keir Starmer denies pushing anti-migrant policies in order to chase Reform, saying that "I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair and because it is what I believe". A reminder of what he said he believed when he was running for Labour leader.

🙌🏽 This week, the Baring Foundation asked me to share five key moments in #law x social change in #Scotland in the last five years, and to identify five opportunities for govt + civil society to take action in the next five years 🗞️Read the blog here: baringfoundation.org.uk/blog-post/sc...

Happy Mother’s Day 🌹 to all you strong and loving mums, step-mums, grandmums and chosen mums out there! A bit of 🔥 from @messinabottle #messinabottle #blackowned #smallbusiness #genius

Such a joy to celebrate #EuropeDay in #Scotland with old friends and new 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 who continue to stand up for #EUCitizen rights in the UK ✊🏾 Particularly honoured to chair a @citzrights.bsky.social panel on “double discrimination” 🚫 faced by racialised EU citizens in the UK immigration system 🛂

This week, the Long View shares some straight-to-the-heart inspiration from her trip to the US, a brief excerpt from "A letter to a young activist during troubled times" by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés ⛵ www.linkedin.com/pulse/we-mad...

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

Some thoughts on the 80th Anniversary of Victory over Fascism www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/05/08/s...

Writing in Scotsman with @jena.ng This week’s wins for Reform will cause some in our political system to want to capitulate even further in the wrong direction- we cannot afford this, it harms us all; we need anti-poverty, anti-racist and compassionate decision-making and we need it now.

🤔 How do we stop the rise of #Reform in #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿? 🚫 Tackle #poverty and #racism 🏡 Invest in communities 🤝🏾 Less words, more action Read more in today’s opinion piece for @scotsman.com from @talatyaqoob.bsky.social + me 👇🏾 www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Drone strikes in international waters on a humanitarian aid ship with supplies for Gaza ... this cannot go unchallenged. Vital supplies - bread, water, etc. have been prevented from getting into Gaza for nearly 2 months. UK Gov & @scottishgovernment.bsky.social must act! edition.cnn.com/2025...

"...for protests to succeed, they must be backed by movements with the ability to promise to withhold—labor, debt payments, rent payments, or consumer support—and to follow through if demands aren’t met." Glad to have gotten the opportunity to push this line in Time time.com/collections/...

Trumpty-Dumpty is defunding PBS. What he calls "bias" some of us call "facts Trumpty-Dumpty doesn't like."

The law of … … unintended consequences.