Have you listened to our latest episode yet? 🎧 We asked 11 UK-based activists one question: what advice would you give your younger self? Swipe through for a few powerful lines from the conversation. Listen here: podfollow.com/lawmanity/view

🎙️ New Episode: Access to Justice with Amanda Amaeshi We’re back with more one-on-one guest interviews! Kicking things off is @amandaamaeshi.bsky.social: activist, law graduate, and (as announced a couple weeks ago) Lawmanity’s new Legal Caseworker 🌟 🎧 Listen here ➡️: podfollow.com/lawmanity/view

🚫 Do you / does someone you know have lived experience of NRPF (no recourse to public funds)? 🤝 Are you interested in making connections, sharing your story & getting support from /supporting others? ✅ If so, check this out! More info: [email protected] @nrnepartnership.bsky.social

📣Are you a journalist, criminal defence or human rights lawyer or civil society/NGO monitor focused on human rights or discrimination in #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿? 🤝🏾 Join me and help build an independent data set on the state of human rights across the #UK - takes just 1 hour to complete a confidential survey 📝

✨ New role: Reporting & Compliance Officer! 💪 Help us strengthen our MEL work and support organisation‑wide reporting. 📍Glasgow / Hybrid 💷 £32k–£35k pro rata 📅 Apply by 29 April 2026 🔗 www.justrightscotland.org.uk/get-involved...

“We are living in the imaginaries of those who have been long gone. We are living the world they wanted...” Angela Davis Nani Jansen Reventlow challenges us in her new book Radical Justice to grasp the roots & build new imaginaries of a better world 🌎

“So what I would tell a younger version of myself is what you’re seeing around you right now doesn’t have to be that way” 11 UK-based activists answer the question: what advice would you give your younger self? Their responses offer a wealth of wisdom 🌟 Listen here: podfollow.com/lawmanity/view

Congratulations to @jena.ng for joining the global Atlantic Fellows community!🎉 Jen is a human rights lawyer & activist. Her Fellowship Project was a podcast series that critically reflected on whether law serves and protects everyone equally. ℹ️Learn more about Jen: buff.ly/nDObQLs

Ready for this week like ... #venomouse #glasgow #streetart

“To be on the right side of history is more important than winning” ✊ Warmth, beauty and defiant optimism from @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social and @nicolasturgeon.bsky.social to celebrate the 🚀 of “Nation of Strangers”🌿 in #Edinburgh @lighthousebks.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk

Maggie Brunjes CEO @homelessnetwork.scot reminds us that Housing Justice in Scotland means safe, suitable housing for all of us 🏡 including people with #NRPF  www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/true...

Walk with me in 2026 🥾 and let’s sow radical seeds 🌱 together www.linkedin.com/pulse/walk-m...

This is Andrew. Today is the 8th anniversary of our first date, and this is where we first met. That day, Andrew’s honesty, sincerity and brilliant wit shone through. It took me another 7 years to fully appreciate his selflessness, unerring sense of justice and fierce loyalty to those he loves.

😮 Shabana Mahmood got it so right here … in 2018 👇🏾

🤝🏾 We are at our best when we offer empathy over apathy, compassion over cruelty 🧡 @HumzaYousaf.bsky.social 🚪 When we open our doors, we also open possibilities ✨ Catherine ✨ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland is and will remain a diverse, multicultural society - Minister @KaukabStewart.bsky.social

Mahmoud has listened to same clique of senior Home Office officials who have advised for 30+ years that loud announcements of punitive policies will deter refugees from coming to UK to seek asylum. Labour did this extensively last time. It didn’t work. A history thread. +

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

👋🏽 Today is a good day for this reminder👇🏽 “We need leaders not in love with money, but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity, but in love with humanity.” #MartinLutherKingJr, St Louis, 10 April 1957 Read his speech in full 👉🏽 bit.ly/3LHU3bA

New #UofGSpotlight podcast episode This week we're talking access to justice and Legal Aid Reform in Scotland. We speak to @jena.ng and Fiona McPhail, @uofglaw.bsky.social. Alongside @satwatr.bsky.social, @opfs.org.uk and @mscottetal.bsky.social, Scottish Women's Aid. Tune in: 🎧 uofgspotlight.com

📣 Don’t miss the free online event on 18 Nov: leading activists and legal experts weigh in on what’s next for #humanrights in #Scotland #Wales and #NI 🤔 Brought to you by @hrcscotland.bsky.social 🎟️ Register for tickets www.eventbrite.com/e/safeguardi...

🇺🇦 @settled.bsky.social (a charity led by and for Europeans living the UK) is recruiting a Ukrainian advisor to join their incredible team 🙌🏽🇪🇺 💻 Full-time, Remote, 1 Year contract 💰 £32-34k per annum 🗓️ Closing date: 20 November settled.org.uk/job-vacancy-...

🎙️ "Justice would look like law that is accessible, attainable, appropriate - something that's for you, for everybody." 11 Scottish activists share powerful visions of justice ✊ from basic dignity to transformative change - on our "Equal under the Law" podcast series 🎧 podfollow.com/lawmanity/view

🪧 Are you part of a #grassroots or community organising movement in #Scotland? 🗣️ Opinionated, much? The brilliant @katenevens.bsky.social, Iffat Shahnaz and Megan McHaney are researching what you need to ✨thrive✨ for @jrf-uk.bsky.social 📢 Have your say: www.surveymonkey.com/r/26CCL2P

This is the office microwave - can someone talk me through the logic - we reheat “curry, Chinese, and pasta” but we cook “jacket potatoes, fresh vegetables and fresh fish” Like how limited is the cultural and culinary range of this theoretical microwave user? 🤷🏻‍♀️

🙋‍♀️ Why do abortion rights matter to me? ❌ Scotland’s abortion law is outdated and harmful ✅ We need a system that defends access to safe, confidential and legal reproductive and abortion healthcare for now, and for future generations Read my blog post here: bit.ly/3LxJp70

"People can't afford to access legal justice - not just financially, but in terms of capacity and emotional energy. Your life is a battle." Is law a barrier or tool for equality? Ep 2 of Equal Under the Law? ⚠️ CW: references to sexual violence 🎧 podfollow.com/lawmanity/view

Brilliant sunny day in #Edinburgh for #ScotlandDemandsBetter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿with friends, family and Women Against the Far Right Scotland x @justrightscotland.org.uk ✊🏾❤️

This is what #Fridays are for 🍭 #JellyBelly #Jellybeans #BobaTea #WhoKnew

🕵🏽 Looking for a legal traineeship in the UK? Want to ✨make a real difference✨ by using #law to challenge injustice and #inequality? Read Rosa Grenfell's blog on her #JusticeFirstFellowship at @justrightscotland.org.uk and apply for LEF 2026 opportunities here 👉🏽 lef.org.uk/justice-firs...

🌾 This week, the Long View seeks comfort in the nature, and considers how you know you belong to a place, and when a place belongs to you, too ✨ www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-fi...

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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...