😮 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...

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...