One of Tehran’s beautiful palaces - Saadabad - has been seriously damaged. My grandfather did the landscaping and built the greenhouses at Saadabad in the 1930s

Yesterday may have been a turning point. GCC freaked out after Iran escalated. Trump backed down. US now maybe unsanctioning Iranian oil. GCC states will take yrs to recover from this. So will global energy supplies. Iran clearly prepared to escalate again if necessary

Netpol will launch our second annual 'State of Protest' report, "How Repression Became Routine", with a free livestream next Wednesday 25 March from 7:00-8:30 pm GMT. Speakers: co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, and campaigner Ayo Khalil. Book now www.tickettailor.com/events/netpo...

Latest in chickens should reach out to foxes news.

The boot is coming and universities need to get our tongues ready.

If you missed it, I’m part of a small collective trying to bring a radical bookshop shop to Newcastle. We haven’t had a good proper radical book shop since the 1980s. We think that should change! We launched our crowdfunder today, support if you can: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb... Pls share

In what it's general secretary has called a "pathetic attempt to intimidate workers", the trade union Unite has been fined £265k for breaching an injunction during Birmingham's bin strike by "slow walking" in front of waste lorries near depots www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“The Long War on Iran: New Events, Old Questions” by Behrooz Ghamari, published at the end of 2025. Highly recommend this to all.

It was my pleasure to contribute to this @jadaliyya.bsky.social round table on the War on Iran and International Law www.jadaliyya.com/Details/47234

Hello friends, I did a podcast interview on Iran, intl law, and being Iranian American in this moment. You can listen here: youtu.be/RhSg9-FUUMk?...

I've written a post setting out why I think the Divisional Court reached the right conclusions in its recent Palestine Action ruling.

Staff aren’t allowed to say they’re on strike. UCU members aren’t allowed to mention it to strike-breaking staff. Regional committees can’t talk about it. The NEC can’t talk about it. Congress can talk about it but motions are declared out of order. Is this the accountability Jo was meaning?

Here are some thoughts on the Palestine Action ruling for the @lrb.co.uk. The ruling shows the importance of the UK Government's national security assessments being challenged - which doesn't happen enough under our current system.

Latest Home Office data shows that in 2024-25, there were 162 restrictions on processions and assemblies imposed across England & Wales. Rather than simply publish a full dataset, the department released information that's hard to navigate – so we have tried to untangle it netpol.org/2026/02/12/l...

This is a thread about UCU & what it has become over the last few years. But the first thing I want to say is I didn’t join a union to stay silent or turn my back on a single parent of three facing dismissal on the basis of their trade union activities. Marie Monaghan is the Unite UCU 1/12

The High Court has ruled that the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was unlawful - a vindication for all those who have put themselves on the line to oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the British states complicity in it

Irish (opposition) politicians condemn the use of Shannon airport for US deportation flights of Palestinians to Israel. The Irish Government remains silent.

For an excellent in-depth exploration of the US use of financial sanctions since September 11th onwards, listen to Episode 5 of the @lrb.co.uk Aftershock podcast 'In dollars we trust' @danielsoar.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Really sad news, Emilios was a profoundly insightful thinker, and a really nice guy - condolences to his family and close friends: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/02/05/e...

No war on Iran. A war on Iran is a war on its people. No war on the people of Iran. None. Not for any reason.

Less than a month after Iran’s massacre of protestors, the EU slaps sanctions on Iranian officials & entities, inc designating the IRGC a terrorist org. Nearly 2.5 years of genocide by Israel against Pals, w/ a death toll of 70,000 at min, not one sanction against Israel www.bbc.com/news/article...

Money-grubbers like Dr Faisal Maassarani are creating a housing problem not people seeking asylum. This man evicted 100 tenants from their homes simply because he could earn more from Serco. Shout at him not the people he's exploiting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance – to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I’m looking forward to this new Conversations event, getting to talk and think through the tumult of 2025 sociologically. Never have we needed a critical sociology lens more. Come join us as we try and make sense of where we are now.

Many thanks for this great collection and pleased to have my article 'Public Power and Private Hands: Outsourcing in UK National Security Law' included.

The special edition of the KLJ on national security issues that I edited with Keith Ewing is now out in full. Many thanks to our contributors: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rklj20/3...

My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

*sighs in Marxist*

A little preview of my forthcoming journal article on council tenants' resistance and resilience today in @scotnational.bsky.social. Massive thanks to @charlielynch.bsky.social for reaching out and giving my work a write-up. www.thenational.scot/politics/257...

@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open Applics. welcome across humanities & soc.sci from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to UK for 2 years Deadline:11 March I’d be very pleased to host ECRs keen to study #protest #policing #publicorder #assembly

Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Excellent from Paul O'Connell: "Terrorism now performs the function that treason once did: not a description of actual conduct but a mechanism for foreclosing political possibility."

A really interesting and thoughtful piece by @pmpoc.bsky.social - perhaps more so for its discussion and dissecting of what he wonderfully terms the “siege architecture” around the right to protest and organise in the UK today

And like buses, two pieces at once on protest, proscription and political participation by @pmpoc.bsky.social

I have a post out today on the proscription of Palestine Action and how, through the lens of anticipatory repression, we can understand it as part of a much wider assault on democratic rights and freedoms in Britain: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/12/p...

"Naming this as anticipatory repression ... is a precondition for building the solidarities and organisational forms capable of withstanding it. They who sow pestilence must reap whirlwinds" - criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/12/c...

"Naming this as anticipatory repression ... is a precondition for building the solidarities and organisational forms capable of withstanding it. They who sow pestilence must reap whirlwinds" - criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/12/c...

Paul O’Connell: Anticipatory Repression and the Proscription of Palestine Action ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/12/p...

I have a post out today on the proscription of Palestine Action and how, through the lens of anticipatory repression, we can understand it as part of a much wider assault on democratic rights and freedoms in Britain: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/12/p...

Always a welcome way to end a week but especially first week back: submission of a chapter This 9,000-worder, written with my splendid UEA colleague @crwerren.bsky.social, will be in an edited collection "Human Rights in the UK under the Conservatives" by Conall Murray & Adam Ramshaw later in 2026

Al-Haq calls for concrete measures in response to these latest restrictive measures by Israel. Words of condemnation have proven insufficient to protect Palestinians. @alhaq.bsky.social

Two Palestine Action hunger strikers admitted to hospital www.thenational.scot/news/2571572...

Behind the charts in the WIR 2026 is a blunt truth: the global economy extracts value from poorer countries to sustain the wealth of richer ones. That’s not misfortune, or a glitch- it's modern imperialism at work, and this fundamentally undermines all human rights

Behind the charts in the WIR 2026 is a blunt truth: the global economy extracts value from poorer countries to sustain the wealth of richer ones. That’s not misfortune, or a glitch- it's modern imperialism at work, and this fundamentally undermines all human rights

A disgraceful institution heaping shame on itself by seeking to impose a double pay deduction for taking lawful strike action, a protected human right, in pursuit of collective grievances How low can these places sink into the moral vacuum? Yet another place to avoid …with fewer & fewer left

Important and timely new article by @msjamshidi.bsky.social out today from the University of Minnesota Law Review: Securitizing the University. Open access. minnesotalawreview.org/article/secu...

Part of my evidence put before the court today attests to the unique nature of the proscription based on some research I conducted, and part speaks to the chilling effect on academic teaching and research in the area www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you're around London next Thursday, I'll be giving a talk at LSE on "Imperialism, Inequality and Human Rights" for anyone interested - you can sign up to attend here: lselaw.events/event/pil-hu...