This reads like a breathless Reform press release. Not the slightest reflection that being seen as a dumping ground for failed Tories might not be entirely positive. Or that it might help Tories detoxify. Or that Reform is ticking down in all recent polls. Dismal stuff. www.bbc.com/news/article...

‘Last year the company made profits of £35million on an income of £65 million — a rate of return of more than 50 per cent. The money goes to Blackbaud, a US-based cloud software company, which bought JustGiving in 2017 for £95 million.’ www.thetimes.com/article/d6d3...

The New Year is a good time for making changes, and we’ve decided the time is right to use BlueSky and LinkedIn as our main social media platforms, and to no longer post on X. Do give us a follow and please do share this post.

Is it extraordinary that the only English newspaper front page with even a hint of criticism of US actions is the Daily Star? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the entire history of human organization, the number of collective enterprises which have been improved by allowing SWP members in is quite literally zero

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Rather wonderfully, the "pair had clashed over the scheduling of a summit to discuss 'out of control' seagulls."

Who wants to ask a question? That's a wrap on the 18th UK Annual Legal and Political Philosophy Workshop hosted this year by the Morrell Centre for Legal and Political Philosophy. @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social

Delighted that our first post from the new Bluesky account for the Morrell Centre is this appreciation of a great day discussing @dinesson.bsky.social's book manuscript.

Delighted to share first 2 articles from @vp-centre.bsky.social Minimum Policing Standard research @benbradford.bsky.social @drcaweirich.bsky.social & Dr Rowlands Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... More: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/minimum-poli...

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 @uoysbs.bsky.social are looking for a part-time Research Associate to work on a vulnerability-based policing project around sex worker safety and justice. Salary: £37,174 pro-rata Based at: @york.ac.uk campus Apply by 03/07/2025 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

At a loose end this Sunday afternoon? Somewhere in shouting distance of York? Join me at the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social! yorkfestivalofideas.com/2025/calenda...

PLEASE SHARE York Law School is advertising a funded (home fee rate + stipend) PGR studentship. Open to all areas of law. I am happy to answer questions. The advert is here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS275/y... @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social

PLEASE SHARE York Law School is advertising a funded (home fee rate + stipend) PGR studentship. Open to all areas of law. I am happy to answer questions. The advert is here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS275/y... @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... What do you mean, you haven't signed the Parky Charter petition calling for better Parkinson's care?? We Parkies have an excuse - one of the symptoms of PD is apathy. But as for the rest of you, jump to it! (pretty please..)

Obviously, I don’t resent @petroc.bsky.social getting to have a lie-in, but mornings just aren’t the same without him.

My fabulous colleague ‪@cobrien.bsky.social‬ has a new piece out.

🚨🚨 Apologies but what a bloody fucking horrific shitshow of a press briefing! I cannot with words express how much disgust and contempt I feel for the traitorous evil scumbags Donald Trump & JD Vance. And my respect & regard for Zelenskyy has never been higher- a true leader of the Western World.👇👇

We're here!

open.substack.com/pub/hinterne... Justin returns to form with a banger

We’ve got our own HE funding crisis in the UK but this is an order apart - even if some great scientists move to Europe it’s a real threat to scientific/economic progress generally. American retreat in every sphere, from global networks only now realising how reliant they are on US participation

Awarded annually in partnership with @britishacademy.bsky.social for excellence in political science, the 2025 Brian Barry Prize in Political Science is now open. Find out how to submit your entry - cup.org/4jENjb1 Deadline - 28th of February 2025, 5pm (GMT)

Re-posting as closing date (20th Feb) is looming: Please repost @patricksturg.bsky.social @benbradford.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social @closer-uk.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @sociologicalreview.bsky.social @sociowarwick.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN135/p...

wake up, @royalsociety.org

CFP: Political theory in/ and/ as political science junior scholars' workshop. #polisky www.mcgill.ca/rgcs/ptps/20...

Something tells me my dog is not ready to face the day.

Might be of interest to fellow University of York staff. I’m fairly attentive to what happens here and this is news to me.

Please help grow the BlueSky community of UK based criminal lawyers by Reposting this. If you would like to be added to the list, please ask. go.bsky.app/AFdD66T

Hi there - a first post on this platform. Do please repost this message just in case anyone should want to find me here -- thank you...

Excellent piece for those who are still trying to understand what to make of Starmer. (like me)

International what day, you say?

They sneaked out the news of Chris “failing” Grayling being made a Peer.

There is so much (bad) news that doesn't get the attention it deserves. "25.6M people in high levels of acute food insecurity, 755,000 people in catastrophic conditions" www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...

Altercation in January 2018. The trial might take place in January *2025*. Everyone should read this and then ask the politicians who come to their doors what they intend to do about it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bleak, but as far as I can tell, pretty accurate... www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

The election just became more unbearable. Sigh.

Given that national service has come up on day 4, and that the campaign is unlikely to improve, I’m not sure I’d rule out bringing back hanging (and leaving the ECHR) by day 40.

Missed the lights, so here’s my dog instead.

Getting an email that an account has been created on ScholarOne Manuscripts, and then not getting an invitation to review a paper is not entirely unwelcome but is disconcerting.

That so few academics are in UCU doesn’t surprise me given that UCU is not much good. That only 15% of those that are members vote in the election for General Secretary really does. Had the lunatic won it would have been a disaster. As it is, thank heaven the least bad option ended up elected.

I know nothing about football, but feel this game would be improved if the Villa folk were minded to kick the ball up the pitch rather than across it.

Welcome to Duncan Ivison, political philosopher, LSE grad, and incoming VC of the University of Manchester. bsky.app/profile/dunc...

The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2023 Essay Prize Topic: Methodology Prize £2,500 and publication in Philosophy. Deadline 31st January 2024. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Great to welcome Sue Mendus to the app! @suemendus.bsky.social

The pool of Conservative talent really is puddle deep.

I’m not keen on public personal attacks on (particularly female) politicians, but honestly, what kind of a person sees more desperate homeless people on the streets and thinks “we should take away their tents”?

I’m not sure what I thought a wombat looked like, but it wasn’t like this.

I'm going to track down as many of you as I can. Please could people repost me, so others can see I am here - and I can find them, and them me. Blue skies, herds of unicorns and sunlit uplands beckon. Oh...and another two Tory candidates bite the dust, I understand 👍👍👍

PSA: Today is International Wombat Day. Please go forth and spam appropriately. If you're going to be on this platform, you should consider it your duty.

New issue alert! Volume 17, issue 3: buff.ly/48TnJcW A special edition on Policing and Political Philosophy edited by Stephen Galoob & Jake Monaghan. Also, standing to punish by Benjamin Yost, Hadassa Noorda on imprisonment, and Jacob Bronsther on the law of war.

Of possible interest to followers of this account, a public seminar and book launch for Criminology as a Moral Science. Details, including Zoom registration, here: buff.ly/48XoPnP