The United Nations’ top court issued a landmark advisory opinion on the right to strike on Thursday, finding that a cornerstone labor treaty protects the ability of workers to walk off the job.

A quick fire comment: the UKCS decision in Dillon is woeful. So much so, that together with For Women Scotland will define the 'legacy' of the Reed court. I'll mention only the Windsor Framework ground of appeal: the Supreme Court denies direct effect to s2(1) of the WF because the rights in the /1

⚖️ A landmark ruling: the Paris Criminal Court has convicted Lafarge and four former executives of financing terrorist organisations and violating international sanctions. Read our press release 👉 www.asso-sherpa.org/lafarge-conv...

The debt burden of UK students is one of those things where, the more you look into the details, the more insane and predatory it is. So I tried my best to explain the numbers involved without making my, or your, head explode.

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This ought to be a huge national news story. But the quiet dismantling of a key sector barely registers outside HE. Maybe someone will care when the local economies that Unis sustain start to go bust too. Important story from @patrickjack.bsky.social & @timeshighered.bsky.social

The state shot &killed people in the uk for decades, colluded with citizens to kill & has frustrated justice in uk courts ever since. Sean Browns widow awaits her day in the Supreme Court. THAT has been a warning siren ringing for decades - the colonial attitude of us being lesser stops them hearing

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Just empire doing empire things

Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide

As Minister Peter Burke heads to the final #CSDDD trilogue negotiation, @irishtimes.com has published shocking revelations on the corporate campaign to lobby for EU deregulation, undermine democracy and weaken vital protections for people and the planet: www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

My article comparing the EU and UK’s approach to implementing the UNGPs, post-Brexit is out now in the Modern Law Review. Against a backdrop of escalating corporate influence over human rights, I contrast the EU’s (contested) preventative regulation with the UK’s reliance on a minimalist framework.

‘Risk exiting the market’ what a way to package the complete collapse of higher education

Sheffield Hallam University complied with Beijing demand to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project on supply chains and forced labour being dropped. It was reinstated after threat of legal action but chilling effect remains www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🇪🇺 📣 Is everyone bored of Brexit yet? 📣 🇪🇺 📖 If not, I have a forthcoming article in the Modern Law Review on the divergent approaches to implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights post-Brexit.

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

A day where law and justice feel far apart. But criminal law really struggles to function at 53 years of remove, when so many witnesses are dead. Injustice was assured when it took this long for the state to recognise its wrongdoing and start proceedings: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...

“In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity. In Chile, precious aquifers are in danger of depletion. In South Africa, where blackouts have long been routine, data centers are further taxing the national grid.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

The UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel: Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Absent a court judgment, findings of UN COIs are the most conclusive, thus we should read these findings thoroughly. www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

"Sinn Féin and the DUP have stalled the nutrients action programme over fears of a farmer backlash." The *only* thing they'll unite on: ensuring the largest lake ecosystem in Ireland or Britain, Lough Neagh, continues to die of pollution. What a f**king disgrace. share.google/cazBTwCid9qR...

It's ok to be a Luddite!

ITV have this headline 100% correct. It was an attempted lynching in broad daylight at a preannounced white supremacist mobilisation. Despite being MLA for the area, the Justice Minister doesn’t engage with victims of white supremacist terror in her own constituency. [1/n]

For context: Policy Exchange is among the least transparent think tanks in the UK regarding its funding sources. Co-founder and first chairman Michael Gove wrote a pamphlet in 2000 comparing the Good Friday Agreement to the appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s.

People from Northern Ireland listening to English flag discourse

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

The whole article is worth reading!

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

“The leaked Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of the unit’s sensitive data may now be sitting in the company’s datacentres in the Netherlands and Ireland.” A deadly serious allegation that requires urgent investigation. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Yet another blog on the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on climate change - with a slight twist! Below, myself and Annalisa Savaresi share reflections specifically on the implications for human rights-based corporate responsibility 👇

A sit down protest by Palestinian solidarity groups has been blocking the road in front of City Hall for 2 hours now

“Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. The death of one child is not an accident, but the death of many is a crime the world has allowed.” www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

"What we're seeing now is the most horrific stage of Israels starvation campaign... Israel has been using aid as a way to bait civilians & has been killing civilians who have been seeking aid..." Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food

"Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday." "She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid out on a slab of stone."

‘Given the size of Palestine Action and the breadth of support so far expressed for it, proscribing it could lead to a significant proportion of civil society being criminalised, including MPs, journalists and NGOs.’ New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...

Human Rights and Legal Organizations Warn Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and Partners of Legal Liability for Complicity with Serious International Law Violations: ccrjustice.org/home/press-c... @ccrjustice.org

Drs Ciara Hackett and @marisamcv.bsky.social introduced the second day of our Business and Human Rights workshops, taking us through the context in Northern Ireland and sharing the Northern Ireland Business and Human Rights Index.

Northern Ireland has changed massively over the past 60 years in a lot of ways but certainly not in others

Queen's University Belfast no longer investing in Israeli companies "as of yesterday"

"The UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and also consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations”, more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including former supreme court justices, have said."

More than 350 lawyers and academics say Government not complying with international law obligations over Palestine crisis

As Gaza faces mass starvation, I wrote about Israel’s new militarised aid plan (to be run by a ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’ headed by a former US sniper) and the call for a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy to break the siege. www.abc.net.au/religion/as-...

UN's Tom Fletcher: "The situation is dire.. we have thousands of trucks ready to go.. we are demanding that the world back us in pushing Israel to let us in.. [5 trucks is] a drop in the ocean.. there are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them"

We got the Egg Team - @clarepatton.bsky.social (Leeds), Ciara Hackett @qublaw.bsky.social and me - back together to write about wellness quackery in the digital age! Massive thanks to @aoifemod.bsky.social and all at DFLW and the Morrigan Blog for a brilliant space to write and think.

again and again and yet again the privileged’s fantasies of oppression take precedence over the marginalised’s real, daily, violent oppression

faced with a profoundly unjust decision against him, Mahmoud Khalil chooses to show incredible solidarity

#Derry astrophysicist Dr. Matt Nicholl receives prestigious gong for pioneering black hole and supernova discoveries. Well done to the Oakgrove Integrated PS and Foyle College old boy.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY