Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

Insightful & alarming thread. Our branch is deliberately not aligned with any union faction. However it gets spun, this isn’t a factional issue, this is an issue of democracy and trade union rights, both under strain in our very own union. #HandsOffMarie & solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social

Living in Ireland is like a monkey paw wish, you get to live in one of the most scenic parts of the world with rich culture and sound people, but you're stuck with the same FF and FG governments over and over who won't lift a finger for those who need it, you can't afford a home, and coddle exists.

A beautiful and deeply important piece. Please read.

The High Court has made clear that the draft Code of Practice is wrong about the law. Make sure your MP tells the Minister it now has to be rejected 👇

Calling Londoners 📢 Want to improve your confidence & skills in using data in your feminist work? This training is for you. Join our in-person Feminist Initiatives Need Data training in London on Monday 3 March. No prior knowledge required. Register below 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/1b2R...

40% of people have less than £100 left at the end of each month after paying for essentials like housing, energy bills & food. 5% are forced into debt each month after paying such unavoidable costs. We're part of @costoflivingaction.bsky.social to tackle this crisis: www.costoflivingaction.org.uk

Tomorrow's episode of Bold Politics is so so rare in British politics: real people who are unafraid to just be themselves for an hour because they know they don't have to protect any vested interests. It's time for a clearout of robots in Westminster.

If you're looking for ways to jump in and help disrupt and chip away at the ICE kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine where you are, our BLOCK IT! toolkit is updated regularly with campaigns and strategies you can join or build near you, as well as inspiration and ideas. Check it out here:

So apparently white Americans in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars so ICE agents waste time pulling them over. They call it ICE fishing. 🤣😂

“Minneapolis has shown me that even in the middle of grief and fear, people still show up for each other,” writes Becca Good in a thank-you note to the people of Minneapolis.

Well I said “this Friday” but there’s still no sign of my #ucu national election ballots yet… if you’re in a similar situation, you should order a replacement at: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/UCU-elect...

Ahead of the 10 February Certification Officer hearing, I’ve written about why Ewan McGaughey and I took this route. This is a regulatory process, not a court case. Ewan and I will represent ourselves. UCU has hired a King’s Counsel. vickyblakeucu.uk/202... /1

Challenging Britannia: Black British Women Speak Volumes is out now. Get your copy here for £13.99 plus p+p. Read the inspirational stories of seven older black women creatives and what they can teach future generations. www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

This shocking case has generated lots of comments (scroll down to the bottom of the blog post. Thank you to everyone who has sent kind messages to Zoe. No family should be put through this kind of trauma.

📆 GHI Event: Thursday February 5th at 6:30pm on LSE campus Grief, Joy, and Laughter: Reimagining Abortion Through Creative Activism in Latin America W/ Dr Nayla Vacarezza, @eecoast.bsky.social, @rishie.bsky.social Open and free for all. Register if you are a non-LSE affiliate: bit.ly/3Y2n193

"Immigration detention: A mental health crisis without borders" by Reem Saifeldeen -- a new Refugee Mental Health and Place blog is out. #RefugeesWelcome🧡 An important read: www.kcl.ac.uk/immigration-...

“'We Cannot Live Without Our Lives': Art-Activism and the Struggle for Black Women’s Lives in Boston, 1979" is now available online in @signsjournal.org. Honored to be able to share some thoughts on the poets and activists who inspire and sustain me. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

What does it mean to be hot for revolution—to feel a desire to transform the world in your belly and your bones? Here's my latest, on how erotic desire feeds political agency. I draw on AIDS activism, disability justice & other movements against sexual oppression. philpapers.org/archive/WARH...

I wrote a book about my three favourite topics: Feminism, Time & Care. It’s about how time is stolen by capitalism, how patriarchal our times are and how authoritarianism is based on acceleration. And it’s about chronofeminist politics to reclaim time @transcript-verlag.bsky.social

Here I respond to problems with the operation of time-limited abortion law by 1) explaining some aspects of legal method for a non-legal audience 2) mining ordinary legal methods and practices for their take on time and temporality & 3) showing how legal time-limits could work better and

#BBCNews - Nigerian court orders UK to pay £420m over 1949 killing of miners www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

⚠️New @ippr.org research: 300,000 children will be hit by the Govt’s earned settlement plans. Retrospective changes will deepen child poverty, block access to higher education & trap families in years of uncertainty. This is precarity by design. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Jennifer Okeke speaks powerfully about the role of the 2004 Citizenship Referendum, taking automatic birth citizenship away from the children of non-citizens, in treating pregnant people and mothers with children as racial others

So excited for this! Come join us (free) for our drag cabaret about a history of queer love, featuring artists from the Law's a Drag network! 7.30pm, 18th Feb, Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds Like, share, tell your loved ones! xxx www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-of...

The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) is calling for a programme of reparations for Scotland’s Gypsy Travellers, who were subjected to decades of forced assimilation and ongoing harm under policies known as the ‘Tinker Experiment’.

“Transformative reparations by public bodies” needed to address Tinker Experiment human rights abuses.

The Choreography of Consent: "experiments in dance/law research, which bring together artists, practitioners and scholars to develop innovative dance and law research methods that explore the movement of consent." Online event on 13th Feb 👇 tinyurl.com/2ucnxze5

CALL FOR PAPERS: LHub's new project: law and humanities in the 'Four Nations', ECR network: with forthcoming workshops in England, Wales, Scotland and N Ireland. Fab events for our ECR community 👏 👇 @adiver.bsky.social @ials.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yrk86hyp

📣 New BJPIR article out now! 'Vulnerable research: Reflexivity, decolonisation, and climate politics' by @ckweatherill.bsky.social Find the full article in #OpenAccess here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @oupolitics.bsky.social

If you are baffled by why the jury refused to convict the Palestine Action defendants, it's because – unlike them – you didn't hear the actual evidence. You heard what the media wanted you to know. Here, I explain what the jury learnt from the trial: jonathancook.substack.com/p/barristers...

🎉🎉🎉BREAKING GOOD NEWS: Today, an Arizona state court permanently blocked several burdensome and medically unnecessary abortion restrictions. This decision is a huge victory that will significantly expand abortion access in the state! bit.ly/4qkwjJe

BREAKING: An Arizona state court permanently blocked several abortion restrictions, including a law forcing patients to make two trips to a provider and a ban on telemedicine abortion. This is a big win for reproductive freedom in the state.

Victory! An Arizona judge has struck down several abortion laws as unconstitutional. Patients no longer have to wait 24 hours for care and make 2 separate trips to the clinic. Also gone are the bans on abortion via telemedicine and abortion for reasons of fetal anomaly.

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May 2025)

Sharing word of this critical reflection and intervention, offered by our own @shalininair.bsky.social together with colleagues Molly Ackhurst and @tanyaserisier.bsky.social, and out now in @flsjournal.bsky.social

Essex (uni & local community) is facing brutal cuts. Our members know from experience how much it matters to fight back and to know you've got the support of the rest of the membership in that. Donation should be with you now @ucuessex.bsky.social, and our solidarity you'll continue to have #UKHE

Am sharing here a thread I wrote on twitter last year about what I could then see from evidence, whistleblower and contemporaneous, about deaths by suicide of young trans people on the waiting list. 🧵

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

On day 8 of our Administration, @governor.ny.gov and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.

In 1982, inspired by the work of MO the National Lesbian and Gay survey began, it sought to capture what everyday life was like for queer people living in the UK. For our latest open call we're continuing the work of NLGS and asking what does it mean to be queer every day? #lgbtqhistory

We stand by taking the case forward on the basis of the evidence we have seen. The Certification Officer hearing is scheduled for 10 February 2026. Anyone who wishes to observe should email the CO office in advance at info [at] certoffice [dot] org /3

The @timeshighered.bsky.social has reported that @ewanmg.bsky.social and I have applied to the Certification Officer regarding concerns over the 2024 UCU general secretary election. UCU has characterised this as “smearing”, via a spokesperson. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/jo-grad... /1

"Nevertheless, in this, we consistently find people who are willing to fight together, to dream together, to build together. That is what I celebrate. That we stand on the shoulders of those who had dreams of an antiracist world. And did something about those dreams."

It is an honour to have the brilliant activist, campaigner and academic Ailbhe Smyth launch my book on Thursday 5 February at 7pm in the Irish Film Institute #booklaunch

Publication week! ✨ My book is out this week with OUP! It reports on the everyday lived realities of women victims of domestic violence and their interactions with the Pakistani legal system in both criminal & family law contexts. Available in hardback and e-book: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Tomorrow! Daanika’s work on excavating the legal scripts of domestic violence in Pakistan, based on extensive fieldwork, has so much to teach us all about the legal reproduction of gendered violence and legal gate-keeping of knowledge Proud of our @qmschooloflaw.bsky.social graduates always

"Trump’s War on Higher Ed Is an Attack on Women: The administration’s assault on colleges and universities is meant to undermine the economic and social progress women have made in the last half-century."

Just at the historical moment British universities were becoming more live to their communities, as first generation students and staff made them anew, they are instead being lost as spaces of collective knowledge-generation through failure to fund them as public infrastructure

Our co-founder and Trustee Dr Aggrey Burke not only reached great heights in his career as the first black consultant psychiatrist in the NHS, but was a humble and generous man who contributed to any task that needed doing. He even sorted out our insurance!