Did you know a barrister is facing prison just for reminding a jury they have the right to vote with their conscience? This historic right has existed since 1670. We can't let it be silenced in court now. Add your name to help protect Britain's juries: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

More on this shortly but the whole women’s pain economy pisses me off.

I have a new chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power, edited by Peter Niesen, Markus Patberg & Lucia Rubinelli, in which I explore the evolving concept of 'the people' as the bearer of constituent power across various historical contexts. Open access 👇 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Social ecology posits a politics of everyday life rooted in direct democracy. Drawing on Bookchin, our video of the week outlines the intellectual and political history of social ecology. Ft. @eleanorfinley.bsky.social & @camilavergara.bsky.social at @freefreeforum.bsky.social buff.ly/6qwgTSx

The annual mass exodus of Catholics from Northern Ireland to Ireland during marching season was featured in an episode of Derry Girls. Still today, tourist towns in Donegal like Dunfanaghy or Bundoran have their busiest two weeks during the start of July, thanks to visitors from across the border.

If you can't make our gig in Leeds on 25 July but want to donate anyway, you can do so through our crowdfunder! We're trying to raise £8000.

Saturday 25 July: join us for good times in Leeds! I'm running *and* playing this gig in Wharf Chambers, fundraising for a Black trans kid to access care. Live music from wormboys (noise-pop), Faded Alchemy (alt-rock), Lucas Assagba (genrefluid singer-songwriter), and bughotel (folky rock n'roll).

It's like a Breughel painting, depicting the folly of man in a range of little scenes.

It is once again time to repost this classic.

Universities in the US are governed now by "liberal autocrats." It's time to bring faculty, students, staff and alumni into leadership. Trustees and presidents are out of touch, unaccountable, and in this moment, selling us out to the Trump administration. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Yale getting relentlessly mocked. Good. The president and trustees deserve it. Too bad the rest of us have to go down with this ship and its reckless captains. abovethelaw.com/2026/07/yale...

Perhaps the most beautiful thing you might read today.

There's still time to sign up to join us at the Durham Miners' Gala, where more than 200,000 people take to the streets to celebrate the work of trade unions, community spirit and international solidarity. 📆Saturday 11 July 🕤9.30am 📍Durham Sign up: r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/7IPW-C6Z

Exciting news!! We have a fully-funded PhD place for a UK home student available 🚨 including a £21k+ a year stipend 🚨. Come and do a PhD with me as your supervisor! Critical tax law, value theory, global production and the legal form, that kind of thing ... fancy it? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX657/l...

Reading this www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/a-su... and I had not previously realised that Evgeny Pashukanis, as well as being the most important legal theorist ever to write, was also very funny

Today the Parliamentary scrutiny period for the draft Code of Practice ends. It still requires a commencement order to come into force. It does not happen automatically today. Labour could still, in theory, choose not to do this.

Icymi. Very good to see public-facing information about how Ireland’s fee-free abortion service is being provided since the people-powered legal change of #repealedthe8th

Working through a #heatwave while #pregnant? You have rights. Read our blog here maternityaction.org.uk/2019/07/work... #PregnancyAtWork #MaternityRights #WorkingParents #HealthAndSafety

EXPLAINER – the Crime and Policing Act 2026 This is the first in a series of posts explaining the implications of new protest-related offences and restrictions in the Crime and Policing Act 2026 netpol.org/2026/05/08/e...

Autonomous Weapons Kill. Facial Recognition Becomes Routine. And AI in the Public Sector. New AI & Human Rights newsletter. Fresh. Off. The. Press. #AI #HumanRights aihumanrights.blog/2026/06/30/3...

The ECtHR has ordered the Italian state to pay compensation for violating Art 3 ECHR to a woman whose allegations of repeated rape by her partner were dismissed by a prosecutor as “normal” for men who struggle to overcome resistance from “tired” women www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

The idea that rights to life & health, or indeed the defence of necessity, ground a legal pathway to abortion is not exactly original Dobbs overturned the general right to abortion as a matter of privacy. But that doesn’t negate other legal reasons for abortion, as we’ve seen in lots of countries

For those who haven't heard of this fight, really good local press writeup here www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2026/05/oppo...

Physicians for Human Rights warned that Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya is at immediate risk of death. His lawyer found him shackled, badly injured, and denied medical care. Dr. Hossam said: "They brought me here to kill me."💔

Free online workshop on the UN UPR process for CSOs 🗣️ 14 July, 2–3 pm (online) Hosted by Scottish Human Rights Commission + UPR Info Practical guidance on engaging with the UPR Info & registration: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6f06f0...

Yesterday I submitted the proofs, index and tables for my forthcoming book 'Human Rights and the Protection of Domestic Workers in Labour and Migration Law.' It's scheduled for publication on 10 September 2026 and available for pre-order :) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The Immigration and Asylum Bill published this week will significantly weaken the UK’s response to trafficking and modern slavery. Read our joint statement which urges parliamentarians to change course, abandon these harmful changes and protect survivors: www.kalayaan.org.uk/uncategorize...

Are you a crim practitioner in E&W? Do you have 1 hour to spare? @jessicashurson.bsky.social and I need participants for our pilot study: "Hearsay From a Computer: Legal Professionals' Perceptions of Computer + AI derived evidence." We want to talk to you! Details here www.hearsayproject.com Pls RT!

Mourners marched across the Mississippi to the federal building carrying coffins for every migrant that has died in DHS custody.

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

The weekend! Why not write a quick email to your MP to encourage them to stop #UKHE spiraling? With the change in leadership and Burnham's focus on regional strengths, there's a window to change government's strategy. Template with suggested low-cost interventions: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

NOT GUILTY Another seven Just Stop Oil supporters acquitted after slow march. When juries hear the motivations for peaceful protests, that motivation being to save lives, they find defendants not-guilty. This is why juries matter. It’s common sense! juststopoil.org/2026/07/03/a...

THIS IS A REAL STATISTIC 🤯 Player-tracking data on Sofascore AND Fotmob confirm: Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha, 40, has attempted and completed more dribbles at the 2026 World Cup (1) than Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo (0).

Together with @petefussey.bsky.social and @daragh.bsky.social we are releasing "Pushed into the Shadows: evidencing digital surveillance chilling effects and the erosion of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association” 1/ www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Delighted to have been part of this study, an in-depth global study analysing the chilling effects of digital surveillance. Looking at impacts on assembly and association rights, and their exercise in practice.

Call in tomorrow for pro-choice chats 📅 Saturday 4 July ⏰ Drop in 1-3pm 📍 The MAC Chat about Alliance for Choice, find out more about the current law and abortion provision, and have a go at something creative. Free + materials provided. All welcome - U18s must be accompanied by an adult.

Full analysis and video: thedailybritain.co.uk/kojo-koram-p...

Trying to work out how to explain to my 6 year old that her school can't have solar panels and proper insulation because it's been decided that we need to make stuff to kill people instead.

“Defend Our Juries is a movement of people dedicated to making sure everyone knows their rights when on a jury, exposing the corruption of democracy and the rule of law, protecting the right to protest and educating the public on their legal rights.” www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Wow who’d have thunk it, vaccines work 🤔 Great news to celebrate.

Arendt was right. But Musk is in the room now: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilisation is empathy.”

Our administration is mobilizing to keep New Yorkers safe during this heat wave.

I have a lot of respect for Melanie Field and am really pleased to see her pushing back against the draft code. You really couldn’t get a much more expert analysis than hers.

Where are the UK university leaders who are articulating the public cost of slashing research infrastructure?

It is all so wonderfully complicated and unlike the 'Just So Stories' of reductionist biology.

Why are we standing by and watching this happen? “Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found…. about 30% of the people killed by Israeli forces have been children.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

#OtD 29 Jun 1936 100 Chicano mineworkers, including Jesus Pallares, were deported as "undesirable aliens" following a strike in Gallup, New Mexico. Pallares had helped organise 8,000 miners into the Liga Obrera de Habla Espanola who joined the strike stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1011...