In fact we have records of at least 65,000 immigrants in the late MEDIEVAL period. This means real numbers were significantly higher. In England more than 1% of the population was foreign born (never mind 2nd gen) with numbers as high as 1 in 10 in cities. There’s a database!

Issue 38.4 is now available! Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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'in this climate...higher education institutions need to strengthen their collective voice to safeguard the championing of equality, diversity, and inclusion that are essential to the civic impact of universities.'

'Despite all their difficulties, universities remain an enormous and irreplaceable national asset. As well as educating millions of people, they generate about £24bn in export earnings, which is about 1% of GDP – more than aircraft manufacturing and legal services combined'. 1/2

I was also one of the legal experts but have ended up on the sub editor’s floor.I’d suggest three cumulative reasons… 1. If Parliament had meant that in 1986, it had ample opportunity to make it clear 2. The introduction of ‘clarifying’ Regs suggests they did not then, that power was never there

White House has filed its War Powers report for the attack on Venezuela. I used to help draft these reports and this is an unusual specimen. It promotes a number of political narratives, including about the attack being a "law enforcement operation" and framing Maduro as a "narco-terrorist." 1/n

Woah.

'Police forces across the country have recorded an increase in hate crimes over the past year, with a significant rise in racially motivated offences in Scotland as well as religious hate crimes targeting Muslims in England and Wales.' 1/2

2026

And Yet The Poems - love this👇🏾 ❤️

Why AI writing is mid How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing). www.interconnects.ai/p/why-ai-wri...

Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce

Historians: Famously don't like to do a lot of reading. Ah-may-zing.

How Christmas Murder Mysteries Became a U.K. Holiday Tradition In these Christmas tales, Santa has a very low survival rate / www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chr...

Finally - the inspiration to begin 2026 by clearing off everything unfinished.👇🏾

We wrote a book about AI, Class, and Capitalism! *Why We Fear AI* argues that, fundamentally, AI is a tool of class war from above, a tool for surveillance, labor control, and wage depression. Get it from your local bookstore if you can! A quick 🧵1/4

I had an interesting exchange with the chatbot issued to students by my university about the advisability of using it—at a university. It thought this was a terrible idea.

Rumors of the death of the lawyer have been greatly exaggerated … www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...

“Labour seems determined to upset and alienate its own voters to appease Reform’s base – who overwhelmingly didn’t vote Labour in 2024, when it won a landslide. Last week’s immigration figures show it will never pay off. Even if the figures say what those voters want them to, they won’t believe it.”

Exclusive to all newspapers, again: Is the proudly white supremacist leader of an explicitly racist political party actually a racist? It is unclear.

I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too. "We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

So to summarize, your image is packed with mistakes, uses an exploitative tech, fails to communicate a clear message, displays your ignorance, insults the people of that county, makes you look like environmental vandals and fails to describe your key demographic. This is why you pay a designer. 7/7

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Join us tomorrow 13 November 6-7.30pm at @lselaw.bsky.social for a discussion on the 'Recognition of the State of Palestine – Contested Interpretations'. Register here and come along! lselaw.events/event/recogn...

Martin Wolf says that while Labour promised to be revolutionary, it's been reactionary on employment, housing and education. It's an important debate...- on.ft.com/47wFwYL via @financialtimes.com

Public Lecture co-organised by me and @parvathimenon.bsky.social @cceilsoas.bsky.social ( & by Luke McDonagh Gerry Simpson & @mariepetersmann.bsky.social @lselaw.bsky.social ): "Recognition of the State of Palestine: Contested Interpretations" 6pm on Thurs November 13 at LSE. Registration 👇🏾

Since it is apparently up to self-appointed, middle-aged white British men to decide who truly is or is not British, I’ve decided Matt Goodwin isn’t.

Being handed down tomorrow. This might explain why we haven't heard much from the Afghanistan Inquiry lately:

Last week: 'He said the measures sought... “would amount to a collateral attack on an international agreement”, which would compel the Government to “exercise prerogative powers of treaty-making and international relations in a particular way...".' www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...

We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

And that's how it's done.

how it feels to do physical activity after the age of 35

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Though the report contains the facts, this headline and standfirst misreport what happened. The junior whip Katie Lam correctly stated the policy: revoking ILR retrospectively was Tory policy from May 5th to yesterday. The leader has ditched that policy. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

In Sudan, the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces are "killing at a scale and a velocity that I haven't seen since Rwanda,” says human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond.

New book review published in @jich.bsky.social Ciarán McKillop-O’Shea reviews “The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission” by Cormac Moore www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As Nimer says 👇🏾 www.soas.ac.uk/about/news/s...

Julia Sebutinde is actively using her position as an ICJ judge to support Israel’s genocide in order to realize biblical prophesy. That should be disqualifying but instead it seems to have won her the vice-presidency of the ICJ. bsky.app/profile/nime...

"It does not matter what you call it. Whether you call it 'Israel is our ally', 'Judeo-Christian values', 'maintaining qualitative military advantage', 'Staatsräson'... the oucome, practically, of all of these, is that the Israeli boot remains on the Palestinian neck."

An entire segment of the population is being repeatedly told that ’illegal immigration‘ - which is in fact barely 5% of immigration - is the dominant problem in this country. This is a media-driven phenomenon.

I will start telling my students that the biggest chance for them to succeed in the future job market is to spend their entire (under-)graduate studies learning how to think for themselves. If they survive this hardship & frustration, they’ll eventually outdo everyone cutting corners #AI #ContraAI 🤖

Call for papers for a workshop on Economic Aspects of the Constitution: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

Public Lecture co-organised by me and @parvathimenon.bsky.social @cceilsoas.bsky.social ( & by Luke McDonagh Gerry Simpson & @mariepetersmann.bsky.social @lselaw.bsky.social ): "Recognition of the State of Palestine: Contested Interpretations" 6pm on Thurs November 13 at LSE. Registration 👇🏾

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Now that the self-determination book is out I have tons of sources that I never got to use - especially leaflets, art, cartoons. Here is a sample, but more can be found on my website under "Self-Determination Documents" in the Art folder www.bradleyrsimpson.com/self-determi...

IMF warns of rising odds of 'disorderly' global market correction www.reuters.com/business/fin... "Global markets are too comfortable with risks, including trade wars, geopolitical tensions and yawning government deficits" Also 👀 Non-banks "now holds roughly half of the world's financial assets"