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As i've been predicting for the past few years –– social housing will be the next right wing moral panic. It's incredible the speed in which this stuff (directly lifted from far right blogs) has ended up in centre-right publications

Apply to @soasuni.bsky.social for TF positions! Info and areas are listed in 2 ads, see website 👇🏾 vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/906956

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"During Israel's ongoing attack on Gaza, similar concerns over ignoring & manipulating evidence were raised, and now with #Sudan we see evidence given that the FCDO has been undervaluing casualty numbers as well as warnings of genocide for political advantage" 1/2 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

In 2022, we warned about the dangers of Housing as an Asset Class in a report for the European Parliament. Lots of wise heads nodded. But here we are again, and we cannot even blame China for this political failure

Aside from the $526.8mn he made from crypto sales, the US president also earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from the licensing of Bibles, watches and perfume, according to a financial disclosure. ft.trib.al/AIxVw8I

Hello Dublin!!! Here for @iconsgbie.bsky.social @icon-s.bsky.social at @ucddublin.bsky.social #UCDLaw #ICON2026! 🤗🥳🍀

Statistics watchdog challenges Badenoch over welfare claim after Full Fact intervention. fullfact.org/economy/stat...

Heading to Dublin on Sunday for the insane 2000+ person ICON-S conference. Will only be there for 1.5 days (leaving Tuesday at 5pm). Though unlikely, hope to see you there! 🍀

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Self-portrait in a studio on the rue Daguerre taken in 1956 by Agnès Varda, who was born on this day (30 May) near Brussels in 1928 (Succession Agnès Varda) 🗃️

Really looking forward to our joint AMR at @lawandsociety.bsky.social ociety.bsky.social tomorrow with so many amazing scholars. Please come! @jiseonsong.bsky.social @libbyadler.bsky.social Jamelia Morgan @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social @swethaa.bsky.social and Kathy Abrams #LSA2026

This was an amazing AMR #lsa2026 with Aziza and Neville. If you haven’t read their books!!

Incredible read. BBC News - Roly Gregoire: Sunderland's first black player describes impact of racism - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

The teenagers behind a shooting at a San Diego mosque last week wore patches associated with Atomwaffen Division, a defunct neo-Nazi group, and drew clear inspiration from "Terrorgram," a loose network of neo-Nazis that supports the use of terrorism. Latest: www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

When I was an undergraduate student, I had to buy a terrible and expensive textbook that praised the superiority of the US constitution, especially the checks and balances 'security valve.'

Attended an amazing and outstanding talk by Dr Leslie James on her new book: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Stefan Collini is always a must read on the crises of UK Higher Education and Universities. Always. Thank you @lrb.co.uk ! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Are you (or someone you know) engaging with feminist legal scholarship from the Global South? Then please consider taking part in this Feminist Legal Studies online workshop. We are keen to support (and hopefully publish!) more feminist scholars based in the Global South. See below for more info.

Dudes just can't stop trying to remake mommy out of computer. betakit.com/ai-godfather...

Good piece by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social. There is little difference at times between Reform, Labour or Tories on hostile rhetoric against minorities. Toxic language has become "normalised". The biggest cause of division isn't immigration, it's political rhetoric. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Birth rate scaremongering was at the root of Hungary's turn in the direction of fascism especially in connection with the wave of refugee flight from Syria and Iraq driven by the global war on terror and the rise of ISIS in the mid 2010s. There's no "birth rate crisis", just ethno nationalism.

If AI can’t make money without massive energy subsidies, then AI can’t make money.

New, from me, in the Industrial Law Journal: can law adequately respond to the discrimination risks posed by AI and LLMs at work? I argue new technologies are already revealing the cracks in discrimination law, and call for targeted reform. doi.org/10.1093/indl...

270 pages, 86,000 words, submitted to publisher (title still a work in progress..) Out with Melbourne University Press, April 2027.

📢 Nicola Sturgeon in Conversation with our very own brilliant Dr Catriona Drew, Co-Director of @cceilsoas.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social Please Register! This Wednesday (May 20) at 6pm - Places going fast! RT 🙏🏾 #Frankly www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Marx was right again. - signed, AI

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I will not be watching Eurovision, a thing I love deeply because I am queer and European, because they once again are choosing to include a state that is actively committing genocide, and also because I’m in Ireland and the whole country is not broadcasting the show for the same reason.

"You have chosen... poorly."

Dear God Hashtag late capitalism

These questions raise a whole lot more questions.

Lebanon's Ministry of Health said Israeli attacks have killed 2,951 people since March 2, with at least 8,988 wounded.

My take on the UKSC's Dillon judgment - it is a combination of regressive and dubious reasoning. It radically reduces the range of cases in which Art 2 is applicable, in reasoning which flies in the face of the UK Government's promises over the provision: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/14/c...

“…hallucinated references disproportionately assign credit to already prominent and male scholars, suggesting that LLM-generated errors may reinforce existing inequities in scientific recognition…” 🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Wrote about the proliferation of metaphors of "empire" and "colonialism" to describe digital capitalism and what it might get wrong about both empires and digital capitalism. I suggest there are three missing Cs: comprador, creole, counter-colonization. www.theideasletter.org/essay/digita...

When I was dean, we surveyed employers to ask what they were looking for when hiring. In addition to the critical thinking skills cited below, they said writing well, communicating effectively, and working well in teams.

This is insane. This single data center is twice the size of Manhattan, and takes up more power than Utah CURRENTLY MAKES. This single data center WOULD BE SEEN FROM SPACE if built. UTAH, DO NOT LET THEM BUILD THIS THING.

Happy new Presiding Officer day. What’s it all about? Courtesy of SPICe: spice-spotlight.scot/2026/05/12/e...

Historian friends: what are you using these days to manage sources & notes and make sure you know where everything is when it's time to write? DevonThink? Something else? I'm gearing up for a sabbatical and want to refresh my approach!

Must we keep holding our politicians to such impossible standards?

All the King said was "Legislation will be introduced to increase confidence in the security of the immigration and asylum systems". As @colinyeo.bsky.social explains, it sounds as though he was set up to mislead parliament.

My quick write up of the immigration bit of the King's Speech. There was more in the accompanying briefing than the speech itself. But not a lot, frankly. The only new bit seemed to be a truly pathetic suggestion of clawing back asylum support costs from refugees. freemovement.org.uk/immigration-...

Nope. Not the way this works. Changing the operational name for the unauthorized war with Iran doesn't alter the application of the War Powers Resolution's 60-day clock—which already ran out. (Deleted an earlier version with a typo.) www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...