Quite - and I don’t say this lightly - an extraordinary poll for the Welsh Parliament election in May via @itvcymruwales.bsky.social 👇👇 The Polanski surge is hitting the Greens in Wales and Reform appear to have plateaued. A big Plaid lead and Lab/Cons in 4th/5th. www.itv.com/news/wales/2...

"I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why," writes Amu Gib www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How a Palestine Action hunger striker was left on her cell floor Qesser Zuhrah was experiencing worsening chest pains and was told by a nurse ‘you don’t decide if you go to hospital, I do' www.middleeasteye.net/news/can-you...

‘None of the six hunger strikers is charged with terrorism offences: all, however, have been subject to arbitrary and demeaning treatment since the Palestine Action ban.’ E.S. Wight on the largest co-ordinated hunger strike in British prisons since 1981, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

It's not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel's onslaught continues | Nesrine Malik

I recorded a podcast with @daniellalock.bsky.social and @colinmurray.bsky.social in which we discuss decision to ban #PalestineAction. There is some really excellent stuff in here-- Daniella and Colin are on top of their briefs. Please do check it out and share widely! youtu.be/tKN4Wk2SEyQ?...

“The glaring weaknesses of prisoners’ Welsh language rights also demand fresh consideration of the anomalous constitutional arrangements governing prisons in Wales. The only common law country in the world to have its own legislature and executive without its own justice system.” 1/2

“We have a duty to resist wherever we are, weaponising everything at our disposal.” Calla Walsh on the Prisoners for Palestine hunger strike. newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

NEWYDD - Adroddiad gan @robdjones.bsky.social yn dadansoddi'r data diweddaraf ar garchardai a charchariad yng Nghymru 👇 NEW - Report from Dr Robert Jones analyses the latest data on prisons and imprisonment in Wales 👇 #Wales #Cymru #Senedd26 www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

🚨 NEW in @bjpols.bsky.social : When Partygate hit Westminster, trust in Scottish politicians increased. Our experiments reveal a "contrast effect" - scandals at one level can make the other look better by comparison. Who lost most trust in Westminster? Scottish unionists. Read now #OpenAccess 👇

Research from @robdjones.bsky.social and @gjdavies.bsky.social has shed light on the attitudes towards the Welsh language inside Wales’s largest prison: Welsh-speaking inmates 'told to speak English' in prison www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Hillsborough Law (aka Public Office Accountability Bill) will help hold police & other state actors to account for lying & covering up scandals. Follow @cfpjustice.bsky.social to see how other state cover-ups have affected communities across the UK: www.youtube.com/watch?v=byJT...

Listen to Dr @nyedavies.bsky.social discuss the life and political journey of totemic - and complex - figure of Welsh Labour history, Aneurin Bevan 👇 Available on the History Extra podcast from the BBC History Magazine in Apple, Spotify, and all other podcast apps open.spotify.com/episode/6sOy...

1/ two new posts from my current research project, asking how migrant workers & #modern_slavery survivors understand 'labour exploitation' and, more broadly, agency and meaning at work 1. Some insights from listening to migrant workers about labour exploitation: www.josephcentre.org/post/what-do...

New report alleges British links to human rights and environmental crises in West Papua, Indonesia.

HMP Berwyn, the UK's largest prison, was once presented as an advance for the Welsh language. @robdjones.bsky.social and I argue that it’s been a categorical failure by that measure, posing troubling questions for Welsh language rights more widely: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Since entering office, the Labour government has further tightened restrictions on the right to protest.

The UK's three main political parties are just different flavours of authoritarianism at this stage. This country is at a dangerous crossroads and every potential path looks bleak. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hora v the United Kingdom: Strasbourg’s New Ruling on UK’s Prisoner Voting Ban ukhumanrightsblog.com/2025/10/01/h...

Prisoner Voting is Back! And Strasbourg is still in a right old prickle. The Court doesn't want to back down on Hirst, but also doesn't want a fight with the UK. So it concluded that the particular claimant in Hora v UK could legitimately have the vote removed: hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=002-14...

🚨 BREAKING | 1,339 people have now been arrested on "terrorism" charges in 2025, with almost all of them busted for holding signs at pro-Palestine protests. This is more than any year on record, by far. (Source: Home Office)

Gareth Evans: The Devolution of the Crown Estate in Wales ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/09/04/g...

I think George Osborne openly musing to the air that the security services probably wouldn’t have tolerated Labour winning in 2017, because of our relationship with America, is quite helpful and I’d like to hear more.

Wherein, @nanoboss.bsky.social, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and I attempt to chart out the Marxist tradition and its relationship to EU law - both historically and theoretically, as part of our broader symposium in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social Tis a chunky tome. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A cross-party group of Senedd Members have come together to urge the First Minister to take action to ensure Wales is not complicit in Israel’s ongoing military action in Palestinian ✍️Emily Price

This was a grotesque spectacle yesterday. More pensioners being hauled into riot vans for protesting peacefully against Israel’s daily atrocities. Starmer’s Britain in a nutshell! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

@robdjones.bsky.social and I are guest editing a special issue of @howardjournalcj.bsky.social which explores the rights of prisoners in the UK and elsewhere. It follows an @slsauk.bsky.social seminar held in Liverpool in 2023, and features a brilliant set of legal academics and criminologists.

Durham Law is hiring a 3yr career development fellow in public law! Some lovely ppl here: @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social @lizaoloughlin.bsky.social @seshauna.bsky.social @rogermasterman.bsky.social @dkagiaros.bsky.social @nataliesedacca.bsky.social ... and @aileenmcharg.bsky.social rb.gy/ybcbpf

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves. If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Here I argue the Home Secretary's case that Palestine Action is concerned in terrorism is lacking in evidence, and proscribing the group is disproportionate. It will criminalise a significant proportion of civil society and be counterproductive for maintaining safety.

The Divisional Court in Al-Haq: "The issues raised... are not justiciable. Alternatively, if justiciable at all, the correct approach is to ask whether the view taken by the Secretary of State is tenable as a matter of international law. We conclude that it is." www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

The Labour government is planning to cut welfare support to disabled people while spending a further £1bn in public money on new military lasers. #DCUKparliament

Me and @nanoboss.bsky.social for @legalform.bsky.social rm.bsky.social thinking about 'smart sanctions' on Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. TLDR: these sanctions are smart insofar as they enable imperialist states to 'act' whilst fundamentaly upholding the status quo.

Starting a war in order to divert political and diplomatic attention away from a genocide. Doesn't get much worse than this. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

New publication in Industrial Law Journal 🎉 The early EU once imagined a different kind of environmental policy. It was rooted in social democracy, not neoliberal logic. It's open access so you can give it a read at the link below 👇 doi.org/10.1093/indl...

A characteristically… forthright and… robust piece by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social that in its own way touches on one of the perennial post-devolution Qs, namely ‘whither the territorial secretaries of state?’ #devolution #senedd

"What can be offered as a resolution is not a ‘correct interpretation’, a new rights challenge, or even a new law, but something which challenges the very root of these social oppressions." A really thoughtful, provocative essay on FWS.

@jaclarner.bsky.social from the Welsh Election Study: “Looking at the areas now voting Reform, they’re the same areas that always voted Labour, and it’s very easy to just make the logical mistake to assume it’s the same people doing it. That isn’t what we see” #Senedd26 www.ft.com/content/668f...

Superb article here on devolution in the UK Supreme Court, calling for an interpretive approach which recognises the accommodation of national pluralism as devolution’s central purpose: academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

£100k+ earners are the new precariat.

A handy one-article introduction to Britain, here. Yes, this is what it’s like, and anyone who ever tries to change it gets their head very publicly kicked in, pour encourager les autres.

The perfectly sane, measured response of a thriving liberal democracy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Next up in our (@nanoboss.bsky.social and @andywoodhouse.bsky.social) Marxism and EU Law Symposium: Dimitrios Kivotidis takes on the EU's 'democratic deficit' . He shows us that beneath the liberal surface of this debate, lie the social relations of capitalism. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We have doctoral funding (via teaching fellowships) advertised at the moment: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/grad... This is genuinely a great place to do public law. If you have a proposal in mind, or already up your sleeve, do get in touch. Informal enquiries are very welcome.

@nyedavies.bsky.social writes for the @uk.theconversation.com about the 'red Welsh way' slogan debuted in a recent speech by FM Eluned Morgan and the challenge of differentiation faced by Welsh Labour in the run up the national election in Wales in 2026 #Senedd26 theconversation.com/the-red-wels...

‘Gweriniaeth sosialaidd i Gymru nawr’

First piece from our (@nanoboss.bsky.social and @andywoodhouse.bsky.social) Marxism and EU Law symposium is a brilliant one by Maria Tzanakopoulou mapping out the spatial configuration of class struggle in the EU.

A group of us law academics put together a letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers UK Supreme Court ruling & we are asking other *UK based law folk* (academic activist practitioner etc) to sign More details 👇 #transrights #trans #transgender #lawsky #academicsky #UKlaw docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A sensational new poll on voting intention at next year’s Senedd election has put Plaid Cymru in the lead with 30% of the vote - 12 points ahead of Labour on 18% and five points ahead of Reform UK on 25% ✍️Martin Shipton