Senedd Election 2026: Rupture and Radicalism in Welsh Politics Read our latest blog from @nyedavies.bsky.social Read more: edin.ac/3RvxJES

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I’ve written a short post for Undod about the Welsh Labour government’s entanglement with the defence industry, and why today’s elections are an important opportunity to change course. undod.cymru/en/2026/05/0...

I've written a post setting out why I think the Divisional Court reached the right conclusions in its recent Palestine Action ruling.

👉NEW -- UK awarded contract to firm overseen by sanctioned Israeli minister by John McEvoy Exclusive: £10 million deal signed with company linked to Bezalel Smotrich who is sanctioned by Britain www.declassifieduk.org/uk-awarded-c...

Some quick thoughts on Ammori (apologies if I miss stuff, or misstate things) The court finds the proscription unlawful at 3 junctures here 1. The failure to apply the policy (common law) 2. The "legal basis" and 3. The "fair balance" stages of the proportionality test for human rights (HRA)

On access by Palantir (and other companies) to the UK's national security infrastructure, this recent paper sets out developments in contracting out UK national security protection and raises questions about what this means for the UK's operational independence: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

👉 NEW -- Palestine Action protesters found not guilty of Elbit burglary by Phil Miller Campaigners claim ‘huge blow’ to government after landmark prosecution of direct action group fails. www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...

“There are now more people in Wales who say they feel Welsh rather than British, it’s accelerated madly since Brexit and Covid… In England, Britishness is seen as the more inclusive identity, when Englishness isn’t, necessarily” - @jaclarner.bsky.social #Senedd26 #Wales #Cymru

My piece, 'Trans Liberation and Law: Structure, Limits and Strategy after FWS', is available now. It considers the legal route of struggle, examining the structural and material conditions that result in limits of such a strategy. @legalform.bsky.social legalform.blog/2026/01/30/t...

WRU Chair Richard Collier-Keywood and First Minister Eluned Morgan both insist that the organisations they lead retain the confidence of the Welsh public. The evidence suggests otherwise ✍️Nye Davies wp.me/p8Mk4U-1dI1

A judicial review of the ban on Palestine Action will be allowed to go ahead, a judge at Scotland's highest civil court has ruled. Former diplomat Craig Murray brought a petition for a review of the decision to the Court of Session earlier this month. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have a new article in the Howard Journal of Crime & Justice: 'The UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery on the Labour Rights of Incarcerated People: A Case Study of England and Wales'. Thanks to Rob Jones & Greg Davies for inviting me. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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.