when someone says they don’t allow their pets on the furniture

I'm pleased to announce this fantastic launch event, organised by my wonderful colleague Prof Rob Heywood, as the first event of our Law School's newly invigorated Social Justice Research Group www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c... We are hoping to offer it as a hybrid event Please RT

I have curated this year's @publiclaw.bsky.social Special Analysis section "The Public Order Act 1986 at Forty", with six excellent contributions which together, I/we hope, offer an insight into the rich tapestry of contemporary protest law and policing in the UK, through that historical lens.

I'm brave enough to admit that I would, in fact, buy this the day it goes on sale or see it opening night. Yes, I would.

I gave a short keynote at the Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference last week. Why law degrees need to take lawyering more seriously... substack.com/home/post/p-...

Quite the quote from the John Blake, the former director of fair access at the Office for Students www.thetimes.com/article/1cb6...

These NY Times oral histories—of what the Trump administration is doing to federal agencies—are a public service. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We are advertising a Grade 8 teaching and scholarship permanent lectureship at the School of Law, University of Leeds. Deadline 26 April. One of the few UK HEIs that is hiring right now...! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

"Unlike Parisians or the Latin peoples, we have no taste for great barracks divided into apartments, which give the streets of Paris such a uniform air. We like to climb our own staircase. Like our cousin the Anglo-Saxon, we have a love of 'home', the familial hearth" - Brussels mayor Charles Buls

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

Many networks saying Trump is about to escalate to war crimes, ignoring the 165 schoolgirls he killed in a double tap strike. On day one. The single greatest US military atrocity since My Lai in Vietnam has been relegated to an afterthought. Mainstream media has horrifically failed us.

Before playing Kamancheh, he says: 'Hello, I'm Mohammad-Reza Afarideh, the director of the ed. institute that has now been destroyed. I wanted the last sound coming from my institute not to be of missiles and war; (I want the) final sound to be of the instrument that I played in it. Thank you'.

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List of all the countries in the world that ban all Afghan women from studying in their sovereign Higher Education institutions: 1. Afghanistan 2. United Kingdom Must make you proud to wave your flags, UK patriots with legitimate concerns. Wave them!!!

Food banks - specifically the 1,600 run by Trussel...just how busy are they? Here is the annual data for 2015 to 2025. Other than a blip due to the 1st year of COVID, usage went up in each full year under a Tory government. 2024 was half-Tory, half-Labour - and usage fell. 2025 fell even more.

I really, really need academic organizations to think more critically about travel (conferences, talks, and meetings) during the Trump administration. Sadly, most are not.

MANCHESTER! 👇👇👇 www.coldwarsteve.com/2026/03/20/o...

Thanks, Ryan, and congrats on your win! Would you mind sending this message to legislators and college presidents across the country? Signed, Professors everywhere

[Sade voice 🎵]

my view on this is that publishers should stop it with the 80k wordcount obsession, so many contemporary non-fic books are obviously 40-50k pieces of work stretched to the extent that they become very boring to read - just let people write cheaper, shorter books! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded. 2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning. Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription, delete your account. And tell at least one person why. My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

the 'Fest' run by Connecting Legal Education's wonderful bunch, @dohertylawteach.bsky.social, @veronanid.bsky.social and @parkendlydia.bsky.social Read the full article, here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (Presentation skills can be found here: www.ishankolhatkar.com/presentation...) 2/2

It's March and conference season is just around the corner. More details this week of where I will be appearing over the next few months. In the meantime, here's my view on chairing conferences from this article on what was the most fun conference I've ever attended (and Chaired)... 1/2

Trump in 2011: “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective.”

💬 "Regardless of economic or social mobility, class-based cultural markers such as accent continue to shape how people are perceived and treated." Our research on the pervasive issue of accent bias in the workplace cited in The Conversation ⤵️

Eusébio buying soul LPs in Harlow's Startime record shop in 1968

a year is a long time in politics

✍️ New article: Tracking historical progress against slavery and forced labor: a long-run data view For much of history, forced labor was widespread and brutal. Tens of millions of people were made to work under the threat of violence or punishment. The situation today is very different.

"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?

Kidnapper: your getting in the trunk Me: *you’re

Wow.

Hopefully there will be further protests when the rancid racist cunt is actually in the stadium.

🎶 … When the Home Sec is told That the ban was too bold That’s … R (Ammori) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2026] EWHC 292 (Admin)

Can we bring back the era when saying this shit would get you ostracized for life. For all the cancelling supposedly about, rich auld fellas still feel pretty free and easy about dropping their invective... share.google/HPDFEvyxD5v4...

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Name them shame them

Get Palantir out of the NHS https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=PalantirNHS&utm_medium=social_media

Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.

Devastatingly sad. Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support

billionaire: we billionaires earn our money through hard work and our extraordinary intellects. we are simply more perceptive and insightful than regular people mr nonce: hmllo billi,onirr, wuld u liek 2 visit my sexcrime. Island. ? billionaire: deborah, hold my calls

Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Annual reminder of how many days there are in each month.

The is the biggest national embarrassment in American history.

In the space of two minutes he confused Greenland and Iceland four times by my count. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump: "World War 1 -- they lost 100 million people. It actually ended World War 1. A lot of people don't know. The Spanish flu in World War 1 ended the war."