Hello Bluesky! I do policy and politics at Good Law Project and I want to talk about it here. Mostly thinking about trans rights, big tech, and the far right. I would love to hear from anyone with similar interests/obsessions/millstones...

NEW RESOURCE WITH @streetskitchen.bsky.social Info cards to support people who are being criminalised for experiencing homelessness and poverty, for example under ‘anti-social behaviour’ laws. Share with your networks and download the info cards ⤵️ www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/advice_infor...

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

Goodwin's palpable disgust for black and brown people is, of course, a colonial inheritance. But the "national" prosperity that made Britain's welfare state possible is in no small part a colonial inheritance too, plundered from places like Africa and south Asia. He might show a little gratitude.

These reports the Government could revalue council tax bands F, G and H don't make sense to me. Here's what could actually be going on:

It beggars belief that Labour are taxing universities’ most lucrative revenue streams at a time when three quarters of them are in the red

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

And it's helping swing elections www.wired.com/story/the-da...

"Slaveholders also ensured that there was no effective bureaucracy for tax assessment. In Georgia, for example, property holders simply asserted the value of their estate and, by law, tax officials could not dispute the owner’s estimate."

“YouTube is furthering the Trump administration’s agenda to remove evidence of human rights violations and war crimes.”

Folk often ask me what I would do by way of land reform legislation. Have a read of this blog to find out. It seems pointless to do much further detailed work since there is so little appetite for such measures andywightman.scot/2023/12/land...

Land Reform (Scotland) Bill passes with 85 voting yes, 28 voting no and 9 abstentions

Right to buy in reverse: how Brighton is tackling its social housing crisis | Richard Partington

British lawlessness in Ireland affirmed as perfectly legal by British court.

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Tithi Bhattacharya responds to Eric Blanc, Bashir Abu-Manneh, and Hoda Mitwally's recent criticisms of the US Palestine solidarity movement. spectrejournal.com/there-are-no...

Yesterday, Trump awarded Charlie Kirk a Medal of Freedom and named 10/14 a National Day of Remembrance for an unabashed advocate for white supremacy and fascism. Shame has lost its meaning and power. And so has liberalism. My new essay for The New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/2015...

If you reduce taxation on property, the 'saving' will be capitalised in to house prices, enriching existing owners whilst not increasing homeownership. Property tax needs reform not lowering. Abolish stamp duty & replace with annual proportional property tax. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The anti-genocide protests are not made against the Jewish community. They're not even made against Israel per se. They are primarily against *our own government*, and it's complicity in the genocide being carried out by the Israeli state. The home secretary's remarks should be seen in that context.

Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis suggests

it's 100 years since the land registry (and therefore the modern property market) was established in england and wales. next tuesday i'll be talking with @sarahkeenan.bsky.social, lorna fox o'mahony and lucy finchett-maddock about the politics of registration. join: www.eventbrite.ca/e/perpetual-...

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds" The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.

vital links between food production and fascism in britain made in @vittles.bsky.social this morning — including labour's renewal of the seasonal worker scheme which could be in violation of intl. human rights law. food sovereignty and land justice now!

a really exciting time for the english land question, as guy shrubsole outlines here, + context and some key cleavages

I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldn’t allow government officials to accuse people of *terrorism* anonymously.

truly an honour to hear the #AAG2025 honorary geographer gwendolyn warren give an oral history of the context and formation of the detroit geographical expedition and institute (DGEI) today. so many critical lessons for geographers working on political education projects @geographers.bsky.social

at #AAG2025 this week! on friday at 12.50, i'll be presenting on research conducted with @samburgum.bsky.social on how those criminalised under laws of trespass negotiate spaces of discretion. will be focusing on our work with gypsies and travellers in west yorkshire @geographers.bsky.social

BLOG - Who Owns Scotland 2024. My annual analysis of who owns Scotland which reveals a growing concentration in the pattern of privately-owned rural landownership since 2012. andywightman.scot/2025/03/who-...

This isn't a 'scheme' it's a business arrangement. Nor is it offering 'unprecedented access': it's just charging people for a campsite with no actual facilities. Why is the @theguardian.com publishing commercial advertising as news? www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Shaina Potts has written a brilliant & incredibly timely book about law, capital, and American empire. I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):

Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

excited to be facilitating this workshop with my fellow folk and miknaf ha'aretz, next tuesday 19:30-21:00 GMT / 11:30-13:00 PT. join us for an introduction to this new project on land dispossession in england, and its international implications. tickets here: www.miknafhaaretz.co.uk/events

imagine lecturing people on free speech and then doing this

For Parapraxis Magazine, I wrote about Zionist Holocaust trauma and ideological dynamics that have moved Zionism towards the present genocide parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ide...

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

Executive orders are not laws. The Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has started Executive Power Watch, which includes breakdowns of Trump's EOs on education, what they do and don't mean ,and how to resist. More at the link: academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/how-should...

"That would include any books that mention slavery, the civil rights movement or the treatment of Native Americans... At one elementary school, that has amounted to hundreds of books in several stacks, filling rolling carts."

Anyone who has studied the fascism, violence and pogroms of the post-reconstruction era of America would know that white humiliation / Black progress has long been this country’s ticking time bomb. The historical parallels are 1920s Oklahoma, not 1930s Germany. But this history is often buried.

A Letter from WIRED's Editor @katie-drummond.bsky.social: Ever since Elon Musk backed Trump’s presidential bid last year, we've been tracking his growing influence in politics. We’ve talked to people within federal agencies and experts in cybersecurity, AI, and medicine about his potential impact.

Really sorry to hear about Michael Burawoy. An inspirational sociologist who made me rethink methods, epistemology, dissemination, and the politics of what we do. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Since 2004, Internet Archive has collaborated with a group of libraries and research organizations on the End of Term Web Archive. 💾 Learn more about the effort: eotarchive.org

Hey data nerds, Defra has just launched a 'Land Use Consultation' which says government wants to: - make more [geospatial] data accessible for the public benefit - free up more Land Registry data - explore options to increase transparency of land & property data. consult.defra.gov.uk/land-use-fra...

Israel and the delusions of Germany’s ‘memory culture’

like, take a look at this IM-1776 article on annexing Greenland: they view it as their duty to seize Greenland and make it theirs

I think about this. “The central archive of Gaza Municipality, which dates back to the Ottoman era and includes documents, ownership records, official transactions, electricity, water, municipal records, and land registries, has been entirely burnt and destroyed, aside from what has been stolen.”

'Prince William to end feudal restrictions on his Duchy of Cornwall estate' Residents of central Dartmoor - the duchy’s largest landholding - will be given the right to buy the freehold to their homes for the first time, following the Govt's leaseholder reforms. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...