"Black people get lower grades for the same work. They’re less likely to get job offers and are offered less pay for the same types of work, even with exactly the same skills and qualifications. They’re less likely to receive painkillers because of the myth that Black people experience less pain."

Do people understand yet that this was never about reasonable concerns. That no compromise would ever be enough for them. They want to be able to actively discriminate against us. They want us not to exist.

Dane Luo: Andy Burnham and the Constitution – The Conventions on the Appointment of the Prime Minister ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/20/d...

It’s very hard to digest how the explicit antimuslim racism on display in the streets of London on Saturday is passing by with no consequences. Very hard not to feel like we’re regarded as second class citizens and fair game to be sacrificed on the alter of pacifying angry voters. Very hard & scary.

Thomas Poole and Elena De Nictolis: The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/19/t...

Many Labour MPs, maybe even the PM, will tell us today that the far right rally doesn’t represent the British people. Meanwhile, the policies they support help normalise, at times deliver directly, what the far right want. This is not how we are better; it is not how opposing the far right works.

Colin Murray: Hollowing out Northern Ireland’s Post-Brexit Rights Protections in Re Dillon [2026] UKSC 15 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/14/c...

My article on the World Bank's Business Ready Project, with Sangheon Lee @ilo.org, is in the latest issue of the Modern Law Review. On effective labour regulation, high-quality jobs, and the evolution of labour law policy at the international level. www.modernlawreview.co.uk/may-2026/wor...

1. This is horrifying and people should be ashamed at themselves for their cruelty and ignorance. 2. It’s polling as menu without prices: give these people what they want and will they be OK with the economic and public services consequences?

Gareth Evans: The Senedd Election: What are the next steps for government formation in Wales? ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/12/g...

'Birmingham City University has blamed low demand after deciding to close its master’s course in black studies just a year after it launched.' Yet another example of commitment (sic) to racial equality in higher education. Shocking after a 1-year trial. 1/3

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

The Dillon case is available at the following link. It effectively reduces the Windsor Framework's rights and equality protections, as litigable measures, to the Six Annex 1 Directives. Any broader UK Government pledges are just ashes in the mouth: supremecourt.uk/uploads/uksc...

We're hiring a Post-Doc (3 years) at the @hertieschool.bsky.social for a @scripts-berlin.eu project on authoritarian influence in the video games industry (I am soooo excited about this project)! More details here (deadline 31 May): hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

Lewis Graham: Judicial Ideology and Supreme Court Appointments ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/06/l...

Does an electoral mandate matter when it comes to the interpretation and scrutiny of legislation? On the blog today, Ava Brass unpacks the constitutional status of manifesto commitments: https://loom.ly/5txmdk0

2014 REF: 2026: closing UG History

The reason I’m in favour of immigration and against the current policies isn’t because demographics mean that we need it for our economy - though that helps. No, the reason I’m in favour of it is basic human decency. These are human beings, not statistics.

Even among fascists, this is an extreme clothing brand, because it’s not deniable. And people now feel comfortable wearing it in the middle of Berlin, in a way they didn’t 10 years ago. I can’t describe how serious this is. It’s basically saying “I’d wear a swastika in the street if that was legal“.

This was such a terrible case of an avoidable death. The parents have done remarkably to turn their grief into a practical scaleable intervention, which depemds for its effectiveness on being known about

Jonathan Collinson: A New Independent Appeals Body for Immigration and Asylum: Accountability, Transparency, and Oversight ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/04/30/j...

The range and extent of unlawful behaviour (comtempt of court) by Northamptonshire police to cover up grossly unethical & unlawful conduct is astonishing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Judgment now here caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/admin/2...

The dreadful OFS has had its terrible decision regarding "gender critical" reactionary Kathleen Stock quashed by the High Court. Will have more thoughts once I have read the judgment.

mind boggling response from a Labour MP. She either: does not have a clue how important universities are to the local economy; knows but doesn’t care because of some sort of ‘anti-elitist’ brainworm; or knows but is too worried to admit it lest it upset Reform voters. none reflect very well on her!

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.

Antoinette Nestor: “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”: Real-World Consequences and Environmental Assessment after Finch ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/04/22/a...

Looking for a parliamentary law job? Wales and Quebec are seeking nerds like you :)

Had the same thoughts this morning listening to that story. If you decide to make a headline story about that kind of inflammatory accusations you shd have a few more facts to support that claim.

Individuals who base their asylum applications on being LGBTQIA+ make up a tiny proportion of overall asylum cases, and even then a significant proportion, more than a third, are refused, often with disastrous outcomes. 2/

This story is based entirely on dodgy advisers lying to potential clients to get money out of them. The one person they actually spoke to who used this 'service' was rejected and returned to Pakistan and has since been blocked from returning to the UK.

The real scandal of the asylum system is the cruelty & incompetence which 1000s of people endure every day but which rarely gets spotlighted at the top of the BBC News site. Dan here nails much of what makes me uncomfortable about the BBC’s “fake gay refugees” story but here’s a few more points 1/

Ronan Cormacain: Mandarin: Shining a light on prerogative legislation in the Chagos Islands ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/04/13/r...

“Big tech companies artificially inflate datacentres’ job creation and economic impact to please governments like the British one, which are desperate to claim they are making the economy grow.” Not sure how I missed this news, or why it's not a massive scandal www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."

Very well and closely read over the weekend from @gsoh31.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/5032...

How a terrifying night in Detroit shaped the controversial right wing author’s thinking ✏️ James Ball

The UK’s government has announced its first ever citizens' assembly. The People's Panel for Digital ID will take place in May and June and be made up of 100 to 120 people from across the UK. Read more in Monitor 92 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....

GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

To mark the birthday of Vincent van Gogh—iconic modern artist born today in 1853—a thread of some of my favorite, relatively lesser known works by him. First up, the stunning multi-colored variegation of his Tree Trunks in the Grass, made in last months of his life krollermuller.nl/en/vincent-v...

The only responsibility I feel right now, along with many others in Germany, is to keep bookmarking moments like this, so that people here don't turn around and tell the rest of the world "we had no idea what was happening". They know. Everyone knows. At best - at best - they don't want to see it.

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

Charging people to see the stuff they yoinked from their countries. A bold move.

An excellent piece on the flimsy evidence & racial profiling behind immigration raids in the UK. As the reporter spells out, tip-offs are anonymous & can be made by people with personal gripes. I've started to look into this and there is clearly a pattern... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Two weeks left to submit (short) proposals for Public Law's themed collection of analysis papers in 2027...

Tom Mullen and Charlie Peevers: A Legal Black Hole in UK Waters? The Case of the MV Bella 1 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/19/t...

There’s no saving these cruel, pointless and unworkable proposals and it’s to be hoped that critics within Labour won’t allow themselves to be fobbed off with tinkering around at the edges

one of the things that frustrates me about re my chronic illness is how last-minute my decisions about things often have to be--everything depends. On how well/sick I feel, how much energy I have. There is no way to know for sure how I feel until the day of. I wonder if people just think Im a flake.