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.

India’s Supreme Court has banned a school textbook discussing judicial corruption. ANMOL JAIN examines the Court’s extraordinary intervention in the NCERT affair – and why it raises serious concerns about contempt law and judicial self-protection. verfassungsblog.de/the-indian-s...

39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.

Interesting to see that a review with 32 experts published in British Journal of Psychiatry last week found no evidence that ADHD is being overdiagnosed www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/no-over...

Resharing this with a link straight to the content. @dinahrose.bsky.social makes a cameo (I think courts are yet to grasp the force of her argument in Croft) ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/09/r...

Interesting NZ HC case on expulsion from party and thus as MP subjecting decision to public law JR principles (as I understand on quick skim) cf in E&W, Tortoise Media in CoA Though that was a s6 HRA case, as I reskimmed it (again speedily), essence is that no a public body but contractual

Reactionaries convinced us for decades that something like gender studies has no practical use in society, and I know many reasonable people also believe(d?) this. It was the butt of the joke for as log as I can remember. But OMG does this video drive home the point they were wrong.

We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Daniella Lock: In Defence of the Divisional Court’s Palestine Action Ruling ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/02/d...

Weronika Galka: Secret proceedings, (mal)administration, and the courts: RA and AA v SSFCDA, MZZ v SSD and SSHD and In the Matter of the SSD [2026] EWCA Civ 3 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/02/26/w...

I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

“To not acknowledge the unique effect of a racial slur is a form of indifference to the suffering of others. The problem of being indifferent to the suffering of black folk while also imploring folks to have empathy for Davidson cannot be understated.” — @nubluesnick.bsky.social

Delroy Lindo told Vanity Fair that he and Michael B. Jordan “did what we had to do” while presenting but that he also wished “someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterward”

i appreciate labour taking a stronger line on racism but it's a little incongruous when they're separating families, smearing asylum seekers as "illegal", & making the lives of legal residents harder to appease that same bigotry

Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC. Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

New research shows 1.35m people already living in the UK would face a longer qualifying period for settlement under changes planned by the Home Office, including over 300,000 children Government must publish an impact assessment before going ahead with these reforms, writes Labour MP Olivia Blake

Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...

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

Nottingham records £85m deficit after buildings drop in value University insists underlying position has improved despite sharp rise in reported losses www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Emma Bernard, 38, had been looking forward to a classic movie marathon with friends, but found herself unable to enjoy the evening after someone (Becky) incorrectly set the volume to a stupid, wrong number and just left it like that – like a monster.

Many thanks for this great collection and pleased to have my article 'Public Power and Private Hands: Outsourcing in UK National Security Law' included.

Absolutely brutal news in the research world to kick off the day. How we're making such a mess of this I have no idea. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

Now that blood is on the street, we still won’t admit you’ve been right all decade long while we scolded and marginalized you. Instead, we’ll declare it’s just now become right to say such things.

it's cool that so many people in positions of power and influence were so negatively polarized by "wokeness" that they convinced themselves that there was an actual debate about who wanted to erase history and the "wokes" were on the wrong side bsky.app/profile/arch...

Nathan Whetton: Civil Disobedience, Protest and the Jury Trial Reforms ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/21/n...

Been thinking a lot about how people keep trying to foist the activist label on me because they’re uncomfortable with acknowledging the fact that I am just poet who writes about the world. This happens a lot to writers, especially those of us of colour. Writing is an inherently political act.

If only there had been some clue that he was like this.

Ananya Kumar-Banerjee: The Tameside Duty Under the Adults At Risk Policy ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/19/a...

I wrote this poem as an homage to Baldwin and to hear it being sung across the world or read in protests has been my own guiding light of hope.

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk

So much wrong with this, with Labour fuelling anti migrant narrative and deliberately obscuring the difference between anything close to ‘open borders’ and what actually happened, namely post-freedom of movement migration under increasingly restrictive, employer-tied schemes with limited rights

Khadijah Ibrahiim lost her undergraduate dissertation hours before the deadline. Receiving an honorary degree last summer proved less stressful. Read about the Leeds-born literary activist, poet and dramatist, as we celebrate her contribution to the arts: spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/leeds-magazi...

Good to see this man now has his grant of refugee status, I wrote up the judicial review in September: freemovement.org.uk/palestinian-...