It's a lifeline, not a comprehensive solution to the crisis, but if you're a UK-based PhD (or equivalent) in a SHAPE subject within 10 years of your viva, do join the British Academy's ECRN. It's free, has resources & you don't need to be employed in research or academia to be a member. 3/3

"Good news, bad news" situation. It's actually good the Home Office won this one. Alternative was a raft of councils closing hotels with no suitable alternatives, meaning people were either made homeless or put in camps. Bad news, still no suitable alternatives. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

My God.

As a doctor, I have been really angry about this!

For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.

Well, this is bloody depressing. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This from @lewisgoodall.com

Hurricane Melissa has done catastrophic damage to Western Jamaica. We are used to hurricanes, but this is the worst hurricane on record that has ever hit the island. There has been devastation to infrastructure and housing. If you are able to, please donate to relief efforts: supportjamaica.gov.jm

Hurricane Melissa has done catastrophic damage to Western Jamaica. We are used to hurricanes, but this is the worst hurricane on record that has ever hit the island. There has been devastation to infrastructure and housing. If you are able to, please donate to relief efforts: supportjamaica.gov.jm

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

America’s immigration crackdown is disrupting the global remittance market www.npr.org/sections/pla...

Private Eye.

For the record, Melissa's main targets of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas account for, respectively, 0.016%, 0.0089%, 0.064%, and 0.0038% of the global annual total of CO2 emissions.

Busy times ahead...I have just heard I have the go-ahead for this new book project...200,000 words by 2028 I'm very pleased to have their support The two referees were very positive...so if this they are reading this thank you Neither though was keen on title...so there may be discussions ahead

Ironic racism is still leveraging racism for laughs. People of colour still end up suffering ridicule.

Most people in NI are really not surprised by the Soldier F outcome - but this was no show trial or witch hunt. The judge excoriated the soldiers' conduct, but because of a passing of time caused by extreme state failings, could not convict. That is the scandal. These headlines are grotesque:

1/9 the video of my UCL current legal problems lecture is now up: "Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution". It looks at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirjjkc.bsky.social  chairs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx3P...

The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.

Richard Martin: Counting Cumulative Impact: More Public Order Law Additions ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/22/r...

The Ministry of Justice has been convicted of a crime and fined £1,000, in a closed-door court hearing the department itself was apparently not aware was happening www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/m...

Have you written to your MP yet? Recently? It takes one minute. And I promise. It really is making a difference 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

A critical remembrance of Jane Goodall for the latest issue of @thecontinent.org. Open to comments and feedback www.thecontinent.org/_files/ugd/2...

The October 25 issue of @publiclaw.bsky.social will land on Westlaw shortly. Analysis from Farrah Raza on NHS regulation and patient choice and @a-b-evans.bsky.social on recall proposals for the Senedd. Articles are from @echrhawk.bsky.social on the vulnerability of the UK's HR protections; ...

Dane Luo: The Anomalous Islands of Public Interest Functions Immune from Judicial Review ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/14/d...

Brice Dickson: The meaning of ‘civil rights’ in the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/13/b...

Conor Crummey: The Principle of Legality, the Definition of ‘Terrorism’, and Palestine Action ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/13/c...

Trump can say this is the beginning of a lasting peace all he wants, but the reality is: The Occupation continues, settlers continue to terrorise Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza is a ruin and could collapse into civil war, and the Israeli government still does not want a Palestinian state

We have an updated ministerial code! The new code makes clear that ministers "are expected" to pay back any severance payment if they quickly get a new ministerial job or are found to have broken the rules on post-government jobs www.gov.uk/government/p...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

"Universities ... collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/09/a...

Irony being that the entire Farage-isation of British politics is built on the phenomenon of white right-wingers who don't want to "integrate" with the reality of multi-ethnic Britain, don't want to accept migrants as their fellow citizens, and don't want people of colour moving into their street.

Cassandra Somers-Joce: A New Chapter for Governmental Candour? The Public Office (Accountability) Bill ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/06/c...

Looking ahead to what's coming up this month, I'll be speaking at Durham Cathedral with my colleagues Henry and @benedictdouglas.bsky.social about Magna Carta (1225) as part of the ongoing exhibition

I‘m giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is “Bureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitution” looking at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair! www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!! Just the one!!

White people get to debate openly when to call something racist. I do not. I have to decide, at a risk to myself, when to challenge, when to make a noise and when to stand up because I'm the very target they're agitating against. The stakes are different for me and I wish more people understood

The politics of drawing a moral line: When we need to call out racism for what it is open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

How much of right wing politics would flat out just disappear if men didn't have weird sexual neuroses?

Why did the Confederates bet on “King Cotton” to pull Britain into the Civil War? How did the Union feed starving mill workers? And why were Liverpool shipyards building warships for the South? @davidolusoga.bsky.social and @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social reveal the high-stakes cotton gamble in new ep

The experience of more racism this summer was not universal, but a third of ethnic minorities reported receiving racist abuse in one month. So "crying racism" was tone deaf if the NS is written for a readership that spans the majority and minority groups in our society bsky.app/profile/sund...

"There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25..."

Migrants already "earn the right to settlement" through extortionate visa costs, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds. They prop up key services, including through the Immigration Health Surcharge. Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

Articles for the Special Issue on Utopia and Failure are now available on FirstView in the European Journal of Social Theory See Irretrievable failure: Life in the ruins of utopian dreaming by Martin Coward and Debbie Lisle journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Yep, that's great. Just fantastic. We were told that Starmer would lay out the patriotic case for diversity today. What we got was an article in the Telegraph, behind a paywall, about how the left failed to tackle immigration and now we all have to have ID cards www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...

There'll be scenes like this (and much worse) up and down the UK if Reform get into government and start acting out their Send Them Back fantasies. A thousand acts of sadism carried out by malevolent racist thugs employed and empowered by the state. Some of you will be safe. Many of us won't.