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-...

I have realized it was paywalled. Sorry all. There is a preprint available here: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

(3/3) @jamesbowes01.bsky.social analysis, on which the Times article is based, explains the numbers and why the government's "earned settlement" proposals are a disaster economically as well as morally. [end] ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

There were 29,300 student visa applications last month, 17 per cent less than in December 2024 "The Home Office will be pleased but pretty much everyone else will see it as the disaster it is—for university finances and the UK’s soft power," said Nick Hillman, director of @hepi-news.bsky.social

As we move into 2026, Jamaica is slipping off the agenda — but the impact of Hurricane Melissa remains. Nearly 4,640 have signed the petition for UK support. Each One Bring One: share, sign, and help keep Jamaica on the agenda.

'Despite all their difficulties, universities remain an enormous and irreplaceable national asset. As well as educating millions of people, they generate about £24bn in export earnings, which is about 1% of GDP – more than aircraft manufacturing and legal services combined'. 1/2

Staff at the University of Nottingham fear that planned course closures and changes to staff-student ratios could damage the university’s international standing and create “impossible” workloads, reports Juliette Rowsell #academicsky #edusky https://ow.ly/YKnf50XNcFX

On 18 December 2025, the CJEU ruled that Poland’s “Constitutional Tribunal” is not an independent court and that its actions breached core principles of EU law. WOJCIECH SADURSKI explains why this judgment matters – and what the Polish government can do next. verfassungsblog.de/the-cjeu-ver...

We are a living through an essentialist reaction to the openness of social categories. You can see it in the disability discourse in particular, as well as in so much contemporary discourse about race and sex.

Two Lectureships in Law with us at @lawatleeds.bsky.social. Open call, 'An ability to contribute to teaching in one or more of the foundational LLB subjects is essential.' Genuinely a lovely bunch of people to be around. In the present HE context, it matters! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

With only a handful of days to go before the visit of his closest friend, Michaels was reported to be “absolutely fucking bricking it”.

Christmas Break ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/12/c...

"Migrants who came to the UK on skilled work visas in 2022-23 will make a net contribution of £47bn to the public finances over their lifetime, according to new estimates from the government’s Migration Advisory Committee." Not surprising, but some observations (1/n) www.ft.com/content/10da...

Catriona Mullay: A Fresh Start, the Old Tradition: Sovereignty and the Scottish Constitutional Imaginary ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/11/c...

Reminder that the ECHR prevents people being expelled to face torture, inhuman treatment, slavery or death, and prevents splitting of families unless there's a strong enough public interest. European leaders are evidently comfortable with at least some of those things, at least for foreigners.

Alexander Baxter: Common Law Post-ECHR: What Lord Briggs’ Anniversary Lecture Tells Us ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/09/a...

Kirsty Hughes: The Implications of the Court of Appeal’s Judgment on ‘Family Life’ for the Government’s Immigration Proposals ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/10/k...

Happy #HumanRightsDay! Starmer has chosen to mark it by... kicking off negotiations on how to water down our human rights 🤯 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The ECHR protects all of us, so we should all be worried about changes that amount to "human rights... except for those people"

Veronika Fikfak: ECHR Reform: A Danger of Contagion in Relation to Article 3 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/09/v...

Worth re-reading this seminal 2017 essay from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in light of everything that's happened since. To say it still stands up would be an understatement. A genuine tour de force. Very impressive. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Yinke Bankola says he was 9 when the sixth form Dulwich school prefect Nigel Farage, aged 17, asked him where he was from, then told him "that's the way back to Africa". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA politics. Hard to overstate how disgusting and embarrassing for our country it is for the US Secretary of Defense to be doing this:

It's revealing about taboos around racism that the visceral bullying racism of schoolboy Farage cuts through while the much more consequential thinly veiled racism of adult Farage doesn't. Many people need that veil and flinch when it's removed. You can advocate racist policies but not say the words

Eleni Frantziou and Anurag Deb: Direct Effect, Disapplication, and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: Still Together in Northern Ireland after Dillon? ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/04/e...

Even people who have concerns about sport or refuge spaces would do well to justify why trans women should be excluded from the Women’s Institute or Guides. Just cruelty and spite. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's like the incredibly tedious "Rachel from accounts" thing. Misogyny in politics remains a powerful force.