My piece for Verfassungsblog on the High Court judgment regarding the proscription of Palestine Action. verfassungsblog.de/palestine-ac...

‘Too often we treat national security assessments as solemn expressions of a neutral truth by the elected guardians of the people. Yet the case of Peter Mandelson shows just how lopsided and politically motivated those assessments can be.’ @daniellalock.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

This story will be updated: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/w...

Well now. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule. Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Palestine Action judgment: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

High Court’s judgment finding the proscription of Palestine Action was an unjustified interference with rights to freedom of association and assembly under arts 10/11 ECHR, and inconsistent with the Home Secretary’s own policy. www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

The High Court will hand down judgment tomorrow in the judicial review against the Home Secretary’s proscription of Palestine Action.

CALL FOR CHAPTERS! Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

Now available for pre-order; forthcoming April 2026. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The way Palestine Action ban was approved by MPs has been raised in the High Court, with Dame Victoria Sharp noting 2 unrelated groups were on the same order She says MPs may have been "reluctant" to vote against it but the home sec lawyer says the court should be "cautious" giving that any weight

I recorded a podcast with @daniellalock.bsky.social and @colinmurray.bsky.social in which we discuss decision to ban #PalestineAction. There is some really excellent stuff in here-- Daniella and Colin are on top of their briefs. Please do check it out and share widely! youtu.be/tKN4Wk2SEyQ?...

Free seminar on Prevent and Extremism in Oxford this Thursday, with me and the excellent Julia Ebner: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/preve.... Some background to my own work on Prevent is here: www.daqc.co.uk/2025/11/16/l....

Important new report from the Bingham Centre's Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice: binghamcentre.biicl.org/documents/22...

Data released this week shows that a record number of referrals were made to Prevent in the year to March 2025. The majority of referrals were made for individuals who had “no identified ideology.”

I am delighted to see this great piece in the Guardian about developments in partial ectogestation - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... - and glad to have had the opportunity to contribute some of the insights from my work over the last 8 years @durham.ac.uk

Prevent opened up to C4 News last week. This 10-minute film (from 19:30) is the result. Recommended. www.channel4.com/programmes/c...

Far-right extremists outnumber Islamists in anti-terror programme referrals, data shows www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

My report of July 2025 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Full figures here www.gov.uk/government/s...

Prevent stats published today www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

A majority of #PREVENT referrals in the past year have no identifiable ideology. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's a tight race. Callum still needs a bit of support from Team Dog.

The IPT has dismissed complaints made by two Guantanamo Bay detainees alleging public law illegality by UK security agencies in their ill-treatment by the US: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u... The substantive findings/reasons for dismissing all substantive grounds are contained in a CLOSED judgment.

📣 Call for contributors 📣 from myself and @frasoliman.bsky.social for the edited collection 'Harmful Security: multidisciplinary perspectives on the harms of counterterrorism'. Please share - details in picture and in thread below 👇🏼

This is on now. 🤓

Giving this talk tmr!

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/...

FWIW this isn’t the only systematic review of violent extremism threat/risk assessment tools. There is also this one: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

15-page pamphlet summarising the results of systematic literature review of violent extremism risk assessment tools (or threat and risk, given that most studies it examines are of TRAP-18 and that tool’s creator is emphatic about the threat/risk distinction): static1.squarespace.com/static/66895...

Public Law is looking make several appointments to its Editorial Committee - details etc ⬇️ - expressions of interest to [email protected] by 31 October 2025.

Prosecuting for Daesh crimes: debate today on JCHR’s important recent report hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-0....

We are pleased to open the Call for Papers for the 2026 Public Law Conference, 1-4 July 2026, Cape Town. The theme is "Public Law & the Future of Constitutional Democracy". Submit an abstract via Oxford Abstracts by 14 Nov 2025: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79382... Details⬇️

Happy publication day! Public Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Public-Law-a... Private Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Private-Law-...

The next Public Law Conference will be held at University of Cape Town, 1-4 July 2026. The theme is Public Law and the Future of Constitutional Democracy. 2026 marks the 30 year anniversary since the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. More details coming soon.

A bunch of new resources on the Australian legal definition of terrorism, and past reviews of the definition, have been added to the INSLM website: www.inslm.gov.au/reviews/defi...

This will be terrific: @bymyong.bsky.social consistently illuminates aspects of the constitution that the rest of us - unjustifiably - ignore

🚨 Exciting news for public law scholars: @icon-s.bsky.social ICON•S Annual Conference 2026 will be hosted in Dublin @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social Centre for Constitutional Studies ⬇️

A reminder

- Organisatons: ASEAN - Organisations: Commonwealth of Independent States - Bulk personal data acquisition If you would be interested in writing one of these entries for the encyclopaedia, please do get in touch. Entries should be 2,000 words long, with a deadline of 30th September.

- Defining terrorism: North and Central America - Terrorist organisations: UN sanctions regime - Police powers: comparative pre-charge detention - Emergency Powers Paradigm - The war response - The role of rights in counter-terrorism: right to life

line-up of contributors that includes @leejarvis.bsky.social @jamesfitz2.bsky.social @davidwellsct.bsky.social @rvanark.bsky.social @broderickmcdonald.bsky.social @conorgearty.bsky.social @muniramustaffa.bsky.social and many others. We have nine entries left to commission, on the following topics:

**Call for contributors to the Elgar Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law** @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social, @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social and I are compiling a new Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law, to be published by Edward Elgar. So far we have commissioned over 100 entries with a fantastic

Yesterday there was an important discussion of the legality of Palestine Action's recent proscription, hosted by John McDonnell MP. Here were some of the key issues raised -

“Lessons for #Prevent“ now published www.gov.uk/government/p...

Now published: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687611...

My report "Lessons for Prevent" will be published on Wednesday, probably late morning. My terms of reference ask me to look at the Prevent histories of the killers of Sir David Amess and the Southport girls, and draw any conclusions for the future of Prevent. www.gov.uk/government/p...