Excited to be back to teaching at St Andrews this week! This year will be teaching on Moral and Political Controversies, Global Justice, Philosophy of Law, and Timely Topics in Political Philosophy x

St Andrews Philosopher Alex Douglas @axdouglas.bsky.social was invited onto BBC Free Thinking to discuss his recent thoughts, research and book on Against Identity You can hear the interview here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... And Alex's book is here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/456203... #PhilSky

This is awful. These are needless and avoidable deaths of innocent people, including children, looking for safety. An ethical alternative is possible www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Response from @safepassageint to the UK governments plans to suspend family reunification www.safepassage.org.uk/news/2025/9/...

Our UK government aims to shut down safe routes and family reunification for refugees. It should not be this way. An ethical response is possible aeon.co/essays/a-phi...

With all the volatile debate on how to respond to small boats, and refugees, I wrote this piece on what an ethical response to refugees would be and how we can achieve it aeon.co/essays/a-phi...

It's not illegal to seek asylum via irregular travel You know this. You were a human rights lawyer. Stop deliberately inflaming tensions. You can see how dangerous it it

At demonstration outside hotel housing asylum seekers saying refugees welcome here, against those here trying to intimidate the people inside the hotel

A lot of evidence demonstrates targeted cash grants for homeless persons can be transformative www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Farage’s proposals would deprive innocent people of their freedom and result in immense suffering and human rights violations, with some returned to face torture and death, all for the ‘crime’ for exercising their legal and moral right to seek safety www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My last paper 'Rights, Duties, and Inviolability' is now published in the latest issue of the Journal of Applied Philosophy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My band released our first Single 'Stone Vultures' open.spotify.com/album/0T6VCg...

A response to @rory-stewart.bsky.social 's claim there's no reason for refugees in France to then seek asylum in UK: There is no legal or moral obligation to seek safety in the first or state you enter or transit through. An example helps: imagine you're a UK citizen, then there's a UK-civil war 1/n

Edinburgh Folks, we are playing Sneaky Pete's this Sunday x

Demonstration in Edinburgh against Trump and his administration's policies, and for protecting migrants freedoms and rights

People are starving in to death in Gaza. no excuse not to deliver urgent aid now. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading. All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.

On my way to Braga, Portugal to present my research on Artificial Intelligence, Basic Income, and Migration at the braga workshop on migration and forced displacement

- Safe routes save lives. They are the best way to stop people from dying in the Channel - Under the Refugee Convention, everyone who arrives in the UK has the right to seek asylum here

Bertrand Russell on the importance of a guaranteed basic income to support artists and creativity: “to keep alive a much needed element of lightheartedness which our sober, serious civilization tends to kill.” Roads to Freedom (1918)

Congratulations to our own Bradley Hillier-Smith, whose new paper 'Rights, Duties, and Inviolability' was just published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dear @tracygilbertmp.bsky.social As your constituent, I’m urging you to attend today’s Westminster Hall debate on the refugee citizenship ban. This plan punishes people who’ve already fled war and danger, instead of helping them build a life here. Will you speak up for refugees today?

Out today with Street Work Edinburgh. Its a difficult time for the homeless community in Edinburgh with a lot of recent deaths. There's an urgent need for more supported accomodation from Edinburgh council. If you want to support Street Work you can do so here www.simonscotland.org/get-help/our...

My latest paper Rights, Duties, and Inviolability has just been published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. @the-joap.bsky.social #PhilSky 1/n

My latest paper Rights, Duties, and Inviolability has just been published in the Journal of Applied Philosophy. It’s probably my most theoretical work so far being in normative ethics and on the metaphysics of rights and duties. 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@rory-stewart.bsky.social Hi Rory, I listened to your proposals on responses to refugees on @therestpolitics.bsky.social. I'm an academic researcher on refugees and thought you might be interested in this short piece I wrote on ethical responses/solutions aeon.co/essays/a-phi...

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Hi Alistair, I listened to your discussion on responses to refugees on @therestpolitics.bsky.social. I'm an academic researcher on refugees and thought you might be interested in this short piece I wrote on ethical responses/solutions aeon.co/essays/a-phi...

🆕What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed? A 20% aid cut in one of the world's largest refugee camp didn’t just reduce what and how much refugees eat; it also triggered a cascade of effects across households and markets. voxdev.org/topic/instit... with Vittorio Bruni and @wfp.org

SHIELD • YOUR • NEIGHBORS Here in #LosAngeles, we protect our neighbors at all costs.

ICYMI: My recent publication The Moral Harms of Homelessness analyses a serious harm that homeless persons face - social and moral status poverty - that grounds obligations to provide durable solutions to alleviate homelessness jesp.org/index.php/je...

Hi @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social I just bought your book and looking forward to reading it! Thank you for writing. I thought you might be interested in a piece I wrote for Aeon on what an ethical response to refugees would be I would be interested to hear your thoughts aeon.co/essays/a-phi...

Hi @zoejardiniere.bsky.social. I greatly appreciate your work and voice speaking up for migrants and refugees. I thought you might be interested in this piece I wrote for Aeon on achieving an ethical response to refugees. It would be great to hear your thoughts. aeon.co/essays/a-phi...

The blocking of humanitarian supplies, food, and life-saving assistance to Gaza cannot be justified, as it is causing, and will cause, immense suffering, with nearly half a million people facing starvation.

Our own Bradley Hillier-Smith has just published a piece in Aeon. In it, he establishes what an ethical response to refugees would be, how it is possible, and how we can achieve it. Read it here: aeon.co/essays/a-phi...

And still, the UK government won't open safe routes or remove barriers for Palestinian families to reunite. A few weeks ago, they even vowed to close down a "loophole" that allowed a Palestinian family to be granted protection under the Ukraine schemes. 3/4

Our hearts break as the violence in Gaza reaches unbearable new levels. Children are being starved to death. People have been killed by the hundreds in just a few days. Life-saving aid is arriving too late and is wholly inadequate. Refugee camps are being bombed one after another. 🧵

There are currently 43.7 million refugees worldwide facing severe human rights violations. Amidst volatile disagreement among states’ reactions to this, it is crucial to establish an understanding and reach a consensus on what an ethical response to refugees would be buff.ly/IvkrC3x

I wrote this piece for Aeon, which has been published and featured today, on what an ethical response to refugees would be, how it is possible, and how we can achieve it x #philsky #migcitsky #refugees #poltheory aeon.co/essays/a-phi...

I recently co-authored & circulated (with @alasianuti.bsky.social ) an open letter against Starmer’s anti-immigrant rules & rhetoric. Over 100 of my UK-based political academics & writers signed it. Read the whole thing here: www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

Very happy to share this paper I co-authored with the brilliant and fun @clcordasco.bsky.social! In the face of #AI's threat to jobs, we argue for lives of play and the cultivation of excellence. #AIEthics #philsky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Outrageous speech from Starmer. Trying to outperform right-wing parties with anti-migrant views never works, but only serves to legitimise those views as mainstream, and make the lives of migrants worse and insecure in the meantime. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

MPs have just put forward a set of important amendments to the Government’s Border Security Bill. If passed, they could help protect refugee rights and reunite families. Here's what’s on the table 🧵[1/7]

Great resources here for contacting your MP to ask them to support amendments to the current Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill that will expand family reunion and safe routes @safepassageintl.bsky.social www.safepassage.org.uk/influencing-...

Excellent and well-argued paper here from @deeesharp.bsky.social on the very difficult ethical issue of migration blackmail.

My article “Can States Resist Migration Blackmail While Protecting Migrants?” has been published open access in Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy. #migcitsky #philsky #poltheory jesp.org/index.php/je...

Taught my last seminars today. And my students bought me flowers. I'm not crying you are

About to give my last two lectures at St Andrews for this term (and possibly ever). The first on Ethical Responses to Refugees. And for the second, thought I'd end on an optimistic note with Artificial Intelligence and the Risk of Human Extinction

📣 Delighted to share that my paper "Methodological Nationalism is Not the (best articulation of the) Problem" is forthcoming in Philosophy! 🎉 (1/8)

 A preprint is available here: philpapers.org/rec/BEAMNI

Our own @bradleyhsmith.bsky.social has just published a paper arguing that controlled borders means that those born into affluent states have unjust advantages, freedoms, rights, and powers over others. www.degruyter.com/document/doi... #philosophymatters