"Judges swear an oath to 'do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this realm, without fear or favour, affection or ill will.' All manner of people and without fear or favour. We need to tell them that trans lives are real and they matter."

You can get acquainted with the ridiculous, horrific details of the proposed plans and make your voice heard at this link: www.gov.uk/government/c...

This. Honestly I think the economic impact of ICE on Minnesota is just ramping up, and for people living in fear nothing has changed. ICE are still here breaking stuff, hurting people, and violating the 4th Amendment and most driving rules. Minnesota Forever. Abolish ICE.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

Something compelled me to make this

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

This is a fascinating, if depressing, read.

Get Palantir out of the NHS https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=PalantirNHS&utm_medium=social_media

We’re delighted to announce that the Politically In/Sane podcast is now part of POAL! Hosted by Marc Bokobza, the podcast dives into Political Behaviour, exploring how people think, feel, and act politically with insights from prominent experts. Find it here: www.poal.co.uk/events/

As someone with a profound but unrepentant emdash addiction it is driving me mad seeing commenters yell “AI slop!!!” whenever there is even a single — anywhere in the copy.

Applications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn...

10/10 ICE protest sign

I'm not on here too much these days, things have been a little busy 👀🤭 But the love and support I'm feeling on here is incredible. Being a woman, in politics, online is often utterly grim. So thank you to everyone who has my back. It means the world 💚

I am staggered to find Weingast still peddling this line in early 2025. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Absolutely mad.

Today, and every day, the Green Party stands with LGBTIQA+ people 💚🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

🟢 Been sent this this morning - big turnout as the Green Party kick off their campaign with their first weekend of leafleting and door knocking. Host of Green figures there today including Zack Polanski, Caroline Lucas, Rachel Millward and lots of local councillors

Just finished first door knocking for the Greens. Honestly most hopeful I’ve felt about politics in a while. Felt good to not just sit watching the world burn (as I’ve been feeling the last months) and instead try to do doing something with others (even if very small)

Might we tactfully point out that to obsess negatively with trans people when the richest and most powerful men in the world are trying to reverse centuries of humane progress and equality to acquire impunity for rape and murder shows a weird sense of priorities?

An Independent councillor on Reigate & Banstead Borough Council has crossed the floor to join the Green Party. Cllr Jenny Orchard, who represented Redhill West and Wray Common as a Town & Village Independent, will now sit as a Green councillor, increasing the size of the Green group to 14.

the median American voter:

Look if Minnesota is the hub then it's a Purple Revolution.

Zack Polanski delivered a letter to data surveillance company Palantir stating aim to end the company’s £330m contract with NHS. We are putting Palantir on notice, This is a military surveillance company tied to authoritarian surveillance and the devastation in Gaza — and it has no role in our NHS.

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

just to make that clear for the rest of the world, that's -9 degrees *fahrenheit.* -23 degrees *celsius*.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

BoE line about interest on reserves is that reducing is a fiscal decision for the government to make. But payments were never legislated—it was a BoE decision, which apparently sought an ok from the Treasury, in 2006 when this was an issue of millions rather than billions. But look now:

To paraphrase Polanyi: the ICE assault was planned, massive resistance was not. That the social fabric—the relationships and ongoing patterns of interaction that get us through our lives—should be reliable is a broadly shared moral conviction. Not only markets provoke protective. countermoves.

Keir Starmer did everything he could to be US poodle and his strategy has ended in total humiliation. Both him and Farage are puppets of a hostile foreign nation. It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them. Disastrous strategy by Labour.

Not that it's the most important thing going on right now, but it continues to be outrageous that the BoE has its own gilt issue policy, for no good reason. It's still selling gilts of 30-yrs+ maturity, whereas the DMO has now stopped entirely.

Dear @lseblogs.bsky.social -- In light of this contribution, is there any chance we could switch to a template that doesn't give an option to share our blogs on X, and does give an option to share them on Bluesky?

I think it's probably past time for universities to leave X. If a community member of any university did what Grok is doing, they'd be subject to serious discipline, no?

Time to reread Charles Tilly on multiple sovereignty.

Useful reporting from Translucent. When we’ve suggested that trans women don’t pose a risk, people have argued that’s because of under reporting. These FOI requests suggest that might not be the case www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

I may be guilty of preemptive compliance with this order, despite formally being outside of its jurisdiction.

Happy New Year you lovely people. A reminder that 2026 should be the year you leave X (if you haven’t already!)

🚨 We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Political Science ⏰ Deadline 4th January 2026 🙋‍♀️ Any questions, please reach out 👇

perfect metaphors don’t exis—

LeMonde said, not on our watch

Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

Top tier joke

Rather excellent thread Let’s be very clear here. This is exactly why it was exceptionally unwise of the Supreme Court to wade into this space using ‘biological sex’ as a defining concept, because as soon as you talk to actual biologists the simple binary unravels. Not a stable basis for law.

New translation of Wissenschaft als Beruf just dropped.

“He said, ‘I’m going to die – please see my family [and tell them] that I went down to save people’s lives’,” Alkanj recounted, before Ahmed tackled the shooter, taking his rifle. this guy, honestly. amazing.

For the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined. ~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending. We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.

Look, for real, if you have a problem with trans folks, you can unfollow or block me right now. (And if you think this is virtue signalling, you can go too, although I'm immune to all that ad hominem shit) These are our brothers and sisters, for fuck's sake.

This is really quite awful. I hope that Brian Cox follows him out the door.