feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Just quietly, this is why we always go beyond studying what the law currently says.

look to my coming at first light of the fifth day. at dawn, look to the east

The five Mekong countries lost nearly 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of tree cover in 2024, with nearly a quarter of which was primary forest, and more than 30% of losses occurring inside protected areas.

Chris Philp on R4 yesterday making 3 false statements about the ECHR and the GFA. 1. “The ECHR is mentioned only in the Multi-Party Agreement not the UK/Ireland Agreement.”. Wrong: the latter agreement requires the UK to support the former: they can’t be pulled apart like that.

This is why the markets are going to have such a tough time when the bubble bursts. This money doesn’t exist, and suggesting it does or humoring it is how companies get away with what amounts to lying. $4.5bn per quarter “by 2026”?? So in the next three months? Huh?

captain barbossa voice: ye best start believin' in the Torment Nexus, yer in one

A wonderful piece from the late Conor Gearty, on the current judicial erasure of the Human Right Act – including by the Supreme Court in For Women Scotland. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

As part of Epigram’s (University of Bristol's student newspaper) 2018 campaign to raise awareness about microaggressions, I submitted the following poem. Everything I have included is informed by talking with students & colleagues and from personal experience. Sadly. folukeafrica.com/acceptable-t...

Also even if there is Top Secret material justifying a ban, it’s very difficult I think to argue that retired GPs and Quaker students holding up a cardboard sign are party to that information or responsible for it

"We honestly feel the whole institution could crash. You can’t cut and cut and then bring in extra students and even more pressure.”

@edgreenwood.bsky.social did this at uni, for a sketch show. Hid my existence from almost everyone he knew, until I went onstage. While it got big laughs, it also made some people baffled and outraged. People shouted "is there a MIRROR??" Very satisfying, would recommend

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

“Goering shouted, ‘This [the Reichstag fire] is the beginning of the Communist revolution! We must not wait a minute. We will show no mercy. Every Communist official must be shot, where he is found. Every Communist deputy must this very night be strung up.’” - Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, p 139

“The Home Secretary told the BBC the move was not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions".” Having voted for the Labour Party for 20+ years until the last election, I’m pretty saddened to see this is the current state of affairs 👇🏾 www.bbc.com/news/article...

The great thing about travelling by train in the UK is the huge discounts you get because of Delay Repay every bastard time

[Pizza guy delivering two huge pizzas] hey, here's the order for your pizza party me, alone: yes

Some people sincerely feel that: — Migrants are destroying communities. It’s still racist. — LGBT folk are corrupting children. It’s still homo/transphobic. — Disabled people are burdens in workplaces. It’s still ableist. Emotional sincerity without critical reflection makes dangerous politics.

reminded by a student that I made my usual THE LAND WILL EAT YOUR BONES critique of land "ownership" in a lecture this week

@jonnelledge.bsky.social As you’ve no conference to be at, I hope you & hundreds more will be at ✊STRIKE! this weekend in Bradford to see how our modern workers’ rights were born in #Bradford by #workingclass women. I’ll buy you a pint & the best curry if you come! bradford2025.co.uk/event/strike/

BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy. (🎥 Luc Auffret)

Manchester Council of Mosques have issued this statement in sadness, shock and solidarity with the Jewish community about this attack at the synagogue in Manchester

However small you think you can be, they'll ask you to be half that size, and they'll demand you be grateful about it.

The government have responded essentially stating that they plan to ignore the vast majority of the population and push ahead regardless.

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information: gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...

[Interior, FBI Crime Lab, Scully & Mulder look over The Grinch's corpse in the autopsy room] Scully: Odd, his heart appears to have been 3 sizes larger than normal, but there's stretch marks on his aorta, as if it grew suddenly. What could've done this? Mulder: Not what, who. Cindy Lou Who.

I hear the bigots are now boycotting famously anti trans Netflix for not being as anti trans as the bigots want them to be and like duh?? you'll never be bigoted enough for bigots because the "problems" they think your media is causing is 100% wholesale made up in their bigot brains.

UK Electricity price 2023 - Highest in the World UK Electricity price 2024 - Highest in the World UK Electricity price 2025 - Highest in the World Energy is the most profitable Industry in the UK making £130bn, ahead of Banking on £82bn and Landlords on £80bn You pay for it all

Thread of Portlands being amazingly and beautifully unhinged while protesting ICE

If you're watching RPDRUK tonight and wondering about the "lucky cow" gimmick, and whether this means RuPaul is democratising decision making on the show: girl, do I have an article for you... #dragraceuk www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Heaton Park. My heart is broken. British Jews have been warning you about this for years. It’s Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur. This is one of every Jews worst nightmare. Why we have so much security at synagogue. The anxious thought you try and push to the back of your mind. Heartbroken.

I'm a white tall dude who is moderately articulate and comes from a country which is not high anymore in the racists' lists (it used to be until 50yrs ago). I experience nothing compared to non-white immigrants. I'm sickened by the general state of public discourse about immigration in this country.

Day 3: more placards and a percussion workshop!

I contributed a chapter on pastoral care to this guide for early career legal academia, produced by Association of Law Teachers! It's free to read and download here: lawteacher.ac.uk/early-career...

pokemon thought that will ruin your life: if it's charmander (salamander) and charmeleon (chameleon), charizard should be pronounced char-izzard

Grateful for our amazing performers, our wonderful friend @charlienwrites.bsky.social who kept everything running, my colleagues @joytwemlow.bsky.social & @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social for being perfect, and @lawatleeds.bsky.social for funding the event. Camp old time. Chuffed to bits mate. #lawsadrag

Last night, Law's a Drag held its first ever CABARET! We mixed lip syncs, comedy, and dance with a Q&A on the For Woman Scotland UKSC judgment, providing info about how it will affect equality law, and the lives of drag artists, and trans, nonbinary, intersex, and cis people in the UK 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🏳️‍🌈💖🎉🥰💋

And here's a taster of Alice @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social and Fox @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social in their lip sync mash-up... Thanks to the Uni of Leeds School of Law for providing funding for this event, for our artists for their performances, our friends for supporting us!

This is very funny thing for a President to say, but it's a truly fucking bananas thing for a President to voluntarily tell everyone he said.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

As an immigration lawyer, it seems to me that the only thing we talk about more than immigration is how we don’t talk about immigration

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Time is running out on this, the time to act is now. The draft code of practice will become official guidance if we do not pressure MPs to speak up. If you haven't already please email your MP. Everyone please share this.

This. We have had ID cards in Italy since always and people can readily see how the shadow economy is doing there

clawing and dragging my way to the end of this week, comrades

Excellent reporting from Heated and Atmos. It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry. heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Watching Scream 2, and the scene where they are clambering over ghostface to get out of the car wreck? Sooooo much more annoying than it is tense