Thanks so much, Steve!

Much needed.

Massive shout-out to the A-MAZ-ING people who read the proposal and advised me along the way, especially @colinyeo.bsky.social, @drproudman.bsky.social, Zoe Forbes and Rebecca Tomlinson. YOU ROCK! ❤️

WAAAH! I can't believe I'm typing this - but I have a book contract for a non-fiction book for a general audience with @brisunipress.bsky.social to challenge damaging rhetoric about immigration and welfare, arguing that xenophobic law-making goes hand-in-hand with punishing the poor and hurts us all

I go on quite a lot about Reform’s migration plans but not enough people seem to realise the effect they would have on hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom have made their lives here. It would be Windrush x 20.

By limiting the application of human rights and rolling back modern slavery protections, the Home Secretary’s latest immigration plans will lead to 6,500 more undocumented people every year, creating 'an underclass of precarious workers'. www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

How have the rights of EU nationals in the UK fared 10 years after the Brexit referendum? UK immigration policy after Brexit: the EU settlement scheme, citizens’ rights and the rise of judicialised governance www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... First 50 eprints are free so hurry while stocks last!

A few token places on safe and legal routes for refugees cannot in any way mitigate or atone for what this government has done and is doing on asylum or immigration policy. A thread trying to be clear-eyed about this.

This is absolutely damning.

The EU's asylum pact applies from today - here's a reminder of my blog posts on this legislation from when it was agreed 1/ The new 'qualification regulation' - on the definition of 'refugee' and 'subsidiary protection' - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-...

Very illuminating thread on how the Brexit documentary is wall to wall men, virtually no women. bsky.app/profile/cobr...

Excellent thread. We saw something similar with Covid when the decisions were made by men for men.

Brexit. Reform. All this right wing shit. It's men from top to bottom. If we're not viewing all of this through a feminist lens, we're doing it wrong. This thread is utterly enraging.

I was a political reporter during #Brexit. I remember watching Boris Johnson drive that Leave truck out of that trading estate at the start of the campaign. I followed it to see where it went. It parked up around the corner.

A necessary thread.

I kept waiting to hear from a woman in the Brexit doc who wasn’t married or related to one of the male “protagonists”. I spent a lot of time waiting!

Excellent analysis of this ridiculous piece of preening nonsense.

Ffs. Great thread. She has counted so that we don’t have to.

glad someone did this so we didn't have to but dear god

just in case you weren't already depressed about the 10 year anniversary

⬇️ The 2016 referendum campaign was stunningly male-dominated. Newspapers privileged male voices over female by 85% to 15%. TV coverage favoured men by 3:1. In the press, 90% of business voices were male & 85% of politicians. This was markedly worse than in *1975*. blog.lboro.ac.uk/crcc/eu-refe...

This is a really good analysis of just how blokey the BBC’s Brexit documentary:

Great thread On the same topic the latest episode of @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social is well worth a listen, not least to hear the sheer exasperation of @rafaelbehr.bsky.social in full flow bsky.app/profile/ohgo...

Have been alerted this thread might be of interest, @rafaelbehr.bsky.social, @rmcunliffe.bsky.social and @mattgreencomedy.com!

Carry on Campaigning? Or Brexit as Not-So-Jolly Gents' Japes, plus Wives and Sisters making dinner. I have just done a rough and ready analysis of the 'talking head' contributions to the BBC's 'Brexit: a Very British Civil War'. A short 🧵about this Blokey Affair: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Great how CSJ's report came out in the same week as the actual independent review into youth unemployment, which specifically found that immigration was not a main driver of youth unemployment. www.gov.uk/government/p...

As misleading headlines go, that has to be up there with some of the worst! As is the claim that "Immigration is fuelling mass unemployment among under-25s." The "shocking new study" does NOT show that at all 🙄 🧵 1/21

This was *daunting* but brilliant. My favourite quote: Me: [preparing the ground for the mortar board chucking photo] Does anyone know what special thing universities give people when they finish all their classes? It begins with 'd'? 6yo: [hopefully]: 'a dog?!'

Racism is a bad servant and an even worse master. People have attempted to use it to build, increase & preserve group advantage. They are as misguided as the man who attempts to domesticate a triple-headed, fire-breathing dragon. He may burn your enemies' villages first, but he will burn yours too.

Tomorrow I am facing possibly the most terrifying, hardest moment of my career: talking about university and the law to a large group of 5-7 year olds. Pray for me. Am I planning on getting them to throw things? Why yes, yes I am.

My quick write up of the immigration bit of the King's Speech. There was more in the accompanying briefing than the speech itself. But not a lot, frankly. The only new bit seemed to be a truly pathetic suggestion of clawing back asylum support costs from refugees. freemovement.org.uk/immigration-...

What, this faultless strategy IS STILL NOT WORKING?

Thanks so very much, @colinyeo.bsky.social! You are epically kind

THANK YOU! I did wonder whether anyone would agree with me on that… (or appreciate the gimmick of it being the final flourish!)

Thank you so much, @jomah162.bsky.social, I really appreciate it. Was a strange experience to write and share!

Oh wow, this means so much to me, from a wonderful writer. Thank you, @colinyeo.bsky.social, your kindness is epic

Thanks so much, @stevepeers.bsky.social!

"Write with fire, edit with ice (and come up for air)": Bob Ross! Dr Who! Descartes! Women in Public Spaces! The twin evils of genAI and headlice. And the quiet, transcendent magic of writing, all Open Access: nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...

Is ‘legal science’ a thing - and can or should it be? Free webinar: Monday, 27th April, 17.00. Thanks to the University of Coimbra I’ll be talking about the importance of action research as a means of ‘experimenting with the law’. Deets & registration here: www.uc.pt/en/fduc/ucil...

The BBC undercover investigation into false immigration claims is deeply irresponsible journalism. It does not highlight that exploitation by unregulated advisors occurs because legal aid was cut and the system is insane to navigate.

Mine's arrived! Reading it now in between less fun tasks. Excellent stuff. Huge congrats, @msumption.bsky.social

Published today! My take on why it’s so difficult for governments to make immigration policies that people trust What Is Immigration Policy For? amzn.eu/d/03bM5fDM

Just had a conversation with a (really lovely and excellent) senior medical consultant which included him asking incredulously ‘it’s possible to do research in law?!’ I feel we as a discipline/sector have a ways to go on public understanding of what the heck we do.

Lady Hale appreciation post! Some UKSC judges might just retire to a life of lucrative commercial arbitration - but not her. She's committed to public service - educating students and the public about the law and human rights. Was terrifying but amazing to interview this ICON at York Law School.

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Children need their families. Refugee children are no different. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Love that this conjures up an image of a group of special agents, deciding ‘It’s come to this. It’s time to activate Prue Leith’.

The more racist and xenophobic our political sphere gets, the more important this issue becomes: the residence status of our EU family members, neighbours, colleagues & friends is not safe, but could be so much better protected with a small legislative tweak. eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/23...