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Michelle Everson

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Professor of Law, European and economic law are specialities; also sheep selfies.

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 11h
This week, HOPE not hate researchers exposed the National Socialist Collective, a new group uniting some of Britain's most extreme neo-Nazis. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/02/n...
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National Socialist Collective exposed: Nazi militants set to target anti-racists on Cable Street anniversary – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate blows the lid on a new outfit uniting some of the most active and extreme neo-Nazis in the country. The National Socialist...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looking for colleagues! Two law professor jobs going at @royalholloway.bsky.social law school - jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Professor of Law (Teaching & Research) 2x posts
Full-Time, Permanent (2x posts available).Royal Holloway Law School invites applications from outstanding candidates for the position of Professor of Law (Teaching and Research).Royal Holloway Law Sch...
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Commas, matter
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Andrea Halbritter Leichte + Einfache Sprache FRDE @cotelangues.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Spätestens 1936 ermittelte die Staatsanwaltschaft #München gegen meine Oma wegen Hochverrats - sowie gegen 53 weitere Personen. Das Verbrechen meiner Oma war: Sie hatte, nachdem ihr Mann 1933 im KZ #Dachau ermordet worden war, etwas Geld von der Roten Hilfe akzeptiert. 1/
Junge Frau mit hochgesteckten schwarzen Haaren
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
🚨 Ed Miliband: "Europe is not just our geography, but so much more. "And on economics, on defence, on security, I say to this conference: our future lies in a stronger, deeper partnership with the European Union."
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.
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Daniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We’re just in a position where the far right are trying to murder people on the streets or at sea and the government have had almost nothing to say about it. It’s all on fucking video you can watch them do it!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is very hard to satisfactorily describe just how badly the BBC's journalistic standards have collapsed in recent years. Quite completely fucking useless.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.
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Cihan Çelik @cihancelik.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nach Cem Özdemir wird nun auch Elif Eralp als erste türkeistämmige Frau an die Spitze eines Landes gewählt. Glückwunsch! Verrückte Zeiten: Die demokratische Gesellschaft steht unter Druck und gleichzeitig erleben wir solche Erfolgsgeschichten einer modernen, offenen Gesellschaft.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A really key point. Where EU-Can is going to land is very unclear, but what's *driving* the discussion is entirely clear. Meanwhile, in the UK, there seems no sense of urgency & to the extent there is any discussion it's stuck in 2016 - which in geo-pol/econ terms is a different era.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
... believed disinformation, it was somehow disrespectful not to give it equal billing with real information. Instead of redoubling efforts to educate, they decided it was easier to entertain. They pretend their job is to just take the pulse, because it's easier than trying to save the patient. END
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
... to spread panic by doing pieces based on the premise that "yes, most UK spiders are deadly" or "all clowns are, in fact, serial killers" or "don't call it a phobia; buttons are very frightening!" The BBC lost its reporting sea-legs with Brexit. It cracked into accepting that, if enough people...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
... mutually exclsusive? There is a name for being genuinely worried that foreign, dark-skinned people are dangerous. In fact, all phobias are genuinely felt. It's part of the challenge. But "genuine" does not equal "legitimate". And it just does not seem a great strategy for a state broadcaster...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The promise of Israel is somewhere that Jews can be safe, no matter what else happens in the world. The mobs and death threats against the filmakers and their families suggest that, under Netanyahu, this only applies to Jews who support the government and armed forces.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/09/2026
⚠️ Hate and division is on the rise. ♥️ But we stopped fascism before in Britain. We will stop its rise again.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/09/2026
👏 Brilliant news that the TUC Congress has passed a motion stating that the red lines should be removed and "no options should be off the table". 💪 congress.tuc.org.uk/motion-74-europ…
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Motion 74 Europe – TUC Congress Motions
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/09/2026
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.
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Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net
1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Many enslaved people were also branded with “DY” (Duke of York, cursed title), for James, later James II, as the piece says the most important English slave trader of C17th. There is a statue of him in Trafalgar Square. I’ve often said it should be taken down www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade
From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade
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Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a very interesting new resource, The Register of British Slave-Traders. 'The Register focusses on the individuals who sought to profit from the enslavement of over 3 million African men, women, and children, whose identity was – for the most part – erased from the historical record.' 🗃️
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The Register of British Slave-Traders
The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No evidence at all of crime in Essex being driven by asylum seekers. This Reform use of taxpayers money is all about driving hate and fear against migrants.
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Steve Darling MP @stevedarlingmp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sepsis is a medical emergency that affects over 245,000 people every year in the UK. But knowing the signs, and acting fast, can save lives. If you’re worried about someone now, use the UK Sepsis Trust’s Sepsis Tool for guidance on what to do. You can find it here: sepsis-assessment.onlinegp.co
A graphic which reads Sepsis claims 5 lives an hour in the UK
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 In the 1930s Great Depression, a violent splinter group broke away from the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves The Black Legion — America’s hidden white supremacist army. Pull up a seat🪑 my friends.(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What we learned today was simple. Putin is terrified of the Ukrainian air campaign against Russian refineries and oil infrastructure, and Trump (as always wants to help him). Ukraine knows now what is must do.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here's a non-paywalled version of the reporting on Canada becoming a possible "associate member" of the EU. It suggests Canada is willing to agree free movement of people, which (if true) would mean that the EU would be willing to agree more internal market access. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Carney pushes idea of making Canada 'associate member' of EU, WSJ reports
The EU is open to the idea, the Journal reported.
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American Bridge 21st Century @ab21.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Americans have been complaining about gas prices for months, and Trump has made it clear he is tired of listening.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is weirdly (or maybe not so weirdly) reminiscent of the Democratic Party - the apparent belief that all you are there to do is run election campaigns and have no power outside of that - but it’s somehow even more annoying given Labour is in power _with a massive majority._
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just imagine how much disinformation and micro targeting £72m gets you… Shame on the leaders who did nothing to protect democracy from the assault coming its way …as if we learnt nothing from Brexit.
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on. #ShakespeareSunday
Farage. Reform receives £72 million in donations in 24 hours
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Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The hyper-wealthy buying our democracy and laughing in the faces of working people, and the Labour government is openly allowing it to happen by refusing to introduce a cap on domestic donations to stop this exact thing from happening. A cap needs to also be retroactive. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record
Christopher Harborne says he has equalled a donation from Ben Delo - the single largest gift to a UK political party.
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As I wrote recently for @ippr.org’s Progressive Review, the central democratic challenge we face today is the invasion of our politics & the disfigurement of our public sphere by new forms of private power
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Against Private Power: A Democracy Agenda Beyond Charter 88
Since Charter 88, democratisation efforts in the UK have focused on constitutional reform to change the internal structures of the Westminster state. Today, however, the major challenge for democracy...
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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 12/09/2026
There’s a lot of fascism around. I’m going for a swim
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 12/09/2026
🇸🇪 Hjort added: “We need to step up our game. We need to find better ways of safeguarding our democracies." "We need to work together with European country counterparts, and we need to find a way of much more effectively having a good dialogue with the platforms.”
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Putin’s bot army is targeting German and French elections, Sweden warns
The country’s Psychological Defence Agency chief told POLITICO that platforms like X, TikTok and Facebook need to do mor
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“The next night in Portsmouth a group gathered to confront asylum seekers in a hotel. A local Reform councillor dispersed the mob after seeing proof this was in fact a Pakistani cricket team on tour. Why the hell should any group of people have to justify themselves to some local vigilante militia?”
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Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 10 September · 1hr
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The "stop the boats" movement is being driven by the type of English suburban racist who thinks that one black family living in their street is one too many. Yes, it really is as simple as that, and it has been for decades. There is no intellectual depth to this stuff. It is pure, distilled hate.
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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Something tells me these people are unfamiliar with the works of PG Wodehouse.
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Grüne im Bundestag @gruene-bundestag.de · 09/09/2026
Wir brauchen ein AfD-Verbotsverfahren. Jetzt mehr denn je! @katharinadroege.bsky.social 👇
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Herbert Morrison, for Labour, told MPs that this was "not the Bill of a political party". It was "responding to the demand of everything that is decent, everything that is good, everything that is fine in British public opinion." He then warned of the dangers of uniforms and of foreign funding.
The uniform in politics is an attempt to evolve a new authority, a rival authority to the authority of the State, the authority of the civilian police and the authority of local government. Secondly, it is a uniform that marches en masse, in military formation, with military precision, subject to military orders.
Nor can we ignore what has happened in this connection in foreign countries. It is significant to note that the technique which is being followed by this organisation more and more resembles the technique of the Nazis in Germany. If some of us are suspicious that the money which is necessary to buy that technique and its application in Great Britain may come from German sources, is that an unreasonable suspicion? I think it is probable that it does.
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Roger Gale MP said: “A local councillor took photographs of the number plates and they should be able work back from those to establish who owns the cars. I called 999 at around 9.30am on Saturday and two officers came over quite quickly." #Dover www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Two RNLI volunteers were pictured in Portsmouth this weekend while responding during the Patriot Platform protest. The far right responded by identifying them and branding them “traitors”. This is what the far right’s “peaceful” activism looks like.
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