Reposted by Graeme HayesFolivao @folichulo.bsky.social · 22hRéunion à l'Elysée après le soutien du mouvement lycéen par les étudiants de HEC 13327152 0
Reposted by Graeme HayesDavid Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I can see there are now other analyses or views of the legality of Faber paying royalties to Sally Rooney, & possibility of committing s.15 TA2000 offence. My view for what it's worth is that a sensible doctrinal reading of the section does not likely lead to conclusion that Faber risk prosecution.theguardian.comSally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action supportIrish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest 121 0
Reposted by Graeme HayesOwen Massey @oweninoxford.bsky.social · 15/10/2026All right, but apart from safer streets, cleaner air, and better business, what has low traffic ever done for us? 726979 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Re the Defend Our Juries arrests under s13 TACT 2000 When folk point out amazed that those arrested under terrorism legislation are now more likely to be older white women I do wonder what they are essentially saying they would be fine with 0101 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 15/10/20263. City v PSG Lots of things immediately apparent, from the leaning in to (one specific) take on our heritage to the constant development of the ground, a city within the city But mostly, an absolute _belter_ of a match 000 0
Reposted by Graeme HayesDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I know I say it a lot, but it needs saying, and I will continue to say it until there is a real reckoning. The Legitimate Concerns paradigm has been one of the biggest public policy disasters of the c21st in the UK. And we certainly haven't paid the full cost of it yet. 219065 0
Reposted by Graeme HayesTom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 12/10/2026There’s been extensive political debate about whether we can afford to provide state support to those e.g. out of work, facing long term health problems, or struggling to make ends meet. Our article turns that debate on its head. 121 0
Reposted by Graeme HayesTom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 12/10/2026📢 New co-authored article out today examining executive remuneration & developing the concept of elite welfare 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgElite welfare and the good fortune of just being there | Journal of Social Policy | Cambridge CoreElite welfare and the good fortune of just being there 185 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The story to me is less about my club, and more about what my club reveals about the social and physical fabric of Britain. I recommend this book to everyone, so here it is again repeaterbooks.com/product/the-...repeaterbooks.comThe Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis - Repeater BooksIn cities across the world, gentrification and the housing crisis are facts of life. But how did we get to this point? And is there any way we can fight back? A good place to begin answering these qu... 020 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A lot of this rings true with me, the conversations I've had with my mates and my brother, some of these pretty much verbatim. This is really a story about the everyday removal of collective public assets and spaces from the people who use and value them www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.com‘Those memories are ours and no verdict changes that’: Manchester City fans’ viewsWhile most supporters seem to want to get behind the club regardless, some fear the actions of the owners will divide the fanbase 111 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026…and Man Woman Chainsaw at the Hare & Hounds, top night out as ever 010 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s the day book club has been dreading. We survived reading a Freddy Forsyth on his death, with in truth relatively few recriminations. This will be a harder test 100 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026From what I’ve seen, this is fairly standard commentariat thinking. I think you could only believe this stuff if you see the problem not as settler colonialism, but as the pace and tone of settler colonialism; and if you think in terms of identities, and never materialities 000 0
Reposted by Graeme Hayesflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is nuts, lads: one of these parties had an internal hate campaign that bent the rules to bully and hound out a huge number of Jewish people over their views on Israel/Palestine. It wasn’t the Green Party, was it? 1628756 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Fair shout. As Donald Trump, with Lea Seydoux as the Prime Minister 011 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026We can't be far from the Stephen Frears film, with Michael Sheen as Marco Rubio and Steve Coogan as the lady farmer in the gilet 420 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If I said something like this, out loud, in front of people, I would collapse in shame 000 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Friend, Whyte and Zilberman, Britain's Political Prisoners, ccccjustice.org/wp-content/u... ‘the systematic incarceration of people acting on conscience, acting to prevent climate breakdown and the annihilation of Gaza’ 000 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think we can all see whose dissent the government is interested in policing, and whose dissent is perfectly fine 110 0
Reposted by Graeme HayesNetpol @netpol.org · 22/09/2026Nine people opposed to Israel's genocide in Gaza have been arrested by Staffordshire Police after a protest at UAV Engines, a subsidiary of Israeli owned Elbit Systems in Shenstone, on suspicion of locking on "to cause serious disruption" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukNine arrested after protest at drone factory in StaffordshireStaffordshire Police was called to UAV Engines, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, on Monday. 01110 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026CPS yet again failing to get a result, CPS yet again demanding a retrial The persistent demand for retrials when there are no procedural problems is surely an abuse of process mailchi.mp/protonmail.c...mailchi.mpBREAKING: FOUR INSULATE BRITAIN SUPPORTERS FACE RETRIAL AFTER ANOTHER HUNG JURY 011 0
Reposted by Graeme HayesTom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 16/09/2026New post: 'Reform’s Donations are not Normal'. Plotted every donation in the Electoral Commission donations register in grey - and Reform's recent mega donations in red. 22312 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I am so sorry, Plash. This feels extra vindictive 100 0
Reposted by Graeme HayesNetpol @netpol.org · 11/09/2026The zine looks amazing - and is suddenly so topical! 'To Mask is to Care – why masking at protests matters" is launching on 26 September 064 0
Reposted by Graeme HayesNetpol @netpol.org · 11/09/2026It has taken nine months for the Mayor's officers to come up with this ludicrous answer. So long that @zoegarbett.bsky.social is no longer a London Assembly member but now Hackney's mayor. We know the Met collects this data – so why is Sadiq Khan so terrified of holding the police to account? 0135 0
Reposted by Graeme HayesNetpol @netpol.org · 09/09/2026If you've been focused on the (cough) 'restraint' of the policing of far-right vigilances over the weekend, you may have missed Staffordshire Police arresting two women, one in her 70s, outside an Elbit subsidiary. They've also fined 5 car drivers for tooting their horn in support of recent protests 35037 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026‘All of this is deliberate. It’s enshittification, applied to a courtroom: the system has been made worse on purpose, one ruling at a time.’ Great piece from Sam Walton 000 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Kings Heath is a great place to live btw. Great community, great parks, so much to do 000 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Really poor article. The problems in Kings Heath are caused by the collapse of the local and central state. More policing is not the answer. Kids on Lime books are not a problem: cars are the problem. Oh, and Al Carns is not our MP, and has nothing remotely useful to say www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comWe feel abandoned by police in crimewave, say Kings Heath residentsA crimewave in part of Birmingham over several months leaves residents asking who is in control. 100 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026And: what a stadium, just mesmerisingly beautiful 000 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 04/09/20262. Porto v Moreirente Moreirense one up early in the first half, in classic mid-block quick break fashion. It was complicated for Porto and they suffered, but a Jan Bednarek header made it one all before a second from William Gomes meant the home team ran out winners, 2-1 200 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is a very brave move, and I wouldn’t expect good things from this Court of Appeal under this LCJ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comPro-Palestine activists who were sentenced as terrorists launch appealBarrister representing four who smashed drones at Israeli arms factory says ruling of ‘terrorist connection’ led to heftier sentences 000 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Introduce yourself with 10 acts you’ve seen live: Kylie Pixies Prince Gil Scott Heron Nina Simone AC/DC Deep Purple The Fall The Brilliant Corners That Petrol Emotion 020 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026All of which will make the politics of the trial much harder to contain, and the decision to bring the terrorism connection charge (and the mechanics of this) are likely to be central to the trial 081 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Worth saying that in Eng&Wales, the jury are unaware and the judge decides (post verdict), but in Scotland it is included in the charge & therefore the jury are aware. Prosecution needs at least 10-5 for a guilty verdict, anything less is not proven or not guilty (no hung juries, no retrials) 1123 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026An absolute test case of the civic freedoms the Labour Party is happy to support and facilitate, and whose they are 000 0
Reposted by Graeme HayesLBC Watch @lbcwatchuk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Here's a website set up by former students of Dr. Jason Arday. I only found out about it from a citizen journalist on Instagram. I think it's only right that the we remember how he made others feel, rather than the narrative painted by feral journalists. leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...leilacancode.github.ioEverything Good About Jason ArdayFirst-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students. 29248 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Baumann would call this the point of touchdown: where liquid flows coalesce into material form Data centres are a secondary concern of AI, but create a focus for mobilisation against distant predatory capitalism www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.com‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boomHolyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond 000 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Paper for European Sociological Association annual conference in Warsaw later this week, talking about the silencing of harms in Palestine Action trials 222 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Though 40 quid for a ‘Category A’ match in the literal third tier I have not missed 000 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 22/08/20261. Leicester City v Burton Albion First match of the season, lovely day out. Couple of nice pints in the Marquis Wellington before the game, initial displays of some division three pride giving way to chants of Sack the Board at the end I’ve missed the footie 220 0
Reposted by Graeme HayesNetpol @netpol.org · 22/08/2026Many of you have expressed surprise that arms companies have some kind of special status in Britain, but every weapons industry supplier became a “prohibited place” under the National Security Act 2023. You can get arrested simply for photographing the premises netpol.org/2024/05/09/e...netpol.org 06543 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Thinking about putting the heating on, just for an hour 000 0
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Talking to a team mate in the club this evening after the midweek cricket, tells me as a pre-teen he bought 21 consecutive Bucks Fizz singles I mean I have skeletons in my own closet, but nothing like that 000 0