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Graeme Hayes

@graemehayes.bsky.social
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Sociologist, writing about protest, direct action, civil disobedience, and the courts. Can also be found wandering around cemeteries, staring at trains, attending random football matches.

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Folivao @folichulo.bsky.social · 22h
Réunion à l'Elysée après le soutien du mouvement lycéen par les étudiants de HEC
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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I 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.
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Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support
Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest
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Owen Massey @oweninoxford.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
All right, but apart from safer streets, cleaner air, and better business, what has low traffic ever done for us?
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Re 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
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
3. 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
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I 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.
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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There’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.
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Tom 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...
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Elite welfare and the good fortune of just being there | Journal of Social Policy | Cambridge Core
Elite welfare and the good fortune of just being there
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The 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-...
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The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis - Repeater Books
In 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...
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A 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’ views
While most supporters seem to want to get behind the club regardless, some fear the actions of the owners will divide the fanbase
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
…and Man Woman Chainsaw at the Hare & Hounds, top night out as ever
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Bathing Suits…
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’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
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
From 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
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This 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?
Lewis Goodall C @lewis_goodall
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The Greens have a Labour PM committed to electoral reform at precisely the moment they've essentially made it nearly impossible for that same Lab PM to go into coalition with them.
lee harpin @ @lmharpin-7h
Amendment 3 on safeguarding Jews has failed to pass 684 - 1026! Absolutely shameful !!!
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fair shout. As Donald Trump, with Lea Seydoux as the Prime Minister
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We 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
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If I said something like this, out loud, in front of people, I would collapse in shame
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Friend, 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’
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I think we can all see whose dissent the government is interested in policing, and whose dissent is perfectly fine
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Netpol @netpol.org · 22/09/2026
Nine 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.uk
Nine arrested after protest at drone factory in Staffordshire
Staffordshire Police was called to UAV Engines, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems, on Monday.
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CPS 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...
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BREAKING:  FOUR INSULATE BRITAIN SUPPORTERS FACE RETRIAL AFTER ANOTHER HUNG JURY
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Tom Mills @tommills.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New 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.
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I am so sorry, Plash. This feels extra vindictive
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Netpol @netpol.org · 11/09/2026
The zine looks amazing - and is suddenly so topical! 'To Mask is to Care – why masking at protests matters" is launching on 26 September
A purple zine cover shows someone putting on a mask, with a heading that reads "a resource zone from Netpol + Soofiya", a title "to mask is to care" and a subtitle "why masking at protests matters"
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Netpol @netpol.org · 11/09/2026
It 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?
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Netpol @netpol.org · 09/09/2026
If 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
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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
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Kings Heath is a great place to live btw. Great community, great parks, so much to do
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Really 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.com
We feel abandoned by police in crimewave, say Kings Heath residents
A crimewave in part of Birmingham over several months leaves residents asking who is in control.
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
And: what a stadium, just mesmerisingly beautiful
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
2. 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
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This 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...
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Pro-Palestine activists who were sentenced as terrorists launch appeal
Barrister representing four who smashed drones at Israeli arms factory says ruling of ‘terrorist connection’ led to heftier sentences
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Introduce 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
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
All 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
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Worth 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)
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
An absolute test case of the civic freedoms the Labour Party is happy to support and facilitate, and whose they are
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LBC Watch @lbcwatchuk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Here'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...
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Everything Good About Jason Arday
First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Baumann 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...
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‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Thank you for sharing!
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Paper for European Sociological Association annual conference in Warsaw later this week, talking about the silencing of harms in Palestine Action trials
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Though 40 quid for a ‘Category A’ match in the literal third tier I have not missed
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
1. 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
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Netpol @netpol.org · 22/08/2026
Many 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...
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thinking about putting the heating on, just for an hour
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Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Talking 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
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