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Iyiola Solanke

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Jacques Delors Professor in EU Law, University of Oxford/ Somerville College

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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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'Everywoman' statue unveiled on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth
Tschabalala Self's Lady in Blue will sit atop the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square for the next two years.
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Ph.D. Position in European Studies (307748) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: Ph.D. Position in European Studies (307748), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Saturday, October 10, 2026
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Iceland votes to reject EU accession talks: What happens next? — Al Jazeera
The referendum result halts Iceland's bid to reopen EU membership talks, with 52.5 percent voting against the proposal.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Michael Truscello🏴 @mtruscello.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"Sadly, this shadow economy made headlines only because of the tragic suicide of Jason Arday, a disabled Black man who was the victim of a targeted witch hunt organized by a network of academic eugenicists affiliated with the famous techno-fascist Peter Thiel..."
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How Much Dark Money Is in Professional Philosophy?
One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the…
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Women’s Aid Reveals ‘The Other ‘Kick Off’ Time Thousands of Women Dread During the World Cup  - Women’s Aid
Women’s Aid Reveals ‘The Other ‘Kick Off’ Time Thousands of Women Dread During the World Cup
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
How (not) to organise a panel at a global health conference - The Lancet Global Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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How (not) to organise a panel at a global health conference
Global health is unfortunately not very global—a contradiction that becomes most evident at global health conferences. Although convened to advance the field of global health, these conferences often ...
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Ruined utopias: the afterlife of the Amazon’s forgotten company towns – in pictures
For decades, foreign firms established settlements in the Brazilian Amazon to support extractive activities, only to eventually abandon the buildings and workers. The remains show human resilience as ...
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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At least 3.3m people were victims of Dutch enslavement, research claims
Figure is more than five times the widely used 600,000 figure cited in apologies by king and politicians
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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The choice before Europe: the law of the strongest or reparative justice?
European nations are starting to pay attention after a landmark UN resolution, but reparations is about more than symbolic remembrance or returning stolen artefacts
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Windrush Day: Meet the London women who helped rebuild Britain
From a large house with a veranda to living in one room - Windrush Londoners share their stories.
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timothy davis @itstimothydavis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
this is my story 45min into a saturday noon open mat 🥋
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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
But housing is a human right, not a conditional commodity. Read the full report on our website 🔗 www.runnymedetrust.o... Names above have been changed. Illustrations by Julia Miranda.
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Homes, not harm
London’s housing system breaches basic standards of humanity, with racism embedded at its core.
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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"We are not living, we’re just surviving - trying to get to the next day, and the next” Our latest report, ‘Homes, not harm’, hears from residents across London, who detail housing circumstances that have devastating effects on their lives.
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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From bendy bananas to £350m for the NHS – how many Brexit promises actually came true?
Leaving the EU was supposed to solve Britain’s border issues, slash bureaucracy, revitalise the health service, even supercharge vacuum cleaners. How much control did we really take back?
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Keir Starmer resigns, as Andy Burnham confirms he will run to replace him as Labour leader and PM
Wes Streeting - who was seen as a possible challenger to Burnham in a leadership contest - says he backs the former Greater Manchester mayor.
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Two-thirds of EU citizens back UK rejoining bloc, survey finds
Poll also finds three quarters of people in Britain want closer ties, with majority accepting free movement
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says
Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘perfectly possible’
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts
Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Clarendon Scholarships 2027 at Oxford University (Fully Funded)
Apply for the fully funded Clarendon Scholarships 2027-2028 at the University of Oxford. Open to international students for Master & PhD degrees in any academic discipline. No separate application req...
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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He told us we were slaves - The fight for justice on a Scottish fishing trawler
The migrant fishermen who waited nine years to give evidence about the company that exploited them.
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
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British Gas faces record £112m settlement over prepayment meter scandal
Redress to customers for force-fitting devices in homes includes £20m penalty and £70m of debt write-offs
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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Britain should seek to rejoin EU, says civil servant who led Brexit department
Philip Rycroft says promises on issues from economics to immigration have not lived up to expectations
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Human rights in shadow of centuries of scientific racism
Although human rights, equality and dignity are now enshrined globally – and even celebrated in South Africa on Human Rights Day on 21 March – an ...
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Afropean @afropean.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"The United Nations General Assembly has voted to designate the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the system of racialised chattel enslavement as `the gravest crime against humanity.` Adopted on Wednesday 25 March 2026... " ghana.un.org/en/312495-gh...
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Ghana Leads Historic UN Vote Declaring Slave Trade the Gravest Crime Against Humanity
The United Nations General Assembly has voted to designate the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the system of racialised chattel enslavement as “the gravest crime against humanity.”…
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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EU Commission loses another access to documents court case
NGO ClientEarth asked to see documents about a controversial pesticide approval, which the EU executive refused.
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day 2026!
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Raising outcomes for racially minoritised women on doctoral degrees in England
Racially minoritised women remain significantly underrepresented and unevenly supported across doctoral education in England. Doctoral education plays a critical gatekeeping role in shaping the future...
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 28/02/2026
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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The growing market for student academic misconduct services - LSE Impact
A growing market for student academic misconduct services is increasingly outsourcing research ethics in higher education institutions.
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
“…the disjunction between mass media’s conjuring of a college cancel-culture epidemic and the all-too-real impact of one wealthy predator’s billions in specialized funding is glaring…” www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...
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Jeffrey Epstein helped fuel the campus culture wars
The academics in the Epstein files aren’t all criminals, but they shared beliefs about whose work matters.
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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University systems need to ditch the ‘average mind’ idea
Systems built around statistical averages frequently fail because human variation is not marginal but fundamental. While this insight has been applied...
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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France says surprised by European Commission presence at Board of Peace
France said on Thursday it was surprised that the European Commission had sent a commissioner to the Board of Peace in Washington saying it did not have the mandate to represent member states, its for...
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
More off-shoring bad news::
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EU moves closer to creating offshore centres for migrants and asylum seekers
MEPs vote to allow people to be deported to places they have never been to, as NGOs express fears over new ‘safe third countries’ list
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Top Texas university deepens fears for ‘DEI’ programmes
The impact of Texas’ attack on programmes seen as expressions of diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, has widened with the University of Texas a...
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Disappointed by Katya Adler's Eurocentric piece on security - not a single mention of the Global South. I would have thought critical raw mineral security plays a huge role in national security and we all know how limited access is to CRMs in Europe!
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Trump's new world order is real and Europe is having to adjust fast
European nations are asking whether traditional alliances can suffice, or whether they should be diversifying
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
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Call for bolder action to address racial inequity in HE
Progress towards racial equity – or equality of achievement – in English higher education has been ‘notoriously slow’, and structural changes ...
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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system. Thread below ⬇️
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Hegel and Colonialism
Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism
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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Happy Heavenly Birthday to May Ayim! She would have turned 65 years old today. Although we are not kin, I feel kinship with her. Next August 2026 will mark 30 years since her passing. After all these years of studying her, I still do not consider myself an expert on her.
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Iyiola Solanke @ivy180.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
"European allies, increasingly talking in terms of reducing reliance on Washington, are keenly watching the choices made in London." ✍️ @anandmenon.bsky.social and @jreland.bsky.social argue that hard geostrategic choices might impact the UK govt.'s regulatory agenda 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/brexit-in-a-...
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Brexit in a changing world - UK in a changing Europe
Anand Menon and Joël Reland argue that geopolitical tensions make the UK's choices post-Brexit increasingly difficult, even when it comes to regulatory divergence.
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oxhrh.bsky.social @oxhrh.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
🎙️ A Decolonial Approach to Education & the Law, with Foluke Adebisi ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/a-decolonial... This episode focuses on the intersection between human rights and the decolonial approach to education. Dr Adebisi is an expert in law, race, equality, legal education, and decolonising education.
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A Decolonial Approach to Education and the Law (with Foluke Adebisi) | OHRH
by Nomfundo Ramalekana | Oct 30, 2020
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
On 1 February 1979, The Guardian first reported on the gynaecological examinations conducted by UK border control officials upon South Asian women. Often called ‘virginity testing’, we wrote this article on the Home Office archival records on this practice. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Uncovering the ‘Virginity Testing’ Controversy in the National Archives: The Intersectionality of Discrimination in British Immigration History
This article explores the practice of ‘virginity testing’ by British immigration officers in the late 1970s through the internal documents of the Home Office held at the National Archives in London. ...
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