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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
There’s something awfully off when images and videos of a woman who is clearly upset are being used to undermine her. And we’re being asked to look, watch, repost, discuss….. AKA: harm, hurt, make worse. It’s misogynistic bullying and harassment. Choose 💕 and empathy.
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NI Legal Quarterly @nilegalq.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Emily Jackson @lselaw.bsky.social shares her reflections on writing: why, how and when. This is the 12th contribution to the series. Many thanks to Emily for her thoughts. Article: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
‘A picture of violence: The 27 women killed in four years’
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A picture of violence: The 27 women killed in four years
In at least 20 of the 27 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.
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ILGA-Europe @ilgaeurope.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
LGBTI rights are workers’ rights. The ban on Budapest Pride is an attack on democracy and the right to organise. The European Trade Union Confederation and ILGA-Europe stand united in protest and solidarity. Read our joint statement: www.ilga-europe.org/news/togethe...
ilga-europe.org
Together in Pride, Together in Protest | ILGA-Europe
Joint Statement by the European Trade Union Confederation and ILGA-Europe
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Shout out to all the fab folk in Ballymena involved in cleaning the streets ahead of this afternoon's Pride event and making sure this latest bout of pure hate doesn't win out or define where they live: www.thejournal.ie/ballymena-sl...
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Man arrested after Ballymena 'spread with slurry overnight' ahead of town's first Pride parade
Slurry has been spread near streets where a pride parade was due to finish up this afternoon.
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NI Legal Quarterly @nilegalq.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
We are delighted to participate in @slsauk.bsky.social’s journals initiative! See slsa.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?....
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NI Legal Quarterly @nilegalq.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The 11th piece in our Reflections on Writing series is extra special. Nicola Lacey @lselaw.bsky.social meditates on 45 years of writing by highlighting key projects, and describing the hurdles of peer review, loneliness, co-writing and self-doubt. doi.org/10.53386/nil...
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NI Legal Quarterly @nilegalq.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
@lwdsc.bsky.social and Simon Halliday @lawstrath.bsky.social share their experiences of working and writing together! This is the 10th piece in our Reflections on Writing Series. doi.org/10.53386/nil...
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NI Legal Quarterly @nilegalq.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We are delighted to publish the 9th article in our Reflections on Writing series. Thanks so much to @sylviademars.me for her efforts at such a very busy time of year! Full open access article: doi.org/10.53386/nil... Series: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Vitally important intervention by Brown. 👀 ⬇️
theguardian.com
MPs have personal beliefs, but also solemn duties: that’s why they must reject the assisted dying bill this week | Gordon Brown
Our obligations to each other are ill served if laws focus unduly on those who want assisted dying. The priority should be the best palliative care, says former prime minister Gordon Brown
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Ah, the trains….. 🫣 a cab to the airport it has to be! (nice air conditioning is helping me to destress 😂😉😊☘️☘️☘️)
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
‘While the Post Office and infected blood compensation schemes both offer applicants legal advice, the Windrush scheme is an exception among state compensation programmes in not providing this support’. Why the difference in treatment? 🤔
theguardian.com
Windrush scandal victims got less compensation due to lack of legal advice funding, review finds
Study finds claimants who challenged payouts after taking advice received huge increases, in one case from £300 to £170,000
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
🤔
theguardian.com
Going Nuclear by Tim Gregory review – a boosterish case for atomic energy
Safety concerns demand more space and consideration in this otherwise excellent work of popular science
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
What sounds like a terrific and important book, sold by a terrific local bookshop in Ely, England. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 My copy is ordered!
toppingbooks.co.uk
Mythica: A New History of Homer’s World, Through the Women Written Out of It by Emily Hauser
THE INSTANT TIMES BESTSELLERAward-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece’s greates...
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
🤩
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Rise up! No 🤴! (AKA dictator)
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Actually, I’ll go further. For me, being British 🇬🇧 is to realise that it’s a mix of all of these things 👇. Just like the amazing 🤩 flag 🇬🇧 (except it doesn’t include Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿….. 🙄). It’s the mix that makes Britishness for me. The mix should be celebrated and cherished.
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
One can be British 🇬🇧 and speak and adore Irish ☘️, Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Scots Gaelic 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Cornish etc. #Irish4All #NorthernIreland ‘Unionist Irish language fears can be addressed - former Welsh first minister’
bbc.com
Unionist Irish language fears 'can be addressed' - Mark Drakeford
It comes as disputes continue at Stormont over the Irish language, including rows about bilingual signage.
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#Omagh #Pride ☘️❤️🌈🤘 ‘First Pride parade since 'politician ban' takes place’.
bbc.com
Omagh Pride: Politicians 'not welcome' at County Tyrone parade
The four Stormont executive parties were told they are "not welcome" at Omagh Pride on Saturday.
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Solidarity! ✊🏻❤️‍🩹🫶🌈 ‘Anti-racism rally in Belfast after days of violence’ www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Belfast: Anti-racism rally held after days of violence
The protest follows days of violence which police say is being led by "bigots and racists".
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
🤘
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Antigone Barbieri @thetragedymachine.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
You can’t see me bc I’m holding a flag but guys I live in a 2k person extremely rural town in one of the reddest counties of WI. So many people showed up there was a line all the way to the highway. I often feel a bit afraid due to my identity in this area but #nokings brought out so many
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Well said! #solidarity
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Northern Ireland has always seen high levels of violence against women and girls. Blaming migrants is a useful way to distract from that. ‘If women in Northern Ireland rioted every time one of us was attacked, the country would lie in ashes.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The Ballymena violence has nothing to do with ‘protecting women’. It is racism, pure and simple | Sarah Creighton
Northern Ireland has always seen high levels of violence against women and girls. Blaming migrants is a useful way to distract from that, says political commentator from Northern Ireland Sarah Creight...
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
❤️‍🩹 to all those suffering through racism in Northern Ireland. Time to make more of an effort to reach out to others, smile, show some kindness, spread a little empathy and compassion.
theguardian.com
The Ballymena violence has nothing to do with ‘protecting women’. It is racism, pure and simple | Sarah Creighton
Northern Ireland has always seen high levels of violence against women and girls. Blaming migrants is a useful way to distract from that, says political commentator from Northern Ireland Sarah Creight...
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
‘In an age of refugees seeking to escape their war-torn home-lands, an age of rising nationalism across the globe, an age in which many in Europe and the United States are suspicious of "the East" and its religious differences….the Aeneid has more to say to us than ever’ (p. xv)
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
There’s room for all languages. Language is vital to identity, knowing ourselves, how and what we even think. Irish language doesn’t necessarily = nationalism. Let’s embrace Irish for all! ‘Anti-Irish language leaflets made us more determined to learn'
bbc.com
Belfast Irish teacher says leaflets made students more determined
Students at Aoife Nic Giolla Cheara's class found leaflets saying "English is our mother tongue" on their cars.
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Madonna? Maybe Janet Jackson? Both have produced more hits, created more related art (videos, tours, images) than many of these mentioned in this article. Why aren’t more women being thought of in this way? And what is a ‘musical’ genius anyway?
theguardian.com
Brian Wilson was a musical genius. Are there any left?
In pop, which equates genius with innovation, recent artists have not pioneered new forms like those from the 60s. Has the digital age sidelined invention and promoted the derivative for ever?
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We’ve already seen ordinary civilians in the US treated the same way, just for asking questions. Questioning is vital to democratic life. It’s vital for developing and refining all areas of knowledge and expertise, including for effective and legitimate government.
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NI Legal Quarterly @nilegalq.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Today is Empathy Day! @librariesni.bsky.social had a great initiative today, which prompts us to ask: Which law book has helped grow your empathy the most? We’d ❤️ to read your responses ⬇️.
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Some real leadership in Northern Ireland from across the Executive. But alas some seem to have forgotten their duties towards all people in Northern Ireland. Stand against racism and thuggery! Stand for cool discussion and common understanding!
theguardian.com
Northern Ireland minister rejects call to resign as political unity over riots cracks
DUP’s Gordon Lyons criticised for social media post about leisure centre before it was set on fire by masked attackers
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I might be up for this!
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Sylvia de Mars @sylviademars.me · 11/06/2025
@markflear.bsky.social very kindly invited me to explore what my writerly 'voice' is and is for for the wonderful Reflections on Writing series in the @nilegalq.bsky.social. (My $0.02: be yourself, even if that bucks disciplinary conventions; you'll be surprised at what doors you can open.)
nilq.qub.ac.uk
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
This is the ninth contribution to NILQ's Reflections on Writing series.
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
That picture I hope you can see in the previous reply is from the (London) Telegraph.
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Not the main thing about tonight's awfulness in Ballymena, but just to note for London-based commentators, that the use of water cannon, that we're so often told can't happen in the UK, because it offends policing norms, is happening again in the UK: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Mmm, well look at this….. the photo is from Ballymena, right?
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Another visit to Cambridge last weekend! The rehanging of the Dugas and its reconfiguration amongst other wonderful paintings at the Fitzwilliam was a highlight.
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
‘The opportunity to make money in the Gulf attracts thousands of men from Nepal’s poorest regions, but for the families of those who die in workplace accidents, compensation can be hard to come by’.
theguardian.com
‘We were poor, but at least we were together’: families of Nepali workers killed in Saudi Arabia wait for justice
The opportunity to make money in the Gulf attracts thousands of men from Nepal’s poorest regions, but for the families of those who die in workplace accidents, compensation can be hard to come by
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
‘It asserts a fundamental principle that the ruler is subject to the law. He can’t just say: ‘Into prison, off with your head, I’m seizing your property.’ If he wants to act against you, he has to do so by legal process. It’s the foundation stone of the western tradition of law and democracy’.
theguardian.com
Harvard’s unofficial copy of Magna Carta is actually an original, experts say
Document issued by Edward I in 1300 was bought by law school library for just $27 in 1946
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A truly haunting and mind-opening exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Rise Up! fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
‘People 'will suffer' under new waiting list scheme, doctor warns’ www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
‘Male bias in medical trials risks women’s lives. But at least the data gap is finally being addressed’.
theguardian.com
Male bias in medical trials risks women’s lives. But at least the data gap is finally being addressed | Caroline Criado Perez
We know some medications work differently in men and women. Why is it taking so long for studies to reflect this, asks author Caroline Criado Perez
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Reading Law School @unirdg-law.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Check out this special issue of the @nilegalq.bsky.social in honour of Professor Emeritus Chris Newdick, edited by @prof-tc.bsky.social and with contributions by Professor Chris Devenney, Dr Rachel Horton and Dr Basak Bak. (Links to individual pieces in the thread.)
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Paula Giliker @pgiliker.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Wonderful to see Chris Newdick honoured in the latest edition of the @nilegalq.bsky.social with contributions from my colleagues John Coggan and Keith Syrett.
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NI Legal Quarterly @nilegalq.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
@slsauk.bsky.social has kindly shared news of our latest special issue in their newsletter. Very many thanks! slsa.ac.uk/index.php/ne...
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NI Legal Quarterly @nilegalq.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Our latest special issue is very special indeed! It is a collection of papers carefully edited by Thérèse Callus in honour of Chris Newdick @unirdg-law.bsky.social’s contributions to the academy. All available open access ⬇️!
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NI Legal Quarterly @nilegalq.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
We are now on LinkedIn! Please do follow us if you can www.linkedin.com/in/northern-...
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Mark L Flear @markflear.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Interesting news! Why the pick up in prosecutions over the last few years?
theguardian.com
UK woman who took pills during lockdown cleared of illegal abortion
Nicola Packer, 45, was prescribed medication but was accused of believing she was more than 10 weeks pregnant
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NI Legal Quarterly @nilegalq.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
doi.org/10.53386/nil...
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