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Luke Cooper @lukecooper100.bsky.social · 18h

Will the AI bubble burst and what will the aftermath look like? I wrote up a mini lit review on the blog focusing on google’s plan for world domination :) mafiapoliticsglobaldisorder.substack.com/p/scoping-th...

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Scoping the AI bubble: Google’s strategy and the new capitalism

Or why, when boom turns to bust, these sectors may become even more oligopolistic.

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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

‘There was one glaring omission. It was painful to observe how migrant workers, who constitute about one in three direct care roles today, were completely absent from the Prime Minister’s speech and the many (many!) fringe events on the matter.’ www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

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Labour Party Conference 2026: Andy Burnham has noble ambition for care but it must include migrant care workers | Work Rights Centre

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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And I'll be co-presenting this one!

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UK Friends of Standing Together @ukfost.co.uk · 30/09/2026

Green members of UK Friends of Standing Together have written to the party’s Conference Committee in response to their banning Standing Together, published below.

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Friends of Standing Together supporters in the Green Party protest conference ban · UK Friends of Standing Together

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We welcome the reopening of the UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS). Around one in four referrals will be for Afghan women and girls and Palestinian refugees fleeing war and persecution. In Palestinians’ case a war waged in part with British weapons and British military support.

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Kalayaan @kalayaan.org.uk · 30/09/2026

➡️ Here at Kalayaan, we’re one of only nine Non-Statutory First Responder Organisations so we can refer a suspected survivor into the NRM. But the number of survivors in need of safeguarding far exceeds the help that’s available: www.kalayaan.org.uk/campaigns-2/...

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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I still have a lot of “but why don’t the residents let the Order march?” Well, because they remember. A community activist from Ardoyne I won’t name, but goes under Belfast.jpeg, has compiled some of the stories. There are 21 deaths total linked to the Drumcree “dispute”.

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Performers face opaque algorithmic management, restrictive content rules and limited autonomy. The Platform Work Directive’s reclassification mechanism could offer new rights, but many performers resist formal employment due to stigma, surveillance and legal risks.”

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Between Sex and Work: Regulating Webcamming Under the Platform Work Directive - Feminist Legal Studies

This article examines the European Union Platform Work Directive (PWD) through the lens of webcamming, a form of platformised sex work largely excluded from regulatory debates on platform labour. Draw...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'

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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Three Egyptian security officials have been convicted by a Rome court over the kidnapping of Italian doctoral student Giulio Regeni, who was found tortured in Cairo while on a visit researching Egypt’s independent trade unions in 2016 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Three Egyptian security officials convicted of kidnapping Italian student Giulio Regeni

Giulio Regeni's tortured body was found days after he went missing on a research trip to Egypt in 2016, while studying at Cambridge University.

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Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here’s the first of a series of 10 blogs we’re doing this week for #SafeAbortionDay #Sept28 To call for more legal witnessing of soft law barriers to abortion care and challenge harmful exclusions and unworkable time limits dflw.ie/witnessing-l... Time to address failed EMA up against 12 weeks!

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Witnessing legal implementation after #repealedthe8th: Soft law and the curious case of discontinuous care after a failed early medical abortion - Doing Feminist Legal Work

“It was like an epiphany. We just felt a weight lifted off us to know that there was even an option. They told me someone local to me where I could go and

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Institute of Employment Rights @ieruk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The UTAW @cwunews.bsky.social Tech Workers’ Inquiry outlines how generative AI is changing work across the tech sector, written with the perspectives and experiences of workers who build, deploy, manage, evaluate and use this technology. Download the report here: techworkersinquiry.org/ai/

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Chai Patel @chaipatel.net · 27/09/2026

can they hear themselves?

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza returned to in-person teaching on Saturday for the first time in nearly three years, albeit in damaged or makeshift school ‌buildings and tents, and with uniforms, notebooks and pens unaffordable for many families www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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Gaza students return to in-person schooling for first time in three years

The reopening is a fragile milestone for Gaza after a conflict that has killed around 22,000 students and more than 770 education workers.

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Kalayaan @kalayaan.org.uk · 22/09/2026

We're calling on the UK Government to finally ratify International Labour Organization Convention 189 🪧 We join migrant domestic workers and demand the UK Government recognise that domestic work is work! Find out more: www.kalayaan.org.uk/campaigns-2/...

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Legitimate concerns“ rhetoric & increasing restrictions on migrants’ rights have led directly to Piddlington & to RNLI staff being doxxed as traitors. There can be no more trying to pretend there’s a respectable anti-immigration position which is meaningfully distinguishable from far-right thuggery

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‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary

Shabana Mahmood says she wants to distinguish between far-right extremism and legitimate local concerns over asylum sites

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Kalayaan @kalayaan.org.uk · 16/09/2026

The modern slavery system is harmful by design. ➡️ Barriers to referral are preventing survivors of modern slavery and human trafficking from getting the support they need and leaving them at risk of re-trafficking. Find out more: www.kalayaan.org.uk/campaigns-2/...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

'Research by historians compiling the Register of British Slave Traders has found that the scale of the financial system’s involvement in enslavement is greater than previously known or acknowledged.'

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Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds

Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans

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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The hostility toward the RNLI should be a wake-up call. Organisations supporting migrants and refugees have been warning for years that abuse toward those who help others is escalating. @minnierahman.bsky.social explains how civil society must stand together: www.independent.co.uk/voices/rnli-...

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If we don’t stand up to the far-right for our RNLI heroes, what will it take?

Complacency and inaction from successive governments mean the wave of far-right abuse has now reached our heroic lifeboat volunteers, writes charity CEO Minnie Rahman – and it shows what charities kno...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Reform Party might go to the European Court of Human Rights - the court it wants to leave To challenge retrospective legislation ("not the British way") - but retrospective legislation (loss of indefinite leave to remain) is the core of its immigration policy

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

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Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…

Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the things that Brighton university management has decided it simply… no longer recognises? it also no longer recognises UCU or Unison? again: how is this legal!!!!

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

TUC conference votes to approve motion against Labour’s policy on earned settlement, calling for reforms to visa system to reduce employers’ power instead of making workers more vulnerable to exploitation and deportation by extending settlement periods www.ft.com/content/8a00...

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Unions demand softening of UK immigration reforms

Proposals will ‘punish’ low-paid migrants doing essential work in public services and create a new staffing crisis in social care, says motion passed at TUC

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's a rare policy that would be welcomed by both business and trade unions - and at the same time would *improve* the UK's fiscal position. Dropping these proposals - for which there is no economic, moral or political case - would be one. www.ft.com/content/8a00...

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Unions demand softening of UK immigration reforms

Proposals will ‘punish’ low-paid migrants doing essential work in public services and create a new staffing crisis in social care, says motion passed at TUC

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Institute of Employment Rights @ieruk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Now on the #TUC2026 conference floor: motion C04: Migrant rights are workers’ rights – withdraw the unsettling UK settlement proposals. In 2023, IER experts wrote a v significant report arguing that a seismic shift was needed in migrant workers’ rights: www.ier.org.uk/press-releas...

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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Horrifying. And this person is presumably still at it.

In a third case, a lesbian asylum seeker from Uganda whose asylum claim was based on fear of imprisonment or death in her home country if her sexual orientation was discovered, was unable to find a legal aid lawyer to represent her.

“I managed to find a private immigration lawyer but I had no money to pay him, so he forced me to have sex with him as a form of payment even though he knew what my asylum case was,” she said. “I felt there was nothing I could do to prevent this.”

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Institute of Employment Rights @ieruk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When Andy Burnham became PM he talked of “ending 40 years of neoliberalism”. If he’s serious about even beginning that huge task, our new PM must grasp the nettle on workers’ rights. Ahead of #TUC2026, IER Director James Harrison writes for Labour Outlook: labouroutlook.org/2026/09/11/o...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Excellent by @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social on Mahmood's settlement proposals “You end up with Reform claiming a woman born in Somalia who's lived here most of her life, worked hard and contributed to our society,somehow isn’t fit to hold elected office.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Human rights belong to everyone. As far-right politics gains ground, we must reject division, protect the rights we have, and go further to make economic, social and cultural rights real in law and practice. New statement developed by Just Fair & the UK ESCR Network justfair.org.uk/its-time-to-...

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

LPHR strongly welcomes today’s decision by the UK govt to legislate for an import ban on goods from illegal settlements, and for sanctions action against those providing services financing and facilitating them, as a fundamental step forward for upholding international law & respecting human rights

A screenshot of the statement, which can be read at https://lphr.org.uk/latest-news/lphr-welcomes-the-uk-governments-announcement-to-comprehensively-act-against-illegal-settlements-as-a-fundamental-step-forward-for-upholding-international-law-and-respecting-human-rights/

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“The guidance will see Trans+ pupils segregated in third spaces, their personal agency and autonomy diminished, and their teachers forced to self-censor in the classroom, all of which serves to invisibilise Trans+ youth in the public sphere.” The British government continues to trash trans kids.

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Section 28 2.0: A complex web of anti-trans guidance that will make it vastly harder to overturn

Anti-trans rhetoric has been spread across a growing myriad of guidance and documents, with Trans+ children headed back to school facing segregation and teachers banned from “encouraging” them to ques...

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Surprise! The outfit blocking roads and the port in Dover includes seriously violent thugs

Description of the criminal record of one of the thugs (there are more) from the article

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Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights @lphr-lawyers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Seven aid workers killed when drones fired missiles at World Central Kitchen cars in Gaza were marked as targets under an Israeli military practice of establishing guilt by association, which endangers aid workers and civilians in general www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike

Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals targeting of World Central Kitchen convoy was result of widely used military tactic

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The proposals by the government to allow skilled workers who have been recognised as victims of modern slavery to work in any sector is step forward, but it leaves huge gaps. First off, there is ample evidence that it has become increasingly difficult to be recognised as a victim of modern slavery.

screenshot from government announcement to changes to skilled worker visa to support victims of moderns slavery:

Changes to Appendix Skilled Worker to support victims of modern slavery

The sponsorship system is designed to ensure overseas recruits have a genuine job to come to, will be paid appropriately, and can enjoy their employment rights. However, we have seen instances of Skilled Worker visa holders who entered the UK in good faith, complied with the terms of their visa and have experienced exploitation. This is simply unacceptable. Our crackdown on rogue employers continues and this includes taking action against sponsors who have exploited or enslaved their workers. To date, UKVI have revoked more than 7500 sponsor licenses, including 1800 in the care sector alone. But we recognise there is more to be done to ensure that victims are protected and supported by our Immigration system, as set out in the Immigration White Paper.

To ensure that victims of exploitation do not face further vulnerabilities, the changes we are making now allow victims who entered the UK legally and have been recognised as victims of modern slavery, to undertake work in any occupation for the remaining duration of the visa validity. This incentivises victims to come forward early and guards against those who seek to weaponise the sponsorship system in order to exploit vulnerable workers.

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CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Potentially quite a significant change for people who've lost their work visa sponsorship because of employer misconduct, although tied to formal recognition through the modern slavery system questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Na’amod spoke to @haaretzcom about the @jlc.uk and Board of Deputies' disgraceful response to reports of UK government measures to sanction trade with illegal Israeli settlements.

Na'amod, an anti-occupation Jewish group, said it "welcomed" the measures reported this week, saying "it is the minimum response" to Israel's ongoing unlawful actions.

Na'amod, in a statement to Haaretz, said: "British restraint in the last three years alone has coincided with 68 new settlements, record settler violence, tens of thousands of Palestinians forcibly displaced and a land-registration regime Israeli ministers describe as annexation. This restraint has a map and a death toll."

The group also rejected the Board of Deputies' argument that focusing "narrowly" on Israeli government actions "fuels a climate of hatred [...] towards British Jews."

"That argument only works if British Jews are answerable for what Israel does. We reject that premise absolutely," Na'amod said.

"The harsh reality is none of these actions have had any influence on the situation on the ground," the JLC said, warning that "broad, untargeted measures may inadvertently become a wider boycott of Israel."

Na'amod rejected that argument as well, saying that "contrary to the Jewish Leadership Council's statement, Britain is not 'singling out' Israel. Britain already restricts trade with illegally occupied Ukrainian territory. What is exceptional is that Britain has spent years applying a different standard to illegal Israeli settlements."

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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We welcome the sanctions on illegal settlements reported this week. It is the minimum response to Israel’s ongoing unlawful actions.

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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

1/ Yesterday, we joined Rabbis for Human Rights and Bnei Avraham to erect protective fencing around Palestinian homes in Jannatah, southeast of Bethlehem. The fence was intended to help protect Palestinian families who have endured repeated attacks and intimidation by violent Israeli settlers.

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As we come together on the challenges we face, & the responsibilities we must reclaim, we are reminded that critical and collective forms of education begin with critique, move toward refusal of injustice, & culminate in the development of ideas, practices, techniques, & powers to re-world together…

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Academic Freedom and the Role of the Academic: Resistance, Solidarity, and the Politics of Knowledge - Feminist Legal Studies

Feminist Legal Studies -

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's obviously false to claim that he was suspended solely for criticism of Arday's appointment, as some people purport to believe

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A really miserable piece of writing, wholly based in electoral impressionism. No thought for principles or the rights of migrants, and including spurious calculations about lifetime fiscal costs and benefits that simply ignore the real costs of what would happen if these workers were absent.

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Burnham must reveal his hand on immigration

Labour MPs dislike tough proposals to limit rights to settle and collect welfare but voters’ trust has run out

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Welcome news. The returns agreement initially implemented by Conservatives, coupled with gutting of protections for trafficking victims by Labour, has seen Albanians returned to face being re-trafficked, with little genuine support from Albanian authorities. 1/ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Home Office could be blocked from deporting trafficking victims to Albania

Many males are returned even if they have been trafficked but Home Office must now consider new legal guidance

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