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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🇪🇺⚖️ - Call for Participation - Deadline 18 October! The next edition of the European Rule of Law Conference, organised by re:constitution (@democracyreporting.bsky.social + Forum Transregionale Studien), will take place on 11 and 12 May 2027 in Brussels. Link: www.reconstitution.eu/veranstaltun...

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

At last, I can stop paying TLS 6.99 a month for the single article I sometimes read

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's really much harder for Argentina to score if you don't just let them attack for forty five minutes

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

they do know we can score more than once, right?

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

highlight so far is the bbc trying to take advantage of a surfeit of patriotism/alcohol by flogging the tv licence

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

For anyone inclined to take this syllogism seriously, Rentoul's followed it up with pro-Mahmood guff

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Cato really going for the illiterate readership

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Jonathan Jones @sirjjkc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Prominent public figures when they die deserve to be remembered for what they said and did (like all of us, if we’re remembered at all), for how they used power and influence, how they behaved towards others. Surely that’s what they would have expected?

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Norway proving the advantage that comes if you actually get round to shooting

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

In which PolEx lawyers simultaneously lament the huge reparations orders international courts might impose and claim that the orders are unenforceable and not worth the paper they're written on

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I think the weather's winning this argument

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

For Fathers' Day, Keir Starmer posts a photo of his own father, who died in 2018, and a non-political message. The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes. We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Meanwhile the police are arresting priests and quakers

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Took a break from book writing to write for the @lrb.co.uk about the Filton Four, Palestine Action, and the ever widening definition of terrorism: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

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Nicholas Reed Langen | Legislative Sleight of Hand

Every white Serco prison van that drove into Woolwich Crown Court on Friday morning was met with a cacophony of cheers,...

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Took a break from book writing to write for the @lrb.co.uk about the Filton Four, Palestine Action, and the ever widening definition of terrorism: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

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Nicholas Reed Langen | Legislative Sleight of Hand

Every white Serco prison van that drove into Woolwich Crown Court on Friday morning was met with a cacophony of cheers,...

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

To be fair, the Court of Appeal is right here- Palestine Action haven't chucked an axe at Keir Starmer or tried to blow up Rachel Reeves' summer home or smashed windows up and down the west end or set fire to post boxes or stormed Parliament

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It's genius policies like this that show McSweeney is back at the helm

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Bethany Elliott @bethanyaelliott.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I wrote this because oh god some of the stuff I’ve dragged my parents to and they did recently say that, on the one hand it’s lovely when your child still wants to spend time with you and isn’t drunk on vodka in a hedge. On the other… www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/lifesty...

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Parents of pretentious teen wish he'd get into beer and football

THE parents of a teenager who opines on Bertolt Brecht and Brutalist buildings wish he would drink cider and vomit at bus stops like his peers.

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I usually like Sam Knight's @newyorker.com analyses of British politics, but what circle of hell has he dragged this take from:

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

For the love of god can we please finally have chaos with Ed Miliband

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Maybe Starmer has gone really mental with the wallpaper

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The most tragic indictment of our politics is that we have elected over 400 Labour MPs without having a single one a) good enough to be PM or b) brave enough to even try

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Netpol @netpol.org · 05/05/2026

Now that the Filton verdict is out, we can confirm that the senior lawyer who is currently facing contempt of court charges, for eloquently defending one of his Palestine Action clients, is Rajiv Menon KC of Garden Court Chambers

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Andrea Maria Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Our latest legal analysis of the first known case of "right to remain" in the UK amid displacement due to climate change has been published by the RLI blog 👇

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Why does America get Zohran Mamdani as the leader of its insurgent left-wing movement and we get Zack Polanski

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

it's hard not to think that the reason we are failing as a nation is down to the fact that the civil servants running the government are just not very bright

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Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🇭🇺🗳️⚖️🇪🇺 There's still time to register for our tomorrow's webinar, where three happy Hungarians and one Polish smile will discuss the aftermath of the earthquake of an election that we had this Sunday. Where do we go from here with the rule of law democracy? How does Hungary start to repair?

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Elise Woodard @elisewoodard.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Apply for a one year, research-only postdoc at KCL! You'd have pretty good colleagues in the world's best city. Email me with any questions!

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re:constitution @reconeurope.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

📅 Last reminder to our CfA: Apply & become a re:constitution Fellow Are you looking for an opportunity to collaborate with institutions and connect with experts on Rule of Law and Democracy in Europe? 🚀 www.reconstitution.eu/news/news-de... 📅 5 March (NOON)

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Call for Applications: re:constitution Fellowships 2026/27

Apply now, until 5 March 2026, 12 noon (CET)

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Mixed metaphors coupled with some botched ones for good measure

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Great piece from @daniellalock.bsky.social on why the High Court was right to find that the Home Sec had gone beyond the government's own policy in proscribing Palestine Action

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

This is political suicide by letter, right? He's basically begging them to defenestrate him

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

At this point Ganesh is being kept on so that everyone knows they have a shot at an FT byline, right? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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What social media gave us

The bans on it are right but it added to the intellectual life of the world

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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

✍️ In his op-ed, @nicholasrl.bsky.social analyzes the roots of the Labour Party’s current malaise and explores prospects for change to prevent a further ascent of the far right. 🇬🇧🇬🇧 🧑‍💻 Read it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/yhuu2hpf

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Fantastic post by @profmarkelliott.bsky.social illustrating why the High Court's decision not to quash the unlawful (at least for now) proscription order of PA is conceptually, and arguably pragmatically, problematic. This case also shows why legal theory, and conceptual clarity especially, matter

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Look forward to the Court of Appeal upholding the High Court before the Supreme Court finds some tenuous way to defer to executive action

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Palestine Action judgment here www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Good to know Polanski's Greens are just as shitty as every other party going

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

What a relief, Ganesh wrote this so I know I'm right

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Won't someone think of the women too feckless to do some retirement planning

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Little more than a wind up doll that bleats 'we inherited a problem'

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 20/01/2026

Hungary has granted political asylum to Poland’s former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro. PETRA BÁRD shows why this is not a humanitarian exception, but a challenge to EU asylum law and judicial cooperation — and an example of autocratic legalism in the Union. verfassungsblog.de/ziobros-asyl...

Quote: “The Ziobro asylum episode is not an isolated humanitarian exception, but a structurally revealing case.”

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Why are we giving this toady to an incipient autocratic state an invitation to speak to Parliament, let alone letting him lecture on free speech

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FOARP @foarp.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Two things can be true: 1) Trump is crazy. 2) The Chagos deal was bad, particularly because it ignored what the islanders wanted.

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Someone should tell the great and the good over at Policy Exchange about what's happening in America, another 'free democracy with robustly independent courts and a healthy political culture'

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The way to hold off right-wing authoritarianism is to do it first

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Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This guy has never heard of name tags

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