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Sanjit Nagi @sanjitnagi.bsky.social · 10h

This one was truly a labour of love and went through multiple iterations. But I am so pleased that my paper “Ramsay MacDonald, Unicameralism, and the House of Lords; 1900-31” has been accepted for publication in @publiclaw.bsky.social 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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Sanjit Nagi @sanjitnagi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Super happy that my paper, “..The [Human] Rights [Act] Stuff—26 Years On” has been accepted for publication in the European Human Rights Law Review. A huge thanks to the editors and reviewers.

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

On my way to @livunislsj.bsky.social to be hosted by Mike Gordon who I don’t think is on here? Looking forward to discussing this paper this afternoon, sharing insights and learning from colleagues such as @adam.publiclaw.space A cracking city and lovely to be heading back

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm pleased to announce this fantastic launch event, organised by my wonderful colleague Prof Rob Heywood, as the first event of our Law School's newly invigorated Social Justice Research Group www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c... We are hoping to offer it as a hybrid event Please RT

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I have curated this year's @publiclaw.bsky.social Special Analysis section "The Public Order Act 1986 at Forty", with six excellent contributions which together, I/we hope, offer an insight into the rich tapestry of contemporary protest law and policing in the UK, through that historical lens.

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

One of Tehran’s beautiful palaces - Saadabad - has been seriously damaged. My grandfather did the landscaping and built the greenhouses at Saadabad in the 1930s

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Yesterday may have been a turning point. GCC freaked out after Iran escalated. Trump backed down. US now maybe unsanctioning Iranian oil. GCC states will take yrs to recover from this. So will global energy supplies. Iran clearly prepared to escalate again if necessary

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Netpol @netpol.org · 19/03/2026

Netpol will launch our second annual 'State of Protest' report, "How Repression Became Routine", with a free livestream next Wednesday 25 March from 7:00-8:30 pm GMT. Speakers: co-founder of Palestine Action, Huda Ammori, and campaigner Ayo Khalil. Book now www.tickettailor.com/events/netpo...

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Book Now – REPORT LAUNCH: "How Repression Became Routine" – Zoom

REPORT LAUNCH: "How Repression Became Routine" – Zoom, Wed 25 Mar 2026 - The launch of Netpol's latest Annual State of Protest Report 2025 Our State of Protest 2024 report,

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Latest in chickens should reach out to foxes news.

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Simon @simonxix.com · 19/03/2026

The boot is coming and universities need to get our tongues ready.

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

If you missed it, I’m part of a small collective trying to bring a radical bookshop shop to Newcastle. We haven’t had a good proper radical book shop since the 1980s. We think that should change! We launched our crowdfunder today, support if you can: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb... Pls share

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Netpol @netpol.org · 17/03/2026

In what it's general secretary has called a "pathetic attempt to intimidate workers", the trade union Unite has been fined £265k for breaching an injunction during Birmingham's bin strike by "slow walking" in front of waste lorries near depots www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Unite fined £265k for 'slow walk' Birmingham bin strike protests

A judge rules the union repeatedly breached an injunction preventing the blocking of waste vehicles.

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

“The Long War on Iran: New Events, Old Questions” by Behrooz Ghamari, published at the end of 2025. Highly recommend this to all.

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Hello friends, I did a podcast interview on Iran, intl law, and being Iranian American in this moment. You can listen here: youtu.be/RhSg9-FUUMk?...

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Law and Politics of Israel and the United States’ Attacks on Iran with Maryam Jamshidi (Episode 54)

YouTube video by Rutgers Center for Security, Race & Rights

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Daniella Lock @daniellalock.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I've written a post setting out why I think the Divisional Court reached the right conclusions in its recent Palestine Action ruling.

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Secret UCU @secretucu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Staff aren’t allowed to say they’re on strike. UCU members aren’t allowed to mention it to strike-breaking staff. Regional committees can’t talk about it. The NEC can’t talk about it. Congress can talk about it but motions are declared out of order. Is this the accountability Jo was meaning?

Jo Grady’s first election manifesto where she says she wants the GS to be more accountable to members

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Daniella Lock @daniellalock.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Here are some thoughts on the Palestine Action ruling for the @lrb.co.uk. The ruling shows the importance of the UK Government's national security assessments being challenged - which doesn't happen enough under our current system.

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Netpol @netpol.org · 16/02/2026

Latest Home Office data shows that in 2024-25, there were 162 restrictions on processions and assemblies imposed across England & Wales. Rather than simply publish a full dataset, the department released information that's hard to navigate – so we have tried to untangle it netpol.org/2026/02/12/l...

A line of Metropolitan Police officers at the front of a National March for Palestine held in London

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Lucy Burke @lucyburkemcr.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

This is a thread about UCU & what it has become over the last few years. But the first thing I want to say is I didn’t join a union to stay silent or turn my back on a single parent of three facing dismissal on the basis of their trade union activities. Marie Monaghan is the Unite UCU 1/12

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Paul O’Connell @pmpoc.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The High Court has ruled that the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was unlawful - a vindication for all those who have put themselves on the line to oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the British states complicity in it

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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Irish (opposition) politicians condemn the use of Shannon airport for US deportation flights of Palestinians to Israel. The Irish Government remains silent.

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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

For an excellent in-depth exploration of the US use of financial sanctions since September 11th onwards, listen to Episode 5 of the @lrb.co.uk Aftershock podcast 'In dollars we trust' @danielsoar.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

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Podcast: Daniel Soar · Episode 5: In Dollars We Trust

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

No war on Iran. A war on Iran is a war on its people. No war on the people of Iran. None. Not for any reason.

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Less than a month after Iran’s massacre of protestors, the EU slaps sanctions on Iranian officials & entities, inc designating the IRGC a terrorist org. Nearly 2.5 years of genocide by Israel against Pals, w/ a death toll of 70,000 at min, not one sanction against Israel www.bbc.com/news/article...

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EU adds Iran's Revolutionary Guards to 'terrorist list'

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says the move is a response to Tehran's deadly crackdown on protesters.

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Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Money-grubbers like Dr Faisal Maassarani are creating a housing problem not people seeking asylum. This man evicted 100 tenants from their homes simply because he could earn more from Serco. Shout at him not the people he's exploiting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Millionaire Liverpool GP behind asylum seeker hotels

A firm founded by a GP tried to evict 100 people from flats while planning to move asylum seekers in.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance – to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For the Palestinian people, psychic life is just as much a site of struggle for liberation as social life. Palestinians are persistently refused psychological amplitude, characteristics easily granted to those who are never worried they might fall out of what is constituted as the category of the human. Abdaljawad Omar’s writings in English published since October 7, 2023 (as well as writings by other Palestinians, other Arabs, and those of Palestinian descent) offer means of understanding material resistance in relation to the terrain of the psyche. Omar offers distinctive accounts of mourning, loss, and ruins, as well as of how settler colonialism reorganizes experiences of time and relations between past, present, and future. The article reads Omar’s writings against other accounts of mourning and of psychic phenomena that are indebted to psychoanalysis. Omar’s analyses of Palestinians’ resistance to unfreedom and annihilation open up other ways of understanding the psychic vicissitudes of those who suffer, grieve, and struggle to exit a colonial condition characterized by the colonizer’s repeated attempts to break psychic worlds as well as erase bodily life. Understandings of psychic life that do justice to how Palestine is redrawing the world are central to the work of ‘cracking history open’.

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Kirsteen Paton @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I’m looking forward to this new Conversations event, getting to talk and think through the tumult of 2025 sociologically. Never have we needed a critical sociology lens more. Come join us as we try and make sense of where we are now.

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Daniella Lock @daniellalock.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Many thanks for this great collection and pleased to have my article 'Public Power and Private Hands: Outsourcing in UK National Security Law' included.

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Paul F Scott @paulfscott.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The special edition of the KLJ on national security issues that I edited with Keith Ewing is now out in full. Many thanks to our contributors: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rklj20/3...

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Maryam Jamshidi @msjamshidi.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

A little preview of my forthcoming journal article on council tenants' resistance and resilience today in @scotnational.bsky.social. Massive thanks to @charlielynch.bsky.social for reaching out and giving my work a write-up. www.thenational.scot/politics/257...

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Resistance and resilience: Digging into Edinburgh's history of tenant activism

NEW research has highlighted the resistance and resilience among tenants in council housing in Edinburgh

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open Applics. welcome across humanities & soc.sci from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to UK for 2 years Deadline:11 March I’d be very pleased to host ECRs keen to study #protest #policing #publicorder #assembly

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International Fellowships 2026

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program.. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike

Four more who had paused opt not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK

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Val Aston @valaston.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Excellent from Paul O'Connell: "Terrorism now performs the function that treason once did: not a description of actual conduct but a mechanism for foreclosing political possibility."

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

And like buses, two pieces at once on protest, proscription and political participation by @pmpoc.bsky.social

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Paul O’Connell @pmpoc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I have a post out today on the proscription of Palestine Action and how, through the lens of anticipatory repression, we can understand it as part of a much wider assault on democratic rights and freedoms in Britain: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/12/p...

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Paul O’Connell: Anticipatory Repression and the Proscription of Palestine Action

The proscription of Palestine Action in July 2025 represents more than an aggressive application of counter-terrorism law. It reveals a broader, qualitative shift in the British state’s approach to…

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Paul O’Connell @pmpoc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

"Naming this as anticipatory repression ... is a precondition for building the solidarities and organisational forms capable of withstanding it. They who sow pestilence must reap whirlwinds" - criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/12/c...

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Cadaverous Tranquillity: Proscription, Anticipatory Repression and Coleridge

In December 1795, William Pitt’s government introduced the Treasonable Practices Bill and the Seditious Meetings Bill—the “Gagging Acts” as their

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Cadaverous Tranquillity: Proscription, Anticipatory Repression and Coleridge

In December 1795, William Pitt’s government introduced the Treasonable Practices Bill and the Seditious Meetings Bill—the “Gagging Acts” as their

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Paul O’Connell @pmpoc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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Paul O’Connell: Anticipatory Repression and the Proscription of Palestine Action

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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Always a welcome way to end a week but especially first week back: submission of a chapter This 9,000-worder, written with my splendid UEA colleague @crwerren.bsky.social, will be in an edited collection "Human Rights in the UK under the Conservatives" by Conall Murray & Adam Ramshaw later in 2026

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Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Al-Haq calls for concrete measures in response to these latest restrictive measures by Israel. Words of condemnation have proven insufficient to protect Palestinians. @alhaq.bsky.social

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Paul O’Connell @pmpoc.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Behind the charts in the WIR 2026 is a blunt truth: the global economy extracts value from poorer countries to sustain the wealth of richer ones. That’s not misfortune, or a glitch- it's modern imperialism at work, and this fundamentally undermines all human rights

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