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Adam Ramshaw

@ramshaw.bsky.social
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🚴‍♂️🍺⚫️⚪️ Assistant Professor in Law at Northumbria University. Research interests: human rights, legal theory, constitutional law, and property. Opinions my own.

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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Essential from Alan Lockey on how young people have been failed for nearly two decades and why Burnham must stop the rot. www.arguably.uk/p/the-speech...
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Onalith @onalith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Perfect way to make a whole galaxy feel small because everything revolves around 5 people.
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Graeme Cowie @woodstockjag.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hearts fans.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This week on Origin Story: The life & ideas of John Rawls, the most celebrated liberal philosopher of the post-war period. These are some of the most beautiful arguments in progressive thought. We do it as a one hour crash course. Everything you need to know. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The threshold raise was a complete disasterclass by the 2010 Liberal Democrats: it narrowed the tax base, they got no credit for it in government, why on earth would you want to do it again when the public realm and the public finances are in a worse state?
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Adam Ramshaw @ramshaw.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Lance Flamme
ALT: Lance Flamme
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why are Gen Z more anxious and less workplace ready? It’s a mystery.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"There’s a puritanical streak lurking beneath our 'freedom-loving' national identity, a soul-crushing voice whining 'I don’t want to so you mustn’t'. And that voice isn’t limited to London." www.newstatesman.com/politics/fut...
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Drinking in Soho is a fundamental freedom
A bitter minority of fun haters are ruining our society
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
New post: Young people are increasingly unhappy. It's a real phenomenon + nothing to do with "snowflakes". There are lots of standard culprits - social media, school, economy - but none can explain the long-term trend. So what is going on? (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/the-agency...
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The Agency Gap
Why are young people increasingly unhappy?
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Adam Ramshaw @ramshaw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hoots, hollas, and high fives welcome from anyone watching the Great North Run today. Keep an eye out for me cantering round.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A good source told me yesterday that the Tories are convinced there's going to be a summer 2027 election and are working to that timetable...
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI
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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
By the end of next year, the projection for the average British household is a reduced income of about two and a half thousand pounds *just as a direct result of the Iran war*. It’s truly insane what this guy has done to the world.
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Less than one in three believed London was a net contributor to public finances, even though it pays more tax than it receives back — one of only two UK regions to run a fiscal surplus." Fascinating polling here on how the rest of the country views London www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...
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Sadiq Khan hits out at ‘plastic patriots’ doing London down
Mayor says groups are spreading disinformation that is leading the public to overestimate the level of crime in the capital
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 128: To write, you need to read - widely and with passion and curiosity. Doing one without the other is like expecting a cook not to be interested in eating.
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Kieran - North East Heritage Library @neheritagelib.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Job done - the project can finish now! I've added an entry on the Tyne Bridge - no explanation really needed. Link below.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am sorry, I may have said this before, but there really are moments when British politics are astonishingly naive, and I really think this may have something to do with the fact that the British have not experienced occupation, tyranny, displacemen within living memory.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Times. Explicitly and deliberately, as a matter of editorial policy, promoting violent racist thugs.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Dave @davedaveson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“I propose that I use what's left of the treasury to move to a more prosperous party and run for leader. And, once elected, I will send for the rest of you.”
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 03/09/2026
8yo: how much will you get paid to write your book Me: uh, I don't know. Authors are paid in royalties so each time someone buys the book they get like $2 8yo: that seems like a bad deal Me: I dunno, what if my book sells a million copies? How much would I make? 8yo: well that's not gonna happen
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Zia Yusuf has tweeted this about the leader of Camden Council, Sagal Abdi-Wali, who has lived in Camden for over 35 years, after arriving as a child refugee in the early 1990s. (Nadhim Zahawi, born in Baghdad to an Iraqi Kurdish family, came to the UK as an 11 year old:should be asked about this)
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Keir Starmer (11 years, 2015-26) will have shortest MP career of any 20th century PM: 4 months as backbencher, 5 years on frontbench + 4 years as Leader of Opposition + 2 years PM www.camdennewjournal.co.uk%2Farticl…
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Agree and reading Starmer's statement it's infuriating how his sense of moral superiority has stayed intact despite everything.
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
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Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is manifestly untrue
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The Narrative™️, though. It cannot fail. It can only be failed.
2017 tweet, I swear to you, if we had the power to indoctrinate we would start by indoctrinating our students to read the syllabus
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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 08/08/2026
If you ever doubt we’re in the banter timeline, remember that “a strong Binface vote” really appeared in a newspaper
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
#20sPlenty "There is a six to eight per cent reduction in casualties for every 1mph reduction in speed. Anything that brings down speed is a positive.” #PublicHealth www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...
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How the 20mph speed limit is taking over British cities
With a third of roads now having the limit, driving offences are up while deaths have continued to fall. Plus: seven tips to make sticking to the rules easier
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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Many of the benefits of fiscal devolution that are held out in the recent spate of proposals are questionable, argues @marksandford.bsky.social There are two stronger alternative rationales for fiscal devolution. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/what-pe...
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Once, for amusement, pasted a chunk of Orwell’s ‘Politics and the English Language’ into docs, and was told it was full of errors and needed re-writing.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/08/2026
The standard explanation for Britain’s declining graduate wage premium is that higher education expanded too fast and too far. But similar expansions elsewhere have not produced the same outcome, writes John Burn-Murdoch. ft.trib.al/smljhw9
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This comes courtesy of the Soho Society, a resident group established in 1972 aimed at “preserving the character of Soho”. Which they want to do by banning the centuries-old concept of the pub, and not (you'll be shocked to hear) the historically accurate option of increasing street prostitution
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
NEW How the BBC turned the litigation table on Trump The president now faces a dilemma about revealing his business records By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
And so in another splendid Order in this case, the court sided firmly with the BBC. Nothing in the litigation rules means that disclosure can be delayed. Trump’s lawyers wanted to hide behind an “expert report” at trial setting out the purported damage. But the court said the documents need to be produced now.

Trump’s representatives even contended that producing the business records would be “overbroad” even though they are claiming an astronomical amount of damage to Trump’s commercial interests. Trump and his lawyers essentially wanted it both ways: to mount a wide-ranging damages claim but with the narrowest range of produced documents to support that claim. The court said no.

As with many other things to do with Trump, this case smacks of bluster but little tactical (and still less strategic) thought. What seemed a powerful first move was not really thought through. Trump presumably assumed the BBC, like other entities he has brought suits against, would simply fold. But the BBC also said no.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
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Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The most brilliant piece of academic plagiarism I ever cam across was now many decades ago. A doctoral candidate lifted his thesis from two long articles in the Juridical Review from more than 50 years earler. Why is that clever? /1
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Dan Deakins @dandeakins.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Mathieu emptying himself to obliteration is the single best thing in cycling
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Adam Ramshaw @ramshaw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Society collapses when people queue at bars.
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
On that sleep schedule that made Anthony Eden approve an invasion of Egypt
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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Somebody on LinkedIn made the point that because they don't stop people parking on pavements, it's actually about 100% of councils who allow it
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Mark A Stutt @forestedmark.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
David Squires for @theguardian.com
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Solve the School Run @solveschoolrun.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This insanely out-of-touch government advice for kids on how to cross the road safely would be laughable if it weren't for the 443 children injured on London's roads each year.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Which is more important to the UK, steel or universities? bsky.app/profile/plas...
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Jacob Whitehead @jacobwhitehead.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Tadej Pogacar is back in yellow again; his dominance become routine. The world champion's prowess on these shorter climbs is unsurprising — the Tourmalet on Thursday will be challengers' true test of form. With @chrisdhwaugh.bsky.social:
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Tour de France stage three: Tadej Pogacar powers to his 22nd Tour stage win and takes yellow jersey (Gift Article)
Analysis of stage three of the 2026 Tour de France, a 196km route from Granollers in Spain across the border to Les Angles in France
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Disagree with him, call him v. unrealistic or indeed opportunistic. Fine. But at least this may help start a conversation about the world *as it is now* and with which Lisa Nandy may wish to catch up. "We settled this 10 years ago” is not very convincing at a time of seismic geopolitical change.
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Northumbria Law and Society @nulawandsociety.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Law & Society Research Group was pleased to welcome Professor David Cantor (@rli-sas.bsky.social) for a talk on "Refugee Law-Making, State Sovereignty and the Paradox of Non-Independent Territories" today! A big thank you to David for visiting Northumbria Law School and sharing his research!
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