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Se-shauna Wheatle

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Constitutional law professor. Cat lover. www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academ…

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Unwritten Constitutional Norms and Principles Project @ucnpproject.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📢 Call for Chapters We are inviting proposals for chapters in the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook on Unwritten Constitutionalism! Possible topics include Indigenous constitutionalisms, writing as a (de)colonial practice and methodological questions around “written” and “unwritten” traditions, 1/2
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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky
I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. 

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review.  Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage.  To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
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Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
An important announcement from Public Law.
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Julio Alberto Barajas-Servin: When Electoral Lies Become Justiciable ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/09/15/j...
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Julio Alberto Barajas-Servin: When Electoral Lies Become Justiciable
Wales has done something unusual – it has enacted a duty to prohibit electoral lies before deciding what the prohibition will look like. Since 27 June 2026, section 13 of the Government of Wales Ac…
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Turns out the person who demanded that Macklemore be removed was Patriots owner Bob Kraft under threat that he would cancel their tour stop at the Patriots stadium. Oligarchal pressure stomping the first amendment. Also Ed Sheeran is a fucking coward. Writing about all this now.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Arrived in the office today, just in time for the start of teaching. You can use code AUFLY30 for 30% off at global.oup.com/academic
A photo of copies of Blackstone's Guide to the Anti-Terrorism Legislation
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?
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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants
Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.
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Chris Parr @chrisjparr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Some groans in room at UUK 2026 when Jacqui Smith said the UK continues to be welcoming to international students. She responds by saying that universities need to “get out there and argue the case” for the UK as a destination, particularly compared to some other countries.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Many analysts (and most politicians) are allergic to acknowledging that some significant part of the electorate just fundamentally wants evil things. They must just APPEAR to want evil things because of some underlying rational desire.
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Lewis Graham and Leah Trueblood: A right to information in domestic law: five points of interest for public lawyers ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/09/07/l...
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Lewis Graham and Leah Trueblood: A right to information in domestic law: five points of interest for public lawyers
In a recent decision, the Upper Tribunal (‘the UT’) has found that the operation of section 44 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (‘FOIA’) breaches the right to access information under Article…
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Perfect. Perfect.
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Reading work email today and all I can say is that it's amazing how flexible course provision can suddenly be when you've fired most of the staff and teaching starts in 2 weeks. Almost as if academic regulations, credit-counts and the Office for Students (ho ho) don't exist.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 02/09/2026
Netflix’s new documentary Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly tries to show the human behind the memes – but lacks thorough interrogation.
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Raygun turned her Olympic flop into a media career. Now Netflix is helping with the rewrite
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 27/08/2026
Experts say the devastating flash floods in Nepal were likely caused by a glacial collapse in the Himalayas, and that climate change increases the risk of such events. Once again, communities least responsible for climate change bear the brunt of its impacts. Learn more:
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ben Yong: The Civil Service: A Public Good, Not the Enemy Within ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/08/27/b...
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Ben Yong: The Civil Service: A Public Good, Not the Enemy Within
Reform Party MP Danny Kruger is concerned. The UK, he says, has ‘a bloated, paralysed centre of government and a mutinous bureaucracy’; and that ‘Real power is held not by the elected government bu…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Joanna Bell: The Immigration and Asylum Bill (Part 1): a proposal to rewire the relationship between asylum appeals and the Home Office ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/08/26/j...
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Joanna Bell: The Immigration and Asylum Bill (Part 1): a proposal to rewire the relationship between asylum appeals and the Home Office
The system which handles appeals against the Home Office’s asylum and immigration decisions looks set, once again, to be overhauled. If enacted, Part 1 of the Immigration and Asylum Bill woul…
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Frances Bell @franrbell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thinking again of that Toni Morrison quote (which seems to never not be relevant):
"The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing."
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Good to see coverage of this. I feel lucky with mine, the nurses were very kind and a woman on Twitter warned beforehand to take codeine, not the adviser paracetamol & ibuprofen. But I shouldn’t feel lucky that it “only hurt”, as opposed to being unbearable www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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‘It was barbaric. I was crying my eyes out’: why are so many women left in agony by routine womb examinations?
There are more than 70,000 hysteroscopies every year in England alone. The NHS calls them ‘low complexity’ – yet a shocking number of patients complain of inadequate pain relief and medical staff who ...
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My uni have just withdrawn Geography, History & Geography and Politics & Geography undergrad courses run from our Penryn campus. Terrible for Cornwall. How did the staff find out? When UCAS clearing opened at 8am 😡
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If you're a UK-based academic in Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences and keen to acquire/develop a new skill over 6-12 months, this scheme may be for you. Maximum value £10,000.
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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My article — “Black is Beautiful”: Gender, Pigmentation, and Political Blackness in Modern Britain — is now available to read! It reinserts the politics of complexion into our narratives of the Black Power and Black Women’s movements. #BlackBritishHistory academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
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‘Black is beautiful’: gender, pigmentation and political blackness in modern Britain*
Abstract. By examining political literature, ephemera and oral histories, this article investigates the politics of pigmentation within the Black Power and
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We are asking for accountability at Cambridge. This is an institutional story as much as anything else. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Cambridge dons demand accountability over Jason Arday appointment
Exclusive: Academics say university must take responsibility for ‘grotesque racism’ unleashed and hold independent inquiry
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Maria Abreu @mariaabreu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is very good. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A terrible day for trans people in Britain and a shameful one for the EHRC and government
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Of course, nobody truly cares about that much - instead, this discourse will probably further worsen an already bad situation because of one individual’s actions And because we are frequently held collectively responsible for the actions of individuals in a way others are not
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Issues are that it needs to go beyond "don't be racist" (/exclusionary) and requires actively creating an inclusive environment - which takes work. Interesting paper for arlier in the pipeline on the experience of being a Black student in a "predominantly white" uni (clearly: Bath)
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“You never feel so Black as when you're contrasted against a White background”: Black students' experiences at a predominantly White institution in the <fc>UK</fc>
“Old” universities in the UK are typically populated with White middle-class students who hail from White majority hometowns, whilst “new” universities have more diverse cohorts from diverse hometown....
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I will be advertising a funded PhD studentship shortly, for a project on adding psychological theory (social identity) to modelling of epidemics ( @leverhulme.ac.uk funded, with Marijn Stok). The studentship will start in January 2027. Get in touch now for informal enquiries.
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
All this COVID revisionism and minimising makes me think back to April 2020 when I begged Mrs Moog not to call an ambulance as everyone who went to hospital at the time, including two neighbours, died alone on a ventilator and I’d rather die at home. Oh, and the last 6 yrs in bed with Long Covid.
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 28/07/2026
Presenting the Booker Prize 2026 longlist. Find out more about the books and authors that make up this year's Booker Dozen: thebookerprizes.com/bp2026
The Booker Prize 2026 longlist in full:

- The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis
- Switzy by Emma Cline
- Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman
- The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
- The Disappearers by Marlon James
- Black Bag by Luke Kennard
- The Renovation by Kenan Orhan
- May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
- The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
- The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
- John of John by Douglas Stuart
- All Them Dogs by Djamel White
- The Vivisectors by Missouri WilliamsThe Booker Prize 2026 longlist in full:

- The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis
- Switzy by Emma Cline
- Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman
- The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
- The Disappearers by Marlon James
- Black Bag by Luke Kennard
- The Renovation by Kenan Orhan
- May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry
- The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley
- The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
- John of John by Douglas Stuart
- All Them Dogs by Djamel White
- The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I cannot possible support a party with openly xenophobic and racist immigration policies. That’s what Mahmood means.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
He had an “extraordinary zest for living”; he “could not abide tedium”. As great an epitaph as any of us can hope for. RIP
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Garry Sobers was the greatest of all time, a cavalier in an era of roundheads
West Indies legend, who has died aged 89, was as cricket’s finest all-rounder though he was never bother with the stats
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Shreya Atrey is a leading feminist scholar of equality law. In this excellent paper, she explains how the UK Supreme Court misinterpreted the ground of “sex” for discrimination law purposes. It was never about biology fixed at birth — it was a ground designed to cover various gendered inequalities.
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Grounds in Equality Law: Before and After <i>For Women Scotland</i>
Grounds are the fulcrum of equality law. Thus, discrimination is discrimination when it is based on or because of certain kinds of personal characteristics or grounds such as race or sex. But there i...
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Crash Krylova – Trans people in prison: For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/07/16/c...
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Crash Krylova – Trans people in prison: For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59
Introduction On 19 June 2026, the Outer House of the Court of Session handed down judgment in the case of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59 (“For Women Scotland 3”). This piece…
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Bhavya Johari – The Political Constitution’s Broken Promise: Arms, Sanctions and Accountability after Al-Haq ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/07/15/b...
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Bhavya Johari – The Political Constitution’s Broken Promise: Arms, Sanctions and Accountability after Al-Haq
In September 2024, the Government suspended around thirty arms export licences to Israel, having found a clear risk that United Kingdom equipment might be used to commit serious violations of inter…
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 14/07/2026
If we are serious about protecting young people, we need to approach social media policy with that nuance in mind. www.wearequeeraf.com/rise-of-soci...
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Rise of social media bans is a blunt force that will harm LGBTQIA+ children, especially in rural areas
If we are serious about protecting young people, we need to approach social media policy with that nuance in mind.
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The Constitution Society @consoc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
📣📣📣 The Constitution Society is seeking a part-time Office Manager. Could be you? See our website for full details, share widely, and consider applying! consoc.org.uk/job-office-manager 📣📣📣
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Job Opportunity: Office Manager - The Constitution Society
The Constitution Society is seeking a motivated Office Manager to help the charity promote education on the UK constitution.
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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 13/07/2026
Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.
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Lewis Graham @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
For those interested, here is the report: policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/u... The PolEx authors advocate for ignoring the ICJ’s climate opinion and withdrawing from the ICJ’s jurisdiction altogether. Endorsements from judicial figures including Lords Burnett and Sumption, who should know better
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David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche... Very keen to hear if you research into #protest #publicorder #policing interested in undertaking a three-year project of your own devising alongside me & @crwerren.bsky.social at UEA Law School with our considerable doctrinal & socio-legal expertise
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Postdoctoral Fellowships
The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.
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Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
What is fascinating about the debate over whether the Chancellor can refuse Farage’s resignation is the marginalisation of Parliament on a decision affecting one of its own members. 1/4
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 05/07/2026
Your therapy cat is only settling for snuggling with you because you are too large to be a small prey item, it has been confirmed.
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Therapy cat would eat you if it was bigger
Your therapy cat is only settling for snuggling with you because you are too large to be a small prey item, it has been confirmed.  A spokesperson for The Itty Bitty Kitty Committee, Lemon, said:…
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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Yesterday I submitted the proofs, index and tables for my forthcoming book 'Human Rights and the Protection of Domestic Workers in Labour and Migration Law.' It's scheduled for publication on 10 September 2026 and available for pre-order :) global.oup.com/academic/pro...
A picture showing houses with pointed roofs in bright colours, with the text 'Human Rights and the Protection of Domestic Workers in Labour and Migration Law - Natalie Sedacca - Oxford Labour Law
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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?
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Se-shauna Wheatle @seshauna.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Eleana Kasoulide writes on the digitalisation of public services.
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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Eleana Kasoulide: The Internal Administrative Law of Designing Digital Public Services ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/24/e...
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Eleana Kasoulide: The Internal Administrative Law of Designing Digital Public Services
Digitalisation has become an inseparable aspect of delivering public services, inspiring conversations around the impacts of digitalisation on citizens and of what it means for states to transition…
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Can't believe it's been 10 years of being told that you mustn't call ignorant bigots ignorant bigots. You just have to politely live with the mess they've made
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
50 minutes after Steve's post, it's still the case that the news of the Edinburgh stabbings is more than halfway down the very long BBC homepage in London, placed as an "Around the UK" story
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