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Steve Peers

@stevepeers.bsky.social
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Professor of EU and Human Rights Law. Usual disclaimers. Latest book: European Union Law, 5th edition, co-edited with Catherine Barnard.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 25m
Sound on! 🐱⛪️
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 32m
A reminder, for those who are unaware
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Richard Appleby @rmappleby.uk · 55m
Bet she’d have had a very different position if that camera had been outside _her_ house…
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1h
Very disturbing that a political party has moved from saying that there should be no penalty for encouragement to violence, to calling for reduced penalties for literally blowing things up. A party manifestly not fit for political office.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8h
One featute of @britishfuture.bsky.social research on how public see Britain's choices with Europe is that attitides to migration, mobility & free movenent are not polarised + binary, but cross-pressured + fluid. @heather-rolfe.bsky.social on both doubts + support freemovement.org.uk/free-movemen...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6h
A rich text. Robert Jenrick, who this time last year Kemi was defending and wanted to run the justice system, depicted frequently as an unperson. The multiracial crowd celebrating Kemi, the monoracial one on the boats (are Albanians, Iranians, Iraqis and Syrians black now?)
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h
Sidcup man gets 15 years for home-made bomb blowing up Ulez camera - luckily failimg to injure or kill anybody with damage in a 100 yard radius news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...
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Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion
Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 8h
Just one of many problems with Braverman's definition of 'pureblood' Englishness (all-English parents/grandparents) is it excludes millions of white, English-speaking people with English-sounding names, who she/everyone would just assume are 'English'. #MudbloodsAreUs
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23h
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5h
Is that meant to be wee Bobby Jenrick on the floor crying?
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 6h
“Far from tackling violence against women, far-right activity has actively disrupted frontline women’s services – and ultimately left victims more vulnerable.” Including services aimed at providing protection against domestic violence. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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‘Fear is part of our life now’: women’s groups thrown into disarray…
Anti-immigration protestors are disrupting services aimed at those they claim to protect
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 4h
Who radicalised this domestic terrorist - a white English man? What social media, TV channels, or politicians influenced his views? If he was not white, how different would the response from Reform UK be?
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5h
This is a great explanation. The proposal is to move from a Triple Lock to an Adjusted Triple Lock.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 17h
Huge crowd to see James Talarico in deep-red Lubbock, Texas. This county hasn’t voted for a Democrat in 50 years.
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 5h
Aside from the whole "Peter Mannion: that's fucking mental" of it all, it's just incredibly lazily done. They might have an approximation of the colour palette, but the actual visual style, typeface, use of white space is all wrong. Plus, isn't "doth" Germanic, which the original famously is not.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 5h
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18h
Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 4h
As the disappointingly agnostic son of a C of E vicar, I’m not sure anything could ever make me feel more Christian than the double-header of this absolute madness and the racist right’s attempted co-option of the Anglican Church
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 4h
It is essential for the sake of the UK's future as a democracy based on the rule of law that the right does not take power in 2029. Nothing - absolutely nothing - is more important than that.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17h
This Wednesday, Elon Musk called for the death sentence for transgender youth care providers. It was in reply to a post calling for full criminalization of all gender-affirming surgery. Musk is becoming even more radicalized in targeting trans people. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Elon Musk Calls For “Death Sentence” for GAC Providers
Musk’s posts are not just inflammatory rhetoric. They have real-life consequences.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dr Chiara Scissa discusses her new book on disaster displacement and international protection within the EU - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/10/new-...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h
I guess he missed Hegseth’s speech at Quantico this week.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 18h
Including a link to the full text of the draft EU/Canada summit conclusions
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RichY @ryoun101.bsky.social · 19h
Government by mob boss
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hello to old friend “clear”. A word which so often weakens rather than strengthens any contention.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 23h
North Carolina is on the verge of Solid Democratic with an estimated final margin of Cooper +9, while Kansas has become steadily more competitive in the last few months. We rate Kansas Sen Lean R.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22h
Republicans are pulling money out of North Carolina to defend KANSAS. That’s bleak af for them and I Iove it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
As the Republicans try to hold their majority, the Senate Leadership Fund is diverting resources to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 21h
Her face says, “We are absolutely not doing whatever you think this is.”
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 22h
This is true. But I think it's also true that the anti-Indian backlash is a full-fledged conservative astroturf at this time. People who were called "model minorities" 10 years ago are now being told they don't belong, which is awkward for politicians like Vivek Ramaswamy.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Chloe: Fille Choque Shocked Reaction
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Holli Deloe (HD) @hollidurhamdeloe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... This guy is evil.
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Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare
A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I ask again today, because I just saw one of the country’s leading economic journalists just describe 29K jobs last month & rising unemployment as “not catastrophic,” & I’m sorry, but that simply is not the way we talked about job growth 5-10x as strong, for ~an entire presidency, under Joe Biden.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
LOL -- Ainsley Earhardt is in disbelief about Fox News polling showing Talarico leading Paxton by 7
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What a week. We've seen the news agenda rescued from the grip of the far-right. We've seen astonishing levels of competence in government communication. And we've seen the outline of a radical policy programme. It's a v.exciting time to be involved in politics iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...
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Some disparate thoughts on a historic speech
For the first time in two years, we freed ourselves from the far-right’s strangle-hold over the news agenda.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 02/10/2026
Hirst (Northumberland) Council By-Election Result: 🌹 LAB: 50.1% (+7.0) ➡️ RFM: 30.0% (-20.0) ◼️ RES: 10.3% (New) 🌳 CON: 4.1% (-2.8) 🔶 LDM: 3.9% (New) 🙋 Ind: 1.6% (New) Labour GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds
The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.
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Tom Jenkins @tomoljenkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
EU to introduce new cabin baggage rules applying to all return flights to EU. UK passengers may not be covered (except if they are flying to and from EU countries obvs) www.euronews.com/video/2026/1...
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Video. How the EU’s new cabin baggage rules will work – and when they start
Video. EU travellers could soon get a larger cabin allowance at no extra cost – but UK passengers flying out of UK airports are unlikely to benefit from the new rules.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 02/10/2026
Breaking News! Code Yikes! September 2026 finished second hottest on record, averaging 1.63°C above the 1850-1900 baseline. 2023 still holds the top spot, with an anomaly of 1.74°C. The Climate Casino is taking the OVER on 1.80°C for October. Stay tuned!
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Miranda Dickinson @wurdsmyth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh HELL no, #Audible. So you're going to not only steal my characters, infringing my copyright and IP, but you're also going to steal the voices of my brilliant audiobook narrators for your utterly crap AI chatbot? Get - and I say this with my whole heart - IN THE SEA! #NoAI
A headline from an online news article that reads: "Audible will soon let you talk to audiobook characters with a new AI feature."
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looking for colleagues! Two law professor jobs going at @royalholloway.bsky.social law school - jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Professor of Law (Teaching & Research) 2x posts
Full-Time, Permanent (2x posts available).Royal Holloway Law School invites applications from outstanding candidates for the position of Professor of Law (Teaching and Research).Royal Holloway Law Sch...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Braverman not being "racist against myself" on her own identity To say Sunak & Marcus Rashford can not be English without at least English grandparents= an exclusionary racialised worldview, whether the MP saying it is white or Asian, just as saying they should be barred as MPs withoit one would be
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Aliexpress has now challenged this fine in the EU courts - which means that all of the fines applied to date for breach of the Digital Services Act (also against Temu and X) are subject to pending judicial review
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A federal judge has ruled that Roger Rogoff, the judicially appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle, has been illegally fired by the Trump admin and must be provisionally reinstated by the Justice Department.
washingtonpost.com
Trump illegally fired Seattle’s U.S. attorney, judge rules
The ruling is the latest in a string of decisions finding that the administration bent federal law to keep loyalists in key prosecutorial posts.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dr Chiara Scissa discusses her new book on disaster displacement and international protection within the EU - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/10/new-...
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/10/2026
Central to the push to reopen the rape case was Cornell’s independent student newspaper, which published an editorial shortly after Jane Doe’s September lawsuit — “Cornell Won’t, We Will.” The piece named the 7 men accused, and went on to condemn the university for its treatment of the case.
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Cornell University Journalists Kept Rape Case in Spotlight
“We have the right to demand safety from our university administrators,” said one student journalist.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
EU adopts new Returns Regulation, including stricter rules on expulsion and detention of non-EU citizens not authorised to stay - www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre... Updated analysis of the new Regulation, by Dr. Izabella Majcher - eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...
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The Regulation of Shame: When Far-Right Ideas Become EU Return Law
Dr. Izabella Majcher ,  Independent Consultant Photo credit : Shutterstock   * Updated 1 October 2026 to refer to the adoption of the ...
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