Resharing this with a link straight to the content. @dinahrose.bsky.social makes a cameo (I think courts are yet to grasp the force of her argument in Croft) ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/09/r...
Interesting NZ HC case on expulsion from party and thus as MP subjecting decision to public law JR principles (as I understand on quick skim) cf in E&W, Tortoise Media in CoA
Though that was a s6 HRA case, as I reskimmed it (again speedily), essence is that no a public body but contractual
Reactionaries convinced us for decades that something like gender studies has no practical use in society, and I know many reasonable people also believe(d?) this. It was the butt of the joke for as log as I can remember.
But OMG does this video drive home the point they were wrong.
• Discontinue the idea of introducing a levy on higher education provider income from international students. • Reduce visa costs to ensure they are at least as competitive in cost as other leading science nations, and preferably have a target to become the mos competitive in the G7. • Provide immediate clarity that the current time length for Indefinite Leave to Remain is kept in place for current and future Global Talent visa holders and their dependents.
We are calling on the UK Government to not introduce a levy on higher education provider income from international students, reduce visa costs to attract global talent, and to review higher education funding to create a sustainable model
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/58...
Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are.
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Daniella Lock: In Defence of the Divisional Court’s Palestine Action Ruling ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/02/d...
Weronika Galka: Secret proceedings, (mal)administration, and the courts: RA and AA v SSFCDA, MZZ v SSD and SSHD and In the Matter of the SSD [2026] EWCA Civ 3 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/02/26/w...
I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK
uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
“To not acknowledge the unique effect of a racial slur is a form of indifference to the suffering of others. The problem of being indifferent to the suffering of black folk while also imploring folks to have empathy for Davidson cannot be understated.” — @nubluesnick.bsky.social
Delroy Lindo told Vanity Fair that he and Michael B. Jordan “did what we had to do” while presenting but that he also wished “someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterward”
i appreciate labour taking a stronger line on racism
but it's a little incongruous when they're separating families, smearing asylum seekers as "illegal", & making the lives of legal residents harder to appease that same bigotry
Scrapping REF should be “serious’ option”, says Manchester VC.
Duncan Ivison questions “usefulness” of “massive, bureaucratic” research assessment exercise.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
New research shows 1.35m people already living in the UK would face a longer qualifying period for settlement under changes planned by the Home Office, including over 300,000 children
Government must publish an impact assessment before going ahead with these reforms, writes Labour MP Olivia Blake
Academic work is challenging & relentless, but how is it experienced by disabled scholars? How does structural ableism impact working lives? In this collaborative autoethnography, we (a group of disabled academics) share our experiences of working in higher education. doi.org/10.1080/0309...
Devastatingly sad.
Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support
Nottingham records £85m deficit after buildings drop in value
University insists underlying position has improved despite sharp rise in reported losses
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Emma Bernard, 38, had been looking forward to a classic movie marathon with friends, but found herself unable to enjoy the evening after someone (Becky) incorrectly set the volume to a stupid, wrong number and just left it like that – like a monster.
Many thanks for this great collection and pleased to have my article 'Public Power and Private Hands: Outsourcing in UK National Security Law' included.
Absolutely brutal news in the research world to kick off the day. How we're making such a mess of this I have no idea.
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Now that blood is on the street, we still won’t admit you’ve been right all decade long while we scolded and marginalized you. Instead, we’ll declare it’s just now become right to say such things.
it's cool that so many people in positions of power and influence were so negatively polarized by "wokeness" that they convinced themselves that there was an actual debate about who wanted to erase history and the "wokes" were on the wrong side bsky.app/profile/arch...
Nathan Whetton: Civil Disobedience, Protest and the Jury Trial Reforms ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/21/n...
Been thinking a lot about how people keep trying to foist the activist label on me because they’re uncomfortable with acknowledging the fact that I am just poet who writes about the world. This happens a lot to writers, especially those of us of colour. Writing is an inherently political act.
Dan Hannan is shocked to learn that Donald Trump is Donald Trump.
If only there had been some clue that he was like this.
Ananya Kumar-Banerjee: The Tameside Duty Under the Adults At Risk Policy ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/19/a...
"Every bombed village is my hometown" - James Baldwin And every dead child is my child. Every grieving mother is my mother. Every crying father is my father. Every home turned to rubble is the home I grew up in. Every brother carrying the remains of his brother across borders is my brother. Every sister waiting for a sister who will never come home is my sister. Every one of these people are ours, Just like we are theirs. We belong to them and they belong to us.
I wrote this poem as an homage to Baldwin and to hear it being sung across the world or read in protests has been my own guiding light of hope.
Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.
Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.
Source: dr.dk
So much wrong with this, with Labour fuelling anti migrant narrative and deliberately obscuring the difference between anything close to ‘open borders’ and what actually happened, namely post-freedom of movement migration under increasingly restrictive, employer-tied schemes with limited rights
Khadijah Ibrahiim in academic dress
Khadijah Ibrahiim lost her undergraduate dissertation hours before the deadline. Receiving an honorary degree last summer proved less stressful. Read about the Leeds-born literary activist, poet and dramatist, as we celebrate her contribution to the arts: spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/leeds-magazi...
Good to see this man now has his grant of refugee status, I wrote up the judicial review in September: freemovement.org.uk/palestinian-...
