Race and the UK Constitution Association (RUKCA)

Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck, University of London Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Law. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

Lecturer in Law, Birkbeck post
#CriticalLaw in #London
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My forthcoming book—
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.

Cover will be added soon.

The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

‘Orwellian’: Sainsbury’s staff using facial recognition tech eject innocent shopper Man misidentified by London supermarket using Facewatch system says: ‘I shouldn’t have to prove I am not a criminal’

“‘One of the reasons I was angry was because I shouldn’t have to prove I am innocent,’ Rajah said. ‘I shouldn’t have to prove I’m wrongly identified as a criminal.’ He described the incident as feeling ‘quite like Minority Report, Orwellian’”.

Beautiful poetic evening @lselaw.bsky.social celebrating the great and irreplaceable @conorgearty.bsky.social with fabulous speakers participants and attendees. Rest in Power #AnticolonialPublicLaw #Free🇵🇸

Labour MPs & party insiders tell me they’ve never seen Keir Starmer so angry as over Mandelson’s lies about Epstein links. But those who know him well say that anger has now turned inwards. That Starmer is, above all else, a man of public service, and will be grappling with his conscious this w/e.

Spare a thought for the real victim: the white man in power

In fact we have records of at least 65,000 immigrants in the late MEDIEVAL period. This means real numbers were significantly higher. In England more than 1% of the population was foreign born (never mind 2nd gen) with numbers as high as 1 in 10 in cities. There’s a database!

Article: On reactionary politics (Aurelien Mondon) - Reactionary Politics Research Network This article by Aurelien Mondon explores the meaning of reactionary politics and its use in our current context

Core to reactionary politics is a cowardly project that aims to protect and restore privilege and hierarchies of oppression

Some thoughts on terminology and the term reactionary @reacpolrn.bsky.social

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Considering the way Trump and co are acting and how those institutions meant to stand in their way are doing nothing to hold them to account, let alone stop them, it's hard to imagine Trump will accept electoral defeat either in 26 or 28...

Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity

1/2 Although this report suggests a jump in belief that you have to be born in Britain to be British, from 19-36% in 2 years, the 2024 NATCEN survey of actually gave the figure as 39%, so the change isn’t as dramatic. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ethnic minorities in England less likely to have access to diabetes tech – study ‘Concerning’ disparities in access to continuous glucose monitors despite black and south Asian people being more likely to live with condition

Reform and the Tories must be outraged by the two tier health system.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Antislavery and the Original ‘Scramble for Africa’, 1807-1879 Keynote Lecture for 140 Years Beyond the Berlin Conference, Africa Centre and SOAS Friday 12 December and Saturday 13 December 2025   Alan Lester Most British imperial historians have tended t…

In 1887, British forces kidnapped & exiled the King of Opobo in today’s Nigeria. British Palm oil traders had persuaded the government that the tariffs he imposed restricted their profits. It was a milestone in the Scramble for Africa and indirect rule by Britain.

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HOW TO PODCAST | David Olusoga & Alan Lester - The Truth About the British Empire David Olusoga and Alan Lester reveal the dark realities of the British Empire, and reflect on the importance of historians amid the resurgence of nationalism and misinformation.

The podcast of David Olusoga and I discussing Empire & the rewriting of history:

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✊🏽'The People We Are Writing For’ by Sophia Siddique, our Race & Class Deputy editor for Skin Deep's latest issue: skindeepmag.com/products/anthology/

To mark and commemorate Siva on his 102th birthday we want to share one of his sayings:

"We all wear our passports on our faces"

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.

"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."

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Racial and religious hate crime on UK public transport is growing, data shows Anti-racism groups warn some people are avoiding public transport or limiting their use of it for fear of abuse

'Police forces across the country have recorded an increase in hate crimes over the past year, with a significant rise in racially motivated offences in Scotland as well as religious hate crimes targeting Muslims in England and Wales.' 1/2

Fuck off, coloniser

Online JR Academy February 2026 - Public Law Project 9 February 2026 - 12 February 2026 @ 12:00 am - A complete online course on how to do judicial review, run in short sessions on Zoom over 4 days. Presented in partnership with Garden Court Chambers. This training is ONLINE ONLY. All sessions will be recorded and shared with attendees afterwards.  Who should attend: Junior and trainee lawyers, advisers, advocates and anyone likely to be involved [...]

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Denmark’s bid to dismantle ‘ghettos’ faces EU discrimination test The EU’s highest court warned that Denmark’s housing policy aimed at “non-Western” communities sits squarely within EU antidiscrimination law, casting fresh uncertainty over a cornerstone of the count...

Some reflections on the CJEU ruling on the Danish "Ghettolaw". (C-417/23) I criticise the Court's reluctance to classify a law allowing preferential ending of tenancies for those descending from "non-Western" migrants as related to ethnic and racial origin.
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Broken Ladders The myth of meritocracy for women of colour in the workplace

In our #BrokenLadders report with @fawcettsociety.bsky.social, we advocate for measures that the government and employers must implement to tackle ethnicity and gender pay gaps - from introducing mandatory, intersectional pay gap reporting to tackling racism in organisations 👇

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Stripped: The Citizenship Divide New research exposes racist reality of UK citizenship stripping laws that place 3 in 5 people of colour at risk.

Citizenship is a right, not a privilege. Our new briefing with @reprievehq.bsky.social reveals a shocking racial disparity in citizenship stripping practices.

3 in 5 people of colour are at risk of having their UK citizenship stripped, at the discretion of the Home Office 🧵👇

Public Law Project Annual Conference 2025 Formerly known as Judicial Review Trends and Forecasts - PLP's annual conference returns for a day of insight and forward-looking discussion.

I'll be speaking today at the publiclawproject.bsky.social's Annual Conference ("Strengthening the Constitution" @hsfkramer.bsky.social ) on a wonderful panel on "Race & the UK Constitution". If there, please say hello! Thanks to Nicole Chen for the invite! @soasLAW @raceukconstitution.bsky.social

Two of the five Reform MPs elected last year back a policy on migration that is effectively more extreme than the former BNP position.

If you want to read more, keep an eye out for an article @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I are writing about this

It's crucial to counter claims that polarisation (much like populism) is always bad

The middle ground between racism and anti-racism, transphobia and trans rights, genocide and anti-genocide is complicit with racism, transphobia and genocide rather than the "reasonable" position

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

If, instead of taking the far right at their word, this kind of coverage was the norm, it would be clear to all that racism is always the motivation that women and children are the least of their (illegitimate) concerns

See also transphobia

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"For those arrested by one police force, this figure was as high as 68%.

Previous offences include actual bodily harm, grievous bodily harm, stalking, breach of restraint and non-molestation orders, controlling coercive behaviour and criminal damage."

The mainstream right wing press is desperate for a race riot.

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The Director General Tim Davie and other executives discussed altering BBC “story selection” in order to secure the "trust" of supporters of Nigel Farage’s party

For all the talks about concerns over disinformation, the mainstream media have been a key agent in the mainstreaming of far right politics by:

- covering them disproportionately
- hyping moral panics
- platforming their bad faith actors as legitimate

bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

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