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09.10.2025 20:23 β π 55150 π 22444 π¬ 1857 π 2115@seshauna.bsky.social
Constitutional law professor. Cat lover. https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/law/research/ucnp/
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
09.10.2025 20:23 β π 55150 π 22444 π¬ 1857 π 2115"Universities ... collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year"
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Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/09/a...
09.10.2025 08:03 β π 14 π 10 π¬ 0 π 7Irony being that the entire Farage-isation of British politics is built on the phenomenon of white right-wingers who don't want to "integrate" with the reality of multi-ethnic Britain, don't want to accept migrants as their fellow citizens, and don't want people of colour moving into their street.
07.10.2025 09:16 β π 88 π 35 π¬ 1 π 1Cassandra Somers-Joce: A New Chapter for Governmental Candour? The Public Office (Accountability) Bill ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/06/c...
06.10.2025 08:06 β π 6 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0Looking ahead to what's coming up this month, I'll be speaking at Durham Cathedral with my colleagues Henry and @benedictdouglas.bsky.social about Magna Carta (1225) as part of the ongoing exhibition
06.10.2025 09:29 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1Iβm giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is βBureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitutionβ looking at the civil serviceβs constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair!
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember β again β that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!
Just the one!!
White people get to debate openly when to call something racist. I do not. I have to decide, at a risk to myself, when to challenge, when to make a noise and when to stand up because I'm the very target they're agitating against. The stakes are different for me and I wish more people understood
03.10.2025 11:13 β π 44 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0The politics of drawing a moral line: When we need to call out racism for what it is open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
03.10.2025 11:04 β π 390 π 105 π¬ 36 π 31Article from the FP by Tyler Cowen. It's called "My favourite actress is not human" and the by line reads "Tilly Norwood doesnβt need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. Thatβs because sheβs AI."
How much of right wing politics would flat out just disappear if men didn't have weird sexual neuroses?
03.10.2025 09:07 β π 543 π 72 π¬ 24 π 26Why did the Confederates bet on βKing Cottonβ to pull Britain into the Civil War?
How did the Union feed starving mill workers?
And why were Liverpool shipyards building warships for the South?
@davidolusoga.bsky.social and @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social reveal the high-stakes cotton gamble in new ep
The experience of more racism this summer was not universal, but a third of ethnic minorities reported receiving racist abuse in one month. So "crying racism" was tone deaf if the NS is written for a readership that spans the majority and minority groups in our society
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"There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25..."
29.09.2025 18:08 β π 9 π 13 π¬ 3 π 0Migrants already "earn the right to settlement" through extortionate visa costs, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds. They prop up key services, including through the Immigration Health Surcharge.
Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one.
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Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!
Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.
Articles for the Special Issue on Utopia and Failure are now available on FirstView in the European Journal of Social Theory
See Irretrievable failure: Life in the ruins of utopian dreaming by
Martin Coward and Debbie Lisle
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Yep, that's great. Just fantastic. We were told that Starmer would lay out the patriotic case for diversity today. What we got was an article in the Telegraph, behind a paywall, about how the left failed to tackle immigration and now we all have to have ID cards www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09...
26.09.2025 06:03 β π 1096 π 294 π¬ 126 π 21There'll be scenes like this (and much worse) up and down the UK if Reform get into government and start acting out their Send Them Back fantasies. A thousand acts of sadism carried out by malevolent racist thugs employed and empowered by the state.
Some of you will be safe. Many of us won't.
Methodologies Symposium Day 2: Dr. Nikki Godden-Rasul and Dr. Ruth Houghton jointly delivered a presentation on the use of Utopianism and Speculative Visionary Fiction as toolkits and methods for Abolition Feminist research.
25.09.2025 16:46 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0So much this. I don't understand why, when the government is in such a beleaguered state, it would choose to spend political capital on mandatory ID.
25.09.2025 16:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0More and more such incidents happening daily
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Day 2 of our Methodologies Symposium has kicked off here at Newcastle Law School with a panel discussion chaired by Dr. Ruth Houghton. Drawing on their own methodologies, the panelists explore βPrefigurative Legalities and Utopia as Methodβ
25.09.2025 10:22 β π 7 π 4 π¬ 0 π 3This is an odd statement. Sadly, the Labour government has been making an argument for 'controlling immigration' for a long time.
24.09.2025 09:03 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Why are we going backwards on racism in Britain? (A disappointing question to ask in 2025).
Now that the Prime Minister is finding his voice again to address this, my Eastern Eye column on what he should say next + the actions that should follow on the causes
www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...
The truth: we need migration.
The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it.
Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality.
Reject it. Draw the line.
If you speak racism, transphobia, misogyny etc, people do not have to listen to your rants, debate you, or be your friend. Itβs not βbullyingβ when people find your views toxic, refuse to share your views, and instead criticise you. You do not have a right for your bigotry to be socially validated.
14.08.2025 12:55 β π 86 π 22 π¬ 0 π 1"Last-minute" asylum claims are often born of fear, not an attempt to game the system
βοΈ Kolbassia Haoussou
Francesca Jackson: The Oath of Allegiance, and the Battle for Independence ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/09/17/f...
17.09.2025 13:00 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Screenshot. King's College London page. Examples of effective practice The following scenarios follow the above guidelines and offer insights into ways that academic staff can use AI transparently and in an assistive capacity, always ensuring human oversight and judgment remain central. Scenario A β Scaling feedback while maintaining quality Lecturer A is responsible for marking over 100 essays within a two-week window. Conscious of the limitations this workload places on the depth of individual feedback, they adopt a hybrid approach using their universityβs approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot. Without ever uploading student work directly, Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each. They input this summary alongside the official rubric into Copilot, prompting it to generate supportive, criterion-referenced feedback. This feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted, and personalised before being uploaded to the marking platform. Students are made aware of this process in advance and shown a demonstration, reinforcing transparency and trust.
Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...
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