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Constitutional law professor. Cat lover. https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/law/research/ucnp/

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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

09.10.2025 20:23 β€” πŸ‘ 55150    πŸ” 22444    πŸ’¬ 1857    πŸ“Œ 2115
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Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

"Universities ... collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

10.10.2025 11:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alan Greene: Bringing facts to a vibes fight: Kayfabe and debates on the UK and the ECHR It is now 25 years since the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) entered into force and far from this endurance cementing its legitimacy, the judicial protection of human rights in the UK finds itself in t…

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€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 7

Irony 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€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Cassandra Somers-Joce: A New Chapter for Governmental Candour? The Public Office (Accountability) Bill TheΒ Public Office (Accountability) BillΒ was introduced into the House of Commons on 16 September 2025. It gives effect to theΒ Labour Party’s 2024 ManifestoΒ commitment to introduce a β€˜Hillsborough L…

Cassandra 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€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looking 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€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Hybrid | CLP - Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution This lecture will be delivered by Dr Ben Yong, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26

Iβ€˜m giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is β€œBureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitution” looking at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair!
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

06.10.2025 06:53 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

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!!

04.10.2025 23:50 β€” πŸ‘ 10250    πŸ” 1428    πŸ’¬ 46    πŸ“Œ 57

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€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The politics of drawing a moral line The politics of drawing a moral line.

The 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€” πŸ‘ 390    πŸ” 105    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 31
Article from the FP by Tyler Cowen. It's called "My favourite actress is not human" and the by line reads "Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI."

Article from the FP by Tyler Cowen. It's called "My favourite actress is not human" and the by line reads "Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s 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€” πŸ‘ 543    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 26
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Why did the Confederates bet on β€œKing Cotton” 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

02.10.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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
bsky.app/profile/sund...

01.10.2025 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

"There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25..."

29.09.2025 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mahmood demands migrants earn right to settlement in UK New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

Migrants 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.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

29.09.2025 17:26 β€” πŸ‘ 484    πŸ” 154    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 25
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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.

29.09.2025 09:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4906    πŸ” 1351    πŸ’¬ 254    πŸ“Œ 125
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

29.09.2025 10:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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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€” πŸ‘ 1096    πŸ” 294    πŸ’¬ 126    πŸ“Œ 21

There'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.

25.09.2025 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 187    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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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€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So 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€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'Kids racially abused me and the adults' reaction broke me' Sophia Choudry says she is "shaken" and "heartbroken" after being racially abused on the Elizabeth line.

More and more such incidents happening daily
www.bbc.com/news/article...

25.09.2025 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 102    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 22
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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 β€˜Prefigurative Legalities and Utopia as Method’

25.09.2025 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3

This 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€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Comment: Why are we going backwards on racism in Britain? Black and Asian people have increasingly equal opportunities to reach the top, but a viscerally and unacceptably unequal experience of public space

Why 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...

23.09.2025 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 27    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

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.

22.09.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 5714    πŸ” 1509    πŸ’¬ 153    πŸ“Œ 89

If you speak racism, transphobia, misogyny etc, people do not have to listen to your rants, debate you, or be your friend. It’s not β€œbullying” 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€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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'Last-minute' asylum claims are often born of fear, not an attempt to game the system When the Home Secretary claims that asylum seekers are making β€œvexatious, last-minute claims”, I feel compelled to respond from my own experience.

"Last-minute" asylum claims are often born of fear, not an attempt to game the system
✍️ Kolbassia Haoussou

19.09.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Francesca Jackson: The Oath of Allegiance, and the Battle for Independence In the UK and Commonwealth, an oath of allegiance is a promise to be loyal to the monarch, their heirs and successors. Also known as β€˜swearing in’, it is pledged in various contexts, including at t…

Francesca Jackson: The Oath of Allegiance, and the Battle for Independence ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/09/17/f...

17.09.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot. 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 – 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 university’s 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.

Screenshot. 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 – 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 university’s 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...

17.09.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 477    πŸ” 139    πŸ’¬ 25    πŸ“Œ 122

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