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Bailout conditions restrict compulsory redundancies at Dundee University told to come up with a plan for financial recovery before it enforces more job losses

'The University of Dundee has been told it cannot make any compulsory redundancies until it has a three-year recovery strategy in place as part of conditions placed on its bailout from the Scottish government.' 1/3

Of much interest! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/as...

Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.

Child sexual abuse: Council reaches position on law protecting children from online abuse The Council agreed its negotiating mandate on a draft law preventing and combating child sexual abuse online.

EU Member States agree on negotiation position on CSA material online - will now negotiate with the European Parliament
www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

OMG OMG OMG. I handed in my upcoming book on the census - "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census." Now, the fine folks at the University of Chicago Press will begin the march towards production (September 2026). OMG OMG OMG.

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

attending this today, 10 years since we organised the very first one! congratulations to @nniloideain.bsky.social and all for a rich programme of research & policy work in the years since. Looking forward to the day

Does he even own a suit?

The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts Proposals for radical reform of the UK’s asylum system raise a number of legal and constitutional issues, with respect both to the European Convention on Human Rights and the domestic principle of …

New post

The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts

publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...

So well said - @paulbernal.bsky.social

Watch: Dublin Zoo names parrot Troy after hat-trick hero Dublin Zoo has decided to name one of its parrots Troy in honour of Ireland's hat-trick hero in Budapest's Puskás Aréna.

The news headlines are often a bitter pill these days so delighted to see Ireland celebrating a great football victory in such style!

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Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

Whether you’re in favour of stricter immigration rules or not, literally stealing from asylum seekers is a deeply inhuman policy.

"Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister"

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What the Labour Party used to understand was that it wasn’t that immigration was tearing the country apart, but that immigration was what was holding the country together. Immigration kept our NHS going, our transport system going, our education and much more.

It’s still true. They must know it.

“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips

Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government

Greek Council of State Probes Missing Surveillance Files in Expanding Surveillance Scandal - Dnews EYP informed the court that it could not locate the agency’s 2020 surveillance requests. A few months after Greece’s Council of State issued a landmark ruling in favor of PASOK leader Nikos Androulaki...

🇬🇷Greece’s National Intelligence Service (EYP) informed the country’s top court that it could not locate its own internal documents from 2020 ordering the surveillance of @nasoskoukakis.bsky.social.

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Labour’s latest attack on asylum seekers is cruel & counterproductive. How does it help community cohesion to hold threat of deportation over vulnerable people? We don’t need an arms race with the hard right over asylum, we need safe routes & European cooperation #bbclaurak

Cartoon showing how each time vehicles have gotten bigger, it’s led other people to think their vehicles need to be bigger too. The final panel shows people discussing that they’ll need to install whirling spike clubs, or else be destroyed by other drivers…

True story.

Via @xkcd.com

International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.

The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Latest ECtHR judgment relating to Poland's rule of law crisis: ECtHR found interference not to be in accordance with the rule of law (a rare finding) on account of fact the relevant "judgement" was issued by the fake (constitutional) court as bench included fake judges = not a judgment therefore

Commission opens investigation into potential Digital Markets Act breach by Google in demoting media publishers\' content in search results Today, the European Commission has formally launched proceedings to assess whether Google applies fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions of access to publishers\' websites on Google Search...

EU tech law - EU Commission starts investigation of Google under Digital Markets Act, for downgrading publishers in search results - ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Patrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us? - video Patrick Stewart, Adrian Scarborough and Sarah Solemani perform a satirical take on the Tory party’s human rights policy, inspired by the classic Monty Python sketch

One to watch.

It's almost 10 years old but remains as relevant as ever to the UK human rights debate -

What has the ECHR ever done for us?

- the right to a fair trial
- the right to privacy
- Freedom from discrimination
- the Good Friday Agreement, and so on

www.theguardian.com/culture/vide...

The European Convention on Human Rights

Happy Birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights, which has helped to protect #OurRightsAndFreedoms for 75 years.

Here are more than 200 examples, from across the continent👇

🔗 www.coe.int/ECHR

There are thousands more.

#ECHR #ECHR75 @coe.int @echr.coe.int

Just to be clear, it IS about removing rights. Specifically it’s about removing Article 8 rights - private and family life - to make it easier to deport people.

You won’t find advocates able to mention any other rights here.

One to watch.

How far will the scope of the ICO investigation apply?

More than one public body is involved.

The Home Office shared the inaccurate dataset with the HMRC.

Was the private sector also involved? Eg, the airlines sharing travel data or passenger name data, or another third party?

HMRC likely to have breached privacy laws in stopping child benefit – experts Watchdog contacts tax authority after families’ payments stopped based on flawed travel data

Not a huge surprise - HMRC may have breached privacy laws with their child benefit suspension mess.

Can we do the same investigation for DWP fraud detection now please?

Two more immigration lawyers facing potential disciplinary proceedings for misuse of AI - Free Movement Two more immigration lawyers, a barrister and a solicitor, are facing the possibility of a Hamid hearing and a referral to their professional regulator after

New from Free Movement: Two more immigration lawyers facing potential disciplinary proceedings for misuse of AI | Sonia Lenegan freemovement.org.uk/two-more-imm...

📣 Join us 9-12 June in Lille, France for the 11th @survstudiesnet.bsky.social / Surveillance & Society Biennial Conference 2026 & submit your abstract before 10 January 2026!

Theme is Planetary #surveillance

Check out the call for abstracts here: surveillance-studies.net/conference/

HMRC pauses child benefit crackdown after 23,500 families caught up in data error Parents say they were treated as fraudsters because Home Office travel records failed to show their return to UK

Huge mess up by HMRC here but you also have to wonder which other organisations Home Office are sharing this error-ridden border data about individuals with?, how its being shared (copies? Held internally but queried?), whether limitations/errors are clear &c&c?

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

Chart showing the rise in number of phones and electronics being searched at the US border each fiscal year. Chart peaks in 2025 Fiscal Year with 55,000 devices being searched

NEW: The number of phones being searched at the US border just hit another high

- 16,000 devices were searched in the last three months—a record high for a quarter
- 55,000 in the fiscal year 2025 (Oct-Sept)—a yearly record high

Story with @dell.bsky.social here:

www.wired.com/story/cbp-se...

King unveils new memorial to LGBT veterans after gay ban campaign A memorial is unveiled dedicated to gay military personnel and to those who served during the armed forces gay ban.

A reminder that the UK’s ban on LGBT people serving in the armed forces was only lifted after a judgment from the European Court of Human Rights.

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#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms #Article8 #PrivateLife #MeddlingForeignCourt #CreditWhereItsDue