Jesse Bachir

Oh, we’re keeping the Associate Professor titles? I thought we might just go down to “AI Training Prompter and Reply Verification Instructor.”

It’s not supposed to read well?

Sorry, I thought one of the purposes of university was the provision of knowledge. An important part of which allegedly involves communication of that knowledge to the public in various forms.

Are we now just engines of AI slop?

*looks at our rule of law*

I don’t know, we seem to not be doing too terribly.

(Get back to me after the next election, though 😬)

The Anti-Authoritarian First Amendment and Its Limits

Here's @genevievelakier.bsky.social on some of the ways in which First Amendment doctrine should evolve in recognition of "the free speech dangers that are created by authoritarian structures of control in civil society" knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-ant...

At this stage, I feel fairly confident in saying that the NHS/national health agencies have been taken over by dangerously anti-scientific cranks and that it will probably take at least a generation (and several changes of government) to fully wash them out.

SCOTUS actually did its role and checked executive power?

I thought we loved the unitary executive, he can do whatever he wants theory? (Though it may now be the he can do whatever he wants until he starts messing too much with the money machine theory).

What, and when, is a purported law ‘the law’?

This is common good constitutionalism.

According to (some) Labour, they cannot change the FWS judgment. Since UKSC brought us “clarity.”

So, apparently PS is dead. Rewrite the textbooks!

Everything bad about tyranny & the arbitrary exercise of power, that republican political theorists warned about, is demonstrated endlessly by Republican politicians.

I had to teach judicial review today 😭😭

Bring on the gin. And/or wine.

Good that EHRC wrong on service provision; employment context certainly not favourable

Palestine Action JR ✔️
EHRC Interim Guidance 😐

*sigh*

"We accurately misreported the information, why are you coming for us?"

NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.

In a functional country, this would be a scandal. A service suffering only from chronic underfunding was ripped apart because the media created a myth of 1000s of complaints of malpractice. The truth - as in my family’s experience - was very different.
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

I wish *someone* would just consult literally any competent philosopher that ever took even just one philosophy of mind module, once upon a time in undergrad, perhaps decades ago.

Because the tech bros have no idea what they're talking about, and please can we stop listening to them.

I cannot speak to cases for which I have no particulars, I can only state what the law actually holds. And, to point out the obvious: government can sometimes act unlawfully.

The difficulty is what is viewpoint vs non-viewpoint discrimination. And, we can think that Universities do engage and ought to engage in some kinds of viewpoint discrimination as a pedagogical function (e.g. choosing not to teach/invite poor scholarship).

There are (legal) principles here, at ECHR level, and similar US First Amendment law shares similar ideas around 'viewpoint discrimination,' which is what is typically engaged in these cases.

TL;DR: If government cannot rescind an invitation on the basis of viewpoint, neither can a university.

Explanation: Universities are public authorities under the HRA, and therefore have the same (similar) Art 10 obligations as other government & public institutions. And HE (Freedom of Speech) 2023.

Very different from e.g. US private universities and how we think about their speech rights.

Passed my Life in the UK test today.

Was it easy? Yes.

Is it a dumb test? Also, yes.

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

You mean, wait for it... hormones change the body? You don't say.

(This is just how biology works. I'm also tired of the 'unfair advantage' argument when athletes are quite literally praised for genetic/biological advantages over other players).

Sorry, I can’t find the originalist. Can some point me to who the originalist is?

The tech bros are all creeps.

Can we finally stop listening to them now?

Opened Bluesky. Saw this. Will now be closing Bluesky for the day.

Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids

I refuse to put the outlook app on my phone

Sex Matters v City of London/Hampstead Heath judicial review full judgment.

Permission REFUSED.

www.judiciary.uk/judgments/se...

And this is why we need philosophy & humanities.

Such a disingenuous “offer.”

ICE isn’t after criminals. They’re going after anyone they want, including US citizens.