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Nicholas Reed Langen

@nicholasrl.bsky.social

Writer on law, constitutions, and human rights | Editor of LSE Public Policy Review | ReConstitution Fellow 2021/22

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Unclear what's more tragic- the spelling or the syntax

08.08.2025 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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High Court green-lights challenge to Palestine Action proscription The High Court (Chamberlain J) has granted a co-founder of Palestine Action (PA) permission to apply for judicial review of the Home Secretary’s decision to proscribe PA. Judgment in R (Ammori) v S…

High Court green-lights challenge to Palestine Action proscription administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/h...

31.07.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm generally an international law sceptic, but this seems tenuous even by PIL standards, not least as we don't recognise the Montevideo Conventuon?

31.07.2025 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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anyway, if you're nearby on saturday please do come down

29.07.2025 17:53 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is actually filmed in the Mamdani campaign office

27.07.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today's was a real Janan special.

26.07.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mine, but we can all cry about it
youtu.be/ft_QfY16CxU?...

24.07.2025 11:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or just scold them with his finger

22.07.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Does he...fight them?

22.07.2025 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wails, gnashes

22.07.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maison FranΓ§ois's 15 deal is incomparable though

22.07.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The problem isn't opinion polls per se, it's politicians trying to use them as a roadmap rather than as a datapoint

21.07.2025 10:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Policing Pride: R (on the application of Lindsey Smith) v The Chief Constable of Northumbria Police [2025] EWHC 1805 (Admin) - Doing Feminist Legal Work Pride and the Police

New from @anuragdeb.bsky.social, @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social and me on The Morrigan blog - The Smith judicial review decision into the participation of Northumbria Police in the 2024 Northern Pride is a jaw-dropping mess on expert evidence, standing and irrationality:

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18.07.2025 13:11 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3

It's up there with the Huffman family, who moved to Russia because of Fox News propaganda to get away from western propaganda

15.07.2025 11:27 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So Wallace tells us that soon other men who force themselves on women will be forced from the airwaves, and thinks this is a defence and/or a bad thing?

14.07.2025 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Legal Bluesky - are there any crown courts where you're seeing particularly long delays for trials at the moment?

Looking for somewhere to get down to for a dispatch for the NYT βš–οΈ

11.07.2025 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This continues to be tragically relevant

08.07.2025 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

'Raynor Winn' is the nominative equivalent of a false moustache

08.07.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good way of flagging themselves as a publisher to avoid

07.07.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I read this article while tying my shoes and doing push ups as a way of ensuring I did three things badly at once

03.07.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*than about that group, the above should read

01.07.2025 12:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

With a Zambian born mother and a Canadian born father, getting ready for my Canadian born non-British self to flee this sceptr'd isle

01.07.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think there is a more serious moral problem in that some people seem more upset about a chant about death to a group committing war crimes than that about group starving then massacring Palestinians

01.07.2025 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My annual plea for someone to kidnap Andrew Castle and lock him deep underground for the Wimbledon fortnight/the rest of time

30.06.2025 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

You just know AI wrote this dross

30.06.2025 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hard to work out what is more offensive, Nelson's grasp of metaphor or his ideology

23.06.2025 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Brutal takedowns are always to be relished, and the longer the better

18.06.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What planet are you on where people get paid for interviews?

14.06.2025 12:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The posing faux grandeur of that photo tells you all you need to know

14.06.2025 12:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

14.06.2025 07:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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