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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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There is an alternative reality where Jean-Pierre wasn't press secretary and so Biden stormed to a second term

28.10.2025 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Peston showing that there isn't a boot he isn't willing to give a lick

28.10.2025 10:01 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

'We' doing a lot of heavy lifting here

28.10.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

27.10.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1956    πŸ” 1264    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 60

How much kool-aid do you have to drink to think that Bezos wants his opinion-shaping plaything to be profitable?

27.10.2025 09:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So heavily edited that the ChatGPT follow-up made the cut too

26.10.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

By proceeding with the execution before the jury reached a verdict, President Trump forced the issue. It's a strategy known as "stake-driving".

26.10.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

up there with whoever does the Guardian byline headshots, who I am sure has a personal vendetta against every single columnist

24.10.2025 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not least because the insipid chatty style is distressing

24.10.2025 14:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's fair to speculate if she is even self aware at this point

23.10.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Yet another indignity he never saw coming

22.10.2025 18:27 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

What the fuck

22.10.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What possible use is Toby Young

21.10.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Having started by ripping up the nation's metaphorical fabric, Trump's moved on to the literal

21.10.2025 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

On the plus side, a sedate walking pace should be enough to outrun them

21.10.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At this point someone should have gagged the spokesman and dragged them offstage before they fucked it all up with what follows

21.10.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Legend has it that every new person to step across the threshold is anointed with the text of Brian

20.10.2025 10:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky will always bluesky

16.10.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He heard they don't have hairgel in the UK

15.10.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The rapid reductive descent to language like 'bigots' is part of the reason we're in this mess

15.10.2025 08:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is, at best, five years late to the party

13.10.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The lede is buried halfway through this piece when the author admits that Weiss is a 'close friend'

13.10.2025 10:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

'Bucking tradition and legal precedent, President Trump has taken to executing suspected gang members on the White House lawn with a sawn-off shotgun, before marking his cabinet with their blood, due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration'

08.10.2025 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Think a ring might be more likely than a Fannie...

07.10.2025 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Resharing this piece I wrote for @bylinetimes.bsky.social two years ago on Tories promising to leave the ECHR as the characters may have changed but the argument hasn't

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Tl;dr- leaving is dumb, but doesn't mean it won't happen

04.10.2025 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If Labour really wanted to be transformative, abolishing sisyphean inquiries that go on for longer than the crises would be a good place to start

03.10.2025 18:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good, maybe the median voter will reconsider their view when told it's racist

01.10.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just as the state contemplates the possibility of a fully-funded assisted dying service, public funding for the award-winning Arthur Rank House Hospice in Cambridge is being cut by almost Β£1 million pa, risking the closure of nearly half of its in-patient unit. www.arhc.org.uk/protectourca...

30.09.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Classy magazine, even classier writers

29.09.2025 10:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Have they still not got an actual name

28.09.2025 09:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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