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The Steering Committee’s ‘Preliminary Draft Text’ for the Chișinău Declaration: Nothing is Wrong with the ECtHR’s Migration Case-Law In the past months the academic community has tried to understand what the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or ‘the Court’) could have done wrong regarding the interpretation of the European Conv...

EJIL: Talk! – Blog of the European Journal of International Law share.google/qhO1dKXDjI5u...

Profile - Morgan McSweeney - BBC Sounds Who is the new chief of staff in Downing Street?

Listened to this when it aired, but it's glowing account of MM may have revealed more than it intended.

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And if you don’t think that was explicitly political you were maybe not watching things like… the sugar cane fields? Electric poles? The men grinding on each other? The little boy? The americas shout out? What moooore do you want?

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Pretty sure one was consulted, definitely was for the album

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Remarkable to see sugarcane plantation work depicted in the Superbowl halftime show.

The Revolution Will Not Be Subtitled

Me holding copy of the book

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽

www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

To my wonderful brave Australian friends 🇦🇺🌏🐨🦘🪃 protesting the 🇵🇸 genocide today, please be safe. 🙏🏾 Sending 🤗s and solidarity from the UK. 🩵✊🏾💛

The New Fabio Is Claude

“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak

"A violent and criminal effort is underway to ethnically cleanse territories in the West Bank. Gangs of armed settlers persecute, harm, wound and even kill Palestinians living there. The rampages include burning olive groves, houses and cars; breaking into homes; and physically assaulting people."

Thank you @stevepeers.bsky.social 🤗🙏🏾

EU rules are estimated to keep up to 1.3 billion plastic caps out of nature every year.
Regulation is a tough sell to companies, yet brands market the result as their own eco success. #TetheredCaps #EULegislation #PlasticWaste #EU

@stevepeers.bsky.social @colmocinneide.bsky.social

Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - the BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation The government is consulting the public to aid decision-making on the terms for the BBC Charter’s renewal and any changes needed to help the BBC to continue to serve the public.

📢 Government request for the public to respond to the BBC's future - responses will shape what happens to the BBC. 👇🏾 (Please share)

Britain’s Story: The Next Chapter - the BBC Royal Charter Review, Green Paper and public consultation - GOV.UK share.google/b4VrvHeXRFxe...

Join us for a webinar discussing the future of the international legal order, examining recent examples of international law violations an asking what can be expected of international Law?
📅 23 Feb
Free to attend | Book now
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We are pleased to share the text of the 46th Annual FA Mann Lecture, delivered by Prof Philippe Sands KC on the thought-provoking topic, "A World Without Law?" part of the annual series held in honour of the late Dr FA Mann QC (hon) organised by Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer.
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it's funny how UK politics is a war between zoomers who want to keep the welfare state for their parents and the populist right which their parents vote for

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Cool. Most people can’t afford rent.

Event: Doing the Feminist Legal Work: Early careers, activism and research funding - Doing Feminist Legal Work We invite you to attend a forthcoming online seminar on 16 February 2026 from 1pm – 3pm hosted by Dr Sarah Craig (Ulster University) and Dr Katie Nolan (TU

We invite you to attend a forthcoming online seminar on 16 February 2026 from 1pm – 3pm hosted by our Dr Sarah Craig and Dr Katie Nolan (TU Dublin) on behalf of the Doing Feminist Legal Work Network.

For more details, and to register, head to: dflw.ie/event-doing-....

The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting.

A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!

Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2026 It’s going to be another banner year (in the words of lying African governments, a “bumper harvest”) for books from authors on the Continent and in its Diaspora! Here’s your list, sorted by month, with all kinds of genres included (including children’s books, at the end of the post). There’s no way I could list every book that’s coming, but here’s what I think is notable—as always, a work in progress, subject to updates.

Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2026

go off jack white

Fascism doesn’t rise by accident: it’s organised through capitalism, fear, and targeted wars on migrants, drugs, and people in poverty.

Read our State of Power 2026 opening interview with @harshawalia.bsky.social and Alberto Toscano. www.tni.org/en/article/l...

Edward Said and the Task of the Intellectual Today | Los Angeles Review of Books What does a new edition of Edward Said’s classic ‘Representations of the Intellectual’ reveal in the context of the crisis in Gaza?

"If being an intellectual means carrying forward the legacy our vocation, what obligations does their systematic annihilation impose on us now?"

Rebecca Ruth Gould on Edward Said: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/edward-said-representations-intellectual-gaza-crisis-israel-fitzcarraldo/

Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever.

This is the country we live in now.

Labour MPs & party insiders tell me they’ve never seen Keir Starmer so angry as over Mandelson’s lies about Epstein links. But those who know him well say that anger has now turned inwards. That Starmer is, above all else, a man of public service, and will be grappling with his conscious this w/e.

Spare a thought for the real victim: the white man in power

BC legislators passed the law UNANIMOUSLY in 2019, when EVERY MLA from EVERY party voted for it as a route to reconciliation. Eby's plan to rewrite DRIPA and have the Supreme Court put limits on it is a shameful betrayal of First Nations and an unacceptable return to the colonial status quo.