Emma Patchett

Join Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel for an urgent discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond, and why resistance calls… Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.

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"Toxic culture' caused by REF pressure to target top journals Staff at management school say they feel forced to publish in 'narrow' subset of elite journals to boost REF standing, restricting types of research they can pursue Published on February 12, 2026 Last updated February 12, 2026 Jack Grove

I’m shocked 🙄

“Your pain becomes my pain becomes our pain and the extent of us and the pains we are carrying and the long, long way back and the traces across oceans, across centuries, across my street and across your kitchen, all of it overwhelms”

We The Heartbroken - Pluto Press Get 40% off books on love, desire, care & more! In this blog, Gargi Bhattacharyya writes on the state of being for a revolutionary in 2020. Inspired by a younger comrade admitting to heartbreak arisin...

“The brokenheartedness of revolutionary consciousness requires a redirection towards the collective…brokenheartedness thins our skins so we become open to others. The boundaries between us can seem to dissolve” - Gargi Bhattacharyya www.plutobooks.com/blog/we-the-...

The Line is drawn! Don’t cross it - join it! @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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We dispute!
The pension steal is shameful!
is the VC offering a salary cut? Mhmm - thought so!
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10 strike days begin this week at Northumbria University over pension 'robbery' Northumbria University will be hit with ten days of strike action from Thursday 12 February in a fight to save staff pensions, UCU announced today

UCU - 10 strike days begin tomorrow at Northumbria University over pension 'robbery'. See you on the pickets. Wellies and umbrellas advised! www.ucu.org.uk/article/14401

Labour is creating a vulnerable migrant underclass Chasing Reform on immigration will only entrench an unequal system and increase resentment

Labour is creating a vulnerable migrant underclass

@zoejardiniere.bsky.social

Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire

Check out our website for the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire research network! The network brings together a wide range of scholars engaged in the praxis of embedding the teaching of race, colonialism and empire into their work.
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"As the coercive arm of the state, the police—including CBP and ICE—are the primary instruments of state violence ... keeping us safe is not the objective. Instead, the modern police force—whether local, state, or federal—wages domestic war."

Abolish the Border Regime - A reading list - Pluto Press As borders multiply, so too must resistance. Borders are not neutral lines: they are weapons that extend colonial violence under the guise of security. In Minnesota, people are standing up to ICE, and...

"As borders multiply, so too must resistance. Borders are not neutral lines: they are weapons that extend colonial violence under the guise of security" @plutopress.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/abolish-the-...

Greenland and the Spectre of Dispossession When it came to grabbing territory, the British had effective techniques by the 1960s. Morning-tea at Downing Street could accomplish what a U.S

"sovereign over-reach exposes the vulnerabilities of legal and political systems, and barely covers the actual weaknesses of these rapacious states. The assertion of sovereign exceptionality is never the end of the matter" @stewartmotha.bsky.social criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/20/g...

I have a poem in the new @new-sinews.bsky.social, thanks to @illepitaph.bsky.social. The poem — Grains of Rice — is long, complicated; traces inheritances, internalizations, and overlapping violences in my family's history (in Guangzhou, Hiroshima); and takes place at a Wendy's in New Jersey.

S4 E5 The pace of change: MAGA, the US, the UK Who Do We Think We Are?

The final episode of #MAGA & #migration #podcast series dropped last week:
whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who...

@michaelacbenson.bsky.social & I reflect back on our conversations with 4 excellent guests: Cecilia Menjívar; Rachel Humphris, Ernesto Castañeda and Heba Gowayed

Brief recap🧵

Shitty Cakes, Endless Crime The year in reading: In 2025, small presses in the UK stood up against a dominant culture of dumbing down and selling out

‘We don’t have to consume the shitty cake or crime plots baked for us by corporate entertainment, or live off tragically meagre cultural crumbs. Small presses show us there is so much more out there, styles of survival, ways of knowing and acting” - Lucy Mercer @artreview.bsky.social

📢 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻:
#2026Roundtable – “𝘝𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦”, convened by Dr @Róisín Á Costello (Trinity College Dublin), meeting on 𝟭𝟵 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Papers engaging recent arts productions (theatre, fiction, visual art) are warmly encouraged.

'The drive to map Law & the Humanities goes beyond efficiency or funding. At its core, the project is about building community, resilience, & expanding capacity, creating the conditions in which people working across Law & the Humanities can meet & collaborate' blog.humanities.org.uk/2025/12/08/l...

Law and the Humanities in Practice: Voices from the Sector

My conversation with James Campbell is featured in this episode of Mapping the Arts and Humanities, which 'dives into the creative & disruptive world where law meets the arts': using arts & humanities to explore law and justice, and the collaborative & productive role of mapping @ials.bsky.social

Book Review: Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British

Book Review by Holly Bird - Supply Chain Justice: The Logistics of British Border Control by @mfbosworth.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Map showing successive dispersals of humans, homo erectus and Neanderthals from 200,000 to 700 years ago

Overview map of the peopling of the world by early humans during the Upper Paleolithic, following the Southern Dispersal paradigm.

Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence.

Every single human in the world is the product of migration.

It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human.

That’s never going to change.

Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.

Home secretary to tackle UK's 'excessive generosity' with sweeping immigration reforms In a statement to MPs on Monday, Shabana Mahmood is expected to tighten up the rules to allow for more deportations, and reduce the "pull factors" that attract migrants to the UK.

Another day another migration story. Terrifying in here tho is the reform of the ECHR she will attempt. This will be Labour's biggest and most dangerous mistake, I GUARANTEE. It will set up the infrastructure for a Reform govt. to dismantle all our protections. news.sky.com/story/home-s...

Delighted to have my chapter 'Place Making, Pomparles Bridge and Public Space Protection Orders' published in Cultural Practices of Place, edited by Sarah Earnshaw #lawandliterature #place #PSPOs link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

CFP for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography, Concepción, Chile: 17-20 March 2026

“the South should not be reduced to a source of raw data that are to be inserted or simply included into the Northern theory factories” Diana Ojeda & Nicholas Blomley (2024) ‘Grounding…

'A cinematic jurisprudence of homemaking in His House' - engaging with the 'subversive' act of homemaking in the asylum process through law-as-film, based on a critical reading of Remi Weekes' 2020 film His House - JPPEL www.emerald.com/jppel/articl...

The lines from the ledge(r): ink, paper, photograph, mountain "I started to draw pictures. Not of people, or buildings or street scenes. Of mountains. It was fun at first, then a fascinating pastime, building a mouontain on a blank sheet of paper...Memories crowd in on you as you delicately bring to life on paper the various features of the mountains you have seen so often. Your pen moves through a mist of dreams..."

The lines from the ledge(r): ink, paper, photograph, mountain

"I started to draw pictures. Not of people, or buildings or street scenes. Of mountains. It was fun at first, then a fascinating pastime, building a mouontain on a blank sheet of paper...Memories crowd in on you as you delicately bring…

Archives of Arrival: Place is not a backdrop; it’s part of the record. Place is not a backdrop; it’s part of the record.

Archives of Arrival: Place is not a backdrop; it’s part of the record.
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After the Epping Forest case, the government needs to be bold and build asylum housing that works Asylum housing needs to come back under public control.

Commentary on asylum hotels considering how govt can develop dignified community-based housing that meets multiple social needs. Warehousing people in camps and continuing a failed experiment in privatisation causes nothing but further harm @geogdurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/after-the-ep...

The 'spatiotemporal politics of the asylum system linger well after an ‘end’ point of the state decision has been reached...the fragmented governance of the asylum system is made visible in its temporal margins [& in] the extension of this system beyond its legal edges' @sarahhughes90.bsky.social

Professor Conor Gearty KC (Hon) - Matrix Chambers It is with shock and sadness that we mourn the sudden passing of our valued colleague, and a founding member of Matrix, Professor Conor Gearty KC (Hon). Should you wish to leave a message of condolenc...

So shocked Conor Gearty has died

He was a fearless lawyer, teacher and writer

He was also one of the wittiest, smartest people you’d ever meet. It was an honour to call him a friend

I will miss him, terribly. Thoughts with his family, in London and Longford

www.matrixlaw.co.uk/news/profess...

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity

Targeted by the right, Britain’s asylum hotels are places of fear and disorder. Bad political decisions made it so | Daniel Trilling In the frenzy of racism and culture warring, the issue of why hotels are used gets overlooked, says author Daniel Trilling

“At its root, it is a story of public penny-pinching and market forces causing a problem that is then made worse by politicians promising a quick fix or finding a convenient scapegoat” @trillingual.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...