Paul Kelly

The last line is always worth repeating 👆👆👆

A fine piece - he’s already missed at this time. 👆👆👆

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

‘Domestic judges cannot undo the case law of the Strasbourg court that so irritates a section of the political class and its journalist outriders. But they are doing everything short of that to make human rights as much of a domestic legal irrelevance as possible.’

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Tories only manage 6th item on the BBC website this morning and that’s Jenrick not Badenoch or Stride 👆👆👆

A photo of the Lovell Telescope in October sun, framed by autumn leaves. The sun is reflecting off the dish.

All you need is Lovell! 🔭💜

Planning a visit this October? Book your tickets online and enjoy 10% off admission! Plus, every ticket is now an annual pass, giving you unlimited access to watch the seasons change in our beautiful 35 acres of Cheshire countryside.

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Cue @telegraphnews.bsky.social rant about how our schools / universities are failing the Tory Party…👆👆👆

A must if you are around LSE on 17th - the book is good and the arguments (Sunstein has more than one) are important 👆👆👆

On liberalism: in defence of freedom 11.30am Fri 17 Oct | Cass Sunstein | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

📢 #Public #event annoucement!
📕 On liberalism: in defence of freedom
🗣️ #Book launch and discussion with Professor @casssunstein.bsky.social (Harvard) and Professor @pjthinker.bsky.social (LSE)
🗓️ Friday 17 October
⏰ 11.30am to 12.30pm
📍 In person only, sign up required

www.lse.ac.uk/events/on-li...

Dear BBCNews, Sky etc it would be interesting to ask Sir Mel if he has costed the impact of ‘treaty withdrawal’ on the UK economy in all his plans. Presumably the impact on our current weak position with EU trade will worsen considerably. This should be the first question and an essential challenge

Says man who declined the opportunity to serve his country and fight - and not for conscientious motives. 👆👆👆

Agree - there are many soft Reform supporters in this part of the world (Kent) who will be surprised at Council Tax rises and vulnerable to Tory persuasion if they get their act together - urban and East Kent unlike mid and West is unlikely to go Lib Dem…

Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

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"Knowledge should not be locked behind paywalls. We owe it to our students, and to learners everywhere, to open the doors" 👏👏👏 Great article by @lsepress.bsky.social MD @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social on why OERs should be central to the public mission of universities.

Interesting and important piece. OER is genuinely transformative and dare I say more important that the mad sector preoccupation with AI systems ( that basically steal content for learning and then seek to monetise their products from universities and students).

Nothing being reported from Manchester Tory conference is ever going to happen - even if Tories survive Badenoch they will be different in both personnel, policy and context so sit down Sir Mel Stride with your billions of savings on welfare and civil service cuts.

Hopefully @lsepress.bsky.social might be interested…👆👆👆

My @lsepress.bsky.social book has now passed 15k downloads and quite a few sales (even though it is free) - time to finish the other volume - yes there is one… tentatively entitled Justice, Order and the Common Good …

My @lsepress.bsky.social book has now passed 15k downloads and quite a few sales (even though it is free) - time to finish the other volume - yes there is one… tentatively entitled Justice, Order and the Common Good …

A politician who embodies the current direction of the Tory party: a supporter of all the big policy shifts of 2016-24, who literally worked in Downing Street, who has decided oh, no, it is actually the fault of the immigrants. No, it’s your fault!

The only real question- and it’s not that interesting a question is when she goes. We are way past the ‘if’…

The strongest argument against leaving ECHR is that it is supported by the same people and party who argued for leaving the EU - exactly the same people. That should be fatal to the policy…

As the British Fishing Industry was more or less killed off by Boris and Brexit I’m pretty sure I pay more tax than the British Fishing industry …👆

I’m not surprised she is so transparently hopeless but I’m still puzzled that Gove and Policy Exchange were strong advocates- what did they see. Yes PE is cranky but they are not like the UG student contrarians from IEA who promoted Truss. What did they think would happen…

My son recently found a swastika drawn on the pavement at... The Manchester attack didn't come as a shock. The only surprise is it hasn’t happened sooner

I wrote a short piece for the Observer on the attacks in Manchester.

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A privilege today to attend the Requiem of LSE colleague and Human Rights scholar Conor Gearty. A wonderful gathering of family, and colleagues from law, academia, politics advocacy & his Catholic Parish - he would mock me in the SDR - ‘hey Kelly I didn’t see you at Mass’ well I was there today RIP

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

On Assimilation - Jonathan Wolff | WritersMosaic Magazine Jonathan Wolff on assimilation as a secular Jew. He is a Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy and Public Policy at Wolfson College, Oxford

“Yet things change, and time moves in mysterious ways. As every year passes, we seem to get closer to, not further away from, World War Two.”

From sometimes I wrote in 2021 on assimilation and antisemitism for @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social

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To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

It’s a very common feature in academia where by definition none of us are really working class but you still find colleagues (often shouty sweary one’s - I won’t name him) who forcefully cling to that identity.

Many years ago - 32 to be precise my daughter liked sosjis…👆👆👆