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"It is revealed that the Life in the UK test is an artificial simulation. Idir is lying unconscious in a medical suite nearby, fed the environment through some sci-fi tech. He does not know that he is not a test attendee, but a ‘subject’" - James Ritchie freemovement.org.uk/life-in-the-...

Life in the UK Test – stranger than fiction? - Free Movement

When I am lawyering, I am reading. When I am not lawyering, I am also usually reading. Away from the office I am not, as a rule, reading about immigration

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"Migration has been the historical norm across the Mediterranean, in all directions, before Europe decided to turn the sea into a heavily policed border" - Federico De Blasi on "the edible proof of this ancient network". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tracing one delicious snack around the Mediterranean showed me that modern borders are absurd | Federico De Blasi

Migration and cultural exchange have always been the norm between coastal European and African nations. We should celebrate this shared history, says Federico De Blasi, an Italian food writer based in...

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This is absolutely damning.

Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration@icibi.bsky.social · last mo.

The Independent Chief Inspector's report on ‘An inspection of asylum casework’ has been published and is available on the ICIBI website:

'the Israeli govt & security forces have deliberately carried out acts inflicting death & severe harm on hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children, irreparably destroying the sanctity of childhood, innocence, safety & future' Independent Int'l Commission of Inquiry www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

"These people are not the architects of dangerous crossings, but participants in a situation created by a lack of safe, legal routes to the UK and hardened by ever-increasing border enforcement" @vickytaylor.bsky.social www.opendemocracy.net/a-cruel-new-...

A cruel new law is scapegoating refugees for UK’s harmful border policies

In court, I saw two refugees jailed for ‘endangering life at sea’ – a new offence that punishes those it claims to protect

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I came to the concept of decolonisation out of a dissatisfaction with the promises of legal education that do not lead to justice. This exemplifies what I believe law schools owe to students – hope that legal education can help us do justice in an unjust world. folukeafrica.com/what-is-the-...

What is the Role of Law Schools in the Project of Decolonisation? Some Reflections on Power and Possibility

How do law schools respond to the colonial ever-present?

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The Court of Appeal upholds the UK's ban on Palestine Action. ALAN GREENE, DANIELLA LOCK & COLIN MURRAY argue that the margin of appreciation granted to the Home Secretary leaves judicial oversight with little more than nominal force. verfassungsblog.de/palestine-ac...

NEW: The Home Office is ploughing ahead with using AI to conduct asylum seeker age assessments despite knowing it's wildly inaccurate Its own internal report & our audit of public data find the tech often predicts kids to be adults, & performs worst on the top nationalities arriving on small boats

Lighthouse Reports@lighthousereports.com · 2mo ago

Britain will use AI to assess ages of asylum seekers in a world-first, with other countries likely to follow suit But our investigation, based on a leaked report and our own algorithmic audit, finds the technology is deeply unreliable

"The crisis of the British university system is directly linked to the marketisation of the sector...this crisis was entirely avoidable" @phaisie.bsky.social aje.news/3cfpqz

The slow death of Goldsmiths is a warning to British universities

The crisis at the London university shows how marketisation has pushed UK higher education to the brink.

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Grenfell is not the exception, it is the rule. Our latest report hears from residents across London, who describe housing circumstances that have had devastating effects on their lives.

The Court of Appeal judgement on Palestine Action is frankly bonkers. It says PA is not "a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes operating transparently in the open." Right: the arson, bombings, slashings etc were all planned in open meetings in Parliament Square 🙄🧵

New issue marks 100 years since first publication of Kafka's brilliant unfinished novel 'The Castle': guest editorial (Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko) and all research articles, essays, arts and book reviews now available on the website: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"If law is always and inescapably violent and political, what pathways to action or justice remain?" Fantastic special issue @law-and-humanities.bsky.social on Kafka's work, life and creative legacy - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Castle at 100 and The Trial at 101: a century of Kafka and legal humanities

Published in Law and Humanities (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2026)

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"Students aren’t being taught to think more deeply but to prompt more effectively. .. Critical pedagogy is out; productivity hacks are in. What’s sold as innovation is really surrender" www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

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There is a legal term for gov agents detaining someone and refusing to provide info on their fate or whereabouts: enforced disappearance. Enforced disappearance has long been used as a tool of border management in the US, but this administration has pushed this strategy into hyper drive.

Geoff Hing@geoffhing.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Earlier this week, Aala Abdullahi and I published a story about the impact of rapid transfers on people that ICE has locked away in detention facilities. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/01/i...

The point is to subject immigrants to enforced disappearance for long enough to either execute a deportation or make it easier to deport someone. Cutting victims off from advocates prevents people from getting timely or timelier legal relief.

You can read my and Dr. Leal’s article, which lays out a typology of the different ways that DHS forcibly disappears immigrants, here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Enforced Disappearance as a Border Management Tool: The Case of Border Patrol Detentions of Immigrant and Asylum-Seeking Families in the United States1 - Diego F. Leal, Natalie L. Cadwalader, 2025

Executive Summary This study examines the experiences of international migrants and asylum-seeker families recently released from the custody of the United Stat...

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"All that will be left outside of Oxbridge ... will be a scattering of AI-infested hubs for the accelerated production of hyper-indebted ‘graduates’. All of this is a colossal and entirely avoidable act of self-harm" - Lorna Finlayson newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

"Ten years ago I passed through this landscape in a state of almost perfect unknowing. I made mistakes. I shelved the experience at the back of my mind, like a pebble plucked from the shoreline, and its lustre wore off. Too late, now, to pick it up again." longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/dutch-river

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Stefan Collini on “the present pattern of dilution, damage and decline” in HE - how we got here and what needs to change www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

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It's publication day! This Little World begins with a sixteenth-century refugee writing from Norwich to his wife abroad. It ends in the aftermath of civil war and revolution, asking what belonging and identity might mean in a world shaped by migration, empire and violence. (1/4)

Shameful bullish. What's done incalculable damage is a decade of pernicious falsehoods about immigration, while people who should know better refuse to counter the lies of the increasingly normalised far right. Let's tackle those lies:

· #AcademicSky · “For decades, we have mistaken competence for identity and output for meaning. AI does not simply disrupt this model – it exposes its limitations. The problem is not that machines are becoming more capable but that our definition of capability has always been incomplete.”

Katherine Stiles@katherinestiles.org · 3mo ago

· #AI · #AcademicSky · #EduSky · ⇢ @uniworldnews.bsky.social “[I]n the age of AI, those who survive are those with a story to tell.”

What Are Words Worth 2U2? is an interdisciplinary festival that asks what language does,who it belongs to, & what it costs.We explore the translingual; reclaimed,unstable vocabularies; vernacular&informal speech; legal languages;& poetic,invented forms.  erratic-front-a98.notion.site/349111eaa4bd...

What Are Words Worth 2U2? | Notion

29 April - 8 May 2026 Gallery North, Northumbria University Programme Northumbria presents What Are Words Worth 2U2?, an interdisciplinary, cross-artform festival that asks what language does, who it...

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In ‘Border Afterlives’ Gabriella Soto examines postmortem journeys, revealing how border policies generate deaths. Soto argues these deaths should be understood as structural homicides & that the forensic neglect they face is a form of ongoing violence uapress.arizona.edu/book/border-...

Delighted that my work is part of this exhibition,opening Friday- DISSONANT LAWS unpicks the relationship between citizens, authority,& rebellious invention. How do laws create/engender artistic resistance?How can creative dissent encourage new forms of legality?

A CLIMATE OF DISSONANCE & REINVENTION - Exhibition Opening + Film Screening

An exhibition + film screening on the climate of disagreement with the status quo - when breaking the law becomes necessary for survival.

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In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...

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