1. Leicester City v Burton Albion First match of the season, lovely day out. Couple of nice pints in the Marquis Wellington before the game, initial displays of some division three pride giving way to chants of Sack the Board at the end I’ve missed the footie

Many of you have expressed surprise that arms companies have some kind of special status in Britain, but every weapons industry supplier became a “prohibited place” under the National Security Act 2023. You can get arrested simply for photographing the premises netpol.org/2024/05/09/e...

Netpol@netpol.org · 2d ago

A judge has said he will NOT sentence five Palestine Action activists who daubed a Barclays branch in Burnley with red paint sentenced as terrorists, because it was not "against a sensitive property, such as an arms company" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Thinking about putting the heating on, just for an hour

Talking to a team mate in the club this evening after the midweek cricket, tells me as a pre-teen he bought 21 consecutive Bucks Fizz singles I mean I have skeletons in my own closet, but nothing like that

They did this because they could, and they are not, and will not be sorry

Five arrests were for section 157 of the new Crime and Policing Act 2026 (powers to impose a 'mask-free zone'). Police reportedly were threatening to arrest people for wearing sunglasses. Really worrying

In September 2019, I went up to the school strike demo in Manchester. Andy Burnham was there, which was good and fine. He said two things that struck me. First, he said ‘my generation has failed your generation’, which raised my hackles

Just a poor man's José

How do Black & Brown students navigate their identities at predominantly white universities? This study examines racial microaggressions, identity management, and resistance to pressures to assimilate within academic spaces. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.70024 #Sociology #HigherEd

Yeah just two hedgehogs on the back step

SIX London councils have now said they will refuse to support the Home Office’s racist immigration raids. Thank you Lewisham, Lambeth, Southwark, Hackney, Waltham Forest and Haringey. These raids persecute migrants, tear apart our communities & seek to spread fear and division. We won’t let them.

This is chaired by a former Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and the lead counsel for several undercover police officers in the #spycops inquiry. You'll forgive us for thinking this has absolutely nothing to do with a "more effective accountability regime"

HJA Civil Liberties@hjacivillibs.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Home Office has launched a review into the police accountability system that ‘will look at how police officers are held to account, identify barriers that can delay outcomes, and consider how the system can be made faster, fairer and more effective’ www.gov.uk/government/n...

Over 5,000 people have emailed the Charity Commission to ask them to hold Sex Matter's transphobic hate to account. Will you join them? https://action.goodlawproject.org/sex-matters-complaint?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=SexMattersCC&utm_medium=social_media

We're excited to launch our new report: One Day In Brighton: The policing of the Carnival Against Fascism in Brighton on Saturday 13th June 2026. 3pm Friday August 7th, The Plaque Junction of Frederick Place and Trafalgar Street, right by the Prince Albert pub. See you there.

"The misuse of counter-terrorism powers in this country is getting completely out of hand". It's time for a serious debate about abolishing them www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/uk-am...

UK: Amnesty asserts "completely disproportionate to punish criminal damage as terrorism"

Amnesty International responds to reports that five Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists for damage to a branch of Barclays Bank

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Great things to do in Paris: sit by the river with une pinte

To every trans Londoner: this city is yours too. Today we celebrate London Trans+ Pride and reaffirm a simple truth: you should be free to live as yourself, without fear or prejudice. You are loved. You are wanted. You belong here.

A Black man accused of assaulting two police officers has been unanimously acquitted after a five-day trial at the Old Bailey after jurors took just EIGHT minutes to reject the allegations against him. This is why the attacks on jury trials matter www.blackcurrentnews.co.uk/p/black-man-...

Exclusive | Jury acquits Black man of assaulting police in just eight minutes after officers' claims crumble

The defence said officers treated NK as the aggressor after he had been racially profiled and attacked by security guards, with his trauma mistaken for criminal behaviour

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To clarify, Vinny is a very serious cat

Private Eye tells me that How Green Was My Valley is one of Andy Burnham’s favourite books. Oh dear. I write a PhD on 1930s Welsh mining novels, including a whole chapter on Llewellyn’s work. I even read the terrible sequels. It really, really isn’t a story of working-class solidarity etc.

This weekend will see the first use of new police powers under section 157 of the Crime and Policing Act 2026, creating a "mask-free zone" aimed at antifascists opposing another far-right anti-migrant rally

This is an unlawful condition police have the power to regulate assemblies of 2 or more or protests of one person They have no power to regulate single person assemblies as is clearly asserted here To impose noise-related conditions on one person, they must be protesting not simply assembling

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · last mo.

If this is down to Burnham's team, it suggests impressive attention to small but important details. If it's the Met finally getting their act together over major news events being drowned out, it suggests Burnham may be the luckiest politician in Britain.

Get off the boat, make a mistake, run back to the boat. Get off the boat, make a mistake, run back to the boat. Get off the boat, make a mistake

Next Wednesday, Garden Court Chambers, Garden Court North Chambers, One Pump Court Chambers & Nexus Chambers will come together to co-host: 'Descent Into Authoritarianism? Undermining the Role of Defence Lawyers: The Rajiv Menon KC Case'. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A collective UEA #protest effort from @crwerren.bsky.social @storiesfromjack.bsky.social @suzmd.bsky.social & me: our evidence* to the current JCHR Inquiry "Security, safety & protest: the role of Human Rights" has just been made public... committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide... * it's not short

Let’s look on the bright side: at least Sir Keir won’t be able to add winning the World Cup to his list of achievements

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Very nice to have one's long held academic views vindicated by the UKSC this morning, in McCafferty, on whether public nuisance under s78 PCSCA 2022 can be committed on private ways (not public highways) - answer: no

Supreme Court judgment in the Animal Rising Müller 6 case. SC finds with the appellants: there is no case to answer. You can't commit public nuisance on private land, under the second limb of s78 of the PCSC 2022 (the one that applies to protest), because there is no public *right* of passage 1/3

A lot of the political and media response to Anne Widdecombe’s death reminds me of Rory Stewart on Kissinger: on the one hand, he was a mass murdering war criminal, but on the other he was very nice to *me* The powerful recognise their own