Weekend reading 📚 This Romano Lav and Poverty Alliance report is a clear reminder that adequate housing is a human right — and that change must be shaped by lived experience. povertyalliance.org/research-rights-to-housing-and-the-environment-experiences-of-the-roma-community-in-govanhill/

Does anybody think that what football really needs is more money?

As veterans call again for a tribunal to investigate effects of nuclear testing, this new book in our Law in Context series published last week: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

Injurious Law

Cambridge Core - Socio-Legal Studies - Injurious Law

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As veterans call again for a tribunal to investigate effects of nuclear testing, this new book in our Law in Context series published last week: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

Injurious Law

Cambridge Core - Socio-Legal Studies - Injurious Law

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Iceland votes on 29 August on whether to revive EU membership bid; early voting starts today. Views finely balanced... www.politico.eu/article/icel...

Iceland opposition chief to Europe: Don’t meddle in our referendum

Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir casts the Aug. 29 vote on reopening accession talks as a question of Iceland’s hard-won sovereignty.

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NEW!!! Just published by Oxford UP. Pleased to have authored this chapter. Regulators academic.oup.com/book/63029/c...

Regulators

Abstract. The chapter analyses the effects of Brexit on UK regulators. The analysis is situated against the backdrop of the rise of the UK regulatory state

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NEW!!! Just published by Oxford UP. Pleased to have authored this chapter. Regulators academic.oup.com/book/63029/c...

Regulators

Abstract. The chapter analyses the effects of Brexit on UK regulators. The analysis is situated against the backdrop of the rise of the UK regulatory state

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If we’ve had 40 years of “neoliberalism” why is the tax take so high?

Just three days left to get your entry in. Just 50 words featuring an ice creams It’s your Magnum opus …

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If the Cpmmonwealth Games were being held in Manchester again rather than Glasgow I wonder if the BBC would have made the same decision not to provide television coverage ?

Win Land by Maggie O'Farrell in our Book of the Month competition. Enter by 31 July 👇

Book of the Month: Land by Maggie O'Farrell

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ON THE BLOG: Safeguarding the Constitution: Key Steps to Strengthen UK Democratic Resilience @lisajames.bsky.social, Meg Russell and @alanrenwick.bsky.social discuss their new report on measures that can be taken to 'future proof' the UK constitution, including how to implement them. Read it 👇️

Safeguarding the Constitution: Key Steps to Strengthen UK Democratic Resilience

The Constitution Unit today publishes a new report: Safeguarding the Constitution: Key Steps to Strengthen UK Democratic Resilience. In this post its authors, Lisa James, Meg Russell and Alan Renwick, discuss some of the report's conclusions.

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UK PM’s new minister for EU-UK relations is @mphamishfalconer.bsky.social With this month’s summit postponed key question is whether the Burnham government will simply conclude existing negotiations with EU or seek something different? I suspect the former.

Sarwar called for Starmer to step down because U.K. Labour wasn’t offering Scottish voters what they might want. Does electing Burnham change that? It feels like a plan for England more than a plan for any other part of the UK.

If Ed Miliband does not get Chancellor role and ends up as Foreign Secretary this may signal Burnham’s focus on domestic policy with role of foreign secretary having more autonomy. But can that really last? The PM is the PM.

Whether you prefer a cone or a tub you’ve got this challenge licked.

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Olly Robbins decision to seek a public law remedy is interesting. It is a more oblique review of the extent of PM’s powers over senior civil servants than a more specific claim about the substantive basis for his dismissal. Begs comparison with challenges to Trump’s dismissal of top govt employees.

Olly Robbins decision to seek a public law remedy is interesting. It is a more oblique review of the extent of PM’s powers over senior civil servants than a more specific claim about the substantive basis for his dismissal. Begs comparison with challenges to Trump’s dismissal of top govt employees.

If Count Binface comes on and scores winning goal for England I predict the collapse of Reform.

We’ve all heard of TACO - Trump Always Chickens Out. Now we have FAJITAS - Farage Jitters Are Showing. #FAJITAS

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Smartest political move would be for political parties not to stand any candidates in Farage’s invented by-election.

Essentially Farage is getting ahead of a recall petition by resigning and seeking re-election.

I appear to have mislaid my tiniest of tiny violins for Nigel Farage.

How much of “No 10 North” will be “No 10” and how much will be “North”?

What does Burnham’s regional and local devolution push mean for devolution outside of England? Couldn’t Glasgow do with a strong executive mayor? Wouldn’t Aberdeen and Edinburgh also benefit?

No Scotland it is then. Party is all it ever is. Maybe that’s enough.

A warm tribute to a remarkable field-defining scholar on the death of Sir Roy Goode. During my time at Queen Mary he was an incredibly positive presence for colleagues and students. www.qmul.ac.uk/law/news/202...

That UK is soon to have its 7th PM since the Brexit vote ten years ago and that its politics is dominated by a sense that people are poorer with failing public services ought to fall us that leaving EU was never a magical solution to all the UK’s problems.