I have curated this year's @publiclaw.bsky.social Special Analysis section "The Public Order Act 1986 at Forty", with six excellent contributions which together, I/we hope, offer an insight into the rich tapestry of contemporary protest law and policing in the UK, through that historical lens.
Antoinette Nestor: “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”: Real-World Consequences and Environmental Assessment after Finch ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/04/22/a...
Looking for a parliamentary law job? Wales and Quebec are seeking nerds like you :)
Had the same thoughts this morning listening to that story. If you decide to make a headline story about that kind of inflammatory accusations you shd have a few more facts to support that claim.
Individuals who base their asylum applications on being LGBTQIA+ make up a tiny proportion of overall asylum cases, and even then a significant proportion, more than a third, are refused, often with disastrous outcomes. 2/
This story is based entirely on dodgy advisers lying to potential clients to get money out of them. The one person they actually spoke to who used this 'service' was rejected and returned to Pakistan and has since been blocked from returning to the UK.
The real scandal of the asylum system is the cruelty & incompetence which 1000s of people endure every day but which rarely gets spotlighted at the top of the BBC News site.
Dan here nails much of what makes me uncomfortable about the BBC’s “fake gay refugees” story but here’s a few more points 1/
Ronan Cormacain: Mandarin: Shining a light on prerogative legislation in the Chagos Islands ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/04/13/r...
“Big tech companies artificially inflate datacentres’ job creation and economic impact to please governments like the British one, which are desperate to claim they are making the economy grow.”
Not sure how I missed this news, or why it's not a massive scandal
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."
How a terrifying night in Detroit shaped the controversial right wing author’s thinking
✏️ James Ball
People’s Panel for Digital ID The Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister, Darren Jones, has announced the first nationwide citizens’ assembly to have been commissioned by the UK government. Called the ‘People’s Panel for Digital ID’, it will form part of a consultation into plans for introducing a digital ID system. Those plans were set out in a green paper published in March. The government said it ‘intends to introduce a national digital ID’ that will satisfy three ‘core principles’: that the system is ‘useful’, ‘inclusive’, and ‘trusted’. It added that the purpose of the consultation was to seek feedback on ‘how to build a system that is useful for everyone’. The consultation began on 10 March with an eight-week ‘open engagement’ process. This comprises an online survey and support for ‘local conversations and events across the UK’, including ‘roadshows, roundtables, as well as resources to help communities run their own discussions in ways that work for them’. The People’s Panel will be convened in May, after the initial consultation has ended, and will itself conclude by 21 June. It will be made up of ‘a broadly representative group of 100–120...
The UK’s government has announced its first ever citizens' assembly.
The People's Panel for Digital ID will take place in May and June and be made up of 100 to 120 people from across the UK.
Read more in Monitor 92 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo....
GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test?
SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.
Close-up painting of tree trunks and grassy expanse nearby
To mark the birthday of Vincent van Gogh—iconic modern artist born today in 1853—a thread of some of my favorite, relatively lesser known works by him. First up, the stunning multi-colored variegation of his Tree Trunks in the Grass, made in last months of his life krollermuller.nl/en/vincent-v...
The only responsibility I feel right now, along with many others in Germany, is to keep bookmarking moments like this, so that people here don't turn around and tell the rest of the world "we had no idea what was happening". They know. Everyone knows. At best - at best - they don't want to see it.
I know there's a lot going on
But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable
Charging people to see the stuff they yoinked from their countries. A bold move.
Such a majestic beast!
An excellent piece on the flimsy evidence & racial profiling behind immigration raids in the UK. As the reporter spells out, tip-offs are anonymous & can be made by people with personal gripes. I've started to look into this and there is clearly a pattern...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Two weeks left to submit (short) proposals for Public Law's themed collection of analysis papers in 2027...
Tom Mullen and Charlie Peevers: A Legal Black Hole in UK Waters? The Case of the MV Bella 1 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/19/t...
There’s no saving these cruel, pointless and unworkable proposals and it’s to be hoped that critics within Labour won’t allow themselves to be fobbed off with tinkering around at the edges
one of the things that frustrates me about re my chronic illness is how last-minute my decisions about things often have to be--everything depends.
On how well/sick I feel, how much energy I have.
There is no way to know for sure how I feel until the day of.
I wonder if people just think Im a flake.
Quote: “The Court is, simultaneously, the complainant, the investigator, the judge, and the sentencer.”
India’s Supreme Court has banned a school textbook discussing judicial corruption.
ANMOL JAIN examines the Court’s extraordinary intervention in the NCERT affair – and why it raises serious concerns about contempt law and judicial self-protection.
verfassungsblog.de/the-indian-s...
39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.
Interesting to see that a review with 32 experts published in British Journal of Psychiatry last week found no evidence that ADHD is being overdiagnosed
www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/no-over...
Resharing this with a link straight to the content. @dinahrose.bsky.social makes a cameo (I think courts are yet to grasp the force of her argument in Croft) ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/09/r...
Interesting NZ HC case on expulsion from party and thus as MP subjecting decision to public law JR principles (as I understand on quick skim) cf in E&W, Tortoise Media in CoA
Though that was a s6 HRA case, as I reskimmed it (again speedily), essence is that no a public body but contractual
