There are an awful lot of folk getting more upset over the destruction of a white statue than they have been over the destruction of brown people.

Does the ban on asylum seekers working actually work? - UK in a changing Europe Ali Ahmadi, Catherine Barnard and Fiona Costello argue that while the UK’s restrictions on employment for asylum seekers do not act as...

"The UK’s restrictions on asylum seekers’ right to work do not appear to act as a strong deterrent, yet they drive up asylum costs..."

✍️ @cbarnard.bsky.social, @fionacostello.bsky.social & Ali Ahmadi ask whether the ban on asylum seekers working actually works

🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/does-the-ban...

The beatings will continue until morale improves

Just love it when unis try to individualise structural problems

I introduce the concept of the Damoclesian border to demonstrate how bordering practices are maintained through a logic of contingency which inserts vectors of uncertainty into border enactments which hold the potential to unsettle the ontological security of those interpolated as border subjects.

In the Shadow of the Damoclesian Border Abstract. In the contemporary international order, control of borders is the central totem of statehood. The call to “take back control” of borders was the

New paper!

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What does “taking back control of borders” feel like when you are the one being bordered?

The new EU Pact on Migration and Asylum implies a tactical use of geography and temporality to hamper migrants from getting access to asylum
"The Spatiotemporal Disguises of Asylum" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... out in @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social

Video abstracts are a great way to introduce your newest research. Check out Zoë Jay's video abstract for her article: "'If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad’: Liberal enjoyment and complicity in popular culture."

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Dealer’s choice

Can we at least agree that Paddington should be on every banknote, walking various luminaries into the afterlife

@davidallengreen.bsky.social, would be very interested in an empty city summary of this if you’ve the time.

Whole bunch of academics, charity workers, legal practitioners, and policymakers are gonna end up in jail.

Very silly performative policymaking with no reasonable chance of being operationalised.

Bailiffs board Ryanair plane after airline refuses to pay delayed flight compensation Austrian officials took action after airline ignored court order to pay €890 to unnamed women Bailiffs have boarded a Ryanair aircraft after the airline refused to pay compensation to a passenger whose flight was delayed. Austrian officials took action after the airline ignored a court order to pay the unnamed woman €890 (£742) in legal costs and compensation for a delayed flight two years ago. Continue reading...

Bailiffs board Ryanair plane after airline refuses to pay delayed flight compensation

So @asanews.bsky.social emailed its membership its refusal to put a petition to Boycott, Divest, & Sanction Israel up to a vote, one that already had 438 signatures. This undemocratic decision, they wrote, is because they're worried about membership dropping.

Well do I have news for you.

He did not

UK puts emergency brake on study visas for four countries’ nationals Shabana Mahmood says UK’s generosity abused as study visas halted for nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan

Just so we’re clear:
❌ Travelling clandestinely or in a small boat to seek asylum: wrong
❌ Travelling safely and regularly to seek asylum: also wrong

Really enjoyed reading this article, well worth your time!

Given you can’t even get a quote right I’m guessing you over rely on them

They include it in their AI disclaimer on every assignment. They give me hope for the future.

My takeaway from the latest AI discourse is that the methods bros have spent so long relying on R they’ve forgot they’re supposed to understand at least some fundamentals of research.

Probably in a backlog with the AI peer reviewers

You’ve posted a blog written by AI that tells the reader to spend time locked in a room with AI. And you think this is a good thing?

Even *if* machines could do these jobs better than humans, why would we want them to? If we outsource intellectual curiosity and critical thinking to machines, what is left of the human?

As one of my students frequently tells me, “unbridled convenience rots the soul”

if you think this or are acting upon it you don’t deserve an academic job. people who boast publicly about how they’re too lazy to do their own research and writing and by extension make it harder for anyone else to do it properly are scabs and should be shunned by any serious researchers

It depends if you want to treat migrants as people or resources

No, we need immigration. We are a post-industrial ageing society with an economy almost entirely financed by rent extraction and services.

*also, affordable trains and rivers not full of sewage would be nice.

The problem with Labour is they think immigration is the battleground that they need to win.

All people want is to have a stable job, see a gp, and be able to afford a house.

All else is distraction

Apropos of nothing, you should all read this by @ngellwitzki.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...