'I was obsessed with friendship. I was obsessed with emotionally vulnerable friendships....I wanted a piece of that friendship pie' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social talks about the most delicious kind of pie, that we all deserve a generous slice of. Full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
'Using AI..you can take any woman's photograph..and create a sexually explicit image..without her consent' NEW EPISODE! Baroness Charlotte Owen visits the Speakeasy to talk about AI, consent & the need for law to catch up with technology. Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
'It's a very selfish industry...everyone is pulling the ladder away...and I have to say women who have got Michelin Stars or powerful female head chefs do interpret success in male terms.' Asma Khan calls out misogyny in the restaurant industry - listen now! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
On Far Right mentality: 'It's like guys that used to be bodybuilders and then they're 80....you can either keep charging about like you're a 20 year old in your prime and get knocked out or you can just accept nature's run its course.' Full Darren McGarvey episode here! podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
'I was spied on by the police...they did not like to think of the influence I was carrying' NEW EPISODE RELEASE: In the last week of #BlackHistoryMonth, Baroness Doreen Lawrence joins Shami in the Speakeasy for a wide-ranging - and rare - conversation. listen here podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
2/2 ...who never traded victims protections for due process. She will be much missed and fondly remembered''
Shami Chakrabarti shared the following on the sad passing of former Victims' Commissioner Baroness Helen Newlove
1/2 "The brave and wonderful soul and much-loved Victims’ Commissioner Baroness Helen Newlove has passed away. She was an instinctive rights campaigner..
'..the reason people are really struggling is because too much of the wealth and influence has been hoarded by a tiny, tiny percentage of people at the top' Nicola Sturgeon. Listen to our two launch episodes & sign up now to receive an artistic treat in the coming days.... www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
'Nobody in America would say, we had nothing to do with slavery...even Donald Trump wouldn't say that...whereas here, all of that happened abroad, or most of it.' Gary Younge
Listen to our two launch episodes & sign up to receive an artistic treat in the coming days.... www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk
looking for a new podcast? Today Shami launches @shamisspeakeasy.bsky.social a refuge for honesty, resistance, and reflection in difficult times. Double episode released today with Nicola Sturgeon and Gary Younge. Follow it on socials and listen to it here podfollow.com/shamis-speak...
This was Conor Gearty only a week or so ago at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on ECHR withdrawal and the Palestine Action ban.
Very sad to hear of the untimely death of Conor Gearty, a lovely individual, one of our finest legal academics, and a central figure in promoting human rights worldwide.
Awful news about the death of the great Conor Gearty.
Perhaps the kindest and most encouraging law professor imaginable.
A dreadful loss to the study of civil liberties and constitutional law.
Conor Gearty was one of the UK’s foremost legal scholars and public intellectuals. A true human rights defender and great friend, he lived the values that so many talk about. His loss is devastating to our community. Sending all love and solidarity to his partner Aoife and entire family.
'proscription of Palestine Action is in danger of becoming a mistake of poll tax proportions' Shami Chakrabarti #CaseForTheDefence www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
"The superinjunction is smelly... that's legalese"
Shami Chakrabarti comments on the Afghan data leak superinjunction on Politics Live.
🔗 Shami's new book "Human Rights: The Case for the Defence" @caseforthedefence.bsky.social
...They should perhaps remember that we are all foreigners, almost everywhere, including in other member states, and there is no such thing as democracy without the rule of law. ' #ShamiChakrabarti at @coe.int
'...today's debate seems more about the challenge from those, even perhaps amongst us who seek to diminish convention rights, not enhance them.
They want to clip the wings of the court and refuse rights to non-citizens...
'It's one thing to be a threat to property..to be prosecuted & ..even imprisoned...but it's another thing altogether to proscribe a whole group and that means anyone..vaguely associated with it, to brand them terrorists' #ShamiChakrabarti on the proposed proscription #PalestineAction #TodayProgramme
Shami's at the @coe.int this week....watch this space for updates #CaseForTheDefence
So excited to see #IAHRE2025 get going with a critique of academic human rights sceptics by by @Shami Chakrabarti on the right and left #HumanRightsTheCasefortheDefence
Are you at the @ioe.bsky.social for the International Association for Human Rights Education Conference? Shami will be giving a keynote speech -a must-listen for all who care about education and rights. #CaseForTheDefence global-iahre.org/research/
What’s at stake when human rights are under attack?
Join Shami Chakrabarti this Thursday, 5 June
📍 Anglia Ruskin University
🎟️ £12 / £10 concessions
Don't miss this important conversation (and Shami will be signing books too!) #CaseForTheDefence
👉 essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/human-rights
Still tickets left for this How to Academy event with #ShamiChakrabarti on human rights in a time of crisis #CaseForTheDefence howtoacademy.com/events/shami....
Great line from Shami Chakrabarti on #BBCNewsnight. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social needs to put a "song in the heart" of the electorate... "a song of hope"
Birkbeck archaeology graduates, in robes, smiling
Couldn’t be prouder of these brilliant archaeologists who graduated from our MA yesterday! I love Birkbeck grad so much. They’re already on to such wonderful things, and an honour to be there on the first day of ceremonies for our new President, Shami Chakrabarti (!)
Thank you so much to everyone who came along to #ShamiChakrabarti #CaseForTheDefence book event at the @guernseylitfest.bsky.social - the paperback is now out. Please support your local bookshop!
www.penguin.co.uk/books/452264...
guernseypress.com/news/2025/05...
Shami is speaking to Pam Cox, MP for Colchester, about her book Human Rights: The Case for The Defence at Anglia Ruskin University on 5 June as part of the @essexbookfest.bsky.social - get your tickets here! essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/human-...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g6zp724zpo
#ShamiChakrabarti will be talking about her new book 'Human Rights: the Case for the Defence' at @guernseylitfest.bsky.social on 25th April - get your tickets here! #CaseForTheDefence guernseyliteraryfestival.com/events/human...
(1/2) The UK's Baroness Shami Chakrabarti at the Council of Europe yesterday:
“Treating asylum seekers, refugees – indeed, all migrants - with a modicum of dignity was non-partisan for most of the post-war period…”
📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ye... (from 3:33:43)
@coe.int @pace.coe.int #ECHR
