@shonaminson
Women's Justice Board member BBC New Generation Thinker Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford Family law/ criminal law intersections. Children's rights. Procedural Justice Creative public engagement. Once upon a time I was a barrister
I’m between surgery and radiotherapy following a cancer diagnosis and I’ve decided to take part in Cancer Research’s 12 Dips of Christmas 🥶🎄
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The spectacle of cruelty towards those seeking refuge is fully on display: no camouflage, no shame, no decency - only indifference and indignation👇🏾
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They do know that many cultures don’t have rings as marriage symbols but other artefacts that in this “bags of gold rings” ignorance they will obviously be seizing.
Also whether you “seize” at a border or during a raid of a damp barracks it’s the seizing that’s wrong. Utterly wrong.
Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.
What the fuck are we?
Those working in the cjs know prisons cause great harm & have limited benefit to society but the conversation rarely goes further than our sector.
So I'm delighted The Bodley Head who publish all kinds of thought-changing books, want to publish my book-to-be, "Imprisoned: The Case for Change".
Peace Illusions The ceasefire didn't cease fire The Humanitarian surge Is a trickle Peace, a performative illusion
Peace Illusions
This is the post I’ve been waiting for 👌
#cheapskate
Like a lot of things with RFK Jr if someone just said this to you and wasn’t in charge of medicine in America you’d go: ooooooookay and keep pressing the elevator button
If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.
It was two OUP books.
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
This is obviously the death of the rule of law, a key aspect of any democracy.
It’s also the final death of the Tories as an ostensibly constitutional party and comfirmation of its move, like the MAGA Republicans, into the unconstitutional far right. 11/
Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias' The shadow justice secretary has accused 'activists' within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence
In the current climate of far right hostility, Jenrick is actively inciting violence against these judges with this. Badenoch may have defended his explicit racism yesterday, but this alone should see him lose both his position as shadow justice secretary and the whip immediately.
#r4today
The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth
‘[Lord Wolfson says:] The [ECHR] and the Human Rights Act “place major restrictions on individual decision-making at every level (civil servants, judges, and ministers) and in policy and legislative design”.’
YES THAT’S THE ENTIRE POINT
We need more of this! Well done for this leaflet with its strong message supporting inclusion, rejecting racism #Celtic
I hope the invited refugees enjoyed the match
#ScotlandForAll
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Back to Graham Greene again for my #sundaysentence this week: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation."
It shouldn't be as hard as some people seem to make out to recognise that islamophobia, anti-semitism, hate in general, all needs to be absolutely, unconditionally, condemned every time without any form of whataboutery or "but this..." etc.
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Labour's "war on terrorism" continues...
Trump: "If you don't like what I'm saying you can leave the room. There goes your rank & there goes your future." <nervous laughter>
Many of these US generals were no doubt aware of Hitler's notorious "Führereid", the oath of personal allegiance he made German generals swear in 1934..
Shabana Mahmood MP # @Sha...2h g ... MIGRANTS MUST CONTRIBUTE TO THIS COUNTRY TO EARN THEIR RIGHT TO STAY #Lab25 BREAKING NEWS INDEFINITE LEAVE TO REMAIN COULD BE DEPENDENT ON • PAYING NATIONAL INSURANCE - CLAIMING NO BENEFITS • HAVING A CLEAN CRIMINAL RECORD • VOLUNTEERING IN THEIR COMMUNITY SHABANA MAHMOOD HOME SEGRETARY
I wonder what legal test will be for ‘volunteering’ - Union jacks on lampposts? Spying on a rubber dingy in Channel? Outlawing the RNLI? Bake sales for IDF in support of the (not 🙄) genocide?
There is always a lower place when it comes to unhinged immigration policy. Always.
A Quiet Life I’m just minding my own business It’s too complicated for me to understand I’m too busy I don’t like politics I can’t watch the news I’m sure there are Good and bad On both sides. And what about Hamas? I just want a quiet life. Everyday maladaptive phrases in September 2025
A Quiet Life
So exhausting..
I've always adored the doggy side eye thing they do ❤️🥺
I’m working hard on body and mind recovery after surgery for #breastcancer as I wait to find out what treatment I’m going to need next.
#walking #goodfood #beautifulthings #cancer
New article published with a team of fantastic women
Making sense of academic service in unpredictable times: exploring the risks and benefits of academic activism in higher education
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@uofgunescorila.bsky.social
Just to be clear:
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
thinking again, as I often do, about how unbelievably important it is to fart around
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