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Associate Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory @lawatleeds.bsky.social, author of 'The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law' (Hart 2022), Open Access at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4562656#
This proposes a way of using AI agents to produce research. Ok. But this bit is a pipe dream: "And human scientists should retain authority over — and responsibility for — framing the question, validating the path and signing off on conclusions." Here's why...
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There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.
I'm interviewed in the Irish Times today, pontificating on the virtues of a BA Arts Degree. We need the humanities more than ever. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
BBC Verify has analysed verified videos and satellite imagery that show severe damage to a hospital, sporting centres, a UNESCO world heritage site and two schools since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Saturday, as the number of civilian casualties grows.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:
You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.
“According to a new consultation document, proposals could include handcuffing children who resist being put on a plane and sent back to their home country.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
View of lake Windermere from the harbour. Majestic pink clouds above. Hills lit by the sunset in the back
Windermere never disappoints
just fwiw, here are the arguments being made, in order:
1. iran has apologized to its neighbors and admitted it lost
2. this is unprecedented and because of me
3. iran has not surrendered and will collapse if it doesn’t admit it lost
4. i am going to bomb iran more and worse until it surrenders
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: “A country that always defends human rights and international law, like Spain, earns the respect of the entire world, as has happened in recent weeks.”
While Russians paraded under their flag to the sporting world’s cheers, their missiles murdered a 13 year old girl in Kharkiv. Shame on the IOC!
I like how a publication that helped drive Universities ranking-mad, stoke competition, helped made the life of academics more difficult is now shocked at the state of UK HE.
Trump’s War now providing a massive influx of cash for Iran’s ally Russia so they can continue to bomb civilians in Ukraine while we ask Ukraine for help against Iranian drones. Trump’s foreign policy in a nutshell.
I dropped out of high school, gained a huge amount of often difficult life experience, then went to community college, and now I'm a professor in a prestigious university. There HAS TO BE A PLACE for non-traditional students. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
News that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes serious truths about the state we’re in.
By @theguardian.com columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
We have to better engage with our members, taking the activists seriously, given the energy they put into the union, but also by giving the silent majority the opportunity to speak.
A reminder that international law and rules of engagement are there for a reason - and if you simply dismiss them, things like these become more likely www.reuters.com/world/middle...
As with Badenoch, the effect of all this is that they are supporting Trump. They are Trump supporters. I'll say it again: They are Trump supporters.
They'll often couch their support in 'just asking questions', 'I'd do it differently', and 'realpolitik' but this is where they are.
On the one hand, a clearly deranged lunatic in the White House starting a dangerous illegal war on Iran with already-serious repercussions for the region and world...
Or having a pop at Keir Starmer.
You just knew which side the Right would come down on.
The newspaper of record, ladies and gents
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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It's a real failure of journalism that everything is being boiled down to student loans. He was not calling for a review of loans but for a comprehensive review of higher education including its funding, of which student. Absent too here was his passionate defence of modern language study. 2/2
bsky.app/profile/anja... double-tap strikes, regardless of the target, are usually understood to be Geneva Convention violations because they target the wounded and aid personnel who are specifically protected under international law. The target here makes this an especially staggering evil.
The Speaker of the House: “We are not at war, we have no intention of being at war.”
Imagine if another country bombed us and killed our President while saying they are not at war with us.
This is insanity.
BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🚨 Exclusive: Trump demands immediate pardon for Netanyahu to focus on Iran
"Every day I talk to Bibi about the war," Trump says. "I want him to focus on the war and not on the f*cking court case."
Clip two from today for the trials.
At least this clarifies matters -if the government pursue Mahmood's proposals on "earned settlement"/ILR they will be explicitly allying themselves with Lam and Jenrick's ethnonationalist agenda.
Idit Silman: 7:28 PM · Mar 5, 2026 · Mr. President @realDonaldTrump , Your pressure regarding a pardon in the fake cases that were stitched up against Prime Minister Netanyahu is welcome. But it is important to understand who is blocking even a discussion of that request. Israel’s Attorney General, Gali Baharav-Miara, is preventing any discussion of the pardon, while Supreme Court President Yitzhak Amit is backing her and preventing her dismissal, while also striking down laws passed by Israel’s elected legislature. Since the United States stands for democracy in Israel, it is time to impose serious personal sanctions against both of them. Thank you, Mr. President, for standing with the State of Israel and the free world. https://x.com/iditsilman/status/2029640283277734066
Israeli minister and a Netanyahu bootlicker calls on Trump to impose personal sanctions agains Israeli's Attorney General and the chief justice of the Supreme court, as they are the stumbling blocks preventing the a pardon for Netanyahu in his corruption trial.
Official statements placing U.S. forces in the area – along w/ analysis of social posts, videos, sat. images – suggest U.S. forces bombed a school in Minab, Iran during strikes targeting an IRGC base. Over 150 were killed, Iranian officials say. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
