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crookedfootball.bsky.social
Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
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Le Perthus/El Pertus: Spanish post box and French parking meter. One for @lewisbaston.bsky.social and @jonnelledge.bsky.social

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

I think Turkey is the optimistic scenario right now, if anything

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Americans seem unable to comment on politics without saying that someone is following a or the “playbook”. It seems to be a sports metaphor

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

In a decade, we've moved from cross-party attempts to work out rights for trans people to politically weaponised opinion-column-driven war against them. Lesson the Jenricks have drawn is that demonizing minorities is good strategy and the mainstream have decided that fighting back is not worth it

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

As @msanfieldpark.bsky.social helpfully points out, such a rapid change of guidance may turn out to be unlawful, because, if the guidelines are considered to be a Code of Practice, then section 67 of Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 requires that it is the Secretarof State who changes them

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

AFAICS there is **nothing** in yesterday's UK SC ruling that licenses or justifies this change of policy by the British Transport Police. (Though clearly the ruling is creating a space for all kinds of horrible behaviour, bullying, and poltical opportunism.)

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

So a reason for asking the question is because I supect one reason the humanities are in crisis is because the first-order activity to which much of the humanities responds is also in crisis.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Meta has more data, but is it actually better data? It would be nice to have a data scientist look through this piece with a sceptical eye.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

[turning up to the fist fight with a loaded gun] maybe Americans wouldn't be so obsessed with "seasoning" if they actually had access to produce that tastes of something

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The “right-on” American take implies the far-right denial that all kinds of British people are *really* British. But, of course, those people are really British.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I have to say, the replies I’m getting aren’t exactly undermining my belief that 1975-2025 is incredibly impoverished compared to, say, 1875-1925

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Save me from cultural pessimism please. Great (likely to be in the canon 100 years hence) works of art , literature, music, philosophy, etc produced in the last 50 years by people who were not already aged at least 30 fifty years ago?

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

As we've seen in other cases, this isn't about facts, evidence or argument, but about destroying people just to show that they can and that nobody can stop them

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Quite a helpful article, I thought

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I'll leave the legally knowledgeable to comment properly on the UK SC ruling on trans, biological sex etc. But it seems to follow that where a statutory body has places reserved for women, it would be perfectly legal to fill all those places with transmen.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

How long before Wilhoit's law gets mentioned in a US Supreme Court dissent?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

At the cost of thousands of drowned or detained in torture and rape camps maintained by dictatorships funded by the EU. This is the continent that is supposed to have different values to Donald Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

But if the numbers in such a scheme are small, as the article says, how would that make a dent in the "business model" of the smugglers (its supposed aim)?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Hmm, some of the most rigid and dogmatic and intolerant people I've ever met are in the political centre, and on the left I've encountered people with wildly different levels of "flexibility" situated at similar degrees of leftness to one another. Then again, the reviewer is Aaro

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Over at Alphaville, I remain confused that we could end up in a situation where more than 90% of the Gambling Commission's convictions under the match-fixing laws are related to election dates www.ft.com/content/1f1a...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

One of the best pieces the @lrb.co.uk has ever published imo.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Very interesting column on AI firing by @sarahoconnorft.ft.com . How to contest a decision when nobody understands the process by which it was reached? That's an issue that links to some of @dsquareddigest.bsky.social 's themes.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Terrible effects on people who have already endured some of the worst trauma. And we know that when asylum seekers manifest poor mental health that results from their treatment, that too is held against them and used to justify containment and securitisation,

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Well ...

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

For anyone confused about what is happening: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526145314/

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment