My piece for Verfassungsblog on the High Court judgment regarding the proscription of Palestine Action.
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My piece for Verfassungsblog on the High Court judgment regarding the proscription of Palestine Action.
verfassungsblog.de/palestine-ac...
‘Too often we treat national security assessments as solemn expressions of a neutral truth by the elected guardians of the people. Yet the case of Peter Mandelson shows just how lopsided and politically motivated those assessments can be.’
@daniellalock.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule. Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
The Palestine Action judgment: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
High Court’s judgment finding the proscription of Palestine Action was an unjustified interference with rights to freedom of association and assembly under arts 10/11 ECHR, and inconsistent with the Home Secretary’s own policy.
www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
The High Court will hand down judgment tomorrow in the judicial review against the Home Secretary’s proscription of Palestine Action.
CALL FOR CHAPTERS!
Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...
Now available for pre-order; forthcoming April 2026.
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The way Palestine Action ban was approved by MPs has been raised in the High Court, with Dame Victoria Sharp noting 2 unrelated groups were on the same order
She says MPs may have been "reluctant" to vote against it but the home sec lawyer says the court should be "cautious" giving that any weight
I recorded a podcast with @daniellalock.bsky.social and @colinmurray.bsky.social in which we discuss decision to ban #PalestineAction. There is some really excellent stuff in here-- Daniella and Colin are on top of their briefs.
Please do check it out and share widely!
youtu.be/tKN4Wk2SEyQ?...
Free seminar on Prevent and Extremism in Oxford this Thursday, with me and the excellent Julia Ebner: www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/preve.... Some background to my own work on Prevent is here: www.daqc.co.uk/2025/11/16/l....
Important new report from the Bingham Centre's Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice: binghamcentre.biicl.org/documents/22...
Data released this week shows that a record number of referrals were made to Prevent in the year to March 2025. The majority of referrals were made for individuals who had “no identified ideology.”
I am delighted to see this great piece in the Guardian about developments in partial ectogestation - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... - and glad to have had the opportunity to contribute some of the insights from my work over the last 8 years @durham.ac.uk
Prevent opened up to C4 News last week. This 10-minute film (from 19:30) is the result. Recommended.
www.channel4.com/programmes/c...
Far-right extremists outnumber Islamists in anti-terror programme referrals, data shows www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Prevent stats published today www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
A majority of #PREVENT referrals in the past year have no identifiable ideology.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It's a tight race. Callum still needs a bit of support from Team Dog.
The IPT has dismissed complaints made by two Guantanamo Bay detainees alleging public law illegality by UK security agencies in their ill-treatment by the US: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...
The substantive findings/reasons for dismissing all substantive grounds are contained in a CLOSED judgment.
Was the word "civil service"?
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from myself and @frasoliman.bsky.social for the edited collection 'Harmful Security: multidisciplinary perspectives on the harms of counterterrorism'.
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Giving this talk tmr!
