Bernard Ryan
Professor of migration law, based in Leicester. For social equality, multiculturalism and anti-colonialism. Now more than ever.
- How come Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs get to vote on England’s student loan system?
- How about a political auction over student loans, rather than immigration policy?
- www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Why on earth does the @guardian call the Parliament Acts ‘archaic’? They were passed in 1911 and 1949 as democratic measures, in order to ensure social reforms.
- www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Poor headline, which inadvertently makes Matt Goodwin seem mainstream. His previously reported view was that ethnic minorities born *and raised* in the UK were not necessarily being British.
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- Trump II is an extended settler colonial revival: Palestine, ICE, Venezuela, Greenland. It’s an old story, this time in digital technicolour.
- Recommend this piece by @stewartmotha.bsky.social, on the parallels between the Chagos islands and Greenland.
- STEWART MOTHA (stewartmotha.bsky.social) revisits the UK’s dispossession of the Chagossians as a cautionary tale for Greenland, where security narratives may enable a fragmented absorption of territory and distract from interconnected vulnerabilities. verfassungsblog.de/greenland-ch...
- www.theguardian.com/world/live/2... It’s like the American revolutionary war all over again: indigenous populations preferring to stick with the imperial centre, rather than being exposed to the predations of settler rule.
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- What’s especially shocking about this is that the ‘Salisbury convention’ is supposed to mean that Lords do not obstruct manifesto Bills. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
- The settlement consultation paper includes the remarkable announcement ("not subject to consultation") that those "with a uniquely strong attachment to this country" will not face longer periods to settlement.
- In the foreword to settlement consultation, the Home Secretary tells us that "My father came here in the early 1970s, and my mother a little less than a decade later."
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- So the key question is whether Anthony Williams was known to the mental health system? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...?
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- Handsworth appears a model of integration, understood as everyday living together by diverse people.
- There’s also a solid case for student number controls at the institutional level, to end the instability an open market for students has caused since 2015. As things stand, in every discipline, some universities are simply expanding at the expense of others.
- Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October. Support our striking members, donate to the fighting fund if you're able. More details here: www.uculeicester.org.uk/leicester-uc...
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- If only commentators would recognise that in UK law ‘deportation’ is what happens to foreign nationals who have been convicted of serious criminal offences. Those affected typically had a right of residence beforehand.
- Reform's plan to end ILR - including where it has already been granted - would involve a bonfire of treaties and legislation.
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- Just think Corbyn is too set in his ways to lead the left party that UK politics needs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...?
- Can we agree that the main threats to free speech in the UK concern pro-Palestinian opinions?
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- Sorry, not buying the idea that Labour has been waving the UK flag to represent diversity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- Why does the article refer to the St George’s flag? He’s surely referring to the British flag.
- EXC - Keir Starmer condemns far right racism and violence at yesterday's march Says there will be "no surrender" of British flag to those who promote hate Our story here - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- One of Labour’s problems is that under Starmer they have actively deployed the union flag as a backdrop, both in campaigning and in Government. Point is: Labour are now very badly positioned to challenge the ‘patriotism’ of the populists or of the far right.
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- Really not sure this will fly: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- Reposted by Bernard RyanIncredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
