Rick Ball
IP, Competition & EU Law, Derby County, LA Rams & wonderful Weymouth are my passions
- Reposted by Rick BallSanchez is right: the choice is btwn "becoming closed & impoverished societies or open & prosperous ones". In the Routledge Guide to the European Union, 2nd ed, I wrote that countries discouraging migrants wd be losers; those that welcomed them & fitted them into economies & societies wd be winners.
- Reposted by Rick BallNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Rick BallCount to one hundred. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog reflecting on a frenetic fortnight of domestic and international news, the state of the reset, the significance of the latest calls for 'proper Brexit', and the anger suffusing our politics: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/coun...
- Reposted by Rick BallSir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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- Reposted by Rick BallOn 30 January 1649 Charles I was executed. Dr Patrick Little explored the process by which one MP, Sir Hardress Waller, came to sign his death warrant.
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- Reposted by Rick BallJANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”
- So I’d just like to say, Bristol Rovers (sorry City) 0, Derby County 5. Who put the ball in the Bristol net…you know the rest 🤘
- Reposted by Rick BallI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- Reposted by Rick Ball"It is apparent that there is still no final and definitive list of that legislation, nor clarity about what should be done with it all." ✍️ @simonusherwood.bsky.social on the challenges the UK faces in dealing with the legislation it adopted while part of the EU 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-boundles...
- Niche, you say niche, this is so primetime IMHO. But then I'm allegedly sad anyway...according to my students & daughter :-)
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- Reposted by Rick BallMy three @prospectmagazine.co.uk posts on the Minnesota killings and government thuggery A death in Minnesota (Good) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... The new ICE Age www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th... Another death in Minnesota (Pretti) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
- Reposted by Rick BallI decided to begin my book about Britain with a quote from Scotland‘s greatest poet. 'If only we could see ourselves as others see us.' Applies to everyone. Not just people. Countries, too.
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- Reposted by Rick BallMore than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”
- Reposted by Rick BallI’m old enough to remember when many of the voices saying very little tonight told us very loudly that Obama and Biden were anti-British.
- Reposted by Rick BallICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home
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- Reposted by Rick BallThen: constitutional law should be boring, not exciting. Now: constitutional law should be boring, not terrifying.
- Reposted by Rick BallThe letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:
- Reposted by Rick BallFarage still defends a decision that decimated our economy, tore our country apart and damaged our ability to determine our nations future. Join LME standing up to him and fighting to reset our relationship with the EU for sake of trade, security and our sanity. www.labourmovementforeurope.uk/join
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- Reposted by Rick BallEnemies within and without. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog includes a look at Erasmus, the Mail's anti-emigrant campaign, the great hate at home and the threat from Trump abroad, and the government's response: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/enem...
- Reposted by Rick Ball“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)
- Reposted by Rick BallWe are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above Watching from afar further shifts in a worsening polity By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/we-are-chr... Personal Blog: davidallengreen.com/2026/01/we-a...
- Reposted by Rick BallLooks like this is topical again! My piece on why the single market and customs union matter so much: labourlist.org/2025/07/uk-r...
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- What a clusterf*** of a world. Here’s something to make you feel wonderful
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- Reposted by Rick BallI get told that Labour is going to bring in new safe routes for asylum seekers… Great 😑 I’ll believe it when I see it. Here’s why I have my doubts they’ll stop the boats:
- Reposted by Rick BallPoverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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- Reposted by Rick BallMerry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.
- Reposted by Rick BallThe Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!
- Reposted by Rick BallCarol of the Bells ("Shchedryk") from Ukrainian Defenders at Sofiivska Square, in the heart of Kyiv. Merry Christmas, friends! 📹: miarodriges / Threads
- Reposted by Rick BallBritain could have joined Erasmus five years ago; an agreement on funding was completed between negotiators but vetoed “at the very last minute” by Boris Johnson. From Stefaan de Rynck’s book
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- Reposted by Rick BallWHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
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- Reposted by Rick BallThe EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent. It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
- In Germany at the mo & there is some celebrating at that World Cup draw 🤷🏻♂️
- Reposted by Rick BallDaisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat" "Today we have 46,000 a year" "And do you know why?" "Brexit" "Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage" *audience erupts in applause" #BBCQT
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- Reposted by Rick BallBREAKING: “The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong." Keir Starmer says that "wild promises were made" about Brexit. He adds: "The same argument is now being made about the European Convention on Human Rights"
- Reposted by Rick Ballone of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
- Reposted by Rick BallA former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged. A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death. And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.
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