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Annika Newnham

@annikabrandberg.bsky.social

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Tant och tönt. Associate Prof in Law at Uni Reading. Lives by the sea. Listens to the Archers, despairs at Politics, loves long country walks with husband and dog. If you have to resort to "F*ck of bitch!" you probably lost the argument a few bleets ago.

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Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 2d

All political parties pander to retired people because they are so much more likely to vote.

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Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 7d

From the conference?

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Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 10d

No, it's not all just good honest patriotism: this appeared on our daily dog walk on Lancing Beach Green. Don't worry, Spitha, you're going nowhere and neither am I.

Scruffy black rescue dog sitting by a pedestrian crossing where the words Send them back! and a St Georges Cross have been spray painted.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 12d

Nothing to see here. Just Nigel Fartrage keeping a look out for those pesky immigrants.

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Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 12d

I think the same thing is going on here.

Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 13d

I thought "oh he is old" and then got to the end of the sentence and he was born the same year I was... That doesn't add up, surely...?😱🤣

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Michele @funnymichele.bsky.social · 15d

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 15d

"Significant contribution to the field" often translates to "first person to care about this very specific thing"

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Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 15d

No, what I am accepting is that it is not worth my time to argue on social media with people who are not interested in changing their minds, and sometimes instead resort to flinging insults around to get a reaction.

Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 15d

I teach family law. ECHR protects families from arbitrarily having their children taken away by the state and it helps so many dads maintain a relationship with their children.

Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 15d

I'm afraid I haven't put enough time into understanding this policy to do that with confidence, no, sorry.

Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 15d

It won't change anything for those who have one, but it will make it much more difficult to come into the country illegally and then disappear.

Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 17d

I hope you're ok!

Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 18d

Bullied. We were just bullied instead. And made to feel like we deserved that for being so weird.

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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 18d

Over the last 24 hours Reform, with just a single policy announcement, have put fear where previously there was none into the hearts of millions of UK residents.

No 10 and the Chancellor have said nothing about the ethics of this.

I have no words left for them.

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Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you for this being in my timeline today - an immigrant.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19d

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

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Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 22d

Så trist. Tog det alltid personligt på nåt sätt när dom inte ville ha mitt gamla hus. Och allt som kommer bort för att man slängde in det i nåt skåp i sista minuten...

Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 24d

King Charles will have had no say in this. I don't think he likes Trump any more than his mother did. This is political, exactly as OP says.

Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 24d

I agree with you that Charlie Kirk, like so many American Evangelicals and other white Christian nationalists, did not really live by the values Jesus actually espoused. I don't know enough Catholics to generalise - the ones I know are nice.

Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 24d

Isn't that a Christian faith where you come from?

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 25d

The hardest part of academic writing is remembering which synonym for important you haven’t used yet

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Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 25d

I agree. Labour needs to tell an alternative story, that's more appealing

Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social · 25d

No, but I wonder if it's a bit like Brexit. People voted for Starmer with a wide set of different hopes and motivations. And in both the Leadership and General Elections, people voted against others more than for Starmer.

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