Paul O’Connell
@pmpoc.bsky.social
socialist | trade unionist | legal academic | foghlaimeoir Gaeilge | denouncing the abyss
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Irish (opposition) politicians condemn the use of Shannon airport for US deportation flights of Palestinians to Israel.
The Irish Government remains silent.
The Irish Government remains silent.
Use of Irish airport for US deportation flights to Israel called ‘reprehensible’
Use of Irish airport for US deportation flights to Israel called ‘reprehensible’
Irish politicians condemn use of Shannon airport by ICE-chartered private jet owned by Trump donor
Politicians in Ireland have said the use of an airport in County Clare by planes deporting Palestinians from the United States is to Israel “reprehensible”.
A private jet owned by the Donald Trump donor Gil Dezer was chartered by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for two separate flights that took detainees to Israel, a Guardian investigation revealed this week. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Irish (opposition) politicians condemn the use of Shannon airport for US deportation flights of Palestinians to Israel.
The Irish Government remains silent.
The Irish Government remains silent.
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For an excellent in-depth exploration of the US use of financial sanctions since September 11th onwards, listen to Episode 5 of the @lrb.co.uk Aftershock podcast 'In dollars we trust'
@danielsoar.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
@danielsoar.bsky.social
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February 7, 2026 at 9:33 AM
For an excellent in-depth exploration of the US use of financial sanctions since September 11th onwards, listen to Episode 5 of the @lrb.co.uk Aftershock podcast 'In dollars we trust'
@danielsoar.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
@danielsoar.bsky.social
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Really sad news, Emilios was a profoundly insightful thinker, and a really nice guy - condolences to his family and close friends: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/02/05/e...
Emilios Christodoulides 1963–2026
It is with the greatest sadness that wish to inform you that our comrade, colleague, friend and amazing intellectual, Emilios Christodoulides, passed away
criticallegalthinking.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Really sad news, Emilios was a profoundly insightful thinker, and a really nice guy - condolences to his family and close friends: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/02/05/e...
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No war on Iran. A war on Iran is a war on its people. No war on the people of Iran. None. Not for any reason.
February 5, 2026 at 4:21 AM
No war on Iran. A war on Iran is a war on its people. No war on the people of Iran. None. Not for any reason.
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Less than a month after Iran’s massacre of protestors, the EU slaps sanctions on Iranian officials & entities, inc designating the IRGC a terrorist org. Nearly 2.5 years of genocide by Israel against Pals, w/ a death toll of 70,000 at min, not one sanction against Israel www.bbc.com/news/article...
EU adds Iran's Revolutionary Guards to 'terrorist list'
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says the move is a response to Tehran's deadly crackdown on protesters.
www.bbc.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Less than a month after Iran’s massacre of protestors, the EU slaps sanctions on Iranian officials & entities, inc designating the IRGC a terrorist org. Nearly 2.5 years of genocide by Israel against Pals, w/ a death toll of 70,000 at min, not one sanction against Israel www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Money-grubbers like Dr Faisal Maassarani are creating a housing problem not people seeking asylum. This man evicted 100 tenants from their homes simply because he could earn more from Serco. Shout at him not the people he's exploiting.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Millionaire Liverpool GP behind asylum seeker hotels
A firm founded by a GP tried to evict 100 people from flats while planning to move asylum seekers in.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 30, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Money-grubbers like Dr Faisal Maassarani are creating a housing problem not people seeking asylum. This man evicted 100 tenants from their homes simply because he could earn more from Serco. Shout at him not the people he's exploiting.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance
– to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social.
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– to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 28, 2026 at 7:31 AM
I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance
– to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
– to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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I’m looking forward to this new Conversations event, getting to talk and think through the tumult of 2025 sociologically. Never have we needed a critical sociology lens more. Come join us as we try and make sense of where we are now.
28th January: Join our first Conversations Series of the year on Weds 28th Jan at 1pm: Where Are We Now? to reflect on 2025 and where hope might lie.
🎙️ Speakers: Kirsteen Paton, Aaron Winter, Gholam Khiabany and Yasmin Gunaratnam
📅 Online 1-2pm
➡️ Get tickets: buff.ly/BkNjqjx
🎙️ Speakers: Kirsteen Paton, Aaron Winter, Gholam Khiabany and Yasmin Gunaratnam
📅 Online 1-2pm
➡️ Get tickets: buff.ly/BkNjqjx
January 20, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I’m looking forward to this new Conversations event, getting to talk and think through the tumult of 2025 sociologically. Never have we needed a critical sociology lens more. Come join us as we try and make sense of where we are now.
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Many thanks for this great collection and pleased to have my article 'Public Power and Private Hands: Outsourcing in UK National Security Law' included.
The special edition of the KLJ on national security issues that I edited with Keith Ewing is now out in full. Many thanks to our contributors: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rklj20/3...
www.tandfonline.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Many thanks for this great collection and pleased to have my article 'Public Power and Private Hands: Outsourcing in UK National Security Law' included.
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The special edition of the KLJ on national security issues that I edited with Keith Ewing is now out in full. Many thanks to our contributors: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rklj20/3...
www.tandfonline.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:26 PM
The special edition of the KLJ on national security issues that I edited with Keith Ewing is now out in full. Many thanks to our contributors: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rklj20/3...
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My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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A little preview of my forthcoming journal article on council tenants' resistance and resilience today in @scotnational.bsky.social. Massive thanks to @charlielynch.bsky.social for reaching out and giving my work a write-up.
www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
Resistance and resilience: Digging into Edinburgh's history of tenant activism
NEW research has highlighted the resistance and resilience among tenants in council housing in Edinburgh
www.thenational.scot
January 13, 2026 at 11:18 AM
A little preview of my forthcoming journal article on council tenants' resistance and resilience today in @scotnational.bsky.social. Massive thanks to @charlielynch.bsky.social for reaching out and giving my work a write-up.
www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
www.thenational.scot/politics/257...
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@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open
Applics. welcome across humanities & soc.sci from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to UK for 2 years
Deadline:11 March
I’d be very pleased to host ECRs keen to study #protest #policing #publicorder #assembly
Applics. welcome across humanities & soc.sci from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to UK for 2 years
Deadline:11 March
I’d be very pleased to host ECRs keen to study #protest #policing #publicorder #assembly
International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
January 16, 2026 at 8:04 AM
@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open
Applics. welcome across humanities & soc.sci from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to UK for 2 years
Deadline:11 March
I’d be very pleased to host ECRs keen to study #protest #policing #publicorder #assembly
Applics. welcome across humanities & soc.sci from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to UK for 2 years
Deadline:11 March
I’d be very pleased to host ECRs keen to study #protest #policing #publicorder #assembly
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Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program..
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike
Four more who had paused opt not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Three UK hunger strikers end their hunger strike after the MoD meets one of their demands: The MoD has denied a major new £2 billion contract with the Israeli defence firm's subsidiary, Elbit Systems UK, for an Army training program..
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Excellent from Paul O'Connell: "Terrorism now performs the function that treason once did: not a description of actual conduct but a mechanism for foreclosing political possibility."
"Naming this as anticipatory repression ... is a precondition for building the solidarities and organisational forms capable of withstanding it. They who sow pestilence must reap whirlwinds" - criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/12/c...
Cadaverous Tranquillity: Proscription, Anticipatory Repression and Coleridge
In December 1795, William Pitt’s government introduced the Treasonable Practices Bill and the Seditious Meetings Bill—the “Gagging Acts” as their
criticallegalthinking.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Excellent from Paul O'Connell: "Terrorism now performs the function that treason once did: not a description of actual conduct but a mechanism for foreclosing political possibility."
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A really interesting and thoughtful piece by @pmpoc.bsky.social - perhaps more so for its discussion and dissecting of what he wonderfully terms the “siege architecture” around the right to protest and organise in the UK today
Paul O’Connell: Anticipatory Repression and the Proscription of Palestine Action
The proscription of Palestine Action in July 2025 represents more than an aggressive application of counter-terrorism law. It reveals a broader, qualitative shift in the British state’s approach to…
ukconstitutionallaw.org
January 12, 2026 at 3:22 PM
A really interesting and thoughtful piece by @pmpoc.bsky.social - perhaps more so for its discussion and dissecting of what he wonderfully terms the “siege architecture” around the right to protest and organise in the UK today
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And like buses, two pieces at once on protest, proscription and political participation by @pmpoc.bsky.social
"Naming this as anticipatory repression ... is a precondition for building the solidarities and organisational forms capable of withstanding it. They who sow pestilence must reap whirlwinds" - criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/12/c...
Cadaverous Tranquillity: Proscription, Anticipatory Repression and Coleridge
In December 1795, William Pitt’s government introduced the Treasonable Practices Bill and the Seditious Meetings Bill—the “Gagging Acts” as their
criticallegalthinking.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:23 PM
And like buses, two pieces at once on protest, proscription and political participation by @pmpoc.bsky.social
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I have a post out today on the proscription of Palestine Action and how, through the lens of anticipatory repression, we can understand it as part of a much wider assault on democratic rights and freedoms in Britain: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/12/p...
Paul O’Connell: Anticipatory Repression and the Proscription of Palestine Action
The proscription of Palestine Action in July 2025 represents more than an aggressive application of counter-terrorism law. It reveals a broader, qualitative shift in the British state’s approach to…
ukconstitutionallaw.org
January 12, 2026 at 9:38 AM
I have a post out today on the proscription of Palestine Action and how, through the lens of anticipatory repression, we can understand it as part of a much wider assault on democratic rights and freedoms in Britain: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/12/p...
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"Naming this as anticipatory repression ... is a precondition for building the solidarities and organisational forms capable of withstanding it. They who sow pestilence must reap whirlwinds" - criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/12/c...
Cadaverous Tranquillity: Proscription, Anticipatory Repression and Coleridge
In December 1795, William Pitt’s government introduced the Treasonable Practices Bill and the Seditious Meetings Bill—the “Gagging Acts” as their
criticallegalthinking.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
"Naming this as anticipatory repression ... is a precondition for building the solidarities and organisational forms capable of withstanding it. They who sow pestilence must reap whirlwinds" - criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/12/c...
"Naming this as anticipatory repression ... is a precondition for building the solidarities and organisational forms capable of withstanding it. They who sow pestilence must reap whirlwinds" - criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/12/c...
Cadaverous Tranquillity: Proscription, Anticipatory Repression and Coleridge
In December 1795, William Pitt’s government introduced the Treasonable Practices Bill and the Seditious Meetings Bill—the “Gagging Acts” as their
criticallegalthinking.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 PM
"Naming this as anticipatory repression ... is a precondition for building the solidarities and organisational forms capable of withstanding it. They who sow pestilence must reap whirlwinds" - criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/12/c...
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Paul O’Connell: Anticipatory Repression and the Proscription of Palestine Action ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/12/p...
Paul O’Connell: Anticipatory Repression and the Proscription of Palestine Action
The proscription of Palestine Action in July 2025 represents more than an aggressive application of counter-terrorism law. It reveals a broader, qualitative shift in the British state’s approach to…
ukconstitutionallaw.org
January 12, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Paul O’Connell: Anticipatory Repression and the Proscription of Palestine Action ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/12/p...
I have a post out today on the proscription of Palestine Action and how, through the lens of anticipatory repression, we can understand it as part of a much wider assault on democratic rights and freedoms in Britain: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/12/p...
Paul O’Connell: Anticipatory Repression and the Proscription of Palestine Action
The proscription of Palestine Action in July 2025 represents more than an aggressive application of counter-terrorism law. It reveals a broader, qualitative shift in the British state’s approach to…
ukconstitutionallaw.org
January 12, 2026 at 9:38 AM
I have a post out today on the proscription of Palestine Action and how, through the lens of anticipatory repression, we can understand it as part of a much wider assault on democratic rights and freedoms in Britain: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/01/12/p...
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Always a welcome way to end a week but especially first week back: submission of a chapter
This 9,000-worder, written with my splendid UEA colleague @crwerren.bsky.social, will be in an edited collection "Human Rights in the UK under the Conservatives" by Conall Murray & Adam Ramshaw later in 2026
This 9,000-worder, written with my splendid UEA colleague @crwerren.bsky.social, will be in an edited collection "Human Rights in the UK under the Conservatives" by Conall Murray & Adam Ramshaw later in 2026
January 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Always a welcome way to end a week but especially first week back: submission of a chapter
This 9,000-worder, written with my splendid UEA colleague @crwerren.bsky.social, will be in an edited collection "Human Rights in the UK under the Conservatives" by Conall Murray & Adam Ramshaw later in 2026
This 9,000-worder, written with my splendid UEA colleague @crwerren.bsky.social, will be in an edited collection "Human Rights in the UK under the Conservatives" by Conall Murray & Adam Ramshaw later in 2026