Alan Greene
@alangreene.bsky.social
Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights. Irish emigrant. I write about emergencies, terrorism, constitutional theory, and human rights.
The Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law's report has been published this morning. ☕
binghamcentre.biicl.org/documents/22...
binghamcentre.biicl.org/documents/22...
binghamcentre.biicl.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 AM
The Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law's report has been published this morning. ☕
binghamcentre.biicl.org/documents/22...
binghamcentre.biicl.org/documents/22...
The threshold for property damage to qualify as an act of terrorism "should apply only to conduct causing serious risk to life, national security, or public safety, or involving arson, explosives, or firearms.”
Legal experts and politicians criticise process used to ban Palestine Action
Legal experts and politicians criticise process used to ban Palestine Action
Independent commission says definition of terrorism relied on by ministers is too broad and more parliamentary oversight is needed
Legal experts, former government ministers and an ex-MI6 director have criticised the process used to ban Palestine Action.
The members of an independent commission set up by the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law said the definition of terrorism was too broad and better parliamentary oversight and judicial scrutiny was needed. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The threshold for property damage to qualify as an act of terrorism "should apply only to conduct causing serious risk to life, national security, or public safety, or involving arson, explosives, or firearms.”
Wait, I thought genuflecting to Trump and flattering him with a grovelling state visit was supposed to appease him?
Did he not get the memo?
www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...
Did he not get the memo?
www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...
Donald Trump threatens BBC with $1bn lawsuit as chair says speech edit was ‘error of judgment’ – latest updates
BBC chair Samir Shah apologises for way in which speech from US president was edited as corporation’s two most senior executives resign
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Wait, I thought genuflecting to Trump and flattering him with a grovelling state visit was supposed to appease him?
Did he not get the memo?
www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...
Did he not get the memo?
www.theguardian.com/media/live/2...
"My conflict of interest meant that I could not disclose my conflict of interest."
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www.rte.ie/news/politic...
Client confidentiality reason for non-disclosure - Yates
Ivan Yates has said client confidentiality was the reason he did not disclose the fact that he gave media training to Fianna Fáil presidential candidate Jim Gavin.
www.rte.ie
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"My conflict of interest meant that I could not disclose my conflict of interest."
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
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Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement
BREAKING: Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
Tim Davie has resigned as the BBC's director-general.
news.sky.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement
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LOL, of course the thing that topples the most right-wing leadership of the BBC in my lifetime is lèse majesté to the Orange King.
This tells you everything you need to know about the extent of far right capture of both the UK's public-service broadcaster & the incumbent govt of toadying lackies.
This tells you everything you need to know about the extent of far right capture of both the UK's public-service broadcaster & the incumbent govt of toadying lackies.
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
LOL, of course the thing that topples the most right-wing leadership of the BBC in my lifetime is lèse majesté to the Orange King.
This tells you everything you need to know about the extent of far right capture of both the UK's public-service broadcaster & the incumbent govt of toadying lackies.
This tells you everything you need to know about the extent of far right capture of both the UK's public-service broadcaster & the incumbent govt of toadying lackies.
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Lindsey "We're killing all the right people" Graham.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham does not like this and threatens “a heavy price”.
November 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Lindsey "We're killing all the right people" Graham.
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this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
this thing hides posts it judges as ‘rude’, by some US standard. Thereby silencing most of the conversations in Ireland and Scotland, at least.
When you get a solemn Rememberance email from a senior university administrator stating that "The United Nations estimated that 87% of people who die in war are now civilian" when the same institution blocked a staff-student listening session on Palestine and took protesting students to court.
November 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
When you get a solemn Rememberance email from a senior university administrator stating that "The United Nations estimated that 87% of people who die in war are now civilian" when the same institution blocked a staff-student listening session on Palestine and took protesting students to court.
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Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
AI can transform all areas of our lives – even boiling a bag of frozen veg
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Give peas a chance – even AI peas: the Stephen Collins cartoon
The distortive power and influence wielded by billionaires and now trillionaires is incompatible with democracy.
November 7, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The distortive power and influence wielded by billionaires and now trillionaires is incompatible with democracy.
Just as well celebrities are so rich because if The Traitors is anything to go by, they get their wallets inspected A LOT. #TheTraitors
November 6, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just as well celebrities are so rich because if The Traitors is anything to go by, they get their wallets inspected A LOT. #TheTraitors
🎓 PHD FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 🎓
We now have a range of funding opportunities for postgraduate research students. Please reach out to me if you're interested in a PhD in:
>Counter-Terrorism
>Emergency Powers
>Human Rights
>Constitutional Theory
>Public Law
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
We now have a range of funding opportunities for postgraduate research students. Please reach out to me if you're interested in a PhD in:
>Counter-Terrorism
>Emergency Powers
>Human Rights
>Constitutional Theory
>Public Law
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
College of Arts and Law Doctoral Scholarships - University of Birmingham
Fully-funded and partially-funded scholarships for doctoral research students studying in the College of Arts of Law in the 2026/27 academic year onwards
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🎓 PHD FUNDING OPPORTUNITY 🎓
We now have a range of funding opportunities for postgraduate research students. Please reach out to me if you're interested in a PhD in:
>Counter-Terrorism
>Emergency Powers
>Human Rights
>Constitutional Theory
>Public Law
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
We now have a range of funding opportunities for postgraduate research students. Please reach out to me if you're interested in a PhD in:
>Counter-Terrorism
>Emergency Powers
>Human Rights
>Constitutional Theory
>Public Law
www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...
Dispatch from the frontline of the Poppy Wars
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Dispatch from the frontline of the Poppy Wars
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A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
"Awww, Thanks, Guy!"
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Awww, Thanks, Guy!"
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New video from me in which I explain my human rights hostility as kayfabe argument and also respond to a recent interview by @politicsjoe.bsky.social on the left wing case against the ECHR.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1K...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1K...
There is no left wing case against the ECHR
YouTube video by Dr Alan Greene
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New video from me in which I explain my human rights hostility as kayfabe argument and also respond to a recent interview by @politicsjoe.bsky.social on the left wing case against the ECHR.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1K...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1K...
FF and FG turning hard right on immigration despite emigration being a key part of Irish identity.
Meanwhile, the mayor-elect of NYC proudly states that,
"New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
Meanwhile, the mayor-elect of NYC proudly states that,
"New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 8:57 AM
FF and FG turning hard right on immigration despite emigration being a key part of Irish identity.
Meanwhile, the mayor-elect of NYC proudly states that,
"New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
Meanwhile, the mayor-elect of NYC proudly states that,
"New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
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Nobody will ever match the Simpsons’ perfect summation of America’s indefensible two-party system.
November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Nobody will ever match the Simpsons’ perfect summation of America’s indefensible two-party system.
New video from me in which I explain my human rights hostility as kayfabe argument and also respond to a recent interview by @politicsjoe.bsky.social on the left wing case against the ECHR.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1K...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1K...
There is no left wing case against the ECHR
YouTube video by Dr Alan Greene
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New video from me in which I explain my human rights hostility as kayfabe argument and also respond to a recent interview by @politicsjoe.bsky.social on the left wing case against the ECHR.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1K...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH1K...
It's really amazing how the UK is a good few years ahead of Ireland in its race to the bottom on migrant rights and yet Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have learned nothing from the mistakes made by the British Labour Party or Tories in pandering to the far right.
November 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
It's really amazing how the UK is a good few years ahead of Ireland in its race to the bottom on migrant rights and yet Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have learned nothing from the mistakes made by the British Labour Party or Tories in pandering to the far right.