Koldo Casla
@koldocasla.bsky.social
Leire eta Nahiaren aita; Dad of two • Senior Lecturer, Essex Law School & Human Rights Centre @universityofessex.bsky.social • Politics, Law, Social Rights • Author ‘The Social Right to Property: Social Function & Human Rights' ✍️ 📖
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"Litigation on the Progressive Realisation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Under What Conditions May It Be Strategic?" A paper co-produced by a team of human rights academics and practitioners. Supported by @slsauk.bsky.social cbeh.cat/wp-content/u... cc @essexhrc.bsky.social
"This would not be socialism as we know it. A tiny elite would own AI’s 'commanding heights' and hand everyone else a check or some form of digital ration. The sum would be enough to live on, but not enough to challenge those in power." Noreena Hertz www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
Silicon Valley Socialism
Noreena Hertz sees several problems with the kind of top-down basic-income schemes proposed by tech industry leaders.
www.project-syndicate.org
January 4, 2026 at 10:03 PM
"This would not be socialism as we know it. A tiny elite would own AI’s 'commanding heights' and hand everyone else a check or some form of digital ration. The sum would be enough to live on, but not enough to challenge those in power." Noreena Hertz www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
London landlords 400 years apart, pretty similar story. @londoncentric.media www.londoncentric.media/p/henry-smit...
A Tale Of One City And Two Henry Smiths
These two London landlords are separated by four centuries — but joined by a common name and business interests.
www.londoncentric.media
January 1, 2026 at 8:36 PM
London landlords 400 years apart, pretty similar story. @londoncentric.media www.londoncentric.media/p/henry-smit...
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Palestine Action-linked hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah taken to hospital
Palestine Action-linked hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah taken to hospital
Protesters had gathered outside prison to demand 20-year-old, who is on day 46, receive urgent medical attention
A 20-year-old woman taking part in the hunger strike by Palestine Action-affiliated prisoners has been taken to hospital after protesters gathered outside the jail where she was being held to demand she receive urgent medical attention.
Qesser Zuhrah, who is being held at HMP Bronzefield, Kent, while awaiting trial, is on day 46 of her hunger strike. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Palestine Action-linked hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah taken to hospital
Starmer has no coherent social mobility plan, says Social Mobility Commission chair www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Starmer has no coherent social mobility plan, says top government adviser
Exclusive: Warning from Social Mobility Commission chair comes after UK report found ‘entrenched disadvantages’
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Starmer has no coherent social mobility plan, says Social Mobility Commission chair www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The UK’s Waterways Are Run by Property Developers. A charity run by landlords. @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/12/11/t...
The UK’s Waterways Are Run by Property Developers | Novara Media
The Canal and River Trust denies it’s a landlord, but routinely fines, evicts and even repossesses boaters’ homes. Guess who runs it? Cameron Baillie reports.
novaramedia.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The UK’s Waterways Are Run by Property Developers. A charity run by landlords. @novaramedia.com novaramedia.com/2025/12/11/t...
“todo parece ser revolucionario si es individual y nos permite autodescubrirnos.” Israel Merino www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/2025...
La autoficción se nos ha ido de las manos
No podemos explicar el mundo solo a través de nosotros mismos, no podemos obcecarnos en no contar más que historias personales, no podemos creer que todas nuestras acciones individuales son revolucionarias
www.elconfidencial.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
“todo parece ser revolucionario si es individual y nos permite autodescubrirnos.” Israel Merino www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/2025...
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"The big-picture lesson for policymakers is that changes to one part of the benefit system can shift pressures elsewhere, rather than remove them entirely."
📗 Read our report, funded by @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @healthfoundation.bsky.social, here: ifs.org.uk/publications...
📗 Read our report, funded by @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @healthfoundation.bsky.social, here: ifs.org.uk/publications...
December 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"The big-picture lesson for policymakers is that changes to one part of the benefit system can shift pressures elsewhere, rather than remove them entirely."
📗 Read our report, funded by @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @healthfoundation.bsky.social, here: ifs.org.uk/publications...
📗 Read our report, funded by @jrf-uk.bsky.social and @healthfoundation.bsky.social, here: ifs.org.uk/publications...
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These effects reduce the fiscal saving from cuts to benefit amounts, but only modestly. Increased disability benefits only reduced savings by 1%-4% for the three cuts to benefit amounts we study.
December 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
These effects reduce the fiscal saving from cuts to benefit amounts, but only modestly. Increased disability benefits only reduced savings by 1%-4% for the three cuts to benefit amounts we study.
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Essex students found out their campus was closing from a link in a WhatsApp chat.
800 students uprooted.
400 jobs cut.
One university in crisis.
Students and staff deserve better.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
800 students uprooted.
400 jobs cut.
One university in crisis.
Students and staff deserve better.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Essex student 'devastated' by campus closure
Four hundred staff jobs are also being axed in cost-cutting measures by the University of Essex.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Essex students found out their campus was closing from a link in a WhatsApp chat.
800 students uprooted.
400 jobs cut.
One university in crisis.
Students and staff deserve better.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
800 students uprooted.
400 jobs cut.
One university in crisis.
Students and staff deserve better.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thank god
A plan for Starmer to pay tribute to a scene from the Christmas film Love Actually in his first TikTok video was scrapped over copyright concerns
Aides had wanted to soundtrack the PM's first post on the platform with Jump by The Pointer Sisters – the song that accompanies Hugh Grant’s famous dance
Aides had wanted to soundtrack the PM's first post on the platform with Jump by The Pointer Sisters – the song that accompanies Hugh Grant’s famous dance
Copyright Thwarts Plan To Recreate Love Actually Moment In Prime Minister's TikTok
A plan for Keir Starmer to pay tribute to a scene from the Christmas film Love Actually in his first TikTok video was scrapped over copyright conce...
www.politicshome.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Thank god
"Litigation on the Progressive Realisation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Under What Conditions May It Be Strategic?" A paper co-produced by a team of human rights academics and practitioners. Supported by @slsauk.bsky.social cbeh.cat/wp-content/u... cc @essexhrc.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"Litigation on the Progressive Realisation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Under What Conditions May It Be Strategic?" A paper co-produced by a team of human rights academics and practitioners. Supported by @slsauk.bsky.social cbeh.cat/wp-content/u... cc @essexhrc.bsky.social
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On #HumanRights Day, remembering this @atd4thworld.bsky.social campaign for the indivisibility of rights in the U.K. and beyond. @justfairuk.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social @koldocasla.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
On #HumanRights Day, remembering this @atd4thworld.bsky.social campaign for the indivisibility of rights in the U.K. and beyond. @justfairuk.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social @koldocasla.bsky.social
Las empresas de la sanidad privada ya gestionan uno de cada tres hospitales de la red pública www.eldiario.es/1_c3c58b?utm...
Las empresas de la sanidad privada ya gestionan uno de cada tres hospitales de la red pública
Un informe del Ministerio de Sanidad alerta de que el gasto en este tipo de centros, como el de Torrejón de Ardoz, ha subido un 84,6% entre 2011 y 2023 pese a que no asumen los procesos asistenciales ...
www.eldiario.es
December 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Las empresas de la sanidad privada ya gestionan uno de cada tres hospitales de la red pública www.eldiario.es/1_c3c58b?utm...
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Most households subject to the two-child limit already have at least one adult in work.
Of the minority of households that are not in work, more than nine-in-ten have a child under three or a disabled family member with additional care needs, making any return to the labour market challenging.
Of the minority of households that are not in work, more than nine-in-ten have a child under three or a disabled family member with additional care needs, making any return to the labour market challenging.
December 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Most households subject to the two-child limit already have at least one adult in work.
Of the minority of households that are not in work, more than nine-in-ten have a child under three or a disabled family member with additional care needs, making any return to the labour market challenging.
Of the minority of households that are not in work, more than nine-in-ten have a child under three or a disabled family member with additional care needs, making any return to the labour market challenging.
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The threat to 400 jobs at Essex, in the lead up to Christmas is nothing short of cruel.
We stand with every member affected. We will fight this.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1427...
We stand with every member affected. We will fight this.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1427...
Staff fury as University of Essex threatens to slash 400 jobs
The University and College Union has today (Tuesday 2 December) condemned plans by the University of Essex to axe 400 jobs and close its Southend campus.
www.ucu.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The threat to 400 jobs at Essex, in the lead up to Christmas is nothing short of cruel.
We stand with every member affected. We will fight this.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1427...
We stand with every member affected. We will fight this.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1427...
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The University of Essex has announced it is looking to cut staff and close one of its campuses as it looks to create a more “sustainable” future. Juliette Rowsell reports
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/essex-close-southend-campus-and-cut-400-jobs
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/essex-close-southend-campus-and-cut-400-jobs
Essex to close Southend campus and cut 400 jobs
University says it has been forced into making ‘decisions we could have never previously imagined’ after steep drop in international student numbers
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
The University of Essex has announced it is looking to cut staff and close one of its campuses as it looks to create a more “sustainable” future. Juliette Rowsell reports
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/essex-close-southend-campus-and-cut-400-jobs
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/essex-close-southend-campus-and-cut-400-jobs
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It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It's official: 400 redundancies and a campus closure. At-risk staff will get a letter next week. Absolutely no serious consideration of any of the union's counterproposals.
Please share widely.
Please share widely.
Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing @balaraj.bsky.social and other UN experts raise concerns over homes rented out by English social landlord. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UN experts raise concerns over homes rented out by English social landlord
Exclusive: Letter says L&Q appears to have systematically failed in its duty to provide adequate standard of living
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing @balaraj.bsky.social and other UN experts raise concerns over homes rented out by English social landlord. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"The Online Safety Act’s primary role is to stop children viewing harmful content, but it does nothing to stop tech being designed to keep children engaged, as both consumer and product, in this, arguably very harmful way." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
Technology’s cost to our kids
Digitisation has changed childhood for the worse
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"The Online Safety Act’s primary role is to stop children viewing harmful content, but it does nothing to stop tech being designed to keep children engaged, as both consumer and product, in this, arguably very harmful way." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
To truly tackle child poverty, the UK needs to end no recourse to public funds. theconversation.com/to-truly-tac...
To truly tackle child poverty, the UK needs to look again at migration policy
No recourse to public funds restrictions mean that families cannot access any benefits regardless of need.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
To truly tackle child poverty, the UK needs to end no recourse to public funds. theconversation.com/to-truly-tac...
The two-child limit failed – all it did was increase poverty. Besides being cruel and stereotypical, there has been almost no noticeable impact on fertility, nor have there been changes to employment. Prof Ruth Patrick. theconversation.com/the-two-chil...
The two-child limit failed – all it did was increase poverty
The controversial policy was a product of the UK’s austerity period.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The two-child limit failed – all it did was increase poverty. Besides being cruel and stereotypical, there has been almost no noticeable impact on fertility, nor have there been changes to employment. Prof Ruth Patrick. theconversation.com/the-two-chil...
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El avance de la España segregada: así se empuja a los inmigrantes a los barrios más pobres www.eldiario.es/desalambre/a...
November 28, 2025 at 8:53 AM
El avance de la España segregada: así se empuja a los inmigrantes a los barrios más pobres www.eldiario.es/desalambre/a...
70% of the additional spending from removing the 2-child limit will go to families who are in work.
Work is not 'the' solution to welfare dependence.
Many people do work, often more than one job, but they and their children remain poor.
Something is broken.
@ippr.org www.ippr.org/media-office...
Work is not 'the' solution to welfare dependence.
Many people do work, often more than one job, but they and their children remain poor.
Something is broken.
@ippr.org www.ippr.org/media-office...
‘Budget for Benefit Street’ claim refuted by numbers, reveals IPPR | IPPR
70 per cent of the cash from abolishing the two-child limit goes to kids whose parents are in workEconomic benefits from scrapping two child limit can outw
www.ippr.org
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
70% of the additional spending from removing the 2-child limit will go to families who are in work.
Work is not 'the' solution to welfare dependence.
Many people do work, often more than one job, but they and their children remain poor.
Something is broken.
@ippr.org www.ippr.org/media-office...
Work is not 'the' solution to welfare dependence.
Many people do work, often more than one job, but they and their children remain poor.
Something is broken.
@ippr.org www.ippr.org/media-office...
"Mientras que las élites políticas franquistas sí vieron limitada su influencia, los líderes económicos mantuvieron en gran medida sus posiciones privilegiadas." en @agendapublica.es agendapublica.es/noticia/2041...
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"Mientras que las élites políticas franquistas sí vieron limitada su influencia, los líderes económicos mantuvieron en gran medida sus posiciones privilegiadas." en @agendapublica.es agendapublica.es/noticia/2041...
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Is it true that only high income people live in expensive homes? Mainly yes.
Of the people living in band F-H homes in England, 3 in 4 are in the top half of incomes, so any tax rises aimed at them would be largely progressive.
And boy, could Council Tax do with being more progressive!
Of the people living in band F-H homes in England, 3 in 4 are in the top half of incomes, so any tax rises aimed at them would be largely progressive.
And boy, could Council Tax do with being more progressive!
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Is it true that only high income people live in expensive homes? Mainly yes.
Of the people living in band F-H homes in England, 3 in 4 are in the top half of incomes, so any tax rises aimed at them would be largely progressive.
And boy, could Council Tax do with being more progressive!
Of the people living in band F-H homes in England, 3 in 4 are in the top half of incomes, so any tax rises aimed at them would be largely progressive.
And boy, could Council Tax do with being more progressive!