Jennifer Blair
@squeakinglyjen.bsky.social
Feminist lawyer, Classicist, barrister at No5 Chambers. She/her or They/them pronouns
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Jenrick making things up again. His Dad was clearly never a gas fitter. Otherwise he certainly couldn't have afforded to have sent him to private school.
October 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Jenrick making things up again. His Dad was clearly never a gas fitter. Otherwise he certainly couldn't have afforded to have sent him to private school.
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The news from the past few days is a stunning example of what happens when the state decides it wants to crush just one guy
August 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The news from the past few days is a stunning example of what happens when the state decides it wants to crush just one guy
This rescue kitten has been brought to my door (I co-run a local cat rescue group). A foster has been lined up immediately because I should think if you spend more than 5 seconds with him you’d keep him. He is suffering starvation issues but otherwise seems ok. VERY CUDDLY!
August 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This rescue kitten has been brought to my door (I co-run a local cat rescue group). A foster has been lined up immediately because I should think if you spend more than 5 seconds with him you’d keep him. He is suffering starvation issues but otherwise seems ok. VERY CUDDLY!
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Great to see the brilliant McIntoshes in the Guardian, arguing for the right to funded legal representation for the Windrush Compensation Scheme. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Please sign their petition (link in the article) if you haven't already.
‘It’s about justice’: the couple pushing for legal aid for Windrush scandal claims
Home Office behaviour has convinced Hetticia and Vanderbilt McIntosh that only experts lawyers can change system
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Great to see the brilliant McIntoshes in the Guardian, arguing for the right to funded legal representation for the Windrush Compensation Scheme. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Please sign their petition (link in the article) if you haven't already.
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The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued two senior Trump administration officials Wednesday, challenging Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.
Stanford newspaper sues Trump administration over student deportations
The lawsuit challenges Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.
wapo.st
August 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
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'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3
‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’
Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3
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Alarming but predictable - Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag
Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Alarming but predictable - Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
popular.info
July 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
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I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks:
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
July 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks:
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...
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Reverend Clive Foster speaking as the first Windrush Commissioner. He talks of encountering the scandal & those affected in his Nottingham church.
"One by one, people came quietly and anxiously ... people who suddenly feared being treated as strangers in the only country they had ever known"
"One by one, people came quietly and anxiously ... people who suddenly feared being treated as strangers in the only country they had ever known"
July 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Reverend Clive Foster speaking as the first Windrush Commissioner. He talks of encountering the scandal & those affected in his Nottingham church.
"One by one, people came quietly and anxiously ... people who suddenly feared being treated as strangers in the only country they had ever known"
"One by one, people came quietly and anxiously ... people who suddenly feared being treated as strangers in the only country they had ever known"
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At Hackney Town Hall, where the Office of the Windrush Commissioner is launching today
July 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
At Hackney Town Hall, where the Office of the Windrush Commissioner is launching today
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❗️BREAKING — The UK Ministry of Defence admits it is “currently training” Israeli military personnel in Britain.
The Labour government has until now refused to answer questions about this, which we covered last year.
👉 www.declassifieduk.org/amid-lebanon...
The Labour government has until now refused to answer questions about this, which we covered last year.
👉 www.declassifieduk.org/amid-lebanon...
June 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
❗️BREAKING — The UK Ministry of Defence admits it is “currently training” Israeli military personnel in Britain.
The Labour government has until now refused to answer questions about this, which we covered last year.
👉 www.declassifieduk.org/amid-lebanon...
The Labour government has until now refused to answer questions about this, which we covered last year.
👉 www.declassifieduk.org/amid-lebanon...
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Quitting my lucrative job as an international fentanyl smuggler to pursue my true passion, vacuuming the hallways of a Holiday Inn Express
This is remarkably incoherent even for him. But I especially like the notion that these evil criminals are applying to pick crops and mop hotel bathrooms.
June 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Quitting my lucrative job as an international fentanyl smuggler to pursue my true passion, vacuuming the hallways of a Holiday Inn Express
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Efficiency is when you make the troops homeless *before* they're veterans
“Currently, there is no plan for where everyone is sleeping tonight,” the source said, adding that there was an urgent need to find more portable bathrooms and dumpsters for garbage.
June 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Efficiency is when you make the troops homeless *before* they're veterans
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has reported back to the government on the financial requirement for a partner visa - assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/684704... - vague but recommending a financial requirement in the £25k region.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
June 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has reported back to the government on the financial requirement for a partner visa - assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/684704... - vague but recommending a financial requirement in the £25k region.
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This really gets me. I'm 45, there's not many front benchers a lot younger than me, and Northern Ireland was a massive part of life as we grew up. The idea that settlement should be tossed is incomprehensible to me.
June 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
This really gets me. I'm 45, there's not many front benchers a lot younger than me, and Northern Ireland was a massive part of life as we grew up. The idea that settlement should be tossed is incomprehensible to me.
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I have signed!!! #SaveWoT #TheWheelofTime
a woman in a white dress stands in front of three other women with wheel time written in the corner
Alt: From episode 5 season 1 Moiraine stands in front of Nyneave and Alanna all in white thumping her chest. with wheel time written in the corner
media.tenor.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I have signed!!! #SaveWoT #TheWheelofTime
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The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article titled “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays” featuring “Al & Alexandra Moy” from its website... but, if interested, you can access an archived version here. h/t @alanrew.bsky.social
archive.is/s1GPF
archive.is/s1GPF
May 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article titled “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays” featuring “Al & Alexandra Moy” from its website... but, if interested, you can access an archived version here. h/t @alanrew.bsky.social
archive.is/s1GPF
archive.is/s1GPF
So if youve had your asylum claim withdrawn automatically+further submissions rejected without a right of appeal, can you actually be removed from the UK without anyone ever deciding your asylum claim? Seems...wrong?! (Reading this case fyi: tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/jr-202...)
Tribunal decisions
tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk
May 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
So if youve had your asylum claim withdrawn automatically+further submissions rejected without a right of appeal, can you actually be removed from the UK without anyone ever deciding your asylum claim? Seems...wrong?! (Reading this case fyi: tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/jr-202...)
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In my experience most refugees are desperate to learn English and if they don’t, the reason usually isn’t that they somehow lack motivation to integrate but that funding for English classes has been slashed over the course of many years
English language standards for work visas could be increased, and refugees required to pass an English test to get permanent residence, as part of white paper proposals (Times reports) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
May 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
In my experience most refugees are desperate to learn English and if they don’t, the reason usually isn’t that they somehow lack motivation to integrate but that funding for English classes has been slashed over the course of many years
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"Israel killed nearly two-thirds of the 124 journalists who died around the world in 2024" - you would imagine this would cause a commotion in the world of news journalism, wouldn't you.
May 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"Israel killed nearly two-thirds of the 124 journalists who died around the world in 2024" - you would imagine this would cause a commotion in the world of news journalism, wouldn't you.
I'd really, really like to see this covered with the prominence of the original Mail article. It deserves it and represents a very serious injustice as part of a picture of far right attacks on human rights defenders in the UK.
How the Mail, ministers and the regulator destroyed an innocent immigration solicitor - and what must happen now www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice-poi...
How the Mail, ministers and the regulator destroyed an innocent solicitor - and what must happen now
Regulation and compliance.
www.lawgazette.co.uk
May 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I'd really, really like to see this covered with the prominence of the original Mail article. It deserves it and represents a very serious injustice as part of a picture of far right attacks on human rights defenders in the UK.
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"Despite being entirely innocent of any professional misconduct, Khan was ruined by the combined actions of the Mail, the government and the SRA"
How the Mail, ministers and the regulator destroyed an innocent immigration solicitor - and what must happen now www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice-poi...
How the Mail, ministers and the regulator destroyed an innocent solicitor - and what must happen now
Regulation and compliance.
www.lawgazette.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Despite being entirely innocent of any professional misconduct, Khan was ruined by the combined actions of the Mail, the government and the SRA"
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Ahead of report stage next week, the government have tabled their amendments to the Border Security bill, including trying to set a time limit for the hearing of some asylum appeals publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
publications.parliament.uk
May 7, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Ahead of report stage next week, the government have tabled their amendments to the Border Security bill, including trying to set a time limit for the hearing of some asylum appeals publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...