Alan Greene
@alangreene.bsky.social
Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights. Irish emigrant. I write about emergencies, terrorism, constitutional theory, and human rights.
Sure Harry Kane was good, but Spurs selling Troy Parrott and letting the greatest striker of his generation leave his boyhood club was a travesty. #COYBIG
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Sure Harry Kane was good, but Spurs selling Troy Parrott and letting the greatest striker of his generation leave his boyhood club was a travesty. #COYBIG
Early's Law: Ireland's performance is always inversely proportional to how much @secondcaptains.bsky.social hype them up. #COYBIG
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Early's Law: Ireland's performance is always inversely proportional to how much @secondcaptains.bsky.social hype them up. #COYBIG
I think the government should really go after the cycle to work scheme.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I think the government should really go after the cycle to work scheme.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
On nights like this, I do miss my account in the other place. 🍿
November 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
On nights like this, I do miss my account in the other place. 🍿
Yeah, if this guy is the answer, the question is all wrong.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Doctors' union acting like cartel and opposing taxes - Streeting
The health secretary launches strongest criticism yet of the union ahead of Friday's strike by resident doctors.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Yeah, if this guy is the answer, the question is all wrong.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cool, now do Musk.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump knew about Epstein’s conduct, newly released emails suggest
In messages released by House Democrats, Epstein wrote ‘of course [Trump] knew about the girls’
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Cool, now do Musk.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Nobody in Downing Street should be allowed watch The Traitors because it's clearly gone to their heads.
Government should probably not be conducted like a roundtable...
Government should probably not be conducted like a roundtable...
November 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Nobody in Downing Street should be allowed watch The Traitors because it's clearly gone to their heads.
Government should probably not be conducted like a roundtable...
Government should probably not be conducted like a roundtable...
Wes Streeting?
Really?
Really?
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Wes Streeting?
Really?
Really?
For me, this was the moment that I became aware of the sheer extent of transphobia in the UK and the media.
Yes, Semenya isn't trans but the questions as to the fairness of her competing were the same.
There is also the latent racism too.
"The public can see as well"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JeL...
Yes, Semenya isn't trans but the questions as to the fairness of her competing were the same.
There is also the latent racism too.
"The public can see as well"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JeL...
Lynsey Sharp Interview After Race With Caster Semenya - 2016
YouTube video by Save Women's Sports
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
For me, this was the moment that I became aware of the sheer extent of transphobia in the UK and the media.
Yes, Semenya isn't trans but the questions as to the fairness of her competing were the same.
There is also the latent racism too.
"The public can see as well"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JeL...
Yes, Semenya isn't trans but the questions as to the fairness of her competing were the same.
There is also the latent racism too.
"The public can see as well"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JeL...
The Simpsons solved the "Bond is dead" problem decades ago... #JamesBond
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The Simpsons solved the "Bond is dead" problem decades ago... #JamesBond
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."
www.rte.ie/news/politic...
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.