Jack Jones
@storiesfromjack.bsky.social
PhD student - protest law (legal geography of protest on highways).
Former professional dancer.
Former professional dancer.
An headline that is self defeating. Most people cannot think that, because most people are far too young to either remember it, or to even have been alive then.
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
An headline that is self defeating. Most people cannot think that, because most people are far too young to either remember it, or to even have been alive then.
The ECHR acts like an early warning system for facism. Even if it finds no breach, issues being contested at a supra-national level helps to raise red flags in state behaviour.
Who wants to get rid of an early warning system of facism? Should be obvious.
#ECHR
Who wants to get rid of an early warning system of facism? Should be obvious.
#ECHR
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The ECHR acts like an early warning system for facism. Even if it finds no breach, issues being contested at a supra-national level helps to raise red flags in state behaviour.
Who wants to get rid of an early warning system of facism? Should be obvious.
#ECHR
Who wants to get rid of an early warning system of facism? Should be obvious.
#ECHR
Happy 30th to Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake! Such an epic show lineage to have been a part of.
1st photo was on a lake in Hyde Park for a 3D film of the show in 2010. 2nd + 4th are by Nicholas Karlin at Kennedy Centre in US 2020. The 3rd was me backstage 2009, surviving Act 2 as best you can.
1st photo was on a lake in Hyde Park for a 3D film of the show in 2010. 2nd + 4th are by Nicholas Karlin at Kennedy Centre in US 2020. The 3rd was me backstage 2009, surviving Act 2 as best you can.
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Happy 30th to Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake! Such an epic show lineage to have been a part of.
1st photo was on a lake in Hyde Park for a 3D film of the show in 2010. 2nd + 4th are by Nicholas Karlin at Kennedy Centre in US 2020. The 3rd was me backstage 2009, surviving Act 2 as best you can.
1st photo was on a lake in Hyde Park for a 3D film of the show in 2010. 2nd + 4th are by Nicholas Karlin at Kennedy Centre in US 2020. The 3rd was me backstage 2009, surviving Act 2 as best you can.
If true, this likely requires higher court intervention. We cant have some judges allowing a reasonable excuse defense and others not, for the same offence, related to the same incident.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Just Stop Oil protesters convicted after being denied right to state climate facts
Lawyers call for clarity over law as six are found guilty while being stopped from using defence used by fellow activists
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
If true, this likely requires higher court intervention. We cant have some judges allowing a reasonable excuse defense and others not, for the same offence, related to the same incident.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Look what just arrived. Looking forward to getting into this later! Particularly interested in the concept of the streets as an urban commons.
Contested Commons by @katrinanavickas.bsky.social
Contested Commons by @katrinanavickas.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Look what just arrived. Looking forward to getting into this later! Particularly interested in the concept of the streets as an urban commons.
Contested Commons by @katrinanavickas.bsky.social
Contested Commons by @katrinanavickas.bsky.social
You can protest but... not there. Or there. Not there either. And sorry, but no, not there.
If you could be done by lunch, and keep the noise down. Thanks.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
If you could be done by lunch, and keep the noise down. Thanks.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Activists could be jailed for six months for protesting outside MPs’ homes
Law aimed at tackling harassment will criminalise protests outside homes of MPs in England and Wales amid rise in complaints
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
You can protest but... not there. Or there. Not there either. And sorry, but no, not there.
If you could be done by lunch, and keep the noise down. Thanks.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
If you could be done by lunch, and keep the noise down. Thanks.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Come join me and my good chums in the Law School here…
This is where we work
You could even work with me, trying - sometimes succeeding - to convey the joys of Public Law to 1st years
Come join me and my good chums in the Law School here…
This is where we work
You could even work with me, trying - sometimes succeeding - to convey the joys of Public Law to 1st years
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18...
Come join me and my good chums in the Law School here…
This is where we work
You could even work with me, trying - sometimes succeeding - to convey the joys of Public Law to 1st years
Come join me and my good chums in the Law School here…
This is where we work
You could even work with me, trying - sometimes succeeding - to convey the joys of Public Law to 1st years
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A letter from @crwerren.bsky.social @suzmd.bsky.social @storiesfromjack.bsky.social and me on the plans to allow cumulatively disruptive protests to be regulated by the police
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb ‘cumulative’ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A letter from @crwerren.bsky.social @suzmd.bsky.social @storiesfromjack.bsky.social and me on the plans to allow cumulatively disruptive protests to be regulated by the police
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Working on research of direct relevance to this - police responses to JSO slow marches both sides of the Regs Suella Braverman introduced in 2023 that unlawfully brought in a similar power.
It would be the largest expansion in general assembly/procession regulation since 1986.
#protest #law
It would be the largest expansion in general assembly/procession regulation since 1986.
#protest #law
NEW: Home Office announces planned new anti-protest powers, mainly aimed at pro-Gaza protests like those for Palestine Action. Police will be able to consider the "cumulative impact" of repeated protests and potentially order that they be relocated.
October 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The HC interim injunction re the Epping hotel has been overturned by the CoA. The judge had failed to take into account that the order may encourage more protests, and that the full hearing would be heard in a number of weeks anyway.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
Court of appeal revokes ban on Epping hotel housing asylum seekers
Home Office had argued that interim injunction for breach of planning was being used to stop protests
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The HC interim injunction re the Epping hotel has been overturned by the CoA. The judge had failed to take into account that the order may encourage more protests, and that the full hearing would be heard in a number of weeks anyway.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
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This is hilarious but also underlines the danger of a strict liability offence where the police only have to prove that your slogan gives rise to a reasonable suspicion that you support a proscribed organisation.
August 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is hilarious but also underlines the danger of a strict liability offence where the police only have to prove that your slogan gives rise to a reasonable suspicion that you support a proscribed organisation.
Arrests in Norwich today for expressing support for PA. Interesting that the police quoted the reasons for intervening from the Public Order Act 1986. They have nothing to do with the powers in the Terrorism Act 2000 which were used to arrest the protesters. Link to article in post below.
August 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Arrests in Norwich today for expressing support for PA. Interesting that the police quoted the reasons for intervening from the Public Order Act 1986. They have nothing to do with the powers in the Terrorism Act 2000 which were used to arrest the protesters. Link to article in post below.
Bizzare turn. Council applies for injunction, not to stop the protesters outside the hotel (as would usually happen in protest cases) but to stop the hotel being used to house asylum seekers. Victim blaming at its finest.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Epping council applies for asylum injunction over The Bell Hotel - BBC News
There is a risk of community tensions escalating in Epping, the authority says.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Bizzare turn. Council applies for injunction, not to stop the protesters outside the hotel (as would usually happen in protest cases) but to stop the hotel being used to house asylum seekers. Victim blaming at its finest.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It didnt happen over a weekend. It's been creeping forward for a long time. The wider shifts in public order policing faciliated by new acts have helped lay the ground work for people peacefully protesting to be arrested en mass.
"This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism"
Keir Starmer government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, & others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime, writes @graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo.
Keir Starmer government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, & others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime, writes @graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo.
This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism
Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper's government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, and others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime.
zeteo.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It didnt happen over a weekend. It's been creeping forward for a long time. The wider shifts in public order policing faciliated by new acts have helped lay the ground work for people peacefully protesting to be arrested en mass.
It didnt happen over a weekend. It's been creeping forward for a long time. The wider shifts in public order policing faciliated by new acts have helped lay the ground work for people peacefully protesting to be arrested en mass.
"This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism"
Keir Starmer government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, & others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime, writes @graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo.
Keir Starmer government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, & others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime, writes @graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo.
This Weekend, We Saw the UK Descend Into Censorship, Brutality, and Authoritarianism
Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper's government arrested elderly protesters, a blind man using a wheelchair, and others – all in the name of providing diplomatic cover for a genocidal regime.
zeteo.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It didnt happen over a weekend. It's been creeping forward for a long time. The wider shifts in public order policing faciliated by new acts have helped lay the ground work for people peacefully protesting to be arrested en mass.
Not charged yet. That's likely because they were taken to temporary pop-up sites to log their personal details and bailed pending a charging decision by the CPS. Charges likely to come later.
August 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Not charged yet. That's likely because they were taken to temporary pop-up sites to log their personal details and bailed pending a charging decision by the CPS. Charges likely to come later.
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The damage that the proscription of Palestine Action (and undoubtedly some of the policing of this law) is doing to police legitimacy in this country is an unfolding nightmare.
August 10, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The damage that the proscription of Palestine Action (and undoubtedly some of the policing of this law) is doing to police legitimacy in this country is an unfolding nightmare.
Where are these legitimate concerns? Are they in the room with us now?
July 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Where are these legitimate concerns? Are they in the room with us now?
According to Bluesky facescan software I am not an adult. Can I get child prices again now?
July 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
According to Bluesky facescan software I am not an adult. Can I get child prices again now?
How are these proportionate bail conditions? Especially when they are likely to remain in place for upwards of a year until trial. And why exclude from the city centre anyway? What purpose does that serve?
My bail conditions exclude me from entering the very street I live in, it effectively means I am breaking my bail conditions if I step out of my own home. My address is well within the bail map area. It is effectively house arrest.
"There’s two things to be afraid of in this country and one is that we lose everything we are proud of – the ability to speak out – and the other is that we would ever be involved in a genocide". Now bail conditions exclude Audrey White from Liverpool city centre www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
July 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
How are these proportionate bail conditions? Especially when they are likely to remain in place for upwards of a year until trial. And why exclude from the city centre anyway? What purpose does that serve?
It's got these vibes.
July 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
It's got these vibes.
Can Bluesky please give us the ability to bookmark or save posts? You dont want to 'like' all posts you want to keep tabs on for future reference.
July 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Can Bluesky please give us the ability to bookmark or save posts? You dont want to 'like' all posts you want to keep tabs on for future reference.
With all the discourse about the term Terrorism and its application, found this nugget at Bishopsgate library last week. It's in reference to a violent clash between the Met and a group of around 20,000 protesters in Trafalgar Square in 1887, labelled Bloody Sunday at the time.
July 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
With all the discourse about the term Terrorism and its application, found this nugget at Bishopsgate library last week. It's in reference to a violent clash between the Met and a group of around 20,000 protesters in Trafalgar Square in 1887, labelled Bloody Sunday at the time.
Quite a long statement from the Met this time re protests today following the proscription of PA. Inevitably any pro Palestine protest is now to be scrutinised for terrorism offences, which is a chilling effect in of itself. 1/2
news.met.police.uk/news/met-rei...
news.met.police.uk/news/met-rei...
UPDATE: Met reiterates warning on support for proscribed organisations ahead of Saturday protests
Those who see this as an opportunity to test the limits of the law by expressing support for Palestine Action will likely be committing an offence and will...
news.met.police.uk
July 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Quite a long statement from the Met this time re protests today following the proscription of PA. Inevitably any pro Palestine protest is now to be scrutinised for terrorism offences, which is a chilling effect in of itself. 1/2
news.met.police.uk/news/met-rei...
news.met.police.uk/news/met-rei...