🥳 You’re invited to a 200th birthday celebration like no other – Universally Manchester Festival, presented from our iconic Oxford Road campus, with 150+ free events from 6-9 June.

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#UoM200

Chaos on the @ohiostate campus as police drove demonstrators off the green and made well over a dozen arrests.

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

Land of the free, eh?

Big news on VAR in Sweden.

Head of the Swedish FA announces that VAR system will not be used there.

Been rejected by fans groups + clubs says Sportbladet

Could the same happen in England Fans against VAR?
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📅 16 May 2-5pm. Calling all drugs researchers! Please join us/colleagues for a workshop exploring “The Nuances of Psychedelics and How to Regulate Their Non-Medical Use”. Ester Margit Anne Petersen & Oskar Enghoff. Manchester Metropolitan Uni Aarhus University Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-nuances-…

There’s only one way to beat them, get round the VAT

ON THIS DAY 1927: The FA Cup final at Wembley between Arsenal and Cardiff City

Cardiff City invade the pitch after winning the Cup #AFC #CCFC

We're truly living in a post truth era in the UK aren't we? Repeat after me, Rwanda is a safe country. You're not ill, you are fit to work. As I often tell my students to encourage them to critique law, just because it says so in a statute doesn't mean it's not complete b*****ks.

Undignified IPR shambles #sportslaw klaxon.
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Petition to scrap VAR. Already signed by enough people to fill a mid-range Premier League stadium. chng.it/f4X8hN7mgs

Absolutely unequivocal rejection of the Attorney General’s attempt to apply for Trudi Warner to be held in contempt for jury placard by Mr Justice Saini in the High Court
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Another staggeringly bad weekend for #VAR . It has somehow managed to retain the inconsistency of pre-VAR refereeing decisions, but add an additional layer of inconsistency in the application of VAR to them. It's simply ruining the sport.

The Football Association Challenge Cup. A long read.

The World's Oldest Association Football Competition. Let that sink in.Something to be proud of as a part of English football and cultural life.

Changes to it? Yes, with one caveat. That every club who takes part in it has an…

The Bill will NOT make pet theft a specific offence, and will not increase the maximum penalty for pet theft (& nor should it). It will however criminalise 'inducing a cat to accompany' you, for which the maximum sentence will be 5 years imprisonment.

Despite my vertigo I had, as chancellor, the honour of climbing inside the telescope Jodrell Bank
The The University of Manchester is custodian of this UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 World Heritage Site & it’s stunning
Tens of 1000s of people are inspired by it every year & you should see it!

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LATEST: The Finance team apologise for calling students at 3am asking for £9,250 to pay 'bad people'.

Yet another knife in the back of the FA Cup. They won't be happy until it's properly dead.

#THREAD

Leaving the #ECHR is a stupid idea. It wouldn't even, legally or in practice, give the Govt the power to “stop the boats”.

It would, however, create a number of other problems for the UK & its international reputation, explains Joelle Grogan...

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If only there was some kind of human right or something that they could appeal to in situations where they felt free speech was unnecessarily curtailed.
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