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Weakening a fundamental right doesn’t build confidence in it – it just leaves it weaker for everyone. That's why the Government must drop their proposals to change Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. More here: www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/the-im...

libertyhumanrights.org.uk

The Immigration and Asylum Bill risks weakening our right to family life - Liberty

The Immigration and Asylum Bill currently going through Parliament affects a lot more than just migration

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 9h

Tells you all you need to know about UK politics that the question in this piece is whether the Greens should be shunned by Labour because of that wretched motion & not whether Labour should be shunned by the Greens for its support for genocide & embrace of far right stances on immigration

bbc.co.uk

Tensions exposed among Greens by 'Zionism is racism' conference vote

What may be troubling for the Greens institutionally is what this episode reveals about some of the dynamics in the party.

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 18h

A single vote indicates that an entryist faction was able to take advantage of a party's low conference turnouts for its own benefit and *far* too many people have concluded the only possible response is either burning down the party completely or entirely doing away with party democracy.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16h

If you want to be a serious political party with a chance of running the country, you simply can't allow your manifesto to be governed by "how many cranks can pay a nominal membership fee and log in for an online vote"

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15h

When did it become so normalised to describe often far right thugs attacking people as "scuffles" but make out anyone just trying to seek safety is a threat to national security?

The Guardian

Anti-migrant protesters scuffle with police in Gosport after Channel rescue

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BBC

Protesters scuffle with police as migrants brought ashore on south coast

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Protesters Scuffle With Police as Migrants Brought Ashore

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The i Paper

Three arrested at Portsmouth anti-migrant protest as scuffles break out

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Refugee and Migrant Justice @rmjusticeuk.bsky.social · 15h

Women’s safety is finally being acknowledged, but this must come with an understanding that safe routes are the ONLY alternative to these dangerous journeys. The proposed routes don’t go far enough: they should be expanded and family reunion reinstated. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.com

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 16h

you don't have to have a favourite right-wing politician

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 16h

NO! Y’all really got to stop doing this! A far-rightist doesn’t stop being far right just because you realized there is someone further right. Also, they are often not so much “further” right, they are differently far right! BOTH Rees-Mogg AND Tucker are threats to liberal democracy!

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17h

I think what rankles here is that second part. Because to my recollection basically no mainstream politician has substantially challenged the Israeli government. Which is why the pressure is building across the political spectrum and leading to these gestures.

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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18h

There’s massive amounts of red tape that are caused by immigration control and the hostile environment and its biggest advocates are the very politicians who complain about excessive regulation. Enormous costs for employers, landlords, universities.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 18h

Greens are seriously injured over an absurd, unnecessary, over-broad, political hand grenade of a motion going off, and now every right-wing group is shooting point-blank at the corpse. Great job!

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 20h

All ethnonationalism is racism. Sorry to burst bubble. You can't run around criticising boat stabbers for their 'English patriotism' and then say 'oh but all ethnic groups deserve their own homeland' like @owenjones.bsky.social What, anyway, is an 'ethnic group' if not race by another other name?

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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 20h

The Home Secretary rightly points out that nearly all women who make dangerous journeys to the UK are survivors of rape. So why does the Govt. detain women on arrival, let women languish in the asylum system for months and years on end, & close safe routes that support women and children? 1/2

theguardian.com

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 21h

Why are so many people wrong about everything???

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is almost certainly true, and the UK fails women refugees in multiple ways, including by refusing safe routes to come here, wrongly rejecting asylum claims, barring family reunion & not recognising trafficking victims promptly or at all. If only Mahmood had the power to do something about this

theguardian.com

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 04/10/2026

I cannot believe this even has to be said but if far-right actors disagree amongst themselves, we should not try to figure who is right or whether one is an ally and/or the other worse They are both terrible options and no alliance should ever be considered as it only legitimises them

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Perhaps worth recalling that there was and is an alternative to Zionism

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Obviously dunking on Kuenssberg is easy, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. In this piece you’ll look in vain for any indication that the Tories are on historically catastrophic %ages, or that Badenoch has turned them decisively to the far right, or that those facts might be somehow connected

bbc.co.uk

Laura Kuenssberg: Kemi Badenoch has cemented her image. Now she wants to take her party back to its roots

The Conservative leader is expected to set out a return to core conservative principles at the party’s annual conference.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

theguardian.com

Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood

Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...

nytimes.com

Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)

He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 04/10/2026

Following the vote on the anti-Zionist policy at Green Party Conference, the 5 Green MPs, the Leader and Co-Deputy Leaders have issued a joint statement

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

For those whose families lived through the Jewish traumas of Mitteleuropa, it isn't that esoteric why Zionism was once seen this way, even as it has now become Kahanism. The lesson here is not unique to Zionism, but the opposite - how easily liberation movements become the thing they once hated.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We absolutely deserve an antiracist quarantine against the Greens that then allows a Tory/Reform stitchup government on possibly the most fantastically racist political platform ever put to the public. If we tolerate this shit, we will get exactly what’s coming to us.

Sonia Sodha O @soniasodha
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The question that will now rightly be put to Labour is: would you form a coalition with the Greens at Westminster? There should only be one answer to that question.

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Joseph Finlay @josephfinlay.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So it passed. As I said, not a disaster. It’s a piece of untactical performative politics but let’s not make it out to be the new Nuremberg laws. The proposers of the motion were very clear that it couldn’t lead to sanctions against members. No Zionists will be expelled from the party.

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To Jewish members of the Green Party: Assurances, from the motion proposers, that they had no intention for Jewish members to feel targeted for their beliefs or associations have been clear. And if anyone else does try to use it in this way, I will be there for you with my solidarity and support.

Statement reads: As Greens, we will always uphold universal human rights.

We will never tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment.

We will continue to stand in opposition to genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and the illegal occupation.

We will continue to call out the heinous crimes of the Netanyahu government.

And we will continue to work to ensure that the Green Party is an anti-racist party in every way.

We know there is no conflict between supporting the rights of Palestinians and the rights of Jewish people.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Amazing skills here, disproving that whole “is racist” thing

Noa Hoffman • @hoffman_noa
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Stage one of the Islamist assault on the Green Party is now complete. Let's see how long Polanski lasts before they come for the leadership. As has been warned a million times, these Islamic extremists were never going to stop until a policy of dismantling the Jewish state (the ultimate force against Islamism)

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, go right at this lads. Make sure everyone sees exactly what you’re doing. Ideally, if we could cut to this on the news directly after e.g. multiple politicians have been talking about the ruthless measures they’re talking against the invasion of sexually menacing migrant scum, that would be 😘 👌

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BREAKING: Greens Branded 'A Racist Party' After Passing Motion Declaring 'Zionism Is
Racism'

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At the Cable Street 90th anniversary rally

Banner reads: Cable Street 90 / No to: Antisemitism Islamophobia All racism / 1936 They did not pass / 2026 They shall not pass

David Rosenberg of the Jewish Socialists Group speaking at the Cable Street 90th anniversary

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

bbc.co.uk

Laura Kuenssberg: Kemi Badenoch has cemented her image. Now she wants to take her party back to its roots

The Conservative leader is expected to set out a return to core conservative principles at the party’s annual conference.

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

These are the ‘British values’ I celebrate.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The answer is surely that under Badenoch the Tories have given up any pretence at being a serious party of government, in favour of a Faragesque cosplay of being angry insurgent outsiders, from which perspective anything over 20% looks quite good

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse. Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed. Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.

theguardian.com

Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says

Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more

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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

With love and respect to every colleague and fellow member, here is my personal view on motion E02, which Greens are set to debate tomorrow as part of our afternoon plenary.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sort of feel that it should be more than just local news that there are people whose brains have been utterly fried by a Muslim mayor & (relatedly in their heads) mild restrictions on car use, to the extent in this case of setting off a terrorist bomb for which they got 15 years

bbc.co.uk

Man jailed for 15 years over Sidcup Ulez camera blast

Kevin Rees, 63, faces a tougher sentence because the offence had a "terrorism connection".

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Burnham’s democratic reform proposals don’t go nearly far enough. In some cases, they will make things worse: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw... by me

open.substack.com

Burnham’s democratic reform proposals don’t go nearly far enough

The prime minister knows the system is rotten, but he’s reheating it rather than starting again.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This Thursday is the first step on this journey. Every Green vote moves Labour.

John Curtice suggests greens could be pivotal to next UK government

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Dave Burke @daveburke12.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Big moment from Green Party deputy Mothin Ali, who calls out Suella Braverman. "And a message to Suella Braverman - I’m Brown, I’m Muslim. But I’m as English as a Yorkshire cup of tea!" He calls on Andy Burnham to declare a national emergency on racial violence and intimidation

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Far be it from me to stand in the way of Reform positioning itself as the party of far right terrorism - see also Jenrick standing up for “Danny Tommo” - but purely as an electoral strategy this does seem… surprising

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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The landscape of right wing politics has been utterly transformed since Brexit. A Conservative Party which included the likes of Heseltine, Clarke & Grieve has been replaced by increasingly extremist Führerparteien all trying to outdo each other for the approval of billionaires who hate democracy.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They’re still going. Can you imagine the response, if the Guardian or the Independent had flown someone out to interview Slobodan Milosevic or Saddam Hussein, and promoted their denunciations of the government as urgent, pressing news content?

Daily Mail
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Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to NATALIE LISBONA in an exclusive interview: 'I don't know how many lives we've saved by giving Britain information about impending attacks.
But under Burnham they're a rogue state'

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

bbc.co.uk

Man jailed for 15 years over Sidcup Ulez camera blast

Kevin Rees, 63, faces a tougher sentence because the offence had a "terrorism connection".

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 03/10/2026

EVERY UK MP needs to read this You are all part of a government that is creating a situation so hostile and unsafe that people are leaving the country This is not an isolated case. You have the power to do something about this.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I share Braverman's Indian-Mauritian background. And if a family member of mine ever came out with this horseshit I would tell them, "yes, you are indeed being racist against yourself, and against us. Have some self respect".

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/10/2026

‘After the first Trump administration imposed sanctions on Iranian and Venezuelan oil, the number of ghost ships carrying these countries’ oil tripled and the price of old ships due to be scrapped increased.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on ghost fleets. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

lrb.co.uk

Laleh Khalili · Ghost Fleets

Unregistered and undetectable fleets cut into the profits of the big tanker companies. After the first Trump...

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