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Boaz Trust @boaztrust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Find out more by visiting the Right to Remain website: righttoremain.org.uk/national-wee... #TheseWallsMustFall #EndDetention #NoOneIsIllegal (Graphic created by Right to Remain and These Walls Must Fall)
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National Week of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention, 19 – 25 October 2026
From 18–25 October 2026, join the National Week of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention.
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
19 - 25 October: National Week of Solidarity to End Immigration Detention. Will you join us? righttoremain.org.uk/national-wee...
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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today's news that evidence on 20 companies and 54 individuals relating to the Grenfell Tower fire, which resulted in the deaths of at least 72 people in 2017, has been handed to the CPS, is a welcome step towards justice.
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Grenfell fire: Response to evidence files being handed to CPS
Project for Peace and Justice, founded by Jeremy Corbyn. A hub for discussion and action, building solidarity and hope for a more decent world.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/09/2026
“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
‘We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir. (l-r): Clive Lewis, Tom Watson and the Palantir logo, against a pink background
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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More deaths at our border. Totally preventable. We are devastated. This is what happens when there is no way for people to safely reach the UK in order to claim asylum. Their only option is to risk their life in a boat. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Three people dead, including a child, in attempt to cross Channel to UK
Official says deaths – and dozens of injuries – were probably caused by crushing on boat carrying 105 people
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This week we’ve seen the far-right who perform unity show their true colours. A Rabble/CAJ report showed that claims of orange and green ‘coming together’ against migrants was engaged with OUTSIDE NI, for external audiences, boosted by people with no links here. The people of the North knew better.
A graphic showing people waving Irish and British flags with the text "Pogromists performing unity with flags now silent or standing with the Orange Order were never the cross community movement that antifascists are. The north is antifascist."
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Migrants Organise @migrantsorganise.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yet again we are grieving. Three people, including a child, died in the Channel due to Britain’s hostile border regime. These people deserved a life of freedom, dignity and abundance. This is not a migrant crisis, this is a crisis of humanity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Three people dead, including a child, in attempt to cross Channel to UK
Official says deaths – and dozens of injuries – were probably caused by crushing on boat carrying 105 people
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Refugee Council @refugeecouncil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This morning's Channel tragedy only reminds us of the urgent need to do more, and the need to support refugees through safe routes in the thousands, not hundreds." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Three people dead, including a child, in attempt to cross Channel to UK
Official says deaths – and dozens of injuries – were probably caused by crushing on boat carrying 105 people
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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every death in our Channel could be prevented. The three people who died trying to reach safety yesterday were betrayed by politicians, who've chosen to ignore the evidence and prioritise deadly hostility over saving lives. But this tragedy doesn't have to be repeated. Safe routes save lives.
Headline reads "Three more people killed by our borders. One of them was a child." over a choppy sea background, with a "Fight for Asylum Rights" badge and a Sky News caption reporting two women and a child died crossing the English Channel.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Disinfotainment channel GB 'News' reveals the scale of crime at an asylum camp, as part of their unending anti-migrant propaganda. But the crime rate they report is substantially lower than, for example, Nigel Farage's Clacton...although they fail to inform their viewers of that fact. 🤔
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
These enormously complex, badly rushed settlement proposals fell apart during consultation on many fronts yet remain v poorly understood - in media, in parliament, in government itself. There remains a big risk that the Burnham government gets the new policy wrong www.easterneye.biz/andy-burnham...
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Can Burnham find a new balance on immigration?
'Fair rules should protect more than just care workers'
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A dramatic spike in small boats daily arrivals on Wednesday: 781 people on 10 boats. This means the year-on-year drop is now 42% rather than 44% The BBC reporting is now putting context *much* higher But shows the challenge that visible optics remain more reportable than invisible trends.
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
End Deportations Belfast condemns the Parades Commission decision to force an unwanted march along the Garvaghy Road, through a community that does not consent. We send our solidarity to residents who are forced to relive dark days which should have been consigned to history books.
A graphic which reads "Rights are not meant to disappear when others claim them. End Deportations Belfast statement on Garvaghy Road and a year of shameful decisions from the Parades Commission."
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beastiebelle.bsky.social @beastiebelle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Truth for those who have "listening ears"
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's called terrorism: 1. violence against a person, 2. serious damage to property, 3. endangers a person’s life. 4. designed to influence the government. 5. designed intimidate the public or a section of the public. 6. purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.
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Daniel Thomas arrested over video of dinghy slashing
Police had been looking into footage appearing to show the man, also known as Danny Tommo, slashing at a boat in the English Channel with a knife.
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Detention Forum @detentionforum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Public Inquiries now for Campsfield and Haslar Further to our blog earlier this month, we can now update you that there are going to be public inquiries for both the proposals to expand Campsfield and open...
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Public Inquiries now for Campsfield and Haslar
Further to our blog earlier this month, we can now update you that there are going to be public inquiries for both the proposals to expand Campsfield and open the...
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Jesuit Refugee Service UK @jrsuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ahead of the JRS UK World Day of Migrants and Refugees Lecture today, Children's Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza is expected to raise serious concerns about the Home Office's age-assessment process for children seeking asylum. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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'I shudder to think about wrongly assessed kids forced to sleep next to adults'
EXCLUSIVE: Urgent action is needed to stop child asylum seekers being wrongly assessed as adults, Children’s Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza will say today
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
via The Unheard Majority
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lila7.bsky.social @lila7.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Police update as far-right leader 'seen slashing inflatable dinghy in Channel'
Convicted kidnapper Danny Tommo, whose balaclava-clad group brought chaos to Dover and Portsmouth earlier this month, filmed himself in a small boat as he tracked migrant dinghies carrying asylum seek...
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Rene Cassin @renecassin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Join René Cassin and Generation2Generation for an in-depth exploration of one story of forced displacement experienced by millions during WWII and an understanding of the fundamental right to an adequate standard of living, including housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TRYING TO PROTECT LIFE This doctor has been arrested under the UK Terrorism Act multiple times for peacefully holding a sign in protest against the proscription of direct action group Palestine Action and UK complicity in Israel’s genocide.
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Danny Thomas' subscription model is between £4.99 to £17.99 a month to watch livestreamed hate and terror. Smash the hate economy. No to the monetisation of hate, violence & terror. Inaction is complicity.
Smash the hate economy text. A headline of Far-right activist Danny Thomas slashes dinghy. On a background of police on motorbikes.
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Detention Forum @detentionforum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please take 2 mins to respond to Ofwat's consultation to demand it BLOCKS the UK water bill hike. If water companies can't survive without hiking our bills, let them go bust and bring them into public ownership. Deadline: midnight Thurs 24th Sept weownit.org.uk/NoBillHike
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Ofwat: No to water bills hike, let them go bust - Respond by midnight on Thursday 24th September
Demand that Ofwat says no to bill hikes. Let water companies go bust and bring them into public ownership for nothing.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 14/09/2026
🚨The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the UK-Israel military cooperation agreement signed in 2020 is still in place. This comes after the UK government announced sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements last week. Read more here: www.declassifieduk.org/secret-uk-is...
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 16/09/2026
Exclusive: Six registered British charities are openly fundraising for activities and infrastructure in illegal Israeli settlements, a Declassified investigation has found. www.declassifieduk.org/the-uk-chari...
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The UK charities sending nearly £2 million to illegal settlements
Exclusive: Six British charities appear to funnel donations to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 16/09/2026
👉NEW -- Starmer ‘complicit’ in Trump’s Yemen massacre by @ionacraig.com Children and paramedics were among at least 80 civilians killed in the incident, Declassified can reveal. www.declassifieduk.org/starmer-comp...
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Starmer ‘complicit’ in Trump’s Yemen massacre
Children and paramedics were among at least 80 civilians killed in the incident, Declassified can reveal.
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 16/09/2026
📹NEW VIDEO -- We followed the money trail to Israel British taxpayers funded ‘therapeutic healing’ for Israeli soldiers who fought in Gaza, Declassified can reveal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1zK...
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 21/09/2026
👉NEW -- Israel killed three UK citizens. Now their families want answers by John McEvoy A coroner’s court has been asked to investigate Israel’s aid worker massacre and review surveillance tapes held by Britain’s military www.declassifieduk.org/israel-kille...
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Israel killed three UK citizens. Now their families want answers
A coroner’s court has been asked to investigate Israel’s aid worker massacre and review surveillance tapes held by Britain’s military
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Migrants Organise @migrantsorganise.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On October 15, join us and @biddetention.bsky.social for the opening night of Taking Liberties, a new exhibition led and curated by people with lived experience of immigration detention and reporting.⁠ 🎟️ actionnetwork.org/events/takin... ℹ️ www.migrantsorganise.org/taking-liber...
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Interesting report by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee on how the Home Office managed to accidently delete a section of the immigration rules, and the workaround that highlights the lack of parliamentary scrutiny of the Home Secretary's powers publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5902/ld...
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House of Lords - Twelfth Report - Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee
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Helen Bamber Foundation 🧡 @helenbamber.org · 15/09/2026
A new briefing from the Helen Bamber Foundation examines how trauma, fear and gaps in the asylum and trafficking systems can affect survivors’ ability to disclose their experiences. Read here: www.helenbamber.org/resources/re...
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“You cannot switch off trauma on demand”: barriers to disclosure for trafficking survivors | Helen Bamber
A new briefing from the Helen Bamber Foundation examines how trauma, fear and gaps in the asylum and trafficking systems can affect survivors’ ability to disclose their experiences and why proposed ch...
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Earlier this week I gave evidence to the public bill committee scrutinising the Immigration and Asylum Bill. One topic covered was the proposed "refugee tax", and @refugeecouncil.bsky.social's concern that it will force people into destitution (thanks @4refugeewomen.bsky.social for the clip)
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Masked thugs have put lives directly at risk here. Beyond shameful.
RNLI suspends services in Portsmouth over anti-migrant protests". The standfirst beneath reads: "Volunteers were abused physically and online since bringing 120 migrants ashore earlier this month". Below are buttons showing 4,076 comments. The article's lead photo, taken from above, shows an orange and navy RNLI all-weather lifeboat moored alongside a floating pontoon. A large group of people is gathered on the lifeboat's deck wrapped in foil for warmth
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Detention Forum @detentionforum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@tbij.bsky.social's report shows how vast profits the govt yields from its visa system run counter to claim that migrants financially burden the state. Fees charged for visas, citizenship + health surcharge far outstrip the actual cost to the Home Office, indebting many people trying to settle.
graphic of a chart produced The Bureau of Investigative Journalism showing how the fees charged by the Government for some of visa services for migrants vastly outstrip the actual cost of processing the applications
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
How much lower can they get? 'Anti-immigrant protesters have been directing abuse at the UK’s leading blind people’s charity... The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) reminded people that they’re “not the lifeboat people” amid threats to the RNLI...' #WATO
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Blindness charity targeted by anti-migrant protesters after being mistaken for RNLI
One person accused the blind people’s charity of ‘deliberately overfilling our great country with illegals’
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Home Office is pursuing plans to create an additional 1,000 detention spaces by expanding Campsfield & Haslar detention centres. Both applications will now go to a public inquiry. Read the blog ⬇️ on how you can make your objections. righttoremain.org.uk/challenging-... #TheseWallsMustFall
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Right to Remain @right-to-remain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When rage makes us feel deranged, we need to show up for ourselves and others. We will be holding an online space to share our community's experience of racism and what we can do to stand in solidarity with everyone affected. Get in touch if you want to join! righttoremain.org.uk/when-rage-ma...
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When rage makes us feel deranged, we need to show up for ourselves and others.
We reflect on racist attacks that surround us, how we care for each other and continue to show up and move forward.
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Levels of racist violence and intimidation that were once considered extreme are now becoming weekly occurrences across the UK. The response of successive UK governments has been woefully inadequate. We joined 150+ orgs to call on the gov to take action. www.globaljustice.org.uk/news/joint-s...
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Joint statement on the escalation in racist violence - Global Justice Now
This is the third consecutive year we have witnessed an escalation of racist violence, intimidation and hatred. We’ve seen racialised people being attacked on the street, homes burned to the […]
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Detention Forum @detentionforum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
UNHCR says the Immigration and Asylum Bill currently going through Parliament lacks of detail on the 'structure, operation and applicable safeguards' of the new Independent Immigration Appeals Authority 1/2 www.unhcr.org/uk/media/unh...
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UNHCR Observations on the Immigration and Asylum Bill | UNHCR UK
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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The appeal system is often the next line of defence for women seeking safety - where their cases can be fully heard by an experienced judge. Now, that safeguard could be taken away and replaced with an Independent Immigration Appeal Authority (IIAA) under the new Asylum Bill. 5/🧵
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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As the Immigration and Asylum Bill passes through parliament, we will be watching carefully, challenging it, and supporting MPs and Peers to push back against this cruel Bill. The asylum system is broken, but this Bill will do further damage. Watch out for our updates on the Bill! 9/9
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Join the 3,600+ as hundreds more head to Labour’s Liverpool conference on September 27th. Go to wedonotcomply.org to get involved.
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Saving Lives Is Not Terrorism - Defend Our Juries
🗓️ On September 27th, we are taking the defiance to Andy Burnham’s Labour Conference in Liverpool. For over a year now we’ve been getting arrested under the UK Terrorism Act in our thousands for holding paper signs calling on the UK government to reverse their unjust ban on Palestine Action. The new Prime Minister has […]
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Detention Forum @detentionforum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The inspection found data collection is poor, with no standards to assess performance/evidence for more strategic assessments. There is no nationally co-ordinated approach to assuring refusals casework or data to underpin it. The operational case database could not capture/extract key information.
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The statistics are available here www.gov.uk/government/s... Nothing in the Government's asylum reforms will sort out initial decision making. Instead, lots of time and money will go into creating new systems that will make refugees' lives harder.
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Tribunals statistics quarterly: April to June 2026
Type and volume of tribunal cases received, disposed of or outstanding. This also includes statistics on the Gender Recognition Certificate applied for and granted by HMCTS Gender Recognition Panel.
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New tribunal stats out this morning - at the end of June there were 90,741 asylum appeals outstanding, around 117,000 people. That's around three times the size of asylum backlog now. A year earlier it was 60,000 cases. The average time to disposal of an appeals increased again to 72 weeks.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers.
Arron Banks 

Going through Heathrow today, there wasn't one
white face in security or airport services. The
Home office is staffed by the type of people we
are trying to keep out! What hope?
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Detention Forum @detentionforum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Campsfield Public Inquiry Further to the recent attempt by the Government to expand the detention centre at Campsfield in Oxfordshire by using the Crown Development Route, the planning inspectorate has agreed to...
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Campsfield Public Inquiry
Further to the recent attempt by the Government to expand the detention centre at Campsfield in Oxfordshire by using the Crown Development Route, the planning inspectorate has agreed to hold...
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PoppyOurRabbit @bikerchic1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The “men in black” are total cowards. Funded by racists. They should try risking their lives at sea to save life. Maybe put them on small boats and leave them at sea. ( for the experience)🤔 The RNLI are a brave, strong group of caring humans.
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Marcus Houlden @mhoulden.uk · 08/09/2026
The RNLI saves lives at sea, regardless of who they are. Sometimes the crew doesn't come back. To me that sounds a lot more patriotic than getting ballied up and chanting inane slogans at people trying to go on holiday. rnli.org/about-us/our...
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Why does the RNLI launch to small boats in the English Channel?
RNLI lifeboat crews have always launched to the rescue without judgement or preference. Men, women and children in danger in the Channel are no exception.
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