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Fiona Millar

@fionamillar.bsky.social
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Journalist, education campaigner, school governor, feminist, passionate open air swimmer. Sorry that sounds a bit worthy!! Also mother of comedian Grace Campbell, who really is a laugh 😊

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
as.ft.com/r/26bbed23-1... Nigel Farage’s accounts challenge claim that he paid for £1.4mn house with TV fee
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“Mahmood will argue next week that migration policies – including forcing people to wait 20 years before being able to claim leave to remain – were entirely consistent with Labour values” I just despair www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat
Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them". How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
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Fiona Millar @fionamillar.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Camden Council- Borough of Sanctuary for refugees and asylum seekers. www.camden.gov.uk/borough-of-s...
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Borough of Sanctuary - Camden Council
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Shabana Mahmood threatens Trump-style visa ban on three countries
Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals
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Fiona Millar @fionamillar.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
It’s disgusting. Several of my children’s school friends would have been deported under this regime. Most had families who worked hard, paid taxes, got their children to uni etc and they in turn contribute richly to our local community. Erm… this is in the PMs constituency btw .
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This is the logical consequence of Labour’s appeasement of the far right - this is an arms race Labour should never seek to win
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Fiona Millar @fionamillar.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Educators against the 11-plus comprehensivefuture.org.uk/educators-ag...
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Educators against the 11-plus – Comprehensive Future
Dear Bridget Phillipson, Secretary of State for Education This September, more than 100,00 stressed children will sit an unnecessary exam. We are ... Read more
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Fiona Millar @fionamillar.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Every word of this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There is a dangerous disconnect: on Gaza, politics no longer speaks for the people | Gaby Hinsliff
The government now faces a daunting task to show that society’s concerns can be reflected. It will need to do better than this, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Fiona Millar @fionamillar.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Our hearts are breaking
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Fiona Millar @fionamillar.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard
A permanent ceasefire, the free and safe flow of aid, and the lifting of the blockade are needed now – all could be achieved with political will, says UK surgeon Nick Maynard
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Labour peer Peter Hain in the House of Lords just now: "This Government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to Al Qaeda and Islamic State...It is intellectually bankrupt and morally wrong. "Frankly, I am deeply ashamed. And that's why I support the regret motion."
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Ayatollah Khamenei - 86 Donald Trump - 79 Benjamin Netanyahu - 72 Vladimir Putin - 72 Why are these old men determining the future of the planet? 🤦🏽‍♂️
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Royal College of Physicians @rcphysicians.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
We’ve joined several other UK medical organisations in urging Foreign Secretary David Lammy MP to take decisive action to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in #Gaza. Read the full letter: ow.ly/YElJ50W4eYT @rcpch.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk rcgp.bsky.social
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Royal College of Physicians and health organisations write to the UK Foreign Secretary about the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza
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Fiona Millar @fionamillar.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
So impressive- a lot for us to learn here. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘These are not numbers – they are people’: what ex-communist Slovenia can teach the world about child poverty
Slovenia’s children are less likely to know deprivation than any other European nation’s. Is that because of what the country is doing now – or its socialist past?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Labour's attempts to blame rising small boat numbers on the weather are "pathetic" says Shadow Conservative Home Secretary Chris Philp In other news, here's Chris Philp, when he was Immigration Minister, blaming rising small boat numbers on the weather
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24/05/2025
“I hate the way that disabled lives recede out of view because other people are too squeamish to talk about them, and I want to confront that tendency. Mostly, though, I think Max is already a thousand times more interesting than anyone I’ve ever met, and I want to tell you about him.”
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The boy who came back: the near-death, and changed life, of my son Max
It was, we were told, a case of sudden infant death syndrome interrupted. What followed would transform my understanding of parenting, disability and the breadth of what makes a meaningful life
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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Stanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...
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Stanford president and provost back Harvard in funding fight
The president and provost said Harvard’s rejection of government demands was “rooted in the American tradition of liberty.”
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
America has no allies in this trade war. Not the EU. Not Japan. Not Canada, not Mexico, not Australia. Not even Russia. OK, maybe El Salvador. MAGA wanted America alone. It got its wish.
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Just enjoy the tariffs
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Elon’s own AI bot is calling this illegal ⚰️
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The email lady gets the last laugh on this, forever
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Huge Survey Finds 94% Of Germans Won’t Buy A Tesla After Musk’s Political Antics 👏 www.carscoops.com/2025/03/germ...
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Huge Survey Finds 94% Of Germans Won't Buy A Tesla After Musk’s Political Antics | Carscoops
It's unclear if Tesla will be able to win back fans in Germany before rivals snatch away its market share
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/03/2025
Meanwhile over on X….
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 16/03/2025
In January I spent 24 hours with Ukrainian combat medics of the Third Assault Brigade in a frontline field hospital. Their work is extraordinarily courageous - they are constantly targeted by Russian forces, in violation of the Geneva Conventions. Please watch. Please keep supporting Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Diagnosis isn't really relevant either way to this issue as neither PIP nor incapacity benefit follow from a diagnosis but an assessment of capability.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."
Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. RogersDefense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers Defense.gov
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Fiona Millar @fionamillar.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Agree with this- anyone who has had interaction with NHS MH services will know how stretched they are. It’s hard to get diagnosed at all so how can mental illness be overdiagnosed.
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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Ugh. I can’t tell you how much I dislike this. To witness such cruelty, incompetence, contempt for the law and think ‘let’s have some of that’… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Wes Streeting, the health secretary, told LBC:
"We're different political traditions, but I think we've all been struck by the pace at which President Trump's new administration has come in and made a whole bunch of changes to the way that Washington and the way that government works.
"We might look at some of those changes and think, well, they're not quite the changes we would make, from a centre-left perspective, but the speed at which they've operated, we've actually thought, you know what, we can go further and faster. We will, we are.
That's what the prime minister's doing."
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The Times reports people will only be eligible for PIP if they score at least 4 points ***in a single activity*** (and more overall). This specifically discriminates against people with mental illness, who generally score fewer points across multiple areas. It would be an absolute disaster. 1/3
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The “speed at which they’ve operated” is down to ignoring or actively destroying laws and institutions. This is real “say what you will about Mussolini, but he made the trains run on time” territory. Very concerning that a leadership figure would consider this an appropriate thing to say in public.
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Fiona Millar @fionamillar.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Please tell me this isn’t true
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Who could have predicted this?
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
If only there was some way of knowing why Musk is pushing for elections and “regime change” in Ukraine… but not Russia..
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/03/2025
The FAA approved another launch before the last crash investigation was completed — and it ended in another disaster. Why is SpaceX getting a free pass from DOGE cuts? 🤔
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Temerko was the guy who conspired with Boris Johnson to topple Theresa May. He also told Catherine Belton that a 'group of European businessmen' had persuaded Johnson to back Brexit. So perhaps not advice to be followed here
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
There’s only so much he can play that bridging/whispering role before he begins to look too close to a President that most Brits regard as either completely crazy or downright dangerous – or both.
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What Starmer's 'Trump whisperer' role really means for the PM's political future
The Prime Minister's assured performance on the world stage is boosting his ratings. But pollsters say he runs a big risk of it backfiring with voters
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Adam Payne @adampayne26.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Donald Trump's favourability rating among 2024 Reform voters has collapsed in the last two-and-a-half weeks (h/t @yougov.co.uk)
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
When Richard Nixon was recorded calling Pierre Trudeau "that asshole Trudeau" on the White House Watergate tapes, Pierre famously responded to the press: "I’ve been called worse things by better people." A great line, then and now.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
JD Vance tried to berate Starmer for locking up people who used social media to incite race riots in the UK just a few days ago. Now the free speech champions have this to offer
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 04/03/2025
Is this the same JD Vance who pretended to be so outraged at a leader supposedly disrespecting another country? Surely not.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Trudeau is absolute class.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If Trump, Vance and Mike Johnson were all to be in an Air Force One crash together then the President would be Chuck Grassley (as president pro tempore of the Senate). He's 91 years old and would still be the best option...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social On Europe's strategy following the weekend conference and Trump's pause on aid to Ukraine. "The Great Crisis" (We've made this one free to read) samf.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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The Great Crisis
Europe's military and diplomatic challenge
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