Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Lauren Gilbert's analysis of the fiscal impact of immigration in the UK (published today) flies in the face of the uninformed claims made by Farage, Tice, Lowe, Lam, Jenrick, and the rest of the bigot-based community. ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat... 083
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/09/2025The UK's problems are NOT caused by migration. (Tim Harford in the FT, 18/09/2025) archive.ph/9Shwc 084
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 10/09/2025France today, described by @agnescpoirier.bsky.social But delete "France" and write in "UK", "USA" or a number of other countries. This hermetically sealed, "safe room" mentality has mushroomed with the advent of SM. Dare to resist? The SM bosses will shriek "denial of free speech!" 020
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Podcasting years before anyone even thought of the word "podcasting". Thank you so much for having enriched and enlightened so many, Melvin! 020
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 21/08/2025The brutal reality: the >3 year struggle of one Sudanese refugee to reach safety. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comAt 19 I had to flee my country, afraid for my life – without even saying goodbye to my familyMohanad was a medical student in Sudan, but he had to leave in secret, hiding in a vegetable truck, until he reached Libya, where he was kidnapped repeatedly. That was only the start of his perilous j... 020
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I'd forgotten just how excruciatingly bad was this performance in 2022 by then Home Secretary Suella Braverman. Must have been galling that her tormentor was from her own party. 😅 The 𝑷𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒆 in action. (h/t @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social for the reminder) www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpZA...youtube.comSuella Braverman appears unsure about how an asylum seeker can apply to enter the UKYouTube video by Guardian News 000
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I spent the weekend utterly absorbed by 𝑨𝒏𝒚𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒆, Nicola Kelly’s outstanding new book in which she walks the reader chapter-by-chapter through the various stages of the UK’s asylum process. 1/5 @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social eandtbooks.com/books/anywhe... amzn.to/3XuF7Q8eandtbooks.comElliott & Thompson | Anywhere But Here 278
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Genuinely surprised that we haven't seen more of this bad boy during the last week... 000
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Julien Goudichaud spent 7 years earning the trust of refugees, smugglers, their hired hands, police, and the volunteers who help them. He risks his life on a dinghy to UK...and later, inside a truck with one of the growing number who want to LEAVE the UK. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL2d...youtube.comCalais-Douvres, l'exil sans fin - Documentaire complet - inédit - LCP Assemblée nationaleYouTube video by LCP - Assemblée nationale 111
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 24/03/2025𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐮𝐠𝐞𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 Superlative Al Jazeera report (22 Sep 2024) on Sudanese migrants' journey to UK, why they have to flee Sudan, the dangers, costs, how long the journey lasts, how they earn the money to pay smugglers www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...aljazeera.comRefugee chronicles: The long and lonely road from Sudan to northern FranceCrossing desert and sea, facing pushbacks, racist attacks and homelessness; Sudanese refugees have endured them all. 001
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐬𝐤𝐲 𝐑𝐍𝐋𝐈 “𝐭𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐬”*… *but were afraid to ask. 1/29 130
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Very informative article in the Guardian (26/02/2025) about growing numbers of Chinese asylum-seekers trying to reach Germany. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...theguardian.comThe Chinese migrants hoping for a new life in GermanyA small but growing number of Chinese people are fleeing home, with their sights set on Germany thanks to its reputation as a safe haven for refugees 000
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 20/02/2025For a wonderfully well-informed but empathetic and accessible insider's guide to the criminal justice system in England and Wales, you won't find much better than @joannahs.bsky.social 's series/podcast for the BBC 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝘿𝙤 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙎𝙖𝙮 𝘼𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - You Do Not Have to Say Anything, Episode 1: There's Been an AllegationArrest: the shift from person to suspect, from ordinary citizen to ‘the accused’. 1114
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Very informative data visualization piece by @alexjclark.bsky.social in today's Guardian (18/02/2025) — examining the projected demographic evolution between 2025 and 2100 in countries across Europe with and without immigration maintained at current levels: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...theguardian.comEurope’s population crisis: see how your country compares – visualisedHow anti-immigration politics across the EU clashes with demographic reality 020
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Superlative article from the Guardian's John Harris on the extent of the UK's dependency on migrant workers for essential public services. 010
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 14/02/2025𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐨: 𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 examines the plight of refugees seeking to reach Europe, the enormous risks and challenges they face, the brutality of the smugglers—but also the compassion of those in receiving countries who try to help them. Paul Russell & Andrea Vogt (2016) www.youtube.com/watch?v=P58a...youtube.comThe Brutal Reality of Mediterranean Human Trafficking | Lethal Cargo | Documentary CentralYouTube video by Documentary Central 000
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 11/02/2025The latest tragedy on the world's deadliest migration route is a chance to draw attention to the moving but deeply disturbing documentary "𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬" (2024), made by Blanca Muñoz for BBC Africa Eye: t.co/zj0YNPWWgD www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajX6...youtube.comDark Waters: Africa's deadliest migration route - BBC Africa Eye DocumentaryYouTube video by BBC News Africa 010
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Just the latest mass tragedy on the world's most lethal migration route. 000
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 07/02/2025𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥... A 🧵 110
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Since w/b 29/04/24, Home Office publishes weekly data on numbers of migrants & of small boats (SBs) that reached UK – and ALSO on the numbers of migrants & of small boats that were PREVENTED. In 35 weeks (to 29/12/24): 29,649 migrants arrived in 547 SBs; 21,317 migrants were prevented in 694 SBs. 000
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Yesterday's ECHR judgment is a chance to highlight the superb documentary made by Lucile Smith and Ben Steele (for BBC) on the systematic abuse of asylum-seekers' rights at the EU's Greek border with Turkey. First broadcast 17/06/2024. 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-sB...youtube.comDead Calm: Killing in the MedYouTube video by Michalis Michaloliakos 120
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 08/01/2025The ECtHR has found Greece guilty of conducting “systematic” pushbacks of would-be asylum seekers – the first time it has been publicly condemned for carrying out a policy it has long denied. Further pushback cases are pending before the Strasbourg court. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comStrasbourg court finds Greece guilty of ‘systematic’ pushback of asylum seekersIn ‘potentially trailblazing’ decision, European court of human rights finds country engaging in illicit deportations 000
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 08/01/2025"Life and death on the Bibby Stockholm" Diane Taylor's (@diane-writer10.bsky.social) illuminating epitaph on (yet) another disastrously ill-conceived Conservative policy on asylum-seekers. (in today's Guardian) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comLife and death on the Bibby Stockholm: ‘No one wanted to go inside – but we had no choice’From the moment it was announced that asylum seekers would be accommodated on this hulking, prison-like barge, the scheme was steeped in controversy. As it leaves British waters, here is the inside st... 000
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Very proud to be a supporter and member of this admirable and vitally necessary British life-saving institution, 200 years young this year: 010
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Why the UK is EXTREMELY unlikely to copy Australia, and undertake "turnback" (aka "pushback") operations against dinghies in the English Channel bringing asylum-seekers to the UK: A 🧵 1/n 100
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 19/11/2024One of the greatest internet memes ever – a superb example of "a picture being worth a thousand words". If I had to choose just one image to explain exactly how things got this bad, it might be this. A short 🧵 1/4 4182
Reposted by Hugh Mann WrightHugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 17/11/2024🗣️ " It is easier for the world to express concern and outrage for the unknown refugee who drowns, or otherwise perishes, for he makes no demand on any nation. " It is far more difficult to be reconciled to resolving the problems of those who live." Kurt Waldheim, UN Secretary General (1979) 011
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 17/11/2024🗣️ " It is easier for the world to express concern and outrage for the unknown refugee who drowns, or otherwise perishes, for he makes no demand on any nation. " It is far more difficult to be reconciled to resolving the problems of those who live." Kurt Waldheim, UN Secretary General (1979) 011
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 12/11/2024#goodlunch In the staff canteen on 05 November (fateful day) Cabillaud avec légumes et miel, graines de chanvre et couscous perlé. (Cod with vegetables and honey, hemp seeds and pearl couscous) 5220
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done, apart from what you do now: - "plongeur" in factory canteen of cosmetics company - maintenance roustabout on North Sea oil rig - factotum for Georgian music festival - chartered accountant in international and investment banks - internal auditor 030