Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 02/10/2026You seem to be determined to have an argument that nobody except you is interested in. What's neither grown-up nor serious is mis-representing the arguments of your interlocutors in this way. And that's why I'm drawing this discussion to a close. We're done here, dude... 100
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 · 03/05/2025Trump's developmental age has been regularly assessed at about that level, so maybe it's not so surprising? 000
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I knew I had a copy of that somewhere... 030
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 · 05/04/2025It's ALWAYS been a problem. But it's a problem which is made 10x worse, if government, leading politicians and media are either too scared to try to explain to the public how things work – or else themselves have such a weak grasp of how things work that in fact they are unable to explain them. 010
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 02/04/2025This one paragraph is enough to make anybody's head explode... 100
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025And in order to do that, UK government would have to add all these new costs to your taxes. Of course you want to pay higher taxes. Wait... You don't? 28/29 100
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025𝐏𝐎𝐏 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐙!! Have you been paying attention? Let's find out! 19/29 100
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This overriding obligation to assist 𝐀𝐍𝐘 person in distress at sea is affirmed in FOUR international conventions to which the UK is a party: 14/29 110
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The overarching obligation of coastal states for search and rescue (SAR) is therefore defined in UNCLOS 98(2) – and further operationalized in the 𝐒𝐀𝐑 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟗, 𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝: 12/29 100
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025· §𝟑: What are the main legal obligations governing the rescue of migrants at sea? The 𝐔𝐍 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐚 (UNCLOS) is sometimes described as a "framework" convention. 11/29 100
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025As far as migrant dinghy crossings are concerned, RNLI 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 gets involved when instructed to do so by HMCG – in other words, in the 𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 of attempted crossings where people’s lives are believed to be in immediate danger. 10/29 100
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (RNLI), finally, is one of the principal SAR units (assets/resources) notified by the UK to the other parties to the SAR convention (via the Secretary-General of the IMO). 9/29 100
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐣𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐲'𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝 (HMCG) is the section of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency responsible for the initiation and co-ordination of all maritime search and rescue (SAR) within the UK Maritime Search and Rescue Region. 8/29 100
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025· §𝟐: Accountability for the UK's SAR responsibility The 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 (MCA) is an executive agency attached to UK Department of Transport. It is responsible for implementing British and international maritime law and safety policy. 7/29 100
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025To give an idea of scale, if you were to start from Greenwich (0° longitude) and fly due west along 51° North (the approximate latitude of London), 30° West lies 1129 nautical miles (2091 kilometres) away to the west. 6/29 100
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 18/03/2025· §𝟏: Introduction Many people seem to be genuinely surprised to discover that one of the UK's oldest and most venerable charities – which since 1854 has as its ACTUAL name the "𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧" (RNLI) – actually has as its SOLE mission: 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙖. 3/29 110
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 · 13/03/2025Apparently, #Swasticars are just flying off the shelves in US after Tuesday's endorsement from a beaming president: 250
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 13/03/2025If the following statement (attributed to Reynolds in this morning's Telegraph) is correctly reported, then not only is Reynolds not a solicitor – he's not an economist, either. 1/2 100
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Now that the brand has presidential endorsement, for sure! 051
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 02/03/2025"Why don't you wear a suit, Prime Minister?" 000
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Addendum: Arianne Shahvisi on capitalist exploitation and "white privilege". 021
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Jason Stanley, 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐅𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬 (2018) : 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 · 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 · 02/12/2024As they write at the end: "You could park the entire Royal Navy surface fleet in the Channel, and it would not make the slightest bit of difference to the outcome". (my highlighting, and my annotations in the RH margin). 52/52 000
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 02/12/2024While the view of the Joint Committee on Human Rights was that: 30/n 100
Hugh Mann Wright @hughmannwright.bsky.social · 02/12/2024That isn’t just my view. In a letter addressed to the Home Secretary in 2021 (when the UK govt was considering a policy of pushbacks linked to legislative changes proposed in its Nationality and Borders Bill), the Justice and Home Affairs Committee… 29/n 100
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