Reposted by Jason IoannouCameron @cameronboyle95.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I am MC'ing this exciting event - who'd want to miss that? 🎤 032
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 18/04/2026On genocide as the flattening of Gaza's built environment into a featureless desert and the total erasure of Palestinian life through 'reconstruction'. All they will find is sand www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukEyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow LineMost of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture... 000
Reposted by Jason IoannouGreater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · 02/04/2026✍️WRITE TO YOUR MP! The Govt’s ‘earned settlement’ plans are still being decided. With more and more MPs speaking out, now is a chance to ask your MP to push back on these proposals before it is too late. It's important to make your voice heard. Use our template: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 033
Reposted by Jason IoannouGreater Manchester Patients Not Passports @gmpnp.bsky.social · 29/03/2026📢 Our statement on this Government's 'earned settlement' proposals. 065
Reposted by Jason IoannouGreater Manchester Patients Not Passports @gmpnp.bsky.social · 28/03/2026💬 "Blocking settlement for anyone with an NHS or other public debt will clearly impact the most vulnerable and poorly paid migrants." Excellent critique of this Government's 'earned settlement' proposals from PNP's Rayah Feldman 👇 labournet.net/other/2602/E...labournet.netLabour takes aim at migrants, again 121
Reposted by Jason IoannouGreater Manchester Patients Not Passports @gmpnp.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Fantastic to see @socialistworker.bsky.social cover our campaign against racist NHS visa rules - and feature the words of our very own @iioannou.bsky.social! After months of campaigning, many of the Band 3 MFT nursing assistants won a massive victory... 🧵 socialistworker.co.uk/news/manches... 132
Reposted by Jason IoannouAsylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 07/02/2026The Government's plans to make people wait decades for settlement will do huge damage to our communities. Every local authority that values a diverse, cohesive community should stand against them. www.expressandstar.com/news/politic...expressandstar.comBirmingham Council urged to ‘take stand against nightmarish migration plans’Birmingham Council has been urged by campaigners and refugees to take a stand against ‘nightmarish’ government plans for migration. 0138
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Reform's voter base is loose and contradictory. Your Party can make inroads by focusing on the cost of living crisis - a third of Reform supporters have a household income > £25k and/or are concerned about their finances. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comWho supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s partyBased on largest poll of supporters, these charts and maps show five distinct groups that could hand Reform a majority 010
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Manchester Foundation Trust is denying visa support to 300 Nursing Assistants who are now at risk of deportation. Please follow this link to send a letter to MFT management to demand their jobs are safeguarded. bit.ly/4i2ofKK 010
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 23/10/2025morningstaronline.co.uk/article/harv...morningstaronline.co.ukHarvesting olives under the occupation: a day in the West BankIT IS the olive harvest season. Palestinian communities are preparing for it, as they have for generations. This is not only economically vital, but also a practice rooted in their history, culture, a... 010
Reposted by Jason IoannouGreater Manchester Patients Not Passports @gmpnp.bsky.social · 08/10/2025ACTION NEEDED - sign Migrant Justice Manchester's petition to End Street Homelessness now and address the racism and gatekeeping ebedded within homelessness services in Manchester. democracy.manchester.gov.uk/mgEPetitionD...democracy.manchester.gov.uk 031
Reposted by Jason IoannouPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 21/09/2025A short thread on digital ID (cards) just to bear in mind. There are a few myths that I keep hearing about this idea that need clarifying/debunking. 1/10 15146132
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 19/09/2025'Don't you know, town is a powder keg' www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjr... #FallFriday 080
Reposted by Jason IoannouEveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 09/09/2025📣 Update: Coventry City Council — the first UK council to appoint US tech company Palantir to roll out AI — is now reviewing the contract following protests from staff and councillors. Read more🔗 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 16038
Reposted by Jason IoannouBoaz Trust @boaztrust.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Like so many other asylum and migration charities, we have become increasingly alarmed in recent months by the growth of the far right and their sentiments, and the ‘protests’ outside hotels housing people seeking asylum. 🧵1/3 145
Reposted by Jason IoannouMinnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 31/08/2025People’s homes are being stormed by far-right groups. The govt. Is saying nothing about how violence like this will not be tolerated. Where is Starmer’s “law and order” now? They’ve no control and we are moments away from someone being killed. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...theguardian.comFive arrested after masked men try to enter west London asylum hotelTwo anti-asylum groups marched to Crowne Plaza before attempting to enter building at rear, Met police say 36872338
Reposted by Jason IoannouBirmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 29/08/2025#FallFriday "We're always portrayed as scruffy and things like that, but fashion-wise we're always about three years ahead of everybody." The Fall on Snub TV in 1990 youtu.be/mbdNNF-W-uIyoutu.beThe Fall feature (Snub TV) February 1990YouTube video by Indie City 28420
Reposted by Jason IoannouOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move 293654352
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 23/08/2025There are humane alternatives to using hotels to accomodate asylum seekers, but the politicians refuse to consider solutions that have been successfully used in the past. www.migrantsorganise.org/asylum-accom...migrantsorganise.orgAsylum Accommodation Can Be Done Better - Migrants OrganisePrison-like hotel asylum accommodation is not an unavoidable response to “crisis,” but a deliberate narrowing of political possibility. 030
Reposted by Jason IoannouPraxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 28/07/2025By making people wait ten years to get settlement, this Government is holding people back and holding our communities down. That’s why we’re fighting to Scrap the Barriers. Now’s the time to speak up. Now’s the time to push back. 📋 Sign the petition now. act.praxis.org.uk/scrap-the-ba...act.praxis.org.ukScrap the BarriersEveryone deserves a secure future, no matter where we're from. But right now, thousands of migrants like us are being held back, forced to wait over 10 years for the right to stay permanently in the p... 03019
Reposted by Jason IoannouPraxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 21/08/2025What today's headlines won't tell you... We are living in a time of unparalleled instability and conflict - there are currently more active conflicts globally than any time since WW2. Small boats are one of the ONLY means to reach the UK for people who are fleeing war and persecution. 1/2 1188
Reposted by Jason IoannouDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 17/08/2025So, how to sanitise this? Legitimate concerns about Britain's failure to capitulate to Adolf Hitler? The cancellation of the Reich's quest for Lebensraum: so much for the tolerant left? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comFarage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine 65114
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 28/07/2025🔴FIGHT THE TARGETING OF PRO-PALESTINE ACTIVISM - THALES, STOP ARMING ISRAEL COMMUNITY DEMO🔴 🗓 Monday 28th July ⏰5 - 6 PM 📍 Thales - Cheadle Heath site, Oakhurst Drive, SK3 0XB 🔗 instagram.com/p/DMVNmtoN6Iy/ 020
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 20/07/2025But it precisely the politicians who decide to supply weapons to some bad guys and sanction others. Moral relativism is absolutely bound up with the political. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comFrom Gaza to Ukraine, peace always seems just out of reach – and the reason isn’t only political | Simon TisdallMurdering and massacring innocents is indefensible. So why on earth is it allowed to continue? The answer is moral relativism, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall 030
Reposted by Jason IoannouMic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 19/07/2025A woman wore a dress 16 years ago — when she was a teenager — so she’s not entitled to political principles that The Times dislikes. 881921325
Reposted by Jason IoannouDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country? 9853292218
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 17/07/2025“Under the Terrorism Act it is a criminal offence to carry or display items that may arouse reasonable suspicion that an individual is a member or supporter of a proscribed organisation such as Palestine Action.” Kent police's interpretation of the ban on PA. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...theguardian.comArmed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flagOfficers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation 020
Reposted by Jason IoannouGreater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · 09/07/2025🚨We have published a NEW REPORT sharing the experiences of children from our All4One youth group who were wrongly treated as adults by the Home Office. These children arrived in the UK alone seeking asylum, were declared “significantly over 18” at the border and sent alone to adult asylum hotels.gmiau.orgNew Report - “This system destroys you”: Children trapped in adult asylum hotels by the Home Office - GMIAUOur new report on children who have been wrongly sent to adult asylum hotels by the UK Home Office. 13837
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 05/07/2025The old colonial machine is still doing a job for global capital. 'Of 222,000 people in employment in Brunei, around 24,000 are employees of or contractors for [Shell]. Around one in every 200 people in Brunei is a British soldier. These numbers are not coincidental.' 000
Reposted by Jason IoannouMark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 03/07/2025If Theresa May brought out an aftershave of her own panic then Starmer would be wearing it. 55512
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Israel continues to murder Gazan medical staff with impunity. #GazaDoctorsUnderAttack www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukGaza hospital director killed in Israeli strike, Hamas-run health ministry saysDr Marwan Sultan was killed along with several family members in a strike on his home, the health ministry says. 000
Reposted by Jason IoannouDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 23/06/2025From the very same paragraph in Orwell's essay: "England has got to be true to herself. She is not being true to herself while the refugees who have sought our shores are penned up in concentration camps, and company directors work out subtle schemes to dodge their Excess Profits Tax." 18853293
Reposted by Jason IoannouDavid Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 22/06/2025This from Keir Starmer is a de facto endorsement of Trump's illegal aggression against Iran. Talk of Starmer's deep commitment to international law belongs in the same garbage can as talk of Trump's deep aversion to foreign military entanglements www.bbc.com/news/article... 9246106
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 21/06/2025The BBC has pulled another documentary about Gaza. It spent weeks trying to find an excuse, found none, then pulled it anyway. Apparently 'broadcasting this material risked creating a perception of partiality' - the weaseliest of all weasel words. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBBC pulls Gaza medics documentary due to impartiality concernsGaza: Doctors Under Attack, which was due to air in February, was made by an independent company. 000
Reposted by Jason IoannouJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025“If the free-traders cannot understand how one nation can grow rich at the expense of another, we need not wonder, since these same gentlemen also refuse to understand how within one country one class can enrich itself at the expense of another.” —Karl Marx 118742
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 12/06/2025It's clear that the eVisa system is designed to aid immigration enforcement and push up deportation numbers, not to actually make the lives of overseas workers and students easier. www.computerweekly.com/news/3666253...computerweekly.comUK’s error-prone eVisa system is ‘anxiety-inducing’ | Computer WeeklyPeople experiencing technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa system have spoken with Computer Weekly about the psychological toll of not being able to reliably prove their immigration s... 000
Reposted by Jason IoannouOpen Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 12/06/2025“We’ve been seeing complaints about the eVisa scheme since day one." Over a year later, it's more of the same: 🔴 System failures. 🔴 Job and benefit losses due to technical errors. 🔴 Extreme stress when migrants try to return to the UK. Read more ⬇️ www.computerweekly.com/news/3666253...computerweekly.comUK’s error-prone eVisa system is ‘anxiety-inducing’ | Computer WeeklyPeople experiencing technical errors with the Home Office’s electronic visa system have spoken with Computer Weekly about the psychological toll of not being able to reliably prove their immigration… 3108
Reposted by Jason Ioannou350 Europe @350europe.bsky.social · 10/06/2025The UK government softened tax reforms on the super-rich because of a widely reported “exodus” of millionaires fleeing the UK. A new @taxjustice.net study shows that the "exodus" was a complete fiction 👀 Read more: taxjustice.net/press/millio... #BogusExodus #TaxTheSuperRich #TaxTheirBillions 37636
Reposted by Jason IoannouDeclassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 11/06/2025Defence minister Luke Pollard refuses to tell parliament how many spy flights the RAF has conducted for Israel. We can tell him. It's over 500 👉 www.declassifieduk.org/britain-sent...declassifieduk.orgBritain sent over 500 spy flights to GazaExclusive: New study reveals the scale of British intelligence gathering above Gaza, raising fears of complicity in Israeli war crimes 5156103
Reposted by Jason IoannouProgressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Researchers reveal that private firms have earned over £3.5bn from UK border security contracts since 2017. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR, DE, IT, AR and HI.buff.lyExclusive: Government hands private firms £3bn in bid to ‘stop the boats’In UK, research reveals the business of Channel security is booming, as companies profit off asylum seekers’ desperation. 064
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Please sign this petition calling on @mancitycouncil.bsky.social to end discrimination in its housing service and improve the provision it gives to all those sleeping rough on the city’s streets. www.change.org/p/end-homele...change.orgSign the PetitionEnd homelessness now and address the racism and gatekeeping within homelessness services 011
Reposted by Jason IoannouJoseph Cotterill @jsphctrl.ft.com · 10/06/2025“Can you imagine someone saying to me in 20 years’ time: ‘You never had children – why?’ And I say: ‘Well, because I didn’t make enough money for the UK government to approve my husband coming to my country with me‘” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.comIn limbo: families hoping for change to UK income rules for spousal visasPhotographer Frankie Mills documents the lives of nine families whose stories illustrate the human cost of this policy threshold 34214
Reposted by Jason IoannouAlan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 04/06/20251/12 I think it’s time to address a myth about the British Empire that’s cropping up a lot right now, the latest iteration in this especially ill-informed column. It’s the conviction that imperial policies of development lifted ‘millions out of poverty’. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...thetimes.comSelf-flagellating over the British Empire helps no one but our rivalsSpurious guilt over our history leads to decisions such as the Chagos Islands giveaway. Honestly, it wasn’t all bad 86424
Reposted by Jason IoannouSave the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social · 02/06/2025🚨 NEW: 80% of Keir Starmer's Cabinet represent constituencies with higher than average child poverty rates, new analysis from @lborouniversity.bsky.social for @endchildpoverty.bsky.social has found. Write to your MP to demand that they stand against rising child poverty: bit.ly/4k6PNhT 0107
Reposted by Jason IoannouChild Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social · 02/06/2025The End Child Poverty coalition, which we are part of, has published its annual report on child poverty figures at a local level. In two-thirds of constituencies, at least 1 in 4 kids are living in poverty. 13317
Reposted by Jason IoannouBilly Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 28/05/2025My May 2025 Recent Reading is now live, in which I review these books: Interior, Linda Black, Shearsman Books, Fisher King, Thomas Meyer, Verge Books, Cancer, Tom Raworth, Carcanet, @carcanet.bsky.social #poetry ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/r...ellipticalmovements.wordpress.comRecent Reading May 2025: A ReviewInterior, Linda Black, Shearsman Books, 2024, ISBN 9781848619197, £12.95 / $20 Fisher King, Thomas Meyer, Verge Books, 2025. ISBN 978-1-7374307-5-9, $21.00 Cancer, Tom Raworth, Carcanet, 2025, ISBN… 12910
Reposted by Jason IoannouMedact @medact.bsky.social · 28/05/2025"I see people every day who are really suffering with things like asthma... Housing really should be the foundation to health!" Medact Member and respiratory consultant @drlaurajane.bsky.social on Good Morning Britain saying why she took action at Whitehall to demand insulation now! 0158
Reposted by Jason IoannouCharles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Namibia this week will hold its first national commemoration for victims of mass killings by German occupiers in the first genocide of the 20th century. Between 1904 and 1905. the Germans slaughtered 60,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama people.rfi.frNamibia to hold first commemoration of German genocide this weekNamibia this week will hold its first national commemoration for victims of mass killings by German occupiers in what is widely recognised as the first genocide of the 20th century, the government sai... 210054
