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Jake Puddle

@jakepuddle.bsky.social
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Director of Research at British Future Interested in migration, cohesion and countering the far-right Aspen Institute Fellow

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 8h
Satellite view of Tal as-Sultan, Rafah, Oct 2023 and then 2026. In this small area (~450m × 700m): roughly 1,000 - 1,300 small apartments. Approx 3-6000 homes destroyed, with 15000-35000 people displaced or killed. And that's just one neighbourhood in Gaza #genocide
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 21h
In line with the more realistic expectations and indeed the many agreements signed by the EU and Canada over recent years, lots of commitments to cooperate, no particular new structures.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 22h
This is the same minister who invited Tommy Robinson to Israel for an official visit last year
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
such a good eg of why political argument matters - polling previously showed over 60% support for keeping triple lock. Argue to unlock it *for something people also want* & numbers can change. (Obv can change back again if someone makes a good argument against, but either way, politics=argument)
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Later this year - November? - Burnham will set out the range of options for the UK over the next decade, to seek a consensus. Our @britishfuture.bsky.social report shows a broad majority for a closer UK-EU relationship with more mixed views of how close to go & on at what pace.
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British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Starting our 10am Labour conference fringe ‘Can Labour Get Immigration Right?’ with @oliviabailey.bsky.social; @emilyagraham.bsky.social; @sundersays.bsky.social @hollybancroft.bsky.social
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Migration Policy Scotland @migrationscotland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Out today: migrationpolicyscotland.org.uk/publications... Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland survey finds:
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Attitudes to Immigration in Scotland: Growing polarisation, hardening views - Migration Policy Scotland
MPS’ representative survey of attitudes in Scotland provides a detailed view of what people think of immigration and how that is changing. Key Findings: The survey was carried out between 1st- 4th Feb...
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British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Starting now at Museum of Liverpool, 'A Decade After the Brexit Vote: How Close Should the UK Get to Europe Now?' Labour Conference fringe with @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social @rachelsylvester.bsky.social @sundersays.bsky.social
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British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Starting our Labour conference fringe 'What Do Ethnic Minorities Want from Labour on Race?' with @rokhsanafiaz.bsky.social @jowusunepaul.bsky.social @sundersays.bsky.social & Kudsia Batool, TUC Director of Equalities.
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British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kicking off our conference programme with ‘Bridging divides: why generations matter’ in partnership with Intergenerational England
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The PM is asked if Mr Daniel Thomas ("Danny Tommo") is racist, on the BBC "Its hard to conclude he has anything but racist views", he says. He doesnt like to just throw labels but his actions have been "the worst kind of hateful behaviour".
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Jake Puddle @jakepuddle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thoughtful blog on the challenges of building belonging in places of high churn and housing crises
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Angela Rayner condemns Labour’s migrant visa crackdown www.thetimes.com/article/385b...
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Angela Rayner condemns Labour’s migrant visa crackdown
Speaking before the party conference, the housing secretary says Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans would affect care workers
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Richard Tice, Reform deputy leader is vocal about his sense that it is unfair to charge Mr Thomas for criminal damage
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Useful thread from an ex-Merchant Navy officer here
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Tommo" was arrested on suspicion of four possible crimes, say police www.hampshire.police.uk/news/hampshi...
Police press release. For text see the link.
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 24/09/2026
🌍️| NEW REPORT: Post-Brexit trade barriers are costing UK exporters. Our research finds a mutual recognition agreement with the EU could boost exports by up to £6.5bn a year. Here's how 👇️ buff.ly/y4kuYcP
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https://www.ippr.org/articles/aligning-for-growth-mra-uk-eu
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Jake Puddle @jakepuddle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Finally Danny Tommo is arrested, although still no statement from government on his slashing of an asylum dinghy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
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Jake Puddle @jakepuddle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Utterly, utterly indefensible from government. How are there not more backbench MPs challenging this?
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent
Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.
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Jake Puddle @jakepuddle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Update as BBC finally covers the story: police are 'examining' the footage and 'conducting inquiries'. What requires examination? Given a man is evidently still on board. A shocking contrast of response to the 3.5k arrested for 'extreme' placards about Palestine www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Police looking at video of anti-migrant activist Daniel Thomas slashing at boat with knife
Daniel Thomas, known to his supporters as Danny Tommo, livestreamed a video of the alleged incident.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is disgraceful and wilfully misleading that the BBC do not report that Danny Tommo was filmed slashing the boat.
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Migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The BBC news report simply says Mr Thomas broadcast a livestream. This seems highly inadequate in quite a lengthy report, leaving out such key details: what he did; the French stating the behaviour was unlawful www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dozens of migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters had earlier gathered in Gosport after an initial report that the small boat would be brought further west.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BBC report fails to mention "Tommo" slashing a dinghy (!) Not beating the Reform Party propaganda allegations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west.
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Jake Puddle @jakepuddle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
More so there is a very real danger that to let this slide without arrests *will* undoubtedly embolden others
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.
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Jake Puddle @jakepuddle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If he’s not arrested after this then honestly what even is our justice system anymore
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think this is pretty hard to justify. The education reporters might I suppose argue that the Orr story is a politics one and hence goes to that desk. But we also have the student complaints, mentioned in the FT long read and apparently reopened this week.
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 22/09/2026
Far right parties strategically increase the (descriptive) representation of women assuming it helps them win votes in general and, in particular, from women. Does it work? In this short descriptive piece, I show the answer in the case of Reform UK is a clear ‘no’ doi.org/10.1332/2515...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Does ingroup love lead to outgroup hate? I often tell people that identifying with ingroups does not always lead to outgroup discrimination. I call this the "Myth of tribalism". A new paper provides strong and robust evidence for a positive relationship between ingroup and outgroup prosociality.!
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/09/2026
Election in occupied areas by Russia - voting under military supervision.
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As vile and as telling an image in the clip as Trump mocking a reporter with disabilities. These people are telling us who they are. We should not make the same mistake the US made.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
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Luke Taylor MP @luketaylorld.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So, over in the bad place, the village idiots have found a new community to target to shout at, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Tilford. While I really don't want to give oxygen to these sad, angry losers, I want to show my support to the Ahmadis who I've worked closely with for years.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lisa Nandy brands Musk’s X a ‘disgrace’ as she pledges crackdown on social media doxxing – UK politics live www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Published today: ‘Race and fairness in fractious times: Public priorities for racial equity’, a major new study of ethnic minority and white majority attitudes and experience of racial inequality and prejudice www.britishfuture.org/publication/...
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 14/09/2026
I'd misclassified Rupert Lowe as a Twitter thing. But he's now *really* gaming Facebook's new algorithm with a mixture of 'remigration' and 'who remembers' memes. Crazy levels of engagement and he's all over the feed of every boomer I know regardless of their politics. www.facebook.com/rupertlowemep
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's a rare policy that would be welcomed by both business and trade unions - and at the same time would *improve* the UK's fiscal position. Dropping these proposals - for which there is no economic, moral or political case - would be one. www.ft.com/content/8a00...
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Unions demand softening of UK immigration reforms
Proposals will ‘punish’ low-paid migrants doing essential work in public services and create a new staffing crisis in social care, says motion passed at TUC
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 14/09/2026
Some good news today with this becoming TUC policy
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As I wrote recently for @ippr.org’s Progressive Review, the central democratic challenge we face today is the invasion of our politics & the disfigurement of our public sphere by new forms of private power
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Against Private Power: A Democracy Agenda Beyond Charter 88
Since Charter 88, democratisation efforts in the UK have focused on constitutional reform to change the internal structures of the Westminster state. Today, however, the major challenge for democracy...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Britain is just looking on as a handful of tax hating billionaires buy our political future.
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British Future @britishfuture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
'Voters would reward greater ambition' on EU relations, says today's @theguardian.com editorial. It draws on new @britishfuture.bsky.social research this week on whether voters want closer ties with the EU, and if they feel Brexit was a success or failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on UK-EU relations: voters would reward greater ambition | Editorial
Editorial: The architects of Brexit know it has failed. That presents Andy Burnham with an opportunity to set a bolder new agenda
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Emily Graham @emilyagraham.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Good to see @britishfuture.bsky.social find public support for a UK-EU 'routes and returns' asylum cooperation in their latest report, published today - especially good to see public openness for new approaches, despite frustrations with situation
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marleymorris.bsky.social @marleymorris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today @ippr.org we're calling for a major overhaul of citizenship policy. Our new report argues that new migrants to the UK should be seen as potential citizens. This means the process of obtaining citizenship should be both more accessible and more meaningful. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Applicants for UK citizenship charged more than five times the admin cost
Fee of £1,709 compares with an estimated administrative cost of just £324, according to Home Office data
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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Nearly a quarter of young people (23%) say they don’t know whether the UK should hold a second referendum or not, compared to 15% across all age groups." ✍️ @heather-rolfe.bsky.social argues new data shows that pro-EU campaigns cannot take the youth vote for granted 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/how-do-young...
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How do young people in the UK feel about its relationship with the EU? - UK in a changing Europe
Heather Rolfe aruges that campaigners for a closer relationship with the EU will find it challenging to engage young people in a debate that has passed them by.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Overwhelmingly feel after reading the British Future report on attitudes towards the EU that it mostly shows the way is open for politicians to lead in their chosen direction, but that sort of idea feels a bit old-fashioned and the EU still considered too dangerous a topic.,
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