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James Aldridge

@jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social
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Artist/Researcher: people and place, biodiversity, neurodivergence and wellbeing #NeuroqueerEcologies #QueerRiver Associate: GroundWork Gallery Member: Climate Museum UK & PaC Artists www.jamesaldridge-artist.co.uk www.queerriver.com

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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
My friends 16 yr old autistic daughter faced years of mental ill health thru being failed by school & other services. She now has a chance of being paired with an assistance dog which would change her life. Please follow link, donate/share 🙏🏼 #ActuallyAutistic www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
"We constantly hear there’s no money left,” Polanski said, “but actually there is a lot of wealth in this country… but we are taxing people who are working really hard far more than we’re taxing wealth.” He added: “that’s totally the wrong way round!” www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...
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The eco-populist against net-zero
Zack Polanski is looking to lead the Green Party, and to challenge Labour's climate policy from the left.
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social if you’re able to share it would mean the world to Skye, thank you 🐕
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
My friends 16 yr old autistic daughter faced years of mental ill health thru being failed by school & other services. She now has a chance of being paired with an assistance dog which would change her life. Please follow link, donate/share 🙏🏼 #ActuallyAutistic www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/05/2025
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Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Look at these! Creative conversations, including today with Professor Emeritus, Dennis Atkinson 🦋 www.ticketsource.co.uk/cccibathspa
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 05/05/2025
Loving this. Let's go! #GreenParty "A party that will confront fascism, and that will call a genocide exactly what it is."
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I had a right old rant about Tony Blair's ignorant, self-interested statement on The Jeremy Vine Show today. I mentioned that he has worked as a lobbyist for PetroSaudi, earning Tony Blair Associates £41,000/month, plus 2% of any deal he brokered. Starts 9 minutes in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Radio 2 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to BBC Radio 2 on BBC Sounds
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Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Tomorrow! 💚
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Just over a week to go and I’m very excited about the first Art of Rewilding workshop (Thursday 8th May 10am-3pm) at this gorgeous Wiltshire Rewilding site. . Why not join us? We’ll be using visual art processes to learn about and record the animals that live on site. www.foundoutdoors.org/events
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Found Outdoors Rewilding Project | Events
Outdoor education and rewilding project based in Wiltshire, UK
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Please donate if you can - my very dear friends Becky & Jeremy in Brighton, UK are raising money to get their daughter the assistance dog she desperately needs. Times are hard but anything you can give would be much appreciated 🙏🏼 #actuallyautistic #DogsForAutism www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £10995 to fund an Assistance Dog for Skye – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to fund an Assistance Dog for Skye. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Since the Supreme Court seems to think same sex parents don’t exist, today seems like a good day to post my family’s Easter picture.
A family of four poses for their Easter photo
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A little taster of the first Art of Rewilding workshop at the Found Outdoors #rewilding site in central Wiltshire, UK next month. Full info on all three one-day art & ecology workshops here - www.foundoutdoors.org/events youtube.com/shorts/ioB25...
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The Art of Rewilding at Found Outdoors: Animal Tracks and Signs
YouTube video by James Aldridge
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Please donate if you can - my very dear friends Becky & Jeremy in Brighton, UK are raising money to get their daughter the assistance dog she desperately needs. Times are hard but anything you can give would be much appreciated 🙏🏼 #actuallyautistic #DogsForAutism www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
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Help raise £10995 to fund an Assistance Dog for Skye – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to fund an Assistance Dog for Skye. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Great response here to the government's Land Use Framework consultation by Rewilding Britain. Consultation closes on April 25th. Please make your views known. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
To the world: We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom. —With love, Your American allies.
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A little taster of the first Art of Rewilding workshop at the Found Outdoors #rewilding site in central Wiltshire, UK next month. Full info on all three one-day art & ecology workshops here - www.foundoutdoors.org/events youtube.com/shorts/ioB25...
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The Art of Rewilding at Found Outdoors: Animal Tracks and Signs
YouTube video by James Aldridge
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Please take a look - a new post on applying #NeuroqueerEcologies research to an exploration of human/beaver relationships & river restoration - funding suggestions also v welcome! 🙏🏼 queerriver.com/2025/04/02/n...
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Noticing Differently: Rivers, Bodies and Beavers
Over the last year or so I developed a PhD proposal and then applied for a studentship to fund my research. The proposal focuses on my Neuroqueer Ecologies research and applies that to human/beaver…
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Sharing this crowdfunder on behalf of inspirational Artist Robyn Woolston. Pls read/share/donate 🙏🏼 ‘I'm seeking funding to create an Artists Bookwork that explores my personal experience of a life-altering diagnosis within the global framework of rising tides...’ www.indiegogo.com/projects/swe...
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SWELL ... an Artists Bookwork.
An intimate, professional & creative action in the face of rising tides & personal ill health. | Check out 'SWELL ... an Artists Bookwork.' on Indiegogo.
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A much needed book in current climate - proud to be invited to contribute to A Year of Pride & Joy by @simonjamesgreen.bsky.social illustrated by @ruthburrows.bsky.social & published by @magiccatpublishing.bsky.social - 52 LGBTQ+ people sharing their passions abramsandchronicle.co.uk/products/978...
Colourfully illustrated front cover of hardback book A Year of Pride and JoyIllustrated image of a white man in a blue coat holding a sketchbook and bag with a green and blue background with reeds, water and birds
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Well knock me down with a feather. bylinetimes.com/2025/03/18/k...
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Kemi Badenoch Ditches Net Zero Target After Taking Donations From Funders of Tufton Street Climate Denial Group
The Conservative leader and her Shadow Net Zero Secretary took funding from key backers of lobby groups campaigning to curb action against climate change
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I’m excited to share info on three art & ecology workshops I’m running this year with Found Outdoors (Wiltshire, UK). Each day will focus on a different aspect of the land to record and share the plant/animal life found living there. #ArtOfRewilding www.ticketsource.co.uk/found-outdoors
Poster with details of the workshops, in black text on an olive green background. A central circular image of a badger skull held by a white man’s hand over mixed media artwork on paper that includes a list of animals in brown pen. A small circular photo of James, a white man in a garden, sits in the bottom left corner
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Really looking forward to sharing my arts practice and emerging #NeuroqueerEcologies research at this free online event with Bath Spa University next month: 12pm GMT - Tuesday 29th April 2025 More info and bookings 👇🏼 www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl...
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
#GoodNews #SlowTheFlow #Flooding Escaping from failed 20th-century ideas of land management www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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How creating a new Waveney-Ouse fen could reduce river flooding
Rewiggling rivers and creating a fen as a downstream
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Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Not weaving nature recovery into farming will cost us all so dear. SFI was making a difference. It could have been improved on, but cancelling it with no replacement is nuts. Doing so with no warning is cruel. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Farmers in England furious as Defra pauses post-Brexit payment scheme
Applications to the sustainable farming initiative no longer accepted but no clarity on what will replace it and when
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Disability Arts Online @disabilityarts.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
DAO are looking for someone with digital design expertise and lived experience of disability to come up with a ‘concept building’ for our new online gallery's homepage. Closing - 30 Apr Location - UK ££ - £1.5k-£3K Fee disabilityarts.online/opportunity-...
DAO's logo. It is made up of navy brushstrokes in a square. This is overlaid with single brushstrokes of orange, teal and yellow in different corners, and a white outline of a square and white letters inside it reading Disability Arts Online.
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I begin a Pop-up Studio residency at John Hansard Gallery next week, alongside Emma Critchley’s Soundings exhib. For research I took a walk with Artist & previous Pop-up Studio resident Alys Scott-Hawkins, exploring Southampton’s blue spaces & animals. #QueerRiver queerriver.com/2025/03/06/w...
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Walking with… Artist Alys Scott-Hawkins
I begin my Pop-up Studio residency next week with the John Hansard Gallery in Southampton. I’m going to be exploring embodied experiences of the city’s blue spaces, alongside the Soundi…
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Wessex Museums @wessexmuseums.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This week we’re highlighting Wessex Museums and the impact of our partnership as we search for a new Partnership Manager. Follow along! @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social, Lydiard House, @poolemuseum.bsky.social, STEAM, Museum & Art Swindon, @salisburymuseum.bsky.social and @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social
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Our mission - Wessex Museums
At Wessex Museums we share our experiences and strategies. Showcasing our work through case studies, and reports, contributing to the sector.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"The central idea of post-growth is to replace the goal of increasing GDP with the goal of improving human wellbeing within planetary boundaries". It seems pretty obvious, yet no country has yet adopted a degrowth path to reduce its environmental footprint. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries
There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable. In this Review, we expl...
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Palestine too please! 🇵🇸
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Play is central to children's lives, wellbeing & quality of life Play is a fundamental right of all children Normative assumptions often used to describe autistic play Need autistic understanding of play from autistic players themselves journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... youtu.be/62mVZ-VCoPw?...
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O'Keeffe and McNally 2025
YouTube video by Journal Autism
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I’m excited to share info on three art & ecology workshops I’m running this year with Found Outdoors (Wiltshire, UK). Each day will focus on a different aspect of the land to record and share the plant/animal life found living there. #ArtOfRewilding www.ticketsource.co.uk/found-outdoors
Poster with details of the workshops, in black text on an olive green background. A central circular image of a badger skull held by a white man’s hand over mixed media artwork on paper that includes a list of animals in brown pen. A small circular photo of James, a white man in a garden, sits in the bottom left corner
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Yes, the West is guilty of totally disgusting double standards in (rightly) condemning Russian atrocities in Ukraine, while ignoring genocide in Gaza. But with both Israel and the US now actively *supporting* Putin, surely it must be obvious to everyone that it's the exact same fascist supremacism?
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Charlie @charlieinthesky.eurosky.social · 01/03/2025
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No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Beyond belief. Is this really the man we’re going to fawn over with a State Visit? It’s time for our PM to pick a side
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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"Art that is grounded in listening and witnessing, that allows us to slow down, open up and accept our place within vast interconnected systems, can change our way of seeing the world…" What a wonderful website @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social #neuroqueerecologies queerriver.com?blogid=18209...
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Queer River
A research project from Artist James Aldridge
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
One more way the new US regime is a threat to us all. #PublicHealth
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Hard to believe its finally going to happen… www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Beaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuries
Exclusive: Government to grant nature groups a licence for release of rodent species after earlier setbacks
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I'm looking to see if the cuts & chaos at CDC and NIH have affected any clinical trials or research for drugs for the treatment of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or other serious diseases. If you know anything, please contact me at DavidCorn.99 at Signal. Or if you have any other good stories.
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James Aldridge @jamesaldridgeart.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Some positive news
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Jazmeen isa Qureshi ✊🏽🐝🏳️‍⚧️ (they/she) @jazzywildheart.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Heading to Birmingham tomorrow for this! Excited to speak more on how "queering" can be a necessary mechanism of the reimagination of our relationships and interactions with ecology and nature, especially through a queer theoretical, critical and decolonial lens...
Jasmine is on a green, purple and blue background, advertising an event for STEM, LGBTQ and You, a conference bringing together queer identity and science and tech. Jasmine's talk is titled Queer(ing) Ecology: Reimagining our relationship with ecology.
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Wessex Museums @wessexmuseums.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Congratulations to the Queer in Wiltshire project team at @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social on receiving a £16,574 grant from @tnlcomfund.bsky.social for their LGBTQIA+ community project! We’re proud Wessex Museums supported the pilot phase through our Connecting with Communities programme.
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Major grant received for LGBTQIA+ community project! - Wiltshire Museum
Wiltshire Museum has received £16,574 from the National Lottery Community Fund for an exciting LGBTQIA+ community project, the Queer in Wiltshire project. The new funding from The National Lottery Com...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Top tip. Don’t have insomnia in the middle of a coup. An executive order has now given DOGE oversight of all government departments. It’s a complete takeover of the federal government by Musk. A Musk ‘team lead’ will now make all hiring decisions according to a ‘data-driven’ model
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Kathryn Brown @kathryn-brown.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We're delighted to see the evidence coming together on natural flood management - including the critical role that beavers can play in storing water 🧪 More to come from us very soon on the economic benefits that these schemes can bring... #NFM #adapt #beavers www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
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Beavers can play role in tackling flood, Environment Agency assessment shows
The agency has published an updated directory on the flood management benefits of a range of measures from woodlands to saltmarshes.
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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
'Restoring Ghost Pingos' - a new advisory booklet about realising the biodiversity potential of backfilled periglacial ponds - norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/LostPonds. 🌍 🧵
Cover page of 'Restoring Ghost Pingos' booklet, showing a flourishing, biodiverse pond two years after excavation.,
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We think they should be powerful enough to afford principles. They think they have a lot to lose (and they lost their "don't be evil" motto a long time ago). Google, you coward, you quisling.
Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps
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USA TODAYGoogle Calendar removes Pride, Black History Month, and other events from millions of devices worldwide https://www.gbnews.com/tech/google-calendar-pride-black-history-month-removed
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 06/02/2025
As an immigrant who chose to make my home in the UK—but also as someone who is a migration historian and researches the impact of dog-whistle politics—there is no way for me to overstate how wrong and disgusting these ads by the UK Labour Party are. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour launches ads in Reform-style branding to boast about deportations
Exclusive: Some MPs and activists upset at tone of party’s Facebook campaign aimed at countering Farage
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