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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is an inappropriate, credulous & politically biased BBC headline. The claims about savings will be sharply contested. News reports should not imclude what reads as an ediorial endorsememt in the headline www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I feared this would happen. His story was troubling but the wave of hatred and obsession in the media when he was clearly someone who was vulnerable - whatever you thought of him - was entirely disproportionate and in my view fuelled by racists. My thoughts are with his loved ones tonight.

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jason Arday’s death is an absolute stain on this country. I feel devastated for him, his family and for people of colour in this country. There’s too much to say about it but there are human consequences to the culture war. When a person becomes the culture war. He was failed.

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Jamie Fookes @jrfookes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The @theguardian.com should be ashamed over Jason Arday. They paid lip service to the fact that it was a right wing, culture war witchhunt and then happily pursued it as enthusiastically as anyone else. No concern for the safety of the human being at the centre of it it.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The tragic awfulness of this government is that it has extended a factional war against the left of the Labour Party into a war against almost all the good things we might have expected of it. It cannot respond to the crisis it faces, because its hatred of the Labour left is definitional.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Starmer: “If you don’t like our policies you can leave.” Voters:

Gorton & Denton by-election, 2026
Source: Britain Elects
SIAIS r EFTIES
Green GAIN from Labour
40.7
28.7
25.4
1.9
1.8
Grn
427.5
Ref
414.6
Lab
725.4
Con
76.0
Lib
72.0
1.4
Oth
78.9

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

A reflection from the leader of a migration charity. We have been told over and over again by politicians - even from “partners” and “allies” that we will not win on our policies unless we concede. Throw some migrants under the bus - they’re too unfavourable. Public doesn’t agree with us.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Sky News hearing Labour canvassers found that doubling (and tripling) the route to settlement has caused significant concern with those directly affected (Commonwealth migrants who have arrived in last 3 years) Sheer scale of changes not yet on the general media radar, though MPs hearing a lot

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 17/12/2025

Bad news for Starmer- union ally Christina Mcanea loses Unison General Secretary election. Replaced by Andrea Egan, who ran from the left, and has promised to review Unison's relationship with Labour. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

politicshome.com

Andrea Egan Wins Unison Race In Blow For No 10

Keir Starmer critic Andrea Egan has won the race to be general secretary of Unison, Britain's biggest trade union and a key Labour Party affiliate,...

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Jamie Fookes @jrfookes.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Good news! Alan Milburn 67 year old career politician will review inactivity among young people. With the help of Charlie Mayfield (58), Andy Haldane (58) and Dame Casey (60). Sounds great, no notes. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

theguardian.com

Alan Milburn launches major UK review into rising inactivity among young people

Report to highlight ‘uncomfortable truths’ and could recommend ‘radical change’, former health secretary says

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Sarcastic response is obviously "Merry Christmas from the Home Office" More professional response is that, for this government's increased immigration raids in general, statistically they are targeting victims of trafficking more than the people doing the trafficking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Illegal workers arrested in Surrey Christmas market raid

Eleven men are

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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Huge well done to Jed and team, outrageous that this application was ever refused on good character grounds because of illegal entry. Many will be in the same or similar situation and unable to bring such a challenge. The guidance needs to change.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Innocent people end up in our criminal courts. Completely, terrifyingly innocent. And all that stands between them and losing everything is a fair trial. Politicians would do well to remember this when they tell us that justice is all about processing “criminals” swiftly.

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Big jump in outstanding asylum appeals - nearly 70,000 waiting to be heard at the end of September. More than the initial decisions backlog. 60 weeks the average time to disposal. 37% of disposals now due to withdrawals - presumably as the Home Office realises how bad the decisions were.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Nearly every Take relating to this has been done except one, which is - why would the European leaders take advice from Starmer on how to beat the far right? Who among them envies his popularity or admires the sagacity of his advisors? www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

theguardian.com

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right

Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Reminder that the ECHR prevents people being expelled to face torture, inhuman treatment, slavery or death, and prevents splitting of families unless there's a strong enough public interest. European leaders are evidently comfortable with at least some of those things, at least for foreigners.

bbc.com

European leaders back ECHR plan to tackle illegal migration

Countries in treaty - including the UK - will negotiate a "political declaration" to make it easier to deport migrants.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"If growth was actually your priority, you would not be doing this." (Me, stating the obvious) www.ft.com/content/2b60...

ft.com

Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn

Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years

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Jamie Fookes @jrfookes.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Ah, he has no co-written a piece with the Danish PM who is a milquetoast centrist overseeing some of the toughest immigration rules in Europe and is coincidentally losing ground to the far right and a rapid rate...

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Jamie Fookes @jrfookes.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

"See off the far right" by giving the fascists what they want, emboldening them and laying the ground work for them to commit vile human rights abuses more quickly and with less checks is the most brain rot desperate nonsense ever uttered by a PM www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

theguardian.com

Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right

Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders

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Jamie Fookes @jrfookes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The more you read this more insane it is. Deranged, paternalistic scientifically illiterate bile from a bigot who got elevated way above their station.

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Jamie Fookes @jrfookes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

This is such an extreme and deeply segregationist view to hold it should completely discredit her from her position. Stating that a group, clearly protected in the spirit and word of the equality act, where tricked into 'thinking they have rights" is unforgivable she must resign

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

🔴I spent time getting to know the Pink Ladies, a group of 'ordinary mothers' who are funded by Restore Britain's Rupert Lowe and whose leader shared a stage with a prominent neo-Nazi. It was...eye-opening. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...

bylinetimes.com

The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream

An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

This is the guy who gave Boris Johnson £1 million and then won a big MoD contract....

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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Extremely grim consequence of Home Sec announcement of penalising claiming benefits claims in routes to settlement: a low-paid carer cancelling housing benefit, universal credit, and disability allowance for her autistic daughter’s personal care and mobility www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

theguardian.com

UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to

Woman cancels all benefits including disability living allowance for daughter after policy change announcement

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Doctors of the World @dotwuk.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

🔴 The government's latest plans will push an already failing asylum system to new extremes of harm. The uncertainty, fear & instability the proposed changes create will only deepen the trauma faced by refugees & people seeking safety. Read our full statement ➡️ tinyurl.com/mphbj2m3

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

This puts those families and children at a major economic and social disadvantage. Why? To stop some coming in future? To force them to leave? No evidence either will happen. They will still come and they will still settle, but after years of scrimping compared to other families.

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Ilona Pinter @ilonapin.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Yes: we'd calculated that a single parent with 2 kids who started their settlement journey in 2017 would pay >£27k in fees & IHS over 10yrs to settle (w/o citizenship & pre-2025⬆️). Now >£54k for 20yrs if they'd ever claimed benefits for >12mnths - £225/month extra in essential HH costs over 20yrs.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse

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Homeland Security
@DHSgov

The stakes have never been higher, and the goal has never been more clear:
Remigration now.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Trial by jury is now “gaming the system” why are you clapping for fascism Pippa? And also you mean DEFENDANTS.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

So many of the problems with the UK asylum system - culture of disbelief, poor or nonexistent advice, endless delays, cruel accommodation policies - rolled into one awful case. @diane-writer10.bsky.social always gets the human stories others miss or don’t care about

theguardian.com

The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain

Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War 3 years - if you're earning £125k+ 15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I’m yet to digest the full detail of these proposals to make it harder for people to settle permanently, but they’re entirely an answer to a question dreamt up by the far right, as a proxy for objecting to all migration, and they should be approached in that spirit and no other

gov.uk

Biggest overhaul of legal migration model in 50 years announced

Illegal migrants and arrivals reliant on benefits face waiting between 20 and 30 years to settle – the toughest in Europe.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 20/11/2025

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here. I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.

Headline: "Home Office to deport refugees already granted asylum in the UK"

Quote copied from the article (which is paywalled):

"Under the new rules, if a refugee is already in the country and has been granted five years of leave to stay, the Home Office will not shorten their current leave.

However, at the end of the five years, the government will review if their country is safe, and return the migrant if it is.

If their country is not deemed safe, the migrant will not receive automatic lifetime settlement but will move to the Home Office’s new model.

They will get 30 months more leave to remain before their next review, with lifetime settlement only available 20 years after their arrival."

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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Applying this to refugees already here self-evidently can't deter them from coming. But it will make their lives harder by prolonging their temporary status, making it harder to get jobs and accommodation and settle down properly. It would be a deliberate anti-integration policy. Why?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The basic problem with the temporary refugee status policy - especially one lasting up to 20 years - is it leads to very few removals (based on Denmark's experience) but does significantly worsen integration.

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I swear to god “More in Common” just seems to spend half their time laundering right wing bollocks. The phrasing of the questions 1. Doesn’t deal with the most contentious bits of the policy and 2. Are phrased in the most flattering PR speak

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Before the specifics of today’s asylum reforms were announced over the weekend we tested a series of potential changes to the asylum system based on the Danish model. We found strong support for each of the potential measures tested.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

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You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Literally the only difference between Reform and Labour is that Reform is honest about how much it hates the marginalised Labour will pretend it's in everyone's best interest and they're doing it for the people and just enact the same policies

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