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Mr Kellie Strom

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Artist, writer, editor. www.kelliestrom.com

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 19h
“An AI tool used to speed up the processing of thousands of asylum cases is failing basic accuracy tests…” The idea that synthetic text generating “AI” can be a useful aid in determining refugee status is ridiculous. We should challenge the automation of decision-making and erosion of our rights.
independent.co.uk
AI tool used in thousands of asylum claims failing basic accuracy tests
Exclusive: MPs, charities and rights group warn that accuracy should not be sacrificed for speed in ‘life and death’ asylum decisions
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Mr Kellie Strom @kelliestrom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
‘… Labour’s strategy seems not dissimilar from the “ming vase” approach that propelled Starmer into Number 10: keep your head down and stay out of trouble… Abdi-Wali’s team repeatedly rebuffed our requests to go out canvassing with her…’ www.the-londoner.co.uk/sagal-abdi-w...
the-londoner.co.uk
Sagal Abdi-Wali is favourite to beat Zack Polanski. Does her track record stack up?
It’s been a meteoric rise for Labour’s by-election hopeful. But local opinions on her credentials are mixed
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European Greens @europeangreens.eu · 05/10/2026
Our statement on the recent Green Party of England and Wales motion 'Zionism is Racism'. europeangreens.eu/news/egp-pos...
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The head of Jewish Greens has said she might quit the party, amid growing anger among some members at Zack Polanski for his inaction over the party’s policy motion equating Zionism with racism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Head of Jewish Greens says she may leave party over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote
Vivien Lichtenstein says she believes motion is unhelpful as anger grows over Zack Polanski’s absence for vote
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Women for Refugee Women @4refugeewomen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Home Secretary rightly points out that nearly all women who make dangerous journeys to the UK are survivors of rape. So why does the Govt. detain women on arrival, let women languish in the asylum system for months and years on end, & close safe routes that support women and children? 1/2
theguardian.com
Nearly all women arriving on small boats have been raped, says Shabana Mahmood
Home secretary warns people traffickers will exploit asylum seekers because they decide who comes to the UK
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The first school visit, 1972 Artist: Harry Wingfield
An illustration made of two frames. In the top one, mothers and children gather around a table of activities and in the second frame, a mother and child closely investigate a nature table 
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Iran anti-sanctions motion wasn't debated in the end at Green Party conference (ran out of time as I understand it) 5 of the 12 named proposers of 'Zionism is Racism' motion were also proposers of the anti-sanctions Iran motion (and 2 more backed it in the internal party discussion thread)
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Re. the Zionism is Racism motion passing Any legal challenge might look at the motion potentially making Jewish members going to Zionist synogogues - i.e. the majority - feel they have to choose between their place of worship and the Greens
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Amendment 3 sought to include that the motion should not be used to “pressure, proscribe or discipline members based on affiliation with Jewish community institutions” - which had the support of party leader Zack Polanski. This amednment was voted down: 684 votes in favour 1026 votes against
This motion shall not be used to pressure, proscribe or discipline members based on affiliation with Jewish community institutions, such as synagogues, community centres or denominational groups, that describe themselves as Zionist or used to discipline or sanction Jewish members for expressing views that would be non sanctionable if expressed by non Jewish members (such as support for a binational state, or two state solution).
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Some Greens feel Polanski has shown a complete lack of leadership on the motion, saying he was happy to see an influx of new members but then did nothing to make sure they stuck with Green values. In fairness, the leader has few powers. But they do have influence - and Polanski has not exerted any.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I can only repeat what I said during Labour's Corbyn's phase: guys, you didn't read the manual properly. You start the purging and witch hunting AFTER you win power.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Green Party deserves thanks on two fronts. Firstly, for helping to bring down Kier Starmer's government. And secondly, for reminding us how toxic and useless some parts of the British left are.
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Mr Kellie Strom @kelliestrom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
‘Three other amendments, including one that said the motion should not be used to “pressure, proscribe or discipline members based on affiliation with Jewish community institutions”, were voted down.’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Green party votes to adopt policy that equates Zionism with racism
Motion that has alarmed some Jewish members is passed by 1,022 votes to 813 at party’s annual conference in Brighton
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Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org · 04/10/2026
Epic timing for a Holborn and St Pancras by election.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I did a deep-dive recently on the Iran motions re. Green Party conference for those interested. (The pro-sanctions motion did not get prioritised by members, the anti-sanctions one is likely to be debated and voted on) bylinetimes.com/2026/09/10/g...
bylinetimes.com
Green Party Split Over Iran as Members Push to Oppose IRGC Ban and Sanctions
A conference motion with significant backing urges an end to sanctions on Iran and opposes banning the IRGC - putting party policy on a collision course with its own MPs
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Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com · 02/10/2026
What to do with the horses of Darndale? Grazing in public parks means other uses are being pushed out, and adding momentum to calls for an equine centre and stable club to properly support horse culture in the area.
dublininquirer.com
What to do with the horses of Darndale?
Grazing in public parks means other uses are being pushed out, and adding momentum to calls for an equine centre and stable club to properly support horse culture in the area.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Diane Taylor on Crowborough divided; showing it reflects the mobilisation of those at both poles of the asylum debate, in response to the use of Crowborough Training Camp by Home Office, housing 300 asylum seekers in a town of 22,000 people www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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It was the most welcoming town in Britain. Why has Crowborough become so divided?
In 2022, they opened their arms to Ukrainian refugees. But this year, the arrival of more than 300 asylum seekers has split the community. Can the rift be healed?
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John Gallagher @johnrgallagher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UIUC has a “combating screen time club” and they’re in the news! Full disclosure: I’m the advisor. lol dailyillini.com/opinions-sto...
dailyillini.com
DI Voices | My experience founding an RSO on campus - The Daily Illini
A UI student reflects on founding the Combating Screen Time Club, exploring screen-time addiction, loneliness and campus culture.
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UK Friends of Standing Together @ukfost.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Green members of UK Friends of Standing Together have written to the party’s Conference Committee in response to their banning Standing Together, published below.
ukfost.co.uk
Friends of Standing Together supporters in the Green Party protest conference ban · UK Friends of Standing Together
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Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We welcome the reopening of the UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS). Around one in four referrals will be for Afghan women and girls and Palestinian refugees fleeing war and persecution. In Palestinians’ case a war waged in part with British weapons and British military support.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ex-minister Mike Tapp on "need to exempt care workers from retrospective settlememy extensions" There is broad support for this. But why not exempt engineers, vets & chefs & architects from "retrospective extensions" that could force 250k non-care workers to leave?
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Safe and legal routes are a good thing, and welcome that Mahmood is going to be saying this later today. But, has to been seen in the context that arrivals will be in the hundreds, and the Government have shut down the Afghan scheme and refugee family reunion. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians
Exclusive: Move by Shabana Mahmood comes after closure of Afghan scheme last year but experts say numbers too small to deter Channel crossings
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This was an entirely predictable act of economic self-harm - both the Sunak and Starmer government decided that the priority was to cut migration *when it was already falling fast*. ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration-...
ukandeu.ac.uk
Immigration is falling but the economic cost may be high - UK in a changing Europe
Jonathan Portes analyses the latest immigration figures from the Home Office and Office for National Statistics.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And apologies… as has been correctly pointed out… £4- to £7bn is the cost to the Treasury, not the economy… where the cost is far higher, and should include the opportunities lost also… The relentless drumbeat to cut immigration has become a ruinous and dangerous national madness.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.
Patrick Maguire
Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
Mahmood's
reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is *not* the result of "the success of Mahmood's reforms", but of earlier measures/other factors. Her proposals could make it considerably *worse* in future years. A few other points linked below.. archive.ph/0psJ8
Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told. 

Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration significantly undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). 

The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana Mahmood’s reforms, which have seen net migration cut to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn. 

Labour sources familiar with the budget process, however, said that the figure was now closer to £6.5bn. The OBR’s migration forecasts have been consistently higher than real numbers in recent years.

Treasury officials, who have long expected Mahmood’s reforms to cause a hit to headroom, described the number as “pure speculation” but did not deny that Healey would have to contend with a larger funding gap than expected because of falling migration
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks
In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.
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Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
3/ People can, I think, reasonably disagree about whether this is a problem. (I think it is.) But British voters hate it. Public First ran some polling for us, and found that approval of AI writing on the job is lower for politicians than any other profession.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NEW | I’m not surprised, but I am livid. BBC NEWS, ‘DANNY TOMMO’ AND THE DINGHY ATTACK THAT DISAPPEARED While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/bbc-news-d...
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BBC News, ‘Danny Tommo’ and the dinghy attack that disappeared
While the rest of the media – even the very worst parts – report on Daniel Thomas’ actions, BBC News fails to give its audience the facts.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BBC "broadcast a livestream" Other outlets (Times, Metro) see slashing the dinghy as the headline
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a really good leaflet. Unfortunately Labour’s PM and Home Office are not upholding the values expressed here.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Endangering another during a journey by sea; criminal damage; carrying an offensive weapon; possession of a bladed article; conduct endangering ships or individuals; unlawfully and intentionally destroying a ship breaching section 11 of the aviation and maritime security act;
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The far right now have their own boat to chase (and then what?) asylum seekers in the English Channel In this case, the guy who blockaded ports last week knifed an inflatable dingy with an RNLI / coastguard official on it, which could have killed him
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 13/09/2026
I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd.
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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Home Secretary took a whole 5 days to tell police to use 'all necessary powers' to clamp down on anti-migrant protesters after Dover - but it seems that the PSNI and the NI Justice Minister thinks it doesn't apply to Belfast where racist mobilisations are still going unpoliced.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
At our T&F journal we now sometimes get obviously AI-generated papers that we reject only to see submitted again after being "humanized" (whether humanly-humanized or bot-humanized, who knows) 😬 It's like being at war with our own publisher over what constitutes academic writing, bot or not 🤖
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Everyone knows AI-written academic papers are embarrassing now, including their "authors", which is why even the publishers - who stand to benefit most from AI-amplified publication volumes - are now offering "Affordable human expert editing for AI-drafted or AI-edited manuscripts" 🤯
Screenshot of T&F editing services, reading:

Editing for AI-Assisted Manuscripts
NEW
Affordable human expert editing for AI-drafted or AI-edited manuscripts.

Starting at $0.031/ word
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026
Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did thebulletin.org/2026/09/rogu... (by @eryk.bsky.social)
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Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did
At the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed.
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 11/09/2026
Saw a movie about one of those farcical-but-serious episodes of Finnish history: the kidnapping of (former) president K. J. Ståhlberg and his wife Ester, who wouldn't be left behind, by hapless far-right goons. The movie was very much "inspired by a true story," so here's my version. A THREAD:
A black and white photograph of president Ståhlberg of Finland and his wife, listening to an old guy speaking outside.
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Jakob Stegelmann @jakobstegelmann.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Kommentar: Biblioteksskandalen på Bornholm ville være komisk, hvis ikke den var så tragisk
Det sender et både håbløst og alarmerende kulturpolitisk signal at lukke fem folkebiblioteker på Bornholm, skriver Jeppe Krogsgaard Christensen.
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Mr Kellie Strom @kelliestrom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“There’s not a clear understanding that the IRGC is also a bad actor, that it executes its own people,” Raeeka Yassaie tells @josiahmortimer.bsky.social. “It’s the people that are the revolutionary actors, not the state.” bylinetimes.com/2026/09/10/g...
bylinetimes.com
Green Party Split Over Iran as Members Push to Oppose IRGC Ban and Sanctions
A conference motion with significant backing urges an end to sanctions on Iran and opposes banning the IRGC - putting party policy on a collision course with its own MPs
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If a lEgiTiMaTe dEbATe aBOut iMMigRaTioN leads to people turning up with pitchforks to demand credentials from every group of young non-white men arriving in town, you’d think even Labour MPs would start asking themselves if it’s really a legitimate debate
Amanda Martin, Labour MP for Portsmouth North, called the hotel incident "deeply concerning".
She said: "It's completely unacceptable that misinformation has led to young cricketers visiting our city being wrongly targeted and mistaken for people seeking asylum.
"It's also wrong that people who work in the hotels had to deal with this.
"Those who arrived in Portsmouth on Sunday were transported outside of Hampshire for processing.
"There is a legitimate debate to be had about immigration, but it must be based on facts not misinformation or rumour."
The BBC understands the England and Wales Cricket Board has checked on wellbeing of the Pakistani under-19s team, and is reviewing security arrangements for the remainder of their tour.
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
All of this highlights the concerns about the quality of initial decisions being made by the Home Office - but this week the falling grant rate has been held up as a policy success. What's it's actually doing is putting unnecessary pressure on the appeals system, at great human and financial cost.
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
38% of all asylum appeals disposed of had been withdrawn - which continues to be far above the historical norm of 10-15%. Assuming most of those are Home Office withdrawals, around two-thirds of asylum appeals that are dealt with end up in a withdrawal or the tribunal overturning the refusal.
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New tribunal stats out this morning - at the end of June there were 90,741 asylum appeals outstanding, around 117,000 people. That's around three times the size of asylum backlog now. A year earlier it was 60,000 cases. The average time to disposal of an appeals increased again to 72 weeks.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW | On a shocking interview… ANALYSING JUSTIN WEBB’S INTERVIEW WITH ED MILIBAND ABOUT SANCTIONS ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...
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Analysing Justin Webb’s interview with Ed Miliband about sanctions on Israeli settlements
On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question.
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