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Shona Minson @shonaminson.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I’m between surgery and radiotherapy following a cancer diagnosis and I’ve decided to take part in Cancer Research’s 12 Dips of Christmas 🥶🎄 fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/shonas-...

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The spectacle of cruelty towards those seeking refuge is fully on display: no camouflage, no shame, no decency - only indifference and indignation👇🏾 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Shabhana Mahmood announces overhaul of 'unfair' asylum system

Under the plans, refugee status will become temporary and new capped

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

They do know that many cultures don’t have rings as marriage symbols but other artefacts that in this “bags of gold rings” ignorance they will obviously be seizing. Also whether you “seize” at a border or during a raid of a damp barracks it’s the seizing that’s wrong. Utterly wrong.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them. What the fuck are we?

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Shona Minson @shonaminson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Those working in the cjs know prisons cause great harm & have limited benefit to society but the conversation rarely goes further than our sector. So I'm delighted The Bodley Head who publish all kinds of thought-changing books, want to publish my book-to-be, "Imprisoned: The Case for Change".

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Like a lot of things with RFK Jr if someone just said this to you and wasn’t in charge of medicine in America you’d go: ooooooookay and keep pressing the elevator button

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 09/10/2025

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

It was two OUP books.

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is? It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This is obviously the death of the rule of law, a key aspect of any democracy. It’s also the final death of the Tories as an ostensibly constitutional party and comfirmation of its move, like the MAGA Republicans, into the unconstitutional far right. 11/

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

In the current climate of far right hostility, Jenrick is actively inciting violence against these judges with this. Badenoch may have defended his explicit racism yesterday, but this alone should see him lose both his position as shadow justice secretary and the whip immediately. #r4today

Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias'

The shadow justice secretary has accused 'activists' within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

‘[Lord Wolfson says:] The [ECHR] and the Human Rights Act “place major restrictions on individual decision-making at every level (civil servants, judges, and ministers) and in policy and legislative design”.’ YES THAT’S THE ENTIRE POINT

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 06/10/2025

We need more of this! Well done for this leaflet with its strong message supporting inclusion, rejecting racism #Celtic I hope the invited refugees enjoyed the match #ScotlandForAll ICYMI @scotnational.bsky.social @alisonphipps.bsky.social @dailyrecord.co.uk.web.brid.gy @neilmackay.bsky.social

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Christian Bauman @christianbauman.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Back to Graham Greene again for my #sundaysentence this week: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation."

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

It shouldn't be as hard as some people seem to make out to recognise that islamophobia, anti-semitism, hate in general, all needs to be absolutely, unconditionally, condemned every time without any form of whataboutery or "but this..." etc. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Labour's "war on terrorism" continues...

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Trump: "If you don't like what I'm saying you can leave the room. There goes your rank & there goes your future." <nervous laughter> Many of these US generals were no doubt aware of Hitler's notorious "Führereid", the oath of personal allegiance he made German generals swear in 1934..

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I wonder what legal test will be for ‘volunteering’ - Union jacks on lampposts? Spying on a rubber dingy in Channel? Outlawing the RNLI? Bake sales for IDF in support of the (not 🙄) genocide? There is always a lower place when it comes to unhinged immigration policy. Always.

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MIGRANTS MUST CONTRIBUTE TO THIS COUNTRY TO EARN THEIR RIGHT TO STAY
#Lab25
BREAKING NEWS
INDEFINITE LEAVE TO REMAIN COULD BE DEPENDENT ON
• PAYING NATIONAL INSURANCE
- CLAIMING NO BENEFITS
• HAVING A CLEAN CRIMINAL
RECORD
• VOLUNTEERING IN THEIR
COMMUNITY
SHABANA MAHMOOD HOME SEGRETARY

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JazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

So exhausting..

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Renegade Kangaroo @renegadekangaroo.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I've always adored the doggy side eye thing they do ❤️🥺

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Shona Minson @shonaminson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I’m working hard on body and mind recovery after surgery for #breastcancer as I wait to find out what treatment I’m going to need next. #walking #goodfood #beautifulthings #cancer

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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Just to be clear: - Paracetamol does not cause autism. - Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK - We do not have a massive free speech problem here. - Britain is not on the verge of civil war. These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

thinking again, as I often do, about how unbelievably important it is to fart around www.snopes.com/fact-check/k...

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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · 15/09/2025

David Lammy should reverse the proposed “democratic lock” over the Sentencing Council We need a politics that does not pile pressure on ministers to overrule independent decisions, says @drmatthewgill.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/davi...

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David Lammy should reverse the proposed “democratic lock” over the Sentencing Council | Institute for Government

Ministers should welcome the role of experts.

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Shona Minson @shonaminson.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

a visual metaphor for UK politics

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This is hugely problematic. The overwhelming majority in the UK reject the far right yet our views aren‘t being properly articulated in the public sphere: the papers largely support it, the BBC is a mix of supportive & supine, the government simply absent

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Thank you Michael Fanone. For those who do not recognize the name, Michael is one of the officers who defended America on January 6th and was left permanently injured as a result. He is a true hero of our Democracy.

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Women Beyond Walls @women-beyond-walls.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

“Women are essentially stigmatised more because they are a mother…” Our latest #Podcast episode on women’s #incarceration & the impact on their children is out now, featuring @shonaminson.bsky.social 🎧 Listen now snd share lnk.to/women-beyond... #ChildrensRights #PrisonIsAFeministIssue

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

So people who’ve fled death & torture are going to be denied the chance to live with their families- who may themselves consequently be exposed to the same dangers- and I’d suggest not a single Reform voter will vote Labour as a result while other Labour voters will abandon them in disgust

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UK to make it harder for refugees to bring family members to country

Home secretary to announce overhaul of family reunion policy in attempt to quell fractious immigration debate

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

in case anyone does want to read it here is a link: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... [£5 less on amazon/world of books]

press.princeton.edu

Supply Chain Justice

How the UK’s immigration detention and deportation system turns people into monetized, measurable units on a supply chain

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

If (at least some of) the workers can see that, why can’t Labour and the media? If only they’d read my book, eh? Hah. Or indeed consult any immigration lawyer, person with lived experience etc etc. And stop giving Farage so much airtime!

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

‘This is not about deporting people,’ he concluded. ‘This is about controlling a narrative and getting hold of the money.’

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

‘It’s just about making the European Court step in and say, “You can’t do that,” so they can splash it all over the papers: “How dare someone in Europe tell us what we should do… “We don’t need our human rights any more, because how dare someone out there be telling our government what to do?”’

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

While we should not get trapped in discussions about feasibility, the impossibility of Farage’s plans is important, since its inevitable failure plays another role that this man also recognised:

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Mary Bosworth @mfbosworth.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Even the people employed to DO the deportations don’t think mass deportation is possible (let alone moral, legal and so on)… As one of them, who I write about it my book on the escorting system, pointed out concerning the previous government’s plans to send large numbers to Rwanda:

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24/08/2025

It’s a pretty common newsroom practice to say that protests of a few hundred (or even a few thousand) people aren’t headline news because they happen all the time. And it’s largely true. What I can’t explain is why even Ofcom regulated TV is determined to make *these* protests news.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 24/08/2025

If your concern is that a white person who pleaded guilty received a sentence within the guidelines maybe you *want* two tier justice.

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

A new word for The Wicked to deny.

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Me three months ago:

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