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I'm so very sad to hear of the death of Esther Ranzen who played an important role in reuniting me with Nicky Winton - the man who saved my life. It's so desperately sad that she couldn't choose assisted dying as was her wish.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 11h

She understood that the right to choose a peaceful death is a fundamental human freedom. Her legacy is not just in the charities she founded, but in the compassion she awakened in the public consciousness regarding the end of life. She changed the debate, and we are deeply grateful for her courage.

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Humanists UK mourns Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026)

Humanists UK is saddened to announce the death of Dame Esther Rantzen, the trailblazing broadcaster, founder of Childline, and stalwart campaigner for the right to die, aged 86. Already known to…

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Work Rights Centre @workrights.bsky.social · 15h

The Labour Party Conference this year was different. The message of ‘hope again’ was beaming from every screen. But, there was one glaring omission: migrant care workers. Read our CEO's analysis 👇 www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

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Labour Party Conference 2026: Andy Burnham has noble ambition for care but it must include migrant care workers | Work Rights Centre

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Work Rights Centre @workrights.bsky.social · 21h

Home Office rules on Right to Work checks are being updated from tomorrow. Read our explainer, which covers: • When will businesses need to conduct a Right to Work check? • How can businesses conduct these checks? • Is one Right to Work check enough? www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

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Right to Work checks to be redefined from 1 October 2026 | Work Rights Centre

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 29/09/2026

Let's be clear. The is nonsense. 1. There is limited evidence at best to show that AI will safely reduce processing costs and increase operational efficiency. 2. There is growing evidence that AI will vastly increase the loading on public services and require more human agents.

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Micro Rainbow @microrainbow.org · 29/09/2026

Petrus, a gay man from Namibia living in our safe house, has been granted #refugee status!👇 Support more #LGBTQI people seeking safety: microrainbow.org/donate/ Pseudonyms & stock images are used to protect the identity of the individuals we work with.

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Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Flashback to when the Sensible Centrist Dad ones on Twitter As Was were making fun of that 'maaaaate' campaign & I was sat thinking 'yeah but it fucking works, though, peer pressure from other men works, have you gents tried it or if I look at your following list will I still see N1ck Coh3n there?'

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *inclusion*, it would be all over the Times, Telegraph, Mail etc. This last weekend, attendance at a major women's conference was down 80% due to a boycott fighting against trans *exclusion*. Crickets.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To be clear, resettlement schemes, as proposed here (where the screenshots are from), are good. But not everyone can wait around in dangerous situations, hoping to be plucked to safety by the UK government. Using resettlement as a reason to crack down on spontaneous asylum claims is therefore bad

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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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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“We will be compassionate to a strictly limited number of people, and will save as many lives as the Daily Mail will let us”

I know the British people have not given up on their belief that we should be compassionate, live up to our international obligations, and save the lives of those fleeing war and persecution. But I also know this process must be capped and controlled, and communities must be ready and able to welcome those who come here.

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Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 28/09/2026

NEW: Emily Thornberry warns Labour risk being seen as ‘nasty’ over immigration rules Speaking at a More in Common fringe event, Thornberry said it was “just not fair” to change the rules for people who came to the UK under existing ones www.politics.co.uk/2026/09/emil...

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Emily Thornberry warns Labour risk being seen as ‘nasty’ over immigration rules - Politics.co.uk

Dame Emily Thornberry has warned that Labour must be careful about being seen as “nasty” over proposed changes to immigration settlement rules. Under plans the government is finalising following a con...

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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Home Secretary talking about "reopening" the UK Resettlement Schemes. I assume she means she'll allow UNHCR to make referrals again. There were 296 arrivals on UKRS in the first half of the year, so people have still been coming. In the last year, arrivals on UKRS dropped by around a half.

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Refugee Council @refugeecouncil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imran Hussain, Executive Director of External Affairs at the Refugee Council, said: "We are deeply saddened to learn three people, including a child, have died, and more may have been seriously injured while crossing the Channel in the hope of finding safety in Britain.

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Micro Rainbow @microrainbow.org · 28/09/2026

🌈 Join the Micro Rainbow team! We're #hiring an Outreach & Moving On Officer: Young People to provide support & advocacy for #LGBTQI people seeking asylum. 📍London 📆 Deadline is 5pm, Thursday 22 October 2026 🔗 Learn more and apply: microrainbow.org/job-voluntee...

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The Fence @thefence.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An incredibly important story, worthy of your time. A vivid illustration of how homophobic attacks are on the rise in London. Brilliantly reported by @bronmaher.bsky.social

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Final point on this. There’s nothing new to HO wanting lower numbers and HMT wanting higher numbers. Was ever thus (eg May vs Osborne). What is more surprising is that Mahmood never gets asked about this and the relative silence of Govt ministers (other than Rayner) on positive side of immigration.

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is the kind of stuff that the far right gov has been doing here in Sweden and, spoilers, it leads to a lot of social precarity, disenfranchisement, disintegration and lots of distressing deportations. It’s also had tons of unintended consequences politicians were warned about but ignored.

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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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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.

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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza

A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Guardian reports Rayner's continued defence of migrants care workers from in Cabinet. Seems to have won that argument for care workers with No 10 + Home Office Big unknown: will anyone protect 250k non-care workers (chefs, vets, architects) from being thrown out www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Angela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conference

Housing secretary says Home Office moved goalposts with ‘disruptive’ change to permanent residence rules

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Kirsti, an architect - directly affected - on her MP not appearing to understand that protecting [only] care workers would mean forcing out vets, architects, chefs and many others (but perhaps unwittingly for most MPs + ministers who have not spotted this) bsky.app/profile/heri...

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“We live in a society!”

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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 26/09/2026

You will love this tale of old-school outrageous financial banditry - it is wildly more alluring than all the quotidian outrageous banditry that preoccupies us giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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The ballad of John Factor, the original white-collar bandit

An ambitious stock scam made headlines on both sides of the Atlantic. What happened next was more audacious still

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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Devastating. And the lag on the Guardian live blog had me living in hope with the Dockers still in the lead with a few minutes to go until mum messaged me that it was all over and they'd lost. Went from feeling very homesick and wishing I was there, to being very glad that I am, instead, in Sicily.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Rayner is correct: these proposals are economically damaging and politically counterproductive. Pretty clear that view is now almost universal in the Cabinet/Labour Party and the informed public. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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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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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thomas has been denied bail. His case will go to Crown Court on Tuesday.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The promised crowdfunding effort never materialised, and the fundraising company turned out to be unnecessary, because this case, like several other similar ones including Sandie Peggie's case against the Royal College of Nursing, has been fully funded by a single anonymous donor.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ann-Dowling and Austin Hart are not alone in pursuing lawfare in order to force transphobia onto trade unions. Fiona Macdonald is suing PCS, Sandi Peggie is suing the RCN, and Deirdre O'Neill and Michael Wayne sued UCU and lost in 2025. All of these cases are happening or have happened in Scotland.

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Ben McKenna @benmckenna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So I look after the websites of quite a lot of migrant support organisations, it's my job but it's also something I care deeply about. Today I have three requests to remove addresses, identifying photos or names of people who fear for their lives. I'm sad, people, good people are terrified.

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Micro Rainbow @microrainbow.org · 24/09/2026

Chege, a gay man from Kenya, was finally granted refugee status after 10 years of waiting. During that time, having a stable home from Micro Rainbow was life-changing. Read his story: microrainbow.org/leeds-gave-m... #LGBTQI #RefugeeStories #ChangingLGBTQILives #Asylum

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 24/09/2026

Wondered what would happen after the posting of that video showing the apparent stabbing of a dinghy in the Channel? Read my story about the arrest of the man who posted it: as.ft.com/r/115f09d2-3...

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Anti-migrant protest leader arrested after posting video stabbing a dinghy

Rightwing activist who calls himself Danny Tommo was also one of the organisers of a recent blockade of Dover

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ooo, he's got the special tense that's normally reserved for the NYPD or the IDF.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Note how there is no (0) person, whether politician or activist, quoted in this piece who‘s in favour of more liberal asylum policies, and as for quoting any actual refugees, their function is to be the silent object of other people’s violent imaginings, not to have a voice or personhood

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Most migrant small boat arrivals in single day of 2026

A total of 781 migrants arrive on Wednesday, but the yearly total is below the same point in 2025.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026

Are any Labour MPs going to have the nerve to say so publicly? If a Conservative Home Secretary had issued the statement Shabana Mahmood has put out today they'd be able to find their voices. So why not now?

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026

The man who filmed himself stabbing one, with a person on board, is still seemingly at large.

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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is such a stressful week, have everything crossed for the Dockers on Saturday

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Where’s the COBRA meeting? Where are the mass arrests, where are the police kicking down doors at meeting places and lifting fascist activists? They are nowhere, because there is no desire to do it.

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ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Overnight, a small ICE Air jet (max 16-18 passengers) landed in Yangon, Myanmar, marking the fourth deportation flight to the country. The flight originated in Mesa, Arizona, with the journey lasting approximately 24 hours.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not to be all maudlin, but I think "sung by a child" is the bit that has broken something inside of me.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There have been some arrests of some of these thugs as reported in this thread. But I think the government could use some encouragement to find a spine and really do something about this before someone is killed. bsky.app/profile/yeom...

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve written to my MP, the Home Secretary and the PM this morning demanding that the government take action to defend the RNLI and clamp down on these far-right “activists”, who need to be arrested and charged for the criminal offences in this thread alone, as well as others in recent weeks.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is a common lie from DHS press flacks. They claim that people who came through CBP One — who registered for an appointment through a government app, went to a port of entry, and were issued a grant of humanitarian parole by a CBP officer letting them enter — "entered illegally." Total nonsense.

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