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Anna Amo

@theotheramo.bsky.social

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Real person. Or unknowing cylon. Sometime poet. Legal squirrel. She/her. Ceasefire NOW.

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Anna Amo @theotheramo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Jacob Tierney continuing his project of being the only light in the 2026 tunnel.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

The Home Office's appeal against this decision has been refused The judges threw it out in minutes and without waiting to hear arguments from the man's lawyers, telling them "we don’t need to trouble you" after questioning the Home Office barrister in an increasingly incredulous exchange

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Today women MPs wore Suffragette sashes to celebrate Votes for Women–won by civil disobedience & celebrated in Parliament's gift shop. And yet now the government is asking us to vote to proscribe Palestine Action–a modern civil disobedience group–as terrorists

A group of women stand in an old building wearing green, white and purple sashes

A greeting card with an illustration of a woman chained to a railing, with the words 'She who dares, wins'

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 12/05/2025

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

Slightly amended so I can fit this here:

I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame!

I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one.

I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country.

This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong.

Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues.

I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean?

Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens.

This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way.

You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position.

Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces.

What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly.

The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy.

Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed.

Tanja Bueltmann

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Anna Amo @theotheramo.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Asked a guy who was loudcasting ski tourism videos from his phone on the train if he could stop because it was bothering me. He refused, wanted to justify how it was no worse than people chatting, and called me miserable. So that was a fun experience.

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Anna Amo @theotheramo.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Eskibookclubbers, I've posted my Goodreads review of the year and I'm just throwing out encouragement if anyone else fancies doing theirs, I'd love to read it. 😘

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Anna Amo @theotheramo.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I've got one whole, glorious, day off tomorrow between my old and new jobs but I'm not sure what to do with it to best reset. Feel like I'm going to stare into space a lot and maybe write lists.

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Anna Amo @theotheramo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I imported my books and now storygraph definitely has my number. 😅

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Anna Amo @theotheramo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

@aldiwitch.bsky.social two episodes into Charité and I'm loving it so much. Will struggle not to binge the whole thing tonight.

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Anna Amo @theotheramo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

'Tis the season for being tempted to switch apps.

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Anna Amo @theotheramo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Oh, hello to the Mutuals tab where I can see my Eskimos without all the extra people starter packs made me follow! Very handy.

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