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Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) @gmiau.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
THREAD A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Putting all this together, @lgilbert.co find the following. It's not that Farage is (just) exaggerating/overstating - he is simply lying about migrants, jobs, wages and benefits. Media should be very clear about this. www.laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recent...

The average main applicant who received a visa 2019-2023 made about 45% more than the average person in the UK.

The average dependent who received a visa 2019-2023 made about 25% less than the average person in the UK.

The average person who received a humanitarian visa made about 33% less than the average person in the UK.

When we take a weighted average of all categories of 2019-2023, the average new migrant who arrived 2019-2023 made £24,881 in FY 2023-2024. This is about 4% more than average earnings - even when I have made optimistic assumptions about native-born earnings and excluded any self-employment income for migrants.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Well I foolishly promised it two months ago, so I had to write it... Behold my analysis of UK immigration policy and my attempt at coming up with some principles that could command public support. It's long (7,000) words because, well, this is complex stuff. So here's a thread... 1/n
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Select and Respect
How to create a UK immigration policy that can command public support
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Sunday protests seem to be < 500 nationwide, maybe < 300, across 4-6 locations Yet ITV news using language of "erupt nationwide" (!) Epping: 100-150 London: 20 Birmingham: 30 Stevenage: 30-50 Norwich: ? anything of any scale Manchester: ? anything of any scale Dudley: ? anything of any scale?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Reading this and trying to take in the full enormity of what is happening. The scale of it. open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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Grand Designs: the loss of American freedom
Exactly seven months into Trump's second term, we have reached 1000 authoritarian actions. Here I lay out the enormity of what has happened.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Unfortunately a common understanding around the country is that this list is accurate, that "you" the noble patriot are struggling because "they" the billion scrounging immigrants are taking all your money. And until that's seriously addressed, well, good luck stopping Reform.
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Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Untruths about asylum-seekers exposed by @fullfact.org fullfact.org/immigration/... #asylum #migrants
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Asylum seekers living in hotels do not receive £70 a week – Full Fact
Thousands of people have viewed a video supposedly featuring a former ‘migrant hotel employee’, who makes a number of incorrect claims about what government support asylum seekers receive.
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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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Joelle Grogan @joellegrogan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Explainer now up on whether the ECHR stops foreign national offenders from being deported from the UK. ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/d...
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Explainer: Does the European Convention on Human Rights stop foreign criminals being removed from the UK? - UK in a changing Europe
Joelle Grogan, Alice Donald and Victoria Adelman examine the relationship between the ECHR and immigration law.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
This is about failures on a big infrastructure project, but there's a lot about decision-making processes that would also apply to e.g. NHS management.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"From EU expansion to Brexit: Free movement and the UK from 2004 to 2021" My paper in Border Crossing, just published (open access!) examines the economic and political consequences of post-2004 migration flows to the UK under free movement. bordercrossing.uk/bc/article/v...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The absolute last thing schools need right now - while dealing with an extremely tight funding settlement and rising poverty - is a radical overhaul of the exam system.
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Me + @zoejardiniere.bsky.social vs Matt Goodwin and Nadim Zahawi. For those saying "You can't/shouldn't debate Goodwin" [a position I respect, but rejected on this specific occasion], see my opening speech, specifically from 13 min in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXbQ...
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Debate: High Immigration Is Good For Britain - Matthew Goodwin, Nadhim Zahawi, Zoe Gardner
YouTube video by How To Academy
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Damn it, we lost Joe Don Baker. To me he’ll always be Darius Jedburgh, the rogue CIA officer in the BBC’s superb Edge of Darkness (1985)
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Edge of Darkness emotional speech - Perfect Revenge
YouTube video by Sound Tracks world
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This was great fun and very, very, very thorough
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
"I didn't like winning the Booker at all. Success can be a lot more challenging than failure. I was used to failure, like most writers are. I did failure beautifully, believe me. I didn’t do success quite so well." I spoke to Pat Barker about her @thebookerprizes.bsky.social-winning The Ghost Road:
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Pat Barker interview: ‘Success can be more challenging than failure’ | The Booker Prizes
Thirty years after winning the Booker for The Ghost Road, Pat Barker discusses feeling like an outsider, writing about men, and the under-representation of working-class voices
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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
If you don't know Gail's stuff, have a look at her website. Really beautiful, witty designs
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is not for me to comment on really, but if it is to be re-made, please don’t make it uplifting, with characters full of resilience and hope… that would be the exact antithesis of the original. Thank you. www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/thr...
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Threads reboot confirmed as Adolescence team adapts cult hit for TV
The seminal BBC film is being adapted into a TV series.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This is excellent on the demise of NHSE and the questions it raises.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
One you haven't had yet - rolling back academy school reforms....
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
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Chris Davies @crd37.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Lovely thread that highlights the paradox of encountering humans from the past. On the one hand - yeah, ha ha, they were just like us with their need for warm socks in Northumbria and hating school On the other - holy moly, they used to sacrifice their kids to appease the gods
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Apologies, I meant to say that the sweater is knitted using four or five knitting needles, as that's how you knit "on the round." Traditional guernseys are knitted the same way. This method allows the knitter to create the body like a tube with no side seams.
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Vee @veencube.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
@mrjamesob.bsky.social is brilliant at what he does but if he beats the brilliance of this show this year I will wear a Spurs top for a whole weekend. I am a Gunner for life by the way.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
On the fifth anniversary of Brexit, we dedicate the entire show to listing all the benefits it has brought to the U.K. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
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James O'Brien - The Whole Show - Podcast Episode | Global Player
Five years since Brexit, the mad riddle
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JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hurrah! Got rid of Microsoft's ridiculous Co-Pilot and saved some money. These instructions do work www.pcworld.com/article/2588...
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How to turn off Copilot in Microsoft 365 and save a quick $30
Microsoft probably just moved you to a version of Microsoft 365 with Copilot included, and charged you $30 more for the privilege. Here's how to switch back to Microsoft 365 (Office) without Cortana.
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 28/01/2025
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists was written in 1914, but if you swap out "Crass" for "Trump" and "British" for "American" it could have been written this morning.
Excerpt from The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914): 

And so the talk continued, principally carried on by Crass and those who agreed with him. None of them really understood the subject; not one of them had ever devoted fifteen consecutive minutes to the earnest investigation of it. The papers they read were filled with vague and alarming accounts of the quantities of foreign merchandise imported into this country, the enormous number of aliens constantly arriving, their destitute condition, how they lived, the crimes they committed, and the injury they did to British trade. These were the seeds which, cunningly sown in their minds, caused a bitter undiscriminating hatred of foreigners to grow up within them. To them the mysterious thing which they called either the 'Friscal Policy,' the 'Fistical Policy,' or the 'Fissical Question,' was a great Anti-Foreign Crusade. The country was in a hell of a state; poverty, hunger, and misery in a hundred forms had already invaded thousands of homes and stood upon the threshold of thousands more. How came these things to be? It was the bloody foreigner! Therefore, down with the foreigners and all their works. Out with them. Drive them into the bloody sea! The country would be ruined if not protected in some way. This Friscal, Fistical, Fissical or whatever the hell policy it was called, was Protection, therefore no one but a bloody fool could hesitate to support it. It was all quite plain—quite simple. One did not need to think twice about it. It was scarcely necessary to think about it at all.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I always forget how well *crafted* @philipreeve.bsky.social's Mortal Engines quartet is. Small, lovely things like 'here is a love story told from beginning to end, from a passing gag about maiden aunts to a heartbreaking reference to the widow Scabious' across Predator's Gold to Infernal Devices.
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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This is really shocking: and true. I discovered I'd just been upgraded without consent to an AI-enshittified package that was about £30 a year more expensive. Strongly recommend anyone who has an Office 365 follow the below advice to get rid of it
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Alex Godfrey @mrgodfrey.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Okay I'm gonna do a thread here of some of the amazing things David Lynch said to me in interviews. Basically, he said amazing things pretty much every time he opened his mouth. 1: An account of feeding the local birds during lockdown.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 24/12/2024
Have you played the GCHQ Christmas puzzle yet? 👇
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 23/12/2024
1/ Ok, so instead of just making jokes about the EU Reset, I wanted to do a very simplified thread on: - what the actual problem is Keir Starmer is trying to solve; - the options on the table; and - why this shit is hard. This will be very long. I'm sorry. Let's get wonky.
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A free post about assisted dying available on davidaaronovitch.substack.com
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson, the Earl of Derby – they’re up in arms about paying tax on the vast areas of land they own. Small farmers are worried that changes to Agricultural Property Relief (APR) will affect them. But who are the big landowners complaining the loudest? Thread: 1/
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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction went to Question 7 by (Booker-winner) Richard Flanagan, a memoir of his father, Tasmania & the bombing of Hiroshima. (Sounds great but I have a date with runner-up Sue Prideaux’s biography of Gaugin first. I loved her Nietzsche bio…)
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I often get asked if there's a "womenswear version" of me. Here's a thread addressing that, which includes a caveat and some resources. 🧵
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Which judge resigned because the books were "mere pornography"? Which author, according to another judge, "puts one off sex"? Which book did Saul Bellow dismiss as a "tinkling teacup thing"? Who refused to give the prize to a book about cannibalism? I wrote about the Booker Prize in the 1970s:
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The Booker in the 1970s: 10 novels that are well worth rediscovering, five decades later | The Booker Prizes
The Booker shortlists of the 1970s are of exceptionally high quality, and while some of the novels may have fallen out of fashion, they’re essential volumes for any keen reader’s library
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Glen @drgp.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This was included in the order of service at my Dad's funeral. He really was and still is beloved.
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!
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