There’s a complete lack of people impacted by policies ever on the news tbqh When was the last time you heard a trans voice in the so-called “trans debate”? The biggest stories in our national conversation and apart from advocates like @zoejardiniere.bsky.social it’s primarily far right voices

Sadly, not many (any?) immigrants on TV or in the news, so let me just say, all this creates a hostile unwelcoming environment and vilifies us when we pay far more into the system than we take out. We will not wait to be deported. We will just leave.

I often argue politics through a third-person lens, but this policy would affect me. And wouldn't Farage love to deport a loud, leftist brown immigrant who'd never vote Reform. It suddenly feels more personal.

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

I'm a foreign national. I've been unemployed MANY TIMES but have NOT claimed a single penny in welfare. I do not know a single immigrant who has ever taken welfare. WHY? Because we come from countries where such support does not exist, so we plan for life not expecting it or wanting it, ever.

I'm a foreign national. I've been unemployed MANY TIMES but have NOT claimed a single penny in welfare. I do not know a single immigrant who has ever taken welfare. WHY? Because we come from countries where such support does not exist, so we plan for life not expecting it or wanting it, ever.

Trump regularly mixes the USA up with Russia as he wants so very badly to be Putin.

Old man yells at cloud

They've done a TACO

F**king hell - didn't realise it was 100k per year! I thought it was a one-off fee (which is bad enough!). And the way it was suddenly sprung on people means that you can't trust them to stick to that number in the future. Next year it could be double that. Living in complete uncertainty.

They’ve just been kicking it around on GBNews. Jobs for “our own”.

There are half a million H1B visa holders in USA. Their families, their children, everything will be uprooted, So this will affect nearly 1.5 million people. $100K visa fees, every year! And make no mistake, Reform will bring the same to the UK.

As I was saying

In US news, Trump is adding $100K to H1B fees. These are visas for skilled workers. I can imagine Reform doing the same if they come to power. It's mad, this vilification of people who come work in a hostile, foreign land and help the economy while receiving no benefits or even any respect.

People say there is no difference between the Tories and Labour. There plenty - but not enough I just wish Starmer was as ruthless with the hard right wing placemen in Ofcom, the BBC and other captured quangos and regulators as it is with its own (soft) left wing

We are four years before Brexit 2.0 When Reform wins Because the Left is collapsing and unable to unite The media is stacked against us The government we voted for is against us Mega-billionaires are funding the far right Tactical voting won't help this time Only something remarkable will save us

WHY DIDNT THEY JUST JOIN THE GREEN PARTY FFS

And the crown goes to...

Very little has changed, I would argue, is down to embedded cultural norms around class and status.

Another disappointing report. Question: do you think positive discrimination policies, eg reserve 33% of civil service jobs for non privately educated people, would have traction in working class England?

Kimmel sacked, ICE running rampant, Epstein files, UK and EU kowtowing to Trump's demands -- the problem this creates is many on the Left feel powerless which, to use the word of the week, emboldens the Right. This is why marches like yesterday's are so important. We need to keep showing up ✊🏽

The UK is not done yet telling Trump he’s not welcome here!! TODAY in Edinburgh

What a day! Thousands of wonderful people protesting PEACEFULLY against fascism and Donald Trump's state visit. Such a fantastic march. Thank you @ukstoptrump.bsky.social 🙌🏽

I just signed up to some dating apps for some work-related market research, browsed through dozens of profiles and wouldn't like to meet any of them. Because no one so far has marked their politics. Either not disclosed or 'other'. Finding partners as a devoted leftist must clearly be very hard!

Herzog is one of three men (others: Gallant, Netanyahu) directly named in the UN commission report published today which confirms that Israel is committing genocide and he is responsible. Last week, we welcomed him to Downing St.

Never before seen demand in icebreakers that would carve up 1-3% of Arctic ice annually. Broken ice exposes dark seawater, which absorbs more sunlight and accelerates local melting. Disrupts hunting & migration for seals, walruses, polar bears. Waves also reach deeper ice, melting it even faster.

Hilarious response in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social to this video, riddled with inaccuracies (whoever said anything about death squads?!) I’ve submitted a complaint about falsehoods & requested an op-Ed for right of reply - which was, of course, not offered to me in advance of publication🤷‍♀️

I think Musk's comments to a rally of 100k people are the highest profile advocacy of political violence in the UK since the end of the Northern Ireland conflict. Does anybody have a counter-example? "Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die."

Every UK organisation -governmental or not- should quit X right now. Actively using that platform is no longer justifiable by anything.

I'm in a group chat with Indian immigrants in London and my brain broke this morning because many of them support the far-right march yesterday. All this while front page news in Indian media is about a British-born Indian woman in Oldbury raped by two men shouting go back to your country.

How do people who support the monarchy reconcile their belief that it is purely ceremonial with the fact that "Royal Correspondents" write stories like this puff piece. How is this not political? Why is an unelected King schmoozing with a convicted felon and pretending to represent us?!

I really hope Elon Musk's dream of colonising Mars becomes real on the most optimistic timeline possible. Mainly because that'd mean he'd leave all of us on Earth to live our lives in peace.

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

We - all of us - need to be extremely worried. A million people marched peacefully against Brexit. So we have the numbers. But they have the media and government in a chokehold.

Dear fucking god. BBC 6pm news: Story one: over 100k Tommy Robinson demonstrators Story two: the govt promises deportations of boat migrants to France will begin next week

When colonisers leave, countries always flourish.

Nepal joins the growing number of countries that have elected women leaders. The US remains the most significant outlier.

UK: Can we please have proportional representation? Pretty please? Nepal: Fuck this government. We will choose our next leader on DISCORD

Zia Yusuf calling for remigration on Newsnight, not just for asylum seekers but for skilled migrants like me.

Image of the day/week/month for me Students in Kathmandu take selfie in front of the parliament building they burned because corruption

If there's even a single immigrant in Sky News' Immigration Debate tonight, I'll eat my hat.

If we were to invest in a "revival" of British art and culture, the tourism income alone would pay it back many times over. Imagine the millions who would flock to a Museum of Political Art with a permanent exhibition by Banksy. Or a concert hall that showcases British talent winners over the year.

If we were to invest in a "revival" of British art and culture, the tourism income alone would pay it back many times over. Imagine the millions who would flock to a Museum of Political Art with a permanent exhibition by Banksy. Or a concert hall that showcases British talent winners over the year.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

same for "climate sceptics" we need to call them climate cranks

If you're a reporter, please stop referring to RFK Jr and his cronies as "vaccine skeptics." They're not skeptical. Skepticism would be fine. Skeptics look at evidence and can be persuaded. These people are extremist anti-vaccine cranks, and that's how news organizations should describe them.

Do you think Shabana Mahmood, the new Home Secretary, will change the government's stance on Palestine Action?

On the same day in the Telegraph:

I'm not entirely sold on Zack but the ONLY acceptable response from Labour was, congratulations and we look forward to working with you. Instead, their first post is an attack ad.

Is this English? Am I having a stroke?