I know the Overton Window for war crimes has shifted considerably given Israel's actions in Gaza, but Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.

This is Brexit all over again but worse, because we are again willingly destroying the very thing that feeds us - just at a time when we are at our weakest.

Turns out we hit my net migration forecast a year earlier. Now, all we need to do is brace ourselves for the economic impact.

You can't tell me the Gall Peters equal area projection map, where countries are shown in their true sizes, isn't absolutely beautiful

The UK is to allow high-earners new, faster visa path to residency. Migrants earning more £125,000 would be allowed to apply to for indefinite leave UK after three years. Refugees, 20 years.

A Sri Lankan influencer has been making money running anti immigrant pages on facebook, he runs an academy teaching others how to do the same. 🔗 slguardian.org/sri-lankan-i...

FFS. Surely they must realise that this brings up so many connotations of what the Nazis did to the Jews during the Shoah – taking their jewellery, valuables, and even the gold fillings out of their mouth. ... Or if they aren't aware of it, they're in the wrong damned job! #BlueLabour

"Mamdani will turn New York into London" FANTASTIC. Do it.

Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.

Honestly, not surprised to see Britain relieving brown people of their valuables once again

Pressing the fear button is the easiest way to win votes when people are suffering but you have no talent to fix their problems.

One of the most absurd myths Empire nostalgists repeat ad nauseam is that Britain united India as a country. The core strategy of empire was divide and rule, so to suggest the Empire somehow did exactly the opposite is peak delusion.

Starmer wants to copy Denmark to deter asylum seekers. Reform voters prefer Poland or Hungary. The ethics of these policies aside, can someone ask these people if all these countries are in the EU and can supposedly control their borders better, WHY THE HELL did we Brexit??

Zohran Mamdani walking on stage to "Dhoom Machale" was incredible - it's a certified bollywood banger. Right-wing Indian-origin politicians like Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, Priti Patel, and Rishi Sunak would NEVER do this. The only Indianness they embrace are the white-approved parts.

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

It's only 7am, but TIL about the weaponisation of ignorance in the 2023 referendum in Australia where the Right used the slogan "If you don't know, vote No" to encourage unsure people to vote against the recognition of First Nations' peoples.

The British Home Secretary When she needed our votes VS now when she has the job

The British Home Secretary When she needed our votes VS now when she has the job

everyone: the monarchy is innocuous me: 1. the monarchy interferes heavily with law-making 2. the british monarch heads the biggest tax havens which facilitate wealth networks 3. the monarchy has killed hundreds of millions of people, yet they have neither apologised nor acknowledged

This is so fucking embarrassing

Truly astonishing to see Canada and the UK supporting their royals with their whole chest, rather than taking this as an opportunity to question their relationship with the monarchy

Yes, America should aspire to get rid of tyranny but create a dynasty of Trump descendents who receive untold wealth from the public for the difficult task of waving from balconies and seeming gracious while believing they have better blood than their subjects. Hard pass. No kings, thx.

As a committed anti-monarchist, I've been trying to highlight the irony for people in Britain (and Canada and elsewhere) supporting the No Kings movement. To no avail.

Lol that the London No Kings event is called No Tyrants because…you know… www.nokings.org#map

This is terrifying, heartless, and genocidal. I cannot begin to imagine the horrors these prisoners must've experienced before being murdered.

current status of British politics

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly." "With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this." "I blame you for that."

Stop worrying, everyone. We migrants already have a superb grasp of English, and the rest will figure out how. That's what we migrants do best, overcome every obstacle. It's literally our defining quality.

Props to the handful of republics in this list. For the rest of y'all, topple your own monarchies first. And stop lying to yourself it's symbolic or has no powers.

A profligate verification exercise to confirm what is already evident, that migrants routinely exhibit greater linguistic proficiency than most, and certainly more than the far-right agitators for whom this policy has been performatively devised.

3,060,000 - is the number of millionaires in the UK . 364,000 - is the number of refugees & asylum seekers (200,000 of whom now work and pay taxes) You telling me that between them, 20 millionaires cannot support one refugee from Afghanistan, Ethiopia, or Syria?

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data. Including some users passports & DLs Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic. Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

I hate podcasts because it's talk. Any fool can talk. In fact, fools have no other useful role in society, so the more devious ones learn to talk better and become more convincing. Whereas the sages, the actual sages, don't bother. Ergo, podcasts surface the manipulative, not the intelligent.

Just leaving this here, showing that educating overseas students is the only university activity that doesn‘t cost more to deliver than it brings in. Maintenance grants are very welcome, but the source of funding for them is not. They‘re making a broken funding model even more broken.

I suppose given he doesn't even want spouses of British citizens to join them, it would've been astonishing for him to have any empathy for refugee families. Human rights lawyer my foot.

And why call it 'golden ticket'? Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children? A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted. 4,671. Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?

The attack on the synagogue in Manchester is horrifying, troubling and so distressing. And for this to happen on Yom Kippur is so disturbing and tragic, this is an attack designed to inflict maximum terror on Jewish people. I am so deeply sad about this it's hard to put it in words.

Love that video of Jack Straw that has recently resurfaced, declaring emphatically that the reason Britain won WW1 and WW2 was because of the number of black and brown soldiers who fought alongside.

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For those who want to email The Times in protest, I've copied @zoejardiniere.bsky.social's email into the alt for the image attached below (with a final paragraph added). Just add your name at the end and send it to [email protected]

I am on ILR. Labour's policies will make ILR much harder to obtain. Granting ILR to immigrants after ten consecutive years on a qualifying visa instead of current five, while also requiring they spend time volunteering is completely hare-brained. This will be a long 🧵

Does she know how hard it is to volunteer?? We move countries, new job, away from family, new friends, and work extra hard to catch up. I am now a trustee of a charity but it took me 10 years before I had enough time and energy to support a local cause. And to ask doctors to do this, COME ON!

WHY IS EVERYONE TRYING TO CANCEL ILR??? I refuse to believe everyone is this stupid or ignorant so the other thing must be true: they are acting with malice. This has the WORST vibes of brexit all over again.

Frankly I find it astounding and troubling that these basic facts are not better known especially by people who comment on politics. Just make some immigrant friends, we're 1/6th of the population, it's easy to find us. And if you can't then just ping me, I'm always eager to meet new people.

Tired of hearing 'we need immigrants to staff the NHS & care homes' - as if we're a servant class. Newsflash: immigrants do a variety of work, pay taxes, buy homes, raise families. Britain doesn't 'need us to serve'. We're here to live. Like you.

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.