Mary Margaret McCabe
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Ancient philosopher on either construal. Also, Philosophy in Prison www.philosophyinprison.com
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Just published my account of the work of Philosophy in Prison
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Unconscionable to put political advantage above the demands of humanity. Starmer should look carefully at the company he keeps in this initiative.
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George Monbiot
6 days ago
How many times do we need to point this out? By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it. While weakening your own position. There's a vast amount of academic research showing this. But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/09/starmer-urges-europe-leaders-update-echr-halt-rise-far-right
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Nicola Kelly
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But the question remains: why is Keir Starmer not making the case for the ECHR and what protections it brings to British people? He spent his entire career defending it. He wrote a 900 page book on it! A prime minister who left his principles at the door the minute he got into power.
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Colin Elves
6 days ago
Can we go back to responding to racism and antisemitism with disgust and opprobrium please?
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UK Constitutional Law Association
6 days ago
Kirsty Hughes: The Implications of the Court of Appeal’s Judgment on ‘Family Life’ for the Government’s Immigration Proposals
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Kirsty Hughes: The Implications of the Court of Appeal’s Judgment on ‘Family Life’ for the Government’s Immigration Proposals
On 27 November 2025 the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in IA v SHHD [2025] EWCA Civ 1516 clarifying the correct test to be used when determining whether there is ‘family life’ in immigrat…
https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/10/kirsty-hughes-the-implications-of-the-court-of-appeals-judgment-on-family-life-for-the-governments-immigration-proposals/
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Don Moynihan
8 days ago
The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent. It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.
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Margot Finn
7 days ago
If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.
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Book talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past
https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/book-talk-teaching-slavery-new-approaches-britains-colonial-past
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Prof Nisreen Alwan
19 days ago
I feel angry about the all hostile narratives propagated against immigrants. It's socially hard for an ethnic minority woman to express anger but nevertheless I feel I must. Anger is the appropriate emotion here with such gross unfairness & public harm. Let's give eachother permission to express it.
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Zoe Gardner
19 days ago
Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms. Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate. We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price.
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Carole Cadwalladr
21 days ago
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/michael-gove-made-orwell-prize-judge-despite-record-of-attacking-journalists-and-dodging-scrutiny/
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The Guardian
22 days ago
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/24/shabana-mahmood-open-britain-immigration-asylum-policies?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763961920
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The Guardian
about 1 month ago
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
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Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/03/blood-spilled-sudan-el-fasher-space-rsf-uae-darfur?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762151593
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Led By Donkeys
27 days ago
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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Sam Bright
29 days ago
Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics. He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
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Schona Jolly KC
28 days ago
Excellent place to start on the legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper. And, as ever, Mark manages to pen these articulate thoughts so fast.
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John Harris
29 days ago
I think you can get the measure of the deadness of someone's soul from the fact they kick up a stink about [checks notes] autistic kids wearing ear defenders
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Charlotte Lydia Riley
29 days ago
Imagine writing a policy that required you to be explicit that you would not forcibly confiscate refugees’ wedding rings
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Gaby Hinsliff
29 days ago
Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
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Remembrance Day doesn’t seem to have had any impact on this *Home Office Minister*. To propose a reprehensible policy does its own moral harm, as well as revealing profound ignorance.
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29 days ago
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sianushka.bsky.social
29 days ago
There’s just so much performative cruelty and stupidity in the asylum announcements that it’s hard to know where to start. But one place to start is that if its aim is to reduce small boats crossings, it won’t work. We’ve had 5 years of deterrent policies. They don’t work.
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Adam Bienkov
30 days ago
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
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Caroline Lucas
30 days ago
Labour’s latest attack on asylum seekers is cruel & counterproductive. How does it help community cohesion to hold threat of deportation over vulnerable people? We don’t need an arms race with the hard right over asylum, we need safe routes & European cooperation
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Jennifer Williams
30 days ago
If you want more significant numbers of asylum seekers to work and find their own housing, rather than rely on statutory asylum provision, then you presumably need to…allow them to work? What am I missing
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Dan Sohege
30 days ago
Today is not the day to argue "oh so you want Reform to win then" as an argument for Labour's indefensible and inhumane anti-asylum policies. At least be honest and own that you're defending racist policies promoted with genuinely far right talking points. Don't try and pretend this is "progressive"
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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
30 days ago
Does Shabana Mahmood realise she is in the Labour party? I'm struggling some days to see how some Labour MPs even joined the party.. they don't seem to have any of the ideals I associate with being a Labour supporter.
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Mahmood’s word-salad to camouflage a vile move by government. If immigration is causing divides fix the divides not the legislation.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
about 1 month ago
To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.
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Grumpy Philosopher
30 days ago
Asked a question by Kuenssberg about whether her proposals on refugees would mean refugee families being broken up, Shabana Mahmood immediately started talking about illegal migration. Eventually, she’s admitted that yes, Labour’s policy will break up settled families. Vile.
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Sue Wilson MBE
about 1 month ago
In my wildest nightmares I never imagined Labour could be so cruel, so wrong, so batshit crazy as to go this far. Reform & the Tories must be lapping it up.
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Roland Smith
about 1 month ago
Hey, why not make 50 years? Or 100? Or 1000? That'd teach the Normans and their yoke. Or something.
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Minnie Rahman
about 1 month ago
Another day another migration story. Terrifying in here tho is the reform of the ECHR she will attempt. This will be Labour's biggest and most dangerous mistake, I GUARANTEE. It will set up the infrastructure for a Reform govt. to dismantle all our protections.
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Home secretary to tackle UK's 'excessive generosity' with sweeping immigration reforms
In a statement to MPs on Monday, Shabana Mahmood is expected to tighten up the rules to allow for more deportations, and reduce the "pull factors" that attract migrants to the UK.
https://news.sky.com/story/home-secretary-to-tackle-uks-excessive-generosity-with-sweeping-immigration-reforms-13470021
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Minnie Rahman
about 1 month ago
We need to fight this on every term. Even if you don't care about migrant rights (which is stupid), you should care about 100 other things that this will affect. Don't let the cover of a migration story put you off.
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Minnie Rahman
about 1 month ago
Any politician who is taking seriously that the next election might be lost to a far-right populist party, should be doing all they can to strengthen protections for vulnerable people. If this is lost, it will go down in history as a moment where everything collapsed.
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Sue Wilson MBE
about 1 month ago
The Home Office are scaring the sh*t out of me!
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
about 1 month ago
"The era of permanent protection is over" Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
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Refugees from 7 decades gather to commemorate 70 years of refugee in protection in the UK
YouTube video by Refugee Council
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuRT64fMKM
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾
about 1 month ago
Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
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Alasdair Smith
about 1 month ago
Imagine the Attlee government in 1950 expelling Claus Moser, Hans Krebs, Ernest Gellner, Frank Hahn, Sigmund Warburg, Herman Bondi, and three of the Amadeus Quartet
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UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c231x8rj1zpo
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What new hell is this? Not in my bloody name.
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about 1 month ago
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Mark Chadbourn
about 1 month ago
UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood: “On Monday, I will announce the most significant changes to our asylum system in modern times “ I never thought I’d reach the point where I dread an announcement like this from Labour.
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Peter Geoghegan
about 1 month ago
Donald Trump is not going to sue the BBC for $1 billion The real story today is both Reform/Farage and the Conservatives/Badenoch talking today about radically changing the BBC This is the real agenda
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Philosophy in Prison
about 1 month ago
Our evidence on 'Changing prison cultures through education' submitted to the House of Lords' Justice and Home Affairs Committee has been cited in their report 'Better Prisons: Less Crime'. We are working hard to see that inclusive education is at the forefront of solutions to the prison crisis.
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What We Do | Philosophy in Prison Charity
Philosophy in Prison is a charity set up in 2018 to promote philosophical education in prisons and to explore the practical and philosophical principles that this involves.
https://www.philosophyinprison.com/prisoneducationpolicy
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Sam Freedman
about 1 month ago
The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
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Michael E. Mann
about 2 months ago
Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:
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Hetan Shah
about 2 months ago
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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The value of public R&D
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-value-of-public-rd/the-value-of-public-rd
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Anand Menon
about 1 month ago
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/01/more-than-50-child-asylum-seekers-still-missing-after-disappearing-from-kent-care
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Jolyon Maugham KC
2 months ago
Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.
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Victoria Coren Mitchell
2 months ago
Making topical comedy at bleak news times can be so tough but, in my book, it’s thank heavens for the return of Have I Got News For You, where Ian and Paul work magic to conjure laughs when there are none. Tonight with wonderful Miles Jupp and Sheila Hancock - and me trying to host. 9pm on BBC One.
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The News Agents
3 months ago
"Trump is using the full power of his office to punish people and organisations who criticise him. There's a word for that - authoritarian." If you think this is just about Jimmy Kimmel, you are missing the point.
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‘If you think this is about Kimmel being cancelled - you’re missing the point’ | The News Agents
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has been taken off-air “indefinitely” after making comments about Donald Trump’s response to the murder of Charlie Kirk. Is this about free speech? Cancel culture? Or is i...
https://www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/if-you-think-this-is-about-kimmel-being-cancelled-youre-missing-the-point-5HjdDDR_2/
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Guardian today, very pleased at the work of
philosophyinprison.com
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Equalising effect of philosophy in prisons | Letters
Letter: Mary Margaret McCabe says philosophy can be done just by conversation, to include those with high levels of education and those who have little
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/16/equalising-effect-of-philosophy-in-prisons?CMP=share_btn_url
3 months ago
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Trish Greenhalgh
3 months ago
Who's following the philosophy in prison debate? Readings and essays - or a levelling conversation?
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