In London, hate will never win.

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

A lot of people in the mainstream media & political ecosystem on the right, probably don't know that support for Tommy Robinson has been flat for 10-15 years. His supporters are in an always-on online milleu who feel a revolution is breaking out, when he is actually flatlining.

This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!

"Save our kids"

Thanks for the many shares and warm responses to this piece today. I think we need to hear more from asylum seekers to counter the myths and lies being deliberately spread about them

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

Worth reading Smajo's full story. He knows what happens when neighbours turn on each other. hmd.org.uk/resource/sma...

And well done to Crystal Clean Windows who cleaned it for free "A huge thank you to Isaac Crystal Clean Windows York Limited. After this incident happened, he kindly came and cleaned our windows for free. We are truly touched by his kindness." www.crystalcleanwindowsyork.co.uk

New report 🚨 Our 2025 analysis shows the mounting impacts of the UK immigration system: over £870,000 cost, challenges to recruit and delays to life-saving cancer research. Read more: bit.ly/CRUK2025visasblog

I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up. Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.

I'm a legal refugee in Britain. So why am I always being treated like a criminal? | Ayman Alhussein

Using hotels for asylum accommodation serves no one - our medical teams see how they harm mental health ❌ But ‘alternative locations’ must not be prison-like camps. People seeking safety need communities to rebuild their lives.

Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns. They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings. That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.

Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects

Great piece by @francesryan.bsky.social which nails what’s particularly horrifying about the current outbreak of national racism: fascistic, white supremacist narratives have never gone away, but now they’re being endorsed, openly or through silence, by politicians from all the larger parties

🔴NEW🔴 On Saturday, the far right attempted to protest outside a hotel housing asylum seeking people. I spoke to people on both sides of the police barrier. What I found was a far right full of glee that it is winning Read now, on @opendemocracy.net www.opendemocracy.net/en/bristol-f...

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

Sometimes I feel a level of female rage that’s so visceral, it’s best left

Keeping Napier open is unnecessarily harmful and cruel. Military barracks are no place for people fleeing war and torture, many who will be granted asylum. Our work at Wethersfield shows these prison-like camps deepen trauma. Healing can only start with community-based, trauma-informed care.

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

Everyone wants a life that can move forward. But right now, thousands of people up and down the country are forced to wait 10 years for the right to permanently stay in the place they already call home. Scrap the Barriers. Join me and sign the petition now. act.praxis.org.uk/scrap-the-ba...

WAY TO GO SKEGNESS

BBC news seems to have adopted what I presume is the government’s distinction between those crossing in small boats and ‘genuine asylum seekers’. They should reconsider, not least given the proportion of the latter who have their asylum claims approved.

London is over

A very accurate description of how the UK's voting system works, by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social in the Guardian today. If we wouldn't accept this way of making decisions when going out with friends, why do we tolerate it when so much more is at stake? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you are not alarmed at the type of thing these people now feel 100% comfortable saying out loud that they would have been scared to type into a group chat 10 years ago for fear that anyone might ever see it, I don't know what to tell you.

This explains just why why increasing the wait for citizenship is so cruel and counterproductive. For people who may have already waited years in fear and uncertainty for an asylum decision, this extra wait is even more terrifying. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

I never understood how Nazi ideology took hold amongst previously respectable Germans; now, I’m learning how vulnerable we are to US citizens doing unimaginable things to their fellow citizens - in this case ICE agents. Hitler had SS colluders. Trump has ICE, DOGE, MAGA. www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Today marks two years of brutal war in Sudan, which has taken countless lives and put the future of children like Syed on hold. Read his story: www.safepassage.org.uk/syeds-story

Excellent thread.

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

Full page ad in today’s New York Times:

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Cutting the aid budget to play for defence feels like undercutting significant soft power in the hope of getting a defence spend Trump will like. Might be a necessary evil, but it’s an evil all the same: people make a terrible case for aid but it works in our self-interest. It’s not just altruism.

This remains a profoundly immoral and needlessly vindictive decision. It will gain no new supporters but is alienating countless sympathisers. They should reverse it now, before it does them even more damage.

Well this is entirely normal behaviour not at all fucked up. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

There is still time for the government to reverse this policy. It must do so, urgently. For its own good. For the principle of international law. And for the basic values it's supposed to stand for.

This should be changed asap. If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

This is pretty spot on by @labourlewis.bsky.social. As @zoejardiniere.bsky.social pointed out on LBC earlier, there is something very Trumpian, and just generally sickening, about effectively live streaming people in distress for the entertainment of racists. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

LOL, yep, all day every day

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This is important & necessary. I’d add only that a) It’s clear many of the political & media figures deliberately ignoring these facts are playing with the sort of fire we saw on our streets this summer & b) Laura Kuenssberg’s failure to point this out to Farage was an appalling dereliction of duty.

Important thread on the Home Office’s ongoing refusal to implement a firewall between the police and immigration enforcement, despite a wealth of evidence on its necessity and the serious consequences of continuing to pass on tape victims’ data

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.