Don't miss this unbelievably brilliant movie! "Everybody to Kenmure Street" - how a diverse community spent a whole day blocking an immigration raid in Glasgow, causing the Home Office to eventually free the men in the van (a humiliation for Priti Patel). Trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOY5...

A lovely piece about a lovely idea - do try and see the #Bibbystockholm "Bibby Boys" exhibition, in Brixton, if you can. By Diane Taylor at the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

It would seem that refugees who came here on resettlement routes WILL get ILR/settled status. Resettled citizens apparently won't be getting "the letter".

The boss of Corporate Travel Management, an Australian company which inexplicably got the Home Office contract to manage the #BibbyStockholm, has resigned - after overcharging British taxpayers to the tune of £80million. archive.ph/PSPol www.thetimes.com/business/com...

Fabulous new partnership between Square and The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network @wearetern.bsky.social - for all kinds of support in helping refugees set up businesses in the UK (because they're twice as like to be unemployed). www.restaurantonline.co.uk/Article/2026...

We had the honour of hosting these 2 guys overnight in Ripon as they walk Dover-John O'Groats to raise money to build a primary school for South Sudanese refugees in Chad. They're walking 12 hours a day in the freezing cold because they care so much. Are you able to donate? gofund.me/68bc429ab

I was only thinking yesterday that we all say what we don't want but how often do we actually have a coherent plan for what we DO want. Here it is!

Letters are going out to Syrians with paused applications for ILTR. Doesn't seem to be about employment/volunterring, only whether or not safe to go back. Letters written in typically complex English - even I as (native speaker) having to keep re-reading paras freemovement.org.uk/home-office-...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Last month Iran deported 750,000 (!) Afghans & said it will deport 4 million remaining undocumented Afghans (many born in Iran and never even been to Afghanistan). The UN can only assist 10% of returnees. Dumped into poverty and female hopelessness. Observer: newsroom.observer.co.uk/cr/AQjcjBUQx...

Horrifying story of arriving in the USA - having scrubbed his phone - but US officials had already viewed all his socials AHEAD of his flight. Detained and grilled for 12 hours due to his posts about the protests at Columbia University. Also quizzed re Gaza views. www.instagram.com/reel/DK9E7tD...

I am utterly gripped not only by the Salt Path débacle, as brilliantly investigated by Chloe Hadjimatheou @chloehadj.bsky.social for @theobserveruk.bsky.social, but by JUST HOW MUCH the path of the story wanders off the path of truth. Surely @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social MUST withdraw this fable?

The (abandoned) plan to use RAF Scampton as an asylum centre cost the taxpayer just under £50m. The cost to society was incalculable. www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...

The National Crime Agency report on serious and organised crime in 2024 points out the connection between gangs & crime and far-right ideologies and affiliations - essentially the dates given refer to riots after the Southport murders. Report: www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/nsa-overview...

So it has come to this: I just asked AI about the effects of AI on AI in the workplace. Not sure who was more confused - me or ChatGPT. Anyway, it gave me a recipe for focaccia. I'll let you know how it comes out.

Absolutely hysterical piece on Greg Wallace from Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social in the Times. The best piece of life advice I can give you is to go read it. Right now. Here archive.ph/7iQMf

From Yoel Noorali at the @observeruk.bsky.social: beautifully written, laugh-out-loud existentialism - the art of not doing, but being. observer.co.uk/culture/film...

Well, well, well. And I should think so too - it was always very sketchy where that money was being spent. #BibbyStockholm www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2530866...

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OUTSTANDING investigative work by Chloe Hadjimatheou @chloehadj.bsky.social of @observeruk.bsky.social blowing up the "ommissions & commissions" (deceptions) in the story of the books/movie of #TheSaltPath by Raynor Winn (Sally Walker). @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social may have some explaining to do...?

The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN) is hiring a communications manager! Could that be you? www.linkedin.com/posts/wearet...

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Anna Foster OUTSTANDING against Sam Lundberg - Trump apologist re the LA protests - on Radio 4 Today this morning

WANTED: Chaplain for Wethersfield Asylum Reception Centre An essential role for this difficult site. Funded by Chelmsford Diocese Mission Opportunities Fund. www.chelmsford.anglican.org/vacancies/ch...

If you voted Labour in the last general election, email the secretary of your local Labour Party Tell them what you think - and whether you'll ever vote for them again. Let them understand the scale of the betrayal.

Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

From Sensemaker at theobserveruk.bsky.social

Thats quite the typo to email me, @nationaltrust.org.uk! Made my eyes twitch.

Love street food & microbreweries? Want to support refugees starting new businesses? Join the Food Power Party 2025 hosted by @wearetern.bsky.social Tickets £16 for 3 dishes + a craft beer/soft drink, and give feedback to the entrepreneurs! London SE27, near Crystal Palace overground station

Love street food & microbreweries? Want to support refugees starting new businesses? Join the Food Power Party 2025 hosted by @wearetern.bsky.social Tickets £16 for 3 dishes + a craft beer/soft drink, and give feedback to the entrepreneurs! London SE27, near Crystal Palace overground station

The world needs more @[email protected] - who has just ended Canada's alliance with the USA x.com/allenanalysi...

“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”

Peter Hesgeth, US defense sec, and Mike Waltz, nat security adviser, included The Atlantic's editor in chief @JeffreyGoldberg in a Signal group about plans to bomb Yemen (!!!). Besides the stupidly, & hoo-rah tone, here's what they think of European allies. Story: www.instagram.com/p/DHmhIzaB6dz

AMAZING NEWS 🚨 Napier Barracks to close - "The news is buried in a Home Office document uploaded to parliament’s cross-party home affairs committee", according to @diane-writer10.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We’re only two months in, & they’re cancelling research into pediatric brain cancer. They’re deporting US kids with brain cancer. They’re putting millions at risk of malaria, TB, & polio. I for one will never forgive or forget those who said ‘it won’t be that bad’. 😡

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

The Home Office decided RAF Scampton was a waste of money. So it wasted more money protecting it.

DOGE is going well, then. "US government spending rose to a record $603 billion," according to @tortoisemedia.bsky.social

2 weeks ago I paid £5 to subscribe to "How to Survive the Broligarchy" by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and I've only received one article. Other news outlets' daily newsletters are free. Should I expect more? With "Over 62,000 subscribers", that's min £310,000 a year...! Come on Carole... be fair

This is already proving staggering and I'm only on Chapter 1

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On @BBCr4today just now, Matt Schlapp (chair of the American Conservative Union) said Zelenskyy should be "kicked out on his camo-clad butt". He also told Nick Robinson that he should learn history.

We have to get serious That means organising our resistance to the politics of appeasement. JOIN US on Thursday 💪💪💪