We all know the criminal justice system is on its knees. If prisons are releasing people *by mistake*, then THIS is the problem. Precisely where those people were born, what colour skin they have or their exact immigration status is not.

Gee Wes. If only you could do something about this. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

No it's fine I've just got something in my eye dw

1/2 Also, notice how the discourse is shifting on how "illegal migrants" haven't integrated (largely related to narratives about them coming from predominantly Arab/Muslim countries) to people from the Caribbean not integrating The Caribbean is overwhelmingly Christian, the idea that Caribbean...

There's not long to go now until our important event in London about the contribution migrants make to our NHS. Hear exciting speakers like @zackpolanski.bsky.social & @zarahsultana.bsky.social as well as NHS staff themselves. Don't miss out - get your tickets here: bit.ly/MigrantsNotT...

The reality for children and families living in deep poverty while receiving Home Office Asylum Support gets little attention. My article for @cpaguk.bsky.social Poverty Journal - 'Learning is an essential need' - looks at what this means for children's education cpag.org.uk/news/learnin...

"I think it's very important that whatever our policy on migration or illegal migration that children don't suffer as a result" - Lord Hanson just now in House of Lords in answer to question from Baroness Lister of Burtersett about poverty amongst migrant children. parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

Got a lot of “wow, this is nuts!“ from Tory MPs but also an engagingly snotty “why are you only writing about this now?” from a senior Conservative - a reasonable question from *Labour or the Lib Dems* but “why have you only just now noticed how nuts we are?”…what?

Yeah. In some ways we’ve reverted back to an earlier period, in that we did a news story on it, which I read, but as I say in truth I just went “oh, that’s nuts”, and did not register that it was “literally do a partition sized population move” nuts.

Here this all is as a story. The Conservatives said they would provide clarity, but they have not as yet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Has anyone told them this is exactly what their white paper is going to do? Maybe not on a blanket basis, but to anyone who can’t meet their new criteria for “contribution” and cant face a life of indefinite precariousness in the UK.

For years, there's been a massive over-emphasis on food miles, and a massive under-emphasis on food type. By far and away the best dietary decision you can make, for environmental, humanitarian and public health purposes, is to cut out animal products.

“Culturally coherent” is not fooling anyone Katie. We all know you mean white.

"There is no universe in which Sam Ashworth-Hayes – or any of Britain’s array of overpaid columnists, commentators and ideological wonks – is more valuable to this country than a care worker" I wrote for @samfr.bsky.social's Substack on benefits and "contribution" samf.substack.com/p/the-someth...

⚠️ Big changes coming to settlement & citizenship rules @praxisprojects.bsky.social are collecting views of people likely to be affected (because 6 months on, the promised govt consultation is nowhere to be seen). It should only take 7 minutes. Take part now 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJ92XKF

Labour's proposed changes to settlement pathways could trap another 1.7 million people in a decade of instability and fear. Email your MP today to ask them to join our parliamentary event on the 20th October sharing the impact of these policies. act.praxis.org.uk/email-your-m...

Edtech is canceral (prison) tech example 56489. The only job this is preparing children for is a zero hours Amazon warehouse job where they will be timed and filmed at all times.

You can read Nadine's story here: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025... Raf's story is here: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025... And Rosie's story is here: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

I'm glad the government will not introduce employment tribunal fees, but it's not true that "everyone, no matter their income" can get "access to justice" under the current system. The barriers are endless & if you overcome them & win, you still might not even get the money you are owed

EXCLUSIVE: Over 800 NHS workers have signed our letter with Medact, saying the “already strained NHS would crumble under the pressure” of Reform’s proposal to scrap Indefinite Leave to Remain and Labour’s planned restrictions on migrant workers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies. Reform says something unhinged ⬇️ Labour counters with their own unhinged policy ⬇️ Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged ⬇️ Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response ⬇️ And repeat...🔁

This is exactly the point. Right now govt is trying to stop people who've been here for years from settling - moving the goal posts so people can't settle for much longer, or even at all. Who's next? Naturalised citizens?

Health care is just one sector out of many that could face crisis because of this government's ludicrous proposals to make permanent settlement harder (for some impossible) to get in the UK. Why would ppl want to build a life here to be treated like this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“This is my home. I'm raising my three-year-old, I'm looking for a school for her, and now I'm more worried because she's obviously my skin colour, and I'm worried about her safety. I'm worried about my safety." Nish, Youth Organiser at Praxis www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

I would like a day off please www.bbc.com/news/article...

Getting excited about Autumn Conference in Bournemouth.. we have organised an important and timely fringe event on Saturday with @praxisprojects.bsky.social and @migrantvoice.bsky.social chaired by @carladenyer.bsky.social Come and say hello 👋 migration.greenparty.org.uk/autumn-confe...

🚨 The Government wants to crash the economy. On the very same day the Prime Minister finally distanced himself from Reform UK’s policies, his own Home Secretary announced proposals that would create a two-tier society.

This is the soundtrack to Labour Party conference this year

The kinds of circs where you can get benefits (with difficulty) when on a visa with no recourse to public funds are eg. fleeing your home because of domestic abuse or your spouse dying. So this means brutalising and trying to deport people who have already had the worst things happen to them.

Our fringe event at the Labour Party conference, “Challenging Authoritarianism” is underway! Follow along below for more ⬇️

If she does this, the gap between her policy and Farage's will narrow considerably. Retrospective legislation is the choice of tinpot dictators and intellectual vegetables. It means no-one could take Britain's word seriously.

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

So now we know that this government are actually totally fine with some people never being able to get ILR. Fine with people living years, decades even, in a state of total insecurity, paying thousands to the Home Office every few years, never able to belong here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Convince me that this is any different from what Reform proposed on Monday. Okay so they’re not going to deport people but this will make it impossible for millions of people to ever become citizens of this country.

*wanking motion*

It’s a Jurassic Park and dinosaur top trumps kinda night in this house 🦕

Starmer couldn't have made more of a hash of this if he'd tried. By pushing comms on id cards specifically as an anti-immigration policy he loses progressives who may support id cards in general, and by making them mandatory he loses those, like many on the right, who oppose wider state interference

If only they could come up with something that would actually make people’s lives better, instead of this. Then they might not be haemorrhaging votes all over the place.

The scandal of using asylum seekers as cover to roll out digital IDs This is yet another policy disaster from Keir Starmer and Labour, we can just sit back and watch it unravel itself over the upcoming months

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Not true, and once they’ve spaffed billions up the wall on rolling it out, everyone sees it’s made no difference and govt ineptitude in managing it has been fully revealed, it will be too late

Ask an immigrant with indefinite leave to remain how easy it is to sort out ID when getting a new job *right now*. This is a total disconnect from reality, racist, and stupid.

Sure, let’s collate every member of the public’s personal and private information into one giant database right before handing whole swathes of the state over to multinational corporations using an emergent technology with numerous security issues

If I was a Labour politician who wanted to design a better right to work scheme, I'd (a) start by cracking down on employers who transfer the risk to their workers, (b) work with the unions to design a scheme that puts workers' rights front and centre, and (c) phase roll-out, like digital switchover

This is the answer to a question literally nobody asked. Migrants *already* have to use a digital visa to prove their rights - the roll out of which has been beset by system outages & errors that don’t exactly build confidence in govt tech capability. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Amongst pro-migration voters - i.e. Labour's base last year and the easiest votes to recover in future - support for this policy is...0%. Nil. Nada. Zip. Zero. Goals don't come more open than this. Labour should be attacking this proposal at every opportunity.

Discussion on #radio4 today about what asylum hotels are “really” like is stereotype bingo. Apparently, feckless asylum seekers are: - pumping out babies to stay here - travelling everywhere by taxi - working to send money home or pay off smugglers Not a smidge of context

So when Farage deports my husband, is he going to have to take my dual-national kids too? Or will they be allowed to stay? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As well as the fantasy £234 bn, journalists should also be clear Farage's claims most new migrants don't work, and those who do are on low wages, are entirely false. In fact, 1.8 million recent migrants are on payrolls (others will be self employed). migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

Putting all this together, @lgilbert.co find the following. It's not that Farage is (just) exaggerating/overstating - he is simply lying about migrants, jobs, wages and benefits. Media should be very clear about this. www.laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recent...