Please be true. Release it on Bisexual Awareness Day and give us all free tickets to the screening 😁

Important, timely, analysis by @lgilbert.co debunking the commonly used line that "migrants are a burden". Shows that migrants are overwhelmingly bet fiscal contributors. Basically, you target migration, you crash the country.

"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency." New analysis by @lgilbert.co ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

This is why I say ICE enforcement is a mass disabling event Conditions like the ones described in this thread will cause disease, disability & death Randall Esquivel was healthy when ICE grabbed him He was in a persistent vegetative state when deported a few months later. We need transparency

Shocked, shocked I tell you* to find out that the Met is institutionally racist *Could not be less shocked if I tried. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a cult of personality. Even if all you cared about is shareholder value, Musk spent last 3 yrs torpedoing Tesla car sales, spurring lawsuits, pivoting to pipedream technologies, & ignoring all succession planning. Hero-worship is not a viable corporate strategy. www.ft.com/content/1062...

This is unhinged, even aside from cost. When people are seeking asylum they, for fairly obvious reasons, often can't stick around while claims are processed, all the while making it even more apparent that they are planning on fleeing, by repeated embassy visits. Disastrous on every level. #r4today

I think it's really worth remembering that for all the tub thumping about cracking down on asylum it has never been in the interest of nationalist politicians to reduce asylum by dealing with international human rights atrocities at their source.

The extortionate costs of visas, sometimes about ten times the actual processing costs, leave families ripped apart. While feeling waivers exist, they can be far too hard to access for many. We need a system which treats migrants with respect, not as magic money trees. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not only does the UK government waste vast sums of money on demonising those seeking asylum, now it appears that they are complicit in quite a number needing it in the first place. Choosing to save money over a genocide, again. #r4today www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

So basically paying employers to prevent people taking necessary time off for their health. What could possibly go wrong with that idea? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.

Sometimes think "yeah, I would love to be on the Traitors" and then remember that whether I was a faithful or traitor I'd be stuck around people all the time so would crumble in two days tops. #celebritytraitors.

Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire

It is no wonder that trans and non-binary individuals are leaving the US. I fear that the UK is not going to be too far behind. People should not be denied the right to identify as who they actually are, without facing discrimination and potential harassment for doing so. apnews.com/article/trum...

I know how they got to that point. Because we’re a few steps behind, living through the “getting to that point” right now in the UK.

Well, will you look at that completely expected piece of news. The very same people who are so quick to blame migrants for all the ills of the world, are the ones posing more of a threat. Watch likes of Goodwin try and explain this away and still blame migrants. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's almost as if you focus solely on "stopping small boats", instead of making it safer and simpler for people to seek asylum in the UK, along with protecting victims of gangs, that every piece of expert advice will be proven right and routes will just shift. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Someone is getting lots of cuddles with all the fireworks going off. Okay it's me, but Siyah is doing a good job of giving them.

Technically I don't think Superman needs to throw food, not even superfoods (heh), as he has enough other powers. This would be more the style of (Daredevil villain) Bullseye, who would have somehow found a way to make the sandwich lethal...

This afternoon an incredibly important principle is being debated in the House of Lords We know people die at our border & in our asylum system at a horrifying rate, but shockingly the govt does not record how many, who, or how. @asylummatters.bsky.social are campaigning to #KnowTheirNames

This really the cracking of speeches: a banger. Worth reading in full.

Labour's whole pitch at the moment is "better terrible than disastrous", and that isn't exactly a winning strategy when they could be positioning themselves to actually provide voters with a positive reason to support them. Without that many will vote for Lib Dem and Greens. 1/

I remain hopeful that the greatest obstacle to Reform ever getting into government is Reform itself. Yes, people vote differently between local and national elections, but at least they're now seeing how inept, and seemingly corrupt, Reform is, among other things. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It's obviously a bad thing if any prisoner is released by mistake, but why is it worse if it's an asylum-seeker? It seems just to be taken for granted now that someone is more dangerous because they're an asylum-seeker than because they're a criminal. Something very dangerous is building here.

Yes I am grumpy, and it is just me being grumpy, but I really, passionately, hate fireworks. In honour of November 5th though, here's my rocket, not a euphemism. *It's been a long day

Well, this is...not good. This looks like two prisoners were mistakenly released, so why the main focus on the immigration status of one, and not the utter cluster of the whole situation. The system "worked" as far as arrests go. Immigration status is irrelevant here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Yeah, slight issue with this. The individual in question made a claim that they were trafficked. That means they didn't pay up front. That means that payment is taken via long term exploitation via gangs, gangs which the Home Secretary just returned them to. Slow clap.

It is a low bar possibly, but seeing a politician win, especially a significant win, by galvanising disenfranchised voters on a platform of unity, compassion and hope, a platform which supported marginalised groups such as migrants and trans/non-binary individuals, feels pretty important right now.

No trans woman has ever told me I don't exist. Gender critical "feminists," though, have spent the last few years telling me *how* to be a woman. I'm more oppressed by transphobes than I am by trans people.

This goes past poor reporting into being wilfully misleading. Despite identifying exploitation, no mention of it as an issue, or the human trafficking often involved. Instead just uncritically repeating the misleading claim that "illegal working is a pull factor". 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Despite increasing "Trumpification" of UK right wing, you can't really base political predictions on USA. That said, when you look at gains being made Greens in context of Mamdani's win it does give a glimmer of hope that genuinely progressive ideas cut through. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sorry, but when did being a far right agitator get classed as a "protective belief", because that's all I can currently think a lot of people will have heard in this decision. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Samir Zitouni, 48, remains in critical condition after the LNER rail employee heroically risked his life to save others from the attempts at murder on the Peterborough/Huntingdon train news.sky.com/story/train-...

A District Judge has cleared Tommy Robinson on a terror charge because he found Robinson had a protected belief. How does that pass the 5th limb of the Grainger test? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Conflict zones can remain unsafe for many people who fled even after the conflict ends. Safety isn't suddenly created by a new government, especially one with the concerns related to it the new Syrian one has. For some people Syria may never be safe to return to. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Based on timeframes, chances proper assessment of risks to health and being trafficked being carried out with the "one in one out policy" are next to zero. Home Sec has already spoken about weakening modern slavery protections to facilitate this inhumane policy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Once again, a reminder that it is actually okay to speak ill of the dead in certain cases.

Global weakening of human rights protections, particularly driven by hostility towards marginalised groups, puts everyone at risk. When you start saying it is okay to reduce protections for one group you open the door for someone else to reduce them for yours. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

I regret to inform you it's now Week 2 of Reform-curious Labour MP Mike Tapp trying to soft launch his new slogan ("Firm, Fair, For Britain")

Human rights must not be used as a scapegoat to excuse continuing, and escalating, anti-migrant rhetoric and policies. The ECHR helps protect everyone. Leaving it, or weakening it, harms all of us. It must be protected rather than attacked. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I'm going with "a raging bin fire"

This shouldn't need pointing out, but immigration is not the cause of some arsehole attacking people with a knife. The, not insignificant, detail of said arsehole being born in UK aside. People claiming it is, e.g. Goodwin, Hannan et al, are showing themselves up for being ethno-nationalist racists.

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.

I strongly advise people to not pay attention to my feed for the rest of the day, as I am going to break my non-drinking. Three years ago we showed the need to protect unaccompanied children. We showed they were being trafficked. It shouldn't still be happening. Children going missing is not normal.

When children going missing from Home Office and local authority care was flagged couple of years back #r4today presenters uncritically repeated claims children were "voluntarily trafficked". It was an angle used by politicians, and still the idea of protecting kids is dismissed as a "pull factor"

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...

Trying to manifest some positive energy for Samhain, maybe a little late, before the rain ruins the fire. I am going to need a lot more sage based on....well everything

And yet they bang on about their "online safety bill" to "protect kids". Wheres the "protect kids" when it comes to kids seeking asylum?! Where is it when it comes to families with more than 2 kids?! The cuts in education support for disabled kids?!

Couple of years back I was working for an anti-child trafficking charity when a large number of children went missing. Nothing has changed. Nothing improved. High likelihood these children will be being trafficked right now because of failures of protection. 1/ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...