Academia, power, white men, merit, meritorious institutions, cover up through diminishing sexual assault, he’s a renowned classicist after all, media complicity — structure. Academia closes ranks. And of course we get read as the ‘haters’ because we bring race, gender, sexuality into everything.

YOU BROUGHT A HOME NEXT TO TRAFALGAR SQUARE. THAT IS NOT A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBOURHOOD. HEAVEN HAS BEEN THERE SINCE 1979 astonishing levels of Nimby

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

You can use this link from @refugeecouncil.bsky.social to write to your MP and ask them to add their name to EDM 2908 refugee-council.yourmovement.org/p/early-day-...

'we should all be able to celebrate...the flags that represent the nations of our union'. Is it too much to expect the Education Secretary to add 'we abhor racism and will do all we can to make sure all children, whatever their colour or creed, feel safe'? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.

This just isn't true. The 1951 convention requires state parties to facilitate the integration and naturalisation of refugees because the people who drafted it weren't moral vacuums or stupid enough to think that persecution that made people flee for their lives would magically go away in a year.

This looks like a lovely attempt to respond to current ugliness, with timeless gorgeousness. Please book and share. www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

As an ex-HO civil servant (of 30 years) I can’t emphasise how destructive these types of policies are and just how impractical they are to employ, especially as another ill-thought through idea is usually in the pipeline to supersede this one. Labour is just aping the Tories now and it’s grim.

Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.

So on one hand applying for asylum as a student is a safe and legal route but on the other (on the same day!) we must close the "loophole" that allows people to apply as students and then claim asylum.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... please under no circumstances arrive on our shores in search of the sanctuary we are commited to providing. Not by reuniting with your family, applying for a visa or getting in a small boat.

Just had to deal with an AI receptionist for a client, and what it appears to do is make me do all the work and make a phone call that would have taken 2 minutes take around 20

We have state systems that brutalise women every day. The UK Home Office, like ICE, is not a safeguarding institution but an engine of harm. The so-called “hostile environment” has traumatised, detained, and killed women, including survivors of sexual violence. 4/n

The answer to "why are Labour scaring away anyone left of centre with their mad plans?" Is almost always: Tony Blair.

1. "These women are insufficiently worried that federal agents may hurt them," is a revealing complaint. 2. Every woman I know is like a fucking deep space probe with senses ceaselessly attuned to detecting potential male violence. 3. Your lads stormed Congress confident no one would hurt them.

in case you didn’t know, a hunger striker detained in the UK without trial (the max CTL in the UK is 6 months, and it’s been 16) may die at any moment. An A&E doctor who volunteered at HMP Bronzefield was denied access, as well as MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social.

Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.

When Tommy Robinson is celebrating your policies it is time to take a long hard look in the mirror and then quit politics forever.

There should be a tax on ridiculously bloated road boats registered in urban areas, because (a) they cause obvious problems in such areas (b) they are bad for the environment (c) they are dangerous for children (d) they are awful, and driving them should be expensive and socially stigmatised.

Can someone please start a Parliamentary petition for MPs and political parties to stop using X.

Truly the amazing thing about this is that Tony Blair doesn't have the lowest approval rating at -100.

This is what Jenrick is encouraging in the UK. This aping oof MAGA by the Tories and RefUK must be foug tooth and nail. 1/2 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Everything about the government's new refugee announcements is stupid and cruel. Summed up by the idea that protection for those fleeing conflict, violence and personal attacks should be diminished. Less protection for those who need it is this government's motto across the board

Doing all this "Britain is when you say hello to your neighbours and eat oranges" shit while also announcing a crackdown on migrants. Fuck you.

Remember: the government was able to shut down the entire country and create sundry criminal offences during Covid, just by using statutory instruments. Do not underestimate what an illiberal government could do with these already existing wide legal powers.

Never, ever underestimate the short-term damage that fascists are capable of. When Idi Amin told thousands of Asians that they had just 90 days to leave Uganda, lots of people laughed. “He could never do that! That’s ridiculous.” But then the violence started. www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

British media - “Between 2012 and 2022 alone, trans-related articles went from just 60 to over 7,500. By 2022, there were at least 125 times more articles on trans people than in 2012. This has facilitated the rise of a far right narrative vis-a-vis ‘gender ideology’.”

Tomorrow morning unionised transport workers are protesting at the Home Office against the deportation of their colleagues. MIGRANT WORKERS KEEP OUR PUBLIC SERVICES RUNNING! If you're taking the day off to protest Donald Trump's visit - this would be a great place to start! 💪

is it only asylum seekers our Labour Prime Minister would object to living next to or would the sentiment apply to black and brown people in general? if merely the former, would he like to explain how he knows people he sees, say, in the street, actually are asylum seekers and not citizens?

In the year to June 2025, 92% of refugee family reunion visas were given to women and children. More than half went to children. Two thirds to people from Syria, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iran and Sudan. It helps integration and provides a safe route. Family reunion should be easier, not harder.

The atmosphere for refugees and asylum seekers is so hostile that for the first time ever at work, I have paused and thought "is this person I am dealing with being deliberately obstructive because they don't believe my client has a right to claim asylum"

'Is it time for the Government to drown innocent human beings for political advantage?' and other questions now apparently deemed acceptable in the British media

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

What I'm reading here is that if you want your concerns addressed you shouldn't throw paint on planes or march peacefully, you should set fire to things and riot.

"cost effective" should definitely not be the defining factor for the process for deciding if a vulnerable child is, in fact, a child: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A very powerful essay by Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov, arguing that: a) Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and b) denying this threatens to "undermine everything that Holocaust scholarship and commemoration have stood for." Do read the whole thing www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

It's important to acknowledge when we discuss why a minority of young men are attracted to the radical right that part of the answer is "they're obnoxious". It's not all about being dispossessed and left behind it's also twats.

As an immigrant to the UK, I'm hurt and worried beyond what I can put into words right now.

Easter crackers can actually get in the bin.

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

At a STADIUM. Tell me again about how allegations of rape and sexual abuse ruin men's careers?

Activism is about listening and experimentation. You have to try things, see if they work, and then double down on the stuff that's working. You learn by doing it. There is no "one cool trick to overthrow fascism and bring about utopia." Don't believe anyone who claims to have all the answers.

One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.

If you have witnessed or experienced an immigration raid since July 2024, pls get in touch anonymously by emailing [email protected], sending a Whatsapp/Signal message to 07534 488696, or by filling in our reporting tool at www.raids.migrantsrights.org.uk Please get in touch by 28 March.

“Contrarian thinkers” will be the death of us. Serious action on the biggest challenges of our time delayed for years because people with huge media platforms were “just asking questions”: “Is that trans person really human?” “Is that right arm really that salute?” “Is that iceberg really melting?”

Conspiracists in Nigeria have enjoyed very much US Congressman Scott Perry's allegations that USAID was financing Boko Haram. Sahel military regimes love this theory, too, and the story has eventually been picked and presented as "look, even America says it, our suspicion is vindicated!" 1/

Weird how this wasn't the example of restrictions on free speech highlighted by JD Vance, isn't it? Actual, factual restrictions on talking about Israel in the context of international law.

Share this incredibly useful guide from @right-to-remain.bsky.social with everyone you can. Knowing your rights, and how to protect others, is as important as ever as the Labour Government copies the hostile, anti-migrant tactics of the previous one.