I continue to be struck by how few Cabinet ministers and ex-ministers the impacts + implications of this complex 8-tier settlement policy - esp the sheer scale of Commonwealth voters who risk losing legal status in 2028. Is it remigration by stealth - or by mistake? ukandeu.ac.uk/unsettled-st...

I'd just add that key issue with care workers now is not visas, but Mahmood's "earned settlement" proposals whose main impact will be to expel care workers and their families who have been here for several years. Both Streeting and Burnham should make their positions on this clear.

Note this in particular- which is effectively saying ‘we’re consulting on the policy so haven’t worked it out yet but you should give us the power to implement it using a less scrutiny-intensive method down the track’. Which isn’t a good way to legislate. And not what secondary legislation is for

I haven’t reached an internal consensus on an u-16 ban yet but feel very strongly that 16-25 year olds are having both rights and responsibilities stripped from them and this is a Bad Thing.

Spoke to Isaac Chotiner at the New Yorker (and lived to tell the tale). www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

And when I say 'calmer', most people are still in their homes, afraid to go out, bars and clubs and shops and shows are closed. The city is a ghost town except for the fascists, the police and some angels doing angel things the internet doesn't need to know about

The family of the Belfast stabbing victim have released a statement saying - like the family of Henry Nowak last week - that the attack should not be used to "divide people or fuel hostility" They condemned disorder and praised the "valuable contribution" by migrants inews.co.uk/news/politic...

2026 marks 50 years since JCORE was founded and Parkes alumnus @josephfinlay.bsky.social has written the book to mark it. Join him and Lord Simon Woolley, Dawn Butler MP, Dr Edie Friedman, Rabbi David Mason at @jw3london.bsky.social on 17 June. Book here: hiasjcore.org/events/celeb...

I don't doubt they are sincere racists, but these people are also, without exception, grifters. Hate is monetised on X and Youtube, with an assist from traditional media, and the government does nothing.

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

4/5

www.lbc.co.uk/article/pala... @foxglovelegal.bsky.social's @dncampbell.bsky.social for @lbc.co.uk on SIT's report on Palantir and the NHS today. "A firm obsessed with dominance like Palantir shouldn’t be at the centre of our state"

Public health researchers and advocates are making a huge mistake by partnering with MAHA on this

Farage knew exactly what he was doing yesterday. June hit and the far-right needed an excuse to restart another summer of riots and violence that is becoming regular for the UK. Another grieving family manipulated. Absolutely disgusting.

💥 New DSIT report has recommended government cancel the NHS contract with Palantir and has said Britain's reliance on Palantir is an "unacceptable point of weakness". More here: news.sky.com/story/palant...

Not sure what the real high point of today was. Kemi suggesting that before 2020, if the police turned up to an emergency call and two people misled them, they would have gone “brown people must be lying” or Starmer’s visibly adrift home secretary failing to stand up for religious feeedom.

Saying that this incredibly long-standing and serious problem can be resolved through the tribunals/courts is nowhere near good enough.

If I’m understanding the Home Office’s trial age assessment tech, it gets people’s ages wrong by an *average* of 2.5-3 years, is inaccurate for the most crucial cohort (teenagers) and is worse in assessing women/girls and non-white people (umm…) but they’re going for it anyway, because computer

🚨 UNLAWFUL asylum accommodation policy ignored risks to torture survivors, court finds 🚨 Forcing survivors to share rooms with strangers does huge harm. It's vital these vulnerable groups are protected. But the reality is, no one seeking safety should be housed barracks or converted hotels. 🧵

A lot of things from this week have me thinking that too many people don’t take the downsides of fear seriously. The reason to be conscious of the risk of terrifying people isn’t that they don’t have any reason to be afraid. It’s that being too afraid to live your life _is harmful_ eventually.

#UK: Labour appears set to introduce new limits on children’s access to social media. But banning social media is not the answer. It risks undermining young people’s speech rights while failing to address the real issues. Read Index’s analysis ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/02/bann...

Reform are planning ICE-style ethnic cleansing, with no other precedent AFAIK in a peacetime democracy, tearing apart our country & probably causing mass civil unrest. You’d think our national broadcaster might give us a bit more analysis than just “2 fascists have pinsized disagreement”, but

A fascinating hangover of covid is that it has sort of removed “you can just ask people to do things” from the policy toolbox.

Deeply pathetic that BBC is reporting this as a Reform power struggle rather than explaining that Reform's policies would require deporting people -including pensioners - who have lived and worked here legally for decades. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"If the problem is that British people are leaving while non-white migrants are arriving, net migration is not the right measure... For those whose politics is increasingly about replacement, that is precisely the problem." ukandeu.ac.uk/race-and-spa...

Is there ever going to be a significant political force in the UK again actually arguing for personal freedom and civil liberties in any way? I don't agree with a SM ban, but that's not really my specific issue, but all of our mainstream politics is just endless bans and crackdowns.

I've been involved in plenty of government/regulator consultations where it's pretty clear they've already decided to do what they're consulting on, but usually they at least pretend otherwise.

The Times here describing Restore’s “deport, detain” line on immigration as “robust”. This is how this stuff gets further and further normalised, the ratchet cranking ever rightwards.

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Reprieve is today's featured BBC Radio 4 appeal charity. Writing the script was a fascinating challenge: tell a single death row story, broaden out to cover everything we do, within strict BBC constraints, in under four minutes. AA is an absolute pro - 90% of what you'll hear was her first take.

For me, the most important part of gender norm change is it is more effective to change the norms of people around the agent, than to target interventions at the agent themselves What we think others believe/expect shapes our actions more than our own beliefs blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

On Newsnight, fall in net migration was attributed "spectacular ... Shabana Mahmood at Home Office obviously making some real changes happen there" by Helen MacNamara, former dep Cabinet Secretary. Net migration data (Jan-Dec 2025) not impacted by Mahmood becoming Home Sec on 6th Sept 2025

Met & Palantir have their lines worked out: Palantir: “Not allowing the Metropolitan Police to have this software will give hostile states and criminals an advantage." Met: decision to veto the deal would give “hostile states & organised criminals” an advantage.' www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

🧵 1. We're challenging the Home Secretary's decision to reduce the duration of leave granted to refugees and those with humanitarian protection from five years to just 30 months. We are acting for a group of asylum seekers bringing a judicial review.

The latest Home Office statistics show that the asylum grant rate for Syrian nationals has dropped from 98% (y/e March 2025) to 9% (y/e March 2026)

Not sure this is a huge surprise, but would be good to be accurate about what’s being backed. It’s not just that they “double the length of time it takes for some people to achieve settled status from five years to 10” - for most people it will start at 15 years. For most refugees, it’s 20 years.

Just leaked: We've obtained one of the latest working documents of the deportation regulation (a.k.a. "returns regulation”), by the EU Parliament, the EU Council, and the EU Commission. From what we can tell so far, no improvements have been made, despite relentless campaigning.

Paywall, but it looks like the Archbishop of Canterbury has come out against Earned Settlement too

Hundreds of thousands of British schoolchildren, millions of ordinary people, feeling unsafe in central London. Thousands of families altering plans over the weekend to avoid hatred and threats in the city they call home

Reminder that those worst affected by our dismal immigration policies are all too often children, something which the government would prefer you to forget

This isn’t ’progressive’, it’s the same old rhetoric you’d find in any right-wing paper’s opinion section. And it gives an impression that the DWP are a soft touch rather than a bureaucracy capable of stunning cruelty and opacity.

One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘Your brain isn’t fully formed until you’re 25’: A neuroscientist demolishes the greatest mind myth www.sciencefocus.com... Dr Dean Burnett tackles a stubborn, and increasingly harmful, brain myth. For Science Focus Magazine. #Brains #Teens #Development #Autonomy

The UK is not ungovernable, and claiming that it is is a dereliction of responsibility. Government has serious deficiencies but we have also had a series of leaders who lack the skills to govern - my latest comment for @instituteforgovernment.org.uk www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/is-u...

New: Nearly 90% of conclusive grounds reconsiderations result in positive outcome and more UK referrals than ever — by Jasmine Quiller-Doust

The demand on doctors to declare a person 'fit' for immigration detention in Italy reveals a clinical paradox at the heart of the border regime. Read the latest blog post, on resisting the pathogenicity of immigration detention ⤵️ blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

🧵 1. The government's immigration legislation has been re-announced in the King's Speech. Very little is new, and much of what is proposed either doesn't need primary legislation or raises serious practical and fairness concerns.

The people who use these ponds want them to be trans-inclusive. Sex Matters want to tell them who they can and can not have at their own ponds. Time to see them for what they are: a bunch of mean-spirited curtain-twitching Mary Whitehouse busy-bodies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sheffield is ungovernable.