Which is actually what it does in Australia. Australia has very harsh rules on refugees in particular, but people continually fail to notice that Australia is a high immigration country. Australia actually currently has higher net migration than we do, with a much smaller population

Leeds, which is amusing given I've lived in Manchester for 7 or 8 years now.

If you need me in September I will be at the cinema, thank you.

👋 North of England awareness-raising activist here. Just a PSA, "Pr*fessional Northerner" is actually a deeply problematic term, rooted in centuries of infrastructure under-investment. Please can we think about the impact of our words on our latitudinally influenced community members? 🙄

OH MY GOD GUYS okay so priests who want back in have to find a bishop willing to vouch for them, swear fealty to Vatican II and then HAND-WRITE THE POPE AN APOLOGY LETTER (I gues so he knows they didn’t use AI? 😂) and are on probation for 1-3 years this is ten times spicier than I even thought

Oh come on now

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I will take six of those shirts

Delighted to hear that Lisa Nandy has been found alive and well bsky.app/profile/pete...

My polling card for the Greater Manchester mayoral by-election has come. Merely my third polling card of the year.

I really hate this cliché at this point because really the throughline of Labour thinking is incredibly different to New Labour at this point. The problem isn't Labour is stuck to 1990s thinking it's that Labour is barely thinking at all.

Right now Generallismo Burnham is putting together the greatest army of Oasis fans you've ever seen.

From the WhatsApps

That was like watching Uncut Gems.

Would be hilarious if DRC scored again tbf

The answer to @bouledenerfs.bsky.social question turns out to be 'yes'

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Replace 'Panama' with 'Doctor Congo'

In my soul I believe we are losing this game because the BBC coverage is so bad this year and therefore that this is fundamentally Lisa Nandy's fault.

I always look at the nationality of the ref and think "does that country hate us", and, because we are the Milwall of the world, the answer is always "yes"

Maybe the real coming home was the friends we made along the way.

DRC seem quite good at this "defence" thing, wonder if England should consider trying it

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We live in a country where a former refugee can be DOCTOR WHO. That make me proud to be British.

Imagine being mad that we live in a country in which a former refugee can rise to become Lord Mayor of their city. That makes me proud to be British, if anything.

Cons are +12 with Indian & -15 with south Asian Muslims; yet are here even with black + white voters Reform are here distinctly lower trust & support among minorities: -22/23 with black & Asian Muslim votes. -18 with Indians, -15 mixed

I think I actually hate this man more than I hate Trump, and that's really saying something

Nurse! Nurse!

I’m sorry, is JD Vance under the impression that the Nicene Creed is like… the only creedal statement in history??

"My God, that's incredible! What do you call that act?" "The Labour Party!"

'Student loans but for people awarded refugee status' is pitch perfect this government

Well unless your name is Nigel Farage...

If only we'd listened to that man, instead of exiling him to Argentina.

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AI companies starting to pass on the actual costs of AI to other companies. Other companies:

This makes me happy because Washington has finally embraced Balkan aesthetics. Every resident of Skopje sheds tears of joy at this abomination. Total North Macedonian cultural victory.

And so, Penelope Keith goes to her grave having never faced justice.

Yes saving that for conference

A lot of people don't know that Ed Miliband is actually a MP for the People's Democratic Party.

You could call it a third way, perhaps.

Sure would be embarrassing if I'd started the conflict lambasting the government for not joining in!

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I'm no football pundit, but as an England supporter I would like England to score some goals while preventing Panama from scoring any.