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Asylum, human rights and civil liberties lawyer
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Anne Applebaum
4 days ago
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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āDonāt go to the US ā not with Trump in chargeā: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, āIf it can happen to me, i...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Adam Schwarz
10 days ago
Polish Foreign Minister RadosÅaw Sikorski just schooled Czech Deputy Prime Minister Petr Macinka into accepting that the European Union operates as a democracy. Populists have nowhere to hide when met with hard facts. An extraordinary exchange. Well worth a watch.
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Michael Clemens
12 days ago
The White House could haveā& should haveāreformed USAID. It chose instead to obliterate the agency, causing deaths all over the world. Now we know what happened to the Congressionally-mandated funding for USAID. Ending our rule of law will harm all Americans, on the Right & Left.
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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-uses-usaid-funds-budget-director-voughts-security-documents-show-2026-02-13/
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
28 days ago
Rwanda's £290 million was about 40% of £715 million spent directly on the failed UK/Rwanda policy. (There were much higher costs of associated policies, esp hundreds of millions spent on hotel accomodation, with claims not being processed at all, to wait for Rwanda deal)
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Youāve got to be kidding. The Nobel Peace Prize is not something to be regifted. Not a scented candle or a book you donāt fancy reading. If she doesnāt want the award, she should give it back and the committee can give it to a different deserving advocate for peace.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
about 1 month ago
Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45
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The Guardian
about 1 month ago
Londonās homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade
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Londonās homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade
Sadiq Khan says āpublic healthā approach has made the capital one of the safest cities in the western world Londonās murder rate has dropped to its lowest in more than a decade with police in the capital and the mayor saying it is now one of the safest cities in the western world. The figures come as those on the radical right criticise the city for having a crime problem, hoping to gain politically from such claims being believed. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jan/12/london-homicide-rate-drops-to-lowest-in-more-than-a-decade?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Zoe Gardner
about 1 month ago
The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners. Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night. The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee.
#r4today
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
about 1 month ago
These are not marginal cases. There is a 95-97% chance of the platform ignoring and indeed actively protecting sustained racist harassment. We have the PM and Cabinet ministers wondering out loud about the 'racism of the 1970s' yet have not joined the dots to this company protecting this
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Listening to Donald Trump. Now my grasp of American history may be broad brush rather than detailed but Iām pretty sure that a nation (the US) which has existed for less than 250 years could not have had boats in Greenland 300 years ago
#Greenland
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I know so many cats called paczek.
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The Guardian
3 months ago
Iāll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
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Iāll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing
The Reform UK leader doubts people can recall their abuse from years ago. Iāve never forgotten his ā it felt malicious
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/05/ill-never-forget-the-look-of-hatred-nigel-farage-had-for-me-at-school-simply-because-of-how-i-looked?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1764957957
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KDššššŗšø
3 months ago
His asylum application was approved by the current administration.
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The Secret Barrister
3 months ago
Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7vdvrnnvzo
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Jonathan Portes
3 months ago
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
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Andrew McRae
3 months ago
āIt is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain.ā Thatās some weaselly way of saying that he rather likes the idea of racialised fear as an instrument of state.
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Best for Britain
3 months ago
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils? It was years ago. Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils? Not in a hurtful way. Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils? Not with intent. Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils? Not genuine abuse. š®š«£š¬š± ~AA
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Otto English
3 months ago
It's not going away
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flyingrodent
3 months ago
At the other place, Farageās supporters are guffawing and asking āWhy now?ā and I hate to say it, but theyāre not wrong to ask. Why now indeed? Why not a decade ago, when all this was every bit as obvious as it is today? It looks and smells bullshitty even though itās true, because it is bullshitty.
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Colin Murray
3 months ago
Great post from Kirsty Hughes on Labour's flailing efforts towards a statutory redefinition of the meaning of family rights for immigration purposes:
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/11/19/k...
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Byline Times
3 months ago
š“Shabana Mahmoodās Asylum Plans Will Put Human Trafficking Victims at Risk, Warn Anti-Slavery Groups Leading anti-slavery organisations have told Byline Times that the new measures could allow trafficking and forced labour to thrive
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Shabana Mahmood's Asylum Plans Will Put Human Trafficking Victims at Risk, Warn Anti-Slavery Groups
Leading anti-slavery organisations have told Byline Times that the new measures could allow trafficking and forced labour to thrive
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/shabana-mahmoods-asylum-plans-will-put-human-trafficking-victims-at-risk-warn-anti-slavery-groups/
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Kevin Schofield
3 months ago
Labour peer Lord Dubs: "To use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. Iām lost for words, frankly."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
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Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-peer-who-fled-the-nazis-condemns-his-partys-immigration-crackdown_uk_691c2f17e4b0414d84d7403a
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I found some bits of the governmentās immigration announcement confusing. Asylum support is already means-tested and not mandatory (see s95). Itās stopped very often for little reason. Asylum-seekers donāt have the right to work unless they specifically request and receive it ā¦1/
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Dimi Reider
3 months ago
Why stop at jewelry? Why not gold fillings? Jesus fucking Christ
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Asylum seekersā jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/17/refugees-jewellery-asylum-home-office
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Iām so bored with immigration grabbing all the headlines while this, surely , is the real issue. Poverty, housing, health, schoolingā¦
news.sky.com/story/inside...
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Inside the town where 6 out of 7 children grow up in poverty - and live in fear of homelessness
As ministers prepare to act on child poverty, families in the area are backing calls for the two-child cap on benefits to be scrapped, and even local children say they are worried about becoming homel...
https://news.sky.com/story/inside-the-town-where-6-out-of-7-children-grow-up-in-poverty-and-live-in-fear-of-homelessness-13470171
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Natalie Sedacca
3 months ago
āGovernment sources said rules that mean most asylum seekers are not allowed to have jobs will not change.ā Itās absurd that the govt chooses to continue with a rule that puts asylum seekers in a situation of dependency, then attacks then for needing āhandoutsā
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UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ādiscretionaryā
Home secretary expected to change system to deny help to those who can work or who have assets
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/15/uk-government-set-to-make-support-for-asylum-seekers-discretionary
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Dan Sohege
3 months ago
This idea that the UK is "excessively generous" is a flat out lie. Countries such as France have far higher support for this seeking asylum for example. It's a myth used to try and defend the indefensible. Britain has never been welcoming, it has only got more hostile
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Britain Has Never Been Welcoming to Refugees | Novara Media
From Russia's war with Ukraine to the second world war, the nostalgic myth of Britain being welcoming to refugees is exactly that; a myth. Daniel Sohege explains.
https://novaramedia.com/2022/03/18/britain-has-never-been-welcoming-to-refugees/
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RAMFEL š§”
4 months ago
šØšØšØ Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today. These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof. Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life. More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
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Asylum Hotels Report
Our new report, Profiting from People: Inside the UKās Asylum Hotels , exposes the true horrors that refugees face whilst housed for years on end in asylum hotels. Weāve long known this, and now...
https://www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotels-report.html
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Madeleine Sugden
4 months ago
Lovely message from
@neuroblastomauk.bsky.social
thanking Alan Carr. Shared on their X.
#CelebrityTraitors
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Ian Dunt
4 months ago
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487#
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East Anglia Bylines
4 months ago
š Today marks 75 years since the creation of the ECHR. We should celebrate the vision that Winston Churchill showed in recognising everyoneās human rights. But there are now calls for the UK to leave ECHR. As with Brexit, leaving would strip all of us of fundamental rights. The Bear explains
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Leaving the ECHR wonāt āTake Back Controlā ā it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different ā without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/justice/leaving-the-echr-wont-take-back-control-it-will-hand-your-rights-to-politicians/
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Larry the Cat
4 months ago
I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train
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Central Bylines
4 months ago
Minority representation on TV causes outrage Brilliant from
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Legal Action Group
4 months ago
'A gold mine for extortion and more stressful than the pandemic' @FionaBawdon talks to lawyers about the impact of the Legal Aid Agencyās catastrophic data breach ā and their fears about what happens next. Read moreš
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Waiting for āthe monster around the cornerā
Fiona Bawdon talks to lawyers about the impact of the Legal Aid Agencyās catastrophic data breach ā and their fears about what happens next.
https://www.lag.org.uk/article/217315/waiting-for-the-monster-around-the-corner-
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Prem Sikka
4 months ago
Tory MP Katie Lam demands that legally settled families be deported. Barely concealed racism as Tories copy Reform. What next - special badges and camps for minorities. A line in political discourse has been crossed. Will the next road to Auschwitz and Treblinka go through Clacton?
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Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK āculturally coherentā and that a large number of people āneed to go homeā
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/20/tory-mp-criticised-after-demanding-legally-settled-families-be-deported
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Chris Giles
4 months ago
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column
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Otto English
5 months ago
Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election. To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.
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Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns
The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nigel-farage-earns-over-1-36036165
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Reform Party UK Exposed
5 months ago
Reform UKās Danny Kruger is a liar, and is putting out dangerous language like this. Thereās no evidence supporting this. Comments like this lead to at best division and at worst violence against Muslims.
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Conclusion: leaving the ECHR wouldnāt change things much in immigration cases (but doesnāt mention UK would lose all credibility if we did)
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Inside the courts where migrants appeal removal from Britain - amid clamour to leave ECHR
Sky News has been to an immigration court appeal to see how the European Convention on Human Rights is being used in legal arguments by migrants to remain in Britain, amid calls for the UK to withdraw...
https://news.sky.com/story/inside-the-courts-where-migrants-appeal-removal-from-britain-amid-clamour-to-leave-echr-13438679
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The Guardian
5 months ago
āWe are at our limitā: Gazaās last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south
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āWe are at our limitā: Gazaās last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south
āNot enough of anythingā, says surgeon, as Israelās assault forces injured, sick and hungry people to leave Gaza City The few remaining hospitals and clinics in central and southern Gaza are being overwhelmed by a ātsunamiā of injured and sick patients fleeing a new Israeli offensive in the north of the devastated territory, medics say. At both Nasser medical complex, in the southern city of Khan Younis, and field hospitals in al-Muwasi, the coastal āhumanitarian zoneā designated by Israel, staff are struggling to cope with large numbers of new arrivals forced out of Gaza City in the north of the devastated Palestinian territory. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/24/remaining-hospitals-gaza-overwhelmed-by-tsunami-of-patients?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Of course in French āterribleā means actually really excellent. (And itās nonsense about Sharia Law. Whoās ātheyā anyway?) London is great - open, liberal, inclusive, cleaner
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Larry the Cat
5 months ago
Unrecognisable.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
5 months ago
A message to every Londoner, and anyone who talks our city down.
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Jolyon Maugham KC
5 months ago
This is misinformation, pure and simple, from Shabana Mahmood. To grant the injunction the judge had to decide whether the claim was vexatious and he decided that it wasn't.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Shabana Mahmood accuses asylum seekers of making āvexatious, last-minute claimsā
Home Office says it will review modern slavery laws to save PMās āone in, one outā returns deal with France
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/17/shabana-mahmood-accuses-asylum-seekers-of-making-vexatious-last-minute-claims?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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If I comment on Melaniaās hat, will I be arrested for malicious communications? I can only think of 3 reasons for it: a: no time to get eyebrows done b: itās bulletproof c: sheās communicating with someone - foreign power/foreign planet/ person holding the remote 1/2
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I donāt understand the mass reporting of the right wing march in London today. 100k people? And? Remember: 100k people were at Trans+Pride in July 500k were at the Palestine march in May 1m marched against Brexit in 2019 1m marched for Stop the War in 2003 1.5m were at London Pride in July
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Alex Andreou
6 months ago
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
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Andrew Cutting
6 months ago
āLike drinking from polluted waterā How misleading media coverage of immigration and the
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reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/its-dri...
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āItās like drinking from polluted waterā: How the UK media gets immigration coverage wrong and how to fix it
In the midst of bubbling unrest around immigration in the UK, some voices are calling for the country to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). These calls often appear to be ro...
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/its-drinking-polluted-water-how-uk-media-gets-immigration-coverage-wrong-and-how-fix-it
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Full Fact
6 months ago
Thousands of people have shared a clip with false claims that the police caught two migrants kidnapping a child in Dublin. But the police confirmed this wasnāt true. No offence occurred in this instance.
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Police say no offence committed in relation to āDublin kidnappingā clip ā Full Fact
Thousands of people have shared this clip with false claims it shows a child being kidnapped by two migrants.
https://fullfact.org/immigration/police-say-no-offence-committed-in-relation-to-dublin-kidnapping-clip/
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