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...

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław 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.

The White House could have—& should have—reformed 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.

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) www.gov.uk/government/p...

You’ve got to be kidding. The Nobel Peace Prize is not something to be regifted. Not a scented candle or a book you don’t fancy reading. If she doesn’t want the award, she should give it back and the committee can give it to a different deserving advocate for peace.

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

London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade

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

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

Listening to Donald Trump. Now my grasp of American history may be broad brush rather than detailed but I’m 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

I know so many cats called paczek.

I’ll never forget the look of hatred Nigel Farage had for me at school, simply for existing

His asylum application was approved by the current administration.

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...

Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour. archive.ph/RlXPj

‘It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain.’ That’s some weaselly way of saying that he rather likes the idea of racialised fear as an instrument of state.

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. 😮🫣😬😱 ~AA

It's not going away

At the other place, Farage’s supporters are guffawing and asking “Why now?” and I hate to say it, but they’re 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 it’s true, because it is bullshitty.

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...

🔴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 bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/s...

Labour peer Lord Dubs: "To use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly." www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...

I found some bits of the government’s immigration announcement confusing. Asylum support is already means-tested and not mandatory (see s95). It’s stopped very often for little reason. Asylum-seekers don’t have the right to work unless they specifically request and receive it …1/

Why stop at jewelry? Why not gold fillings? Jesus fucking Christ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I’m so bored with immigration grabbing all the headlines while this, surely , is the real issue. Poverty, housing, health, schooling… news.sky.com/story/inside...

‘Government sources said rules that mean most asylum seekers are not allowed to have jobs will not change.’ It’s absurd that the govt chooses to continue with a rule that puts asylum seekers in a situation of dependency, then attacks then for needing ‘handouts’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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 novaramedia.com/2022/03/18/b...

🚨🚨🚨 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. www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...

Lovely message from @neuroblastomauk.bsky.social thanking Alan Carr. Shared on their X. #CelebrityTraitors

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-...

👏 Today marks 75 years since the creation of the ECHR. We should celebrate the vision that Winston Churchill showed in recognising everyone’s 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

I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train

Minority representation on TV causes outrage Brilliant from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

'A gold mine for extortion and more stressful than the pandemic' @FionaBawdon talks to lawyers about the impact of the Legal Aid Agency’s catastrophic data breach – and their fears about what happens next. Read more👇

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?

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 www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Reform UK’s Danny Kruger is a liar, and is putting out dangerous language like this. There’s no evidence supporting this. Comments like this lead to at best division and at worst violence against Muslims.

Conclusion: leaving the ECHR wouldn’t change things much in immigration cases (but doesn’t mention UK would lose all credibility if we did) news.sky.com/story/inside...

‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south

Of course in French ‘terrible’ means actually really excellent. (And it’s nonsense about Sharia Law. Who’s ‘they’ anyway?) London is great - open, liberal, inclusive, cleaner

Unrecognisable.

A message to every Londoner, and anyone who talks our city down.

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...

If I comment on Melania’s 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: it’s bulletproof c: she’s communicating with someone - foreign power/foreign planet/ person holding the remote 1/2

I don’t 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 #march

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/

“Like drinking from polluted water” How misleading media coverage of immigration and the #ECHR has distorted public debate in the UK👇 🔗 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/its-dri... via @reutersinstitute.bsky.social

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 wasn’t true. No offence occurred in this instance.