One of the sad things that the poisonous anti-migrant rhetoric has produced is even more difficulty in having honest mainstream conversations about culture, identity, self-actualisation and the intersection of patriarchy with racism, leading to even more silencing of women in particular. Really sad.

A sad aspect of the 21st century is that it is too much to ask for the truth ... from people, corporations, or political leaders ... we now live in the world of the lie ... and those behind them gleefully brag about their rights to continue doing so ... it is a dystopic world.

Does he need another full state visit with trumpets and horses every three months to keep him sweet?- as.ft.com/r/190cffd4-1...

People who rant about “globalists” are using bigoted language that was invented as a antisemitic trope.

The result, broadly speaking, is wealthy white people pointing the finger at much poorer Black and Brown people and saying, “You're the problem.” It's more than a distraction, it's a grim and sometimes racist alternative to effective action. It’s an excuse for *inaction*. 12/13

Can we go back to responding to racism and antisemitism with disgust and opprobrium please?

Which is the most important aspect of freeze 🍑? - the right to speak hatefully to fellow citizens, or - the right to speak critically of the government?

So what if they weaken ECHR human rights protections? So what if they interpret protection from torture differently? Will that improve services? Help the NHS? Bring better food, air & education? Eradicate poverty? Crushing rights is the most destructive distraction from the wrongs that need fixing.

Yeah, they’re given far too much slack here They are actively and enthusiastically doing terrible things. No need for Reform to win when Labour are happy to deliver their agenda

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

Spot on. That's why it was so disgusting and cynical of the Leave campaigns in the UK to use the symbols and evocations of WWII in their campaigning.

“Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a louder voice in politics. We need a cap on how much any person can donate, so we all have the same say. Add your name to demand change.” And please share widely action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...

Johnson demonstrated it, Starmer confirmed it. Politicians shouldn't lie either to Parliament or to the public. Where are we headed if it's ever acceptable for them to be any less honest inside or outside the House?

The baroque corruption schemes playing out in America and Russia completely outclass the kickback scandal in Ukraine. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The entire thing is a house of cards based on “but we like being racist”

Funding/support from American oligarchs is a FAR more significant threat to British democracy than that from the Kremlin, which has a. a fraction of their cash and b. approximately zero popularity.

@electoralreform.bsky.social are running a survey on a cap on donations. Good. But no option for a cap at £0. I might be an extremist on this, but imo parties should survive on membership subs alone. Engage/recruit more, cut coat cloth etc. Even a £1k donation is buying influence.

Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.

Some don’t understand that demonising refugees& asylum seekers is a red line for any healthy nation. As a group of people, like any other, they include the brilliant, good & bad, but labelling them as lesser humans undeserving of compassion, safety & equality is definitely bad for the whole country.

Our economic woes are caused by Brexit, (Ukraine), Covid, Brexit’s ugly baby - our dismal immigration policy, Truss budget, 14yrs of austerity… All rightwing policies. Quite mad that our media acts as if Labour’s budget is the end of days, when they failed to adequately scrutinise any of that👆shit.

The Blue Labour right have become the Militant of 2025 - a tiny but hyperactive and densely networked sect working relentlessly to drag Labour towards their niche pursuits and away from the values and priorities of core Labour voters.

Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving. A "step in the right direction" according to the PM. Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We rely on migration for the economy and several industries, decrease that and the economy is worse. A worsening economy means worse conditions. Unhappy public looks for someone to blame. Politicians tell them it's migrants. And so we end up in a never ending loop while everything gets worse.

Apps and websites that want me to walk up the fucking hill in the rain to get a phone signal to confirm my login can absolutely do one. Shopify/Shop I'm looking at you today.

Book of the day recommendation is Cory Doctorow's "Enshittificaiton" - a punchy, pungent and extremely smart guide to the Enshittocene. amzn.to/4p5tqwb

Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action... (from my presentation at the IMF last week)

I feel angry about the all hostile narratives propagated against immigrants. It's socially hard for an ethnic minority woman to express anger but nevertheless I feel I must. Anger is the appropriate emotion here with such gross unfairness & public harm. Let's give eachother permission to express it.

It is astonishingly alarming how much energy they put into trying to automate intellectual and creative work, but how little they actually care about heavy physical and repetitive work.

Good morning, while everyone is waiting for the budget to be announced it’s a good time to say that immigration is a source of prosperity for the UK and painting Britain as a hostile state is sabotaging the country. Thanks!

Lunchtime Weds and it's heading for 60000 100000 by the end of the week looks possible. If you haven't signed it, do so. Tbh I can't see any political downside for Labour in such an inquiry - especially if it can be completed well before 2029.

This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. Please sign and share 🙏 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Two years ago, I introduced a pioneering policy to provide free school meals for all of London’s state primary school children. Today we’re celebrating 100 million free school meals provided since September 2023.

The role of politicians is to show racists that there’s no place for their racism in society and that racism is a severely detrimental position for anyone to take. Once politicians start pandering to racists, they have completely and irreversibly lost the way regardless of the rest of their agenda.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

“You don’t need a formal conspiracy when interests converge.” ~ George Carlin

That American politics went off the rails after Barack Obama and British ethnonationalism has reared its head after Rishi Sunak is the real tell about how committed some people are to integration and post racial politics.

On the other hand, I want to make the UK the most beautiful, safe & fair place on the planet where people live together in harmony supporting & nurturing each other and where poverty, war & prejudice become stories of the past. I have a dream and that’s one thing regressive politics can’t take.

Labour is tearing itself apart by appearing to have no identity, no values, no compassion and no direction in the process of mimicking Reform.

100% this. It's why anti-immigrant sentiment is always strongest in areas with fewest immigrants.

The politically and commercially manufactured ‘problem’ of immigration is boring and repetitive across the centuries. The question is why do many people still fall for it? The real effort is not in seeding the propaganda but in keeping the public opinion ground receptive and fertile to it.

The Danish party that inspired Labour’s hardline immigration policy is on course to lose Copenhagen for the first time in more than a hundred years. Among the reasons cited: fatigue and frustration with its hardline immigration policy.

The basic problem with the temporary refugee status policy - especially one lasting up to 20 years - is it leads to very few removals (based on Denmark's experience) but does significantly worsen integration.

There's something evil at the heart of the Home Office, which either attracts viscious bigots to the HS job or turns politicians into vicious bigots when they get there. The last truly progressive HS I can remember was Roy Jenkins.

Look, for fuck’s sake, humans have been migrating continuously for our entire existence. Every single human in the world is the product of migration. It’s what humans do. There is nothing *more* human. That’s never going to change. Just grow up, get the fuck over it and plan accordingly.

The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Dear Mahmood/Labour, Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X. Yours The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK

Attempts at fixing gender equality at leadership level all tell us to adopt behaviours largely exhibited by men to ‘get there’: be more assertive& ambitious, less humble, sensitive & reflective etc. They don’t tell men to adopt any of our dominant behaviours. This messaging is in itself patriarchal.

Just from a basic political economy perspective, there is no route to a different state that doesn't involve macro-economic policies that means that middle-class white collar households earn more, social policies that mean they get more, and tax policies that mean they pay more.