🌍 42.5m refugees Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. 🇬🇧 548k refugees = 0.78% of the UK population. It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us. My letter to my MP. #asylum #Mahmood 🧵

New York City billboards are displaying the president’s 91 felony charges.

This. 👇

Former MPs working for lobbying firms have utilised their continued access to parliament on hundreds of occasions, with campaigners claiming there is a “high risk” it has been misused by some. www.thetimes.com/article/5d22...

Not satire, apparently

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.

How have Labour watched the Tories spend 2-3 years parroting Farage then lose an election badly and conclude a similar strategy is the best course of action? I. Really. Genuinely. Do Not. Get. It.

The Julian calendar was introduced in 45 BCE so if anybody wants to do some serious scrolling please report back

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

All I’m going to say is, they don’t care if he’s had sex with children, but if they find out he’s had sex with another man, they will implode… They have a fcked up sense of morality.

The media should be referring to him as “convicted rapist, felon and ‘president’ Donald Trump” at the start of every story. For example, “convicted rapist, felon and ‘president’ Donald Trump has been implicated in a pedophilia ring in emails from his longtime friend, pedophile Jeffery Epstein”

Evening.

Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example: It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally) It shows no understanding of why there is AS www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3

The Government is wrong to think that reviews of safety in the person's country every few years will mean refugees can be returned at scale. That hasn't happened in Denmark. Brutal dictators tend to hang onto power. It would just move huge amounts of resource away from making our asylum system...

We absolutely need immigration controls. And where those controls decide to grant asylum, we should welcome and integrate, not create perpetual limbo and alienation. The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities.

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...

“budget cuts have stopped or delayed millions of $s in Alzheimer’s research… ’Research is not like bldg a bldg or painting a wall where u can start &then stop for a few yrs &then go back &resume what u were doing. It's much more like feeding a baby… if u stop…for a few weeks, it's irrecoverable’.”🧪🛟

I may need to turn to AI for therapy after my recent experience of AI-assisted customer service

Chris Murphy on possible military strikes on Venezuela: "It's pretty clear it's just an effort to distract people from the rising prices and the Epstein scandal. No one wants a war with Venezuela ... and by the way, it's wildly illegal."

Sounds fucking fantastic! Ta-ra to those racist pieces of shit……… 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

You can still delete this before more people see it.

They can have all the racists and fascists anytime they want. I'm sure we could have a whip round to fund the air fares. When can we start?

For those wondering how you get on and off a penny-farthing. *A guy walking by said to his companion, “That looks incredibly dangerous.” 😅

There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million In New York - population 8.5 million - there were 391. London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago. And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing

Donald Trump destroyed public service broadcasting in the US - it's little surprise Nigel Farage wants to do the same thing here. Trump’s America, don’t let it become Farage’s Britain.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.

It makes you wonder how far these networks spread into senior echelons of American national security

See also Trump's fascist regime. His masked ICE goons now illegally kidnap US citizens in broad daylight. Hard working people, who do the jobs that rich people need help with, are imprisoned in detention centres and left without adequate food, water, medical care or access basic to toilet needs

“Is it possible that you could have a life here, a job here, maybe kids going to school, a family here, then after 19 years if your country is then considered safe you get booted out and sent home?”

They had the chance twice. In 2016 and in 2024. Both times they chose an adjudicated rapist instead.

Michelle Obama: “Don't even look at me about running, because you all are lying. “You're not ready for a woman. So don't waste my time. We got a lot of growing up to do.”

Massie: "I would remind my Republican colleagues who are decided how to vote, Donald Trump can protect you in red districts right now by giving you an endorsement, but by 2030, he's not gonna be the president and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don't vote to release those files."

Just another of those days when I hate this government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

“Arseholes” he’s considering offering political asylum to British “arseholes.” #FixedThatForYou

My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?

Are we allowed to put forward a list of names?

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Where do refugees to the UK come from? (House of Commons library)

Yes, the one in the White House put there by Putin.

I don't think the president should accept gold bars from foreign governments

Every picture tells a story. Sickening greed is what motivates them when they could so easily make the world a better, safer place for everyone. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very funny that there was some speculation that Mahmood could be the next Labour leader (as the favoured candidate of McSweeney). Not a chance in hell now.

All the Labour members, councillors etc who have worked with refugee charities over the years: are you going to stand for this?

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tip of an iceberg?

NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst. It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Great interview with Luke Akehurst MP, Lab moderate, by Luke O’Reilly www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...