Let me say what many people are thinking: I don't care about his title, if he is guilty, he should go to prison as any commoner committing a crime. It is amazing how the 'firm' is spinning this so much, to keep this obvious thing out of the conversation www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Professor Benjamin Zephaniah performing his poem "The British" with a group of sixth form students from the East Midlands in 2009 for BBC Poetry

From a country that had no qualms about taking over large parts of the world with its 'emigrants' for a few centuries, this seems a bit rich, doesn’t it? nandosigona.info/2025/10/16/w...

A short piece developing the thread a bit further nandosigona.info/2025/10/16/w...

"While trying to play catch-up with Reform & its mythical white working-class voters, Labour is in danger of alienating millions of real British workers & voters—people who make up the fabric of contemporary Britain but who rarely see themselves reflected in the national conversation about belonging

Reintroducing @iclaimeu.bsky.social, a research and art collaboration exploring how irregularised migrant households live and work across Europe. Past exhibitions: Reframing Migration, Ieva Baltaduonyte 7-29.03.25 Nostalgia ’n’ Exploitation, Chris Costa 7-11.05.25 https://bit.ly/3J3VNuF

Still on Probation: How the Home Office’s Rhetoric Keeps Foreign-Born Britons in Their Place nandosigona.info/2025/10/16/w... #immigration #keirstarmer #labour #shabanamahmood

Most people are shocked to learn that ALL state-funded in schools are legally required to hold daily acts of worship. We’re campaigning to change that – and replace worship with assemblies that all children can participate in. Want to help us? Donate! humanists.uk/2025/10/14/h...

'thanks' to the algorithm, this is what I woke up to every morning... As a foreigner, this really gets me in a good mood (not) for the day.

This is not good for anyone. There is no good reason, besides fiddling with net migration statistics, to do it. Has @10dowingstreet.bsky.social even bothered to explain why was this done? share.google/fFeByfRYwlPz...

"Theorising ‘global labour migration chains" - today, 1:30pm! If you registered to attend online, please use this link to join us: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81684372233 Sorry for the Zoom snafu! @irisbirmingham.bsky.social

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government.... On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames time.com/7323442/sout...

A bit niche, I know, but I'm always amazed by how different the online cover pages of @theguardian.com and La Repubblica can be. The Italians must be obsessed with crime news (considering the number of murder stories covered per day).

New research by @profjennyp.bsky.social and colleagues for a global #refugeesponsorship initiative www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/gl...

Join us on 20 October, 4-5.30pm @unibirmingham.bsky.social for this IRIS public seminar by @nandosigona.bsky.social on #Migration & #asylum under #Labour. Discussant: David Stark. Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...

Italy's largest union, with over 5.5 million workers, has called a general strike for Friday in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla. And smaller Italian unions have said they will join CGIL's general strike.

Exhausted by the avalanche of soundbites from #Labour dehumanising refugees and conflating asylum with ‘illegal migration’—a sign of a leadership that has lost any moral compass (assuming, generously, it ever had one). www.bbc.com/news/article...

Labour’s plan to make migrants earn permanent residency by doubling the wait to 10 years & adding new tests turns belonging into an endless exam. 🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan... #ShabanaMahmood #LabourConference

IRIS Public Talks 20 Oct, 4pm Migration and #Asylum under Labour | @nandosigona.bsky.social 5 Nov, 4pm Making Sanctuary Cities | @rachelhumphris.bsky.social 5 Dec, 4pm The Shape of Belonging for Unaccompanied Young Migrants| Ozlem Ogtem Young superdiversity.net/2025/10/01/m...

Our Finnish study on domestic work & irregularity got national coverage in Helsingin Sanomat 📰 @lnare.bsky.social 👉 www.hs.fi/elama/art-20... #MigrantWorkers #Finland #IClaim

'Graeme Atherton, head of the Ruskin Institute for Social Equity (Rise) at the University of West London, said the policy “is giving with one hand and taking with another” and will “exacerbate” the problems being faced by humanities and arts departments and disadvantaged students.'

“…Labour risks a migration politics that divides society into the fully entitled and the permanently probationary. In this hierarchical system of belonging, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals”.

“Rather than building cohesion, such insecurity risks producing… disenfranchisement among those left in limbo, and heightened suspicion among the wider public, who are encouraged to believe that migrants must continually prove themselves. Far from calming anxieties, this… risks fuelling them.”

well argued… makes good & not-often-enough heard points about the underlying violence & stupidity of it all…

Labour’s plan to make migrants earn permanent residency by doubling the wait to 10 years & adding new tests turns belonging into an endless exam. 🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan... #ShabanaMahmood #LabourConference

#publicationalert New article by @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Catherine Craven & @nandosigona.bsky.social on the political mobilisation of #EUcitizenship during #Brexit drawing @ukri.org www.migzen.net

#Brexit and the Emergence of a Transnational European Community of Practice: From Grassroots Mobilisations to Supranational Political Opportunity Structures in the Struggle for Citizens' Rights Journal of Common Market Studies (@jcms-eu.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

1/ There’s quite a lot of misunderstanding by good journalists about how right to work checks operate. It’s not illegal to work without having provided proof of your right, as James goes on to say later in the thread. And employers are not under a legal duty to conduct checks: ID is not mandatory.

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

If you ( a transactionalist rogue dealer) were trying to force Denmark to negotiate on Greenland, would you perhaps consider showing them with the help of 'professional actors' how weak their airdefense is without your military support? BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Our article with Korina Giaxoglou and Paige Johnson has just been assigned an issue at @critdiscstuds.bsky.social We argue that even humanitarian narratives about migration in the UK are deeply problematic. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As we move into the hottest and deadliest months on the US-Mexico border, No More Deaths is releasing a comprehensive database and map of recovered migrant remains for the entire southern land border.

The first episode of #maga & #migration podcast series is finally out! @michaelacbenson.bsky.social and I talk to @rachelhumphris.bsky.social about her new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book Making #sanctuarycities Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0ptn... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Another, more decent and less biased journalist could tell a very different story from the same facts. Instead, the BBC’s coverage of the UK’s #asylum system is crafted to pour fuel on the fire of anti-immigration Farageism www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The desperation of some newspapers — and the overzealous people who write for them — truly knows no bounds. #TheSpectator

#mustlisten #podcast on #migration and reproductive justice in a hostile environment with @pipmck.bsky.social, host: @rachelbenchekroun.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/33G3...

New research finds that narratives around irregular migration differ significantly across Europe, leading to inconsistent policies and a fragmented approach to governance. ✍️ Bastian Vollmer & Markus Rheindorf @iclaimeu.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Hey Google, did the St.George flags of far right protesters reach @10dowingstreet.bsky.social? No, Keir Starmer put them up personally to welcome new ministers during the reshuffle

Elon Musk is a wealthy foreign individual attemting to interfere directly in our political process and to stimulate violence on our streets. For our government to ignore this would send the wrong signal to the world. They must do something now.

Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain. We cannot stay silent. 1/5 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Some more direct incitement from Musk This man burned his sheep's clothing a long time ago and is now fully leaning into his right wing white supremacist nationalism

A decade ago or so France used to deport Romanian Roma to Romania knowing all to well that they would return after a few weeks. What is there to stop a person from trying again this time? Is there a risk of a revolving door scenario? search.app/7MEYg

The reason why #KeirStarmer selected #PeterMandelson for the job at Trump's court is that he was part of the #Epstein circle and therefore connected somehow to Trump. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

A new day, a new minister, a new ‘solution’ – speaking to @lbc.co.uk and @bbc5live.bsky.social about Shabana Mahmood's first migration 'solution' after less than 24h in office share.google/z2jhpHXqb9ou...

BBC News - New Banksy mural appears at Royal Courts of Justice www.bbc.com/news/article...

How come none had come up with this idea before? I would like to ask this question to the minister and then compare the answer with her colleagues' in the Foreign Office BBC News - UK could suspend visas for countries with no migrant return deals www.bbc.com/news/article...

Migrants vs. locals: A growing culture clash in Gulf states – DW – 09/06/2025 share.google/3OJoYMQgFkD5...

Not sure it will work great diplomatically

I know this is not the news of the day, but who put those flags in front of @10dowingstreet.bsky.social? Farage is abroad. #KeirStarmer?