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Anna Gupta
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Social work professor at Royal Holloway University of London - equality, social justice, human rights. All views expressed are my own ☮️🕊️🇵🇸🍉

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Anna Gupta @annagupta.bsky.social · Sep 2
Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
Great Yarmouth to Host Britain’s Biggest White Power Concert in Years – HOPE not hate
Great Yarmouth is set to host the largest white power music gig held in the UK for at least 10 years, HOPE not hate can...
hopenothate.org.uk

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Aug 29
In fact the judgment does not turn on the ECHR (according to the summary)
podmalm.bsky.social Pontus Odmalm @podmalm.bsky.social · Aug 29
As clockwork (just hope no-one gets hurt over the weekend.)

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Anna Gupta @annagupta.bsky.social · Aug 20
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Far-right anger over asylum hotels is destroying the very idea of refuge – and that’s probably the goal | Zoe Williams
The court ruling on the Bell hotel does not just legitimise anti-immigrant sentiment; it also risks erasing a whole category of people, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · Aug 20
"Asylum seekers are not allowed to work while their claims are being processed, which can take months, and sometimes years. They have absolutely no way of supporting themselves during that time, & yes, the State has a legal obligation not to let them starve" Frustrating it needs saying, but it does
From PlayStations to Spanish lessons: Debunking the Asylum “Freebies” List
What the headlines don’t tell you about housing, healthcare, and support for people who arrive with nothing.
open.substack.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 20
At 19 I had to flee my country, afraid for my life – without even saying goodbye to my family
At 19 I had to flee my country, afraid for my life – without even saying goodbye to my family
Mohanad was a medical student in Sudan, but he had to leave in secret, hiding in a vegetable truck, until he reached Libya, where he was kidnapped repeatedly. That was only the start of his perilous journey
www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Aug 20
Poverty obstructs economic recovery.

16m Britons live in poverty
800,000 suffer from nutritional deficiencies.
1-in-200 households experiencing homelessness
1-in-4 young people have mental health conditions.
Scurvy/Rickets are back.
£39bn GDP a year lost due to poverty.

Must redistribute.
Our state has become a guarantor of corporate profits
Equitable distribution of income and wealth would go a long way towards stimulating domestic demand and investment...
leftfootforward.org

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · Aug 20
Typical of the greedy rich to protest to protect their wealth and against improving the lives of those in poverty
‘Mansion tax’ would stall home sales and fuel exodus of super-rich, experts warn
The chancellor is reportedly planning to levy capital gains on the sale of first properties
www.independent.co.uk

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · Aug 20
You can download A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland, edited by @esaldegheri.bsky.social, @dx-fisher.bsky.social and @alisonphipps.bsky.social for free here: www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
A Handbook of Integration with Refugees
This book brings together the voices of academics, practitioners, and people seeking sanctuary to explore the processes of refugee integration. Situated in learnings from Scotland, the book offers the...
www.multilingual-matters.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Aug 20
Far right groups are threatening to burn down hotels full of refugees at events attended by senior politicians, while people of colour live in fear after being falsely labelled as paedophiles

How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread
Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain?
The silence of senior mainstream politicians and media organisations against the rise of a new well-organised far-right movement on Britain's streets is a disgrace, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Aug 20
Last night fighting an ex Liz Truss minister (for goodness sake) on Newsnight about what to do about asylum accommodation.

Pitch forks are dictating UK asylum policy now. 🤦‍♀️

My thanks as always to the brilliant @implausibleblog.bsky.social for the clip ❤️🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8auh...
Epping asylum hotel CLOSED BY MOB RULE? Where should they go?
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Aug 20
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters.

Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters
Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park
www.theguardian.com

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · Aug 19
Trump complains that the National Museum of African American History discusses "how bad Slavery was."

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Aug 15
“Merging truth with misinformation is once more straight out of the populist playlook: confuse people until they no longer know what to believe. Then, unable to believe anything at all, they are left only with feelings"

inews.co.uk/opinion/robe...
Robert Jenrick really needs to get over himself
The BBC is allowing itself to be kicked around like a political football
inews.co.uk

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Aug 15
Outside Downing Street:

We'll keep raising our voices for Palestine.

End the Genocide.

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · Aug 14
A 2% tax on wealth would only (mildly) affect 20,000 people but would generate £24bn each year that we can spend on fixing the country. End child poverty, improve the NHS, fix our schools and all that good stuff.

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · Aug 13
“Court documents indicate how national security concerns were not a central factor in the Home Office’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action.

“Indeed, they barely feature in the government’s open evidence.”

👉 Revealed: How Palestine Action was banned

www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
Revealed: How Palestine Action was banned
Exclusive: Documents seen by Declassified reveal serious concerns within the UK government and MI5 about proscribing Palestine Action.
www.declassifieduk.org

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Aug 12
It is inherently absurd to proscribe a group as terrorists based on acts the public doesn't know about. Terrorism *by definition* involves violence intended to intimidate a civilian population. How can the target population be terrorised by acts they know nothing about?

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Yvette Cooper: Some 'don't know the full nature' of Palestine Action
Defending the group's proscription under terror law, she said the organisation was "not a non-violent organisation".
www.bbc.com

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Anna Gupta @annagupta.bsky.social · Aug 11
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik
He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Aug 11
@alexdaviesjones.bsky.social : "We don't support terrorists in the UK. Would you be asking me that if this was about the IRA?"

Madeley: "... the IRA planted bombs... Palestine Action isn't quite in the same league"

"... we do not support terrorists in this country" #GMB

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Anna Gupta @annagupta.bsky.social · Aug 9
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Targeted by the right, Britain’s asylum hotels are places of fear and disorder. Bad political decisions made it so | Daniel Trilling
In the frenzy of racism and culture warring, the issue of why hotels are used gets overlooked, says author Daniel Trilling
www.theguardian.com

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Anna Gupta @annagupta.bsky.social · Jul 28
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Protesting over Gaza’s starvation feels like screaming into a void – but we mustn’t stop | Nesrine Malik
Political platitudes and a few trucks of aid won’t save the children dying now. But they show leaders can’t ignore public opinion for ever, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Jul 27
Really inconsiderate of Gazan children to choose the school holiday period to starve to death and therefore force Freeman to confront her own complicity in genocide.

[But don't worry, she succeeds in blaming it all on Hamas and "very bad people."]

archive.ph/6auwd

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · Jul 26
The right has gone absolutely nuts. The Tory party is chewed up with its brexity failure and the prejudice ticket that once gave it power. Reform’s rise from their ashes is the toxic aftermath. And the media dance along like it’s all so exciting, rather than a goddam nightmare for us all.

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · Jul 26
The shit is really going to hit the fan when M&S realise they have multilingual staff working at the world's busiest airport.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Jul 25
We need to make Labour more scared of losing votes & seats to the Green Party than to Reform.

My interview with the Huffington Post about why I'm asking for your vote to be the next leader of the Green Party.

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www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...
Exclusive: Green Party Frontrunner Zack Polanski On Trying To Make It From Outside 'Dull' Westminster
And why comments from his leadership rival made him particularly "upset".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Jul 21
Oh I know this one.

Is it because they object to children being murdered and a country bombed into the stone age?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jul 20
British politics in all its diversity on display this morning

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Anna Gupta @annagupta.bsky.social · Jul 19
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Killing of young siblings at Gaza water point shows seeking life’s essentials now a deadly peril
Karam al-Ghussain, 9, and Lulu, 10, were fetching water from a nearby distribution station when an Israeli strike hit it, and them
www.theguardian.com

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Jul 18
Is he wrong? Are they all wrong?

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · Jul 17
It is absolutely absurd that Diane Abbott has been suspended for this.

She's describing the lived experience of anti-Black racism.

She wasn't saying Jewish people and Travellers don't experience racism. She's saying that racism takes different forms.