Omar Gabriel Torres Valencia, MD, MSc
@drogtv.bsky.social
•Policy Advisor at @kingsghp.bsky.social, King’s College London
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•GP👨🏽⚕️🩺 Historian 👨🏽🏫 Intl. Rel.🇺🇳🗺️
•Polyglot 🇲🇽🇧🇷🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪
•Global Health & Climate, Social & Racial Justice✊🏽🏳️🌈
•Views my own
•Él/he/him
📍London 🇬🇧/ Mexico City 🇲🇽
https://tinyurl.com/DrTorr
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Iceland’s national broadcaster voted Wednesday not to participate in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, joining Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in a growing boycott over the inclusion of Israel.
Iceland Joins Growing Eurovision Boycott Over Inclusion Of Israel
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Iceland’s national broadcaster voted Wednesday not to participate in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, joining Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands in a growing boycott over the inclusion of Israel.
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I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.
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The government figuring this out slowly over the coming two years is going to be quite something to behold.
I think the government meant to cut net migration but have accidentally overshot the target by a lot. They haven’t realised this yet.
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The government figuring this out slowly over the coming two years is going to be quite something to behold.
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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...
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...
UK net migration falls sharply with drop in arrivals for work and study
Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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...
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...
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The Home Secretary explaining that the rise in racist violence is, actually, the natural response to higher levels of immigration is a state of affairs that can't exist without the government having largely decided that racist violence is, if not legitimate, at least understandable.
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The Home Secretary explaining that the rise in racist violence is, actually, the natural response to higher levels of immigration is a state of affairs that can't exist without the government having largely decided that racist violence is, if not legitimate, at least understandable.
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In the foreword to settlement consultation, the Home Secretary tells us that "My father came here in the early 1970s, and my mother a little less than a decade later."
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
In the foreword to settlement consultation, the Home Secretary tells us that "My father came here in the early 1970s, and my mother a little less than a decade later."
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I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I asked grok who was the better role model for humanity, Jesus Christ or Elon Musk. GUESS WHAT.
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The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond
Thrilled to be attending the @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social with @kingsghp.bsky.social
I'm looking forward to connecting with people passionate about strengthening #healthsystems globally.
Are you going? I'd love to chat about collaborative opportunities over a coffee! ☕
#WHS2025 #GlobalHealth
I'm looking forward to connecting with people passionate about strengthening #healthsystems globally.
Are you going? I'd love to chat about collaborative opportunities over a coffee! ☕
#WHS2025 #GlobalHealth
October 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Thrilled to be attending the @worldhealthsummit.bsky.social with @kingsghp.bsky.social
I'm looking forward to connecting with people passionate about strengthening #healthsystems globally.
Are you going? I'd love to chat about collaborative opportunities over a coffee! ☕
#WHS2025 #GlobalHealth
I'm looking forward to connecting with people passionate about strengthening #healthsystems globally.
Are you going? I'd love to chat about collaborative opportunities over a coffee! ☕
#WHS2025 #GlobalHealth
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If you find protesting against genocide offensive then I find you repulsive
October 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
If you find protesting against genocide offensive then I find you repulsive
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She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.
October 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.
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Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.
Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.
join.greenparty.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.
Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.
join.greenparty.org.uk
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"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski
Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 6:30 AM
"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s even the point of “international law” if Israel can do whatever it wants.
Honestly, have we not had enough of this impunity?
Honestly, have we not had enough of this impunity?
October 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
What’s even the point of “international law” if Israel can do whatever it wants.
Honestly, have we not had enough of this impunity?
Honestly, have we not had enough of this impunity?
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Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)
September 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)
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Retrospective removal of Indefinite Leave to Remain from "hundreds of thousands of people" in the Reform plans is obscene.
They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.
They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.
![Screenshot from The Times which reads: "Zia Yusuf, Reform’s policy chief, said that his party’s changes would lead to “hundreds of thousands of people having to apply [for] and ultimately losing their settled status in the UK” on a staggered basis to prevent disruption to businesses.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Yusuf said: “Many of those who will lose their leave to remain are entirely dependent on the welfare state and will leave voluntarily upon losing access to benefits. Those that don’t will be subject to immigration enforcement as part of our mass deportation programme.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xgxwnqvs3th3ccizwb6hhbbh/bafkreic2a3wqrk5zo3x4sh5jkbxg2ifitokxhuvceau3q3cdzxj76mkprm@jpeg)
September 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Retrospective removal of Indefinite Leave to Remain from "hundreds of thousands of people" in the Reform plans is obscene.
They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.
They talk about "preventing disruption to businesses" but have no regard for what this means for the people themselves, their families and communities which will be torn apart.
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Worth remembering many people will be unfamiliar with terms like "indefinite leave to remain" and "settlement". People know what immigration is + citizenship, but settlement is less intuitive
So its important for those countering the proposals to put in schoolgate language what is being proposed
So its important for those countering the proposals to put in schoolgate language what is being proposed
September 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Worth remembering many people will be unfamiliar with terms like "indefinite leave to remain" and "settlement". People know what immigration is + citizenship, but settlement is less intuitive
So its important for those countering the proposals to put in schoolgate language what is being proposed
So its important for those countering the proposals to put in schoolgate language what is being proposed
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It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor
September 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor
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Some very obvious cases that Farage and Yusuf need to be hammered on:
1. 78 year old pensioner on ILR for last 30 years who obviously cannot get work visa
2. 35 year old born in UK to non-nationals, never got UK citizenship because of cost, loses job and has to move to country they've never lived in
1. 78 year old pensioner on ILR for last 30 years who obviously cannot get work visa
2. 35 year old born in UK to non-nationals, never got UK citizenship because of cost, loses job and has to move to country they've never lived in
September 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Some very obvious cases that Farage and Yusuf need to be hammered on:
1. 78 year old pensioner on ILR for last 30 years who obviously cannot get work visa
2. 35 year old born in UK to non-nationals, never got UK citizenship because of cost, loses job and has to move to country they've never lived in
1. 78 year old pensioner on ILR for last 30 years who obviously cannot get work visa
2. 35 year old born in UK to non-nationals, never got UK citizenship because of cost, loses job and has to move to country they've never lived in
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Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder...
Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.
Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.
Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
September 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder...
Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.
Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed.
Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
War crime after war crime after war crime.
International law is completely dead now and I’m wondering how are we still allowing this to happen.
International law is completely dead now and I’m wondering how are we still allowing this to happen.
September 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
War crime after war crime after war crime.
International law is completely dead now and I’m wondering how are we still allowing this to happen.
International law is completely dead now and I’m wondering how are we still allowing this to happen.
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OPINION: Home to just 5 percent of the global population and a widening economic gap with other major powers, Europe isn’t just facing up to a world of continental empires but is at real risk of becoming America’s vassal.
It should be clear by now that Trump isn’t, and never will be, an ally
Becoming a U.S. protectorate isn’t inevitable — especially given increasingly indignant public opinion over the series of concessions and humiliations we’re witnessing.
www.politico.eu
September 8, 2025 at 8:44 AM
OPINION: Home to just 5 percent of the global population and a widening economic gap with other major powers, Europe isn’t just facing up to a world of continental empires but is at real risk of becoming America’s vassal.
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People are exhausted.
Our high streets, public spaces, whole communities left unloved.
Blaming migrants won’t fix this.
Tackling inequality will. Tax the super-rich. Fund public services.
#DrawTheLine
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Our high streets, public spaces, whole communities left unloved.
Blaming migrants won’t fix this.
Tackling inequality will. Tax the super-rich. Fund public services.
#DrawTheLine
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘We have to tell an alternative story’: Green leader Polanski chats to Nigel Farage’s constituents
Visit to Clacton-on-Sea part of social media strategy that Zack Polanski feels can rebut Reform’s rhetoric
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:56 AM
People are exhausted.
Our high streets, public spaces, whole communities left unloved.
Blaming migrants won’t fix this.
Tackling inequality will. Tax the super-rich. Fund public services.
#DrawTheLine
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Our high streets, public spaces, whole communities left unloved.
Blaming migrants won’t fix this.
Tackling inequality will. Tax the super-rich. Fund public services.
#DrawTheLine
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...