@giannisarra.bsky.social
Political theorist, Taskmaster/Simpsons obsessive
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“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them".
How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
“We welcome migrants, we don’t scapegoat them".
How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
How Keir Starmer promised Labour MPs and members he would lead his party on immigration
One of my favourite authors as of late so this is great news
November 17, 2025 at 8:37 PM
One of my favourite authors as of late so this is great news
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A common theme from Mahmood and her supporters in Parliament this evening is that the UK is divided or being torn apart, and while that is true, I find it utterly dispicable that they conclude that it is the refugees and not those stirring up hatred that are doing the dividing.
November 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A common theme from Mahmood and her supporters in Parliament this evening is that the UK is divided or being torn apart, and while that is true, I find it utterly dispicable that they conclude that it is the refugees and not those stirring up hatred that are doing the dividing.
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On any average day in the last 35 years, about 115,000 people left extreme poverty behind. But based on current trends, progress against extreme poverty will come to a halt.
Important slow news story on @ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org/end-progress...
Important slow news story on @ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org/end-progress...
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
On any average day in the last 35 years, about 115,000 people left extreme poverty behind. But based on current trends, progress against extreme poverty will come to a halt.
Important slow news story on @ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org/end-progress...
Important slow news story on @ourworldindata.org
ourworldindata.org/end-progress...
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Good Afternoon, “Your Party” was a six month sociological study conducted by Royal Holloway, University of London. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Good Afternoon, “Your Party” was a six month sociological study conducted by Royal Holloway, University of London. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
ngl this is a pretty weak line to take
People are right to be frustrated with the asylum system, but stoking division won’t fix it.
The Home Secretary should focus on solutions, not sensationalism.
The Home Secretary should focus on solutions, not sensationalism.
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
ngl this is a pretty weak line to take
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You get the feeling that McSweeney really does believe that ICE-style raids is what your median Yorkshire and Midlands voter hankers after
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
You get the feeling that McSweeney really does believe that ICE-style raids is what your median Yorkshire and Midlands voter hankers after
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Any journalist who has reached out to the federal government for a statement this year can attest to the unhinged responses they always get. I picked a couple of examples www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...
![When HuffPost journalist S.V. Dáte reached out to the White House to ask who had picked Budapest for the location of the president’s recent meeting with Putin, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt replied “your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also responded with “your mom.” Leavitt further elaborated:
It’s funny to me that you actually consider yourself a journal [sic]. You are a far left hack who nobody takes seriously, including your colleagues in the media, they just don’t tell you that to your face. Stop texting me your disingenuous, biased, and bullshit questions.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r75unbj372lvbim6syioaueo/bafkreidlmkzabjg5k4fxzi6ofg4356i77ftr7d7nfsamqqchwgou6h7jcq@jpeg)
November 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Any journalist who has reached out to the federal government for a statement this year can attest to the unhinged responses they always get. I picked a couple of examples www.liberalcurrents.com/the-war-on-p...
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Fwiw, I believe Labour might have been able to successfully execute a 'mixed' strategy on immigration that reduced the threat from Reform without alienating liberal/left voters it needs. Avoiding rhetoric of the right while letting the numbers fall as they were already doing would have been a start.
November 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Fwiw, I believe Labour might have been able to successfully execute a 'mixed' strategy on immigration that reduced the threat from Reform without alienating liberal/left voters it needs. Avoiding rhetoric of the right while letting the numbers fall as they were already doing would have been a start.
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I'm not sure how anyone who lambasted Jenrick for painting over children's murals at an asylum centre can stay quiet over this.
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I'm not sure how anyone who lambasted Jenrick for painting over children's murals at an asylum centre can stay quiet over this.
My expectations for Labour were low, but "literally taking lessons from Kristi Noem" really is shocking.
November 17, 2025 at 9:37 AM
My expectations for Labour were low, but "literally taking lessons from Kristi Noem" really is shocking.
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Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people.
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?
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The call is coming from inside the house
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The call is coming from inside the house
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Whilst I accept that the median British voter is substantially more in favour of restrictions on immigration than I am, I refuse to believe that they’d hear “Trump-like immigration policy” and give a big thumbs up
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/...
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood threatens Trump-style visa ban on three countries
Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Whilst I accept that the median British voter is substantially more in favour of restrictions on immigration than I am, I refuse to believe that they’d hear “Trump-like immigration policy” and give a big thumbs up
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Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson.
That's it.
That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
That's it.
That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson.
That's it.
That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
That's it.
That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
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Check out Derek Edyvane's new post on 'The Page 99 Test' blog about his latest book, The Politics of Politeness: Citizenship, Civility, and the Democracy of Everyday Life. Find out what's on p. 99, and what it tells us about the book as a whole!
page99test.blogspot.com/2025/11/dere...
page99test.blogspot.com/2025/11/dere...
Derek Edyvane's "The Politics of Politeness"
Derek Edyvane is Professor of Political Theory in the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. He was previ...
page99test.blogspot.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Check out Derek Edyvane's new post on 'The Page 99 Test' blog about his latest book, The Politics of Politeness: Citizenship, Civility, and the Democracy of Everyday Life. Find out what's on p. 99, and what it tells us about the book as a whole!
page99test.blogspot.com/2025/11/dere...
page99test.blogspot.com/2025/11/dere...
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America's network of democratic alliances was a jewel. Never before had a great power relied on cultivating voluntary relationships, leading to the richest, most powerful country in history, and benefitting the world relative to the alternative.
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"
November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
America's network of democratic alliances was a jewel. Never before had a great power relied on cultivating voluntary relationships, leading to the richest, most powerful country in history, and benefitting the world relative to the alternative.
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
Then America decided to throw it away. And for what?
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We, the workers at Bethesda Games Studios, express our solidarity and support for the developers at Rockstar Games. Last month’s firings in the UK and Canada were a clear and disgusting case of union busting.
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We, the workers at Bethesda Games Studios, express our solidarity and support for the developers at Rockstar Games. Last month’s firings in the UK and Canada were a clear and disgusting case of union busting.
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Proud to have signed the letter from 600+ economists & inequality experts from 70 countries supporting the call for a new Independent Panel on Inequality -- an Inequality IPCC-- to tackle rising inequality.
The G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica
www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...
The G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica
www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...
Top economists call on world leaders to set up an international panel on inequality
Hundreds of top economists and other experts including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are calling for the world to set up an independent international panel on income and wealth inequalit...
www.independent.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Proud to have signed the letter from 600+ economists & inequality experts from 70 countries supporting the call for a new Independent Panel on Inequality -- an Inequality IPCC-- to tackle rising inequality.
The G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica
www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...
The G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica
www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...
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BlueSky: tax rises would be unpopular but they’re needed, so it’s better to do them now than kick the can down the road
YouGov: tax rises would be unpopular
Some guy, smugly: oh ho ho ho, looks like Blue Sky is in a bit of a bubble
YouGov: tax rises would be unpopular
Some guy, smugly: oh ho ho ho, looks like Blue Sky is in a bit of a bubble
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
BlueSky: tax rises would be unpopular but they’re needed, so it’s better to do them now than kick the can down the road
YouGov: tax rises would be unpopular
Some guy, smugly: oh ho ho ho, looks like Blue Sky is in a bit of a bubble
YouGov: tax rises would be unpopular
Some guy, smugly: oh ho ho ho, looks like Blue Sky is in a bit of a bubble
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no I don't think that's what a politician is actually
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
no I don't think that's what a politician is actually
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Don't think there's any doubt it would have been incredibly unpopular.
The relevant questions are a) will the tax rises they do instead be more or less unpopular and b) would it allow them to do things that made them look more competent in three years' time.
The relevant questions are a) will the tax rises they do instead be more or less unpopular and b) would it allow them to do things that made them look more competent in three years' time.
Quite a contrast to the BlueSky consensus the last 24 hours
Do you think the government was right or wrong to decide not to raise income tax at the Budget?
Right: 58%
Wrong: 21%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Right: 58%
Wrong: 21%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
November 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Don't think there's any doubt it would have been incredibly unpopular.
The relevant questions are a) will the tax rises they do instead be more or less unpopular and b) would it allow them to do things that made them look more competent in three years' time.
The relevant questions are a) will the tax rises they do instead be more or less unpopular and b) would it allow them to do things that made them look more competent in three years' time.
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Turns out tax tapas is not quite as appetising as Reeves was imagining *shocked face*
November 14, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Turns out tax tapas is not quite as appetising as Reeves was imagining *shocked face*
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If British legacy media wasn’t wedded to 20th century ideas about what our major industries are, it’d be even more of a PR fuck-up
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If British legacy media wasn’t wedded to 20th century ideas about what our major industries are, it’d be even more of a PR fuck-up
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This is in the New Statesman today by Ailbhe Rea is well worth a read on the mood in the Parliamentary Labour Party
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Does Keir Starmer realise how much trouble he's in?
The Prime Minister is facing a crisis of contempt among his own MPs
www.newstatesman.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This is in the New Statesman today by Ailbhe Rea is well worth a read on the mood in the Parliamentary Labour Party
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...