Lucas Bertholdi-Saad
@lucasbsaad.bsky.social
Trade unionist, views my own, he/him
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If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
Every sympathy for University of Essex (and pressures facing them) but this is very bad news for Southend.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Roles to be lost are part of wave of redundancy programmes across UK’s higher education sector
giftarticle.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…
HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
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I was teaching a class yesterday on the 1984-85 miners' strike. Here's an extract from Kinnock's speech to the 1984 Labour Conference.
Whether you agree with him or not, it's a sustained argument for the parliamentary road to socialism.
Now we get single-sentence paragraphs on "national renewal".
Whether you agree with him or not, it's a sustained argument for the parliamentary road to socialism.
Now we get single-sentence paragraphs on "national renewal".
November 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I was teaching a class yesterday on the 1984-85 miners' strike. Here's an extract from Kinnock's speech to the 1984 Labour Conference.
Whether you agree with him or not, it's a sustained argument for the parliamentary road to socialism.
Now we get single-sentence paragraphs on "national renewal".
Whether you agree with him or not, it's a sustained argument for the parliamentary road to socialism.
Now we get single-sentence paragraphs on "national renewal".
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Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America
November 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Also recognize that this unambiguous use of the military to commit murder of helpless noncombatants as they fought for life is a direct reflection of the virulent white supremacy that has seized our government, where every Latino man is a gangbanger in a de facto state of war against White America
This is just shameful and disgusting - a homeless 8 year old denied joining her parents in the UK - her father is a British citizen!
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This is just shameful and disgusting - a homeless 8 year old denied joining her parents in the UK - her father is a British citizen!
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They can't all be wrong 🤷🏽♂️
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
They can't all be wrong 🤷🏽♂️
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Fundamentally, the UK is a massive success story on integration and most of the anxiety around it from the right should be treated as in insincere concern trolling it actually is.
Remember integration? That thing voters "really, really" care about? Where's that in the latest plans?
My column:
My column:
Labour has given up on integration
Shabana Mahmood's latest asylum plans prioritise return at the expense of integrating newcomers
www.newstatesman.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Fundamentally, the UK is a massive success story on integration and most of the anxiety around it from the right should be treated as in insincere concern trolling it actually is.
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As @polphilpod.bsky.social said (roughly): he’s the captain of our side—the broadly cosmopolitan, broadly egalitarian one—and he’s chosen to throw the game while talking trash about our values.
I also don’t get it frankly. I struggle to understand the strong antipathy he provokes in the country and the “must defend him at all costs” among “retired lovers of conspiracy theory” on Bluesky dot com.
November 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
As @polphilpod.bsky.social said (roughly): he’s the captain of our side—the broadly cosmopolitan, broadly egalitarian one—and he’s chosen to throw the game while talking trash about our values.
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"The era of permanent protection is over"
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Refugees from 7 decades gather to commemorate 70 years of refugee in protection in the UK
YouTube video by Refugee Council
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
"The era of permanent protection is over"
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
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It honestly does seem to me that Labour should raise income taxes, including on people like me. I am willing to pay my share if it means some hope of a functioning state that can achieve things rather than lurch perpetually from one crisis to another forever in damage mitigation mode.
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
It honestly does seem to me that Labour should raise income taxes, including on people like me. I am willing to pay my share if it means some hope of a functioning state that can achieve things rather than lurch perpetually from one crisis to another forever in damage mitigation mode.
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Lollll three bylines for a national newspaper to recreate (including the exact same restaurants!) what me and a student reporter managed a month ago: www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...
Just rip off our original and give us a buried credit in paragraph 19, we won’t be offended!
Just rip off our original and give us a buried credit in paragraph 19, we won’t be offended!
@jim.londoncentric.media this looks very familiar in MoS
November 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Lollll three bylines for a national newspaper to recreate (including the exact same restaurants!) what me and a student reporter managed a month ago: www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...
Just rip off our original and give us a buried credit in paragraph 19, we won’t be offended!
Just rip off our original and give us a buried credit in paragraph 19, we won’t be offended!
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every Democrat in the country should not only endorse Mamdani within three hours but they should denounce and condemn Andrew Cuomo and demand he retire from politics forever
So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
every Democrat in the country should not only endorse Mamdani within three hours but they should denounce and condemn Andrew Cuomo and demand he retire from politics forever
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I think Peston should apologise for this outrageous framing. Not a serious show that any of us should be going on until this kind of nonsense stops.
Is the Reform MP who says she’s driven mad by TV adverts full of Black & Asian people a racist or realist? How many migrants would the Tories expel? & should the UK be selling fighter jets to Türkiye?
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October 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I think Peston should apologise for this outrageous framing. Not a serious show that any of us should be going on until this kind of nonsense stops.
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A policy of expelling legally settled residents from overseas in the cause of "cultural coherence" is out-and-out, no pretences, racism. Waiting for Badenoch to admit as much.
Good news. But we should not forget this vile policy idea of Lam’s would have produced the largest deportation of legal migrants by any democracy since at least the Second World War. All to benefit a couple of MPs in a struggling party.
Are the Tories now rowing back on ILR?
Last week Badenoch's spokesman said Katie Lam's comments were "broadly in line" with the party's stance
Now a party spokesperson says it's “subject to an ongoing internal review” following a widespread backlash
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Last week Badenoch's spokesman said Katie Lam's comments were "broadly in line" with the party's stance
Now a party spokesperson says it's “subject to an ongoing internal review” following a widespread backlash
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
October 28, 2025 at 10:28 AM
A policy of expelling legally settled residents from overseas in the cause of "cultural coherence" is out-and-out, no pretences, racism. Waiting for Badenoch to admit as much.
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william hockett was a forcibly conscripted nc quaker willing to face a firing squad before helping slavers. the last line in his diary entry after deserting goes so hard
the captain ordered two men to take me to the ranks forty or fifty yards away, but I did not feel free to walk in that direction
the captain ordered two men to take me to the ranks forty or fifty yards away, but I did not feel free to walk in that direction
January 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
william hockett was a forcibly conscripted nc quaker willing to face a firing squad before helping slavers. the last line in his diary entry after deserting goes so hard
the captain ordered two men to take me to the ranks forty or fifty yards away, but I did not feel free to walk in that direction
the captain ordered two men to take me to the ranks forty or fifty yards away, but I did not feel free to walk in that direction
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In particular @bbclaurak.bsky.social could quote what Lam said very clearly in Parliament -that the Conservatives would kick out anyone now holding ILR who had ever claimed pension, child benefit or a host of other benefits.
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Further to this - and once again I am doing the basic research that political journalists should have done six months ago - Lam said on the record in Parliament that this *does* apply to pensions/pensioners.
October 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
In particular @bbclaurak.bsky.social could quote what Lam said very clearly in Parliament -that the Conservatives would kick out anyone now holding ILR who had ever claimed pension, child benefit or a host of other benefits.
bsky.app/profile/jdpo...
bsky.app/profile/jdpo...
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October 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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"It will need to be designed very carefully" is weird
They have published a Bill!
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They have published a Bill!
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The Conservatives have drafted the legislation.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"It will need to be designed very carefully" is weird
They have published a Bill!
bsky.app/profile/sund...
They have published a Bill!
bsky.app/profile/sund...
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Humanist Bertrand Russell's perfect, utterly uncompromising 1962 letter declining Oswald Mosley's invitation to lunch. An perennial joy to see this circulating online from time to time.
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Humanist Bertrand Russell's perfect, utterly uncompromising 1962 letter declining Oswald Mosley's invitation to lunch. An perennial joy to see this circulating online from time to time.
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The Conservative Party cannot be considered a responsible party of government again until and unless Ms Lam is forced to drop her Idi Amin migration proposal and apologise to those it threatens, or has the whip removed. It is as simple as that.
Breaking promises made to people the government thinks unpopular, and saying bad luck with health or unemployment is as reprehensible as criminality, is bad not just for those facing deportation but for all of us who care about Britain as a country that believes in fair play, decency and honesty.
Lam says on air the policy is to remove those "because" they broke the rules/conditions under which they came
But her policy is to retrospectively change the rules/conditions under which they came!
Lam knows this will be perceived as unfair: she will feel "great personal sympathy" for deportees
But her policy is to retrospectively change the rules/conditions under which they came!
Lam knows this will be perceived as unfair: she will feel "great personal sympathy" for deportees
October 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The Conservative Party cannot be considered a responsible party of government again until and unless Ms Lam is forced to drop her Idi Amin migration proposal and apologise to those it threatens, or has the whip removed. It is as simple as that.
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I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go
Lam hears "settled status" and "guaranteed by withdrawal treaty" as up for grabs:understood to be temporary "provisional arrangements" which can be transitional and unsettled if and when you want to
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
That is highly counterintuitive as language of 'settled', as law & as politics of Treaty guarantees.
October 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I genuinely find this very worrying, as someone with settled status! sure, Lam probably won't be home secretary tomorrow, but the mood music is changing, you can feel it, and I just don't trust Labour to fight like hell on our behalf, so unclear where this is going to go
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We’re making fun of her, but it really is beyond the pale at the White House press secretary would say this in public and it would not be a scandal.
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
We’re making fun of her, but it really is beyond the pale at the White House press secretary would say this in public and it would not be a scandal.
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It's like if you trained an LLM on a big corpus left-wing social media posts from the 2010s, and then gave it acting lessons.
Much of what he says is right! But it's like he's right without understanding why, just performing a simulacra of lowest-common-denominator left-wing talking points.
Much of what he says is right! But it's like he's right without understanding why, just performing a simulacra of lowest-common-denominator left-wing talking points.
October 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It's like if you trained an LLM on a big corpus left-wing social media posts from the 2010s, and then gave it acting lessons.
Much of what he says is right! But it's like he's right without understanding why, just performing a simulacra of lowest-common-denominator left-wing talking points.
Much of what he says is right! But it's like he's right without understanding why, just performing a simulacra of lowest-common-denominator left-wing talking points.
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*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU
Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action
www.timeshighereducation.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:17 AM
*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.
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Nik Storonsky, the founder of Revolut, has left the UK and become tax resident in Dubai - escaping more than £3bn of UK tax.
Could we have stopped him leaving? Either with the carrot of a more competitive tax system, or the stick of an exit tax?
Some thoughts:
Could we have stopped him leaving? Either with the carrot of a more competitive tax system, or the stick of an exit tax?
Some thoughts:
October 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Nik Storonsky, the founder of Revolut, has left the UK and become tax resident in Dubai - escaping more than £3bn of UK tax.
Could we have stopped him leaving? Either with the carrot of a more competitive tax system, or the stick of an exit tax?
Some thoughts:
Could we have stopped him leaving? Either with the carrot of a more competitive tax system, or the stick of an exit tax?
Some thoughts:
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Marco Rubio is going to hell.
October 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Marco Rubio is going to hell.