Minnie Rahman
@minnierahman.bsky.social
CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Chair @refugeestogether.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
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We still don’t know where Laure Ferrari, 46, got the £885,000 that she used to purchase her and Nigel Farage’s constituency home near Clacton-on-Sea. 🤔
Two donors to Nigel Farage’s partner Laure Ferrari convicted of fraud, money-laundering and forgery. Belgian court rules that Daniel Pawlowiec and Marian Szolucha illegally funnelled over £100,000—largely in public funds—to the think tank she ran.
Two donors to think tank of Nigel Farage’s partner convicted of fraud
Laure Ferrari served as executive director of the organisation, which went into liquidation after a European Commission anti-fraud investigation
www.thetimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
We still don’t know where Laure Ferrari, 46, got the £885,000 that she used to purchase her and Nigel Farage’s constituency home near Clacton-on-Sea. 🤔
Guess what guys. I didn't watch a SINGLE EPISODE of Celebrity Traitors. Does this mean I am not British
November 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Guess what guys. I didn't watch a SINGLE EPISODE of Celebrity Traitors. Does this mean I am not British
This is demented across all parties. Absolutely absurd. Real degradation in our brain capacities in the UK.
Support for bringing back the death penalty, by 2024 vote
Reform: 82%
Con: 67%
Labour: 35%
Lib Dem: 30%
Green: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
Reform: 82%
Con: 67%
Labour: 35%
Lib Dem: 30%
Green: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 12:33 PM
This is demented across all parties. Absolutely absurd. Real degradation in our brain capacities in the UK.
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Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
All the critics will come out and say “New York is unique, it can’t be replicated”. Yes it can. A strong progressive voice, creative campaigning, good organising and commitment can win anywhere. Let’s take that lesson and apply it.
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
All the critics will come out and say “New York is unique, it can’t be replicated”. Yes it can. A strong progressive voice, creative campaigning, good organising and commitment can win anywhere. Let’s take that lesson and apply it.
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Also genuine recognition that there are different types of voters/constituencies who have a valuable voice in elections. UK politics speaks only to perceived voters and ignores everyone else. Large part of why we are in the position we are in today.
Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 4, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Also genuine recognition that there are different types of voters/constituencies who have a valuable voice in elections. UK politics speaks only to perceived voters and ignores everyone else. Large part of why we are in the position we are in today.
I'm sorry but Tolkein was inspired heavily by Birmingham in writing LOTR. HARDLY "small town England".
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I'm sorry but Tolkein was inspired heavily by Birmingham in writing LOTR. HARDLY "small town England".
Back where I belong. On the floor, against the radiator, angry at colonialism.
October 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Back where I belong. On the floor, against the radiator, angry at colonialism.
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🔴 Keir Starmer’s Election Reforms Will Leave UK Politics Exposed to Dark Money and Foreign Interference, Warns Labour MP
My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/k...
My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/k...
Keir Starmer's Election Reforms Will Leave UK Politics Exposed to Dark Money and Foreign Interference, Warns Labour MP
The party's former Shadow Democracy Minister said the Government was failing to take the bold steps required to eliminate foreign interference in our elections
bylinetimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🔴 Keir Starmer’s Election Reforms Will Leave UK Politics Exposed to Dark Money and Foreign Interference, Warns Labour MP
My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/k...
My latest for @bylinetimes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/31/k...
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The people of the Caribbean are being forced to bear the costs of a crisis they did not cause. And they can’t afford the clean-up thanks to the legacy of colonialism.
To say this is unjust would be an understatement. It’s grotesque.
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To say this is unjust would be an understatement. It’s grotesque.
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What I Read this Week
The cost of living crisis and the trade war continue, Hurricane Melissa devastates Jamaica, and why Reform will struggle to cut public spending.
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The people of the Caribbean are being forced to bear the costs of a crisis they did not cause. And they can’t afford the clean-up thanks to the legacy of colonialism.
To say this is unjust would be an understatement. It’s grotesque.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
To say this is unjust would be an understatement. It’s grotesque.
open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
The world's mayor at this point.
For New Yorkers who work the night shift, it can be nearly impossible to participate in political life of our city.
So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.
So tonight we’re bringing this campaign to them — starting with taxi drivers waiting at LaGuardia.
October 31, 2025 at 10:29 AM
The world's mayor at this point.
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Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
October 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Kemi Badenoch is absolutely right about this.
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
At the time she hacked Harriet Harman's emails it was an offence carrying a prison sentence of up to five years
This could be so fun to call into tbh.
On my @LBC show
7pm Call Kemi Badenoch
8pm The challenges for Britain dealing with China and India with @vincecable
9pm What do you make of the Rachel Reeves landlord farrago?
7pm Call Kemi Badenoch
8pm The challenges for Britain dealing with China and India with @vincecable
9pm What do you make of the Rachel Reeves landlord farrago?
October 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This could be so fun to call into tbh.
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I've written for the Metro on how Starmer's latest attempt to look 'tough' on asylum seeker hotels has exposed him as a coward.
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward
The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.
metro.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I've written for the Metro on how Starmer's latest attempt to look 'tough' on asylum seeker hotels has exposed him as a coward.
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
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This case has always shown the farcical, and inhumane, nature of the Home Office, across multiple governments and Home Secretaries. A scared kid messes up on their claim and it takes 26 years to accept they should have been provided with asylum from the start
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
October 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This case has always shown the farcical, and inhumane, nature of the Home Office, across multiple governments and Home Secretaries. A scared kid messes up on their claim and it takes 26 years to accept they should have been provided with asylum from the start
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
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The political debate about immigration is completely divorced from the reality of what is happening, which is that it has been falling quite rapidly for some time now and is likely to continue doing so
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Net migration to the UK is falling rapidly. But how far will it fall? A new, detailed estimate by @jamesbowes01.bsky.social projects net migration in 2026 will be 70K to 170K.
This will have significant consequences, both economic and political.
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
This will have significant consequences, both economic and political.
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...
October 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The political debate about immigration is completely divorced from the reality of what is happening, which is that it has been falling quite rapidly for some time now and is likely to continue doing so
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Violence over street flags continues. A 68-year-old was brutally attacked and hospitalised while trying to take banners down, yet despite retrieving evidence from a house, police took no further action.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social
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Police drop inquiry after man assaulted removing flags
Tensions over divisive flag displays have erupted into violence in Norfolk, as police face criticism for inaction
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Violence over street flags continues. A 68-year-old was brutally attacked and hospitalised while trying to take banners down, yet despite retrieving evidence from a house, police took no further action.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social
Starmer will literally put people in camps rather than tell Reform and the Tories to do one. Protect the rich, imprison the poor. Nice.
October 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Starmer will literally put people in camps rather than tell Reform and the Tories to do one. Protect the rich, imprison the poor. Nice.
Just landed back in UK and immediately see Labour trying to house asylum seekers in barracks. A strategy that was horrendous under the Tories and opposed by Labour at the time. Labour aren't in charge of themselves at this point, Reform are. There's more than these options but they won't listen.
October 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Just landed back in UK and immediately see Labour trying to house asylum seekers in barracks. A strategy that was horrendous under the Tories and opposed by Labour at the time. Labour aren't in charge of themselves at this point, Reform are. There's more than these options but they won't listen.
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Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?
Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage
Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage
October 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Why is a Labour Home Secretary perpetuating this myth in The Sun?
Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage
Asylum applications in the UK are significantly below the average for all European countries. The only person helped by spreading this falsehood is Nigel Farage
Brum ❤️😭
October 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Brum ❤️😭
I absolutely hate politician speak. Phrases like "those with the broadest shoulders" just immediately make me angry. Especially because I then become concerned it's going to be something I start saying. CEASE.
October 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I absolutely hate politician speak. Phrases like "those with the broadest shoulders" just immediately make me angry. Especially because I then become concerned it's going to be something I start saying. CEASE.