Oona
@oonam.bsky.social
Social researcher focused on education, previously worked in higher education charities | Glaswegian in London | Lapsed violinist
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Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Even by my low expectations for Kemi Badenoch ‘violence against women and girls is something done by immigrants and nobody else’ has shocked me.
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“Polls suggest the most probable result is a loss for the party’s candidate, a former government minister understood to have been handpicked by the PM.
“Among the reasons cited by analysts are frustration with Frederiksen’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration.”
“Among the reasons cited by analysts are frustration with Frederiksen’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration.”
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“Polls suggest the most probable result is a loss for the party’s candidate, a former government minister understood to have been handpicked by the PM.
“Among the reasons cited by analysts are frustration with Frederiksen’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration.”
“Among the reasons cited by analysts are frustration with Frederiksen’s hardline policies on issues such as integration and immigration.”
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Those who hold more restrictive views on refugees are more likely to see Labour as pro-immigration, while those who hold more liberal views tend to see Labour as anti-immigration
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
November 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Those who hold more restrictive views on refugees are more likely to see Labour as pro-immigration, while those who hold more liberal views tend to see Labour as anti-immigration
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
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This passage is key. What will criteria and fee for this new route be? How many refugees are expected to qualify? Some refugees will be unable to work or study and they will be very harshly treated under this plan.
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This passage is key. What will criteria and fee for this new route be? How many refugees are expected to qualify? Some refugees will be unable to work or study and they will be very harshly treated under this plan.
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Overall, we find that immigration looks important in polls because it’s highly salient, not because it outranks daily concerns.
Polling captures the salience, but requires a bit of digging to see the whole picture of public priority.
You can read more here!: www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
Polling captures the salience, but requires a bit of digging to see the whole picture of public priority.
You can read more here!: www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
Measuring What Matters — Labour Together
Knowing what issues are most important to the public is the bedrock of understanding voters. Ironically, its own importance can’t go understated. This report applies some overdue methodological experi...
www.labourtogether.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Overall, we find that immigration looks important in polls because it’s highly salient, not because it outranks daily concerns.
Polling captures the salience, but requires a bit of digging to see the whole picture of public priority.
You can read more here!: www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
Polling captures the salience, but requires a bit of digging to see the whole picture of public priority.
You can read more here!: www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...
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We then stuck with open-ends but changed the question a little.
Most pollsters ask about issues facing the country.
When we ask about people's day-to-day lives, the change is starkly different.
Immigration is only mentioned in a tenth of results. A majority mentioned the Cost of Living.
Most pollsters ask about issues facing the country.
When we ask about people's day-to-day lives, the change is starkly different.
Immigration is only mentioned in a tenth of results. A majority mentioned the Cost of Living.
November 17, 2025 at 11:41 AM
We then stuck with open-ends but changed the question a little.
Most pollsters ask about issues facing the country.
When we ask about people's day-to-day lives, the change is starkly different.
Immigration is only mentioned in a tenth of results. A majority mentioned the Cost of Living.
Most pollsters ask about issues facing the country.
When we ask about people's day-to-day lives, the change is starkly different.
Immigration is only mentioned in a tenth of results. A majority mentioned the Cost of Living.
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I wonder what the EU and the French think about the UK's new asylum approach. If they feel out-competed in a race to the bottom, the French might withdraw existing co-operation on small boats.
November 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I wonder what the EU and the French think about the UK's new asylum approach. If they feel out-competed in a race to the bottom, the French might withdraw existing co-operation on small boats.
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"London is not a bad place to live, and does a lot better on measures such as crime than many of the populist right ... would argue. However, as so often, housing costs are a pervasive drag on liveability, pushing people into poverty, hobbling aspiration and jeopardising the UK’s prosperity."
I write about the new Index of Multiple Deprivation, and why London has generally good scores on education, health, crime and employment, but still has eight boroughs numbered among the most deprived 20% districts in England.
www.onlondon.co.uk/richard-brow...
www.onlondon.co.uk/richard-brow...
Richard Brown: London's distinctive patterns of deprivation
The government's new Index of Multiple Deprivation has revealed concealed hardships in the capital, despite some distortions and daft debates
www.onlondon.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:59 AM
"London is not a bad place to live, and does a lot better on measures such as crime than many of the populist right ... would argue. However, as so often, housing costs are a pervasive drag on liveability, pushing people into poverty, hobbling aspiration and jeopardising the UK’s prosperity."
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This is not normal discourse. It is not just a bit of fun for a Sunday paper interview. It is beyond the realms of the concept of decency shared across the political spectrum until last year.
October 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This is not normal discourse. It is not just a bit of fun for a Sunday paper interview. It is beyond the realms of the concept of decency shared across the political spectrum until last year.
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Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
Violent, nonsensical and staggeringly out-of-touch. Proposals like this should have Lam exiled from mainstream politics by her peers.
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
October 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Violent, nonsensical and staggeringly out-of-touch. Proposals like this should have Lam exiled from mainstream politics by her peers.
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Your regular reminder that scrapping ILR for people who have come here and played by the rules, which is what Lam proposes here, is a position supported by 3% of the public
Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"
(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)
October 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Your regular reminder that scrapping ILR for people who have come here and played by the rules, which is what Lam proposes here, is a position supported by 3% of the public
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Some context: these are the local authorities that form the South East Regional Care Co-operative (SERCC). ‘Local’ doesn’t even come into it.
October 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Some context: these are the local authorities that form the South East Regional Care Co-operative (SERCC). ‘Local’ doesn’t even come into it.
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Children in care in the South of England are more likely to be placed outside their home region than those in other parts of the country, research has revealed.
www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...
www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...
Southern regions most likely to send children in care outside home area, data shows - CYP Now
Children in care in the South of England are more likely to be placed outside their home region than those in other parts of the country, research has revealed.
www.cypnow.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Children in care in the South of England are more likely to be placed outside their home region than those in other parts of the country, research has revealed.
www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...
www.cypnow.co.uk/content/news...
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Leunig, a former gov adviser, said scrapping it — while it would boost growth and productivity — would be “a very, very big tax cut for rich people”. One effect would be to boost house prices, making the main beneficiaries the existing owners of expensive properties in the south-east of England.
Should stamp duty be scrapped in the UK?
Conservative party says property tax deters people from moving house and stifles productivity
www.ft.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Leunig, a former gov adviser, said scrapping it — while it would boost growth and productivity — would be “a very, very big tax cut for rich people”. One effect would be to boost house prices, making the main beneficiaries the existing owners of expensive properties in the south-east of England.
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Still some room just above the Vauxhall badge for "Free the Postcode Address File".
October 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Still some room just above the Vauxhall badge for "Free the Postcode Address File".
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Also, not sure anyone who thinks this has any interest being in the Labour Party.
September 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Also, not sure anyone who thinks this has any interest being in the Labour Party.
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Similar for parents of ASD children. Intensely relaxed about know-nothings spouting spurious, offensive nonsense about their families.
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Pregnant women, famously unconcerned about their and their child's health and particularly welcoming of advice from non-experts and *particularly* non-expert men about what to do.
Pregnant women, famously unconcerned about their and their child's health and particularly welcoming of advice from non-experts and *particularly* non-expert men about what to do.
Again, the *obvious* weakness Reform has is combining its first ~10%, who are much more conspiracy adjacent, with wider mainstream appeal. This is a wedge both Labour and Tories should be kicking.
Remember how much Ref. floundered under Tice when they became the party of Covid-skepticism?
Remember how much Ref. floundered under Tice when they became the party of Covid-skepticism?
September 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Similar for parents of ASD children. Intensely relaxed about know-nothings spouting spurious, offensive nonsense about their families.
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All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.
September 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.
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Health Secretary Wes Streeting says the government must recognise and respond to a "increasingly visible tide of racism" . He acknowledges trans people feel less safe today than a decade ago.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
September 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Health Secretary Wes Streeting says the government must recognise and respond to a "increasingly visible tide of racism" . He acknowledges trans people feel less safe today than a decade ago.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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And yet apparently a lot of evidence for its use at Brixton and Tooting tube stations.
Interesting.
Interesting.
This claim is baffling. The Met have witnessed many violent far right protests. It was obvious participants would be up for a scrap.
BBC News - No intelligence 'basis' for face scanning at Tommy Robinson rally, Met says
www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC News - No intelligence 'basis' for face scanning at Tommy Robinson rally, Met says
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Met chief: Why facial scanning was not used at Robinson rally
Sir Mark Rowley says the Met has not yet used live facial recognition technology at any protest.
www.bbc.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
And yet apparently a lot of evidence for its use at Brixton and Tooting tube stations.
Interesting.
Interesting.
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Ant Middleton is a very overt racist. Middleton is an ally, friend & champion of Nigel Farage but now standing as an Independent for London Mayor because he is much too openly racist for Reform, now openly advocating you should need British-born grandparents to be eligible for leadership roles
September 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Ant Middleton is a very overt racist. Middleton is an ally, friend & champion of Nigel Farage but now standing as an Independent for London Mayor because he is much too openly racist for Reform, now openly advocating you should need British-born grandparents to be eligible for leadership roles
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"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you
"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
September 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM
"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you
"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
"Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
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I increasingly feel that the lobby has not yet moved on from writing about the catastrophically dysfunctional Tories and is determined to see Labour through the same lens. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Can Keir survive? Inside the plot to bring down the prime minister
With his government mired in scandal, an operation to dethrone Starmer is now under way
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I increasingly feel that the lobby has not yet moved on from writing about the catastrophically dysfunctional Tories and is determined to see Labour through the same lens. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Most people don't know the asylum laws of countries they seek it in.
Either way, UK accepted more people seeking asylum than removed under the Dublin regs.
Yes, leaving the EU had an impact, but not as much as many make out. Other factors, like increased global inability, play a far larger role.
Either way, UK accepted more people seeking asylum than removed under the Dublin regs.
Yes, leaving the EU had an impact, but not as much as many make out. Other factors, like increased global inability, play a far larger role.
I have never met someone who crossed the Channel who’d even heard of the Dublin III regulation let alone been motivated to come here by its absence. It certainly can’t be described as a “major reason” people come here.
One of the major reasons that asylum seekers wish to cross the channel to the UK, is that the UK is no longer bound by the EU's Dublin III regulation, which means the UK provides a new opportunity to claim asylum for those who failed in Europe Europe. Brexit has incentivisised channel crossings
September 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Most people don't know the asylum laws of countries they seek it in.
Either way, UK accepted more people seeking asylum than removed under the Dublin regs.
Yes, leaving the EU had an impact, but not as much as many make out. Other factors, like increased global inability, play a far larger role.
Either way, UK accepted more people seeking asylum than removed under the Dublin regs.
Yes, leaving the EU had an impact, but not as much as many make out. Other factors, like increased global inability, play a far larger role.