Theo Kuechel
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🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.
🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.
It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.
My letter to my MP.
#asylum #Mahmood
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![Dear [my MP’s name],
As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.
That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest.
I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights.
Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming.
A manufactured crisis
As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million.
The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bru4h6s37w4hfmwhetu7veye/bafkreidmewc5timbx7nh57qyq7lm7gmhvclzidmloqhwgckpnegnddoicq@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I'm sure Starmer and Mahmood are proud of themselves this morning. The adulation they craved,
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I'm sure Starmer and Mahmood are proud of themselves this morning. The adulation they craved,
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Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
A selection of 60's & 70's tunes presented in a quiz. "How many of these do you recognise?" #EasyListening #Culture #Music
Cassette: Reader's Digest "Easy-Listening Hits of the 60s & 70s" Demonstration Cassette : Reader's Digest : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
SEEKING SOUND FILMSTRIPS FOR PRESERVATION. Sound filmstrip was a 35mm film-based still image educational media format used in schools and industry. I am the...
archive.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
A selection of 60's & 70's tunes presented in a quiz. "How many of these do you recognise?" #EasyListening #Culture #Music
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This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation
Now here's an idea. If the BBC does cough up 🤮, every single UK licence payer refuse to renew their TV licence. They are not behoven to the orange sociopath.
Trump says he will likely sue the BBC for up to $5 billion over edited speech reut.rs/442rY4Y
Trump says he will likely sue the BBC for up to $5 billion over edited speech
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would likely sue the BBC next week for as much as $5 billion after the British broadcaster admitted it wrongly edited a video of a speech he gave but insisted there was no legal basis for his claim.
reut.rs
November 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Now here's an idea. If the BBC does cough up 🤮, every single UK licence payer refuse to renew their TV licence. They are not behoven to the orange sociopath.
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Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening.
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Labour are now the "darker forces" Mahmood is scaremongering about. Depriving people who have fled unimaginable horror the ability to rebuild their lives in safety and security, which this does, is sickening. Labour is sickening.
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#r4today
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
October 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
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Starmer isn't Britain's worst ever prime minister, but he is Labour's worst ever prime minister and it's not even close
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Starmer isn't Britain's worst ever prime minister, but he is Labour's worst ever prime minister and it's not even close
Lisa Nandy - what useful purpose does she serve!
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On Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy’s refusal to review the BBC Board membership of Robbie Gibb, Lib Dem culture spokes Anna Sabine MP said:
"This is the wrong choice...Gibb isn’t fit to serve on the BBC Board, & the BBC Charter gives the Government the power to sack him." PM should step in, she says.
"This is the wrong choice...Gibb isn’t fit to serve on the BBC Board, & the BBC Charter gives the Government the power to sack him." PM should step in, she says.
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Lisa Nandy - what useful purpose does she serve!
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The quote posts should be telling him something?
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
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UK politics live – latest updates
Decades-old racism is returning to British politics, and “it makes people feel very scared” Keir Starmer has said, warning that divisive hard-right politics was “tearing our country apart”.
Speaking to GP and TV personality Amir Khan, the prime minister accused Nigel Farage’s Reform UK of overseeing a return of the racist and divisive politics “that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The quote posts should be telling him something?
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It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It’s already started - the BBC allows Newsmax boss to opine about bias, suggest some of the Jan 6 mob were merely innocent tourists visiting Congress, without pushback
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Riot Women. Happy Valley. Strictly. Sherlock. Line of Duty. Peaky Blinders. Traitors. Race Across the World. Planet Earth. Match of the Day…Are we really going to let the right wing culture wars coup at the BBC news department bring down the whole thing? It’s exactly what they want.
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Riot Women. Happy Valley. Strictly. Sherlock. Line of Duty. Peaky Blinders. Traitors. Race Across the World. Planet Earth. Match of the Day…Are we really going to let the right wing culture wars coup at the BBC news department bring down the whole thing? It’s exactly what they want.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Lyonel Feininger
‘Der Kopflose Radler’ (The Headless Rider),
“Das Narrenrad”, 1898
archive.org/details/dasn...
‘Der Kopflose Radler’ (The Headless Rider),
“Das Narrenrad”, 1898
archive.org/details/dasn...
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Lyonel Feininger
‘Der Kopflose Radler’ (The Headless Rider),
“Das Narrenrad”, 1898
archive.org/details/dasn...
‘Der Kopflose Radler’ (The Headless Rider),
“Das Narrenrad”, 1898
archive.org/details/dasn...
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“BBC News has learned that President Donald Trump has sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action.l
The BBC has confirmed it has received the letter and will respond in due course”
The ONLY suitable response 👇🏻
The BBC has confirmed it has received the letter and will respond in due course”
The ONLY suitable response 👇🏻
a man with a mohawk is sitting at a table with a sign that says vyvyan
ALT: a man with a mohawk is sitting at a table with a sign that says vyvyan
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“BBC News has learned that President Donald Trump has sent a letter to the BBC threatening legal action.l
The BBC has confirmed it has received the letter and will respond in due course”
The ONLY suitable response 👇🏻
The BBC has confirmed it has received the letter and will respond in due course”
The ONLY suitable response 👇🏻
Have the bots arrived on Bsky? Where are these 95 posts? One for the #BlockList
November 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Have the bots arrived on Bsky? Where are these 95 posts? One for the #BlockList
The direction Labour currently heading in is a xenophobic cesspit.
Denmark steals possessions of people seeking asylum, as policy. It returns people to situations where they are killed.
Mahmood is copying some of the worst policies going.
Labour once again showing it's just another anti-asylum, anti-human rights, government. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mahmood is copying some of the worst policies going.
Labour once again showing it's just another anti-asylum, anti-human rights, government. #r4today
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK seeks inspiration from Denmark to shake up immigration system
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is taking cues from some of the toughest migration laws in Europe.
www.bbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
The direction Labour currently heading in is a xenophobic cesspit.
Encouraging and pragmatic article. I'm encouraged to see it is by an Academy Headteacher. David Buckingham and Sonia Livingstone are also worth reading on this topic.
'The real debate isn't whether to manage phones; it’s whether a blanket, national prohibition is a genuine solution or merely a symbolic surrender that distracts from the deeper work of education'
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/banning-phones-in-schools-is-a-lazy-opt-out/
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/banning-phones-in-schools-is-a-lazy-opt-out/
November 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Encouraging and pragmatic article. I'm encouraged to see it is by an Academy Headteacher. David Buckingham and Sonia Livingstone are also worth reading on this topic.
.....be hard getting up the last drops of gravy from this plate.
Source : Arts Institute of Chicago
Source : Arts Institute of Chicago
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
.....be hard getting up the last drops of gravy from this plate.
Source : Arts Institute of Chicago
Source : Arts Institute of Chicago
Unfortunately; I have to confirm this is all very true. #Fujifim #Photography
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Unfortunately; I have to confirm this is all very true. #Fujifim #Photography
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so #starmer looks at the horrors that #trump's Gestapo is unleashing, and thinks: "yeah, let's do that in the UK...." #contemptible #uklabour
Fernando (33), who was 12 when he came to the UK, was detained by the Home Office as part of their upgraded immigration raids. Held for 29 days. We are supporting him with an application for settled status. No way to know, but this is unlikely to be isolated. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
so #starmer looks at the horrors that #trump's Gestapo is unleashing, and thinks: "yeah, let's do that in the UK...." #contemptible #uklabour
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Bluesky's visual censorship algorithm.
November 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Bluesky's visual censorship algorithm.
Breaking news. Entitled twat ends up with a fist in face!
The ‘pavement vigilante’: why Cameron Roh is naming and shaming bad walking etiquette
The ‘pavement vigilante’: why Cameron Roh is naming and shaming bad walking etiquette
He films people breaking his self-created ‘laws’ of street decorum and posts the videos online – with many viewers expressing their gratitude. So watch out if you’re rushing along on your phone or wheeling a small bag that could be carried ...
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Breaking news. Entitled twat ends up with a fist in face!