@agupta94.bsky.social
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As a general rule, I will feel more sympathy for party leaders who say positive things about immigration than for those who say that my family is part of a "failed experiment" and a "squalid chapter". Crazy, I know!
October 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
As a general rule, I will feel more sympathy for party leaders who say positive things about immigration than for those who say that my family is part of a "failed experiment" and a "squalid chapter". Crazy, I know!
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since we're talking about The Other Place, one now pointless gripe I still have is that actually it could have remained a fair bit more pleasant and usable and useful if more people just used the non-algorithmic timeline and I'll never understand why they didn't just do it
October 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
since we're talking about The Other Place, one now pointless gripe I still have is that actually it could have remained a fair bit more pleasant and usable and useful if more people just used the non-algorithmic timeline and I'll never understand why they didn't just do it
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feel like if you had a super long work day and you get home feeling exhausted but still make the healthy meal you had planned for dinner instead of just eating some slop then there should be a procession in your honour in your neighbourhood, and the mayor should give you the keys to the city
October 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
feel like if you had a super long work day and you get home feeling exhausted but still make the healthy meal you had planned for dinner instead of just eating some slop then there should be a procession in your honour in your neighbourhood, and the mayor should give you the keys to the city
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We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.
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Points 1 and 4 were in Sunak's speech on 7th March 2023.
The combination of banning asylum claims + threat of rapid removal [with no real world way to do it] was 60,000 people put into asylum hotels
The combination of banning asylum claims + threat of rapid removal [with no real world way to do it] was 60,000 people put into asylum hotels
October 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Points 1 and 4 were in Sunak's speech on 7th March 2023.
The combination of banning asylum claims + threat of rapid removal [with no real world way to do it] was 60,000 people put into asylum hotels
The combination of banning asylum claims + threat of rapid removal [with no real world way to do it] was 60,000 people put into asylum hotels
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So if I’ve grasped the galaxy-brained strategy here, it’s:
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights
People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
So if I’ve grasped the galaxy-brained strategy here, it’s:
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 1: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
✅ Day 2: tell target voters their ideas are racist
✅ Day 3: reassure target voters that migrants are a problem & you’re ready to make them suffer
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I just got indefinite leave to remain 2 years ago, so I'm reading this like, I don't even know what the fuck this means. We pay taxes, we pay TWICE for the NHS, we pay an exorbitant fee for visas to reach ILR, our income is constantly scrutinised. How the fuck more are people supposed to contribute?
Dehumanisation as policy.
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...
Shabana Mahmood vows law reforms to prove migrants 'contribute' to UK society
The home secretary signalled in her first major interview since taking over the reins that she believed migration "has been too high".
news.sky.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I just got indefinite leave to remain 2 years ago, so I'm reading this like, I don't even know what the fuck this means. We pay taxes, we pay TWICE for the NHS, we pay an exorbitant fee for visas to reach ILR, our income is constantly scrutinised. How the fuck more are people supposed to contribute?
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The change in tone is so noticeable (which is good) and its a good reminder that in the end even a very bad labour leader is subject to the power of their average mps telling him to get it together, and those mps are rly sensitive to certain causes
NEW - A punchy Keir Starmer at cabinet condemns the violence at Saturday's march "led by a convicted criminal" saying they had "sent a chill through the spines of people around the country, and particularly many ethnic minority Britons."
September 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The change in tone is so noticeable (which is good) and its a good reminder that in the end even a very bad labour leader is subject to the power of their average mps telling him to get it together, and those mps are rly sensitive to certain causes
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I can't quite put my finger on which hypocrisy is greater here, but perhaps James would have had the opportunity to ask him about it had he not been banned from attending Reform's "free speech" conference.
“We will police the streets and not the tweets and change all that damaging legislation,” says Nigel Farage on stage at Reform – just after welcoming the minister responsible for passing the Online Safety Act onto the stage with him, and into his party.
September 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I can't quite put my finger on which hypocrisy is greater here, but perhaps James would have had the opportunity to ask him about it had he not been banned from attending Reform's "free speech" conference.
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Farage has gone to the US to tell them Britain is ”awful” - If you don’t like it over here Nigel maybe don’t catch a return flight?
September 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Farage has gone to the US to tell them Britain is ”awful” - If you don’t like it over here Nigel maybe don’t catch a return flight?
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any US congressman who is fully across a row between the Nottingham Post and Nottinghamshire council is welcome to holiday in the Cotswolds AT ANY TIME, and we will not refuse to serve him in our farm shops
Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events:
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
"I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"
September 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
any US congressman who is fully across a row between the Nottingham Post and Nottinghamshire council is welcome to holiday in the Cotswolds AT ANY TIME, and we will not refuse to serve him in our farm shops
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Angie. Step up pal. You've got to get rid of him.
On behalf of every women and mother of daughters reading this and knowing that their PM is more interested in the support of male racists than the 50 per cent of the population that needs immediate action on sexual and verbal assault.
On behalf of every women and mother of daughters reading this and knowing that their PM is more interested in the support of male racists than the 50 per cent of the population that needs immediate action on sexual and verbal assault.
Asked by the BBC how he would feel if "your daughter was having to walk past one of these [asylum] hotels every day?" Keir Starmer replies that "I completely get it".
"I understand why people want the hotels closed. I want them closed".
"I understand why people want the hotels closed. I want them closed".
September 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Angie. Step up pal. You've got to get rid of him.
On behalf of every women and mother of daughters reading this and knowing that their PM is more interested in the support of male racists than the 50 per cent of the population that needs immediate action on sexual and verbal assault.
On behalf of every women and mother of daughters reading this and knowing that their PM is more interested in the support of male racists than the 50 per cent of the population that needs immediate action on sexual and verbal assault.
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Bears repeating that Lowe's position on remigration is to the right of the BNP in the 2000s. And the Telegraph is giving him softball interviews.
Just The Telegraph seeing how far they can push the conversation to the right.
August 30, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Bears repeating that Lowe's position on remigration is to the right of the BNP in the 2000s. And the Telegraph is giving him softball interviews.
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Here's another question for the PM's spokesperson:
'Does the PM feel confident that he can win a sufficiently large number of Reform-curious voters to make up for those he's lost to Ed Davey?'
Asking for a friend. And another friend. And myself. And a whole bunch of other friends.
'Does the PM feel confident that he can win a sufficiently large number of Reform-curious voters to make up for those he's lost to Ed Davey?'
Asking for a friend. And another friend. And myself. And a whole bunch of other friends.
August 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Here's another question for the PM's spokesperson:
'Does the PM feel confident that he can win a sufficiently large number of Reform-curious voters to make up for those he's lost to Ed Davey?'
Asking for a friend. And another friend. And myself. And a whole bunch of other friends.
'Does the PM feel confident that he can win a sufficiently large number of Reform-curious voters to make up for those he's lost to Ed Davey?'
Asking for a friend. And another friend. And myself. And a whole bunch of other friends.
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"Asylum seekers should not be allowed to work!"
"Asylum workers should not be subsidised at the public expense!"
- and loop.
"Asylum workers should not be subsidised at the public expense!"
- and loop.
August 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
"Asylum seekers should not be allowed to work!"
"Asylum workers should not be subsidised at the public expense!"
- and loop.
"Asylum workers should not be subsidised at the public expense!"
- and loop.
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Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐
August 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐
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refugees are being housed in hotel rooms that do not meet their basic needs: families are being housed in rooms with no cooking facilities, nowhere for children to play, frequent reports of mould, damp, vermin. if an MP can’t explain that to constituents what are we doing here.
August 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
refugees are being housed in hotel rooms that do not meet their basic needs: families are being housed in rooms with no cooking facilities, nowhere for children to play, frequent reports of mould, damp, vermin. if an MP can’t explain that to constituents what are we doing here.
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I cannot emphasize enough that language like this is not only untrue and immoral, it is, from a purely amoral electoral perspective, provably a disaster that is increasing support for Reform even as Labour voters with values turn away from the party in disgust.
August 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I cannot emphasize enough that language like this is not only untrue and immoral, it is, from a purely amoral electoral perspective, provably a disaster that is increasing support for Reform even as Labour voters with values turn away from the party in disgust.
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One of the most urgent crises in the criminal justice system is that allegations of rape and serious sexual offending take five years to reach trial.
Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.
Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.
August 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
One of the most urgent crises in the criminal justice system is that allegations of rape and serious sexual offending take five years to reach trial.
Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.
Any politician who claims to care about sexual violence and is silent on this issue has another agenda.
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...which is why they felt they could get away with keeping the one millennial character cardboard thin - but that's just such a reductive view of life? I'm neither married nor middle-aged but still found lots to enjoy in the show, I don't just want to relentlessly see myself on screen!
August 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
...which is why they felt they could get away with keeping the one millennial character cardboard thin - but that's just such a reductive view of life? I'm neither married nor middle-aged but still found lots to enjoy in the show, I don't just want to relentlessly see myself on screen!
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Thought this would have got more take-up in the press but I for one welcome our new Dutch PM
July 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Thought this would have got more take-up in the press but I for one welcome our new Dutch PM
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Just to be clear, this is what I was talking about. Her dancing with Burna Boy, not winning international tournaments... 🤣🤣🤣
#lionesses
#lionesses
July 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Just to be clear, this is what I was talking about. Her dancing with Burna Boy, not winning international tournaments... 🤣🤣🤣
#lionesses
#lionesses
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I’ve gone right off cricket
July 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I’ve gone right off cricket
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first wrote about this in 2017 (!) as I was covering the post-Brexit wars, and have written about it multiple times since - it really has been incredibly wearying to be an immigrant who follows current affairs closely for the past decade or so
As someone who came here as an immigrant, I can’t tell you how jarring it is to see this anti immigration narrative flooding our politics every single day, people will say they don’t mean you, it doesn’t matter, it’s disgusting
July 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
first wrote about this in 2017 (!) as I was covering the post-Brexit wars, and have written about it multiple times since - it really has been incredibly wearying to be an immigrant who follows current affairs closely for the past decade or so