Alasdair Mackenzie
@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social
Immigration and asylum law. All views my own but reposts not endorsement. Refugees welcome🧡. Green Party member💚. Trans 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights. He/him.
"Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
"Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
Pinned
Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit.
Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth.
Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk
Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth.
Want something better? join.greenparty.org.uk
As an immigration lawyer, it seems to me that the only thing we talk about more than immigration is how we don’t talk about immigration
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Terror definition too broad, Starmer to be told
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Terror definition too broad, Starmer to be told
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Terror definition too broad, Starmer to be told
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Exactly this, and one of the most important things about Zack’s leadership is embracing and normalising bold, unambiguous, progressive positions on migration and more
Our entire political conversation - under a labour government - has taken a huge shift to the right.
We can't let this be normalised.
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/excl...
We can't let this be normalised.
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/excl...
EXCLUSIVE: Zack Polanski and Jeremy Corbyn slam Rupert Lowe’s ‘utterly repulsive’, and ‘deeply un-British’ social media comments
'Beyond disgusting'
leftfootforward.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Exactly this, and one of the most important things about Zack’s leadership is embracing and normalising bold, unambiguous, progressive positions on migration and more
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The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide - and has now capitulated to Donald Trump.
It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...
It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...
The BBC is in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.
The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide. Now it has capitulated to Trump
www.owenjones.news
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The BBC whitewashed Israel's genocide - and has now capitulated to Donald Trump.
It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...
It's in crisis - for all the wrong reasons.
New post 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-is...
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This is utterly shocking. The Olympic spirit is about inclusive humanity and kindness.
The discriminatory harm of a blanket ban on trans and intersex people taking part in Olympic sport as women couldn’t be further from the ideal.
The discriminatory harm of a blanket ban on trans and intersex people taking part in Olympic sport as women couldn’t be further from the ideal.
The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport
The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year
www.the-independent.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is utterly shocking. The Olympic spirit is about inclusive humanity and kindness.
The discriminatory harm of a blanket ban on trans and intersex people taking part in Olympic sport as women couldn’t be further from the ideal.
The discriminatory harm of a blanket ban on trans and intersex people taking part in Olympic sport as women couldn’t be further from the ideal.
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How many people have died because the UK won't give them a safe route to seek sanctuary?
The shocking truth is, we don't exactly know. Our Government refuses to keep an official record of the people who die trying to reach safety here.
The shocking truth is, we don't exactly know. Our Government refuses to keep an official record of the people who die trying to reach safety here.
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
How many people have died because the UK won't give them a safe route to seek sanctuary?
The shocking truth is, we don't exactly know. Our Government refuses to keep an official record of the people who die trying to reach safety here.
The shocking truth is, we don't exactly know. Our Government refuses to keep an official record of the people who die trying to reach safety here.
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Even the BBC is reporting the resignation of its own Director-General as another shameful example of anti-Trump bias and lies, and then cuts to Farage saying the BBC is too Woke
Institutional capture of the BBC: Michael Prescott former political editor of the Murdoch Sunday Times - so you can guess his politics - alleges the following. All the current far right obsessions in bullet points. Laughable and totally rancid
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Even the BBC is reporting the resignation of its own Director-General as another shameful example of anti-Trump bias and lies, and then cuts to Farage saying the BBC is too Woke
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Institutional capture of the BBC: Michael Prescott former political editor of the Murdoch Sunday Times - so you can guess his politics - alleges the following. All the current far right obsessions in bullet points. Laughable and totally rancid
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Institutional capture of the BBC: Michael Prescott former political editor of the Murdoch Sunday Times - so you can guess his politics - alleges the following. All the current far right obsessions in bullet points. Laughable and totally rancid
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this stuff matters in itself, of course, but also the TERF-Industrial complex won't ever stop. Each "win" is just the new base camp for the next battle.
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
this stuff matters in itself, of course, but also the TERF-Industrial complex won't ever stop. Each "win" is just the new base camp for the next battle.
“The BBC’s error, from a survival point of view, was breaking from its practiced game of distorting the history of the powerless, and instead messing with the big dogs it customarily serves.”
The BBC Thought It Could Save Itself by Serving the Powerful. It Was Wrong | Novara Media
The corporation's cardinal sin was messing with the big dogs it usually serves, writes Steven Methven.
novaramedia.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“The BBC’s error, from a survival point of view, was breaking from its practiced game of distorting the history of the powerless, and instead messing with the big dogs it customarily serves.”
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You’re going to have to start calling them fascists lads, it’s what they are and they aren’t even embarrassed about it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
You’re going to have to start calling them fascists lads, it’s what they are and they aren’t even embarrassed about it.
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No, I am sorry they don’t, stop trying to flog a dead horse
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
No, I am sorry they don’t, stop trying to flog a dead horse
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Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.
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the BBC is the most effective propaganda outlet the UK-US Right has, including Fox News, something most brits do not understand
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
the BBC is the most effective propaganda outlet the UK-US Right has, including Fox News, something most brits do not understand
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Is it bad that when the far right are on the march, we have a national broadcaster which literally cannot do enough to keep it happy
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign - live updates
It comes after a leaked memo criticised the editing of a documentary about Donald Trump and accused the BBC of bias in a number of areas.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Is it bad that when the far right are on the march, we have a national broadcaster which literally cannot do enough to keep it happy
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
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Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement
BREAKING: Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
news.sky.com/story/tim-da...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC's director-general - with CEO of BBC News also stepping down
Tim Davie has resigned as the BBC's director-general.
news.sky.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Farewell then Tim Davie. Under his watch the BBC whitewashed genocide, had the BBC News website resembling a “migrant crime” X account, boosted trans hate and the right wing STILL hate him. Quite an achievement
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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"Despite ... having been led for the last five years by a close ally of the Tories, being overseen by committees of Tory appointees, and Turness's own efforts to skew news story selection to "win over" Reform supporters, the right in this country want to see the BBC destroyed."
The Right Wing War on the BBC
The resignations of Tim Davie, BBC Director General, and Deborah Turness, the corporation's Head of News was some unexpected Sunday news. Th...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"Despite ... having been led for the last five years by a close ally of the Tories, being overseen by committees of Tory appointees, and Turness's own efforts to skew news story selection to "win over" Reform supporters, the right in this country want to see the BBC destroyed."
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And if we think it’s bad now, imagine what it could look like, say, two months from a U.K. general election?
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
And if we think it’s bad now, imagine what it could look like, say, two months from a U.K. general election?
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Could imagine huge sums in US far right cash flooding in, much of what would only be declared after the election (our electoral rules really are a jape)
Is it bad that when the far right are on the march, we have a national broadcaster which literally cannot do enough to keep it happy
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign - live updates
It comes after a leaked memo criticised the editing of a documentary about Donald Trump and accused the BBC of bias in a number of areas.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Is it bad that when the far right are on the march, we have a national broadcaster which literally cannot do enough to keep it happy
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
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The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
November 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship
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People who believe in democracy really need to relearn how to tell people that don't to fuck off.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
People who believe in democracy really need to relearn how to tell people that don't to fuck off.
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The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it has given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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do you have any idea how nuts it is that people have lost their jobs for implying that Trump supported and encouraging the Capitol Hill riots when that is exactly what happened lol. we were all there in real time watching him tweet 'stop the count'. this is hysterical
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
do you have any idea how nuts it is that people have lost their jobs for implying that Trump supported and encouraging the Capitol Hill riots when that is exactly what happened lol. we were all there in real time watching him tweet 'stop the count'. this is hysterical
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The British asylum and immigration system gets shaken more than a bottle of Orangina. And it never gets "fixed" or fair or functional...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/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.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The British asylum and immigration system gets shaken more than a bottle of Orangina. And it never gets "fixed" or fair or functional...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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When Labour were previously in power they legislated to make asylum seekers homeless and destitute if they didn’t claim asylum immediately, an effort in which they were eventually defeated in the courts. The only surprise is that anyone believed this wing of the party would behave any differently
Completely beyond why people try to defend Labour record on treatment of asylum seekers. They are awful.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
When Labour were previously in power they legislated to make asylum seekers homeless and destitute if they didn’t claim asylum immediately, an effort in which they were eventually defeated in the courts. The only surprise is that anyone believed this wing of the party would behave any differently