Stephen Bowen
@am-espresso.bsky.social
"Fetching up at a border to seek asylum is not illegal"
Musician, writer and the lover of reading and book collecting.
I have an interest in International Law, Human Rights, Immigration, Refugees and Asylum. Pro-European, supporter of the ECHR. 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺
Musician, writer and the lover of reading and book collecting.
I have an interest in International Law, Human Rights, Immigration, Refugees and Asylum. Pro-European, supporter of the ECHR. 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺
It was ever thus.
December 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
It was ever thus.
I notice Farage is absent, again. He's probably not in Clacton either.
Today MPs voted in favour of the 10 minute rule bill on a new UK-EU Customs Union. A new arrangement would help reduce economic burdens and create a more reliable system for exporters. With the economic pressure increasing, Parliament needs to act.
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I notice Farage is absent, again. He's probably not in Clacton either.
It's so sad to see American democracy hanging by thread.
Arizona Attorney General Threatens To Sue Mike Johnson Over Failure To Swear In New Member
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Arizona Attorney General Threatens To Sue Mike Johnson Over Failure To Swear In New Member
twp.ai
October 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
It's so sad to see American democracy hanging by thread.
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“Over the last 70 years, the #ECHR has repeatedly stepped in when domestic courts were unable to provide the protection we now take for granted and cherish,” says the UK’s outgoing judge at the European Court of Human Rights👇
🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ecthr-m... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social
🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ecthr-m... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social
ECtHR 'more necessary and relevant' now, says outgoing UK judge
Leading silk says he 'hardly recognises' the good work of the ECHR from recent criticism of Strasbourg court.
www.lawgazette.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
“Over the last 70 years, the #ECHR has repeatedly stepped in when domestic courts were unable to provide the protection we now take for granted and cherish,” says the UK’s outgoing judge at the European Court of Human Rights👇
🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ecthr-m... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social
🔗 www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/ecthr-m... via @lawsocietygazette.bsky.social
Public servants serve the community not the other way around. It's not a difficult concept to grasp.
Citizens demanding transparency and lawfulness from their public servants.
📢This is the way.
#ChicagoStrong
📢This is the way.
#ChicagoStrong
October 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Public servants serve the community not the other way around. It's not a difficult concept to grasp.
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“Gaza is a lesson in courage, endurance, and defiance,” said an elderly man as he stood before the ruins of his home in Gaza City.
October 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
“Gaza is a lesson in courage, endurance, and defiance,” said an elderly man as he stood before the ruins of his home in Gaza City.
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This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.
This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.
This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!
October 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.
This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.
This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!
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BREAKING: Sharia law is not and has never been enforced in any American state, in the UK. in Sweden, in Germany...
Local law applies in all those places.
Just as it always has done.
Local law applies in all those places.
Just as it always has done.
The cost of homeowners and auto insurance in FL is insane, but Republicans are always laser focused on the important distractions from all that stuff.
October 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
BREAKING: Sharia law is not and has never been enforced in any American state, in the UK. in Sweden, in Germany...
Local law applies in all those places.
Just as it always has done.
Local law applies in all those places.
Just as it always has done.
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Titles don’t make leaders; integrity does.
Leadership isn’t about power, it’s about care.
Those we trust to lead should see our wellbeing as their sacred duty, because it is.
Leadership isn’t about power, it’s about care.
Those we trust to lead should see our wellbeing as their sacred duty, because it is.
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Titles don’t make leaders; integrity does.
Leadership isn’t about power, it’s about care.
Those we trust to lead should see our wellbeing as their sacred duty, because it is.
Leadership isn’t about power, it’s about care.
Those we trust to lead should see our wellbeing as their sacred duty, because it is.
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Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
October 6, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.
Remembering ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA (1958-2006). A courageous investigative journalist and fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, murdered in her Moscow apartment block on this day (7 October) in 2006.
October 7, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Remembering ANNA POLITKOVSKAYA (1958-2006). A courageous investigative journalist and fierce critic of Vladimir Putin, murdered in her Moscow apartment block on this day (7 October) in 2006.
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Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
Tough new conditions to be imposed on migrants who want to settle in the UK will not apply to more than a million people who arrived in the UK under the post-Brexit immigration surge
Labour’s tough new rules will not apply to migrants already in UK
www.thetimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?
Needs no explanation.
October 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Needs no explanation.
I don't know who came up with this but Trump is going to be well pissed off!
September 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I don't know who came up with this but Trump is going to be well pissed off!
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Banksy's artwork is much more cultural and much more patriotic than some flag.
It should be shown off, do we have Free Speech or not?
It should be shown off, do we have Free Speech or not?
September 9, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Banksy's artwork is much more cultural and much more patriotic than some flag.
It should be shown off, do we have Free Speech or not?
It should be shown off, do we have Free Speech or not?
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Funny…
I remember when they promised Brexit would do that.
I remember when they promised Brexit would do that.
September 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Funny…
I remember when they promised Brexit would do that.
I remember when they promised Brexit would do that.
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Why can’t the UK’s media and politicians call out Farage like this man?
There are only two possibilities.
They are hapless or they support him.
There are only two possibilities.
They are hapless or they support him.
Jamie Raskin dubs Farage a
"Putin loving free speech imposter and Trump sycophant"
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mpBA...
"Putin loving free speech imposter and Trump sycophant"
m.youtube.com/watch?v=mpBA...
HEATED DEBATE: Rep. Jamie Raskin DESTROYS Nigel Farage in Explosive Capitol Hill Clash | AC1G
YouTube video by DRM News
m.youtube.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Why can’t the UK’s media and politicians call out Farage like this man?
There are only two possibilities.
They are hapless or they support him.
There are only two possibilities.
They are hapless or they support him.
Words fail me.
Cooper in 2021: "If there arent the safe legal routes for family reunion we end up with more people being driven into the arms of criminal gangs"
Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"
Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"
September 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Words fail me.
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Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".
-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
Silencing the drumbeat again: seeking asylum is legal
Hundreds protested in Ashington against so-called "illegal immigrants" - though seeking asylum has been legal since 1951
northeastbylines.co.uk
September 1, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants".
-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
-seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.
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I was asked a few years ago to put together what could be classed as a "red team" briefing on how the smuggling gang's business model could be reinforced by government policy. Guess what? It pretty much matches exactly with this, and the previous, governments' anti-asylum policies. #r4today
The main issue facing any UK government isn't actually the number of people seeking asylum, in the grand scheme, proportionally, we aren't talking about huge figures, especially when compared per capita to countries such as France, but the constant images we see in the media. 1/
September 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I was asked a few years ago to put together what could be classed as a "red team" briefing on how the smuggling gang's business model could be reinforced by government policy. Guess what? It pretty much matches exactly with this, and the previous, governments' anti-asylum policies. #r4today
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This evening from 6pm I’ll be joining the lovely @natashadevon.bsky.social on her @lbc.co.uk show for a whole hour
Call in! We’ll be doing an “Ask Me Anything” on immigration 🥰
Call in! We’ll be doing an “Ask Me Anything” on immigration 🥰
August 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This evening from 6pm I’ll be joining the lovely @natashadevon.bsky.social on her @lbc.co.uk show for a whole hour
Call in! We’ll be doing an “Ask Me Anything” on immigration 🥰
Call in! We’ll be doing an “Ask Me Anything” on immigration 🥰
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🤷♀️Strange
August 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
🤷♀️Strange
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As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
August 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.