Andy Coghill
@andycoghill1.bsky.social
Socialist & Celtic supporter.
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Reminder that the Refugee Convention was born out of the international community’s shame at failing to provide sanctuary to victims of the Nazis.
Shabana Mahmood seems to think we should’ve failed the survivors as well, by sending them back the second the Nazis were defeated.
Shabana Mahmood seems to think we should’ve failed the survivors as well, by sending them back the second the Nazis were defeated.
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 6:40 PM
Reminder that the Refugee Convention was born out of the international community’s shame at failing to provide sanctuary to victims of the Nazis.
Shabana Mahmood seems to think we should’ve failed the survivors as well, by sending them back the second the Nazis were defeated.
Shabana Mahmood seems to think we should’ve failed the survivors as well, by sending them back the second the Nazis were defeated.
Yet another example of Reform pushing something very right wing and awful and Labour basically tutting at how they go about it but basically following behind them, just not going as far. Terrifying to think how far Farage will be able to push them over the next 3 and a half years.
FUCK #LABOUR
"Reeves to ban luxury cars for benefit claimants"
1. It doesn't cost the taxpayer more.
2. The reason disabled people need the "perk" of a replacement car is because without a car they are unable to do the things an able person can walk to/get the bus/train to.
archive.li/W9aCu
"Reeves to ban luxury cars for benefit claimants"
1. It doesn't cost the taxpayer more.
2. The reason disabled people need the "perk" of a replacement car is because without a car they are unable to do the things an able person can walk to/get the bus/train to.
archive.li/W9aCu
November 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Yet another example of Reform pushing something very right wing and awful and Labour basically tutting at how they go about it but basically following behind them, just not going as far. Terrifying to think how far Farage will be able to push them over the next 3 and a half years.
So much of what's coming out about Mandelson was already common knowledge. It's absolutely not credible that Starmer knew as little as he claimed when he was appointed.
we revealed in FT two years ago that Mandelson stayed at Epstein's luxury house in Manhattan while the financier was in jail for soliciting a minor
he was deputy prime minister at the time
always seemed weird that broadcasters didn't really pick this up at the time
www.ft.com/content/0723...
he was deputy prime minister at the time
always seemed weird that broadcasters didn't really pick this up at the time
www.ft.com/content/0723...
Links between Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein detailed in JPMorgan report
Emails indicate then UK business secretary stayed at New York house while disgraced financier was in prison
www.ft.com
September 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
So much of what's coming out about Mandelson was already common knowledge. It's absolutely not credible that Starmer knew as little as he claimed when he was appointed.
Bit sceptical as to the necessity of this, but now it's happening I really hope they & the greens have a tight strategy together - including allowing people to be members of both parties.
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
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Join us. The time is now.
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July 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Bit sceptical as to the necessity of this, but now it's happening I really hope they & the greens have a tight strategy together - including allowing people to be members of both parties.
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This poor guy. Another horrific US immigration story, and I can’t stress too much: the only thing preventing this also happening in the UK- deportation for old offences despite decades of residence & multiple strong mitigation- is the ECHR, which Labour want to “reform” & the far right want to leave
Purple Heart veteran shot in action self-deports after old drug charge resurfaces: ‘Can’t believe this is happening in America’
Purple Heart veteran self-deports to South Korea after ICE threatened detention
After 48 years in the U.S. and having taken two bullets for the country, Sae Joon Park left for South Korea
www.independent.co.uk
June 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This poor guy. Another horrific US immigration story, and I can’t stress too much: the only thing preventing this also happening in the UK- deportation for old offences despite decades of residence & multiple strong mitigation- is the ECHR, which Labour want to “reform” & the far right want to leave
I feel out of step with other greens here but I think this is a good thing. It shouldn't come at the expense of other climate action, but given that the problem is already here, it seems a good idea to be trying to fix it as well as preventing further damage. We need all the solutions we can find.
Solutionism in action - trying to deal with a problem at the end,rather than stop it occurring in the first place: "It has backed studies into anti-methane vaccines for cows, green aviation fuels, geothermal energy and carbon-removal technologies"
www.newscientist.com/article/2482...
www.newscientist.com/article/2482...
The man quietly spending $1 billion on climate action
From geoengineering to anti-methane cow vaccines and green aviation fuel, meet the former nuclear physicist helping to decide which climate change technologies hold the most promise
www.newscientist.com
June 14, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I feel out of step with other greens here but I think this is a good thing. It shouldn't come at the expense of other climate action, but given that the problem is already here, it seems a good idea to be trying to fix it as well as preventing further damage. We need all the solutions we can find.
The left needs to get better at arguing for universalism. Very easy to say 'why should the rich get xyz' when people don't realise how much more expensive means testing is.
Millionaires shouldn't get winter fuel allowance, minister says.
Populist spin to deflect from a bad policy
Universal WFA means no pensioner left out, no forms, no costly cliff edge means testing.
Can always be clawed back from the rich through code adjustment, higher tax on the rich.
Populist spin to deflect from a bad policy
Universal WFA means no pensioner left out, no forms, no costly cliff edge means testing.
Can always be clawed back from the rich through code adjustment, higher tax on the rich.
Millionaires shouldn't get winter fuel payments, minister says
Darren Jones says the pension top-up should only be
www.bbc.co.uk
May 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The left needs to get better at arguing for universalism. Very easy to say 'why should the rich get xyz' when people don't realise how much more expensive means testing is.
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Starmer's Britain.
Not even subtle.
Not even subtle.
May 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Starmer's Britain.
Not even subtle.
Not even subtle.
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This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.
March 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
This is Labour’s poll tax. Its tuition fees. It is - as Iraq was for Blair - the moral stain that will mark Starmer’s government and the party for years to come. Severely disabled people are going to be starved, isolated and degraded. No Labour MP who backs this will be forgiven.
Takeaways from that:
-Schlupp absolutely must be first choice LB for the rest of the season
-Hatate is basically done
-Idah is great when he's on it but too inconsistent to be our main man up front.
Dreadful performance but just another European hangover. 10 points ahead minimum so can't complain.
-Schlupp absolutely must be first choice LB for the rest of the season
-Hatate is basically done
-Idah is great when he's on it but too inconsistent to be our main man up front.
Dreadful performance but just another European hangover. 10 points ahead minimum so can't complain.
February 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Takeaways from that:
-Schlupp absolutely must be first choice LB for the rest of the season
-Hatate is basically done
-Idah is great when he's on it but too inconsistent to be our main man up front.
Dreadful performance but just another European hangover. 10 points ahead minimum so can't complain.
-Schlupp absolutely must be first choice LB for the rest of the season
-Hatate is basically done
-Idah is great when he's on it but too inconsistent to be our main man up front.
Dreadful performance but just another European hangover. 10 points ahead minimum so can't complain.
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"Anti-migrant politics will not build a single house, staff a single hospital or raise anyone’s wages. Instead, by echoing its rhetoric, the government is simply fuelling the rise of Reform UK"
Well done to these Labour MPs, trade unionists, and members. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Well done to these Labour MPs, trade unionists, and members. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
More than 900 Labour figures decry party’s migration and asylum policy
Joint statement accuses government of copying Tories’ ‘performative cruelty’
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"Anti-migrant politics will not build a single house, staff a single hospital or raise anyone’s wages. Instead, by echoing its rhetoric, the government is simply fuelling the rise of Reform UK"
Well done to these Labour MPs, trade unionists, and members. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Well done to these Labour MPs, trade unionists, and members. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Whatever people may think of Jeremy Corbyn, Woodcock is no longer a Labour member, and that is an unequivocal positive about Corbyn's leadership of the party.
🚨 BREAKING! 🚨
LORD WALNEY DUMPED (and on Valentine’s Day, no less)
EXCLUSIVE from @bylinetimes.bsky.social - The Home Office confirms that Walney, who was appointed by Boris Johnson, will leave Government.
Read: bylinetimes.com/2025/02/14/k...
#SackLordWalney #SackedLordWalney
LORD WALNEY DUMPED (and on Valentine’s Day, no less)
EXCLUSIVE from @bylinetimes.bsky.social - The Home Office confirms that Walney, who was appointed by Boris Johnson, will leave Government.
Read: bylinetimes.com/2025/02/14/k...
#SackLordWalney #SackedLordWalney
February 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Whatever people may think of Jeremy Corbyn, Woodcock is no longer a Labour member, and that is an unequivocal positive about Corbyn's leadership of the party.
Immigration rhetoric over the past few days has been as infuriating as depressing. Fuck Starmer, fuck his government and fuck Labour.
February 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Immigration rhetoric over the past few days has been as infuriating as depressing. Fuck Starmer, fuck his government and fuck Labour.
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What’s the point in refusing citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’?
What’s the point in publishing footage of people being deported?
I’m sorry to say that this is simply a continuation of the performative cruelty we saw from the Conservatives.
What’s the point in publishing footage of people being deported?
I’m sorry to say that this is simply a continuation of the performative cruelty we saw from the Conservatives.
February 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
What’s the point in refusing citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’?
What’s the point in publishing footage of people being deported?
I’m sorry to say that this is simply a continuation of the performative cruelty we saw from the Conservatives.
What’s the point in publishing footage of people being deported?
I’m sorry to say that this is simply a continuation of the performative cruelty we saw from the Conservatives.
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I’m very proud of my son, Ben, for running a football school in our community.
It was a pleasure to be interviewed alongside him to share our joint love of the grassroots game.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
It was a pleasure to be interviewed alongside him to share our joint love of the grassroots game.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
‘I don’t like corporate boxes’: Jeremy and Ben Corbyn on Arsenal, coaching and Starmer
The former Labour leader and his son tell Donald McRae how football changed their family, and discuss the pleasure and pain that comes from loving such a voraciously capitalist sport
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I’m very proud of my son, Ben, for running a football school in our community.
It was a pleasure to be interviewed alongside him to share our joint love of the grassroots game.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
It was a pleasure to be interviewed alongside him to share our joint love of the grassroots game.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Racism now becoming very much the mainstream in British politics. Not even trying to hide it any more.
Reform MP Rupert Lowe condemns “the mass rape of young, white working glass girls by gangs of Pakistani rapists", saying the victims "may well be in the millions”. He calls for a pause to visas from Pakistan and for the “wives, sisters, mothers, cousins” of perpetrators to also be deported.
January 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Racism now becoming very much the mainstream in British politics. Not even trying to hide it any more.
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How long are we gonna let these race-baiting sad acts dominate mainstream conversation with the line that “woke ideology” & multiculturalism are the crucial issues of our time?
When will we demand our politics focuses on bringing us economic justice?
Let’s make it 2025. Cmon.
When will we demand our politics focuses on bringing us economic justice?
Let’s make it 2025. Cmon.
December 24, 2024 at 1:49 PM
How long are we gonna let these race-baiting sad acts dominate mainstream conversation with the line that “woke ideology” & multiculturalism are the crucial issues of our time?
When will we demand our politics focuses on bringing us economic justice?
Let’s make it 2025. Cmon.
When will we demand our politics focuses on bringing us economic justice?
Let’s make it 2025. Cmon.
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Glasgow Celtic are the 2024 #PremierSportsCup Winners! 🏆
Congratulations to Brendan Rodgers & the Bhoys! 👏
#CelticFC🍀
Congratulations to Brendan Rodgers & the Bhoys! 👏
#CelticFC🍀
December 15, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Glasgow Celtic are the 2024 #PremierSportsCup Winners! 🏆
Congratulations to Brendan Rodgers & the Bhoys! 👏
#CelticFC🍀
Congratulations to Brendan Rodgers & the Bhoys! 👏
#CelticFC🍀
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Channel 4 documentary on benefits was ‘atrocity’ and ‘insult’ to disabled people in poverty, say activists
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/channel-4-do...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/channel-4-do...
Channel 4 documentary on benefits was ‘atrocity’ and ‘insult’ to disabled people in poverty, say activists
A Channel 4 documentary that claimed to expose the “scandal” of the disability benefits system has been described as an “atrocity” and an “insult” to the millions of disabled people in poverty. The…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
December 8, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Channel 4 documentary on benefits was ‘atrocity’ and ‘insult’ to disabled people in poverty, say activists
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/channel-4-do...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/channel-4-do...
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capitulating to the right latest:
Westminster Voting Intention:
CON: 26% (-1)
RFM: 24% (+2)
LAB: 23% (-2)
LDM: 11% (-1)
GRN: 9% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 4 Dec.
Changes w/ 27 Nov.
CON: 26% (-1)
RFM: 24% (+2)
LAB: 23% (-2)
LDM: 11% (-1)
GRN: 9% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)
Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 4 Dec.
Changes w/ 27 Nov.
December 5, 2024 at 4:40 PM
capitulating to the right latest:
You cannot out-Tory the Tories on these issues. This is just more vile rhetoric from a government which doesn't want to enact humane migration policies.
Starmer claims the Tories “opened the borders deliberately” to disguise economic failure. “Absolutely unforgivable” he says. He vows to bring down legal and illegal migration but no numerical target (note: they’ve never worked in the past).
December 5, 2024 at 12:42 PM
You cannot out-Tory the Tories on these issues. This is just more vile rhetoric from a government which doesn't want to enact humane migration policies.
Classic classism from everyone's favourite centrist FBPE comedian.
December 4, 2024 at 11:15 AM
Classic classism from everyone's favourite centrist FBPE comedian.
We might not have the riches or world class players of other leagues in Scotland, but we get some amount of entertainment value.
November 26, 2024 at 10:12 PM
We might not have the riches or world class players of other leagues in Scotland, but we get some amount of entertainment value.
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The ICC’s arrest warrants are long overdue.
The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum.
Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?
The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum.
Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?
November 21, 2024 at 12:46 PM
The ICC’s arrest warrants are long overdue.
The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum.
Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?
The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum.
Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?
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I am *shocked* to see that from the first government contracts handed out by the National Wealth Fund, EY and Grant Thornton both bagged work
Both firms donated significantly to Labour before the election, providing members of staff to work in party HQ and Starmer’s office
Both firms donated significantly to Labour before the election, providing members of staff to work in party HQ and Starmer’s office
November 21, 2024 at 8:59 AM
I am *shocked* to see that from the first government contracts handed out by the National Wealth Fund, EY and Grant Thornton both bagged work
Both firms donated significantly to Labour before the election, providing members of staff to work in party HQ and Starmer’s office
Both firms donated significantly to Labour before the election, providing members of staff to work in party HQ and Starmer’s office