Calum W
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Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Labour’s “we have to do it, or racism will get worse” argument is striking. Any other public policy failures British ethnic minorities should be on the hook for? Can we be blamed en bloc for Rachel Reeves’ budget next week too? www.ft.com/content/37b0...
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Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say."
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question
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Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson.
That's it.
That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
That's it.
That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson.
That's it.
That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
That's it.
That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
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For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 AM
For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.
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Surely this is incitement? Surely this is stirring racial hatred?
Why isn't Alison Pearson being charged with offences for deliberately spreading dangerous lies about minority groups?
Why isn't Alison Pearson being charged with offences for deliberately spreading dangerous lies about minority groups?
A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Surely this is incitement? Surely this is stirring racial hatred?
Why isn't Alison Pearson being charged with offences for deliberately spreading dangerous lies about minority groups?
Why isn't Alison Pearson being charged with offences for deliberately spreading dangerous lies about minority groups?
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A statement saying both that they haven't decided their policy on indy yet and that they're the only ones who'd deliver it correctly at the same time is actually ridiculous
A huge Your Party rally in Glasgow on Friday — and three new councillors defecting from the Greens to mark it! ✊🏽
Independence is a question of democracy: our Scottish members will choose our path.
Your Party is the only party that would actually deliver independence with socialism at its heart.
Independence is a question of democracy: our Scottish members will choose our path.
Your Party is the only party that would actually deliver independence with socialism at its heart.
October 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A statement saying both that they haven't decided their policy on indy yet and that they're the only ones who'd deliver it correctly at the same time is actually ridiculous
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Absolutely stonking Plaid win in Caerphilly: as I understand what by-elections mean, Labour will now have to back Welsh Independence and a bunch of left wing policies in order to win back support, right? Or is it only when they lose narrowly to the fash they take up their policies?
October 24, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Absolutely stonking Plaid win in Caerphilly: as I understand what by-elections mean, Labour will now have to back Welsh Independence and a bunch of left wing policies in order to win back support, right? Or is it only when they lose narrowly to the fash they take up their policies?
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What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
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The man whose presence might lead to Tel Aviv football fans being “falsely associated with his far-right activities,” has just visited Tel Aviv as an honoured guest of the Israeli government. Riddle me that.
A Maccabi club source told the UK Jewish News that the intervention of far right political activist Tommy Robinson pledging to attend the game as a Maccabi fan was the "final straw" for their decision about the risks of accepting tickets amid this row
www.jewishnews.co.uk/exclusive-ma...
www.jewishnews.co.uk/exclusive-ma...
October 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The man whose presence might lead to Tel Aviv football fans being “falsely associated with his far-right activities,” has just visited Tel Aviv as an honoured guest of the Israeli government. Riddle me that.
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Looks like Maccabi have saved the UK government from the spectacle of somehow overturning an expert public safety assessment.
Either politicians make public safety at sports stadiums an absolute priority or they do not.
#AVFC
Either politicians make public safety at sports stadiums an absolute priority or they do not.
#AVFC
Maccabi Tel Aviv say in a statement that they will "decline any allocation offered on behalf of away fans" for next month's Europa League match against Aston Villa at Villa Park, adding that "the wellbeing and safety of our fans is paramount."
#AVFC
#AVFC
October 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Looks like Maccabi have saved the UK government from the spectacle of somehow overturning an expert public safety assessment.
Either politicians make public safety at sports stadiums an absolute priority or they do not.
#AVFC
Either politicians make public safety at sports stadiums an absolute priority or they do not.
#AVFC
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Well done Starmer, you played another political blinder.
October 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Well done Starmer, you played another political blinder.
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This is who the centrist commentators and “grown ups in the room” MPs are jumping in to defend btw.
October 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This is who the centrist commentators and “grown ups in the room” MPs are jumping in to defend btw.
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I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities
Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
📊 @bwalker.uk
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
📊 @bwalker.uk
Crying racism only hurts Labour
Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.
www.newstatesman.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities
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You will note how some proscribed groups are violently suppressed by the state with definitions broad enough to encompass pensioners and disabled people holding signs, while other proscribed groups are apparently free to operate in the open and ‘have a word with themselves’ over assaulting women.
UDA bosses are coming under pressure to take action against members who were involved in assaulting a female at an eleventh night bonfire in the Rathcoole estate.
UDA bosses under pressure to take action over assault of woman at Eleventh night bonfire
UDA bosses are coming under pressure to take action against members who were involved in assaulting a female at an eleventh night bonfire in the Rathcoole estate.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
September 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
You will note how some proscribed groups are violently suppressed by the state with definitions broad enough to encompass pensioners and disabled people holding signs, while other proscribed groups are apparently free to operate in the open and ‘have a word with themselves’ over assaulting women.
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Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
September 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.
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Unless the government introduces PR, there will be a far right government in power in 2029. And like the compliant liberals they always were, the Labour party are building the administrative tools to help those fascists round you and your friends up for deportation. Frightening.
Starmer to unveil plan for digital ID cards to crack down on illegal immigration
Starmer to unveil plan for digital ID cards to crack down on illegal immigration
Every adult in Britain will require a digital ID under plans to be set out by Sir Keir Starmer.
news.sky.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Unless the government introduces PR, there will be a far right government in power in 2029. And like the compliant liberals they always were, the Labour party are building the administrative tools to help those fascists round you and your friends up for deportation. Frightening.
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Aviation expansion is a disaster for the climate crisis.
Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet.
Just big business & their own interests.
#Gatwick
Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet.
Just big business & their own interests.
#Gatwick
September 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Aviation expansion is a disaster for the climate crisis.
Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet.
Just big business & their own interests.
#Gatwick
Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet.
Just big business & their own interests.
#Gatwick
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This article significantly undersells the extent to which the racists were outnumbered and outsung and, ultimately, the total victory of the anti-fascists.
September 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This article significantly undersells the extent to which the racists were outnumbered and outsung and, ultimately, the total victory of the anti-fascists.
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The right has never supported freedom of speech. Ever. Anyone who believed they did is not fit to have an opinion on politics.
Trump:
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
"When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
September 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The right has never supported freedom of speech. Ever. Anyone who believed they did is not fit to have an opinion on politics.