Colin Parker
@colinparker.bsky.social
Refugee Action campaigns and media, 90s mountain bikes, Talking Nuts podcast
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If you want a pristine example of how absolutely everything in this country is distorted by the perceived need to perform for right wing voters, look no further than the question of permission to work for asylum seekers
April 15, 2025 at 6:47 AM
If you want a pristine example of how absolutely everything in this country is distorted by the perceived need to perform for right wing voters, look no further than the question of permission to work for asylum seekers
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Wrote about why Labour's dual approach of enforcement and externalisation won't work and will only lead to more crossings and more deaths in the Channel.
@lbc.co.uk
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I’ve seen the small boats crisis first-hand - Starmer’s crackdown is making it worse
Last week Keir Starmer held yet another summit for world leaders, this time focused on ‘organised immigration crime’.
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April 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Wrote about why Labour's dual approach of enforcement and externalisation won't work and will only lead to more crossings and more deaths in the Channel.
@lbc.co.uk
www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
@lbc.co.uk
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More lies.
Starmer is manufacturing hate and division because his government is yet another political failure.
(Video credit: @saulstaniforth)
Starmer is manufacturing hate and division because his government is yet another political failure.
(Video credit: @saulstaniforth)
April 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
More lies.
Starmer is manufacturing hate and division because his government is yet another political failure.
(Video credit: @saulstaniforth)
Starmer is manufacturing hate and division because his government is yet another political failure.
(Video credit: @saulstaniforth)
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Expanding mega-polluting airports that burn our futures.
And now cutting support for the most vulnerable.
All the while letting the very richest amass more wealth than ever before as living standards decline for millions.
Who is this government for?
And now cutting support for the most vulnerable.
All the while letting the very richest amass more wealth than ever before as living standards decline for millions.
Who is this government for?
March 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Expanding mega-polluting airports that burn our futures.
And now cutting support for the most vulnerable.
All the while letting the very richest amass more wealth than ever before as living standards decline for millions.
Who is this government for?
And now cutting support for the most vulnerable.
All the while letting the very richest amass more wealth than ever before as living standards decline for millions.
Who is this government for?
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You know that fossil fuel & food companies work their way into UN COP climate negotiations.
You know they secretly push their corporate agendas.
Would you like to see how?
This new paper uses machine learning to uncover what happened at 20 years of COP side events:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
You know they secretly push their corporate agendas.
Would you like to see how?
This new paper uses machine learning to uncover what happened at 20 years of COP side events:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tracing inclusivity at UNFCCC conferences through side events and interest group dynamics - Nature Climate Change
Side events of annual UNFCCC Conferences of Parties are one of several channels by which non-state actors influence climate negotiation. By analysing discourse and networks of actors, this research ex...
www.nature.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
You know that fossil fuel & food companies work their way into UN COP climate negotiations.
You know they secretly push their corporate agendas.
Would you like to see how?
This new paper uses machine learning to uncover what happened at 20 years of COP side events:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
You know they secretly push their corporate agendas.
Would you like to see how?
This new paper uses machine learning to uncover what happened at 20 years of COP side events:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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To build a fairer asylum system, we must listen to those who've endured the chaotic, cruel and costly system we have today.
Yesterday an amazing group of lived experience campaigners visited Westminster to tell MPs, including asylum minister Angela Eagle, what needs to change.
Yesterday an amazing group of lived experience campaigners visited Westminster to tell MPs, including asylum minister Angela Eagle, what needs to change.
December 4, 2024 at 3:09 PM
To build a fairer asylum system, we must listen to those who've endured the chaotic, cruel and costly system we have today.
Yesterday an amazing group of lived experience campaigners visited Westminster to tell MPs, including asylum minister Angela Eagle, what needs to change.
Yesterday an amazing group of lived experience campaigners visited Westminster to tell MPs, including asylum minister Angela Eagle, what needs to change.
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"These are places of de facto detention"
Terrible food, doors which won't lock and chronic damp. Our Chief Executive @timnaorhilton.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio 4's File on Four about the poor conditions people seeking asylum are housed in, and proposes an alternative way.
Terrible food, doors which won't lock and chronic damp. Our Chief Executive @timnaorhilton.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio 4's File on Four about the poor conditions people seeking asylum are housed in, and proposes an alternative way.
November 29, 2024 at 5:38 PM
"These are places of de facto detention"
Terrible food, doors which won't lock and chronic damp. Our Chief Executive @timnaorhilton.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio 4's File on Four about the poor conditions people seeking asylum are housed in, and proposes an alternative way.
Terrible food, doors which won't lock and chronic damp. Our Chief Executive @timnaorhilton.bsky.social spoke to BBC Radio 4's File on Four about the poor conditions people seeking asylum are housed in, and proposes an alternative way.