Duncan Gill
@duncangill.bsky.social
SNP activist, when I get out of a comfy chair. Coffee, Packers, Dons, Guns N Roses… the important things in life
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When they don’t bring their children, of course, they’re dismissed as ‘young men of fighting age’.
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
When they don’t bring their children, of course, they’re dismissed as ‘young men of fighting age’.
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BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
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“It’s not fascism until its control is total and fear of it is ruling your life” is a take designed to keep you from fighting until it’s too late.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
November 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
“It’s not fascism until its control is total and fear of it is ruling your life” is a take designed to keep you from fighting until it’s too late.
Hope this helps.
Hope this helps.
This UK government disgusts me. This is what they think Britain is. This is what they think of the people who live here - that they want *this*.
They think they’re governing a hollow, selfish, short-sighted rabble of nostalgia-junkies.
Reason enough in itself to want Scotland to be shot of it.
They think they’re governing a hollow, selfish, short-sighted rabble of nostalgia-junkies.
Reason enough in itself to want Scotland to be shot of it.
I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...
Asylum and returns policy statement
This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.
www.gov.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This UK government disgusts me. This is what they think Britain is. This is what they think of the people who live here - that they want *this*.
They think they’re governing a hollow, selfish, short-sighted rabble of nostalgia-junkies.
Reason enough in itself to want Scotland to be shot of it.
They think they’re governing a hollow, selfish, short-sighted rabble of nostalgia-junkies.
Reason enough in itself to want Scotland to be shot of it.
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Labourism is a disease
Green MP Carla Denyer accuses Shabana Mahmood of trying to "out Reform Reform" and says "toxic racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants" are to blame for "tearing our country apart" not migrants.
Mahmood: "I couldn't care less what any other political party has to say about these matters"
Mahmood: "I couldn't care less what any other political party has to say about these matters"
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Labourism is a disease
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Labour MP Nadia Whittome tells Shabana Mahmood that her plans "fly in the face of decency and compassion" and "will force children and spouses into the hands of the very people smugglers that the Home Secretary is seeking to smash"
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Labour MP Nadia Whittome tells Shabana Mahmood that her plans "fly in the face of decency and compassion" and "will force children and spouses into the hands of the very people smugglers that the Home Secretary is seeking to smash"
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Shabana Mahmood asked by Labour MP John McDonnell to "give me the assurance that no child will be placed in detention as a result of this policy"
Mahmood does not give him that assurance
Mahmood does not give him that assurance
November 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Shabana Mahmood asked by Labour MP John McDonnell to "give me the assurance that no child will be placed in detention as a result of this policy"
Mahmood does not give him that assurance
Mahmood does not give him that assurance
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Child detention and forced removal is back:
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Child detention and forced removal is back:
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This is the bit on seizing jewellery. Perhaps shave their heads as well, could get good money for all that hair? But again, this is likely to create lots of bureaucracy yet have little real-world effect because it is so hard to do in practice.
November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is the bit on seizing jewellery. Perhaps shave their heads as well, could get good money for all that hair? But again, this is likely to create lots of bureaucracy yet have little real-world effect because it is so hard to do in practice.
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Labour's Stella Creasy asks Shabana Mahmood if she will "incarcerate children with their families as part of enforced return, or whether she intends to separate children from their mums and dads"?
Mahmood says she won't separate children, but doesn't say if they will be incarcerated
Mahmood says she won't separate children, but doesn't say if they will be incarcerated
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Labour's Stella Creasy asks Shabana Mahmood if she will "incarcerate children with their families as part of enforced return, or whether she intends to separate children from their mums and dads"?
Mahmood says she won't separate children, but doesn't say if they will be incarcerated
Mahmood says she won't separate children, but doesn't say if they will be incarcerated
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The absolute state of these people
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The absolute state of these people
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Serfs, Karen, the word you're looking for is serfs.
Watching the Mahmood announcement and debate. Tory backbencher (Karen Bradley) suggests putting refugees into debt and making them repay during the rest of their lives. Mahmood says she’ll think about it.
November 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Serfs, Karen, the word you're looking for is serfs.
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17 November 1945 | Josef Kramer, the commandant of Auschwitz II-Birkenau between May & November 1944, was sentenced to death in KL Bergen-Belsen trial. He was executed on December 13.
Our podcast about the SS garrison at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/JzoG7-iuh8o
Our podcast about the SS garrison at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/JzoG7-iuh8o
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
17 November 1945 | Josef Kramer, the commandant of Auschwitz II-Birkenau between May & November 1944, was sentenced to death in KL Bergen-Belsen trial. He was executed on December 13.
Our podcast about the SS garrison at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/JzoG7-iuh8o
Our podcast about the SS garrison at Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/JzoG7-iuh8o
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Is it bad if a sitting federal judge was (allegedly) part of a conspiracy to commit murder? It seems bad ....
OMFG-ex DOJ official (& now federal judge) Emil Bove was involved in the administration's plots to murder individuals via lethal strikes
"At a DOJ conference ... Bove told drug prosecutors the ... administration wasn't interested in interdicting ... Instead... the U.S. should "just sink the boats."
"At a DOJ conference ... Bove told drug prosecutors the ... administration wasn't interested in interdicting ... Instead... the U.S. should "just sink the boats."
November 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Is it bad if a sitting federal judge was (allegedly) part of a conspiracy to commit murder? It seems bad ....
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How big a piece of shit would you have to be to buy the confiscated jewelry of asylum seekers at a government auction?
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
How big a piece of shit would you have to be to buy the confiscated jewelry of asylum seekers at a government auction?
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Did Goebbels write this?????
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Did Goebbels write this?????
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Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
November 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist
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Bulgaria joins the Euro on January 1, 2026. The Euro is already a deeply troubled currency that's de facto run by high-debt countries who bend the ECB to their will. Is it a good idea to pursue enlargement with Bulgaria, where transshipments to Russia are going through the roof? Race to the bottom.
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Bulgaria joins the Euro on January 1, 2026. The Euro is already a deeply troubled currency that's de facto run by high-debt countries who bend the ECB to their will. Is it a good idea to pursue enlargement with Bulgaria, where transshipments to Russia are going through the roof? Race to the bottom.
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gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
gosh I wonder why they called her peril www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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It's highly doubtful that the sorts of people who have time and inclination to participate in phone-ins and vox pops are in any way representative of public opinion. Most of these people aren't at work on a Monday morning!
One way to take some of the heat out of politics, which is within the BBC's control, is to drop phone-ins and vox pops.
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It's highly doubtful that the sorts of people who have time and inclination to participate in phone-ins and vox pops are in any way representative of public opinion. Most of these people aren't at work on a Monday morning!
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Labour MP for Stroud, Simon Opher, says his party should "stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel".
"We should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it".
"We should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it".
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Labour MP for Stroud, Simon Opher, says his party should "stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel".
"We should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it".
"We should push back on the racist agenda of Reform rather than echo it".
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If this was nationalised, the usual suspects would say "typical government, nothing works!" But things working is a function of care, investment, management, staffing, resource allocation. The only difference privatisation makes by itself is how many middle men you pay.
The state of privatised Post Office in UK...
This is a busy Broadway post office in London ...
Nothing is working
This is a busy Broadway post office in London ...
Nothing is working
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
If this was nationalised, the usual suspects would say "typical government, nothing works!" But things working is a function of care, investment, management, staffing, resource allocation. The only difference privatisation makes by itself is how many middle men you pay.
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To be explicit, there is NO common ground to be found with those who'd willingly advocate for the most vulnerable to be stripped of what is likely their last remaining worldly good on this earth. Nor those who'd excuse it.
If you think they can be "nuanced" out of that world view, you're deluded.
If you think they can be "nuanced" out of that world view, you're deluded.
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
To be explicit, there is NO common ground to be found with those who'd willingly advocate for the most vulnerable to be stripped of what is likely their last remaining worldly good on this earth. Nor those who'd excuse it.
If you think they can be "nuanced" out of that world view, you're deluded.
If you think they can be "nuanced" out of that world view, you're deluded.
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