Zofia Duszynska
@duszdemon.bsky.social
Asylum, human rights and civil liberties lawyer #Legal500 UK
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Great post from Kirsty Hughes on Labour's flailing efforts towards a statutory redefinition of the meaning of family rights for immigration purposes:
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/11/19/k...
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/11/19/k...
November 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Great post from Kirsty Hughes on Labour's flailing efforts towards a statutory redefinition of the meaning of family rights for immigration purposes:
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/11/19/k...
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/11/19/k...
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🔴Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Plans Will Put Human Trafficking Victims at Risk, Warn Anti-Slavery Groups
Leading anti-slavery organisations have told Byline Times that the new measures could allow trafficking and forced labour to thrive
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/s...
Leading anti-slavery organisations have told Byline Times that the new measures could allow trafficking and forced labour to thrive
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/s...
Shabana Mahmood's Asylum Plans Will Put Human Trafficking Victims at Risk, Warn Anti-Slavery Groups
Leading anti-slavery organisations have told Byline Times that the new measures could allow trafficking and forced labour to thrive
bylinetimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🔴Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Plans Will Put Human Trafficking Victims at Risk, Warn Anti-Slavery Groups
Leading anti-slavery organisations have told Byline Times that the new measures could allow trafficking and forced labour to thrive
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/s...
Leading anti-slavery organisations have told Byline Times that the new measures could allow trafficking and forced labour to thrive
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/s...
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Labour peer Lord Dubs: "To use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown
Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Labour peer Lord Dubs: "To use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...
I found some bits of the government’s immigration announcement confusing. Asylum support is already means-tested and not mandatory (see s95).
It’s stopped very often for little reason.
Asylum-seekers don’t have the right to work unless they specifically request and receive it …1/
It’s stopped very often for little reason.
Asylum-seekers don’t have the right to work unless they specifically request and receive it …1/
November 18, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I found some bits of the government’s immigration announcement confusing. Asylum support is already means-tested and not mandatory (see s95).
It’s stopped very often for little reason.
Asylum-seekers don’t have the right to work unless they specifically request and receive it …1/
It’s stopped very often for little reason.
Asylum-seekers don’t have the right to work unless they specifically request and receive it …1/
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Why stop at jewelry? Why not gold fillings? Jesus fucking Christ
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Why stop at jewelry? Why not gold fillings? Jesus fucking Christ
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I’m so bored with immigration grabbing all the headlines while this, surely , is the real issue. Poverty, housing, health, schooling…
news.sky.com/story/inside...
news.sky.com/story/inside...
Inside the town where 6 out of 7 children grow up in poverty - and live in fear of homelessness
As ministers prepare to act on child poverty, families in the area are backing calls for the two-child cap on benefits to be scrapped, and even local children say they are worried about becoming homel...
news.sky.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I’m so bored with immigration grabbing all the headlines while this, surely , is the real issue. Poverty, housing, health, schooling…
news.sky.com/story/inside...
news.sky.com/story/inside...
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‘Government sources said rules that mean most asylum seekers are not allowed to have jobs will not change.’ It’s absurd that the govt chooses to continue with a rule that puts asylum seekers in a situation of dependency, then attacks then for needing ‘handouts’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK government set to make support for asylum seekers ‘discretionary’
Home secretary expected to change system to deny help to those who can work or who have assets
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
‘Government sources said rules that mean most asylum seekers are not allowed to have jobs will not change.’ It’s absurd that the govt chooses to continue with a rule that puts asylum seekers in a situation of dependency, then attacks then for needing ‘handouts’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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This idea that the UK is "excessively generous" is a flat out lie. Countries such as France have far higher support for this seeking asylum for example. It's a myth used to try and defend the indefensible. Britain has never been welcoming, it has only got more hostile
novaramedia.com/2022/03/18/b...
novaramedia.com/2022/03/18/b...
Britain Has Never Been Welcoming to Refugees | Novara Media
From Russia's war with Ukraine to the second world war, the nostalgic myth of Britain being welcoming to refugees is exactly that; a myth. Daniel Sohege explains.
novaramedia.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This idea that the UK is "excessively generous" is a flat out lie. Countries such as France have far higher support for this seeking asylum for example. It's a myth used to try and defend the indefensible. Britain has never been welcoming, it has only got more hostile
novaramedia.com/2022/03/18/b...
novaramedia.com/2022/03/18/b...
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Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Asylum Hotels Report
Our new report, Profiting from People: Inside the UK’s Asylum Hotels , exposes the true horrors that refugees face whilst housed for years on end in asylum hotels. We’ve long known this, and now...
www.ramfel.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
Our new report on hotel accommodation drops today.
These hotels are not 5*. Here's the proof.
Relying on testimony from clients, photos & medical evidence, you can now see the awful reality of hotel life.
More updates throughout the day so watch this space.
www.ramfel.org.uk/asylum-hotel...
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Lovely message from @neuroblastomauk.bsky.social thanking Alan Carr.
Shared on their X.
#CelebrityTraitors
Shared on their X.
#CelebrityTraitors
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Lovely message from @neuroblastomauk.bsky.social thanking Alan Carr.
Shared on their X.
#CelebrityTraitors
Shared on their X.
#CelebrityTraitors
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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👏 Today marks 75 years since the creation of the ECHR.
We should celebrate the vision that Winston Churchill showed in recognising everyone’s human rights.
But there are now calls for the UK to leave ECHR.
As with Brexit, leaving would strip all of us of fundamental rights.
The Bear explains
We should celebrate the vision that Winston Churchill showed in recognising everyone’s human rights.
But there are now calls for the UK to leave ECHR.
As with Brexit, leaving would strip all of us of fundamental rights.
The Bear explains
Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
👏 Today marks 75 years since the creation of the ECHR.
We should celebrate the vision that Winston Churchill showed in recognising everyone’s human rights.
But there are now calls for the UK to leave ECHR.
As with Brexit, leaving would strip all of us of fundamental rights.
The Bear explains
We should celebrate the vision that Winston Churchill showed in recognising everyone’s human rights.
But there are now calls for the UK to leave ECHR.
As with Brexit, leaving would strip all of us of fundamental rights.
The Bear explains
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I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train
November 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train
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October 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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'A gold mine for extortion and more stressful than the pandemic'
@FionaBawdon talks to lawyers about the impact of the Legal Aid Agency’s catastrophic data breach – and their fears about what happens next.
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@FionaBawdon talks to lawyers about the impact of the Legal Aid Agency’s catastrophic data breach – and their fears about what happens next.
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Waiting for ‘the monster around the corner’
Fiona Bawdon talks to lawyers about the impact of the Legal Aid Agency’s catastrophic data breach – and their fears about what happens next.
www.lag.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
'A gold mine for extortion and more stressful than the pandemic'
@FionaBawdon talks to lawyers about the impact of the Legal Aid Agency’s catastrophic data breach – and their fears about what happens next.
Read more👇
@FionaBawdon talks to lawyers about the impact of the Legal Aid Agency’s catastrophic data breach – and their fears about what happens next.
Read more👇
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Tory MP Katie Lam demands that legally settled families be deported.
Barely concealed racism as Tories copy Reform. What next - special badges and camps for minorities.
A line in political discourse has been crossed.
Will the next road to Auschwitz and Treblinka go through Clacton?
Barely concealed racism as Tories copy Reform. What next - special badges and camps for minorities.
A line in political discourse has been crossed.
Will the next road to Auschwitz and Treblinka go through Clacton?
Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Tory MP Katie Lam demands that legally settled families be deported.
Barely concealed racism as Tories copy Reform. What next - special badges and camps for minorities.
A line in political discourse has been crossed.
Will the next road to Auschwitz and Treblinka go through Clacton?
Barely concealed racism as Tories copy Reform. What next - special badges and camps for minorities.
A line in political discourse has been crossed.
Will the next road to Auschwitz and Treblinka go through Clacton?
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There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 12:35 PM
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts
Spending is controlled, not spiralling
Worklessness is near record lows
My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.
To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns
The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo
www.mirror.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.
To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Reform UK’s Danny Kruger is a liar, and is putting out dangerous language like this.
There’s no evidence supporting this.
Comments like this lead to at best division and at worst violence against Muslims.
There’s no evidence supporting this.
Comments like this lead to at best division and at worst violence against Muslims.
September 27, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Reform UK’s Danny Kruger is a liar, and is putting out dangerous language like this.
There’s no evidence supporting this.
Comments like this lead to at best division and at worst violence against Muslims.
There’s no evidence supporting this.
Comments like this lead to at best division and at worst violence against Muslims.
Conclusion: leaving the ECHR wouldn’t change things much in immigration cases (but doesn’t mention UK would lose all credibility if we did)
news.sky.com/story/inside...
news.sky.com/story/inside...
Inside the courts where migrants appeal removal from Britain - amid clamour to leave ECHR
Sky News has been to an immigration court appeal to see how the European Convention on Human Rights is being used in legal arguments by migrants to remain in Britain, amid calls for the UK to withdraw...
news.sky.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Conclusion: leaving the ECHR wouldn’t change things much in immigration cases (but doesn’t mention UK would lose all credibility if we did)
news.sky.com/story/inside...
news.sky.com/story/inside...
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‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south
‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south
‘Not enough of anything’, says surgeon, as Israel’s assault forces injured, sick and hungry people to leave Gaza City
The few remaining hospitals and clinics in central and southern Gaza are being overwhelmed by a “tsunami” of injured and sick patients fleeing a new Israeli offensive in the north of the devastated territory, medics say.
At both Nasser medical complex, in the southern city of Khan Younis, and field hospitals in al-Muwasi, the coastal “humanitarian zone” designated by Israel, staff are struggling to cope with large numbers of new arrivals forced out of Gaza City in the north of the devastated Palestinian territory. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM
‘We are at our limit’: Gaza’s last hospitals overwhelmed as thousands flee south
Of course in French ‘terrible’ means actually really excellent.
(And it’s nonsense about Sharia Law. Who’s ‘they’ anyway?)
London is great - open, liberal, inclusive, cleaner
(And it’s nonsense about Sharia Law. Who’s ‘they’ anyway?)
London is great - open, liberal, inclusive, cleaner
Trump to the UN: "I have to say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor -- terrible terrible mayor -- and it's been so changed, so changed. Now they want to go to Sharia Law ... both their immigration and their suicidal energy ideas will be the death of Western Europe."
September 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Of course in French ‘terrible’ means actually really excellent.
(And it’s nonsense about Sharia Law. Who’s ‘they’ anyway?)
London is great - open, liberal, inclusive, cleaner
(And it’s nonsense about Sharia Law. Who’s ‘they’ anyway?)
London is great - open, liberal, inclusive, cleaner
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Unrecognisable.
September 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Unrecognisable.
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A message to every Londoner, and anyone who talks our city down.
September 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
A message to every Londoner, and anyone who talks our city down.