essbb.bsky.social
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Borders, labor migration, and
international ‘development’
international ‘development’
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The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 27, 2025 at 9:40 AM
The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
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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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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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The Sun hasn’t turned a profit for years, which raises questions about what its purpose is and always was, if it isn’t “making money”.
October 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The Sun hasn’t turned a profit for years, which raises questions about what its purpose is and always was, if it isn’t “making money”.
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Tomorrow, London www.appg-ar.org/uk-reparatio...
UK Reparations Conference 2025 — APPG for Afrikan Reparations
Register today to attend the 2025 UK Reparations Conference: Delivering Justice Through Repair, taking place at Friends House, Euston on Saturday 18 October.
www.appg-ar.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Tomorrow, London www.appg-ar.org/uk-reparatio...
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Care workers supporting elderly and disabled people have been advised to travel to work in racially mixed groups and carry panic alarms.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers
Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Care workers supporting elderly and disabled people have been advised to travel to work in racially mixed groups and carry panic alarms.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Michael Eugene Archer aka D’Angelo 🖤🕊️
October 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Michael Eugene Archer aka D’Angelo 🖤🕊️
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Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?"
Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country"
Labour have gone utterly bonkers
Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country"
Labour have gone utterly bonkers
September 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Krishnan Guru Murthy, "Isn't it a bit insulting to say to an Indian doctor who is working 60-70 hours a week that in order to get settled status he's got to volunteer?"
Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country"
Labour have gone utterly bonkers
Rachel Reeves, "We want people to contribute if they come to our country"
Labour have gone utterly bonkers
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Much of the media continue to allow Farage to elide the figures for all immigration with asylum seekers, and the reality for asylum seekers, who are prevented from working, with other immigrants. He is repeatedly enabled to blow immigration issues out of all proportion.
Farage repeating - yet again - the simple lie that most new migrants don't work.
Completely unchallenged by Kuenssberg, yet again.
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...
Completely unchallenged by Kuenssberg, yet again.
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...
September 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Much of the media continue to allow Farage to elide the figures for all immigration with asylum seekers, and the reality for asylum seekers, who are prevented from working, with other immigrants. He is repeatedly enabled to blow immigration issues out of all proportion.
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Whenever someone gets mad at me for questioning the net usefulness of AI and says something like “you’re like the people who didn’t want to use the internet”—with love, I was born in 1997, and my life growing up online is all the evidence I need that we should handle AI differently than we are now
July 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Whenever someone gets mad at me for questioning the net usefulness of AI and says something like “you’re like the people who didn’t want to use the internet”—with love, I was born in 1997, and my life growing up online is all the evidence I need that we should handle AI differently than we are now
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But you get arrested on sight for saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". Saying those words is terrorism. Whereas this burning of effigies of refugees, that's just culture
Effigies of migrants in a boat have been placed on a loyalist bonfire in Northern Ireland, prompting condemnation and calls for the display to be removed ahead of the pyre being lit. http://jrnl.ie/6757728
Calls for removal of migrant effigies in boat placed on loyalist bonfire in NI
The boat containing more than a dozen mannequins wearing life jackets has been erected on top of the bonfire in Moygashel in Co Tyrone.
jrnl.ie
July 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
But you get arrested on sight for saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". Saying those words is terrorism. Whereas this burning of effigies of refugees, that's just culture
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Under new Texas law restricting comprehensive pregnancy care, maternal deaths rose 61%
June 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Under new Texas law restricting comprehensive pregnancy care, maternal deaths rose 61%
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We need to ask questions about what it is about the culture of MPs of this particular ethnicity that makes them continually be arrested for sexual assault
Yet another MP up on sexual assault charges. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Suffolk MP Patrick Spencer pleads not guilty to sexual assault
He is accused of two attacks on two separate women in August 2023.
www.bbc.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
We need to ask questions about what it is about the culture of MPs of this particular ethnicity that makes them continually be arrested for sexual assault
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Remember this iconic photo from Ferguson? This is Edward Crawford, throwing back a tear gas canister to protect some nearby kids.
Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.
Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.
June 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Remember this iconic photo from Ferguson? This is Edward Crawford, throwing back a tear gas canister to protect some nearby kids.
Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.
Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.
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Literally two weeks ago Stephen Miller screamed at ICE leadership for not raiding Home Depots.
We are in Hell. This is the Home Depot/Paramount
June 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Literally two weeks ago Stephen Miller screamed at ICE leadership for not raiding Home Depots.
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I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
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Yvette Cooper repeatedly refused to give a straight answer just now on Today to straight Q “Will councils get more money to pay care workers more?” She repeatedly committed to higher carer pay but wouldn’t commit to money so councils can fund it. Think that speaks volumes about the mess we are in.
May 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Yvette Cooper repeatedly refused to give a straight answer just now on Today to straight Q “Will councils get more money to pay care workers more?” She repeatedly committed to higher carer pay but wouldn’t commit to money so councils can fund it. Think that speaks volumes about the mess we are in.
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One again, this is simply not true.
Non-UK origin employeea have (slightly) higher median earnings than UK-origin ones -and the gap has if anything widened (slightly) recently.
Non-UK origin employeea have (slightly) higher median earnings than UK-origin ones -and the gap has if anything widened (slightly) recently.
May 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
One again, this is simply not true.
Non-UK origin employeea have (slightly) higher median earnings than UK-origin ones -and the gap has if anything widened (slightly) recently.
Non-UK origin employeea have (slightly) higher median earnings than UK-origin ones -and the gap has if anything widened (slightly) recently.
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“Africa is poor because Black people are inferior”
ah ok. well meet Patrice Lumumba. Congo’s first elected leader. he tried to nationalize resources to help his people. President Eisenhower approved his assassination. he was tortured, shot, cut up into 34 pieces and dissolved in acid.
ah ok. well meet Patrice Lumumba. Congo’s first elected leader. he tried to nationalize resources to help his people. President Eisenhower approved his assassination. he was tortured, shot, cut up into 34 pieces and dissolved in acid.
April 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“Africa is poor because Black people are inferior”
ah ok. well meet Patrice Lumumba. Congo’s first elected leader. he tried to nationalize resources to help his people. President Eisenhower approved his assassination. he was tortured, shot, cut up into 34 pieces and dissolved in acid.
ah ok. well meet Patrice Lumumba. Congo’s first elected leader. he tried to nationalize resources to help his people. President Eisenhower approved his assassination. he was tortured, shot, cut up into 34 pieces and dissolved in acid.
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This should start major discourse about radicalisation, misogyny and white supremacy but of course it won’t.
The man suspected of launching a crossbow attack in Leeds had posted a manifesto on Facebook that has been widely shared - but doesn't tell the full story
Owen Lawrence was heavily influenced by US mass shootings and white supremacism,and also voiced misogynist views
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...
Owen Lawrence was heavily influenced by US mass shootings and white supremacism,and also voiced misogynist views
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/w...
U.K. Crossbow Attack Suspect Voiced Racist and Misogynist Views (Gift Article)
The British police said a man accused of an attack on the weekend in Leeds died from a self-inflicted injury. Investigators are reviewing two Facebook accounts associated with him.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This should start major discourse about radicalisation, misogyny and white supremacy but of course it won’t.
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50th! Feels like we should have it a party.
April 19, 2025 at 7:40 PM
50th! Feels like we should have it a party.
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Another story that must be told:
An ICE agent grabbed Merwil Gutiérrez. One of his fellow agents said, “No, he’s not the one.”
Merwil Gutiérrez is a 19-year-old asylum applicant who lives in the Bronx. He was the “wrong one.” ICE wasn’t there looking for him.
“Take him anyway,” came the reply.
An ICE agent grabbed Merwil Gutiérrez. One of his fellow agents said, “No, he’s not the one.”
Merwil Gutiérrez is a 19-year-old asylum applicant who lives in the Bronx. He was the “wrong one.” ICE wasn’t there looking for him.
“Take him anyway,” came the reply.
April 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Another story that must be told:
An ICE agent grabbed Merwil Gutiérrez. One of his fellow agents said, “No, he’s not the one.”
Merwil Gutiérrez is a 19-year-old asylum applicant who lives in the Bronx. He was the “wrong one.” ICE wasn’t there looking for him.
“Take him anyway,” came the reply.
An ICE agent grabbed Merwil Gutiérrez. One of his fellow agents said, “No, he’s not the one.”
Merwil Gutiérrez is a 19-year-old asylum applicant who lives in the Bronx. He was the “wrong one.” ICE wasn’t there looking for him.
“Take him anyway,” came the reply.
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"not on a level with Reform"? You've not been paying attention then
April 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
"not on a level with Reform"? You've not been paying attention then
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February 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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The focus on the "white working class" and their "legitimate concerns" about immigration is always about splitting the working class to prevent radical change to the economic system
This has been going on for two centuries
This has been going on for two centuries
By contrast, working class immigrants and their working class families are clearly not worthy of this respect. Hence this gaslighting that the wide-ranging hostility they have faced for decades from many sectors of British society is no more than the "concerns" of primarily working class people.
EXCL Keir Starmer has told his cabinet Labour must stop looking down on working class voters and their immigration concerns.
In a letter to the cabinet, the PM wrote “good faith paternalism has too readily become looking down at people.”
More in London Playbook
www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
In a letter to the cabinet, the PM wrote “good faith paternalism has too readily become looking down at people.”
More in London Playbook
www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
February 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The focus on the "white working class" and their "legitimate concerns" about immigration is always about splitting the working class to prevent radical change to the economic system
This has been going on for two centuries
This has been going on for two centuries