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We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel.
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵
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I've written for the Metro on how Starmer's latest attempt to look 'tough' on asylum seeker hotels has exposed him as a coward.
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward
The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.
metro.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I've written for the Metro on how Starmer's latest attempt to look 'tough' on asylum seeker hotels has exposed him as a coward.
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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Trust has eroded because successive governments have failed on the cost of living, housing & child poverty crises - not because of our borders.
Politicians have failed to tell the truth about how reliant we are on migration - and how it benefits all of us.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Politicians have failed to tell the truth about how reliant we are on migration - and how it benefits all of us.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Border failings in Europe are eroding trust in nation states, warns Mahmood
Home secretary to tell meeting of interior ministers that international cooperation is way to curb irregular migration
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Trust has eroded because successive governments have failed on the cost of living, housing & child poverty crises - not because of our borders.
Politicians have failed to tell the truth about how reliant we are on migration - and how it benefits all of us.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Politicians have failed to tell the truth about how reliant we are on migration - and how it benefits all of us.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Good.
Now stop arms sales to Israel, implement hefty sanctions on the Netanyahu regime and its members, and use your place on the UN Security Council to back up Resolution 242 with action. It's fucking genocide.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Now stop arms sales to Israel, implement hefty sanctions on the Netanyahu regime and its members, and use your place on the UN Security Council to back up Resolution 242 with action. It's fucking genocide.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK recognises Palestine as an independent state
Keir Starmer’s announcement comes seven decades after end of British mandate in Palestine and creation of state of Israel
www.theguardian.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Good.
Now stop arms sales to Israel, implement hefty sanctions on the Netanyahu regime and its members, and use your place on the UN Security Council to back up Resolution 242 with action. It's fucking genocide.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Now stop arms sales to Israel, implement hefty sanctions on the Netanyahu regime and its members, and use your place on the UN Security Council to back up Resolution 242 with action. It's fucking genocide.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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NEW:
The union Unite accuses Ben Houchen of being "taken advantage of" by Saudi businessmen in a row over redundancies on Teesside.
“Ben Houchen has clearly been taken in by the Saudis’ rhetoric and they have taken advantage of him,” they said.
The union Unite accuses Ben Houchen of being "taken advantage of" by Saudi businessmen in a row over redundancies on Teesside.
“Ben Houchen has clearly been taken in by the Saudis’ rhetoric and they have taken advantage of him,” they said.
Ben Houchen 'taken advantage of' by Saudis
Union claims mayor refuses to meet them or local workers over Sabic redundancies
teesside.thelead.uk
September 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
NEW:
The union Unite accuses Ben Houchen of being "taken advantage of" by Saudi businessmen in a row over redundancies on Teesside.
“Ben Houchen has clearly been taken in by the Saudis’ rhetoric and they have taken advantage of him,” they said.
The union Unite accuses Ben Houchen of being "taken advantage of" by Saudi businessmen in a row over redundancies on Teesside.
“Ben Houchen has clearly been taken in by the Saudis’ rhetoric and they have taken advantage of him,” they said.
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With the resurgence of flag bearing in England, the true meaning of patriotism needs to be reexamined
| Peter Sagar
| Peter Sagar
Pride or prejudice?
With the resurgence of flag bearing in England, the true meaning of patriotism needs to be reexamined
northeastbylines.co.uk
September 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
With the resurgence of flag bearing in England, the true meaning of patriotism needs to be reexamined
| Peter Sagar
| Peter Sagar
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We must unite against those who seek to divide us.
September 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
We must unite against those who seek to divide us.
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Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise | Gordon Brown
Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise | Gordon Brown
Homes without heating, bedrooms without beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisive, says former prime minister Gordon Brown
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise | Gordon Brown
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Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.
September 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.
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As Chair, here is our cross-party joint statement from the Parliamentary Black Caucus, regarding the rising threat of racism and violence from the far-right.👇🏾
September 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
As Chair, here is our cross-party joint statement from the Parliamentary Black Caucus, regarding the rising threat of racism and violence from the far-right.👇🏾
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This is so good on the forces driving radicalisation - Trump, X and, in the UK, the established media including to its shame the BBC - with a leaden footed PM transfixed like a rabbit in headlights substack.com/@iandunt/not...
Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism
The party's silence is an act of moral debasement.
substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This is so good on the forces driving radicalisation - Trump, X and, in the UK, the established media including to its shame the BBC - with a leaden footed PM transfixed like a rabbit in headlights substack.com/@iandunt/not...
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Let's cut the "Farage's plan is impractical" line eh? People said the same of Trump and now ICE goons are rounding people up into alligator-infested camps and sending people to Uganda. Need to defend principle of asylum and defend human rights and be against sending people to be tortured and killed
August 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Let's cut the "Farage's plan is impractical" line eh? People said the same of Trump and now ICE goons are rounding people up into alligator-infested camps and sending people to Uganda. Need to defend principle of asylum and defend human rights and be against sending people to be tortured and killed
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It is clearly the case that asylum protests were smaller this weekend than the small over-hyped protests on August 8th, and smaller than in the second half of July.
No broadcast outlet has accurately conveyed that + asked why: they have explicitly stated and inferred growing protests
No broadcast outlet has accurately conveyed that + asked why: they have explicitly stated and inferred growing protests
August 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
It is clearly the case that asylum protests were smaller this weekend than the small over-hyped protests on August 8th, and smaller than in the second half of July.
No broadcast outlet has accurately conveyed that + asked why: they have explicitly stated and inferred growing protests
No broadcast outlet has accurately conveyed that + asked why: they have explicitly stated and inferred growing protests
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This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Politically acceptable UK racism is rising, even under La...
As I wrote these words last autumn: “We have made progress... even though that progress remains fragile and insufficient”, little did I realise just how ...
observer.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave.
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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NEW: The National is launching a new series highlighting positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland.
The increasingly hostile political commentary and media coverage is appalling. We have a duty to correct misinformation and stand up for those without a voice
The increasingly hostile political commentary and media coverage is appalling. We have a duty to correct misinformation and stand up for those without a voice
August 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM
NEW: The National is launching a new series highlighting positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland.
The increasingly hostile political commentary and media coverage is appalling. We have a duty to correct misinformation and stand up for those without a voice
The increasingly hostile political commentary and media coverage is appalling. We have a duty to correct misinformation and stand up for those without a voice
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I don't know about you but I've had about enough of mainstream media & politicians legitimising racist anti-asylum protests that terrorise refugees & communities.
I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...
I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...
ENOUGH of the BBC legitimising anti-asylum protests!
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
www.youtube.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I don't know about you but I've had about enough of mainstream media & politicians legitimising racist anti-asylum protests that terrorise refugees & communities.
I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...
I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...
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Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape…
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
June 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape…
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
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Excellent by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the moral vacuum at the heart of Western governments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik
The political centre sees the US and Israel’s war on Iran as a crisis to be managed, while the gap between their detached politics and bloody rhetoric widens, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Excellent by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on the moral vacuum at the heart of Western governments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel is a rogue state - don’t let it drag us into World War III
June 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Israel is a rogue state - don’t let it drag us into World War III
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How can anyone look at the pictures of the extent of destruction in Gaza and claim it is carefully targeted retaliation? How can anyone hear about daily shooting dead of desperately hungry people in bread queues and not be horrified by the systematic slaughter?
Gaza: the grim reality of genocide
The first comprehensive analysis of how Israel's war on Gaza will cause suffering for generations to come.
A catalogue of the physical, mental & societal damage.
Please have a read. It’s important. 👇
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
The first comprehensive analysis of how Israel's war on Gaza will cause suffering for generations to come.
A catalogue of the physical, mental & societal damage.
Please have a read. It’s important. 👇
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...
June 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
How can anyone look at the pictures of the extent of destruction in Gaza and claim it is carefully targeted retaliation? How can anyone hear about daily shooting dead of desperately hungry people in bread queues and not be horrified by the systematic slaughter?
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Those who are uncomfortable with this Labour immigration announcement, but think it's necessary to satisfy Reform voters, this is for you.
You will not satisfy. You will never satisfy.
You will not satisfy. You will never satisfy.
May 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Those who are uncomfortable with this Labour immigration announcement, but think it's necessary to satisfy Reform voters, this is for you.
You will not satisfy. You will never satisfy.
You will not satisfy. You will never satisfy.
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Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
May 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist.
Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
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Can't cook, dress, eat, or toilet unaided?
Soon, that won’t qualify you for help. 1.3 million disabled people face losing support.
Read that again. #PIP
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Soon, that won’t qualify you for help. 1.3 million disabled people face losing support.
Read that again. #PIP
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Welfare changes: how to lose points and money
Labour plans to axe vital support for the ill and disabled. For many, it’s not just policy – it’s a death sentence
eastangliabylines.co.uk
April 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Can't cook, dress, eat, or toilet unaided?
Soon, that won’t qualify you for help. 1.3 million disabled people face losing support.
Read that again. #PIP
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Soon, that won’t qualify you for help. 1.3 million disabled people face losing support.
Read that again. #PIP
👇😞
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If Israel’s allies don’t act now, Gaza will be lost as Palestinians are killed – directly or through starvation and disease – or forced onto a patch of the strip, a process the Israeli journalist Meron Rapoport summed up in two words: ‘concentration camp’
rachelshabi.substack.com/p/end-point
rachelshabi.substack.com/p/end-point
End Point
Israel’s reckoning for Gaza is here and it has been clear all along
rachelshabi.substack.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
If Israel’s allies don’t act now, Gaza will be lost as Palestinians are killed – directly or through starvation and disease – or forced onto a patch of the strip, a process the Israeli journalist Meron Rapoport summed up in two words: ‘concentration camp’
rachelshabi.substack.com/p/end-point
rachelshabi.substack.com/p/end-point