Phil Hill
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Mahmood/government should say explain *objective* of increasing time to settlement for 15 years for care workers who arrived 2022-24
Is it
A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.
Is it
A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.
15 years for people in medium skilled jobs and care workers too. I believe this goes down to 10 years if they earn over £50,270. Someone in a high skilled job earning over that qualifies in 5 years.
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Mahmood/government should say explain *objective* of increasing time to settlement for 15 years for care workers who arrived 2022-24
Is it
A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.
Is it
A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.
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V good piece this - asks the two important policy questions about the government's approach on asylum.
"Labour must fix the asylum system - but I have two very real concerns with Mahmood's plans"
My op-ed in LBC on the Government's asylum plan
t.co/06PtJfT4NJ
My op-ed in LBC on the Government's asylum plan
t.co/06PtJfT4NJ
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/labour-fix-asylum-system-real-concerns-opinion-5HjdN4X_2
t.co
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
V good piece this - asks the two important policy questions about the government's approach on asylum.
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This is very good indeed on how Mahmood talks about race. To suggest that immigration policy and racism are linked "reflects this government’s biggest failing, which is that it is essentially incapable of saying that racism is wrong, full stop".
Why should people who “look like” the home secretary be on the hook for immigration policy?
This is great by @stephenkb.bsky.social:
This is great by @stephenkb.bsky.social:
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is very good indeed on how Mahmood talks about race. To suggest that immigration policy and racism are linked "reflects this government’s biggest failing, which is that it is essentially incapable of saying that racism is wrong, full stop".
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I don’t share Janan’s politics, his pessimism or the idea that people shouldn’t be disappointed because it was always going to be this bad… but but but… this is a pretty sharp ‘told you so’ that’s well worth reading.
www.ft.com/content/68ee...
www.ft.com/content/68ee...
The Labour government will deteriorate from here
Starmer and Reeves are unfit and their likeliest usurpers are worse
www.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I don’t share Janan’s politics, his pessimism or the idea that people shouldn’t be disappointed because it was always going to be this bad… but but but… this is a pretty sharp ‘told you so’ that’s well worth reading.
www.ft.com/content/68ee...
www.ft.com/content/68ee...
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Massive lesson here for Senedd elections next year and for the parties that may end up forming the government.....
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Massive lesson here for Senedd elections next year and for the parties that may end up forming the government.....
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Includes this titbit -
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Includes this titbit -
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if Keir Starmer could talk on the radio like Wes Streeting, his aides wouldn't need to brief against Wes Streeting
November 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
if Keir Starmer could talk on the radio like Wes Streeting, his aides wouldn't need to brief against Wes Streeting
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Good piece by @desmog.com on the Telegraph’s record of having to issue ‘corrections’ on its stories about climate change (and yes, there’s some quotes from me) www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/t...
The Telegraph’s Record of Climate Falsehoods
The Telegraph, which has accused the BBC of bias and a lack of editorial rigour, has been forced to amend a swathe of climate inaccuracies. The BBC’s director-general and CEO resigned this weekend aft...
www.desmog.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Good piece by @desmog.com on the Telegraph’s record of having to issue ‘corrections’ on its stories about climate change (and yes, there’s some quotes from me) www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/t...
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“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
“When I was [at the BBC], at the height of Boris Johnson’s strength, that fear was ubiquitous. Scripts were sometimes written with a view not solely to their impartiality or truth, but the management of perception of impartiality from one side of the spectrum.“ @lewisgoodall.com
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I feel like I could live with the brass neck - it is the seemingly successful way that he and others have brainwashed themselves into thinking “our crumbling justice system” has an explanation beyond “we didn’t spend enough money on it” that I can’t stand.
November 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I feel like I could live with the brass neck - it is the seemingly successful way that he and others have brainwashed themselves into thinking “our crumbling justice system” has an explanation beyond “we didn’t spend enough money on it” that I can’t stand.
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This is a lovely use of data and visualisation and a wake up call for those who still seem to think Twitter isn't a pernicious platform with questionable motives.
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 1:35 PM
This is a lovely use of data and visualisation and a wake up call for those who still seem to think Twitter isn't a pernicious platform with questionable motives.
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I’m thrilled we are talking about this [bill] … nobody wanted to talk about this [ILR policy when it was first announced]- Badenoch to Peston, 27th October
At a post-PMQs briefing, a Tory spokesperson confirmed that the Bill is no longer party policy - 29th October
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At a post-PMQs briefing, a Tory spokesperson confirmed that the Bill is no longer party policy - 29th October
bsky.app/profile/sund...
"I am thrilled we are talking about this" says Kemi Badenoch on the deportation bill.
She claims that "leaving the ECHR" changes the bill. (We haven't left - and it doesn't)
She claims that "leaving the ECHR" changes the bill. (We haven't left - and it doesn't)
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I’m thrilled we are talking about this [bill] … nobody wanted to talk about this [ILR policy when it was first announced]- Badenoch to Peston, 27th October
At a post-PMQs briefing, a Tory spokesperson confirmed that the Bill is no longer party policy - 29th October
bsky.app/profile/sund...
At a post-PMQs briefing, a Tory spokesperson confirmed that the Bill is no longer party policy - 29th October
bsky.app/profile/sund...
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NEW POST 📣
Continuing my look at iconic stadiums and Art Deco gems, here’s a new piece on Highbury Stadium, the former home of the Arsenal, and where the club won all 13 of its English league titles.
Have you been? What did you think?
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
#groundhopping #arsenal
Continuing my look at iconic stadiums and Art Deco gems, here’s a new piece on Highbury Stadium, the former home of the Arsenal, and where the club won all 13 of its English league titles.
Have you been? What did you think?
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
#groundhopping #arsenal
Iconic Football Stadiums: Highbury Stadium (Arsenal FC)
Continuing my look at Art Deco football stadiums, let’s celebrate the beauty of the Arsenal’s former home, Highbury.
open.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
NEW POST 📣
Continuing my look at iconic stadiums and Art Deco gems, here’s a new piece on Highbury Stadium, the former home of the Arsenal, and where the club won all 13 of its English league titles.
Have you been? What did you think?
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
#groundhopping #arsenal
Continuing my look at iconic stadiums and Art Deco gems, here’s a new piece on Highbury Stadium, the former home of the Arsenal, and where the club won all 13 of its English league titles.
Have you been? What did you think?
open.substack.com/pub/outsidew...
#groundhopping #arsenal
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This is what happens when you rely on Matthew Goodwin and other bad faith Twitter actors for your information
Reminder that back in July Katie Lam wrote an article for the Sun on Indefinite Leave to Remain and the Conservatives' proposals.
It contained a number of blatant lies and the Sun published a detailed retraction.
It contained a number of blatant lies and the Sun published a detailed retraction.
October 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is what happens when you rely on Matthew Goodwin and other bad faith Twitter actors for your information
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"It will need to be designed very carefully" is weird
They have published a Bill!
bsky.app/profile/sund...
They have published a Bill!
bsky.app/profile/sund...
The Conservatives have drafted the legislation.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"It will need to be designed very carefully" is weird
They have published a Bill!
bsky.app/profile/sund...
They have published a Bill!
bsky.app/profile/sund...
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The current line taken by some Conservatives is "We will rip up ILR, something no govt has ever done before, but citizenship is different". Not reassuring. Precedents matter. "We don't abide by rules previously agreed" is the precedent.Once that's set, reassurances on other rules carry little weight
October 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The current line taken by some Conservatives is "We will rip up ILR, something no govt has ever done before, but citizenship is different". Not reassuring. Precedents matter. "We don't abide by rules previously agreed" is the precedent.Once that's set, reassurances on other rules carry little weight
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Laura Loomer’s rise says everything about Trump’s world: outrage equals influence. From calling Marjorie Taylor Greene a “fake Christian Jezebel” to getting people fired from the Oval Office, Loomer has turned chaos into power.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/laura-loom...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/laura-loom...
Laura Loomer: The Chaos Artist Who Wormed Her Way Into Trump’s Inner Circle
How a self-proclaimed provocateur went from fringe conspiracist to presidential enforcer—and why even Marjorie Taylor Greene fears her.
adamkinzinger.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Laura Loomer’s rise says everything about Trump’s world: outrage equals influence. From calling Marjorie Taylor Greene a “fake Christian Jezebel” to getting people fired from the Oval Office, Loomer has turned chaos into power.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/laura-loom...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/laura-loom...
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The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...
October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...
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Its genuinely exhausting for everyone involved that the cycle is
1- BNP style policy gets announced
2- Labour comms say something like well yes but also no....
3-Labour MPs and others clearly have a freak out about it behind the scenes
4-Labour comes out with a clearer condemnation of said policy
1- BNP style policy gets announced
2- Labour comms say something like well yes but also no....
3-Labour MPs and others clearly have a freak out about it behind the scenes
4-Labour comes out with a clearer condemnation of said policy
NEW: Labour condemn Tory plan to strip people of indefinite leave to remain:
“It’s utterly grotesque that Tories want to deport people with the lawful right to be here to achieve ‘cultural coherence’.
“This policy would mean tearing families apart and ripping out our neighbours from communities."
“It’s utterly grotesque that Tories want to deport people with the lawful right to be here to achieve ‘cultural coherence’.
“This policy would mean tearing families apart and ripping out our neighbours from communities."
October 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Its genuinely exhausting for everyone involved that the cycle is
1- BNP style policy gets announced
2- Labour comms say something like well yes but also no....
3-Labour MPs and others clearly have a freak out about it behind the scenes
4-Labour comes out with a clearer condemnation of said policy
1- BNP style policy gets announced
2- Labour comms say something like well yes but also no....
3-Labour MPs and others clearly have a freak out about it behind the scenes
4-Labour comes out with a clearer condemnation of said policy
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The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.
October 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.
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The view through the door out to the narrow walkway that runs around the base of the Golden Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral, from my post looking at views across London at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...
October 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The view through the door out to the narrow walkway that runs around the base of the Golden Gallery of St Paul's Cathedral, from my post looking at views across London at alondoninheritance.com/londonvistas...
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Utterly lovely!
Ever wondered where all the Cheers title photos are from? I did. And I've gathered everything I can find into this post. That was fun.
joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...
joelmorris.substack.com/p/where-nobo...
Where nobody knows your name...
Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.
joelmorris.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Utterly lovely!
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The old Carlton Cinema which opened on the 1st September, 1930, from my post exploring Essex Road, Islington at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...
August 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The old Carlton Cinema which opened on the 1st September, 1930, from my post exploring Essex Road, Islington at alondoninheritance.com/london-stree...
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The Angel, Islington and Plackett’s Common. Some Islington history explored in my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-build...
The Angel, Islington and Plackett's Common - A London Inheritance
Made famous by Monopoly, the Angel, Islington was long a key London landmark on the roads approaching tie City. Jack Plackett's Common nearby tells a story of local crime
alondoninheritance.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Angel, Islington and Plackett’s Common. Some Islington history explored in my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-build...