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"Foreign-born doctors and nurses were being put off by antagonism by politicians towards migrants, media coverage of immigration, the racist abuse of international medical graduates by NHS colleagues and racist aggression by patients toward minority ethnic NHS staff, she said."
Foreign medics shunning NHS because of anti-migrant rhetoric, says top doctor
Exclusive: UK now an ‘unwelcoming, racist’ country for overseas health workers, according to medical colleges leader
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"Foreign-born doctors and nurses were being put off by antagonism by politicians towards migrants, media coverage of immigration, the racist abuse of international medical graduates by NHS colleagues and racist aggression by patients toward minority ethnic NHS staff, she said."
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I kind of can't believe that libraries exist. We get to go get all the books we want. For free.
December 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I kind of can't believe that libraries exist. We get to go get all the books we want. For free.
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Another Walk In The Snow by Dee Nickerson
December 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Another Walk In The Snow by Dee Nickerson
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Human rights were built for hard times, not rewrites when it suits the Government.
Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all | Steve Valdez-Symonds
The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty, says Steve Valdez-Symonds, refugee and migrant rig...
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Human rights were built for hard times, not rewrites when it suits the Government.
Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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“Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR”
An absolutely shocking headline and not what I expected from a Labour government.
The Prime Minister won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
An absolutely shocking headline and not what I expected from a Labour government.
The Prime Minister won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:05 AM
“Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR”
An absolutely shocking headline and not what I expected from a Labour government.
The Prime Minister won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
An absolutely shocking headline and not what I expected from a Labour government.
The Prime Minister won’t achieve ‘decency’ over ‘division’ by trying to be Reform Lite
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
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This is your December reminder that it's absolutely acceptable to try and get to a set annual book goal by cramming in as many novellas and cookbooks as you can find before Christmas swallows you up! #booksky 💙📚
December 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is your December reminder that it's absolutely acceptable to try and get to a set annual book goal by cramming in as many novellas and cookbooks as you can find before Christmas swallows you up! #booksky 💙📚
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Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 music is one of my favourite things
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
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Not one single bad word about Mani. Anywhere 🙏
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Not one single bad word about Mani. Anywhere 🙏
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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Shortest Day.
🎨 Dee Nickerson
🎨 Dee Nickerson
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Shortest Day.
🎨 Dee Nickerson
🎨 Dee Nickerson
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Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Some of the people in this article have shared their recollections with me before - but on condition of anonymity. Coming forward now is an act of patriotism. Farage’s claim that it never happened is the opposite.
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
(Note also the line about pronouncing his name.)
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
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Amnesty International has slammed Labour’s “divisive and cruel” asylum crackdown, warning that it marks a dangerous drift toward treating fundamental human rights as optional depending on who you are.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/amn...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/amn...
Amnesty slam Labour's 'divisive and cruel' asylum crackdown
"This headline-chasing cruelty will not fix the immigration system. It will only fuel fear"
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Amnesty International has slammed Labour’s “divisive and cruel” asylum crackdown, warning that it marks a dangerous drift toward treating fundamental human rights as optional depending on who you are.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/amn...
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/amn...
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A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
November 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want
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“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
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'Tea and Books' by Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
'Tea and Books' by Leah Gardner, contemporary Chicago-based oil painter #WomensArt
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Straight to ‘let’s have a debate about whether racism is racism’ for *almost* all of the UK media. Nothing learned from the lessons of Brexit, Trump & Johnson. But on we go.
Off the top of my head, there have been four egregious examples of weapons grade public racism in the last couple of weeks - Jenrick; the Express hack; Captain Concrete & the Reform woman. The way they are treated by employers, punters & wider media, will directly influence how much more we see.
October 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Straight to ‘let’s have a debate about whether racism is racism’ for *almost* all of the UK media. Nothing learned from the lessons of Brexit, Trump & Johnson. But on we go.
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Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758), Scottish botanical illustrator known for the book "A Curious Herbal" 1737. Blackwell published her hand drawn, engraved and coloured work in order to raise funds to free her husband from debtors prison. #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
October 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Elizabeth Blackwell (1707-1758), Scottish botanical illustrator known for the book "A Curious Herbal" 1737. Blackwell published her hand drawn, engraved and coloured work in order to raise funds to free her husband from debtors prison. #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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Saturdays are proof the universe wants me horizontal and surrounded by crumbs.
October 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Saturdays are proof the universe wants me horizontal and surrounded by crumbs.
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Singer, songwriter, musician Joni Mitchell is also a painter and has created works featuring fellow musicians, the Canadian and US landscapes and many self portraits. Self-portrait (2000), used as cover art for her album 'Both Sides Now' #Genius
October 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Singer, songwriter, musician Joni Mitchell is also a painter and has created works featuring fellow musicians, the Canadian and US landscapes and many self portraits. Self-portrait (2000), used as cover art for her album 'Both Sides Now' #Genius
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'The Flower Maiden'
by Annie French (1872-1965), Scottish painter, engraver, illustrator and designer associated with the Glasgow School of Art #WomensArt
by Annie French (1872-1965), Scottish painter, engraver, illustrator and designer associated with the Glasgow School of Art #WomensArt
October 18, 2025 at 5:00 AM
'The Flower Maiden'
by Annie French (1872-1965), Scottish painter, engraver, illustrator and designer associated with the Glasgow School of Art #WomensArt
by Annie French (1872-1965), Scottish painter, engraver, illustrator and designer associated with the Glasgow School of Art #WomensArt
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Reject the politics of hate.
And let's make hope normal again.
With huge thanks to Benjamins wife, Qian, for permission to use the poem.
And let's make hope normal again.
With huge thanks to Benjamins wife, Qian, for permission to use the poem.
October 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reject the politics of hate.
And let's make hope normal again.
With huge thanks to Benjamins wife, Qian, for permission to use the poem.
And let's make hope normal again.
With huge thanks to Benjamins wife, Qian, for permission to use the poem.
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"You need to be unapologetic, someone who gets the modern media environment and social media, and is a competent speaker - all of which Polanski is."
Why Zack Polanski is one of the only UK politicians with a reason to be cheerful right now
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
Why Zack Polanski is one of the only UK politicians with a reason to be cheerful right now
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/zack...
Zack Polanski: Can the Green Party leader ‘rebalance the scales’ of UK politics? | The News Agents
In little more than a month of leadership, Zack Polanski has grown the party’s membership and become a powerful figure on the left-wing of UK politics. Can he, and the Green Party, take this further…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM