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horsetamer.bsky.social
@horsetamer.bsky.social
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History and Politics teacher. Buddhist. Brighton Taffia. Vegan.
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vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
In addition to the elements necessary for a just and lasting peace and Ukraine’s sovereignty:

any agreement must include the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.

We will not rest until every single one of them is reunited with their families, in their homes.
November 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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declassifieduk.org
The Israeli government waged a decade-long campaign to protect its officials from criminal proceedings in Britain, leaked files show.

www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobbi...
Israel lobbied Britain to change law on war crimes arrests
Exclusive: The Israeli government waged a decade-long campaign to protect its officials from criminal proceedings in Britain, leaked files show.
www.declassifieduk.org
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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edwardluce.bsky.social
Fully agree with my paper's editorial on Trump. Ukraine needs Europe to stop flattering Trump the conman and take a clear stand for its own survival and values. www.ft.com/content/8ccf...
Trump’s world view: cynical, self-interested and money-grabbing
Latest Ukraine peace plan presented by the US would be a capitulation to Moscow
www.ft.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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molliestratton.bsky.social
Google did another shitty thing. You now have to go opt out in Gmail to avoid having their AI train on your stuff.

Directions here: www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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stevecooke.org
Using a search engine is a bit like asking a librarian for help. Using GenAi is like asking an actor pretending to be a librarian for help.
November 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: Brutal to watch Zelensky address his nation just now. On the brink of being abandoned by the US.

"Right now is one of the most difficult moments in our history. At this moment, Ukraine may face a very hard choice: either the loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner."
Zelensky in black fatigues looking to the camera during his address
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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esqueer.net
The UK is considering a policy that would effectively segregate trans people from society. It would bar trans people from "single sex spaces" even when they use the facility of their sex assigned at birth.

This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
A screenshot of a news headline from The Times. The headline reads: "Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look." Below, the sub-headline states: "The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash." The article is written by Geraldine Scott, Assistant Political Editor, and is dated Wednesday, November 19, 2025.
November 19, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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nisreenalwan.bsky.social
I don’t know what to say anymore other than to remind those in power that refugees are human beings with equal rights who, along with their children, deserve a safe, stable & integrated life in their communities and that what they’re breaking now with this performative cruelty can’t be fixed later.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d
The Labour government does not want to rule out deporting somebody once here as a refugee 16-19 years with a British-born 15 year old child
November 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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anothercinna.bsky.social
Following the Renaissance, we had the Age of Reason, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Revolution, the Age of Industrialisation; we screwed the Age of Darkness (eventually) & briefly renewed an Age of Hope.
And here we are at the Age of Incompetence.
What a falling off was there.
#WeAreSoLost
sjwrenlewis.bsky.social Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 6d
New post: Blue Labour’s Electoral Fallacies
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/11/blue...
It worked in 24 so it will work again. Labours marginals are different. Socially liberal voters will vote for us to stop Reform. Used by Labour to justify Reform like policies, but these arguments are just wrong.
Blue Labour’s Electoral Fallacies
The government’s latest proposed revamp of asylum laws reminds us that Labour have not abandoned their approach of using right wing popul...
mainlymacro.blogspot.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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nisreenalwan.bsky.social
The politically and commercially manufactured ‘problem’ of immigration is boring and repetitive across the centuries. The question is why do many people still fall for it? The real effort is not in seeding the propaganda but in keeping the public opinion ground receptive and fertile to it.
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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vulgareconomics.bsky.social
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6d
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."

www.reddit.com/r/JewsOfCons...
From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
Explore this post and more from the JewsOfConscience community
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November 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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drjennings.bsky.social
An absolute disgrace that @ox.ac.uk hosted this celebration of murdering a journalist.
robertsaunders.bsky.social Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 6d
See also Curtis Yarvin's remarks in a recent Oxford lecture:

"Say what you want about MBS, he's quite an effective king I think in a lot of different ways. Um love the Ritz thing, the whole Saudi embassy thing, I don't know, but I mean he was a journalist". [Giggles]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYl...
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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tanjabueltmann.net
Tried to get this published but no luck, so might as well ‘publish’ it here so it’s not a complete waste!

➡️ Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow

#asylum #Mahmood #history #humanrights
Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow   When I was 13, I visited a Nazi concentration camp for the first time, confronting my country’s dark history always—and rightly—a bedrock in my growing up.    One image from that visit has stayed with me ever since: a display of prisoners’ personal possessions.    It revealed a world in which those imprisoned were stripped not only of their freedom but of the last tangible traces of their humanity. That systematic erasure was the most important precondition for murdering millions.   Now, as a historian, I know that history does not flow into the present in a straight line, and direct comparisons are rarely appropriate. They certainly are not here.   But history is the one compass humanity has. Too often we choose to ignore it.    The Home Secretary’s proposals for changes to the UK’s asylum system represent such a moment of failure.    Yet the most troubling aspect of Labour’s frantic efforts to appear tough on immigration is not even the historical echoes that taking refugees’ possessions invokes. It is that cost recovery is not the real purpose of the rationale behind it.    The true aim is to appeal to a particular audience—those who take satisfaction in seeing people seeking refuge deprived of what little they have. It is hard to imagine a more troubling approach to policymaking, and that becomes even clearer when we consider the Home Secretary’s proposals in context.   As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. Around 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.   It is unconscionable that such a small and vulnerable population can be targeted with deliberate cruelty and weaponised for assumed political gain.   And that is all this will ever be. The core miscalculation is believing that adopting these positions will neutralise Reform.    Both historical knowledge and current research show the opposite. Mainstreaming extremist policies legitimises them further and aids only the original. Each step towards Reform’s territory simply gives Reform more power.   But our political discourse has been so degraded over the last decade that many no longer even recognise policies—or the language that frames them—as extreme.    That is how the Home Secretary can speak so casually of desperate people seeking sanctuary as recipients of a ‘golden ticket’ as though the context is Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory rather than countries torn apart by war and starved by famine. Speak of her ‘moral mission’ to withdraw support, alleging that ‘illegal migration is tearing our country apart.’ And warn of ‘dark forces stirring up anger,’ oblivious to her own role: from the use of blurry, dehumanising images of refugees to spread falsehoods about their impact on communities, to the equally false description of refugee movements as illegal migration.    I suggest the Home Secretary find a mirror if she is keen to understand who is helping turn anger into hate.   Because it is the mainstreaming of far-right talking points that the Home Secretary’s proposals represent that is really tearing our country apart.   For when a policy looks like the far right, speaks to the far right and is hailed by the far right as being far right, it is far right. There is a reason Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is jubilant and speaks of ‘the Overton window having been obliterated.’   This makes a mockery of the Prime Minister’s recent comments on the urgent need to tackle racism. But it also raises alarming questions about the impact this will have on communities around the country, many of which are already deeply divided.    The proposed policies will do nothing for these struggling communities, because their problems simply do not stem from people seeking sanctuary with us. In fact: for as long as politicians focus on immigrants and refugees as the cause of our problems, they will fail to deliver for the British people.   But it is important to grasp the impact of the Home Secretary’s proposals as they carry broader consequences for all of us. Suggestions for changes to how the European Convention on Human Rights is applied are particularly concerning. Requiring judges to prioritise ‘public safety’—falsely implying refugees pose a threat—would qualify human rights for a specific group.   And once one accepts that human rights can be qualified for one group, one creates tools that can be used against anyone.   So what these proposals really mean goes far beyond asylum policy. This is about the kind of country we will have in the future. If human rights are no longer universal, they become a means for exclusion and control.    That is why stripping rights from refugees today can only enable a system that endangers all our rights tomorrow.    And that is why our historical compass matters and why we have to use it now. Because that compass tells us without doubt that when first they come for one group that is never where it ends. 
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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fbpech.bsky.social
Hey, the government is letting a few greedy fishing companies overfish our UK waters, destroying marine life and local fishers’ livelihoods. Join me and sign the urgent petition to fight back: act.gp/47zTvNu
Stop Greedy Fishing Corporations
The UK government is putting big business over the health of our precious UK waters and coastal communities - this betrayal ends now.
act.gp
November 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
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
November 17, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
Vote Labour
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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snellarthur.bsky.social
Take the wedding rings? Gold fillings? Does this remind anyone of anything?
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8d
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs

This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
Francesca Albanese says Starmer helped 'manufacture' consensus for Israeli genocide - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/francesca-albanese-uks-starmer-enabled-genocide-and-helped-manufacture-domestic-consensus
Francesca Albanese says Starmer helped 'manufacture' consensus for Israeli genocide
UN special rapporteur tells MEE that Britain participated 'in the creation of the conditions' that enabled ethnic cleansing and mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza
www.middleeasteye.net
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
Dear Mahmood/Labour,

Once the strutting fascist, Yaxley Lennon, is taking credit for your policies, you must know you’ve completely lost your way. You need to get your head out of your arse and your account off X.

Yours
The real silent (fair-minded and ignored) majority of the UK
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9d
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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dhothersall.bsky.social
David Miliband's closing paragraphs in his Observer article today are quite ... striking.
Eighty years ago, George Ken­nan ended his Long Tele­gram from Moscow by say­ing the greatest danger is that we allow ourselves to become like those with whom we are com­pet­ing. Today, the task is not to seek to restore lost dom­in­ance, but to recover the moral clar­ity and polit­ical vis­ion of who we are and what we stand for. As demo­cra­cies and their politi­cians are temp­ted down a path that rejects plur­al­ism, har­asses oppon­ents, demon­ises refugees, declares emer­gen­cies, opts out of inter­na­tional agree­ments and laws and attacks the judi­cial sys­tem – all fea­tures of the Soviet sys­tem – this is surely the ulti­mate role reversal in the world today, and one that we need to fight at all costs.
November 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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arusbridger.bsky.social
This is the real threat to BBC impartiality. A weekend read by me setting the shambles of the last fortnight in proper context www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The real threat to BBC impartiality
The BBC has suffered a week of mistakes, resignations and the threat of a $1bn lawsuit. But the biggest risks of bias are in the boardroom, not the ne...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".
But the BBC understands Mahmood will issue a warning to her sceptical Labour colleagues in a speech to Parliament on Monday. She will suggest that while some of her plans may seem immoderate, the alternative could be a further rise in support for Reform UK. She is expected to say: '"If you don't like this, you won't like what follows me."
November 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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pleightx.bsky.social
Bubba Trump
November 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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ofhungryghosts.bsky.social
The difference between the pictures is only 3 years in my neighborhood

That winter was the last beautiful warm winter spent indoors with families gathered around the fire.

But this winter is truly harsh, with no shelter and no family together.

We have become afraid of rain 🌧😥

gofund.me/1b2ca5b7f
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November 14, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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nojusticemtg.bsky.social
this is in the middle of a whole section where her and Jon Sopel wax lyrical about how bad the 'pro-trans Stonewall bias' was at the *BBC* lmao
November 10, 2025 at 10:02 PM