Lucy Nabijou
lucynabijou.bsky.social
Lucy Nabijou
@lucynabijou.bsky.social
Migrant rights, music, cats, free Palestine. She/her.
Co-founder @HaringeyWelcome
#NoSmallVictories podcast: http://spoti.fi/3XlNsog
Living with MS
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Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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On a lighter note, we'd briefly like to blow our own trumpet!

This year we turned 10. Here's a film we made to celebrate!

Big thx to all our friends, partners + neighbrs who recently celebrated with us. We love you!

Here's to another 10 yrs of organising welcome!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4jW...
Haringey Welcome Ten Year Anniversary Film
YouTube video by Haringey Welcome
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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We know this to be the case from our own first-hand experience.

It's a cruel, shoddy, and counterproductive policy, that knowingly increases the risks of exploitation and street homelessness.

How did we get here?
The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities

By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
New asylum policies making homeless refugees “targets for the far right”
Labour’s abrupt return to the 28-day move-on period is pushing vulnerable people into rough sleeping and exposing them to fraud and abuse.
national.thelead.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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We have co-signed this joint letter to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood with Haringey Council and Haringey Multi-Faith Forum.

Her recent proposals on asylum and immigration are recklessly cruel, counterproductive, and unworkable.

Haringey is a Welcome Borough and we reject the politics of hate.
November 25, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Nesrine is sooo good. Nail on head, every time!

"Let me break it to you gently: it is entirely possible for people of colour and the descendants of immigrants to be disingenuous and use their identities as excuses for their terrible politics."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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More than 9,500 Palestinians remain missing as search efforts continue amid the widespread destruction caused by Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, according to estimates by Gaza's Government Media Office.

#Infograph
November 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Essential reading for all politicians busy demonising migrants. Now, take a look in the mirror.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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If the system worked properly and fairly, this man would have been recognised years ago, been able to bring his family here and be a British citizen. Instead, he now faces being caught up in the Home Secretary's plans to switch refugees into what seems to be a minimum 20 year route to settlement.
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Gaza's civil defence warns of heavy storms amid a shortage in aid and fuel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/civil-defense-warn-heavy-storms-amid-shortage-aid-and-fuel
Gaza's civil defence warns of heavy storms amid a shortage in aid and fuel
<article data-history-node-id="431836" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/civil-defense-warn-heavy-storms-amid-shortage-aid-and-fuel" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/civil-defense-warn-heavy-storms-amid-shortage-aid-and-fuel" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza's civil defence warns of heavy storms amid a shortage in aid and fuel</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The civil defence in Gaza warned that the population is expected to face “heavy rain and strong winds” amid a lack of basic necessities and continuing suffering from the effects of war.</p> <p>In a press release issued by the General Directorate of Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, it said it has mobilised its teams and limited resources to address the "negative impacts of this storm", particularly for displaced families.</p> <p>It added that the fuel crisis has resurfaced, urging international organisations to intervene and allow fuel aid into the strip.</p> <p>"Ignoring this urgent intervention will only worsen the suffering of citizens, particularly in the camps, and will leave them vulnerable to flooding from rainwater and potentially even from high tides," it said, adding that the fuel crisis can also impact the recovery of bodies remaining underneath the rubble.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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BREAKING: At least 18 Palestinians have been killed in a spate of Israeli drone and missile attacks throughout northern and central Gaza, hospital sources have told Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/iw6mmd
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
22.11.2025
#womeninblack
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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If you will be directly affected by the government's planned proposals to change asylum protection, join us on Wed 26th November 11-12noon for a solidarity hub to share your concerns. ow.ly/yf4O50XvUEV
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.

Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Arjeta is a victim of human trafficking. The way she is now being treated by the Home Office is totally unacceptable.
I was released from detention and now I am homeless in Liverpool
Everton fan Arjeta Folla has been through hell in her life - now she is facing a new challenge
liverpoolecho.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Among other topics, we discuss the sale of children in care.
They're worth roughly £100k each. The profit you can extract by sending them across the country to the cheapest housing in derelict places, cutting them off from all hope and contact, is off the scale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...
How To Platform Socialist Ideas Through Billionaire Owned Channels | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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‘The new arrangement re-entrenches different forms of violence – dispossession, displacement, slow destruction – under cover of being provisional, with permanent advantages for Israel.’

New on the blog: Zinaida Miller on the Gaza ceasefire’s ‘Yellow Line’.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Zinaida Miller | Temporary Measures
The Yellow Line is supposed to be temporary, but history suggests otherwise. Under ostensibly transient arrangements,...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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youtu.be/Y_qau4o5cus “We Will REPLACE LABOUR”: Zack Polanski Says Labour’s Time Over
“We Will REPLACE LABOUR”: Zack Polanski Says Labour’s Time Over
YouTube video by Owen Jones
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November 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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George Monbiot delivers a perfect analysis of where we're at with capitalism on the new episode of Bold Politics with Zack Polanski.

Premiering on YouTube now: youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI
November 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Systematic torture and murder, with no consequences.

news.sky.com/story/report...
Report claims almost 100 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli jails since October 2023
The highest number of deaths are alleged to have happened at the Sde Teiman detention centre.
news.sky.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Shabana Mahmood is wrong - Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government.

Me, for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Shabana Mahmood is wrong
Another cowardly attack on immigrants does not hide the incompetence of the Starmer government
www.newstatesman.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM