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adambienkov.bsky.social
Labour's MP for Folkestone says the government has taken "the wrong turning" on its plans for asylum seekers.

"The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities."
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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tanjabueltmann.net
🌍 42.5m refugees
Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries.

🇬🇧 548k refugees
= 0.78% of the UK population.

It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us.

My letter to my MP.

#asylum #Mahmood

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Dear [my MP’s name], As the Home Secretary prepares to announce sweeping changes to the UK’s asylum system, I see it as both my duty as a citizen and responsibility as a migration expert to do all I can to urge policymakers to oppose the proposals—not only for what they will do to refugees, though that is the first concern, but also for what they will mean for all of us and the future society we live in.  That is why I am writing to you as my MP. This letter explains why I consider the need to oppose the Home Secretary’s proposals urgent and, at the most fundamental level, in the national and your constituents’ interest. I was born in Germany, a country whose history taught me how quickly societies can go down dark paths; how quickly our leaders can fail in the choices they make. But the history of the displacement of people that the Nazi regime was responsible for also shaped my understanding of why refugee movements occur—and why our response to any of them can never compromise what are, and must always be, universal human rights. Which is why what is happening in the UK now is so deeply alarming. A manufactured crisis As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries; most of them immediate neighbours. Overall, five countries—Colombia, Germany, Türkiye, Iran and Uganda—host a third of the total number of refugees; Germany is the main host in the EU, hosting 2.7 million. The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. About 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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uofglasgow.bsky.social
Employment alone won’t turn the tide on child poverty, unless it is backed by the removal of the controversial two-child limit and the benefit cap, analysis by @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social and the University of Cambridge warns.

More: gla.ac/3JTq2F3
View of the University of Glasgow's Gilbert Scott Building with its tall Gothic spire, surrounded by trees and rooftops, on a clear day.
November 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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brianbilston.bsky.social
Today’s Halloween poem is called ‘Come, take this hand in yours’.
Come, take this hand in yours   Come, take this hand in yours –   bury it beneath the trees,   while I go and get the rest of him   out of the deep freeze. Brian Bilsto
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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ledbydonkeys.org
Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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alisonphipps.bsky.social
Peace Questions
Peace Questions "It's gone. Where I lived It's gone. It's completely gone. It's on the Yellow line. It is devastated. There is nothing. Anywhere. I graduated top of my year. It's gone. What do I do? How do I return? It's gone."
October 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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bearlypolitics.co.uk
The White House getting gutted for a one-man vanity project that benefits no one but said man, right after 7 million people said “please fuck off,” is such immaculate symbolism it’s making my head spin.

Honestly, you really could not make it up at this point.
White House Facade being destroyed.
October 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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jbendery.bsky.social
A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
A 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol
“It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.
www.huffpost.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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russellscott1.bsky.social
Baroness Mone isn’t the only Tory Peer named as a VIP Lane referrer.

Also on the list:

Lord Agnew
Lord Gove
Lord Leigh
Lord Feldman
Lord Chadlington
Lord Marks
Lord Deighton
Lord Bethell
Lord Lansley
Lord Prior
+10 other Tory MP’s 👀⤵️

Listen to my chat with @BylineTimesPod :
October 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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heykellyjensen.bsky.social
In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

Students are *banned from the school library* so officials can go ban books.

This is EXACTLY what advocates warned.

bookriot.com/new-braunfel...
A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries
In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.
bookriot.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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bearlypolitics.co.uk
BREAKING NEWS

In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.
Reform UK Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government
October 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM