Dr Rachel Gregory Fox
@rgf26.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF at Uni of Kent researching the Hostile Environment and Migration | Author: ‘(Re)framing Women’ | Views my own | She/Her 🩷💜💙
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The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The Greens don’t believe providing safe refuge for endangered asylum seekers is an “out-of-control” policy.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
Nor do we believe making life more difficult for those in need is the way to unify British society.
Refugees are welcome.
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Bet you they don't. Labour can't go far enough to appease those opposed to immigration and asylum, and they're losing support from centre and left voters by trying. If anything, Labour is actively creating more division by pushing this.
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Bet you they don't. Labour can't go far enough to appease those opposed to immigration and asylum, and they're losing support from centre and left voters by trying. If anything, Labour is actively creating more division by pushing this.
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My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
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"If you don't let me punch you in the face, the other guy will kick you in the nuts" doesn't seem like a sustainable political message.
November 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"If you don't let me punch you in the face, the other guy will kick you in the nuts" doesn't seem like a sustainable political message.
Vote for/support us and our policies because we are the lesser of two evils is a terrible basis for any party, and is a sign of the absence of any moral centre or political conviction.
November 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Vote for/support us and our policies because we are the lesser of two evils is a terrible basis for any party, and is a sign of the absence of any moral centre or political conviction.
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We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.
Everytime I open a new PDF, ebook, and sometimes website, I have to waste time deleting, shutting down, and turning off AI features that I did not ask for.
AI is drains our time, our economy, our intellect and intellectual rights, and our environmental resources.
In the words of Regina George:
AI is drains our time, our economy, our intellect and intellectual rights, and our environmental resources.
In the words of Regina George:
a woman wearing a santa hat is holding a man 's hand and says `` stop trying to make fetch happen '' .
Alt: Regina George of Mean Girls, with her classic ‘stop trying to make fetch happen’ .
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Everytime I open a new PDF, ebook, and sometimes website, I have to waste time deleting, shutting down, and turning off AI features that I did not ask for.
AI is drains our time, our economy, our intellect and intellectual rights, and our environmental resources.
In the words of Regina George:
AI is drains our time, our economy, our intellect and intellectual rights, and our environmental resources.
In the words of Regina George:
1,600 words written today 💪🏼
October 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
1,600 words written today 💪🏼
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making Alan Carr a Traitor is the MESS option and I am so here for it #CelebrityTraitors
October 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
making Alan Carr a Traitor is the MESS option and I am so here for it #CelebrityTraitors
It is likely that I will have to leave academia soon. It makes me mad/sad, because in what other job could I read the inspiring work of a student, collect autumn leaves for a research/outreach project, and write words for a book on migration communities and care, all in the space of one day?
October 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
It is likely that I will have to leave academia soon. It makes me mad/sad, because in what other job could I read the inspiring work of a student, collect autumn leaves for a research/outreach project, and write words for a book on migration communities and care, all in the space of one day?
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2025: Yvette Cooper suspends the rights of child refugees to come to the UK, effectively rejecting Article 8 of the ECHR
2016: Yvette Cooper making a passionate plea for child refugees to come to the UK
Cooper spent over a decade speaking up for child refugees, now she rejects Article 8 of ECHR
2016: Yvette Cooper making a passionate plea for child refugees to come to the UK
Cooper spent over a decade speaking up for child refugees, now she rejects Article 8 of ECHR
September 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM
2025: Yvette Cooper suspends the rights of child refugees to come to the UK, effectively rejecting Article 8 of the ECHR
2016: Yvette Cooper making a passionate plea for child refugees to come to the UK
Cooper spent over a decade speaking up for child refugees, now she rejects Article 8 of ECHR
2016: Yvette Cooper making a passionate plea for child refugees to come to the UK
Cooper spent over a decade speaking up for child refugees, now she rejects Article 8 of ECHR
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‘these are real people's lives, their families, their children’
I’ve been trying to think of something intelligible to say about yesterday’s announcement. In reading Kelly’s piece I’ve realised that I’m struggling for words because the policy is so unfathomably cruel. People will die because of it.
I’ve been trying to think of something intelligible to say about yesterday’s announcement. In reading Kelly’s piece I’ve realised that I’m struggling for words because the policy is so unfathomably cruel. People will die because of it.
They tried students and they tried care workers, but that wasn't enough. Now they're coming for families.
My impassioned thoughts on today's sickening family reunion announcement.
open.substack.com/pub/notanoth...
My impassioned thoughts on today's sickening family reunion announcement.
open.substack.com/pub/notanoth...
Now they're coming after families
If today’s announcement felt like another crossing of the Rubicon, that's because it is.
open.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
‘these are real people's lives, their families, their children’
I’ve been trying to think of something intelligible to say about yesterday’s announcement. In reading Kelly’s piece I’ve realised that I’m struggling for words because the policy is so unfathomably cruel. People will die because of it.
I’ve been trying to think of something intelligible to say about yesterday’s announcement. In reading Kelly’s piece I’ve realised that I’m struggling for words because the policy is so unfathomably cruel. People will die because of it.
Excited to see this out! Zalfa and Gillian recorded an episode of their wonderful podcast at the ‘Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes’ conference this summer. It includes discussions on podcasting practice and hospitality, as well as border stories shared by conference delegates.
Very excited that our first ever episode with a live audience has been published! Massive thanks to @rgf26.bsky.social for organising such a brilliant conference and giving us time and space to record it! And to all those who shared their border stories with us.
www.buzzsprout.com/2355740/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2355740/epis...
Borders and Hospitality - Borders Talk: Dots, Dashes & the Stories They Tell
Special thanks to our guest speakers on this episode, whose border stories we gratefully share with their consent: Jenneba Sie-Jallok, Loraine Masiya Mponela, Ambreen Hai, and Gaura Narayan.We r...
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September 2, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Excited to see this out! Zalfa and Gillian recorded an episode of their wonderful podcast at the ‘Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes’ conference this summer. It includes discussions on podcasting practice and hospitality, as well as border stories shared by conference delegates.
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
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“We must wean the UK off its “immigration dependency”, Starmer said in 2022. But the problem is his – and the entire political establishment’s – dependency on immigration as an issue to be exploited.”
Bang on, @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Bang on, @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik
He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
“We must wean the UK off its “immigration dependency”, Starmer said in 2022. But the problem is his – and the entire political establishment’s – dependency on immigration as an issue to be exploited.”
Bang on, @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Bang on, @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Almost 5,000 (!!) UK university workers sign letter in support of Gaza students with UK university places. This letter shows the huge level of support for these students and the urgent need for the government to enable them to get here: www.brismes.ac.uk/news/open-le...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
www.brismes.ac.uk
August 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Almost 5,000 (!!) UK university workers sign letter in support of Gaza students with UK university places. This letter shows the huge level of support for these students and the urgent need for the government to enable them to get here: www.brismes.ac.uk/news/open-le...
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WHY ON EARTH SHOULD THEY APOLOGISE IN THE FIRST PLACE???
Lifeboat crew members who are called out to migrants crossing the Channel in small boats have told the BBC they make no apologies for saving lives at sea.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
RNLI crew makes no apologies for saving migrants' lives in English Channel
It says it has saved the lives of 58 people crossing the Channel
www.bbc.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
WHY ON EARTH SHOULD THEY APOLOGISE IN THE FIRST PLACE???
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This letter is already at over 1000 signatures, showing the level of support in UK academia for these students - and hopefully increasing pressure on the Home Office and FCDO. Still open to sign.
An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities
More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...
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July 28, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This letter is already at over 1000 signatures, showing the level of support in UK academia for these students - and hopefully increasing pressure on the Home Office and FCDO. Still open to sign.
There is a special place in hell for the inventors of those automated cars in shopping centres that cost £1.50 to use, and which toddlers love.
Traumatic tantrums all round. Ended up abandoning the shopping.
Traumatic tantrums all round. Ended up abandoning the shopping.
July 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
There is a special place in hell for the inventors of those automated cars in shopping centres that cost £1.50 to use, and which toddlers love.
Traumatic tantrums all round. Ended up abandoning the shopping.
Traumatic tantrums all round. Ended up abandoning the shopping.
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All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
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maybe labour should just offer safe and legal routes like every single expert has advised them.
July 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
maybe labour should just offer safe and legal routes like every single expert has advised them.
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Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza
Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
I have a much bigger bugbear with the state of HE and what that’s going to mean for me when my contract ends in a few months while there’s no university jobs to apply for, but I don’t have the energy to fully work through the rage and sadness and frustration of that particular can of worms just now.
July 16, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I have a much bigger bugbear with the state of HE and what that’s going to mean for me when my contract ends in a few months while there’s no university jobs to apply for, but I don’t have the energy to fully work through the rage and sadness and frustration of that particular can of worms just now.
Current bugbear: Insurance companies that won’t let you cancel obscenely high renewal quotes online, but instead make you call up and waste 10 minutes on the phone with someone.
July 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Current bugbear: Insurance companies that won’t let you cancel obscenely high renewal quotes online, but instead make you call up and waste 10 minutes on the phone with someone.