Iain Palmer
@yipalmer.bsky.social
Asylum & Immigration Counsel at BHT Sussex, Brighton, UK
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Exasperating to the last Tory Government - and a certain campaigning magistrate - that juries kept acquitting peaceful protestors against planetary destruction. What better way to solve that problem than by abolishing juries - who knows what they might do otherwise to eg Palestine Action protestors.
November 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Exasperating to the last Tory Government - and a certain campaigning magistrate - that juries kept acquitting peaceful protestors against planetary destruction. What better way to solve that problem than by abolishing juries - who knows what they might do otherwise to eg Palestine Action protestors.
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BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
November 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
BREAKING: Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10 & a half years in prison after pleading guilty to eight charges of bribery from a Russian agent.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb.
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Read here🔗: www.thenerve.news/p/meg-molloy...
The visual arts sector has a class problem and I'm trying to fix it. Join me!
Meg Molloy, the founder of Working Arts Club, was the first person in her family to go to university and had to fight for her career and to fit in. Now she wants to open the doors of the art world to ...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Read here🔗: www.thenerve.news/p/meg-molloy...
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Meg Molloy was the first person in her family to go to university, and had to fight both for her career, and to fit in. Now, with Working Arts Club, she wants to open the doors of the art world to people like her.
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Meg Molloy was the first person in her family to go to university, and had to fight both for her career, and to fit in. Now, with Working Arts Club, she wants to open the doors of the art world to people like her.
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Breaking Down the Government’s New Asylum Proposals. Our latest blog focuses on what the Gov' wants to change, what this means in practice , & how communities can stay prepared. These are proposals, and not law. ow.ly/XzJJ50XucO8 #NoOneisIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall #MigrationisLife
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Breaking Down the Government’s New Asylum Proposals. Our latest blog focuses on what the Gov' wants to change, what this means in practice , & how communities can stay prepared. These are proposals, and not law. ow.ly/XzJJ50XucO8 #NoOneisIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall #MigrationisLife
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A dark, shameful day indeed. Absolutely unacceptable to treat people with such contempt and cruelty.
Latest post from us: Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: “Restoring Order and Control” | Sonia Lenegan
Home Secretary announces major asylum and other changes in new policy paper: "Restoring Order and Control" - Free Movement
Following a plethora of media briefings and coverage over the past few days, the Home Secretary has officially published her policy paper on "Restoring Order
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November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A dark, shameful day indeed. Absolutely unacceptable to treat people with such contempt and cruelty.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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Unsurprised to hear any politics that looks to address inequalities, looks to centre the poorest in our societies, anything that challenges the unsustainable status quo, dismissed as 'radical socialism'.
Political analysis/commentary is pretty poor globally but in the UK it is in the sewer.
Political analysis/commentary is pretty poor globally but in the UK it is in the sewer.
It's not just about the messenger.
You've got to have the right message.
You've got to have the right message.
November 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Unsurprised to hear any politics that looks to address inequalities, looks to centre the poorest in our societies, anything that challenges the unsustainable status quo, dismissed as 'radical socialism'.
Political analysis/commentary is pretty poor globally but in the UK it is in the sewer.
Political analysis/commentary is pretty poor globally but in the UK it is in the sewer.
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The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
Page by George Monbiot | @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville:
“Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble benea...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...
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1. Mary trademarked her name which means there can only ever be one Mary Berry and all others are put to the sword
2. Mary calls her vagina Enid
3. She shot a man in 1993, just to watch him die
4. Mary released Casserolé (olé olé) a dance hit in the summer of 1983
5. She voiced Pingu over 3 seasons
2. Mary calls her vagina Enid
3. She shot a man in 1993, just to watch him die
4. Mary released Casserolé (olé olé) a dance hit in the summer of 1983
5. She voiced Pingu over 3 seasons
October 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
1. Mary trademarked her name which means there can only ever be one Mary Berry and all others are put to the sword
2. Mary calls her vagina Enid
3. She shot a man in 1993, just to watch him die
4. Mary released Casserolé (olé olé) a dance hit in the summer of 1983
5. She voiced Pingu over 3 seasons
2. Mary calls her vagina Enid
3. She shot a man in 1993, just to watch him die
4. Mary released Casserolé (olé olé) a dance hit in the summer of 1983
5. She voiced Pingu over 3 seasons
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#oppourtunity @openrightsgroup.org is seeking a consultant policy expert to help produce a policy paper around the use of (AI) in the immigration and asylum system, and its implications for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in the UK. Deadline: 9 November
www.openrightsgroup.org/consultancy-...
www.openrightsgroup.org/consultancy-...
Consultancy: AI and Immigration System
Open Rights Group (ORG) is the UK’s leading digital rights organisation, working to protect privacy, free expression, and digital justice.
www.openrightsgroup.org
October 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#oppourtunity @openrightsgroup.org is seeking a consultant policy expert to help produce a policy paper around the use of (AI) in the immigration and asylum system, and its implications for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in the UK. Deadline: 9 November
www.openrightsgroup.org/consultancy-...
www.openrightsgroup.org/consultancy-...
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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Sorcery in Caerphilly:
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social visits the Welsh valleys on the trail of a Russian spy, his wife, a Reform politician taking bribes, party leader Nigel Farage and a vanishing by-election candidate.
Here's a sneak peak of John’s film - coming tomorrow only in the Nerve
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social visits the Welsh valleys on the trail of a Russian spy, his wife, a Reform politician taking bribes, party leader Nigel Farage and a vanishing by-election candidate.
Here's a sneak peak of John’s film - coming tomorrow only in the Nerve
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Sorcery in Caerphilly:
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social visits the Welsh valleys on the trail of a Russian spy, his wife, a Reform politician taking bribes, party leader Nigel Farage and a vanishing by-election candidate.
Here's a sneak peak of John’s film - coming tomorrow only in the Nerve
@johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social visits the Welsh valleys on the trail of a Russian spy, his wife, a Reform politician taking bribes, party leader Nigel Farage and a vanishing by-election candidate.
Here's a sneak peak of John’s film - coming tomorrow only in the Nerve
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Question - if wealth taxes don’t work and raise only paltry amounts, how come whenever we start seriously discussing them rich people start pouring resources into trying to start race and class wars as a distraction?
October 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Question - if wealth taxes don’t work and raise only paltry amounts, how come whenever we start seriously discussing them rich people start pouring resources into trying to start race and class wars as a distraction?
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Is the Thames Water bailout plan – which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years – lawful?
Our director Jo Maugham breaks it down.
@goodlawproject.org
https://www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/is-the-thames-water-bailout-plan?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1o8vlm
Our director Jo Maugham breaks it down.
@goodlawproject.org
https://www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/is-the-thames-water-bailout-plan?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1o8vlm
Is the Thames Water bailout plan - which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years - lawful?
A group of Thames Water’s senior creditors, London & Valley Water (“L&VW”), has submitted to Ofwat proposals for them to be relieved from fines for past or future sewage dumping for a period of up to ...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Is the Thames Water bailout plan – which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years – lawful?
Our director Jo Maugham breaks it down.
@goodlawproject.org
https://www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/is-the-thames-water-bailout-plan?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1o8vlm
Our director Jo Maugham breaks it down.
@goodlawproject.org
https://www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/is-the-thames-water-bailout-plan?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1o8vlm
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Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
October 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
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“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?”
Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT
Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT
October 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?”
Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT
Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT
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‘Should comedians be held to a higher standard than footballers? It would help if they weren’t so fond of touting their own importance, their skewering of the ruling class, their “speaking truth to power”.’
Malin Hay on the House of Saud’s comedy festival: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
Malin Hay on the House of Saud’s comedy festival: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
Malin Hay | Laughing Their Heads Off
If there’s anything ironic about being so scared of telling the wrong joke that you run straight into the arms of the...
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October 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
‘Should comedians be held to a higher standard than footballers? It would help if they weren’t so fond of touting their own importance, their skewering of the ruling class, their “speaking truth to power”.’
Malin Hay on the House of Saud’s comedy festival: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
Malin Hay on the House of Saud’s comedy festival: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...
I’m not sure why but Jen’s speech kept popping into my mind when listening to Badenoch earler today. Just me? youtube.com/watch?v=Vywf...
The Internet Speech The IT Crowd | Series 3 Episode 4
YouTube video by The IT Crowd
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October 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I’m not sure why but Jen’s speech kept popping into my mind when listening to Badenoch earler today. Just me? youtube.com/watch?v=Vywf...
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It’s largely academic, because @KemiBadenoch is on a Liz Truss trajectory towards the US Nutter Circuit. But that the Leader of the Opposition would spread such utter lies - adding in her ignorance by suggesting the Sentencing Council has any role in immigration - is pathetic.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
It’s largely academic, because @KemiBadenoch is on a Liz Truss trajectory towards the US Nutter Circuit. But that the Leader of the Opposition would spread such utter lies - adding in her ignorance by suggesting the Sentencing Council has any role in immigration - is pathetic.
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‘[Lord Wolfson says:] The [ECHR] and the Human Rights Act “place major restrictions on individual decision-making at every level (civil servants, judges, and ministers) and in policy and legislative design”.’
YES THAT’S THE ENTIRE POINT
YES THAT’S THE ENTIRE POINT
The next Conservative government will take the UK out of the ECHR and repeal the Human Rights Act. Kemi Badenoch announced her decision after taking advice from Lord Wolfson of Tredegar KC, who had warned her that withdrawal would not be a “silver bullet”.
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How UK could leave ECHR
Withdrawal would allow EU to end criminal law enforcement co-operation
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October 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
‘[Lord Wolfson says:] The [ECHR] and the Human Rights Act “place major restrictions on individual decision-making at every level (civil servants, judges, and ministers) and in policy and legislative design”.’
YES THAT’S THE ENTIRE POINT
YES THAT’S THE ENTIRE POINT
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She was arrested for holding a sign reading:
“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”
How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”
How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
October 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
She was arrested for holding a sign reading:
“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”
How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”
How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.
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Football fan now banned from Brighton FC for FIVE YEARS for wearing Palestine shirt
Initially Brighton FC gave Roger Wade a five-game ban in August - but he challenged it, and they've now made it five years
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
Initially Brighton FC gave Roger Wade a five-game ban in August - but he challenged it, and they've now made it five years
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
Football fan now banned from Brighton FC for FIVE YEARS for wearing Palestine shirt
Initially Brighton FC gave Roger Wade a five-game ban in August - but he challenged it, and they've now made it five years
www.thecanary.co
October 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Football fan now banned from Brighton FC for FIVE YEARS for wearing Palestine shirt
Initially Brighton FC gave Roger Wade a five-game ban in August - but he challenged it, and they've now made it five years
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
Initially Brighton FC gave Roger Wade a five-game ban in August - but he challenged it, and they've now made it five years
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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A hideous, and for traumatised British Jews profoundly unhelpful, expression of allyship & agreement with a violent, racist, serial criminal & former member of an avowedly anti-Semitic organisation from the *Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs* and so, as Sunder says, the Israeli government. 1/3
This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).
October 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A hideous, and for traumatised British Jews profoundly unhelpful, expression of allyship & agreement with a violent, racist, serial criminal & former member of an avowedly anti-Semitic organisation from the *Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs* and so, as Sunder says, the Israeli government. 1/3