Maybe the scandal is that the asylum system is so cruel and fucked that people whose job it is to help desperate people willingly skirt the lines cause it doesn’t actually matter if youre gay or not to deserve a place in a safe society but what do i know
We are just begin to get an inkling of how deeply embedded Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair were/are with the sinister rich. Every time you think you've seen the worst of it, something else emerges.
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The simplest way to understand these well-spoken monsters is they don't believe in the universality & equality of all before the law. They believe in law as a weapon for disciplining & vaporising lesser humans & for protecting & shielding superior humans like them & their allies from consequences
There are people out there who think it's ridiculous to say that killing 100,000 Palestinians and expelling 100,000s more from their land is a genocide, but that describing people coming to your country to work and start a family as genocide is totally reasonable.
From suspending student visas to family reunion- this government is entrenching a culture of cruelty.
Solidarity to the Sudanese students fighting to live freely and with dignity, agency and courage. You deserve a life of freedom and safety,.
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And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
Horrific.
Correspondence seen by The New Arab shows The Open University doubling down on threats made by UK Lawyers for Israel to remove the term 'Ancient Palestine' from its coursework:
The Telegraph @ @Telegraph •6m Islamophobia entered Britain's political lexicon nearly 30 years ago. X Ever since, there have been fierce arguments over whether its definition could threaten free speech. This is how the debate over a word became toxic
Let me have a go: “Our leaders and media outlets started out very racist, and have radicalised themselves to National Front crackpottery as they accidentally - and often quite deliberately - fell into a vortex of idiotic lies used to justify increasingly horrific war crimes”
Left: Yvette Cooper poses with Afghan girls saying she wants to help them on #IWD Right: Shabana Mahmood blocks an Afghani girl who has a scholarship from studying in the UK, abandoning her to the Taliban Labour saying one thing then doing another - just like the Conservatives
Labour in a nutshell
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.
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The term for that is White supremacy and any coverage of Reform that does not include that term is complicit in whitewashing White supremacy. Sometimes things really are that simple.
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The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.
Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban
All Palestine Action activists cleared by jury of the politically motivated charges against them.
The remaining three hunger strikers have ended their strike. A good moment to reflect on how falsely labelling them as terrorists dehumanises the prisoners. Thought-provoking piece for the Nerve by @natashawalter.bsky.social
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You know when we said it was a bad idea to put these people in charge of all our NHS data?
If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
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There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing.
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All of this is fascism. And not early stage either. This is the embedding of the Right Wing Daily Mail press consensus as the absolutely unshakable common sense of the UK state. Made possible because the "left wing" party has abdicated any kind of moral position on it.
This is just from soldiers firing machine guns at civilians trying to collect bags of flour, because after we all pretended to believe the UN aid agency was a Hamas front, the Israelis turned aid distribution into the opening sequence of Saving Private Ryan for weeks edition.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
Extremely thorough analysis of the BBC's distorted coverage of Israel's genocide in Gaza by @trillingual.bsky.social
The piece is very well sourced, fair, nuanced, sympathetic to institutional pressures on the BBC - making the verdict on its biased output all the more damning.
To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/
Erm, no. No this policy does not need "clarification". It needs condemnation. They have been pretty clear what they want, the mass deportation of people living and working here, families ripped apart, and xenophobia and racism embedded further as government policy
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Vile stuff. At my own university all new staff are employed via a subsidiary company to avoid the TPS pension (remember: pensions are pay) and we all fear the costing staff will be next. Management think staff are so desperate that they’ll accept anything.
Remember: university managements are so…
My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case
It cannot be made clearer.
If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.
Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair
Irony being that the entire Farage-isation of British politics is built on the phenomenon of white right-wingers who don't want to "integrate" with the reality of multi-ethnic Britain, don't want to accept migrants as their fellow citizens, and don't want people of colour moving into their street.
I mean it wasn't founded for this, that's the thing liberal institutions *tell themselves* to smooth over their actual role of doing propaganda for the state. What's changed in the last decade is that the balance of imperatives has changed more towards "smash the left at all costs".