And the Home Office provides virtually zero routes through which these nationalities can claim asylum in the UK without making the dangerous and illegal crossings that it so hates 🫠

Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

Interesting read www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

The use of AI in asylum decision-making is likely unlawful.

These tools rewrite interviews, choosing what to include and exclude.

Without knowing this, asylum applicants can't be sure accurate information is used to inform decisions.

📺️ ORG's @sarahalsherif.bsky.social explains the legal opinion.

For all of the excitement in Westminster around the Danish model of social democracy the Danish Labour Party is heading for its worst election result since 1901. They’ll likely remain in power but the red bloc won’t have a majority. Meanwhile radical left and right parties gain.

Screen scandal: How Ofcom lets GB News get away with it SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: A channel constantly breaking the rules has effectively become Reform TV, while our useless state regulator does nothing

Since Ofcom seems to have given up, we asked 20 experienced journalists from a range of backgrounds to watch multiple hours of @gbnewsonline.bsky.social . Their conclusion: the channel has, in effect, become Reform TV. How did it happen? www.thenewworld.co.uk/alan-rusbrid...

Meanwhile, refugee family reunion continues to be paused, the Afghan schemes have been shut, and only 537 people came through the UK's flagship resettlement scheme last year.

As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played

(Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)

Quite amazed at how the Today Programme just grilled Zack Polanski then had Reform’s chairman on immediately after and asked him zero difficult questions

Lobbyists for the Tony Blair Institute privately urged the EU to support and join Donald Trump’s Board of Peace, an initiative which started life as a council to oversee Gaza & sprawled since into a rival to the UN

It's not often we get to report on hopeful news

Alaa Hamoudi won in the EU's top court against Frontex! This opens doors for many survivors of Frontex pushbacks.

@bdeeb.bsky.social tells how he reported on Alaa's case back in 2020 with @bellingcat.com. And how this evidence ended up in court.

Peter Thiel's New Model Army The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster

Pls read whole piece. Neither Mandelson or Mosley were asked about Mandelson’s role in fixing Starmer’s visit to Palantir & subsequent £240m deal. It finally made headlines on Weds when a q was asked in Parliament.

But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer

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Inside UK’s most notorious immigration detention centre Brook House near Gatwick airport was the subject of an independent inquiry after G4S guards were filmed abusing detainees in 2017. Now, The Independent has obtained stark written accounts from officer...

I've been doing some reporting on conditions inside Brook House IRC. I'm keen to speak to anyone who's been held there or who has worked there. Please get in touch if you might be able to help.

Story based on accounts of force used in a month last year:
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Another absolute must-read on what looks a lot like the Oracleisation of the Tony Blair Institute

Inside the Tony Blair Institute Who really benefits from the former PM’s tech evangelism?

Comes after we revealed a few months back how Blair and his Institute are lobbying on behalf of their Big Tech pals www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

ICYMI: The Tony Blair Institute is building its own AI tools with the view of selling them to authoritarian govts, in what insiders describe as a bid to rival controversial US tech firm Palantir

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/blair-bids...

Note the wild response we got from TBI's press team ⬇️

Blair bids to build own AI tools to rival Palantir TBI insiders warn of “'insane” plan to transform think tank into a tech company

🚨 Exclusive: Tony Blair isn’t just a big fan of AI — he's now trying to build and sell AI tools to governments

Tony Blair Institute staff have described the plan as 'insane' and compared it to Palantir

New by D4S and @lighthousereports.com 🧵

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They fought with Britain and US in Afghanistan – now Taliban are taking their revenge After the Taliban takeover of Kabul in 2021, Britain pledged sanctuary to Afghans who faced reprisals for working with UK forces – but thousands are still waiting. Now, as Britain drags its heels, we ...

And I fear the UK isn’t far off doing something similar, despite the clear dangers people face www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Germany drops promise to resettle hundreds of Afghans Interior ministry will tell 640 people awaiting sanctuary ‘there is no longer any political interest in their being admitted’

Where have we got to when a European govt is telling Afghans who are at risk of being killed for work they did for said govt that they will not be brought to safety as promised because there’s “no longer any political interest” in helping them? Terrifying shift www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

"You can't stay and you can't go" - State Violence at the UK-France Border — Humans for Rights Network

🚨EMERGENCY AT THE UK-FRANCE BORDER 🚨 Today we are launching our new collaborative report reveals that people attempting to cross the UK-France border are subjected to horrifying levels of state violence. www.humansforrights.org/state-violence

Small boats in the Channel: Questions raised over France's new net interception policy The authorities are preparing to test a technique that was previously considered too dangerous for passengers' lives in order to stop migrant boats. There are also concerns over the criminal liability...

French coastguard and customs union representative @remivdp.bsky.social warns there's 'no way' to carry out such manoeuvres safely: 'It’s clear that one day there will be fatalities caused by this'

Great reporting @tomasstatius.bsky.social @julia-pascual.bsky.social
www.lemonde.fr/en/global-is...

French police to use nets to stop small boats crossing Channel New tactics to stop boats set to be introduced despite warnings there is ‘no way’ to carry out such manoeuvres safely

NEW: French police will use nets to try to stop small boats crossing the Channel – despite warnings this could be deadly

As UK pressure on France mounts, sources tell @lighthousereports.com and @lemonde.fr interceptions at sea will now take place, with nets
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

It will clearly make it harder for refugees to feel safe, to be able to secure employment, to try and fulfil their potential. At the same time it will be massive bureaucratic headache for the Home Office. On top of processing asylum claims, they'll need to review all the ones they done previously.

It’s actually mad that me and the far-right have exactly the same take. No notes.

Thought the plan was to smash the smuggling gangs not emulate them.

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.

Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

"REVEALED: TERRIBLE REVENGE OF TALIBAN THAT SHAMES BRITAIN"
Full Story: t.ly/lgf5h

#Afghan Security Forces are still being hunted down.

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They fought with Britain and US in Afghanistan – now Taliban is taking its revenge After the Taliban takeover of Kabul in 2021, Britain pledged sanctuary to Afghans who faced reprisals for working with UK forces – but thousands are still waiting. Now, as Britain drags its heels, we ...

It’s hard to believe that 4 years on from the fall of Kabul, Afghans who served with UK troops are still waiting to be relocated to safety

Now a painstaking analysis by @lighthousereports.com and partners reveals the extent of the peril they're facing, with 110+ ex-security forces killed since 2023

Many of these “illustrations” aren’t based on verified intelligence at all.

Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.