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nextwavef.bsky.social
Andrew Curry
@nextwavef.bsky.social
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Futurist in London. Pessimistic and sceptical. See my Just Two Things newsletter, plus a folk music sideline at Salut! Folk. New here, so still learning.
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nextwavef.bsky.social
Your far too frequent reminder that the Home Office is feral and no longer fit for purpose. 14 years of the “hostile environemtn” have completely corrupted its operating culture.

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‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in error
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2026 at 6:34 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
#safc All this noise about the Sunderland penalty because of Arteta’s noise, but the penalty Saka won at the end was soft. The contact was outside the box, for one thing. Saka was lucky not to get a card for simulation.
September 13, 2026 at 8:47 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
@bbc - I am trying to renew my mother’s TV licence, since she has dementia. But it is the name of her late husband. To renew it from her bank account, I need to change the name on the account. Can I do that online? Of course not. You tell me I have to call a number. (1/2)
September 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
@theguardian.com Remind me, where’s the box on this page that says, I already pay you £18 / month and here’s my subscriber number? This is fifth rate UI and sixth rate UX.
August 30, 2026 at 9:27 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
@theguardian.com I have a subscription already, but when I try to access an article someone sent me on my computer I get this screen. Where is the UI option that says “I already pay you £18/ month”? It’s just a terrible UI.
August 26, 2026 at 11:42 AM
nextwavef.bsky.social
The back catalogue tracks the Salut #Folk team have been listening to this year. Enjoy! (We’ll publish the new stuff we’ve been listening to in a few days).

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’Something old’—our back catalogue so far this year - Salut! Folk
It’s time for our summer edition of ‘Something Old, Something New, in which we ask the Salut! editorial team what they have been listening to so far this
salutfolk.com
August 23, 2026 at 10:57 AM
nextwavef.bsky.social
The political economy of shared spaces: Every policy wonk in Whitehall and local government should be reading this. laurenleek.substack.com/p/britain-lo...
Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?
How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.
laurenleek.substack.com
August 17, 2026 at 7:15 AM
nextwavef.bsky.social
The “predetermined elements” that we already know about that will shape the 2030s. New post at The Next Wave.
@artkleiner.bsky.social

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What will happen in the 2030s
We already know quite a lot about the shape of the coming decade. The question is how best to manage it.
thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com
August 13, 2026 at 9:10 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
This what happens when you let immigration policy dictate #education policy. It is totally self destructive.

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UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students
Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2026 at 9:09 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
One day the UK Home Office will have the grace to acknowledge it made a mistake and stop toying with people’s lives. One day. But right now it is feral and dysfunctional and needs to be broken up.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Home Office tells Italian man his right to stay in UK after Brexit was ‘error’
Man is told he should not have been granted settled status so he can no longer sponsor Brazilian wife to remain
www.theguardian.com
August 9, 2026 at 10:33 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
Every time I hear from @microsoft.com they are either hiking up the price to pay for an AI service, reducing their offer, or making it harder to use a suite of services I already pay for. #Enshittification.
August 4, 2026 at 8:39 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
UK Home Office. Feral, rogue. Not fit for purpose. Doesn’t care what damage it causes to every other government policy.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’
After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2026 at 8:20 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
The Home Office. Say it again: it’s feral and not fit for purpose. Maybe it’s time to abolish it, since a decade of the “hostile environment” has completely corrupted its values.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Home Office blocking evacuation of dozens of women and children from Gaza
Refugee family reunions in limbo, despite Foreign Office saying it is ready to get people out of war-torn territory
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2026 at 8:19 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
The UK Home Office is feral and no longer fit for purpose.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Home Office rejects Palestinian Jerusalemite woman’s UK visa but approves husband’s
Officials not satisfied Therese Abdallah is a ‘genuine visitor’ and believe she would not leave after visit to son in London
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2026 at 2:22 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
The entitlement of a bunch of Labour Party politicians who were the beneficiaries of the most sustained factional attack in the post-war history of the Labour Party is beyond belief.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Was Keir Starmer’s leaving party the boozy birth of a new Labour force?
A £10,000 bar tab was drunk, there was a ‘lot of anger’, and now ex-ministers are thinking how to cooperate in future
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2026 at 12:14 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
In my Just Two Things today, Rob Hopkins on using imagination to unlock the future. And understanding Stewart Brand’s pace layers model.

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@transitiontotnes.bsky.social
24 July 2026. Imagination | Time
Rob Hopkins, imagination, and a politics of longing // Stewart Brand’s Pace Layers as a sense-making device. [J2T#668]
justtwothings.substack.com
July 24, 2026 at 4:54 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
“Imagine if Africa was next to Ireland…” The Afro Gael Beats—an African/Irish fusion band led by Gregg Kofi Brown, a longstanding member of Osibisa—played at @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social on Saturday. My review is posted at Salut! Folk.
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Osibisa with a slice of Irish - Salut! Folk
Gregg Kofi Brown spent almost four decades playing with Osibisa. On a hot summer night he played in London with his Afro-Irish fusion band, Afro Gael Beats.
salutfolk.com
July 22, 2026 at 2:13 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
Given that the English Football Association just made £22 million from the World Cup, this is a little bit embarrassing. Or maybe the Premiership teams could find £3,000 each from their charity schemes?
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
England cannot afford trip to amputee World Cup – and the FA will not help
With no national funding, England’s successful men’s amputee side is struggling to raise the £50,000 needed for November’s tournament in Mexico
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot
Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 21, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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jwsidders.bsky.social
The BBC and other broadcasters have swallowed the right's small boat invasion narrative hook, line and sinker. They have no interest in reporting a fall in crossings - especially as the weather cannot be blamed. Normal service will be resumed if numbers start rising again.
jonfeatonby.bsky.social Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · Jul 21
No arrivals by small boats for the last 10 days now. As of yesterday, 12,469 people had arrived so far this year across the Channel, down over 11,000 (47%) on the same time last year. More than 10% down on 2023 as well, which was when crossings were, by comparison to other years, lower.
July 22, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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salutsunderland.bsky.social
Continuing Salut! Folk’s occasional series acclaiming Martin Carthy’s great career - and his phenomenal contributions to folk and folk-rock
@elizacarthy.bsky.social

While there, see also @nextwavef.bsky.social’s superb retrospective on the classic Morris On album…

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Martin Carthy: the folk-rock years - Salut! Folk
Colin Randall writes: we recently had wretched news that Ashley Hutchings had suffered a stroke. He has cancelled appearances, as you’d expect, but is in good
salutfolk.com
July 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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salutsunderland.bsky.social
Look this up. If you didn’t already know, @katherinepriddy.bsky.social is a priceless singer, songwriter and musician with her heart in the right place
@nextwavef.bsky.social
#folkmusic
July 7, 2026 at 7:38 PM
nextwavef.bsky.social
Your regular reminder that the UK Home Office is feral and no longer fit for purpose.

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Jamaican man who has lived in UK for 26 years facing deportation
Case of Mark Nelson, 46, is one of first since new measures were announced in last week’s immigration bill
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July 6, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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ianwalker.bsky.social
I shall watch this with interest. There's no way to get 60% of kids actively travelling to school without disrupting current patterns of car-based mobility. This includes making all urban streets safer, not just those right outside schools
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ministers want 60% of pupils in England ‘actively’ travelling to school by 2035
Exclusive: Transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, says cycling and walking plan focuses on ‘everyday travel needs’
www.theguardian.com
June 11, 2026 at 9:56 AM