@sadbast.bsky.social
UKLabour is indelibly marked as a safe home for #racehate
The thing is once you have implicitly accepted that your immigration reforms are a horrible unprincipled mess that everyone hates, you cannot try and hold on to random bits of cruelty within them without looking very foolish. And everyone will still hate them. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer plans to ease impact of immigration policy changes after backlash from Labour MPs
PM will consider exempting large numbers from proposed changes, which would leave people waiting 10 years for settled status
www.theguardian.com
May 15, 2026 at 12:50 PM
UKLabour is indelibly marked as a safe home for #racehate
The Tory destruction of Britain accelerating under UKLabour.
A barrister is being tried for simply accurately stating the law to a jury in a closing speech, possibly for the first time ever.
It is chilling how quickly we are resorting to authoritarian measures, particularly in the context of the genocide in Palestine. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
It is chilling how quickly we are resorting to authoritarian measures, particularly in the context of the genocide in Palestine. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Barrister in Palestine Action trial facing contempt of court proceedings
Rajiv Menon KC accused of defying judge’s orders to not inform jury of right to acquit on basis of conscience
www.theguardian.com
May 15, 2026 at 12:46 PM
The Tory destruction of Britain accelerating under UKLabour.
The Emu in the room.
BREAKING: Police have released Peter Mandelson from bail conditions after deciding he wasn’t flight risk.
Met dropped conditions applied after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office, though he remains under investigation @kiranstacey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Met dropped conditions applied after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office, though he remains under investigation @kiranstacey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Peter Mandelson released from bail conditions
Officers have decided former minister is not a flight risk, but he remains under investigation
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2026 at 7:31 AM
The Emu in the room.
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BREAKING: Police have released Peter Mandelson from bail conditions after deciding he wasn’t flight risk.
Met dropped conditions applied after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office, though he remains under investigation @kiranstacey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Met dropped conditions applied after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office, though he remains under investigation @kiranstacey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Peter Mandelson released from bail conditions
Officers have decided former minister is not a flight risk, but he remains under investigation
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2026 at 1:11 PM
BREAKING: Police have released Peter Mandelson from bail conditions after deciding he wasn’t flight risk.
Met dropped conditions applied after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office, though he remains under investigation @kiranstacey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Met dropped conditions applied after arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office, though he remains under investigation @kiranstacey.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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This Saturday in Bristol, a disingenuous “unity protest”, has been organised by the far right - open to people of Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh faiths. Which major religion is missing from that list?...🤔
March 3, 2026 at 5:41 PM
This Saturday in Bristol, a disingenuous “unity protest”, has been organised by the far right - open to people of Christian, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh faiths. Which major religion is missing from that list?...🤔
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ian huntley is dead. i'll always remember how the british press attempted to incite hatred against the trans community by reporting he was transitioning, then apologised to him for incorrect reporting instead of apologising to trans people
March 7, 2026 at 10:11 AM
ian huntley is dead. i'll always remember how the british press attempted to incite hatred against the trans community by reporting he was transitioning, then apologised to him for incorrect reporting instead of apologising to trans people
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New hyperlink (that hopefully works).
Also, the touch screens are particularly problematic for those countries that drive on the correct side of the road (left). We have to use our left hand to operate the screens, which for most people is the least dexterous.
theconversation.com/yes-those-bi...
Also, the touch screens are particularly problematic for those countries that drive on the correct side of the road (left). We have to use our left hand to operate the screens, which for most people is the least dexterous.
theconversation.com/yes-those-bi...
March 8, 2026 at 2:39 AM
New hyperlink (that hopefully works).
Also, the touch screens are particularly problematic for those countries that drive on the correct side of the road (left). We have to use our left hand to operate the screens, which for most people is the least dexterous.
theconversation.com/yes-those-bi...
Also, the touch screens are particularly problematic for those countries that drive on the correct side of the road (left). We have to use our left hand to operate the screens, which for most people is the least dexterous.
theconversation.com/yes-those-bi...
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Happy #IWD. Women bear the brunt of the climate crisis. But men dominate climate decision-making, and mega-rich ones like Farage, whose party is backed by oil and gas, set the climate back.
I wrote this last IWD, but it's still relevant…👇
www.independent.co.uk/voices/clima...
I wrote this last IWD, but it's still relevant…👇
www.independent.co.uk/voices/clima...
It’s men who caused the climate crisis – but it’s women who will suffer the most
Women across the world are having their lives torn apart by the climate crisis – and the UK government is turning its back, writes co-leader of the Green Party Carla Denyer
www.independent.co.uk
March 8, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Happy #IWD. Women bear the brunt of the climate crisis. But men dominate climate decision-making, and mega-rich ones like Farage, whose party is backed by oil and gas, set the climate back.
I wrote this last IWD, but it's still relevant…👇
www.independent.co.uk/voices/clima...
I wrote this last IWD, but it's still relevant…👇
www.independent.co.uk/voices/clima...
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Thanks to @neilmackay.bsky.social for this feature on me and the book for this week's Long Read slot.
'Anywhere But Here' is out in paperback this week - and it's currently a steal at 99p on Kindle.
'Anywhere But Here' is out in paperback this week - and it's currently a steal at 99p on Kindle.
The Home Office is hiring staff from McDonalds and supermarkets to decide on refugee deportation cases. Staff know so little that some consult Lonely Planet guides to decide if a country is safe. Some can’t even find countries they’re returning people to on the map
Inside the UK’s asylum system
Inside the UK’s asylum system
Inside the Home Office: 'Hostile culture and Kafkaesque chaos'
Immigration is the most divisive issue in British politics. Our Writer at Large talks to the Home Office insider blowing the whistle on government…
www.heraldscotland.com
March 8, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Thanks to @neilmackay.bsky.social for this feature on me and the book for this week's Long Read slot.
'Anywhere But Here' is out in paperback this week - and it's currently a steal at 99p on Kindle.
'Anywhere But Here' is out in paperback this week - and it's currently a steal at 99p on Kindle.
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My response in the Guardian to the Home Secretary's changes to asylum rules, and the utterly false claim that Labour's hostile and Inhumane anti-asylum policies reduce "pull factors".
March 8, 2026 at 5:33 PM
My response in the Guardian to the Home Secretary's changes to asylum rules, and the utterly false claim that Labour's hostile and Inhumane anti-asylum policies reduce "pull factors".
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Ahead of International Women’s Day, pleased to support Disay* to share her story with @thelondonstandard.bsky.social about her experiences & the changes we need in order to ensure all migrant domestic workers, a mostly female workforce, are protected & safe at work
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
The hidden scandal of modern slavery in London
Unpaid wages, 20-hour days, screaming abuse — Hannah Wallace investigates the grim reality for migrant domestic workers, helpless inside the city’s grandest addresses
www.standard.co.uk
March 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Ahead of International Women’s Day, pleased to support Disay* to share her story with @thelondonstandard.bsky.social about her experiences & the changes we need in order to ensure all migrant domestic workers, a mostly female workforce, are protected & safe at work
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Mahmood. Not my government
📢"The UK can have a functioning immigration system without abandoning the principle of equal protection under the law."
Our CEO @minnierahman.bsky.social in @lbc.co.uk on the Government's ICE-style asylum reforms this week.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/labo...
Our CEO @minnierahman.bsky.social in @lbc.co.uk on the Government's ICE-style asylum reforms this week.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/labo...
Labour is creating a two-tier society - and families will pay the price | LBC
For the first time in modern British history, we are seeing the creation of a multi-tier asylum system – one that ranks people’s right to protection based on how “deserving” the Government decides the...
www.lbc.co.uk
March 6, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Mahmood. Not my government
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Was quite a relief at the start of the week - I found fascist graffiti in the building entrance and wondered if I was being dramatic, but one of the local antifa said no, that’s a new development in this area, and cleaned it up. Things are slowly but definitely intensifying in Berlin.
Startling conversation with a friend today. My parents, my partner and I are leaving Germany within two years, she said. My parents survived autocracy in Iraq, they aren’t going through that again. Feels like a different friend says something like this every other week.
March 6, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Was quite a relief at the start of the week - I found fascist graffiti in the building entrance and wondered if I was being dramatic, but one of the local antifa said no, that’s a new development in this area, and cleaned it up. Things are slowly but definitely intensifying in Berlin.
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Legal ways to dissuade people from buying a Tesla:
✅️ Join your nearest #TeslaTakedown protest
✅️ Give Tesla owners a look of disgust
✅️ Report any Teslas parked illegally ASAP
✅️ Get an anti-Elon bumper sticker
✅️ Have a massive family row at Christmas with that weird cousin who thinks he is a tech bro
✅️ Join your nearest #TeslaTakedown protest
✅️ Give Tesla owners a look of disgust
✅️ Report any Teslas parked illegally ASAP
✅️ Get an anti-Elon bumper sticker
✅️ Have a massive family row at Christmas with that weird cousin who thinks he is a tech bro
March 2, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Legal ways to dissuade people from buying a Tesla:
✅️ Join your nearest #TeslaTakedown protest
✅️ Give Tesla owners a look of disgust
✅️ Report any Teslas parked illegally ASAP
✅️ Get an anti-Elon bumper sticker
✅️ Have a massive family row at Christmas with that weird cousin who thinks he is a tech bro
✅️ Join your nearest #TeslaTakedown protest
✅️ Give Tesla owners a look of disgust
✅️ Report any Teslas parked illegally ASAP
✅️ Get an anti-Elon bumper sticker
✅️ Have a massive family row at Christmas with that weird cousin who thinks he is a tech bro
#uklabour follow where disgraced Tories flushed.
Refugees do not choose to come here - by definition, they were forced to flee.
Scrapping permanent status will trap refugees in a state of insecurity and fear. This is inhumane cruelty.
Doing so says some people deserve fewer rights - and that inequality is law.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Scrapping permanent status will trap refugees in a state of insecurity and fear. This is inhumane cruelty.
Doing so says some people deserve fewer rights - and that inequality is law.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum
Home secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe
www.theguardian.com
March 2, 2026 at 12:21 PM
#uklabour follow where disgraced Tories flushed.
Just how morally bankrupt is the #uklabour end game?
Take two seven year olds in a primary school in the Prime Minister’s constituency.
His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank
Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?
His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank
Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?
March 2, 2026 at 6:14 AM
Just how morally bankrupt is the #uklabour end game?
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Take two seven year olds in a primary school in the Prime Minister’s constituency.
His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank
Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?
His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank
Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?
February 27, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Take two seven year olds in a primary school in the Prime Minister’s constituency.
His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank
Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?
His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank
Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?
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At least 6 Trump Cabinet members or senior administration officials were in contact with Epstein. It is unclear if these relationships w/ Epstein were raised in background checks or security clearances. Every agency involved declined to answer my questions. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
The ‘Crazy’ Plot to Release the Epstein Files
How an unlikely duo of lawmakers partnered with victims to try to hold the powerful accountable
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2026 at 11:59 PM
At least 6 Trump Cabinet members or senior administration officials were in contact with Epstein. It is unclear if these relationships w/ Epstein were raised in background checks or security clearances. Every agency involved declined to answer my questions. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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What the Greens did is the opposite of sectarianism. They looked at what the British public might be interested in and what unites them. Muslims don’t just vote on Gaza you plebs. They’re in the economy, housing crisis and using the NHS too. We’re whole people.
February 28, 2026 at 11:01 AM
What the Greens did is the opposite of sectarianism. They looked at what the British public might be interested in and what unites them. Muslims don’t just vote on Gaza you plebs. They’re in the economy, housing crisis and using the NHS too. We’re whole people.
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Mad that everyone from Stewart to Starmer to Badenoch to Farage is talking about sectarianism when all the Greens did was consider how British Muslims might vote. Is it sectarian to think about faith groups? Do MPs not visit synagogues, gurdwaras and churches? Is Tommy Robinson not sectarian?
February 28, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Mad that everyone from Stewart to Starmer to Badenoch to Farage is talking about sectarianism when all the Greens did was consider how British Muslims might vote. Is it sectarian to think about faith groups? Do MPs not visit synagogues, gurdwaras and churches? Is Tommy Robinson not sectarian?
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Everything about this is Islamophobia and we’re just letting our Prime Minister spout it.
February 28, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Everything about this is Islamophobia and we’re just letting our Prime Minister spout it.
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So sorry to learn that thinking about how I might vote is sectarian. Apologies to all. Pls never think about me, a British citizen, again.
What the Greens did is the opposite of sectarianism. They looked at what the British public might be interested in and what unites them. Muslims don’t just vote on Gaza you plebs. They’re in the economy, housing crisis and using the NHS too. We’re whole people.
February 28, 2026 at 11:17 AM
So sorry to learn that thinking about how I might vote is sectarian. Apologies to all. Pls never think about me, a British citizen, again.
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Again and again we see the reasons why all centralised id databases must be resisted.
In the UK we already have this in place for migrants and they called it the 'hostile environment' deliberately. It has to be repealed and we certainly can't allow it to be extended any further.
In the UK we already have this in place for migrants and they called it the 'hostile environment' deliberately. It has to be repealed and we certainly can't allow it to be extended any further.
The state turns IDs off to revoke fundamental rights and access. Essential services and rights -once freely available- are increasingly being made conditional on digital IDs: banking, driving, voting, mobile communication, university, hospitals. Then the state turns IDs off.
san.com/cc/kansas-re...
san.com/cc/kansas-re...
Kansas requires IDs to vote, but 1,700 trans residents just had their IDs revoked
Kansas has required people to show proof of identification in order to vote since 2012. A new law threatens that ability for 1,700 residents.
san.com
February 28, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Again and again we see the reasons why all centralised id databases must be resisted.
In the UK we already have this in place for migrants and they called it the 'hostile environment' deliberately. It has to be repealed and we certainly can't allow it to be extended any further.
In the UK we already have this in place for migrants and they called it the 'hostile environment' deliberately. It has to be repealed and we certainly can't allow it to be extended any further.
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Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.
February 28, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Very clear that for Starmer, 'sectarian voting' is when British Muslims don't vote Labour, and for many others, it is just when British Muslims vote.
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It’s deeply alarming that detention centres are failing to follow their own safeguarding guidance - just weeks after excessive force against vulnerable migrants was exposed at Brook House.
Immigration detention actively inflicts harm. It must end.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Immigration detention actively inflicts harm. It must end.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Failures in care of epileptic man who died in immigration detention, inquest hears
Théophile Kaliviotis died in custody at Brook House immigration removal centre near Gatwick Airport
www.independent.co.uk
February 25, 2026 at 9:06 AM
It’s deeply alarming that detention centres are failing to follow their own safeguarding guidance - just weeks after excessive force against vulnerable migrants was exposed at Brook House.
Immigration detention actively inflicts harm. It must end.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Immigration detention actively inflicts harm. It must end.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...