Tim Hess
@timhess.bsky.social
Project manager working in mental health for London. Passionate about health equity, community participation and centring lived experience.
And if anyone missed it, he slashed a dinghy while a rescue worker was on board. Quite an omission BBC.
The BBC news report simply says Mr Thomas broadcast a livestream. This seems highly inadequate in quite a lengthy report, leaving out such key details: what he did; the French stating the behaviour was unlawful
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dozens of migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters had earlier gathered in Gosport after an initial report that the small boat would be brought further west.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2026 at 9:57 AM
And if anyone missed it, he slashed a dinghy while a rescue worker was on board. Quite an omission BBC.
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If Mahmood does become Chancellor it will interesting to see if her views on immigration change when she's responsible for the economic consequences....
July 16, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement.
Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences.
Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else.
Enough.
Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences.
Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else.
Enough.
June 10, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement.
Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences.
Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else.
Enough.
Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences.
Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else.
Enough.
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Vile performative bullshit with a bogus rationale. A disgrace.
"This week some of Britain’s most senior former military chiefs signed a joint letter to Starmer, first reported by The Times, warning that cutting foreign aid to fund defence would compromise national security."
"This week some of Britain’s most senior former military chiefs signed a joint letter to Starmer, first reported by The Times, warning that cutting foreign aid to fund defence would compromise national security."
UK officials discuss fresh aid cuts to help fund higher defence spending
MPs and charities warn against further reductions in overseas aid budget as government steps up military investment
www.ft.com
May 22, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Vile performative bullshit with a bogus rationale. A disgrace.
"This week some of Britain’s most senior former military chiefs signed a joint letter to Starmer, first reported by The Times, warning that cutting foreign aid to fund defence would compromise national security."
"This week some of Britain’s most senior former military chiefs signed a joint letter to Starmer, first reported by The Times, warning that cutting foreign aid to fund defence would compromise national security."
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Every single piece of evidence in the UK shows that ethnic minorities are nore pro-migratiion than white British people. Ethnic minorities like white British people have mixed pro, balancer and sceptical views but they are more liberal + softer sceptics.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Shabana Mahmood swears at ‘white liberal’ hecklers over Reform remarks
Home secretary accuses protesters of trying to ‘delegitimise’ concerns people have over immigration
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Every single piece of evidence in the UK shows that ethnic minorities are nore pro-migratiion than white British people. Ethnic minorities like white British people have mixed pro, balancer and sceptical views but they are more liberal + softer sceptics.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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An arson attack on a Jewish ambulance service isn’t about Israel. It isn’t about Zionism, or American imperialism, or capitalism, or war in the Middle East.
It’s about Jews. It’s about making British Jews feel fearful in their own homes.
Just like Bondi Beach, and Heaton Park, all over again.
It’s about Jews. It’s about making British Jews feel fearful in their own homes.
Just like Bondi Beach, and Heaton Park, all over again.
March 23, 2026 at 9:24 AM
An arson attack on a Jewish ambulance service isn’t about Israel. It isn’t about Zionism, or American imperialism, or capitalism, or war in the Middle East.
It’s about Jews. It’s about making British Jews feel fearful in their own homes.
Just like Bondi Beach, and Heaton Park, all over again.
It’s about Jews. It’s about making British Jews feel fearful in their own homes.
Just like Bondi Beach, and Heaton Park, all over again.
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There is no better patriotic sight than seeing Andrew arrested inews.co.uk/opinion/ther...
There is no better patriotic sight than seeing Andrew arrested
Today is a day of national pride, when the equality of the law is clear
inews.co.uk
February 19, 2026 at 1:13 PM
There is no better patriotic sight than seeing Andrew arrested inews.co.uk/opinion/ther...
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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
January 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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You have to laugh really. It’s like discovering that the government believes that “pee is stored in the balls”.
If there is an argument then this is the argument. But lol I can’t find where this obviously false stat is coming from. And if the government does believe more than half the families in the UK are using it as their primary news source then woah maybe time to up the scrutiny of it!
January 5, 2026 at 8:45 PM
You have to laugh really. It’s like discovering that the government believes that “pee is stored in the balls”.
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Absolutely. An iron law of whether a statement about immigrants is true is that it should also apply if you just use the word “people”. (A test that many claims on the liberal side also fail!)
It's the logical end point of the duhumanisation of asylum seekers. They're not seen as people with agency, but as problems other countries / nefarious forces are dumping on us
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Absolutely. An iron law of whether a statement about immigrants is true is that it should also apply if you just use the word “people”. (A test that many claims on the liberal side also fail!)
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101 months since we lost our 72
The Tower is coming down, but still no justice.
Government continues to drag its feet on Inquiry
recommendations & there’s no progress on a National Oversight Mechanism to ensure lessons are learned.
We won't stop until we get justice & change.
The Tower is coming down, but still no justice.
Government continues to drag its feet on Inquiry
recommendations & there’s no progress on a National Oversight Mechanism to ensure lessons are learned.
We won't stop until we get justice & change.
November 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
101 months since we lost our 72
The Tower is coming down, but still no justice.
Government continues to drag its feet on Inquiry
recommendations & there’s no progress on a National Oversight Mechanism to ensure lessons are learned.
We won't stop until we get justice & change.
The Tower is coming down, but still no justice.
Government continues to drag its feet on Inquiry
recommendations & there’s no progress on a National Oversight Mechanism to ensure lessons are learned.
We won't stop until we get justice & change.
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Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.
Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Without DEI, we would only make merit-based hires, like the genius strategist who decided to pick a fight with his boss’s new young wife.
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Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Dominic Cummings has this racialised take on David Lammy
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
There is an increasingly prevalent kneejerk online rightwing trait to call the presence of any black or Asian person a diversity hire
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No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.
That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
October 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
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This & the rape last week in Oldbury should be national news but will be ignored by newspapers too excited at the thought they might get to play at being court press for fascists
Spent the afternoon in north Bristol where police are doing door to door inquiries after a 9 yr old girl was shot in a racially aggravated attack.
There was shock & disgust but also the community rallying round the family of the poor girl.
Read more here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
There was shock & disgust but also the community rallying round the family of the poor girl.
Read more here:
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Neighbours' horror at racist shooting of young girl in Bristol street
"It’s awful, such a violent attack on their family and our community"
www.bristolpost.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This & the rape last week in Oldbury should be national news but will be ignored by newspapers too excited at the thought they might get to play at being court press for fascists
Ignore pretty much all rolling media coverage of today’s far right protests. Just read this!
About 20,000 people have taken part in 300 local asylum protests in 75+ locations this summer.
Tommy Robinson and his supporters have declared a million will march in London today. Tens of thousands are doing so, perhaps in range of 40-60k. Will update police or media estimates of the crowd later
Tommy Robinson and his supporters have declared a million will march in London today. Tens of thousands are doing so, perhaps in range of 40-60k. Will update police or media estimates of the crowd later
September 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Ignore pretty much all rolling media coverage of today’s far right protests. Just read this!
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You will learn more about the ongoing furore over asylum seekers in hotels from this incredible piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social than from a hundred front page headlines.
The crumbling seaside palaces at the centre of Britain’s asylum crisis
How one hotelier built an empire from beloved community assets — and a government struggling to cope with a surge in migration
www.ft.com
September 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
You will learn more about the ongoing furore over asylum seekers in hotels from this incredible piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social than from a hundred front page headlines.
Brilliant as usual from @sundersays.bsky.social. We badly need voices like this to help us cut through the noise.
Tomorrow, 7th August, is the anniversary of the counter-protests that ended the 2024 riots. Asylum is back in the headlines - but has the need to challenge racism gone missing? My Eastern Eye column this week on the need to rebalance the poliitical conversation
www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...
Are the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities about racism being ignored?
'Politicians must not ignore threats to racial equality today'
www.easterneye.biz
August 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Brilliant as usual from @sundersays.bsky.social. We badly need voices like this to help us cut through the noise.
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We'd urge people not to panic - there will be lots of commentary coming out quickly that is likely to deliberately overstate the impact that this decision is going to have on all trans people's lives. We'll say more as soon as we're able to. Please look out for yourselves and each other today 💗🏳️⚧️
April 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We'd urge people not to panic - there will be lots of commentary coming out quickly that is likely to deliberately overstate the impact that this decision is going to have on all trans people's lives. We'll say more as soon as we're able to. Please look out for yourselves and each other today 💗🏳️⚧️
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Last-minute spreadsheet wars between the Treasury and the OBR are ludicrous way to run a country, a ludicrous way to run an economy, a ludicrous way to fund public services and a ludicrous way to run the welfare system www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rachel Reeves to announce further benefit cuts
Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, was forced to seek further cuts after the Office for Budget Responsibility rejected her welfare savings estimate
www.thetimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Last-minute spreadsheet wars between the Treasury and the OBR are ludicrous way to run a country, a ludicrous way to run an economy, a ludicrous way to fund public services and a ludicrous way to run the welfare system www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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it's going to sound gimmicky but I think that women shouldn't have to read the Gaiman piece but all men should read it to the end, just as all men should have read all the long reads about the Pelicot case, so many seem to still not realise the extent to which so many men hate and want to hurt us
January 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
it's going to sound gimmicky but I think that women shouldn't have to read the Gaiman piece but all men should read it to the end, just as all men should have read all the long reads about the Pelicot case, so many seem to still not realise the extent to which so many men hate and want to hurt us
Ignore all other coverage and comment on this subject until you read this. Brilliant, brilliant journalism as ever by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social
Wrote about gang grooming and child sexual exploitation now, what’s changed since the first scandals broke in the 2010s, and what we still don’t know
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‘Anybody can be a victim’: what do UK grooming gangs look like today?
New data shows the shape of child sexual abuse after Elon Musk highlights decades-old scandal
on.ft.com
January 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Ignore all other coverage and comment on this subject until you read this. Brilliant, brilliant journalism as ever by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social
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Only 23 Gregg Wallace apologies until Christmas
December 2, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Only 23 Gregg Wallace apologies until Christmas