What a devastating week for refugee rights in the UK. Beyond the technical changes-which are mean-hearted & punishing-the absence of courage to reject baseless deterrent & racist rhetoric is deeply dangerous.
Asylum rights are everyone's rights. Everything road tested in asylum regimes is expanded.
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Congress confirmed as SecDef an unqualified Islamophobe w/ Crusader & white supremacist tattoos, a raging disdain for the professional military & civ-mil relations, & unchecked gender issues and is now shocked that he's at a podium speaking like a commander in the Uruk Hai a/b "warfighters"
Pousser l'Iran à un point de non-retour où il serait prêt à déstabiliser toute la région : voilà comment un État génocidaire (Israël) et un État impérialiste (États-Unis) idéalisent la « paix ».
Les peuples du monde doivent se débarrasser le plus vite possible de tous ces fascistes.
NIGEL FARAGE: Allowing non-British citizens to vote in the UK poses a grave risk to our democracy
'non-British citizens'
Not a new insight, but it's truly something to see how many Westerners have internalised that the people we are supposedly freeing through our imperial warfare don't have to be alive to be free.
Il n’a pas tort Jordan Bardella…
Au moins neuf hommes condamnés ou en attente d’un procès dans des affaires de terrorisme ont exercé des responsabilités au sein du Rassemblement national. C’est le seul parti politique dans ce cas. Via @Mediapart.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
Everything in this report reflects on what we value, for communities, for peripheral places, for young people, for education, for the future - and it looks like we’ve got it all wrong.
Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
If you feel "hamstrung" by human rights laws and by health and safety laws - you are the person those laws were designed to protect us against. You need to be obstructed by those laws.
Also, she's lying.
I have never witnessed such a spiderweb of collective action, just average everyday people showing up. Not the heroism we’ve been sold by the movies but collective heroism, a fabric of care and resistance to fascism.
'Palestine 36' director says film is about 'refusal to disappear' rfi.my/CKre.BS
Propos d'arno klarsfeld appelant à des rafles contre les étrangers en france
Un petit-fils de déporté juif qui appelle à des « rafles » contre des étrangers en France (soutenant les actions de Trump, considérant les exécutions extrajudiciaires comme "des injustices inévitables").
L’inversion des valeurs est totale.
Le fascisme n’est pas à nos portes :
il est dans la maison.
The training is murder
Un groupe de travail constitué de gens qui n’ont jamais travaillé de leur vie.
Remember that the UK has far, far weaker protections against state power than did the US. And the latter folded up like a pack of cards. The US is a warning from the British future.
Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power
Dans le Minnesota, ICE a tué deux personnes blanches, et il y a là une leçon sur le suprémacisme blanc et la xénophobie d'Etat, qui peuvent tout à fait faire des victimes parmi les personnes blanches : ces dernières peuvent être mises à mort si elles s'opposent au déploiement du racisme d'Etat.
I have been thinking all day about the number of times unarmed Black people were killed by police on the pretext that their cell phone looked like a gun. And people would say “oh but you just don‘t know what the truth is.” Well here it is.
The @nytimes.com is capable of writing an active voice headline that clearly identifies the perpetrator — as long as it's not the Israeli military
"Videos contradict the federal government’s description of the shooting, a New York Times analysis found." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/us...
Oui, c’est abject.
Mais arrêter & placer des mômes en rétention car ils sont étrangers, la France fait cela aussi.
Elle a même été condamnée 12 fois (!) par la CEDH pour cela.
Et aujourd’hui encore, elle continue de le faire à Mayotte.
L’inhumanité contre les étrangers n’est pas qu’américaine.
Imagine if the hype was around the Greens' rise rather than Reform
Imagine if instead of putting far-right issues on the agenda, mainstream parties talked about hope, justice, redistribution, public services etc
That would put real change on the table and that's why Reform is a safer bet for them
Stephen Miller Reminds Picky-Eater Son That There Starving Kids In Basement
Renee Good was shot 3 times by ICE
The first two shots were non lethal. One to her left forearm & another to right breast
The final shot entered the left side of her head & exited the right side
He didn’t have to keep shooting. He was out of the vehicle’s path before the kill shot
That’s murder
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump’s Board of Peace: ‘To invite the same cast of characters who allowed Israel to expand to the point at which Gaza exploded, and expect them to end the conflict, is more than just insane. It is criminal.’
In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is...
www.ft.com/content/a23c...
