Dan Kaszeta FRHistS

How is this legal? Parliament did not vote for it. Where is the law that says that this is ok?

Home Office may forcibly remove child asylum seekers from UK in handcuffs Move is part of scheme to target families for expedited voluntary removals before enforced removal proceedings

This government is hideous. It doesn't need any analysis or deep dives to know that this is a fundamentally cruel and inhumane policy idea and no different to that pushed by the likes of Reform or Trump.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I worked for years on a campaign to end the handcuffing of children in the care system.

This is in breach of the UN convention of the rights of child, and is simply, truly evil, and I don’t use the word lightly.

We’ve heard a lot of pious talk from the PM an senior colleagues about populists who offer false solutions and ignore real problems. Yet here we have the Home Secretary offering a false solution while she and her Treasury colleagues ignore real problems.

Labour's asylum policies will destroy lives and drive away voters Labour's asylum and immigration policies risk violating international law and are politically self-defeating, writes Daniel Sohege.

My latest piece for the @bigissue.com is out today, on how Labour's attacks on those seeking asylum are not only inhumane, potentially illegal, and seriously counterproductive, but also politically incoherent for a party which claims to be "progressive".

www.bigissue.com/opinion/labo...

I’m deeply honoured to receive the Royal Television Society 2026 Special Award. Thank you RTS and many thanks to the great BBC team in Moscow.

Sometimes it works the other way too. I get young people asking what I did in the Vietnam War. I was born in 1969 FFS

I woke up to people parsing the phrase “the lanyard class” and has broken my brain a bit

A huge issue which nobody in UK politics is touching, because the minds of everyone involved been utterly warped by X (both Tory *and* Labour Right) is that about a third of 2024 Reform voters - and likely an even higher % of current Reform intended voters - think that Trump is a prick and hate him

It's almost like billionaire agents of discord and hate have created a narrative that is starkly at odd with the reality of life in Britain isn't it.

She’s just waiting fir a few more Dalmatian pelts

The moral of the story is: if you buy into something that's obviously fraud, you shouldn't expect the people running it to care about your privacy, or indeed be remotely competent.

What’s worse than running a scheme that defrauds the IRS and sends fake £39m demands to public officials?

Accidentally publishing the names of all your clients on the internet.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined They don't know what they want to achieve, why they're doing it or what the consequences might be. They are lost in the void.

Anyone who wants Britain to join the war in Iran needs their head examined open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Did she realize that dressing up as a Sith Lord / Gestapo hybrid was a bad idea? Now it’s vibrant blue for blue Labour?

Opinion Restoring order at the border speaks to Labour values. Without that, we won't be able to do anything else at all Shabana Mahmood Our approach, unlike that of the Greens and Reform, is in step with the British people. They don't want extremes - they want a system that is managed and fair Shabana Mahmood is the UK home secretary

This is a hot mess of outright lies and misinformation from the Home Secretary, designed to try and persuade people that a government which is implementing some of the most hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies, in practice, for decades is progressive. 1/

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How is there a “war on
lanyards” FFS. Don’t we have other things to do?

Asking for it imho

I'm the wallet inspector general

At my church we have lanyards for unpaid volunteers at times....

I'm not trying to be racist, AI Slop History Account, but, a what kind of soldier?

And doing what with a what?

That you need new American friends who aren't MAGA dumbasses?

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

A tale in four parts.

Please tell us what the alternative to..."electoralism" is.

He was actually in Kazakhstan.

I would now invite you all to look at the graphic on the left and the reality of the situation and ask you to join me in laughing your head off.

“Bombs will fall Everywhere”: The American, Israeli and Iranian Weapons Being Deployed in Middle East - bellingcat Bellingcat has been monitoring strikes across the Middle East and has identified a wide variety of weapons that have been used in the conflict so far, including missiles and drones.

Here's what Bellingcat has been up to this week:
Bellingcat analysed imagery and reporting from the first days of the conflict with Iran to identify US, Israeli and Iranian munitions now being deployed.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Tate was trying to get to Dubai on a bus.

When they got to the Saudi border everyone was told to get off for passport and baggage checks and Tate decided to stay on - presumably because the bus was air conditioned and he didn't want to stand in a queue.

He then got detained by Saudi guards.