Dr Alex Powell

Hey! Yes, I should be able to!

Feminist Greens are good and take a zero tolerance approach to Transphobia. Most of the people outside of conference are not current members of the party.

The Green party overtaking the Lib Dems by membership is a huge moment which speaks to the status of the Greens as the fastest growing political movement in the UK.

Green Party Deputy Leader @mothinali.bsky.social:

"It wasn't Muslims, it wasn't immigrants, it wasn't black & brown people that privatised our key infrastructure, sold off our key services, dismantled our industry, underfunded our NHS. Immigrants are the backbone of our NHS!"
#GPC25

'National Renewal' seems to be a meaningless signifier. Is demonising migrants who made their lives here national renewal? Is passing restrictive anti-protest laws akin to Orban's Hungary national renewal?

Labour is a party of authoritarian bureaucracy and managed decline, terrified by real change

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Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you! I shall still be Oxford based. Just with added train commutes to brighten my life 😂

And, just like that, a chapter closes. After 5 years at Oxford Brookes today is my last day. I am grateful for the wonderful colleagues I have had over the past 5 years but also excited to meet new colleagues as I start at the University of Warwick tomorrow.

One last view from my office window.

Me, 'I need an update on an engineer visit'

Stupid automated triage system - 'you'd like to extend your contract? Have I understood you correctly'

The answer is never yes. Not once. Just vast amounts of wasted time fighting to get to a human 😡

Had no wifi since September 19th and my god if I have to go through to that Vodafone robo-call idiocy one more time I swear to god. These things exist solely to wind you up so much you give up on trying to resolve the issue, you will not convince me otherwise.

Better late than never. But this still does not appreciate the immense harm and fear that has affected many communities while the government prevaricated over whether or not calling out racism was to its electoral advantage.

Note for journalists, sometimes you don't have to treat policy proposals like they are evidence based or thought out. Rather like Reform saying they would end ILR, this is just stupid and the world would be a better place if we laughed at anyone suggesting that these criteria should be applied.

Shame on the Labour Party.

And you know the worst thing. This won't work in terms of stemming the far-right. It never does. All it does is legitimise their racist narratives that frame migrants as a harm or a risk to our communities. By every metric, this is stupid and contemptable policy.

That is, of course, putting aside the fact that people who migrate to the UK, regardless of where they come from, make huge and valued contributions to our communities every day. This kind of policy is just dog whistle nastiness that divides communities rather than bringing them together.

This response is utterly deranged. As if a doctor is not already contributing. The UK has an aging population with a birth rate well below what it would need to be to sustain the care needs of that population. Even from a purely reductive, economic extractive framing this kind of policy is idiotic.

Yes, because appeasement of fascists has famously always worked...

Whilst the return of maintenance grants would be welcome, the Government's amalgama of international student levy and limitations to priority courses is incoherent. The levy threatens the viability of institutions and will likely undermine provision of the very courses designated priority.

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Starmer's mainstreaming of far-right politics is not bad because it is bad electorally (which it is), but it's bad for political reasons and because it is a threat to democracy and many communities

Only thinking about democracy in electoral terms makes it easy to ignore power structures

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

As an immigration lawyer, it seems to me that the only thing we talk about more than immigration is how we don’t talk about immigration

Exactly this. The idea that Labour has been afraid to talk about migration is ludicrous. They have been perfectly happy to demonise migrants again and again and again.

That Controls on Immigration mug in Zack's post was the breaking point for me. It spoke of a party that had sold out its values.

Half a million. Net migration poster.

Controls on immigration mug.

Go home van from Theresa may.

Pm says Britain has been squeamish about illegal immigration.

Starmer says past governments have been "squeamish" talking about immigration. Bullshit.

Starmer isn't bravely breaking a taboo. He's blaming vulnerable people & deflecting attention from the super rich who hoard power & wealth.

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'You will not be able to work in United Kingdom if you do have digitial ID' says Starmer. As if you don't already need a passport as part of the "compliant Environment". Guess what, people still work on an irregular basis. This is up there with the Tories proposing national service. Idiotic.

Is there any better exemplar of the role of apps in enshittifying our society than having the proposed state-mandated ID system as digital-first? Bets on the first people denied medical treatment because the App went down or the 5G was iffy.

No. The issue was the hostile environment creating a situation where ID was required for a whole range of things that had never previously required ID. Requiring ID was the problem.

Let alone with the expectation that people must pay money to a publication that has been on an immigration judge hunt all year, as well as directly leading to NGOs having to shut their offices out of safety fears last week