Anna Amo

Yay, congratulations 🎉🎉🎉 do say more if you can!! Creating your own position sounds very ideal.

Sending so much love. I'm so sorry to hear this. Farewell Topaz, you brought so much joy and it reached so far.

😬😬😬 Right old attention grabbers, these ovaries of yours. They need to calm the hell down!

The Home Office's appeal against this decision has been refused

The judges threw it out in minutes and without waiting to hear arguments from the man's lawyers, telling them "we don’t need to trouble you" after questioning the Home Office barrister in an increasingly incredulous exchange

But also will you be around the weekend of 13/14 September? I'll be in Berlin then!

Oh no, Dani, sorry to hear that. Hope you find something great asap! Can't imagine how wild your professional world must be right now.

I ❤️ you xxxx

A group of women stand in an old building wearing green, white and purple sashes

A greeting card with an illustration of a woman chained to a railing, with the words 'She who dares, wins'

Today women MPs wore Suffragette sashes to celebrate Votes for Women–won by civil disobedience & celebrated in Parliament's gift shop.

And yet now the government is asking us to vote to proscribe Palestine Action–a modern civil disobedience group–as terrorists

This is super lovely! Hello indeed!!

All the cuteness! They all look like absolute rascals in these photos, so I also wish you luck and fun dealing with them.

Oh wow what is this fresh hell? Well done for pushing through.

Slightly amended so I can fit this here: I am writing to you as an immigrant who chose to make the UK my home. As someone who is now also a British citizen. And as a German-born historian who understands where the complete normalisation of the far right can end. I write to say: For shame! I first came to the UK in the 1990s for a visit with my grandmother. Objectively, much was backwards here. No mixer taps in the bathroom; awful ‘bread’; and strings had to be pulled to switch on lights. But however I felt about this, my own string had been pulled: I loved this Cool Britannia. It was quite possibly then that I decided that the UK was to be my home. When I arrived to settle here permanently, I made a choice: to contribute my skills, my knowledge—all I have to offer—to this country rather than another one. I am deeply disgusted by your comment today that immigration has done ‘incalculable damage’ to the country. This is the language of the far right. It is insulting, hateful & will fuel xenophobia. And it is just wrong. Migration is a normal part of the human existence. None of us would be where we are without it. Open your fridge and you will see migration. Immigrants help make the UK tick every single day, whether we clean toilets in our hospitals or provide care for the elderly; whether we empty our bins or carry out cancer research. We are mothers, sons-in-law, aunts and uncles, friends, neighbours and colleagues. I ask you not tell me that you do not mean me. I know that you do not—at least not primarily—mean a white woman from Europe who has a PhD. But who do you mean? And, much more importantly, who do you think those racists who were engaged in riots on our streets last summer think you mean? Anti-immigration narratives have defined UK policymaking for the best part of two decades. And fundamentally so. They were the key driver in delivering Brexit, for example, and, as such, have directly limited the rights and opportunities of British citizens.

This obsessive focus on immigration as the ‘problem’—that is the real problem. And it is consistently delivering poor outcomes for the UK. Instead of tackling this, you are choosing to consolidate it, sowing divisions along the way. You may point me to polling and tell me that this is what voters want. Do they? I am not surprised at all that over 50% of voters might say they want to see immigration reduced if that is the question they are being asked. What we need to know is what they would answer to the question: “Would you like to see immigration reduced? What this would mean for you and your local community is XYZ.” That is not how surveys can ask questions, but governments absolutely can choose to make policy using such a more informed position. Prime Minister, you continue to talk a lot about making the tough choices. But let’s be clear: setting immigrants up as the ‘other’, as a scapegoat—describing us as a threat ‘pulling the country apart’, a ‘squalid chapter’, a risk that might make the UK an ‘island of strangers’—these are not tough choices at all. These are the easy choices. They are the choices that populists make who have no solutions to the real problems a country faces. What I would like to know, Prime Minister, is what you will do when your policies lead to the implosion of the UK’s Higher Education sector. What you will tell communities when they can no longer provide any care for the elderly. The policies you announced today will not solve anything at all. They will have exclusively negative impacts. For those immediately affected; for our communities; and for our economy. Being pro-immigration—it is progressive, yes, but the much more crucial point is that it is also the most pro-UK policy approach that any politician in the country can pursue. And you are choosing to do the opposite. This, Prime Minister, is the real damage—and it will be very calculable indeed. Tanja Bueltmann

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

Good news on the cystlessness! Love everything else just going its own way. Bodies are really wacky things. Hope there's no further complications though.

Ofc. Happy international women's day crossover edition. It's all just so un-fucking-ideal.

Lol I am also relying on my 10 minutes of perfect vision on the way to long sightedness. It really better work like that!

The pineapples on the dress are the real question marks for me!

Oh no!!! That's some very comprehensive destruction. 😟

Thanks for all the birthday wishes!! I had a lovely day with Austen-themed improv comedy and bowling! 🎳 (Idky).

Asked a guy who was loudcasting ski tourism videos from his phone on the train if he could stop because it was bothering me. He refused, wanted to justify how it was no worse than people chatting, and called me miserable. So that was a fun experience.

Sending huge love and hope that the brain does a little less braining (in this particular direction) asap.

Eskibookclubbers, I've posted my Goodreads review of the year and I'm just throwing out encouragement if anyone else fancies doing theirs, I'd love to read it. 😘

Relatable. My to do list has Bathroom boldly circled for today. May we bring the new year in with satisfaction that we will start 2025 with clean windowsills and no dust behind the sink.

That's lovely 🤩, you're a superstar 😍

Tell us about it! We like to know what you're up to and we already know you're great so it won't be virtue signalling to us!!

And you also took me! Such lovely memories and reflections, that was a great day xx

European Legal Support Center The ELSC defends and empowers advocates for Palestine in Europe through legal means

Thanks! I think it's going to be a good gig, I'm excited. It's this organisation elsc.support and they have some progressive leave policies so will get more of a break over Xmas to take stock.

I know, I feel like I should be 'taking stock' somehow but baking is probably a good and more realistic alternative!

I've got one whole, glorious, day off tomorrow between my old and new jobs but I'm not sure what to do with it to best reset. Feel like I'm going to stare into space a lot and maybe write lists.

Where have these come from? They're suddenly everywhere this year. I definitely missed something.

Amazing, thank you!