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if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

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If the met police had been trying to get the proscription reversed by malicious compliance it's hard to see what they would have done differently.

This means that even if Palestine Action ad not won on Human Rights Act/ECHR grounds, Palestine Action would have won on another ground.

No doubt this will be missed by a lot of media reporting of this judgment, but even if HRA repealed etc, Palestine Action would have *still won*.

These are the two grounds on which Palestine Action won

The proscription order remains in place pending an appeal. Until further legal proceedings are complete, it remains a criminal offence to support or promote Palestine Action.

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

There is no LGB without the T. We rise together and we fall together.

Part of my speech in Parliament for LGBTQ+ History Month:

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

Home office is not sure why it happened but the press officer said they have a lot of traffic on the site.

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In another response to @maxwilkinson.bsky.social, Alex Norris says the data on the quality of asylum making as also been delayed. The latest tribunal appeals stats suggest around 1 in 3 disposed of appeals were due to Home Office withdrawals questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

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Okay that is organisational and individual responses all done (lawyers love working to a deadline!!)

The truth about immigrants and sex crime Corrosive innuendo about asylum seekers is helping no one

My column in this week's @newstatesman1913.bsky.social, on bad data used in bad faith.

FOI-ing the stats myself, I didn't find a great deal of difference in sex offending rates: 5 per 10,000 Afghan men, 7 per 10,000 UK men:

if you’re prime minister, it is kind of astonishing to say your legacy will be winning the election. that’s the job interview mate

Everybody Hates Keir How did Starmer go from landslide to endgame in under two years? Also this week: the most murderous mammal on earth; and every thought I have about an insane train plan.

"They’ve attacked all these people, in a desperate attempt to make clear to racists and social conservatives that they hear them. If the racists and social conservatives were actually going to vote for them this would merely seem abhorrent. When they clearly aren’t, it’s stupid too."

A consultation happening now, under Labour, that frames settlement as some sort of reward for being the right kind of person instead of a fundamental human right. That's the party that folk keep telling us to vote for to "keep the far right out"

True on economics but total misunderstanding in Number 10 about immigration. They seem to think that Labour voters don’t have any friends or colleagues who are immigrants or that if they do they can be bought off with an angry tweet about rich people.

Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking

Not convinced.

1. A silly strawman of the argument from Goodwin

2. An unconvincing account of the role of section 3 HRA

FWIW I explore these issues in depth in a forthcoming article in a special edition journal on FWS

Response to the Earned Settlement Consultation - Green Party Asylum and Migration Policy Working Group On the 20th November 2025, the Labour government published an open consultation on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented. Settlement refers.....

Today is the last day before the deadline to tell the government what you think about their Earned Settlement proposals

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📢 New policy paper from @WiRL_Network and Asylos.

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🖊️ Christel Querton (WiRL Network) and Emily Wilbourn (Asylos).

👏 Thanks to all those who collaborated on this project.

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ANOTHER LAWSUIT IN: Sixteen asylum-seekers are challenging the Government’s “one in, one out” deal with France in new legal action kicking off at 2.p.m. The cases center on modern slavery and human trafficking laws — and threaten to cause further disruption to the flagship program that’s yet to deliver anywhere near the high numbers considered necessary to be effective. Border Security Minister Alex Norris said: “Last-minute modern slavery claims must never be used to prevent the removal of illegal migrants.” We’ll see what the courts reckon, though.

Did somebody say "last minute modern slavery claims"? A good day to keep these handy:

freemovement.org.uk/briefing-is-...

freemovement.org.uk/the-reality-...

The HO quote conflates the piece's subject matter with the asylum system.

Nurses’ families fear being torn apart in UK immigration crackdown, survey says Exclusive: Most people in charity’s study say they worry about being separated from relatives under Mahmood plans

Imagine being presented with these accounts of stark unfairness and insecurity caused by the earned settlement plans and your response being ‘It is a privilege not a right to settle in the UK and it must be earned’ - the Home Secretary needs to go www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I urge you to fill in this consultation if you can - with this very helpful support from Amnesty International - although AND because ! it is heart-breaking that this country has sunk so low that Amnesty suggest in a number of cases to provide no answer as the terms of the question are so evil

Trump administration removes LGBTQ+ Pride flag from Stonewall national monument

The move in New York follows an interior department memo restricting non-agency flags at national parks

don't underestimate the proposed absolutely insane timelines for settled status and citizenship eligibility. It's not just about the putative targeted numbers, its the intensity of the rhetoric of "we fucking hate foreigners", which wasn't as bad from Cameron

South Wales Police had conducted a facial recognition search for a suspect that placed the Claimant, a Black man, as 32nd in a list of suggested matches with a probability score of 37.3%. Despite this, the software operator had identified the Claimant as a possible match with the suspect.