Christopher McCabe

The coming collapse in immigration to the United Kingdom - UK in a changing Europe James Bowes analyses the fall in net migration to the UK as a result of government policies and explores some of the political and economic consequences.

How low will it go?

@jamesbowes01.bsky.social's detailed analysis projects net migration will collapse: from its peak of nearly a million to perhaps just over 100K in 2026.

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Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.

I've written for the Metro on how Starmer's latest attempt to look 'tough' on asylum seeker hotels has exposed him as a coward.

A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

We had distributed computers doing stuff like this 25 years ago. My home computer crunched numbers for SETI, cancer research and more. Old idea with significant downsides.

The "don't worry about facial recognition tech" arguments are not faring well...

Alabama has just executed Anthony Boyd tonight.

Lauren Gill explained so much that went wrong in his case and trial. Important to not look away.

The End Of Democracy and Defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations. Thomas Jefferson, 1816

"The moral crisis of our age has nothing to do with gay marriage or abortion; It's Insider Trading, Obscene CEO Pay, Wage Theft from ordinary workers, Wall Streets continued Gambling Addiction, Corporate Payoffs To Friendly Politicians and the Billionaire Takeover of Our Democracy"
-Robert Reich

I find it interesting that we know the monetary value of museum artefacts when they are stolen but not when indigenous communities want their stuff back.

Announced yesterday in ‘Berta 🤦🏻‍♀️ reddeeradvocate.com/2025/10/22/u...

As long as there are IPP’s still wasting away in our justice system, we will never give up. Sending love and solidarity to everybody still under the abolished IPP sentence. ♥️♥️

The Internet was designed such that each site would run it's own server(s). This outage's wide range of affected services is a direct result of violating the principle of decentralization and self-hosting. The "cloud" is a weakness, reducing resiliency

Israel has violated the ceasefire 46 times since it begin on October 10th

One frightening answer is that they aren't imitating them, they (the cabinet) are them but with a red rosette.

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

When on earth did informing people of counter-information become 'censorship'? This accusation seems a relatively new propaganda tactic, previously those corrected used to just dismiss government releases as propaganda. 'Censorship' framing seems a product of an era of 'cancel culture' accusations.

A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik

US jury finds BNP Paribas liable for damages over Sudan banking role ‘Bellwether’ verdict may set stage for potentially far more damages as thousands of victims assert claims

BNP Paribas in trouble AGAIN for facilitating international human rights crimes.
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David Pocock (@davidpocock) on Threads Why I’ve been banned from playing parliamentary sport...

Saw this on the dead bird place.

Would it be a different story if it was tobacco or alcohol or cannabis the subject matter … ?

Another shameful story #auspol.

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SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Serving an IPP sentence is like walking on eggshells that are scattered over a minefield.

- Marc Conway, speaking at the Labour Conference 2025

#LabourPartyConference #endipp

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The tough choices at the heart of the government’s dispute with big pharma The government has been locked in a dispute with pharmaceutical companies for a number of months over how much the NHS pays for new branded medicines. Sally Gainsbury and Huseyin Naci set out the issu...

I’d add that this comprehensive review by Sally Gainsbury and Huceyin Nasi makes the same argument: www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/th...
It is unconscionable that we accede to big pharma.

The ABC goes to Hungary: the culture war battle between "Christianity" and "woke" is a con - The AIM Network Some of the most dangerous people in the world right now are those normalising and sanitising fascistic politics. It was not just in the banal [...]

Lucy Hamilton: “Some of the most dangerous people in world right now are those normalising and sanitising fascistic politics. It can be found at ABC, including on Radio National lifestyle programming.”

2024 theaimn.com/the-abc-goes...

SARS-CoV-2 delta and omicron variants alter trophoblast cell fusion and syncytiotrophoblast dynamics: new insights into placental vulnerability - Cell Death & Disease Cell Death & Disease - SARS-CoV-2 delta and omicron variants alter trophoblast cell fusion and syncytiotrophoblast dynamics: new insights into placental vulnerability

Pregnancy and C-19 are NOT good friends 🤬‼️

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

The reality of policy is all in the details. Good intentions and good government co-exist through attention to detail. Its so annoying.

A fine piece of writing there from Sam Leith

Is there any policy area that this government can actually get right from the get-go? It's a genuine question. How can they get policy proposals so wrong, so consistently.

I think it depends whether the main stream press actually cover what the evidence is saying rather than going with artificial balance. Fingers crossed.

Great article by a polio survivor. Salk declined to patent the polio vaccine, saying “it belongs to the people.”

One of my friends applied to the High Court for a winding-up petition against the London subsidiary of Credit Suisse, which got their attention.

The Herald. Four Scots on Gaza aid flotilla ‘kidnapped’ by Israel, Ross Greer says.

Last night four Scots, along with hundreds of others, were attacked and kidnapped by the Israeli navy as they tried to deliver livesaving aid.

The UK government must act.