Mahmood demands migrants earn right to settlement in UK
New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.
Migrants already "earn the right to settlement" through extortionate visa costs, which can run into tens of thousands of pounds. They prop up key services, including through the Immigration Health Surcharge.
Pushing the hostile environment on steroids helps no-one.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Migrants already carry out work for their communities, it’s called ‘having a fucking job’ and it’s mandatory because we aren’t eligible for benefits
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High standard of English to be required for leave to remain, Mahmood to pledge
Home secretary to set out proposed tougher conditions including not taking benefits and ‘spotless’ criminal record
Labour's own Suella Braverman? It would be nice if a single media outlet mentioned that migrants have no recourse to public funds and pay an annual surcharge to even have the option to access the NHS.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I was one of the examiners of Gregory’s thesis on the Communist Parties of Great Britain and Australia in the early Cold War period, and thoroughly enjoyed reading it.
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Congratulations to Gregory on his thesis completion on British and Australian communism. He recently published an article in Twentieth Century Communism on the CPGB's empire conferences in 1947 and 1954, which was published in issue 26.
journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2024...
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National communisms: British and Australian roads to socialism in the early Cold War period, 1945-56
I've finally moved over from the other unnamed hellscape to shamelessly plug my newly finished PhD thesis on British and Australian communism. A special mention to my fantastic supervisor, Dan Gordon, and my examiners, Evan Smith and James Renton. research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/studentTh...
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Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply.
Books: Immigration (Sage), Capitalism (Quercus)
Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
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Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
Professor of British History & Culture @NTNU, Trondheim. Researching history of British Conservatism & centre-right internationalism; writing politics in modern Britain; & women in British politics
Historian of women, welfare and activism. Currently researching working class women’s welfare campaign’s in twentieth century Britain. IHR Fellow 2024/25
Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations, Uni Salford; ‘Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14’ @PlutoPress; researching for a new political biography of the legendary labour leader Tom Mann https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/ralph-darlington
Senior Lecturer in Modern History at City, University of London. Interested in the history of the British left and futures past. Author of Michael Young, Social Science and the British Left, 1945-70. Co-editor, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy
Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historywo.bsky.social | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs
Socialist Beard Wearer Historian, Trade Unionist, Anti-Racist Tottenham & Cardiff, cat lover,CAMRA member since 1975
Lecturer in Social and Public Policy @ University of York
Lecturer in History Education at UCL's Institute of Education/History teacher/PhD student researching the representation of LGBTQ+ history in the KS5 curriculum. She/Her
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Food and Culinary Historian, Cook, Researcher, Writer. Sitting in the ancient world c. 3000 BCE - 476 CE. Dabbles in Neolithic, Chalcolithic, EBA, and Medieval. Founder of @myhistoricaltable.bsky.social
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The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
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Twentieth Century Communism is a journal of communist history and theory from across the globe. Posts about radical history, and its writing and research. Published by Lawrence & Wishart.
Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 Views own. laurenpiko.com
