Nicola Kelly

Really good investigation from Byline, looking at the far-right connections between an anti-migrant group claiming to be led by "ordinary women"

Not the only one to do so either, members of the Women's Safety Initiative also have extreme connections:
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The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist

🔴I spent time getting to know the Pink Ladies, a group of 'ordinary mothers' who are funded by Restore Britain's Rupert Lowe and whose leader shared a stage with a prominent neo-Nazi. It was...eye-opening.

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GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament

BBC in row with Reform over Channel migrants on Question Time Broadcaster deliberately placed small boat migrants in programme’s ‘immigration special’, says Zia Yusuf

God forbid they let people actually affected by the issues being debated ask questions about the issues being debated

75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

New on Democracy for Sale
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The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist

🔴I spent time getting to know the Pink Ladies, a group of 'ordinary mothers' who are funded by Restore Britain's Rupert Lowe and whose leader shared a stage with a prominent neo-Nazi. It was...eye-opening.

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...

The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist

🔴The ‘Pink Ladies’ Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream

An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports

The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist

A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...

Cover of Anywhere but here by Nicola Kelly

Anywhere but here by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social is an absolutely fantastic book, written by someone with a very detailed knowledge of the asylum system, as both a journalist and someone who worked for the Home Office. 3/

Shabana Mahmood's Asylum Seeker Military 'Warehousing' Plans Delayed Amid Opposition by Labour MPs Home Office sources tell Byline Times that local Labour MPs are opposing plans by the Home Secretary to use barracks and army bases to house asylum seekers amid rising community tensions

🔴Neither of the two military sites the Home Office plans to use to house asylum seekers are in Labour constituencies.

Sources within the department told me that's no coincidence.

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Thanks Dan!

Shabana Mahmood's Asylum Seeker Military 'Warehousing' Plans Delayed Amid Opposition by Labour MPs Home Office sources tell Byline Times that local Labour MPs are opposing plans by the Home Secretary to use barracks and army bases to house asylum seekers amid rising community tensions

🔴Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Seeker Military ‘Warehousing’ Plans Delayed Amid Opposition by Labour MPs

Home Office sources tell Byline Times local Labour MPs are opposing plans by the Home Secretary to use barracks and army bases to house asylum seekers amid rising tensions

Shabana Mahmood's Asylum Seeker Military 'Warehousing' Plans Delayed Amid Opposition by Labour MPs Home Office sources tell Byline Times that local Labour MPs are opposing plans by the Home Secretary to use barracks and army bases to house asylum seekers amid rising community tensions

Home Office sources tell @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that local Labour MPs are resisting plans to house asylum seekers in military bases in their constituencies amid rising local tensions.

Sources say there are also tensions between the Home Office and the Ministry of Defence over the plans

Shabana Mahmood's Asylum Seeker Military 'Warehousing' Plans Delayed Amid Opposition by Labour MPs Home Office sources tell Byline Times that local Labour MPs are opposing plans by the Home Secretary to use barracks and army bases to house asylum seekers amid rising community tensions

🔴Neither of the two military sites the Home Office plans to use to house asylum seekers are in Labour constituencies.

Sources within the department told me that's no coincidence.

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/s...

English for refugees - a pathway to employment – Big Give This project will help refugees across the UK build the English language skills they need to enter employment. By funding …

@nicolakellywrites.bsky.social All donations to this very worthy, life-changing cause during the Big Give get doubled. So please spread the word. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Share your concerns about the government's new asylum plans The Government has announced major changes to the asylum system, which could lead to serious consequences for people seeking protection. We must show the government that these changes do not reflect w...

The Government's new asylum plans will overwhelm an overstretched system, keep people trapped in uncertainty for up to 20 years, and cost more than £1.1 billion.

Tell your MP that we need a safe, fair and humane asylum system ⬇️

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Yes same person and it's all in his report!

David Lammy's Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk 'Increasing Miscarriages of Justice' Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice

🔴There's been a lot of coverage about David Lammy’s cuts to jury trials but relatively little - nothing! - on his plans to scrap the automatic right to appeal so I took a look for @bylinetimes.bsky.social.

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“Removing the automatic right to appeal will make it infinitely more difficult for people to access justice,” said Nicholas Jennaway
Important piece by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social on what isn't being talked about in regard to Lammy's changes to justice system, removal of automatic right to appeal

David Lammy's Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk 'Increasing Miscarriages of Justice' Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice

🔴There's been a lot of coverage about David Lammy’s cuts to jury trials but relatively little - nothing! - on his plans to scrap the automatic right to appeal so I took a look for @bylinetimes.bsky.social.

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David Lammy's Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk 'Increasing Miscarriages of Justice' Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice

This hasn't had much coverage, amidst all the debate about jury trials, but there is also a lot of concern about Lammy's plans to remove the automatic right to appeal

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...

David Lammy's Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk 'Increasing Miscarriages of Justice' Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice

You asked, I delivered. Piece on Lammy scrapping appeals rights here.

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David Lammy's Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk 'Increasing Miscarriages of Justice' Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice

🔴David Lammy’s Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk ‘Increasing Miscarriages of Justice’

Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing “vital safeguards” and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports
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Conservatives Promote JCB's 'Revolutionary' Pothole Machine While Taking Millions of Pounds in Donations from the Company Senior Conservatives have repeatedly promoted a pothole repair machine made by a company which has donated huge sums to the party and its MPs

Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform saying his former party has "lost touch with the people it was meant to serve".

He should know. When he was in Government he took a five-figure donation from JCB, then stayed silent when it axed hundreds of his constituents' jobs just two weeks later

Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"

Last week Alf Dubs said he'd spoken to Alex Norris and further proposals on safe routes are coming. Don't hold your breath etc but there will be more in the new year.

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No, but they should be! They do it in Glasgow and it works really well.

UK asylum seekers to be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments Move, which is part of crackdown on costs, comes after it emerged Home Office spends £15.8m a year on service

What the government keeps missing is that asylum seekers want to take buses! It gives them autonomy. They can get to appointments, drop their kids to school, live some semblance of a normal life.

Roll out free bus passes and it'd save a fortune.

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All these 3 books should be compulsory for the politicians
Read them again and again until they understand about it
I got all 3 books on kindle
I told my daughter to get them physical format

🔴Delighted to say I'll be doing more reporting for @bylinetimes.bsky.social over the coming months.

My maiden piece is an interview with Lord Alf Dubs on the asylum proposals, which he says are an "historic low" for the Labour party.

Lord Dubs is right about this, he called out the Tory scheme over Syria for not allowing children to come here 5 or 6 years ago, Mahmood doing the same