Maria Thomas

When Labour in the future say you have to vote for them to stop Reform – remember there are countless reasons that argument is equal parts absurd and offensive.

But 26th August 2025 should stand out for their complete capitulation to the right.

Absolutely shameful.

96% of trafficked people who, as non British nationals, consented to enter the UK's National Referral Mechanism & were found by the UK govt's identification system to be trafficked were not granted leave.
Imagine speaking up, providing evidence, waiting & the positive decision cutting you adrift.

An apology On May 25 we published an online article “We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays” which included stock photographs and not, as the art...

What happens when a political agenda takes over any semblance of journalistic standards

Telegraph admits its story about private school family not being able to go on five holidays was complete nonsense and not remotely fact-checked

Beyond embarrassing

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/the-t...

Hot off the press! No Access to Justice 2, my new research report with Justice Together on access to asylum and immigration legal advice in every region and jurisdiction of the UK.
Parliament launch today, online launch on June 23 - link to follow.
I'll post a link to the report asap.

A question to PM Starmer:
👉 Are you angry about the lack of safe and legal routes for people fleeing danger?
👉 Are you angry about the unavoidable loss of lives along the route to the UK?
👉 Are you angry about the wars and violence that force people to leave their homes behind?

Keir Starmer is my MP. This is the letter I wrote to him today.

Subject: Island of Strangers?

Mr Starmer,

Let me tell you about this ‘stranger’.

Image is a screenshot of a headline from The Guardian reading: No evidence of genocide in Gaza, UK lawers say in arms export case

Jan 2024: The International Court of Justice orders Israel to protect Palestinians from the risk of genocide

Dec 2024: @amnesty.org finds sufficient evidence to conclude that Israeli authorities’ conduct in Gaza amounts to genocide

May 2025: The UK government ⬇️

They think they've got this in the bag. But they're not ready for people like you showing up. Use your vote today to prove them wrong. 🗳️

Find your polling station: wheredoivote.co.uk

I’d ask my many cis-gender friends and followers to take a moment today to consider this scenario.

You are so unhappy / uncomfortable with your birth sex that you choose to live as the opposite sex at the cost of family and other relationships.

That is not what the visa application process looks like

Picture reads: Sonali Naik KC makes closing statement to The Cranston Inquiry: ‘The tragedy was preventable’

🚨 Sonali Naik KC makes closing statement to The Cranston Inquiry: ‘The tragedy was preventable’ 🚨

Our Joint Head of Chambers, Sonali Naik KC, provided a statement on behalf of full participants, I/B Maria Thomas @duncanlewiss.bsky.social.

Read on here 🔽
gardencourtchambers.co.uk/sonali-naik-...

Cranston Inquiry opens Full Hearings into the 24 November 2021 Channel crossing tragedy.

📣 WATCH LIVE - CRANSTON INQUIRY📣

Our Joint Head of Chambers, Sonali Naik KC, provides opening statements on behalf of bereaved families and one of the two survivors, instructed by Maria Thomas of Duncan Lewis (@dlpubliclaw.bsky.social).

Livestream below 🔽
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlzn...

The precise moment my support for Keir Starmer began to crumble Labour is going to prevent refugees from ever becoming citizens of Britain

Writing this with a heavy heart: the refugee citizenship ban is the single most unconscionable policy Labour has proposed since it entered power. It’s the moment that I felt my support for this administration begin to crumble inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...

Today we remember 🕯️🧡Tomorrow we fight on
#SafeRoutesNow

Unless and until we address the root cause of what drives the proliferation of these crossing, deaths will continue to rise. There is no easy fix, and empty slogans will take us nowhere. Unless governments do better, we will continue to fail those who come to Europe in search of safety

The debate on small boats have been weaponised by politicians on both sides of the Channel with no real concern for human life. The empty rhetoric - such as “smash the gangs” feels like little more than a repackaged & regurgitated version of what came before

In the 3 yrs since this tragedy, people fleeing their homes have continued to die in the Channel, with 54 confirmed deaths in 2024 alone. Many more are missing. Victims are barely named anymore; their loved ones remain in the dark. The scale of human tragedy on the border is unfathomable

This weekend marks the third anniversary of the tragic shipwreck in November 2021, where more than 30 men, women & children lost their lives in the English Channel. I’m honoured to have been asked to speak at a memorial event in Dunkirk tonight, as the families continue their search for justice

#r4today already getting it wrong in its coverage from Turkey:

1) Turkey has never been "welcoming" to refugees. The EU paid it, a lot, to prevent people reaching its borders, and Turkey has been shown to repeatedly abuse them.

2) Refugees are not "illegal". Nothing about what they do is illegal.

YouTube video by The News Agents A war on women - Florida’s abortion crisis | The News Agents

The plight of women in Florida is dystopian, including the rise of fake abortion clinics offering the untested practice of "abortion reversal." After the failure of the abortion rights referendum in the state, the situation will get worse. Our News Agents film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=df5B...

Well this seems like a nice place so far. 24 hrs in, and my feed isn’t littered with anti-immigration, ignorant nonsense. I can scroll along and not immediately feel enraged. What a delightful change that makes 🧡