Paul Seddon

Famous Refugees Famous or not, refugees bring much more than their belongings with them to their new countries. Here's a list of public figures you might not know were

Helpful list of some of the people who, or whose families, Shabana Mahmood thinks should only have been allowed to stay temporarily

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

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YouTube video by maxinebendix Kitty 2 - With Patricia Routledge - BBC

"I never speak behind people's backs. If I've anything nasty to say, I pop it on a postcard"

RIP to the greatest to ever do it.

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Ex-Reform UK Wales leader Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to eight bribery charges while being an elected member of the European Parliament.

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I don’t love the “feud” framing, as much as I do appreciate the mayor standing up to Trump. Sadiq Khan is not feuding with anyone. He was the target of a vicious, racist attack and is standing up for himself and others.

Mario Guevara

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you…

Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest.

The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

This is how it begins, with indirect insinuations and fake-humble pleas of uncertainty, as if online conspiracy theories, cranks and grifters carry equal weight to the overwhelming body of scientific evidence and medical expert opinion. Then they get into power and start shredding the health service

the government is too right wing for Dan Hodges now? fucking hell

Behind the doors of asylum hotels - what I found when I went inside A BBC reporter goes into four hotels and speaks to asylum seekers and staff about what daily life is like.

Good BBC report on life in asylum hotels www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are close to ending the threat of AIDS.
With long-acting prevention and treatment, we have all the tools we need.
But recent international funding cuts mean instead of ending AIDS by 2030 we are likely to see 4.2 million unnecessary, preventable AIDS deaths by 2029.

Obviously this piece is absurd, and mainly designed to exploit rifts between Hermer and the rest of the govt.

But it’s also part of a deeply sinister attempt to delegitimise legal work on behalf of asylum seekers, in an environment where death threats & actual attacks have already occurred

Detained people without lawyers are only given a few days' notice of the intention to send them to France. In this time they need to find a lawyer, who will then need to gather evidence and consider whether there is a claim. Of course court applications are being made only shortly before removal.

This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!

Incredible paragraphs from Allison Morris here

All of this. And also, military barracks are more expensive than asylum hotels. Which is why the Home Office moved on from using them. Back to performative and money-wasting policy making.

Gimme a break. Who does that? Who says to their solicitor "no, I'd like to pay triple, just in case"? We need to reject the ridiculous double standard imposed on working class Labour women by right wing tabloids. Instead of embracing it and saying she should have bent backwards a bit further.

This is the thing: the political exploitation of migration is entirely cynical and not related to reality. Both Immigration and net migration fell from
2023 to 2024 - net drastically from 860,000 to 431,000. Did you notice people calming down about it or saying it now felt under control?

Housing sector will be gutted to lose a genuine advocate and someone who understands the economic value of their work beyond units

The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

On the same day in the Telegraph:

My primary impression of Rayner's arrangements regarding her child was what an amazing example of a "good divorce" this was and how dedicated both her and her ex husband obviously are to their co-parenting responsibilities and their children's welfare.

I have not seen this mentioned anywhere once.

There was outrage in Conservative circles at the revelation that Angela Rayner has a property empire extending to two actual residences.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.

Revealed: Asylum hotel protests dwarfed by runners going to Parkrun Protesters outside asylum hotels over the bank holiday weekend were vastly outnumbered by Parkrun runners, Big Issue analysis found.

Asylum protests vs the local park run. @lgeraghty23.bsky.social runs the numbers for the Big Issue
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Not a single Reform UK MP attended today's Commons statement on child rape gangs.

Sorry, but wtaf? This does absolutely nothing but ensure that even more people, including children, have to use irregular crossings, and blocks people who even this government have recognised are refugees from being with their families. This is utterly sickening from Labour. 1/

Yvette, I'm confused.

Yvette Copper as HASC chair has said numerous times on the record how important family reunification is. How she has children and it’s what every family would want. The mind boggles at how much of a coward she is now.

It includes audiobooks, toys, and photocopying. Just despicable

Five arrested after masked men try to enter west London asylum hotel Two anti-asylum groups marched to Crowne Plaza before attempting to enter building at rear, Met police say

They just wanted to discuss their legitimate concerns

MIGRANTS AREN'T THE PROBLEM INEQUALITY IS Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage.

Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants.

Don't fall for it.