Nando Sigona

“Home. Delivered.” is based on research findings by @iclaimeu.bsky.social researchers Ilse van Liempt & Minke Hajer from the University of Utrecht, titled ‘Irregular migrants and precarity in the Dutch Food Delivery Sector’.

@lukepiper.bsky.social @the3million.bsky.social @nandosigona.bsky.social @michaelacbenson.bsky.social

YouGov suggest support for deporting legal migrants at approx
8-11% of public for deport people who came to work legally

(Much higher deportation support figures when people are thinking about those without legal status)

1/6 pro deporting refugees with legal status [an extreme view]

The Guardian view on Conservative immigration policy: the threat of mass expulsions is abhorrent | Editorial Editorial: Tory plans to revoke indefinite leave to remain in pursuit of greater ‘cultural coherence’ resemble the most extreme ambitions of far-right fringe parties

"The result would be removals on an epic scale. The comparison with Idi Amin's expulsion of Ugandan Asians is not one many Tory MPs welcome. Some appear unaware their own policy was that monstrous, until Lam spelled it out in a newspaper interview"
- Guardian
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reeves considers breaking manifesto pledge with income tax rise to fill £30bn gap Exclusive: Treasury discussions include possibly adding 1p to basic rate or raising higher or additional tax rates

Me to chatgpt: Labour cabinet's topline messages as reported in media
Chatgpt: raise taxes; immigrants are bad; Israel is always right; Trump? No comment.

www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

Strange world we live in — while everyone is talking about the #heist at the #Louvre in Paris, $230 million is about to ‘disappear’ from the Bank of America in Washington D.C., right in broad daylight.
#Trump
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Deporting legally settled people is ‘broadly in line’ with Tory policy, says Badenoch’s office Conservative leader’s spokesperson sets out plan to strip the right of indefinite leave to remain from people claiming benefits

The moral squalor of this politics knows no bounds.
Just when you think they’ve hit bottom, they dig deeper.
And yet I'm not surprised.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So nice to have @rachelhumphris.bsky.social back at IRIS for a day! On 5 November (4-5.30pm) Rachel will present her new @stanfordpress.bsky.social book "Making Sanctuary Cities". To book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-san...

In 2019 @rggonzales1.bsky.social @annapapoutsi.bsky.social Martha Franco and I described the repeated interactions between border agents and migrants attempting multiple times to board a ferry in Greece as a 'game of cat and mouse'.

Man sent to France under ‘one in, one out’ scheme returns to UK on small boat Exclusive: Asylum seeker says he made second crossing because he did not feel safe in France

The #1in1out scheme was always deemed to fail (and a compromise)... France can't detain anyone sent back from Britain and people will just try again, as they have always done
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

What happens when people start to realize that immigration is not necessarily the cause of the problems they face? A myth-busting conversation on hope, solidarity, and change."

"The targeting of migrants & minoritized populations poses a serious challenge to the long-standing idea that if a person comes to the USA and works hard, they will enjoy social mobility and ‘success’.

S4 E2 No place for migrants in the American Dream Michaela and Nando talk to Ernesto Castañeda about what's left of the American Dream in Trump's America and countering anti-immigration rhetoric and politics.

"Who still believes in the American Dream? How long can its demolition hold in a country built on immigration?"
It was great to talk about the state of the American Dream with Professors @michaelacbenson.bsky.social & @nandosigona.bsky.social for their podcast
whodowethinkweare.org/podcasts/who...

Age assessments: what happens when a child arrives in the UK?  - Free Movement The Home Office does not publish statistics regarding children who are wrongly assessed as adults on arrival nor regarding the number of initial age

From yesterday: Age assessments: what happens when a child arrives in the UK? | Francesca Sella

The Return of Post-Truth More and more often, I feel a sense of dissonance — as if I’m living in a parallel universe, one where fundamental logic and accountability have dissolved, replaced by spectacle, denial, and a kind…

nandosigona.info/2025/10/21/t...

When radio and TV programmes all sound the same—predictable and repetitive—why not let the algorithm do the job? It would do it faster and better.

YouTube video by TVBEurope Channel 4 AI presenter reveal

she is better than many presenters currently on air #c4

But what does 'better' mean?

youtu.be/BF74l1jIfXY?...

MPs urged to confront royal family over Prince Andrew’s Epstein links Calls grow for parliamentary rule changes to strip Andrew of titles and ask questions of royals

Where elected MPs aren’t even allowed to discuss the matter in Parliament.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew dropping title is victory for Virginia Giuffre, co-author tells BBC The ghostwriter of Giuffre's posthumous memoir says Andrew's "life is being eroded because of his past behaviour".

Where the media make it look as if the right & just sanction for the kind of crimes a member of the royal family is accused of, including asking police to dig up dirt on a victim of sexual slavery, isn’t prison, as it would be for commoners, but merely losing a title.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Meanwhile, on the EU front, rapprochement may not be going as smoothly as the Labour government had hoped, but there’s nothing like a common threat to smooth the edges.
Useful piece by @anandmenon.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An emperor’s new clothes scene, where a court of (national and international) sycophants, unwilling to face his nakedness, congratulates Trump on the beauty of the taxpayer-funded golden leaves he’s stuck everywhere around him.

Rachel Reeves says Brexit deal caused long-term damage to economy Rachel Reeves made the comments about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.

Usual lack of political courage from a Labour Cabinet minister, we learn that it was the #Brexit deal, not Brexit, to be a disaster.

Source: BBC
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Where someone becomes President of the USA by pledging to expose a global cabal of paedophiles — only to turn out to have known them all too well himself.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

Where it seems the biggest problem the world faces is people moving in search of a better and safer future — not the few thousand billionaires siphoning the planet’s resources and destroying it in the process. #migration

President Trump to Australian ambassador: 'I don't like you either' In 2020, Kevin Rudd wrote on social media that he believed Trump was the 'most destructive' president in US history.

Where power no longer hides behind etiquette and diplomacy, and a deranged qngry man can publicly shame a former PM for having once voiced a reasonable concern about #Trump ’s threat to democracy.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Where Labour politicians think they’re being smart with doublespeak, and far-right tabloids just Google-translate it into whatever they want them to say.

This is what I mean when I say that I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths

Systematic murder and torture as a matter of deliberate state policy.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Still hostile? Labour’s migration policy under the spotlight at IRIS public seminar After fourteen years of Conservative governments defined by the infamous hostile environment launched by Home Secretary Theresa May, a new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, seems eager to build her …

Catch up with the first seminar in our series. We discussed #migration and #asylum under #Labour with @nandosigona.bsky.social and David Stark superdiversity.net/2025/10/20/s...

Labour to Reform: come on in!

This was the chance to hold Farage to account, but instead she gives him the exact narrative he'd go for. Instead of Wrecking the country with Brexit he can bang on about Brexit Betrayal