Isaac Shaffer

Hesse casually predicting modernity and YouTube etc., the early radio age seems wild - a kind of swift breakdown of reality.

The unpicking of the international order will have each step paved by lawyers and technocrats, who unthinkingly consider the security of borders to be of preeminent importance; and an end in itself.

This is either dangerous incompetence or else it’s dishonesty.

UK Social Security Plans Will Harm People With Disabilities While the UK government claims its moves “will protect the most vulnerable,” in reality its plans to cut £4.5 billion in disability-linked benefits by 2030 will have a devastating impact on people’s r...

UK Parliamentarians should reject the government’s plan to cut disability benefits, and be clear that budget savings should not come at the cost of the rights—especially the right to social security—of people with disabilities.

Human dignity must come first.

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New report finds that children continue to be prosecuted for arriving across the Channel - Free Movement A new report from Humans for Rights Network, Oxford Border Criminologies, Refugee Legal Support and Captain Support UK, "I told them the truth" looks at the

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Its not only a very European imposition to construe family in such a narrow way; but it is also ignorant of how when social, political and other networks/ structures break down, and where deaths more common (eg during war or occupation etc) how more complex notions of family grow & are essential.

Crucial insight here.

Racists are insatiable.

Non-racists don’t think migration is all that important.

Labour’s migration policy must not chase the dream of satiating racists.

Wondering if the starter pack of all starter packs contains itself?