@clairekumar.bsky.social
Working with ODI Europe and ODI Global on migration policies
Well this is the worst of all possible worlds, is it not? Because what’s a “high profile” case will frequently be determined by how much noise the far right makes about it, which in turn will depend on them getting their colour charts out
13.08.2025 08:02 — 👍 258 🔁 82 💬 17 📌 9
Oh my word….
The click bait merchants at the Telegraph are having an absolute field day right now! 🙄
Shall we take a look at the *reality* behind this sensationalist article?
Go on, you know you want to! 😜
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Comin’ over ‘ere, paying their taxes and boosting the economy.
12.08.2025 08:22 — 👍 81 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 0
Do not forget Gaza. Do not forget Anas Al-Sharif.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them
11.08.2025 04:50 — 👍 351 🔁 153 💬 8 📌 11"Al Jazeera say 5 of their journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza. The IDF.. alleged one of the journalists was a terrorist who was head of a Hamas cell which he had previously denied"
Did the words stick in your throat because you know how shameful they are?
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
10.08.2025 22:33 — 👍 12407 🔁 9970 💬 637 📌 1665Some thoughts on the news that 48% of those arrested over Belfast race riots had been reported to police for domestic violence. With McGr*g*r losing his appeal & definitively found to be a rapist in a court of law it is important we call out the hypocrisy at the heart of the far right movement.
09.08.2025 11:04 — 👍 125 🔁 60 💬 3 📌 16
If you have to write about awful people gathering and doing awful racist things, then this is absolutely the way to do it. www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...
07.08.2025 14:45 — 👍 150 🔁 62 💬 13 📌 22To me this is just the sign of an organized household. You can have the tomatoes by the sweet potatoes but not the ones next to the cauliflower. Those are spoken for. We all need this level of vegetable clarity in our lives
06.08.2025 16:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Abu Dhabi owned provider of special schools and children's homes sees profits rise by 28% to £44 million due to strong demand.
That's all taxpayer money that could be spent on improving state provision.
schoolsweek.co.uk/abu-dhabi-ow...
Providing safe routes to reach the UK is the only logical, evidence-based way to stop people travelling through irregular means.
Last night Ben Kentish challenged me on @lbc.co.uk on how that would work & whether A MILLION BILLION PEOPLE might come😱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al4R...
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.
By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
I originally thought it a good thing when dog-whistling politicians finally allowed their racism to show overtly. I thought they’d be seen for what they were, booted off the media and thrown out of their parties. I was a fool.
04.08.2025 06:51 — 👍 908 🔁 170 💬 37 📌 6
It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives
30.07.2025 08:03 — 👍 4392 🔁 1369 💬 234 📌 92Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
Alex de Waal: "this is famine... what is unique about this one is that the intl agencies are standing by with the capacity, the plans.. and they're not being allowed to implement those plans. If Netanyahu wanted every child in Gaza to have breakfast tomorrow, he could do it"
24.07.2025 14:22 — 👍 35 🔁 25 💬 0 📌 1Supporting the right to protest is not the same as supporting Palestine Action, says human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith.
Read Clive's full op-ed 👇
goodlaw.social/8idv
Combating the far right by demanding to speak to migrant workers’ managers
23.07.2025 22:58 — 👍 11 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 3Once again, if you are pointing to a mob and arguing that their violence is a justification for doing what you want, it’s your mob and your violence.
24.07.2025 07:25 — 👍 779 🔁 222 💬 6 📌 8
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Please sign we’ve got to force this government to face up to its moral responsibilities.
24.07.2025 08:03 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
The UK wants (cheap and docile) labour no (family) ties attached. My op-ed for @uk.theconversation.com based on our @iclaimeu.bsky.social recently published reports.
theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
1.5 million Gazans is 75% of the population, half of whom are children.
This is *deliberate* starvation. Just one agency - UNRWA - has stated today it has enough food stockpiled outside the border to feed the population for months.
The Israeli govt must let food and water in & stop the killing.
Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…
🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.
They are out of energy and they are starving to death.
I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.
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Towards
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