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As Trump makes it more difficult to get visas for the US the UK should take the opportunity to snap up more of the brightest and the best in terms of both students and skilled workers. And the brightest and the best often come from India.

The India trip is an interesting test of whether Starmer’s number one priority really is growth, as he often claims.

If it is, an agreement on more visas for skilled workers and students would be a no-brainer.

(Although the government seems to enjoy pretending immigration is unrelated to growth…)

Opinion | When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love — The Guardian Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

…Not to wound, but because not speaking would betray everything I was taught to honour.”

This is such a beautifully expressed opinion piece. 👇

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She talks such utter rubbish. So embarrassing

They are Reform without the charisma. No chance - but I am wrong occasionally 😄

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

If a British ICE is now official Conservative policy, why isnt the BBC sending its journalistic legions in the US to report from the frontline in Portland and Chicago? #r4today

Desperate, mindless, populism, courting the racist, economically illiterate and downright stupid sectors of our population.

UK has an *independent judge-led* process for judges to be disciplined or dismissed for misconduct. (For England & Wales see👇.)

Jenrick’s threat to politicise that threatens the independence of the judiciary he says - rightly - is world-renowned.

www.judiciary.uk/related-offi...

Why autism may not be on a ‘spectrum’ after all The idea of a single autism spectrum, stretching from mild to severe, may be misleading

I tend to use the, slightly flippant, phrasing that rather than a "spectrum" autism is more like a pick and mix you don't get to pick.
Many autistic individuals may have differing traits, and, speaking personally, support needs can fluctuate day by day.

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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Israelis For Peace Oct7 2025 YouTube video by Israelis_For_Peace

🕯️October 7th vigil this evening with so many hearts carrying both sorrow and hope. 📸 🧵
Recording:
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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 🙏
@bradlander.bsky.social 🙏
@advocate.nyc.gov 🙏
@giligetz.bsky.social 🤍
@etannechin.bsky.social 💙
@standing-together.bsky.social 💜

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school - he's wrong about race • NEW The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn't see'another white face. You can't judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian Sathnam Sanghera

I hoped that the outrage about this scandal across the political spectrum demonstrated we were finally moving away from such thinking. But Jenrick's remarks show that we are, in 2025, in an even worse place. The comments are a symptom of a new cult of ethno-nationalism, imported from the USA and supercharged by bad actors on social media. Suddenly, a great many people - including, bizarrely, Suella Braverman - are keen on the racist idea that you simply can't be English and non-white.

We all hoped the Windrush scandal would be shame enough. But no. The Tory party plumbs new depths with its vile rhetoric. Nothing good comes from their prejudice. But our communities prove them wrong every day.
Important response to Jenrick from @sathnam.bsky.social

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Lord Heseltine at UK and Europe: a Shared Future - reminding us that Britain’s strength lies in partnership, not isolation.

Cooperation, shared laws, and common purpose built post-war Europe. They can build our future too.

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

The devastating logical conclusion of this kind of argument is that anyone daring to cross a border (including British people) deserve to have all of their future national insurance rights or safety nets removed.

It’s why EU membership mattered.

www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

To me it beggars belief that Netenyahu was allowed to remain in office after the security failures and slow response to the horrors of 7/10.

The Israeli government's strategy of prolonging this genocidal war for two years has aimed, among other things, to keep Israelis in deep state of of trauma of the 7th of October. That state of trauma allowed a genocidal mindset to take hold and seriously harmed mobilisations against the government.

Robert Jenrick, who just said he doesn't want to live in a country filled with non-white faces, begins his speech with a series of jokes suggesting that David Lammy is thick

Jenrick delivers one of the most asinine speeches I have ever heard. He even brought along a prop, to explain how a judge becomes impartial setting aside personal views, then went on to attack judges for having views. His solution? Abolish tribunals. And who will adjudicate cases? Pfft. Details. ~AA

Jenrick has gone from forgettable nobody to frothing-BNP-styled dickhead. Why does this corrupt little man get to strut around the media blowing his racist dog-whistle?
He should be shamed and shunned out of political existence. We all despise the Tory party for a reason. He’s one of those reasons.

Gary Neville hits out after removing union flag from Manchester development site The former Manchester United captain says the flag was being ‘used in a negative fashion’ by ‘angry, middle-aged white men’

The right-wing press targeted Lineker because he had the balls to speak out. Now it’s Gary Neville’s turn.
We need to be talking about flags and angry middle-aged white men. Well done Gary.
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Been rereading old posts that I & others wrote on October 7. This thread was from November 2023, just one month after the attack. It contains thoughts that have haunted me since, and will for many years to come, I suspect.

It’s about the role of graphically violent images & echo chambers of gore 🧵

A work of art

Leaving the ECHR won’t fix illegal migration Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift

Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift. My Times piece on the Tories’ policy of leaving the ECHR based on spurious claims. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

The horror continues

Something significant people might have missed on Nathan Gill’s indictment for bribery… “conspired with Oleg Voloshyn, and with others”

Maybe sentencing in November will make this clearer

www.spotlightcorruption.org/wp-content/u...

Can’t resist a bargain. Next on my reading list.

Leaving the European Convention on Human Rights would be an act of self-sabotage, not independence, because the convention was forged from British ideals of justice and human dignity, written by our own lawyers in the ruins of war, to ensure that tyranny could never again take hold in Europe.