@danielsohege.bsky.social
Specialist in international refugee law, human rights policy, comms and advocacy. Also posting about being autistic and LGBTQIA+ rights. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Happy Mothers Day to the decent mum's out there. While my daughter treats my amazing wife to a special lunch, seemed like a good time to speak about autism and emotional impermanence, because I know a lot of autistic individuals can feel really bad about this, including myself, and why we shouldn't.
Every penny spent has made life worse for trans children & young people, for trans people in general.
Not one penny has been spent on making life better.
That's what you get in research processes where trans people are not even allowed in the room.
I don't know what I have done, but something tells me I am in trouble
Telegraph so close to having a moment of clarity before it spins off. Longer journeys lead to more deaths. People aren't making them for fun. They have to because successive governments have failed to provide genuine alternatives. Labour is as much to blame for deaths in the channel as anyone else.
I'm sure Streeting and the gender critical brigade will be all over this. After all, if trans young people aren't allowed gender affirming hormones "for their own good" the same applies to the young "alpha bros" who, unlike trans individuals, are actually harming people
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This. All of it.
Very interesting podcast by @polphilpod.bsky.social with the awesome @danielsohege.bsky.social
Agree with many of the conclusions but
I suspect it will be easier to form a GRN-LD electoral pact than he thinks. With the exception of a few constituencies they are largely contesting different places
I genuinely hope you are right and I am wrong
Folks, you didn't even know the Strait of Hormuz was important and thought the Iranian army fought with sticks and slingshots. I am not convinced this is the time to dumb down your military leadership.
Starting to think the Joker may not have been the bad guy
Oh it was a blinder. Ireland played particularly well, is there a gritted teeth emoji
With cullen skink, which I love
My wife: So Scotland can't win then
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Why are you looking like that
Oooohh did Ireland just ruin you?
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The wine's over there and don't forget to cook.
I swear I am cooking haggis for dinner. Anyway, congratulations to Ireland in the rugby.
Funnily enough, I was thinking very much the same when I first saw the article
A minor point in the grand scheme of Trump's unhinged approach to... everything, but saying it is "easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine or deliver a close range missile somewhere, does somewhat contradict his claim of destroying 100% or Iran's military capacity.
Look at you being all down with the youth
Ah, shit, forget people can actually see those videos....wait which account 😁
What I also find is people ignore I tend to comment on very specific areas, because those are the policy areas I know about and work on, predominately rights based e.g. migrants rights, trans rights etc, and on those areas of policy Labour is now to the right of previous Conservative governments.
As we discussed on @polphilpod.bsky.social, a lot of people will say by focusing on negatives of Labour's policies we don't give enough credence to the positive policies. Fair enough, I guess, but the positive policies don't remotely outweigh the negative ones and their impacts on people's lives.
I ain't dead, yet. So that's something
"politics is not like a coffee shop card - you don't get one free bigotry with every decent policy that you do"
- @danielsohege.bsky.social
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/labour-back
Simply put, without migrants the system. Losing 21% of the NHS workforce, either via direct policies or creating an increased hostile environment, isn't going to help, but nor is losing £2.6 billion per year into funding the NHS. 5/5
All of this is a long-winded way to say Lam is trying to stoke resentment against migrants based on nothing. Yes, migration can increase usage of the NHS, however, this is more than offset by the double taxation migrants pay with IHS and the proportion of NHS workforce they make up. 4/5
✅About 21% of NHS staff are "non-British".
researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CB...
✅Staff come from all over the world and work in a variety of positions, meaning bars on nationalities, or based on skill sets, undermine NHS as a whole.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
3/5
✅Migrants are roughly 40% less likely to use the NHS than British born citizens
www.health.org.uk/features-and....
✅Undocumented migrants in particular are already excluded from majority of NHS treatment
www.gov.uk/guidance/nhs... 2/5
Katie Lam is being highly misleading. Here are just some things we do know:
✅ International Health Surcharge raised about £2.6 billion towards the NHS in the year 2024/25
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques....
✅ Majority of migrants have to pay it.
www.gov.uk/healthcare-i...
1/5
Our “no one was panicked then and no one is panicked now” t-shirt is raising many questions already answered by the t-shirt but not, crucially, by any of us *breathes into paper bag*
"and is this game plan in the room with us now?"
I am open to any platforms, and can see a lot of people understandably don't want to subscribe to substack. Other people have mentioned Ghost which I am looking into, possibly Patreon, because of other features such as q and a s
I would definitely make sure I still published free articles absolutely