Natasha Saunders

My beautiful mother would have been 68 today. Happy Birthday, mummy. I miss you everyday xxxx

Bonnie celebrating our win over Liverpool 🤣❤️

That’s true, yes.

If I’m Oscar Piastri I’d race with gloves off from now on. Constructors is done, no need to help my teammate anymore, especially if my teammate is going to collide with me during the race.

Well they stayed in power for another 12 years.

Did it achieve the *stated* policy objectives? No, it was a total failure.

But the stated objectives weren’t the actual objectives.

Refugee protection is the definition of a collective action problem. Can the UK on its own solve that problem? No. The system has been collectively broken and it can only be collectively fixed. But, what the UK can do on its own is NOT MAKE THE PROBLEM WORSE. #KeirStarmer

Actually, I take that back. It’s not stupidity because Starmer’s not a moron. It’s so much more insidious than stupidity. It’s naked political opportunism on the backs of some of society’s most vulnerable people and it’s beyond deplorable.

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

If you want to stop smugglers putting people in small boats STOP GIVING THEM BUSINESS!!!

Jesus wept, I can’t bear this F-ing stupidity and cruelty.

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So the Starmer of the conference speech didn’t even last 24 hours…

Meme showing a worker labelled "academic staff" digging a hole in the ground while 10 others look labelled with management titles such as "Director of Human Resources" look on. The caption underneath reads "The only way we can cut costs is to reduce the number of academic staff..."

A meme for the modern university...

And it’s going to take a hell of a lot more than one speech given his appalling rhetoric for months on end, dancing to Farage’s tune, and this obscene ‘settled status in exchange for indentured servitude’ plan they’re cooking up.

It really is just relentless the constant dehumanisation in this country. Prove you deserve to be here. Prove you deserve to be cared for. Prove your gender. Prove you deserve to have human rights. Prove you deserve to stay after a whole decade. It just chisels away at your humanity

Dear Immigrant. When you’ve finished your night shift at A&E, please spend a couple of hours picking litter in the park or we’ll kick you out. Yours, the Labour Party

UK faces ‘battle for the soul’ of the country, says Starmer amid Reform threat In a rallying cry to progressives around the world, the Prime Minister said allies must stop the ‘politics of predatory grievance’.

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways.

Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.”

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Announcing the scheme, Sir Keir said: "You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID. It's as simple as that." The government says the scheme is designed to curb illegal immigration by making it harder for people without status to find jobs. Ministers argue this is one of the key pull factors for migrants entering the UK illegally. Employers will no longer be able to rely on a National Insurance number - which is currently used as part of proof of right to work - or paper-based checks.

Migrants already have to demonstrate their immigration status to be able to work, rent etc. Key thing when talking about "undocumented" migrants is they are undocumented, and those employing them know it, so an additional form of ID makes absolutely sod all difference.

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Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

That should say shirt sponsor, not short!

Its been a plague on British society for years. You can’t watch any sport on TV now without being bombarded in every ad break with betting ads. Betting firms are short sponsors, stadium sponsors, advertise at stadiums and in programmes. It’s EVERYWHERE, and it’s utterly awful.

Starmer set to announce digital ID cards ‘within days’ to curb illegal migration Plans for digital ID cards could be unveiled at the next Labour Party Conference

Deep sigh... Okay, for those at the back who missed out on the whole fact that asylum seekers and other migrants already have arduous ID checks, or that, by the very nature of people being undocumented additional, id's are irrelevant in this context. 1/3

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The only possible silver lining in this game is that a Utd win will mean Amorim keeps being Utd manager for a while.

But, since that silver lining helps me not one bit as a Chelsea fan: screw you Robert Sanchez.

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

Zone of Interest; The Sorrow and the Pity (Part 2), among others.

In my Contemporary Political Theory module I have my students write an essay on a film using one of the theorists we read - to engage with concepts through a different medium. The films I’ve used for the last few years only seem to be getting more relevant: Good Night and Good Luck; 13th;

Deleted my account.

Go to the Home page and the pop up to accept ToS will appear. Click on ‘Privacy settings’ - NOT on ‘Agree’. You can then access your Profile Settings in the top right of the screen and delete your account.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

MAGA says Kirk's a hero because he went to universities and said whatever he wanted in the name of "free speech"

But when university students and professors say things in disagreement with the MAGA agenda, they must be fired and their lives threatened

Those who can't see the BS are wilfully blind

You can use ChatGPT instead of your own brain to write your paper if I can talk about ChatGPT instead of you in your letter of reference

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

"There is no inherent virtue in caring about your own children; that is the bare minimum requirement for effective parenting. Virtue lies in caring about the safety and well-being of children you don’t know."

This is an award-worthy piece of writing. Bravo, @espiers.bsky.social.

Starmer urged to do more to push back against ‘onslaught of racism’ Hope Not Hate writes letter to PM as senior Labour MPs call for party to take firmer stand against far right

At this stage I would be willing just to take him not actively emboldening it through his own rhetoric and policies.

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