Tom Keating

"Despite their hollow words, this Government is betraying it’s promises to millions of people who have lived and worked here for years. This is a retreat into a smaller, meaner England - one where belonging is rationed, and diversity is punished.” 2/2

Some migrants to face 20-year wait for settled status Shabana Mahmood says becoming part of the UK is

"People who arrived on post-Brexit health and social care visas would have to wait 15 years, up from five year currently"

Oh sure I'll vote Labour. On the condition my vote is counted retroactively. Delayed 15 years when a new batch of more compassionate Labour candidates are available.

Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish We had always given sanctuary to those who needed it, she said, only now we would kick them out as soon as possible

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"We have become the destination of choice in Europe" according to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.

Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...

corrigendum: ball, singular. FFS.

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

I cannot inagine how it feels to be this boy’s parents. What on earth are we doing, with everything we know about the ways unregulated social media have changed us, letting it happen all over again but worse with chatbots? www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

You may call it ‘Chatfishing’, but I shall only refer to it as ‘Cyrano de Berger-App’
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no

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#ReformUK

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It's not every day you find a Nightjar in your garden! 😮 Thanks to Sharon for sharing photos of their amazing unexpected visitor.

Nightjars are summer migrants, sometimes appearing in coastal areas around this time of year before starting their long journey back to Africa. 🌍

📸© Sharon Webster

You can’t have sex with a patient under anaesthetic, you can’t leave the operation and have sex with a nurse somewhere else! When can you have sex?

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If you can't trust a sex trafficker who has just been moved to a nicer prison for no reason, then who can you trust?

The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine.

Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.

I'm disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?

holy shit lmao

Ban on Palestine Action to take effect after legal challenge fails Being a member of, or showing support for, the direct action protest group will be a criminal offence after judge’s decision

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hmm authoritarian much?

Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules Case came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term ‘open-air recreation’ included camping

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"Darwall is expected to have to pay for the national park’s costs, which are understood to have run into the millions of pounds" 😂

‘Cheap foreign labour’ – this is how Keir Starmer denigrates the migrant carers looking after your loved ones The government’s claims about immigration driving down wages are so demonstrably untrue, it’s hard to feel the appropriate level of outrage

The great @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social is so damn right about this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Opinion: Migrant workers prop up the UK’s social care system. Now… Labour’s crackdown will break a promise made to workers like me – and leave the system in disrepair

everyone's said pretty much all there is to be said on the 'island of strangers'/'incalculable damage' stuff, so just sharing this by a migrant care worker on how it feels to hear yourself discussed like this while looking after people's loved ones www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Labour's immigration plans at a glance The government says its proposals will reduce record levels of migration to the UK in recent years.

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Policy = Throw all the hard-working migrant care workers, looking to build their future in the UK, under the bus.

YouTube video by DovesVEVO Doves - Lean Into The Wind (Visualiser)

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• Al Overview The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again. Here's a more detailed explanation: • Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone. • Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

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Bonnet of Pins 👌

The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan The trip leaned on a vision of women’s empowerment that is light on substance and heavy on a childlike, girlish silliness

The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism | Moira Donegan

Maybe the Trump administration could use this pipeline to manipulate gas supply and prices in Europe for coercive leverage in their trade demands.

If the bond markets could take an interest in the rule of law/Ukraine/not invading Canada now they're done with the tariff war that would be lovely thankyou, as they now appear to be in charge