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Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum Home secretary announces 30-month protection limit, with refugees required to leave if their home countries are later judged safe

This policy is bad for community cohesion.

You don’t build confident, contributing neighbours on rolling 30 month visas. The current 5‑year route is how people plan for the future and fully join our communities.

The Danish model won’t work here.

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a man is saying i give up while holding a piece of paper ALT: a man is saying i give up while holding a piece of paper

Right moment for me to go to bed, after reading such takes as 'In international law it is not a war that is legal or illegal, but a country’s participation in it' or 'it is messier' whether the US/Israeli action is illegal under international law (compared to illegality under US domestic law)

Mahmood trumpeting her admiration for Danish asylum policy, only to have to distance herself from its architects because they‘re massive racists. Incredible scenes

UK will allow US to use bases to strike Iranian missile sites, says Starmer The prime minister says it remains the case that the UK will

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that’s all.”

Well now that the UK is party to an illegal war, it is much more likely that its bases will be attacked...

I really don't understand why people struggle with the idea that it's bad to be able to kill whomever you want whenever you want just because you feel like it. That's actually the world you want to live in. You're quite confident about that vote for the leopards aren't you.

Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

As a tiny country, international law is all we've got. It's not a lot but at least it's something.
Ireland fails to defend it at its peril.

Shamefully helping create a world where a future attack on Greenland is much more likely

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Asserting international law only when it is in your own/allies interest means not being committed to international law at all. Being dragged into a war by more powerful allies against direct interest and better judgement means having no strategic autonomy. The UK Govt is in a mess.

Two children killed in a hospital.

The target may have been the state broadcaster, which is presumptively a civilian object and not a lawful target.

Service reminder: There is an Art 26 of the very constitution that he has sworn to uphold. Not saying that there are simple answers here, but a little bit more sensivity to the German constitutional imperatives on international law that capture lessons from history would be nice.

Does Starmer want Labour to poll at single digits?

Labour’s watchword: well it may not be popular but at least we’re doing the wrong thing

NEW: The Lib Dems are demanding MPs get a vote on allowing the US to use UK air bases.

Leader Ed Davey says:

“No matter how the Prime Minister tries to redefine offensive as defensive, this is a slippery slope. He must not let Trump drag Britain into another prolonged war in the Middle East.”

Asylum policy in Denmark Politicians in the UK have expressed interest in Denmark's approach to granting asylum and the integration of refugees.

The Commons Library November 2025 report is a good factual briefing on what Danish asylum policy actually is
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The Government seem to be saying these changes are the most significant overhaul in a generation (questionable). If that is the case, then it should send alarm bells ringing that such substantial changes can be done through changing the immigration rules, with no automatic parliamentary scrutiny.

Entrenching social problems and administrative dysfunction, to pander to our pretend hero voter.

"We're worried about the asylum backlog and also immigrants aren't integrating." Okay, then I guess make more administrative work for your department and also ensure every refugee knows that whatever they get up to here, they might be sent back in 30 months or less?

Who do they expect to buy this?

Under the new rules, asylum seekers' cases will be reviewed every 30 months, after which they could be sent to their country of origin, provided it is deemed safe to do so. There will be an exception for unaccompanied children.

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Obvious by now but bears repeating: Labour's proposals across all forms of immigration policy are totally for public consumption. All signs point to them making worse the problems they allegedly solve

How Talks Between Anthropic and the Defense Dept. Fell Apart

NEW: Our play-by-play on how Anthropic’s negotiations with the Pentagon fell apart, (and how Open AI swooped in). With @julianbarnes.bsky.social @cademetz.bsky.social

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Senator Tim Kaine to CNN: “I'm on two committees that give me access to a lot of classified information.

“There was no imminent threat from Iran to the United States that warrants sending our sons and daughters into yet another war in the Middle East.”

As an academic born and raised in Denmark who researches and writes about Danish politics, I can confidently say that Cowley has no idea what he’s talking about. The piece is full of factual errors and falsehoods

Mail on Sunday front page, with the headline "FOREIGN-BORN VOTERS STOLE BY-ELECTION BLASTS FARAGE"

Today's Mail on Sunday is going full-on MAGA with a claim that "foreign-born voters" stole the Gorton and Denton by-election...

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NIGEL FARAGE: Allowing non-British citizens to vote in the UK poses a grave risk to our democracy

'non-British citizens'

Uncut Trumpism. No election is valid unless they win it. Farage and Reform UK are outright enemies of democracy and the Mail is actively aiding them.

Keir Starmer is going to end up with his trademark u-turn here – where it becomes obvious to those paying attention it was entirely forced by backbenchers. So he gets no credit for the u-turn by people who wanted it, and attacked for dropping the policy by others.