Paul
@paulhutchings.bsky.social
Politics and wild walking. Former researcher and charity director, nowp mmp reincarnating as a teacher. Also very much #RefugeesWelcome
Tomorrow I'll be on Laura Kuenssberg. Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"? It's tantalisingly close to happening! Join.greenparty.org.uk
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"we live quietly, we live in peace and we learn from each other" some sanity, ¡Viva Villamalea! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance
Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines
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This is performative nonsense that just speeds our rush to a cruel and xenophobic island of flag wavers. And it won't help electorally. What a way to spaff that majority
Paul Brand@paulbrand.bsky.social · 12mo agoMahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain: Lived here 10 years not 5 Being in work Not taking a penny in benefits No criminal record Giving back to community eg volunteering
Brilliant news, well done brave Moldova
Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · last yr.The pro-EU Party of Action & Solidarity has crushed the pro-Russia Patriotic Electoral Bloc in the Moldovan election. It won 51 seats - an outright majority. Moldova is now on a trajectory towards EU membership. A very bad night for Putin, who targeted Moldova with a wave of election propaganda.
The micro-aggressions are daily, the abuse regular, and the threat of violence constant. I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who feel different. Because only then you might glean what those flags going up signify to someone who looks like me. 3/
Twice had to explain to different people that care home staff don't "stand around playing on their phones" while others are working, they're keeping a real-time record of every patient's handling on the care home's app.
Many of us would much rather share our country with people that risked their life to be here, than those who are born here but spend all of their time & energy on resentment, hatred, and conspiring to harm.
History is going to declare that this was genocide and the world stood by. What unbearable cruelty and suffering www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Gaza doctor who lost nine children in Israeli airstrike dies from wounds in same attack
Hamdi al-Najjar, 40, was critically injured when Israeli forces bombed the family house in Khan Younis
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What they gave looks ok, but *how* you give is critical. People penned in, at gunpoint, not enough food, not enough infrastructure, hostile relationships - all wrong with inevitable chaos and harm www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
BBC Verify examines footage of chaos at aid site in Gaza
The UN Human Rights Office has said it believes 47 people were injured in Gaza on Tuesday when crowds overwhelmed an aid distribution centre run by a controversial US and Israeli-backed group.
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Going to have to stop exasperating 'And this from a Labour government.' It's a new party that is unrecognisable. Mean-spirited, pandering to the right, lacking vision, incoherent
Extraordinary inspirational story of understanding on VE Day anniversary of two sons whose fathers were on different sides of the war #r4today
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
4 glorious nights in a more sane world, this one of our camping spots near the Falls of Glomach
Lo del traslado de gente a cárceles del Salvador son desparecidos, hay que dejarse de eufemismos, son desaparecidos. Mañana podrían decidir tirarlos al mar desde el avión. A gente que cogen al azar por la calle. Esta es la realidad de EEUU. Si esto termina tiene que haber un juicio de Nuremberg
"welcoming people is not just morally right but also beneficial" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
‘It’s helping me build my future’: empowering migrant and refugee families in a London borough of sanctuary
In Islington, a panel of people with migrant and refugee backgrounds is allocating £500,000 in grants to directly help new arrivals who are where they once were
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I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.
Of all the stupid stabbing yourself in the eye things going on right now, doing a land deal with an irretrievably treacherous expansionist war-mongering dictator has got to be the most stupid self stab of all, what is the point of history if we can't learn from it
More evidence that immigration is a good thing, which the right will happily ignore www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar
As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008
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It's back to that thing of nervously checking the news every few hours to see what the latest outrage is
This would be a cruel and inhumane policy from any govt, the fact it's from a performative Labour govt is jaw dropping. It creates needless suffering and it won't work www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.
