If people as outstanding as Laleh are being treated like this - what hope have the rest of got? Solidarity and love to all folks affected by this.

Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The joys of British higher education:

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

If a newspaper (okay, I only read the @theguardian.com) publishes an article solely based upon a report published by another organisation, is there a reason they don't systematically link to that report? Like surely this would help everyone involved?

My mum had the experience of working for the NHS (as a speech and language therapist) then the service being privatised and the values of the organisation falling away into a laminated marketing pitch. Universities have always been compromised but watching them go through this convulsion

I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.

There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.

If Wes Streeting can release his messages with Peter Mandelson, why not release the ones with private healthcare donors?

this feels like a spoof from The Day Today

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.

“Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes. Their government talks the language of ethnic cleansing”. - Wes Streeting, UK Health Secretary A UK government minister has admitted that Israel is committing war crimes - so why is the UK government refusing to act?

£240m. With no tender. Palantir. I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers. Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal. Palantir out.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Mandelson’s malign influence runs right through the heart of this Government. Not least in the govt’s NHS data deal with Palantir – a spy-tech firm co-founded by a man who thinks the NHS should be ‘ripped up.’ I've written to Wes Streeting urging him to ditch this dangerous deal.

I want some of these people who are suddenly questioning failures of the wider culture to have a public moment like where a hapless faithful, on entering the final throws of the Traitors, asks 'Why am I here!?' Of course this won't be Streeting. He's conducting some traitor on traitor action here.

Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Wes wants us to ask what the meaning of "is" is. Long live Dawn Foster.

Every day I wake up and fail to understand how no one is getting that if we lose on migrant rights - we lose on everything? Climate, the economy and to the far-right. It's this exact moment everyone needs to step in - but that's just not happening.

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example fortune.com/2026/02/04/p... *Not satire.

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | Fortune

The Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.

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UN urges UK and France to halt ‘one in one out’ asylum system

UN urges UK and France to halt ‘one in one out’ asylum system

Letter expresses concerns agreement may involve ‘serious violations of international human rights law’ The UN has called on the UK and France to halt the controversial “one in one out” asylum system, warning that there may be “serious violations of international human rights law”. Nine experts, who include seven special rapporteurs, wrote a 20-page letter to Downing Street and Paris on 8 December 2025 outlining detailed concerns about potential breaches of human rights they have identified in the scheme. They gave the two governments 60 days to respond and on Friday published their letter. Continue reading...

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Palantir fasciitis

Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈@lauerhahn.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 7mo ago

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto

The government has gone very far down a very dark road. This announcement of mass deportations while also seeking to gut rights protections is frightening. Meanwhile, the home secretary is openly using fascist rhetoric. We were quoted in the Guardian 👇

Home Office says nearly 60,000 people deported from UK or left voluntarily since 2024 election

Shabana Mahmood insists deportations will rise, as Labour government is accused of promoting ‘harmful stereotypes’ of migrants

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The Labour Party might be more successful in finding a successor to Starmer who is not tainted by association with Mandelson if only there hadn't been a deliberate effort, led by Mandelson and his mentees, to sideline or expell everyone who didn't fall in line with his faction.l

Gregk Foley@gregk.co.uk · 7mo ago

Crazy how that happens

If you were looking for an exposition of what British values *could* be you could do a lot worse than Ian McKellen wielding Shakespeare like a rapier.

Omg. WTF is Happening?@lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Did anyone vote Labour to get a reincarnation of Priti Patel in the Home Office

Cathal Malone@cathalmalone.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment? "Pull factors" on steroids. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Steve Reed continues to pretend that Starmer & the govt didn't know anything about Mandelson when they appointed him ambassador & when they did find out he was sacked. Sophy Ridge knows he's lying. The viewers know he's lying. Even he knows he's lying.

An abhorrent policy which inevitably leads to people seeking asylum being denied necessary medical support. People seeking asylum don't receive enough financial support to pay for taxis, or often public transport, themselves, but still need to travel to appointments 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ban on asylum seekers using taxis for medical appointments comes into force

It comes after a BBC investigation which showed people travelling long distances at high cost.

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👉The Response of Criminologists for Palestine (C4P) to the recent questions by the ESC to their members. The @ESC is hiding behind the the issue of scientificity - and of following swiss laws on equality- what about international law? Please vote to support C4P criminologists4palestine.wordpress.com

Criminologists for Palestine

A collective of members of the European Society of Criminology who oppose Israel’s genocide, crimes against humanity and human rights violations in Palestine

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How we beat ICE👇

Fully signed up advocate of the Catbongo community and manifesto www.reddit.com/r/catbongos/...

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If you think that Labour will lose the Denton and Gorton seat to Reform and it will be the fault of the GREENS you are actually nuts. Labour has stacked it on every piece of comms, they've fought publicly and stupidly, they've u-turned and are Reform's messenger on immigration.

Beautiful reflection on what remains after the spectacles of violence by immigration enforcement. How does activism and solidarity continue when the spotlight moves away? blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

The Bodily Remainder: Chicago Organisers after the

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Anyone forced to live at this camp will be rightly terrified for their safety. Impossible to see how anyone, let alone vulnerable and traumatised people, can properly be housed there now

Thousands march in Crowborough over asylum plan for former military camp

Protesters walk to Sussex market town from base where Home Office plans to house up to 500 asylum seekers

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What's the outcome that terrifies Labour most in the Gorton by-election? Reform winning? Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about. They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.

The British right: advocating pre-emptive criminalization of resistance to a British ICE in the event that Farage or Badenoch run a mass deportation programme."The government must ... be prepared to imprison hundreds or possibly thousands of agitators who refuse to abide by the law."

ICE, ICE, baby | Alex Yates | The Critic Magazine

For the first time since Donald Trump was re-elected as President of the United States, polling has shown that support for abolishing ICE (Immigration and Custom Enforcement…

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A vital read by our Founder, @natashawalter.bsky.social. 👇👇👇

Natasha Walter@natashawalter.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The threat to Rojava is grave and resonates beyond Syria. This is where the phrase Woman Life Freedom was first used. This cannot be where it dies. I write for the Guardian about why we should all be standing by the women in NE Syria in these desperate times. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...