In reality he is chomping at the bit, waiting for the whole Farage situation to implode, so that he can step in as Glorious Leader.
Resign and let the good people of (check notes) Newark decide
In reality he is chomping at the bit, waiting for the whole Farage situation to implode, so that he can step in as Glorious Leader.
Resign and let the good people of (check notes) Newark decide
This is far from a stand alone issue. Since coming to power Labour has shown utter contempt for some of the most basic safeguarding measures when it has come to certain groups of children. I'm pushing its hostile anti-asylum, anti-trans agenda Labour puts children at risk. ko-fi.com/post/Childre...
Children are the first victims of hostile policies against minorities
Dan Sohege published a post on Ko-fi
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Why did HMRC not charge Angela Rayner a penalty? taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/05/14/w... Dan Neidle takes a dim view…
Angela Rayner stamp duty: why did HMRC charge no penalty?
Angela Rayner paid £40,000 extra stamp duty. We explain why HMRC’s decision to charge no penalty is surprising.
taxpolicy.org.uk
UK doing something right (for once). Seemingly. www.linkedin.com/posts/behind...
Europe hosts 72% of child abuse material, Bulgaria sees 19% increase | Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) posted on the topic | LinkedIn
🗺️Child sexual abuse material hosting hotspots. 🇪🇺 Europe continues to be the largest host of criminal content we action, with 72% of all child sexual abuse webpages found by our analysts traced to h...
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Aside from this does anyone have a clue what Lord Timpson has been doing? feeling underwhelmed, I was expecting positive change and momentum. www.gov.uk/government/n...
Major funding boost to divert women from a life of crime
Thousands more vulnerable women trapped in a revolving door of crime will receive drug, employment and housing support as part of £31.6 million funding boost.
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bibbyboys.com/information/ Fabulous. Added bonus, it's on my doorstep.
Bibby Boys — Project Information
Bibby Boys documents the stories of the men seeking asylum aboard the Bibby Stockholm barge & the local community that rallied around them. It is a photo series by Theo McInnes & Thomas Ralph.
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TL;DR Labour's policies: 🚨Increase use of irregular routes 🚨Increase human trafficking 🚨Increase number of people forced to be undocumented 🚨Force people into deprivation 🚨Leave, particularly women and children, at risk 🚨Cost more than current policies 🚨Violate international law 10/ #r4today
@patrickburland.bsky.social 🙏 great presentation today, thank you! regarding your last point, I think a neater solution is for NRM first responders to allocate any intended exploitation to the intended category rather than leaving it uncategorised. Hard to implement, granted.
Good summary of recently released NRM figures for 2025 freemovement.org.uk/massive-redu...
Massive reduction in the backlog but questions over quality of decision making in latest trafficking statistics - Free Movement
As the latest trafficking statistics for the year ending 2025 have been published, we dissect referrals, delays, reconsiderations and disqualifications.
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Science leading the way (this from last July) academic.oup.com/icb/article-...
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
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The route from propaganda to criminal coordination and real world harm. www.tellmamauk.org/wp-content/u...
tellmamauk.org
The Government has just announced it's new small boat policy. Every occupant of a boat successfully crossing the Channel will be entitled to a free viewing of the new Melania film on arrival in the UK. www.gov.uk/government/p...
Small boat arrivals: last 7 days
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Very glad @danneidle.bsky.social is picking up the slack here but where is the government?!! taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/01/29/w...
Who secretly owns Britain? Map of hidden UK property owners
Explore an interactive map of nearly 100,000 UK properties owned by offshore companies. In over 40% of cases, the real owner is hidden.
taxpolicy.org.uk
Prisoners turn new page with launch of Reading Laureate Author Lee Child (of Reacher fame) announced as first ever Prison Reading Laureate. www.gov.uk/government/n...
Prisoners turn new page with launch of Reading Laureate
Author Lee Child announced as first ever Prison Reading Laureate.
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The United Arab Emirates must pay more than £260,000 to a victim of human trafficking who was exploited by one of its diplomats in London, the high court has ruled. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan...
UAE ordered to pay £260,000 to trafficking victim exploited by diplomat in London
High court ruling marks first time a foreign state has been held liable for domestic servitude by its envoy on UK soil
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Every year, the UK imports approximately £20bn worth of goods that carry a significant risk of forced labour. With new forced labour bans being introduced in the US and the EU, the UK risks falling behind in international efforts to tackle modern slavery. www.unseenuk.org/new-law-will...
New law will prevent human rights abuses and keep forced labour goods out of the UK market - Unseen
The UK is in need of new legislation to protect human rights norms and prevent the UK from becoming a dumping ground for forced labour goods.
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Victims were subjected to sexual assault and rape; false imprisonment; drugging; physical violence; verbal humiliation; surveillance and intimidation. There are at least two reports of forced abortions. centralbylines.co.uk/news/world/h...
The Fayed/Harrods case bears the hallmarks of sex trafficking
At least 400 women have come forward in the wake of the Harrods abuse scandal so why aren’t they being referred to the National Referral Mechanism?
centralbylines.co.uk
📌 Any migrants or others affected by Labour's immigration proposals, please take a few minutes to respond to the Home Office consultation with your honest thoughts. I will provide some pointers on how to interpret deceptively worded questions in this thread soon 🧵
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
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"Denmark’s Refugee Appeals Board does deliver final decisions quickly and has very few onward challenges. However, Denmark also has far higher initial grant rates (around 65–70 per cent) than the UK (47%) and invests heavily in high-quality first decisions". ukandeu.ac.uk/labours-asyl...
Labour’s asylum appeals overhaul: what the new system means in practice - UK in a changing Europe
Ali Ahmadi, Catherine Barnard, Fiona Costello explain what Labour's proposed overhaul in the asylum appeals process will mean in practice.
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📢 TODAY @brightblueuk.bsky.social publishes a major new report on reducing victims and abuses of modern slavery in the UK asylum system, proposing 8 new policies. 📘 Read it here: brightblue.org.uk/wp-content/u... 🗞️ Read about it in The Guardian: theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
“...It is impossible to dispute that a 15-year-old British child was in 2014-15 lured, encouraged and deceived for the purposes of sexual exploitation to leave home and travel to [IS-controlled] territory...” www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
European human rights court questions UK decision to strip Shamima Begum of citizenship
Begum’s lawyers argue she was child trafficking victim when she travelled to live under IS in Syria in 2015
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