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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 7h

Trying to calculate how many of my friends and neighbours would fall foul of this.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19h

The Conservatives have drafted the legislation.

ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.

If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)

The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 8h

The Beano kids are investigating the haunted Pizza shop in this week's Beano.

The Pizza shop on Hobbs lane.

Because if there's one thing kids love it's references to Quatermass and the Pit.

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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 10h

You may have heard about UK ministers' plan to double to 10 years the time needed to reached settled status in the UK. But did you realise that it threatened access to pensions for the 180,000 people who came from Hong Kong on the UK government's visa scheme? My dispatch: www.ft.com/content/8b91...

UK Hongkongers rue the rockiness of their ‘lifeboat’ after threatened visa changes

People who fled Chinese territory are angry after London looks at doubling length of time required to gain citizenship

www.ft.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19h

Katie Lam has made a video - focusing on not giving new ILR grants to people who don't have it

But quietly including the Conservative proposal to be the first government since Idi Amin in 1972 to revoke the permanent leave to remain, then expel: she underplays to what extent
x.com/Katie_Lam_MP...

x.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. And I really don’t care about how British people are by that standard.

Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 1d

I find this genuinely weird. My family is, as far as I’m aware, English for generations. I’ve no desire at all to exclude any immigrants or their descendants. Multiculturalism is one of the UK’s great successes.

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Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social · 1d

A third of UK councils are projected to go bust, as is Thames Water, NHS mental care is an oxymoron and your "industrial strategy" is fully built on an AI bubble thats gonna pop.

But, by all means, focus on the football supporters.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1d

Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1d

A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported

Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

www.theguardian.com

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iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 2d

an Italian restaurant in Highgate has closed and they’re not happy, I mean really ‘what a sad little life Jane’ not happy

Don Ciccio Osteria Italiana | Italian Restaurant | 1A Hampstead Lane, London, UK

Don Ciccio Osteria is a true italian resturant in North London. Home made fresh pasta, meat and fish specialities. We're home of the authentic italian truffle

www.donciccio-highgate.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

The idea that our friends, relatives, neighbours and colleagues should be summarily flung out of the country by some future Tory government because they don't fit some right wing extremist's definition of "cultural coherence" should set alarm bells ringing everywhere.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)

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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 3d

Aurora from the Black Isle tonight.

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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 4d

The word ‘Orwellian’ is overused, but I’m beginning to see how Newspeak works.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mike Johnson on No Kings: "We refer to it by its more accurate description -- the Hate America Rally. You're gonna bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party. That is the modern Democratic Party."

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HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 5d

Holy moly, look at the BEAUTY!!!

BLPublishing @blpublishing.bsky.social · 6d

Step into a haunted Christmas... Illusions of Presence revives 15 lost tales of festive fear, Victorian séances, spectral nights & supernatural chills. A perfect spooky seasonal read, available online today.

🎁 shop.bl.uk/products/illusions-of-presence-lost-christmas-ghost-stories

The Illusions of Presence book against a red background, with a Christmas tree, glitter and decorations behind it on the left.

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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 6d

It’s excellent.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 6d

Given FindOutNow polls keep making news it's worth saying a bit more about their methodology.

Unlike other online pollsters it doesn't use a panel of people who've signed up to do polls. Instead they ask a small number of Qs to people playing the Pick my Postcode lottery. (Thread)

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7d

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 7d

Well, who could have predicted this? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Israel limits aid and keeps Rafah crossing closed in dispute over hostage remains

Tensions high as Israel accuses Hamas of breaching agreement by withholding bodies of 24 hostages

www.theguardian.com

Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 7d

This is glorious. Up there with that Highway episode that Victoria Wood loved.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 7d

Just remembered this, and now I’m not getting it out of my head for the next week.

Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule | Coventry Market | ITV

YouTube video by ITV

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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 8d

He’s a lovely cat, A stray who adopted us. (We spent a lot of rime ensuring he didn’t belong to anyone else locally).

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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 8d

It hadn’t occurred to me that it was an ambiguous post though it clearly was! He’s fine. Sleeping next to me now.

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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 8d

I do. And I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often. John Fowles reworked The Magus, for good or ill, but I can’t think of many other examples. I re-edited some of my books when I got the rights back, but that was mainly recognising the flaws in books I’d written 20 years before.

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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 8d

It would be tacky and obvious to buy and read either of these books, with their creepy, atmospheric, unsettling stories, in October. Come on. You're better than that.

Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · Mar 22

Between them ‘Municipal Gothic’ and ‘Intervals of Darkness’ have 27 stories full of haunted buildings, haunted people, and working class weirdness. Obviously *I* think they're great – but so do strangers who owe me nothing!

👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Municipal-Go...

👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Intervals-Da...

The covers of both books with quotes in praise of them, and of specific stories:

“‘Modern Buildings In Wessex’, which pulls a compelling horror narrative out of several architectural reviews, is an all-timer. Can’t recommend enough... Fans of Ghostwatch and Inside No. 9 – run don’t walk.”

Trevor Henderson

“...a tremendous collection, hugely enjoyable, and essential... for anyone interested in the English ghost story... ‘Men Who Live in Caravans’... is one of my very favourite stories of recent years: a future classic of the English weird, full of an almost unbearable sadness, quite exquisitely told.”

Seán Padraic Birnie

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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 8d

In my experience, many aren’t.

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Alex Walters @alexwalters.bsky.social · 9d

No, thankfully not. He was just looking particularly comfortable.

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