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Dan Sohege
@danielsohege.bsky.social
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Director of human rights consultancy Stand For All. Specialist in international refugee law, human rights policy, comms and advocacy. Also posting about being autistic and LGBTQIA+ rights. Non-binary (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Feb 7
For the sake of convenience and expediency, I do block bad faith arguments without responding, I definitely block people making excuses for bigotry, and, to be honest, I block quite quickly, and regularly, because no-one actually owes you their time in a debate when it is clear you won't listen.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1h
🤣🤣
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2h
Unfortunately not. I do that for waaaay less 😁
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2h
The fun to be had for doing it. Plus that salary, and people say migrants' rights advocates are in it for the money.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 3h
I see Robert Jenrick is supporting Hamit Coskun who is appealing his conviction by reference to the ECHR (which Jenrick wants to withdraw from).

Who knew that the ECHR could be useful, even to the anti-ECHR Hard Right?
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 3h
I think it was @hannahfearn.bsky.social who was asking what's up with the govt's ability to read the room ...
In what world is the response to high-profile and vocal groups of parents raising concerns about teens and smartphones to propose digital ID for teenagers?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government to consult on digital IDs for 13-year-olds
There has been a backlash to the announcement a UK-wide digital ID scheme will be introduced by 2029.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2h
So tempted just for the crack 😁
Job advert from UK Home Office for a Deputy Director of Migration Communications.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 3h
incidentally I enjoyed the interview on BBC News last night with a woman from the Nobel committee who pointed that so long as Trump was using the judicial system to go after his enemies and sending troops into peaceful cities, he probably wasn't a strong candidate for the Nobel peace prize
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 4h
Trump's going to be so pissed off.

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María Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize
Opposition activist María Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 7h
Fairly obviously all of Lowe's ideas here are xenophobic batshit, however, this is the inevitable extension of the false "first safe country" claim you hear so many politicians and pundits bang on about. Not only does such a principle not exist, it would lead to this type of nonsense in practice.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h
Restore Britain's convoluted way of calliing for Britain to take no refugees at all.

UK should only ever give refugee status to genuine asylum seekers from neighbouring countries, which, given every one of our neighbours is a safe country "would effectively mean scrapping our whole asylum system"
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 7h
Out of curiosity, are BBC going to be acting as the government's stenographer like this for the whole year the utterly pointless PR stunt "one in one out" policy is running, or could they try actually ensuring context and balance in all stories about migration?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17h
Despite being terminally online, my first thought to this was "that time passed long ago"
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17h
Who could have predicted this could happen? You know apart from absolutely everyone.
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404 Media @404media.co · 21h
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 18h
Her courage is just amazing. I have so much respect for her
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 19h
When Farage told the people of Clacton that he would spend his time working I imagine they thought it would be for them and not for 12 companies.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d
Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns
The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 1d
"The hate crimes figures...recorded falls in hate crime in three other groups including sexual orientation (down 2%), disability (down 8%) and transgender (down 11%.)"... They went down because they don't record them correctly as hate crimes.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Race and religious hate crime rises in England and Wales, figures suggest
The number of police-recorded race and religious hate crimes have increased in the year to March.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 21h
Are they serving covfefe?
Screenshot of a Reuters breaking news alert saying "Trump holds a cabinte meeting at the White House"
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Migrant Voice @migrantvoice.bsky.social · 21h
Political and media hostility targeted towards minorities and marginalised groups, including those coming to the UK to seek safety, feeds into this. We urgently need to detoxify political and media rhetoric surrounding immigration and minorities

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Race and religious hate crime rises in England and Wales, figures suggest
The number of police-recorded race and religious hate crimes have increased in the year to March.
www.bbc.com
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 21h
Excellent news!

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Man who appealed Pelicot rape conviction handed longer jail term
A French court increases by a year the jail term of the only man who challenged his conviction for raping Gisèle Pelicot.
www.bbc.com
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22h
Radio on. Make a cup of tea, having a cigarette while it brews, while alternating between Bluesky and reading the news. Second cup of tea, with cig, followed by a cup of coffee, while finishing off news reading and checking Home Office releases and Parliament order paper for the day.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22h
Media narrative and political rhetoric basically create a feedback loop of hate which is heard not so much as a dog whistle by racists than as a foghorn. Political scapegoating of migrants for example, even without mention of race or religion, has been shown, globally, to increase hate attacks. 4/
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22h
There are obviously also significant additional reasons for increases in hate. None of it's helped by politicians, including the government, using minorities and marginalised communities as political pawns though. That kind of toxicity feeds through into the public consciousness. 3/
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22h
I would also be fairly hesitant to latch too much onto the 11% drop in reported hate crimes against trans and non-binary individuals, as these figures run until March, so before the Supreme Court ruling in April which has unleashed a load of transphobia. 2/
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Hate crime, England and Wales, year ending March 2025
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22h
In no small part stoked by political rhetoric, policies and "normalisation" of racism and hate against minorities and marginalised groups, and this doesn't even include the far right protests outside hotels this year with politicians saying how they "understood" them. 1/
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Race and religious hate crime rises in England and Wales, figures suggest
The number of police-recorded race and religious hate crimes have increased in the year to March.
www.bbc.com
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Detention Action @detentionaction.bsky.social · 1d
The Home Office is often failing to identify survivors of human trafficking, subjecting them to further harm in detention. Among people we support under the UK-France deal, at least 16 have shown strong signs of being trafficked. Only 5 were referred for assessment and support.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d
Thank you. I really hope they are helpful
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