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· Nov 27
PUBLISHED TODAY: ‘Noise & Nuance: What the public really thinks about immigration’ – new findings from the British Future/Ipsos Immigration Attitudes Tracker, which has studied public opinion on immigration and asylum since 2015 [🧵]
The Windrush Day 2026 Grant Scheme is open - applications close 10 Feb. Details: www.near-neighbours.org.uk/windrush26-h...
Windrush 26 — Near Neighbours
www.near-neighbours.org.uk
January 13, 2026 at 2:21 PM
The Windrush Day 2026 Grant Scheme is open - applications close 10 Feb. Details: www.near-neighbours.org.uk/windrush26-h...
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New 2026 thread to retest in real time if X reporting system *mostly* ignores/protects unlawful racist abuse reported to it
Criteria: direct racist abuse @ people that would be unlawful on the bus + is unlawful online + that broad consensus (9/10 people across parties) would agree should be stopped
Criteria: direct racist abuse @ people that would be unlawful on the bus + is unlawful online + that broad consensus (9/10 people across parties) would agree should be stopped
January 12, 2026 at 10:46 PM
New 2026 thread to retest in real time if X reporting system *mostly* ignores/protects unlawful racist abuse reported to it
Criteria: direct racist abuse @ people that would be unlawful on the bus + is unlawful online + that broad consensus (9/10 people across parties) would agree should be stopped
Criteria: direct racist abuse @ people that would be unlawful on the bus + is unlawful online + that broad consensus (9/10 people across parties) would agree should be stopped
Lovely story about a Bradford sewing group bringing women from different backgrounds together and combating loneliness and isolation.
In Bradford’s most deprived ward, a weekly sewing group organised by the Yorkshire Women’s Forum is building community through shared skills.
Aisha Rimi has the full story.
https://hyphenonline.com/2026/01/12/bradford-sewing-group-stitching-communities-together-yorkshire-womens-forum-sewcialise/
Aisha Rimi has the full story.
https://hyphenonline.com/2026/01/12/bradford-sewing-group-stitching-communities-together-yorkshire-womens-forum-sewcialise/
The Bradford sewing group stitching communities together - Hyphen
The Yorkshire Women’s forum is bringing textiles back to the former mill town while building connection and friendship
hyphenonline.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Lovely story about a Bradford sewing group bringing women from different backgrounds together and combating loneliness and isolation.
“It is not ‘censorship’ to insist every website operating in our country does so within the law.” Our @sundersays.bsky.social argues in @easterneye.bsky.social that govt must reject Elon Musk’s ‘pick and mix” approach to the law and Make Social Media Lawful Again.
www.easterneye.biz/technology-g...
www.easterneye.biz/technology-g...
Why Britain must make social media lawful again
The controversy has illuminated again how US billionaire businessman Musk takes a “pick and mix” approach as to which laws he thinks should apply to him and his companies.
www.easterneye.biz
January 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
“It is not ‘censorship’ to insist every website operating in our country does so within the law.” Our @sundersays.bsky.social argues in @easterneye.bsky.social that govt must reject Elon Musk’s ‘pick and mix” approach to the law and Make Social Media Lawful Again.
www.easterneye.biz/technology-g...
www.easterneye.biz/technology-g...
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We've launched an investigation into X over Grok sexualised imagery.
We've opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from content that is illegal in the UK.
🔗 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
We've opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from content that is illegal in the UK.
🔗 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
January 12, 2026 at 11:50 AM
We've launched an investigation into X over Grok sexualised imagery.
We've opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from content that is illegal in the UK.
🔗 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
We've opened a formal investigation into X under the Online Safety Act, to determine whether it has complied with its duties to protect people in the UK from content that is illegal in the UK.
🔗 www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
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Breaking: Ofcom launches probe into Elon Musk's X over Grok deepfake images
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
UK regulator launches probe into Elon Musk's X over Grok deepfake images
We'll be bringing you the latest updates on this Breaking Politics News story
www.mirror.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Breaking: Ofcom launches probe into Elon Musk's X over Grok deepfake images
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Our 2025 report 'How we can actually stop the boats' proposes a similar approach. Read it here: www.britishfuture.org/publication/...
How we can actually stop the boats - British Future
The ‘How we can actually stop the boats’ report draws on international evidence to argue that a scaled-up ‘routes and […]
www.britishfuture.org
January 12, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Our 2025 report 'How we can actually stop the boats' proposes a similar approach. Read it here: www.britishfuture.org/publication/...
Spain has reduced small boat crossings by 46% by combining diplomatic deals with source countries, expanded legal routes and enforcement. Could the UK learn from them? @theipaper.com reports: inews.co.uk/news/world/e...
This European country cut illegal boat crossings by half - what the UK could learn
Spain's approach to reducing illegal maritime crossings has had impressive results, with numbers down dramatically last year
inews.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Spain has reduced small boat crossings by 46% by combining diplomatic deals with source countries, expanded legal routes and enforcement. Could the UK learn from them? @theipaper.com reports: inews.co.uk/news/world/e...
Our @sundersays.bsky.social spoke to David Cannadine about the Union Jack for BBC Radio 4's 'Materials of State' series.
Listen back here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Listen back here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Materials of State, The Union Jack
David Cannadine explores the history of the Union Jack.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Our @sundersays.bsky.social spoke to David Cannadine about the Union Jack for BBC Radio 4's 'Materials of State' series.
Listen back here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Listen back here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Liz Kendall to give a Commons statement today on online regulation. She wrote this Telegraph piece, calling this a tipping point.
I'd like to hear govt + the regulator show that they are taking the full range of unlawful content seriously - not just one strand
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
I'd like to hear govt + the regulator show that they are taking the full range of unlawful content seriously - not just one strand
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
Sexual deepfakes are a disgrace – and we won’t stand for it
This Government is as determined to ensure women and girls are safe online as we are to ensure they are safe in the real world
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Liz Kendall to give a Commons statement today on online regulation. She wrote this Telegraph piece, calling this a tipping point.
I'd like to hear govt + the regulator show that they are taking the full range of unlawful content seriously - not just one strand
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
I'd like to hear govt + the regulator show that they are taking the full range of unlawful content seriously - not just one strand
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
Our @sundersays.bsky.social on Labour's core dilemma: "how to defend a rule-based world order once the most powerful states barely pay lip service to international law." @easterneye.bsky.social www.easterneye.biz/trump-maduro...
‘Trump’s new world order tests Britain’s place in it’
Expert says allies must prepare for a period of US volatility
www.easterneye.biz
January 9, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Our @sundersays.bsky.social on Labour's core dilemma: "how to defend a rule-based world order once the most powerful states barely pay lip service to international law." @easterneye.bsky.social www.easterneye.biz/trump-maduro...
Thread with more detail:
bsky.app/profile/sund...
bsky.app/profile/sund...
X is in clear + systemic breach of its legal duties in the UK to remove unlawful content from its platform.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
Proof: when X users abuse + harass others with the racial slur "paki", X reporting system defends the racist abuse in more than 90% of cases reported.
A new thread documenting this.
January 8, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Thread with more detail:
bsky.app/profile/sund...
bsky.app/profile/sund...
It's not just on sexualised deepfakes where X is way out of line. Here our @sundersays.bsky.social writes about eth 'racist time-warp' on X wheer p-word racism still goes unchecked: www.easterneye.biz/uk-racism-nh...
‘Social media ignores return of racial hate’
Expert slams online platforms for letting trolls get away scot-free
www.easterneye.biz
January 8, 2026 at 8:28 AM
It's not just on sexualised deepfakes where X is way out of line. Here our @sundersays.bsky.social writes about eth 'racist time-warp' on X wheer p-word racism still goes unchecked: www.easterneye.biz/uk-racism-nh...
Commons women and equalities committee to stop using X amid AI-altered images row
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Commons women and equalities committee to stop using X amid AI-altered images row
Exclusive: Move follows outcry over use of Grok to digitally remove clothing from images of women and children
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Commons women and equalities committee to stop using X amid AI-altered images row
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI deepfakes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI
Grok is being used to digitally remove women's clothing - something victims describe as
www.bbc.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Government demands Musk's X deals with 'appalling' Grok AI deepfakes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
89% of Brits feel the country is divided, according to a new global poll. But most of us agree that "most people can be trusted" - higher than the global average.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Britain’s best days are over and the country is divided, say voters
UK voters are more pessimistic about the future than those in other countries and believe Brexit is partly to blame
inews.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 11:47 AM
89% of Brits feel the country is divided, according to a new global poll. But most of us agree that "most people can be trusted" - higher than the global average.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Will the government reduce its reliance on Elon Musk's X?
Will the government reduce its reliance on Elon Musk's X?
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January 5, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Will the government reduce its reliance on Elon Musk's X?
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Vile abuse enabled by Elon Musk's Grok platform has been shared on X by Bella Wallerstein, in which users to post then Grok sexualises an AI image of her outside Auschwitz gates as a concentration camp victim.
She tweets "this place is beyond saving"
[Her post + one image]
x.com/BellaWallers...
She tweets "this place is beyond saving"
[Her post + one image]
x.com/BellaWallers...
x.com
January 3, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Vile abuse enabled by Elon Musk's Grok platform has been shared on X by Bella Wallerstein, in which users to post then Grok sexualises an AI image of her outside Auschwitz gates as a concentration camp victim.
She tweets "this place is beyond saving"
[Her post + one image]
x.com/BellaWallers...
She tweets "this place is beyond saving"
[Her post + one image]
x.com/BellaWallers...
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Reuters on Musk's non-comsensual sexual harassment bot. So far only the Indian and French governments appear to have made significant interventions challenging this: yet dozens of other democratic countries have relevant laws & powers, including UK & EU member starss
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
Elon Musk's Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors
When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies."
www.reuters.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Reuters on Musk's non-comsensual sexual harassment bot. So far only the Indian and French governments appear to have made significant interventions challenging this: yet dozens of other democratic countries have relevant laws & powers, including UK & EU member starss
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
"The only safe prediction may be to expect another volatile year in domestic and global politics," writes our @sundersays.bsky.social for @easterneye.bsky.social on what 2026 has in store
www.easterneye.biz/uk-politics-...
www.easterneye.biz/uk-politics-...
Will 2026 bring stability in UK and abroad? Not quite
Local elections will test Starmer as will 10 years of Brexit vote
www.easterneye.biz
January 5, 2026 at 12:36 PM
"The only safe prediction may be to expect another volatile year in domestic and global politics," writes our @sundersays.bsky.social for @easterneye.bsky.social on what 2026 has in store
www.easterneye.biz/uk-politics-...
www.easterneye.biz/uk-politics-...
Our @sundersays.bsky.social talking to @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk at 1pm about Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice refusing to condemn Reform mayoral candidate who said David Lammy should “go home to the Caribbean”.
December 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Our @sundersays.bsky.social talking to @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk at 1pm about Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice refusing to condemn Reform mayoral candidate who said David Lammy should “go home to the Caribbean”.
'Shabana Mahmood's control challenge won't tackle racism on its own,' writes @sundersays.bsky.social for @easterneye.bsky.social
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Shabana Mahmood's control challenge won't tackle racism on its own
A centre-left government does need to demonstrate control to unlock compassion for refugee protection, and secure confidence in the broader contribution of well-managed immigration.
www.easterneye.biz
December 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
'Shabana Mahmood's control challenge won't tackle racism on its own,' writes @sundersays.bsky.social for @easterneye.bsky.social
www.easterneye.biz/shabana-mahm...
www.easterneye.biz/shabana-mahm...
‘Ministers finalising definition of anti-Muslim hatred’, reports BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ministers finalising definition of anti-Muslim hatred
The draft definition does not include the term Islamophobia, after concerns were raised over freedom of speech.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
‘Ministers finalising definition of anti-Muslim hatred’, reports BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Daniel Kruger claiming he hadn't seen this call from Reform's Mayoral candidate for David "Lammy must go home to the Caribbean" so didn't know what "context" it might have been in your make it less racist
the 'context':
December 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Daniel Kruger claiming he hadn't seen this call from Reform's Mayoral candidate for David "Lammy must go home to the Caribbean" so didn't know what "context" it might have been in your make it less racist
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There were 2 Labour Cabinet Ministers last week on TalkTV Harry Cole slot which plans to invite back an overt racist who'd ban the Home Secretary, Lord Chancellor, Leader of the Opposition & Deputy Speaker from parliament & all blacks, Asians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims & Sikhs from the civil service!
December 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
There were 2 Labour Cabinet Ministers last week on TalkTV Harry Cole slot which plans to invite back an overt racist who'd ban the Home Secretary, Lord Chancellor, Leader of the Opposition & Deputy Speaker from parliament & all blacks, Asians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims & Sikhs from the civil service!