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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
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 · 8h
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 · 2h
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 · 12h
Despite being terminally online, my first thought to this was "that time passed long ago"
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12h
Who could have predicted this could happen? You know apart from absolutely everyone.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16h
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...
www.404media.co
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12h
Her courage is just amazing. I have so much respect for her
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 14h
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 · 22h
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
www.mirror.co.uk
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 19h
"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 · 15h
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 · 16h
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 · 16h
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 · 17h
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 · 17h
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 · 17h
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 · 17h
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 · 17h
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 · 19h
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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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d
No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.
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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 1d
Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d
The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d
It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d
I know family estrangement can be hard for people. My brother still makes attempts to speak to our father, whereas I sent him an email saying "goodbye" and wrote him out of my life with it. It's different for everyone, and there's still a lot of societal blame attached to it which shouldn't be there
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d
Good to see family estrangement being covered in a balanced way which looks at the nuances.

As someone, happily, estranged from their father I still get people saying "I'll miss him when he's gone", bet you I won't, "you should make the first move", did that.
www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...
‘Life is better without her’: Readers share painful truth of family estrangement
Our community has shared deeply personal stories of pain, resilience and acceptance – revealing how, for many, walking away from family was both heartbreaking and healing
www.independent.co.uk
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d
Trying to remain cautiously optimistic for the Gaza ceasefire. Can't shake the feeling though that if Trump doesn't win the Nobel Peace Prize he will throw a full scorched earth tantrum and trash everything.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d
Sorry, but if you're saying those implausible and shallow Kemi Badenoch announcements constitute a good speech then you're part of the UK's political problem.

Same half-baked "tax cut good / international commitments bad" bearing no resemblance to well formed policy.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d
In the current climate of far right hostility, Jenrick is actively inciting violence against these judges with this. Badenoch may have defended his explicit racism yesterday, but this alone should see him lose both his position as shadow justice secretary and the whip immediately.

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Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias' The shadow justice secretary has accused 'activists' within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d
There is something deeply broken in the UK and it has absolutely nothing to do with migrants, especially with 1 in 25 properties being vacant.
This should be the number one priority for the government. Instead more and more homeless individuals are dying.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high
Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.
www.bbc.com
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