Dan Sohege
@danielsohege.bsky.social
Specialist in international refugee law, human rights policy, comms and advocacy. Also posting about being autistic and LGBTQIA+ rights. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
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Dan Sohege
@danielsohege.bsky.social
· Jan 8
Sadly it is official, my current employment contract finishes at the end of March. It has been a fantastic three years at Migrant Voice. If you, or someone you know, knows of job opportunities for an experienced policy, advocacy and comms person, across multiple sectors, please do let me know.
This is a good and welcome move. Until we tackle the vile, hostile and dehumanising political and media rhetoric which so often stoke these hate crimes though it is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Disability and LGBT hate crimes set to become aggravated offences
The proposed change has been set out in an amendment to the government's Crimes and Policing Bill.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 5:43 PM
This is a good and welcome move. Until we tackle the vile, hostile and dehumanising political and media rhetoric which so often stoke these hate crimes though it is a sticking plaster on a gaping wound.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trans people were the canary in the coal mine.
Labour gave tacit approval to ripping up the Equality Act by failing to uphold it or legislate for it when it was under attack from often dark money funded fascist lawfare.
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Labour gave tacit approval to ripping up the Equality Act by failing to uphold it or legislate for it when it was under attack from often dark money funded fascist lawfare.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Reform plans to scrap up Equality Act – what it would mean for Britain
www.independent.co.uk
February 17, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Trans people were the canary in the coal mine.
Labour gave tacit approval to ripping up the Equality Act by failing to uphold it or legislate for it when it was under attack from often dark money funded fascist lawfare.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Labour gave tacit approval to ripping up the Equality Act by failing to uphold it or legislate for it when it was under attack from often dark money funded fascist lawfare.
www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Wrote this for @migrantvoice.bsky.social on hostility of this government's changes to immigration rules for "earned settlement". We hear politicians talk about "British values", "integration" and "fairness". Labour destroys any concept of all three with its treatment of migrants through this policy.
"This reform [earned settlement] risks not only the wellbeing of migrant communities, but the fabric of British society. A system that rents belonging rather than grants it corrodes trust, weakens families and devalues people based on narrow definitions of worth"
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
Earned Settlement: A Cruel Betrayal of Migrants and the Promise…
Earned Settlement: A Cruel Betrayal of Migrants and the Promise of Belonging
www.migrantvoice.org
February 17, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Wrote this for @migrantvoice.bsky.social on hostility of this government's changes to immigration rules for "earned settlement". We hear politicians talk about "British values", "integration" and "fairness". Labour destroys any concept of all three with its treatment of migrants through this policy.
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"This reform [earned settlement] risks not only the wellbeing of migrant communities, but the fabric of British society. A system that rents belonging rather than grants it corrodes trust, weakens families and devalues people based on narrow definitions of worth"
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
Earned Settlement: A Cruel Betrayal of Migrants and the Promise…
Earned Settlement: A Cruel Betrayal of Migrants and the Promise of Belonging
www.migrantvoice.org
February 17, 2026 at 3:05 PM
"This reform [earned settlement] risks not only the wellbeing of migrant communities, but the fabric of British society. A system that rents belonging rather than grants it corrodes trust, weakens families and devalues people based on narrow definitions of worth"
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
www.migrantvoice.org/home/editori...
Picking my favourite, and arguably one of the more embarrassing, getting woken up at my desk by the then President of North Cyprus when I was meant to be interviewing him and had been working for more than 24 hours already getting a paper out.
Ok Bluesky, what are your most low key celebrity interactions? I once shared a lift with Tim Finn and put drinks in Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward’s fridge. My husband sold cheese to John Cleese and my mum delivered groceries to Gough Whitlam. Go!!
February 17, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Picking my favourite, and arguably one of the more embarrassing, getting woken up at my desk by the then President of North Cyprus when I was meant to be interviewing him and had been working for more than 24 hours already getting a paper out.
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Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK: it is "hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHD”.
ADHD patients stripped of NHS prescriptions under crackdown
GP practices are increasingly withdrawing from shared-care agreements with patients diagnosed by private clinics
giftarticle.ft.com
February 17, 2026 at 6:25 AM
Henry Shelford, chief executive of charity ADHD UK: it is "hateful and cruel how badly the overall NHS treats people with ADHD”.
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It's just so strange - like the fixation on 'imperial units'. I actually remember, just about, getting my pocket money in pre-decimal currency & can even still remember the advertising jingle of the decimalization public information films. But so what? Why would anyone *care* about this?
Dan wasn't even born before decimalisation (nor was he anywhere near the UK when he was born) but still he yearns for Britain's pre-decimal times 55 years later.
February 16, 2026 at 8:22 PM
It's just so strange - like the fixation on 'imperial units'. I actually remember, just about, getting my pocket money in pre-decimal currency & can even still remember the advertising jingle of the decimalization public information films. But so what? Why would anyone *care* about this?
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Exactly, this has to be the starting point of any further reform.
February 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Exactly, this has to be the starting point of any further reform.
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do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh
"if they socially transition too early we think they can get locked onto a trajectory that may not have been the correct natural trajectory for them"
Direct quote.
Direct quote.
February 16, 2026 at 5:03 PM
do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh
"Catastrophically" would be the first word which comes to mind in relation to this headline. All by the way for no political gain for Labour. They are already enacting some of the most draconian anti-immigration policies for decades. It doesn't appease Reform. 1/
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
February 16, 2026 at 6:58 PM
"Catastrophically" would be the first word which comes to mind in relation to this headline. All by the way for no political gain for Labour. They are already enacting some of the most draconian anti-immigration policies for decades. It doesn't appease Reform. 1/
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Every so often you hear calls for ministers to be more robust (or something) in the face of legal advice.
But one can be fairly certain government lawyers warned about both proscribing Palestine Action and cancelling local council elections.
And here we are - a defeat and a reversal respectively.
But one can be fairly certain government lawyers warned about both proscribing Palestine Action and cancelling local council elections.
And here we are - a defeat and a reversal respectively.
February 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Every so often you hear calls for ministers to be more robust (or something) in the face of legal advice.
But one can be fairly certain government lawyers warned about both proscribing Palestine Action and cancelling local council elections.
And here we are - a defeat and a reversal respectively.
But one can be fairly certain government lawyers warned about both proscribing Palestine Action and cancelling local council elections.
And here we are - a defeat and a reversal respectively.
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But not ban foreigners from giving money to British political parties?
February 16, 2026 at 6:07 PM
But not ban foreigners from giving money to British political parties?
As with most immigration rules to be honest, for a variety of reasons, such as differing surnames, as here, but also gender pay gaps, likelihood of being the primary carer of children, restrictions on family reunification etc etc etc. 1/2
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
New UK border rules for dual nationals are discriminatory against women, campaigners say
British women in Spain and Greece face ‘huge problems’ entering UK because of differing surname rules
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:04 PM
As with most immigration rules to be honest, for a variety of reasons, such as differing surnames, as here, but also gender pay gaps, likelihood of being the primary carer of children, restrictions on family reunification etc etc etc. 1/2
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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'The new rules won’t simply mean a longer wait for ILR. They will mean many people don’t qualify for ILR at all and have to leave the country'. @jamesbowes01.bsky.social on the government's earned settlement proposals ukandeu.ac.uk/remigration-...
Remigration by stealth? The government’s earned settlement proposals - UK in a changing Europe
James Bowes analyses the potential impact of the UK government's proposed changes to its settlement schemes to both new migrants and migrants already in the UK.
ukandeu.ac.uk
February 14, 2026 at 8:45 AM
'The new rules won’t simply mean a longer wait for ILR. They will mean many people don’t qualify for ILR at all and have to leave the country'. @jamesbowes01.bsky.social on the government's earned settlement proposals ukandeu.ac.uk/remigration-...
While Labour continues to target vulnerable migrants for detention and deportation, undermines modern slavery protections and actively tries to end some human rights for migrants, they also refuse to take the most basic steps to reform the seasonal workers visa to help reduce risks of exploitation.
NEW: For the last few years, calls to reform the seasonal worker visa have gone largely ignored
Now, the government has even rejected several recommendations from its own independent immigration advisers...
Story link in the replies ⬇️ @mellino.bsky.social
Now, the government has even rejected several recommendations from its own independent immigration advisers...
Story link in the replies ⬇️ @mellino.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM
While Labour continues to target vulnerable migrants for detention and deportation, undermines modern slavery protections and actively tries to end some human rights for migrants, they also refuse to take the most basic steps to reform the seasonal workers visa to help reduce risks of exploitation.
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Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
February 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Hilary Cass here arguing for children to be prevented from being known by a preferred name or getting a haircut in case it encourages them to continue later in life to transition.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
Hilary Cass acts like gender variant children should have the transness hazed out of them.
More than one of my relatives from Ireland, Scotland and England, probably the Welsh and French ones for good measure, is revolving at high speed in their graves at this, and I am half expecting at least one aunt to rise from the dead just to give him a "stern talking to" about misspelling "Scots".
We must preserve the solid Scots-Irish American culture of the MacHopi and FitzCree clans.
February 15, 2026 at 6:39 PM
More than one of my relatives from Ireland, Scotland and England, probably the Welsh and French ones for good measure, is revolving at high speed in their graves at this, and I am half expecting at least one aunt to rise from the dead just to give him a "stern talking to" about misspelling "Scots".
A trans doctor is hounded out of her job by transphobes and still the Telegraph manages to make it seem like she is the villain not the victim. This is exactly what the gender critical brigade want, for trans and non-binary individuals to be forced to "self exclude".
archive.today/2026.02.15-1...
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February 15, 2026 at 6:28 PM
A trans doctor is hounded out of her job by transphobes and still the Telegraph manages to make it seem like she is the villain not the victim. This is exactly what the gender critical brigade want, for trans and non-binary individuals to be forced to "self exclude".
archive.today/2026.02.15-1...
archive.today/2026.02.15-1...
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The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, Canadian Pediatric Society, American Psychological Association, Japan’s Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, and 27 German medical assocs have all rejected the Cass Review's findings
Says the woman who disregarded evidence and medical professionals to "weaponise" children to such an extent she got necessary medical support stripped from trans young people, in a manner shown to have contributed to an increase in deaths.
She needs to sit this out.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
She needs to sit this out.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Children 'weaponised' in toxic trans debate, Cass says
Clinician Dr Hilary Cass says
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 9:22 AM
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, Canadian Pediatric Society, American Psychological Association, Japan’s Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, and 27 German medical assocs have all rejected the Cass Review's findings
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I see he's now dressing like a temu Mussolini. Going all in.
When I lived in Japan, far-right parties used to drive around blaring out propaganda from loudspeaker vans. People saw them as public nuisances at best, dangerous nutters at worst. Interesting to see Matt Goodwin adopt the same strategy.
February 15, 2026 at 9:33 AM
I see he's now dressing like a temu Mussolini. Going all in.
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2nd story on BBC radio 4 bulletins now
Still huge questions to answer about Labour Together smearing journalists and sources
As I revealed yesterday, senior Labour insiders knew - and person who commissioned it, Josh Simons, now a Starmer minister….
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
Still huge questions to answer about Labour Together smearing journalists and sources
As I revealed yesterday, senior Labour insiders knew - and person who commissioned it, Josh Simons, now a Starmer minister….
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
February 15, 2026 at 9:41 AM
2nd story on BBC radio 4 bulletins now
Still huge questions to answer about Labour Together smearing journalists and sources
As I revealed yesterday, senior Labour insiders knew - and person who commissioned it, Josh Simons, now a Starmer minister….
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
Still huge questions to answer about Labour Together smearing journalists and sources
As I revealed yesterday, senior Labour insiders knew - and person who commissioned it, Josh Simons, now a Starmer minister….
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
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Hillary Cass both sides-ing the “trans debate” dismisses the material power imbalance
- One side is pushing for restrictions, removal of care, & the eradication of trans kids
- The other is pushing for access to care and legal protections
Those are not symmetrical in terms of power or impact
- One side is pushing for restrictions, removal of care, & the eradication of trans kids
- The other is pushing for access to care and legal protections
Those are not symmetrical in terms of power or impact
Children 'weaponised' in toxic trans debate, Cass says
Clinician Dr Hilary Cass says
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Hillary Cass both sides-ing the “trans debate” dismisses the material power imbalance
- One side is pushing for restrictions, removal of care, & the eradication of trans kids
- The other is pushing for access to care and legal protections
Those are not symmetrical in terms of power or impact
- One side is pushing for restrictions, removal of care, & the eradication of trans kids
- The other is pushing for access to care and legal protections
Those are not symmetrical in terms of power or impact
Says the woman who disregarded evidence and medical professionals to "weaponise" children to such an extent she got necessary medical support stripped from trans young people, in a manner shown to have contributed to an increase in deaths.
She needs to sit this out.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
She needs to sit this out.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Children 'weaponised' in toxic trans debate, Cass says
Clinician Dr Hilary Cass says
www.bbc.co.uk
February 15, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Says the woman who disregarded evidence and medical professionals to "weaponise" children to such an extent she got necessary medical support stripped from trans young people, in a manner shown to have contributed to an increase in deaths.
She needs to sit this out.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
She needs to sit this out.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Imagine being so "patriotic" that you protest the Royal National Lifeboat Institute for saving lives.
Racist morons fuelled by hate.
Racist morons fuelled by hate.
February 15, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Imagine being so "patriotic" that you protest the Royal National Lifeboat Institute for saving lives.
Racist morons fuelled by hate.
Racist morons fuelled by hate.