Hannah Davies
@hcmd.bsky.social
Sometimes walking, sometimes crawling
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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Here is your friendly occasional reminder that as a Tier 4 then Tier 2 immigrant, I could not access any benefits (and this was printed specifically on my visa), could not vote in any UK election (not even local council), and paid an NHS charge with the amount linked to the length of my visa.
September 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Here is your friendly occasional reminder that as a Tier 4 then Tier 2 immigrant, I could not access any benefits (and this was printed specifically on my visa), could not vote in any UK election (not even local council), and paid an NHS charge with the amount linked to the length of my visa.
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The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration
It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there
on.ft.com
September 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl
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The micro-aggressions are daily, the abuse regular, and the threat of violence constant. I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who feel different. Because only then you might glean what those flags going up signify to someone who looks like me. 3/
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The micro-aggressions are daily, the abuse regular, and the threat of violence constant. I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who feel different. Because only then you might glean what those flags going up signify to someone who looks like me. 3/
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I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.
"But I envied what he built. A taste for disagreement is a virtue in a democracy. Liberalism could use more of his moxie and fearlessness."
That is Ezra Klein.
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
That is Ezra Klein.
Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.
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Playing the closing theme to Camberwick Green, just because everything is awful and it blocks things out momentarily
September 11, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Playing the closing theme to Camberwick Green, just because everything is awful and it blocks things out momentarily
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A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous
A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous
Last weekend, it fell to ordinary people to oppose the far right and others. The national toxicity has reached us: a kind of hate I haven’t seen since the 1970s
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous
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Good to see women speaking out on this.
Harder borders and more deportations will not make women and girls safer.
We need resources going into justice, support for survivors and education.
Harder borders and more deportations will not make women and girls safer.
We need resources going into justice, support for survivors and education.
September 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Good to see women speaking out on this.
Harder borders and more deportations will not make women and girls safer.
We need resources going into justice, support for survivors and education.
Harder borders and more deportations will not make women and girls safer.
We need resources going into justice, support for survivors and education.
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Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
August 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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“It is a portrait of two Britains, one of which barely comprehends the challenges facing the other.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Britain’s social fabric has been torn but it’s just easie...
The real causes of serious problems are ignored and those responsible are let off the hook
observer.co.uk
August 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
“It is a portrait of two Britains, one of which barely comprehends the challenges facing the other.” My @theobserveruk.bsky.social column: observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
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In the most recent edition of my weekly musings, I explore what the recent USUN confirmation hearings and the withdrawal from UNESCO tell us about the emerging contours of U.S. policy towards the UN.
casquebleu.substack.com/p/the-emergi...
casquebleu.substack.com/p/the-emergi...
The emerging contours of UN policy under Trump 2.0
Reading the tea leaves
casquebleu.substack.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In the most recent edition of my weekly musings, I explore what the recent USUN confirmation hearings and the withdrawal from UNESCO tell us about the emerging contours of U.S. policy towards the UN.
casquebleu.substack.com/p/the-emergi...
casquebleu.substack.com/p/the-emergi...
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Correct. Aspire to have a house people want to be at. To be able to knock up a dinner people remind you of in the future. To be able to, without planning, say ‘seeing as you’re here, would you like to stick around for dinner’ and throwing something really delicious.
really nothing better than being able to entertain friends with food and drink
July 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Correct. Aspire to have a house people want to be at. To be able to knock up a dinner people remind you of in the future. To be able to, without planning, say ‘seeing as you’re here, would you like to stick around for dinner’ and throwing something really delicious.
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July 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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There's a kind of male violence that is often misinterpreted as being in defense of women when it's actually in defense of who has the right to harm women (in a "we do; they don't" mode, see KKK, southern lynching, etc.)
"They did not show up for any of the other outrages against women and girls ... the only kinds of riots that are ever treated with such solicitousness, such strenuous attempts to 'understand', such charitable interpretation — are race riots." @leninology.bsky.social
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June 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
There's a kind of male violence that is often misinterpreted as being in defense of women when it's actually in defense of who has the right to harm women (in a "we do; they don't" mode, see KKK, southern lynching, etc.)
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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I offered an "initial damage assessment" of Trump policies at the UN in a virtual talk @balsillieschool.bsky.social this week. You can watch it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFmE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFmE...
The Trump Administration and the UN: An Initial Damage Assessment
YouTube video by Balsillie School of International Affairs
www.youtube.com
April 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I offered an "initial damage assessment" of Trump policies at the UN in a virtual talk @balsillieschool.bsky.social this week. You can watch it here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFmE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFmE...
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If you missed today's Untaxing, on the unintended consequence of 1965 tax avoidance by the Beatles, you can catch it here: buff.ly/fu7OqQz
Untaxing - 2. The Beatles Clause - BBC Sounds
Tax: complex, surprising and more powerful than you think. Dan Neidle unpacks its impact.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If you missed today's Untaxing, on the unintended consequence of 1965 tax avoidance by the Beatles, you can catch it here: buff.ly/fu7OqQz
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Excited to be joining Faiza Shaheen this evening to talk about how our immigration system has got it so badly wrong!
Residents of Chingford & Woodford Green area do come along & say hi 😊😎
Residents of Chingford & Woodford Green area do come along & say hi 😊😎
March 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Excited to be joining Faiza Shaheen this evening to talk about how our immigration system has got it so badly wrong!
Residents of Chingford & Woodford Green area do come along & say hi 😊😎
Residents of Chingford & Woodford Green area do come along & say hi 😊😎
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If you live in London, are PMC and have some liberal axe to grind, the Observer will basically publish it for you. It’s Reddit for the Hackney dinner party circuit.
March 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
If you live in London, are PMC and have some liberal axe to grind, the Observer will basically publish it for you. It’s Reddit for the Hackney dinner party circuit.
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... in a world where the frustrations of day-to-day life are made worse by download-this-app and your-call-is-important-to-us machinery, anything that appears to continue this trend is not welcome. Where is the political programme that promises to make life easier? (2/2) #AI
March 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
... in a world where the frustrations of day-to-day life are made worse by download-this-app and your-call-is-important-to-us machinery, anything that appears to continue this trend is not welcome. Where is the political programme that promises to make life easier? (2/2) #AI