Heather Kincaid
@heatherlkincaid.bsky.social
Former social media lover. Chronic social media goblin. Still not sure I have the energy for another platform.
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
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"With thousands of Afghans still facing persecution or forced into hiding, the abrupt closure of resettlement schemes leaves vulnerable people - including children and families - in dangerous situations with no clear pathway to safety."
Read our statement: www.rescue.org/uk/press-rel...
Read our statement: www.rescue.org/uk/press-rel...
Closure of Afghan resettlement schemes represents ‘concerning abandonment of the UK's commitments to the people of Afghanistan,’ says IRC UK | The IRC
The sudden closure of the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy (ARAP) and Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) represents a concerning abandonment of the UK's commitments to the people of Af...
www.rescue.org
July 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
"With thousands of Afghans still facing persecution or forced into hiding, the abrupt closure of resettlement schemes leaves vulnerable people - including children and families - in dangerous situations with no clear pathway to safety."
Read our statement: www.rescue.org/uk/press-rel...
Read our statement: www.rescue.org/uk/press-rel...
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"I don't like that particular expression. It's not an expression I would use because it leads to misunderstandings."
@cathynewman.bsky.social asks Labour peer Lord Dubs about Keir Starmer's "island of strangers" comment.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/this-is...
@cathynewman.bsky.social asks Labour peer Lord Dubs about Keir Starmer's "island of strangers" comment.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/this-is...
‘This is not the Starmer I know’ – Labour peer on migration plan
Channel 4 News spoke to Labour peer Lord Dubs, who fled Nazi Germany as a child and is a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Migration.
www.channel4.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
"I don't like that particular expression. It's not an expression I would use because it leads to misunderstandings."
@cathynewman.bsky.social asks Labour peer Lord Dubs about Keir Starmer's "island of strangers" comment.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/this-is...
@cathynewman.bsky.social asks Labour peer Lord Dubs about Keir Starmer's "island of strangers" comment.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/this-is...
Gonna make this the first thing I add to Libro now I've ditched Audible. Sounds like essential reading.
🎉Publication day for 'Anywhere But Here'!
Hard to put into words what it means for a tiny seed of an idea to make its way into the world.
Huge thanks to the brave people who spoke to me and to my agent and publisher.
Order here
Waterstones: tinyurl.com/8fucp49x
Bookshop.org: tinyurl.com/hprhh7xu
Hard to put into words what it means for a tiny seed of an idea to make its way into the world.
Huge thanks to the brave people who spoke to me and to my agent and publisher.
Order here
Waterstones: tinyurl.com/8fucp49x
Bookshop.org: tinyurl.com/hprhh7xu
April 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Gonna make this the first thing I add to Libro now I've ditched Audible. Sounds like essential reading.
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Amazing things happening to language and meaning over at @theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Amazing things happening to language and meaning over at @theguardian.com
OK hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
March 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
OK hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
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The collective wealth of UK billionaires rose by £35 million every day last year.
We can afford a supportive welfare state but we have to find the money from the super rich, not from the poorest.
Well said @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social 👏👏 #r4today
We can afford a supportive welfare state but we have to find the money from the super rich, not from the poorest.
Well said @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social 👏👏 #r4today
March 12, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The collective wealth of UK billionaires rose by £35 million every day last year.
We can afford a supportive welfare state but we have to find the money from the super rich, not from the poorest.
Well said @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social 👏👏 #r4today
We can afford a supportive welfare state but we have to find the money from the super rich, not from the poorest.
Well said @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social 👏👏 #r4today
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€500bn infrastructure spend and its fiscal break relaxed. Is this realpolitik-Keynesianism?
Call it what you want but Germany looks like it understands the need for a break with fiscal orthodoxy.
The UK needs to wake up.
What is before us won’t be dealt with by austerity 2.0.
Call it what you want but Germany looks like it understands the need for a break with fiscal orthodoxy.
The UK needs to wake up.
What is before us won’t be dealt with by austerity 2.0.
Germany’s future coalition partners to relax debt rules to boost defence budget
Conservative alliance and Social Democrats to propose exempting spending of more than 1% of GDP on defence
www.theguardian.com
March 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
€500bn infrastructure spend and its fiscal break relaxed. Is this realpolitik-Keynesianism?
Call it what you want but Germany looks like it understands the need for a break with fiscal orthodoxy.
The UK needs to wake up.
What is before us won’t be dealt with by austerity 2.0.
Call it what you want but Germany looks like it understands the need for a break with fiscal orthodoxy.
The UK needs to wake up.
What is before us won’t be dealt with by austerity 2.0.
Do I win a prize? 😂
March 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Do I win a prize? 😂
Handmaking a placard for the protest tomorrow until 2am and it looks like this because I am nothing if not my mother's daughter.
March 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Handmaking a placard for the protest tomorrow until 2am and it looks like this because I am nothing if not my mother's daughter.
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AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.
February 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.
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"Foreign aid is a moral commitment that speaks to the heart of the British people, but it's also a strategic commitment that does good for Britain."
IRC President and CEO David Miliband responds to the decision to cut UK aid spending on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
IRC President and CEO David Miliband responds to the decision to cut UK aid spending on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Newsnight - Will Starmer’s Move Satisfy Trump?
Sir Keir Starmer makes a big move ahead of his trip to Washington, slashing international aid spending to boost defence. Will it be enough to satisfy President Trump?
www.bbc.co.uk
February 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"Foreign aid is a moral commitment that speaks to the heart of the British people, but it's also a strategic commitment that does good for Britain."
IRC President and CEO David Miliband responds to the decision to cut UK aid spending on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
IRC President and CEO David Miliband responds to the decision to cut UK aid spending on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Obsessed!
Eldest daughter has just acquired Very Hungry Caterpillar nails, how cool is she
February 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Obsessed!
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The UK government's decision to cut aid by £6 billion is a blow to Britain’s proud reputation as a global humanitarian and development leader.
With 300 million people in humanitarian need, the consequences of this decision will be far-reaching and devastating.
www.rescue.org/uk/press-rel...
With 300 million people in humanitarian need, the consequences of this decision will be far-reaching and devastating.
www.rescue.org/uk/press-rel...
IRC Responds to Cuts to UK Aid Budget
IRC Responds to Proposed Cuts to UK Aid Budget in favour of Defence Spending. Quote from David Miliband
www.rescue.org
February 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The UK government's decision to cut aid by £6 billion is a blow to Britain’s proud reputation as a global humanitarian and development leader.
With 300 million people in humanitarian need, the consequences of this decision will be far-reaching and devastating.
www.rescue.org/uk/press-rel...
With 300 million people in humanitarian need, the consequences of this decision will be far-reaching and devastating.
www.rescue.org/uk/press-rel...
Britain First think they can get away with intimidating people who live in Nuneaton. Despite all their messaging focusing on big cities, the cowards chose a small town for their national march because they think they'll get no backlash here. It's up to us to prove them wrong. #NoFascistsInNuneaton
February 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Britain First think they can get away with intimidating people who live in Nuneaton. Despite all their messaging focusing on big cities, the cowards chose a small town for their national march because they think they'll get no backlash here. It's up to us to prove them wrong. #NoFascistsInNuneaton
Ok gang, we're all upset about this barring of refugees from citizenship based on how they arrive so get signing & sharing.
Change: www.change.org/p/reform-cit...
38 Degrees: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/citizens...
Labour Free Mov't: docs.google.com/forms/d/16bw...
Pic @refugeestogether.bsky.social
Change: www.change.org/p/reform-cit...
38 Degrees: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/citizens...
Labour Free Mov't: docs.google.com/forms/d/16bw...
Pic @refugeestogether.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Ok gang, we're all upset about this barring of refugees from citizenship based on how they arrive so get signing & sharing.
Change: www.change.org/p/reform-cit...
38 Degrees: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/citizens...
Labour Free Mov't: docs.google.com/forms/d/16bw...
Pic @refugeestogether.bsky.social
Change: www.change.org/p/reform-cit...
38 Degrees: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/citizens...
Labour Free Mov't: docs.google.com/forms/d/16bw...
Pic @refugeestogether.bsky.social
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February 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Labour's new Borders Bill has its second reading in Parliament today.
There's so much to do to fix an asylum system that leaves people's lives in limbo, living on below-poverty rates for years on end.
So why is this Government fixated on the same old failed policies that we know don't work?
There's so much to do to fix an asylum system that leaves people's lives in limbo, living on below-poverty rates for years on end.
So why is this Government fixated on the same old failed policies that we know don't work?
February 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Labour's new Borders Bill has its second reading in Parliament today.
There's so much to do to fix an asylum system that leaves people's lives in limbo, living on below-poverty rates for years on end.
So why is this Government fixated on the same old failed policies that we know don't work?
There's so much to do to fix an asylum system that leaves people's lives in limbo, living on below-poverty rates for years on end.
So why is this Government fixated on the same old failed policies that we know don't work?
I'm seething. Apart from anything else BF are total cowards: online they'll wang on about feeling outnumbered in big cities - and then choose a small, quiet Warwickshire town for their "National Remigration March" because they don't think they'll get any backlash here. We must prove them wrong.
February 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I'm seething. Apart from anything else BF are total cowards: online they'll wang on about feeling outnumbered in big cities - and then choose a small, quiet Warwickshire town for their "National Remigration March" because they don't think they'll get any backlash here. We must prove them wrong.
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People dying in the Channel is tragically frequent. But who they are and why they're making the dangerous journey, is often missing from the news.
The stories of 23 of the 77 people who lost their lives trying to reach safety in the UK were shared by @mirror.co.uk. Here are the names we know.
The stories of 23 of the 77 people who lost their lives trying to reach safety in the UK were shared by @mirror.co.uk. Here are the names we know.
January 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
People dying in the Channel is tragically frequent. But who they are and why they're making the dangerous journey, is often missing from the news.
The stories of 23 of the 77 people who lost their lives trying to reach safety in the UK were shared by @mirror.co.uk. Here are the names we know.
The stories of 23 of the 77 people who lost their lives trying to reach safety in the UK were shared by @mirror.co.uk. Here are the names we know.
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Excellent to see Labour will NOT allow the use of this bee-killing pesticide this year.
This + deposit return scheme + reforming national parks for nature = great
‘Growth trumps net zero’ = terrible
(H/t @gregorynorminton.bsky.social)
www.gov.uk/government/n...
This + deposit return scheme + reforming national parks for nature = great
‘Growth trumps net zero’ = terrible
(H/t @gregorynorminton.bsky.social)
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Pesticide emergency authorisation denied for 2025 to protect bees
An emergency authorisation for Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide, will not be granted
www.gov.uk
January 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Excellent to see Labour will NOT allow the use of this bee-killing pesticide this year.
This + deposit return scheme + reforming national parks for nature = great
‘Growth trumps net zero’ = terrible
(H/t @gregorynorminton.bsky.social)
www.gov.uk/government/n...
This + deposit return scheme + reforming national parks for nature = great
‘Growth trumps net zero’ = terrible
(H/t @gregorynorminton.bsky.social)
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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EVERYTHING IS O.K. DESPITE THE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS.
January 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
EVERYTHING IS O.K. DESPITE THE RECENT DEVELOPMENTS.
Oh Jesus reading the Neil Gaiman article kind of made me want to gouge my eyes out.
January 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Oh Jesus reading the Neil Gaiman article kind of made me want to gouge my eyes out.
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Inside you are two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene
January 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Inside you are two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene