Jonathan Kingham
@jonkingh.bsky.social
Immigration stuff mainly. Failed drummer. Qué arte tienes.
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
OBR says lower net migration will hurt overall productivity
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
I find it far easier to believe that Nigel Farage was a schoolboy racist than that he was ever actually a child.
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I find it far easier to believe that Nigel Farage was a schoolboy racist than that he was ever actually a child.
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Brilliant thecritic.co.uk/auntie-in-th...
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
There always seems to be money for cruelty, doesn’t there…
Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
There always seems to be money for cruelty, doesn’t there…
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
Total insanity. Deeply illiberal and authoritarian. Snatching people who look different off the street on the off chance they might be illegal. Does Philips realise that this is the language of tyranny?
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Total insanity. Deeply illiberal and authoritarian. Snatching people who look different off the street on the off chance they might be illegal. Does Philips realise that this is the language of tyranny?
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
Brutal
Robbie Gibb describes the BBC's Political Editor Chris Mason as the "unsung hero of covering politics" and "absolutely first rate"
November 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Brutal
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
Messages from school to my parents in the 90s: Fill in the slip at the bottom & bring in £2 for the trip to the zoo
Messages from school now: Your child's exam schedule is on Zoop, login via the LernPortal to access it, the results will be on HoneyTree, their homework is on Zappp & NumberHub
Messages from school now: Your child's exam schedule is on Zoop, login via the LernPortal to access it, the results will be on HoneyTree, their homework is on Zappp & NumberHub
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Messages from school to my parents in the 90s: Fill in the slip at the bottom & bring in £2 for the trip to the zoo
Messages from school now: Your child's exam schedule is on Zoop, login via the LernPortal to access it, the results will be on HoneyTree, their homework is on Zappp & NumberHub
Messages from school now: Your child's exam schedule is on Zoop, login via the LernPortal to access it, the results will be on HoneyTree, their homework is on Zappp & NumberHub
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
It was basically the deal the DfE struck to avoid cutting the post study visa period to six months.
November 23, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It was basically the deal the DfE struck to avoid cutting the post study visa period to six months.
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
I see the Labour circular firing squad continues unchecked.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I see the Labour circular firing squad continues unchecked.
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
As I said at the time this was the landmine in the immigration white paper. It will cost unis much more than they're getting from inflationary rises in domestic fees.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
As I said at the time this was the landmine in the immigration white paper. It will cost unis much more than they're getting from inflationary rises in domestic fees.
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
We've had 24 hour news for nearly 40 years now, and during that time news stories do stick around if the press keep banging on about them. Things that don't stick tend to be stuff where right wing politicians/the wealthy are on the hook.
It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.
BREAKING: UK’s response to Covid was “too little too late”. Acting faster could have saved 23,000 lives in England according to the public inquiry.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
Boris Johnson presided over a “toxic, sexist, chaotic culture” in No10, where rule-breaking seriously undermined public confidence.
November 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We've had 24 hour news for nearly 40 years now, and during that time news stories do stick around if the press keep banging on about them. Things that don't stick tend to be stuff where right wing politicians/the wealthy are on the hook.
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
I’d imagine this will cause a *lot* of nervousness among universities – especially as quite a few of them are right on the brink of bankruptcy.
And whatever the government thinks, it’ll end up stepping in if large universities collapse.
And whatever the government thinks, it’ll end up stepping in if large universities collapse.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I’d imagine this will cause a *lot* of nervousness among universities – especially as quite a few of them are right on the brink of bankruptcy.
And whatever the government thinks, it’ll end up stepping in if large universities collapse.
And whatever the government thinks, it’ll end up stepping in if large universities collapse.
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
As many of you know, I do a lot of volunteer work with asylum seekers and refugees. One thing that’s going on is that Labour’s hostility towards migrants and the counterbattery from Tories and Reform is causing horrific fear and anxiety among vulnerable people who deserve our protection.
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
As many of you know, I do a lot of volunteer work with asylum seekers and refugees. One thing that’s going on is that Labour’s hostility towards migrants and the counterbattery from Tories and Reform is causing horrific fear and anxiety among vulnerable people who deserve our protection.
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
So about 10 minutes after the Home Secretary was spouting far right tropes about open borders experiments & migration being the cause of national division, I’m hearing racism is bad again
Starmer accuses ‘spineless’ Farage of failure to tackle racism in Reform party
PM says Reform UK leader also has ‘questions to answer’ about alleged racist comments and chants at school
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
So about 10 minutes after the Home Secretary was spouting far right tropes about open borders experiments & migration being the cause of national division, I’m hearing racism is bad again
-Daddy, why is the nice lady who looks after Grandpa working in the charity shop too?
-she is ‘contributing’, Darling. She want to stay in this country, you see
-she is ‘contributing’, Darling. She want to stay in this country, you see
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
-Daddy, why is the nice lady who looks after Grandpa working in the charity shop too?
-she is ‘contributing’, Darling. She want to stay in this country, you see
-she is ‘contributing’, Darling. She want to stay in this country, you see
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
It's infuriating to see so much of the media give Kruger the same kid gloves treatment that Rees-Mogg used to get because he is posh and polite and able to wrap his bigotry in enough intellectual tissue paper to make it seem like a political philosophy rather than an expression of white supremacy.
Reform are so dangerous and this headline doesn’t do it justice. I also think a piece like this should start with the politician‘s core views just to emphasise the urgency.
November 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It's infuriating to see so much of the media give Kruger the same kid gloves treatment that Rees-Mogg used to get because he is posh and polite and able to wrap his bigotry in enough intellectual tissue paper to make it seem like a political philosophy rather than an expression of white supremacy.
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
The Home Secretary explaining that the rise in racist violence is, actually, the natural response to higher levels of immigration is a state of affairs that can't exist without the government having largely decided that racist violence is, if not legitimate, at least understandable.
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The Home Secretary explaining that the rise in racist violence is, actually, the natural response to higher levels of immigration is a state of affairs that can't exist without the government having largely decided that racist violence is, if not legitimate, at least understandable.
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I am currently, because I know how to enjoy a Saturday morning, writing some guidance for people on filling this consultation in. As I do several things are highly apparent. Before I go through them though I don't want this to put people off of filling it in. It is important to do so nonetheless. 1/
I have just used our fees calculator to get some idea of what the full basic visa costs over a ten-year journey to settlement would be in the Skilled Worker route, under the proposed 'Earned Settlement' model. (1)
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I have just used our fees calculator to get some idea of what the full basic visa costs over a ten-year journey to settlement would be in the Skilled Worker route, under the proposed 'Earned Settlement' model. (1)
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
Mahmood/government should say explain *objective* of increasing time to settlement for 15 years for care workers who arrived 2022-24
Is it
A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.
Is it
A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.
15 years for people in medium skilled jobs and care workers too. I believe this goes down to 10 years if they earn over £50,270. Someone in a high skilled job earning over that qualifies in 5 years.
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Mahmood/government should say explain *objective* of increasing time to settlement for 15 years for care workers who arrived 2022-24
Is it
A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.
Is it
A) to get them to leave? Why?
B) to save money? Then why not just restrict benefits?
C) to "encourage integration"? How? Will do opposite.
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
As long as the nurses are band 5 or above I believe (most are).
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
As long as the nurses are band 5 or above I believe (most are).
Just read the piece and Glasman comes across as a full-on loon/fantasist, especially on AI.
Just generally stunned right now.
Just generally stunned right now.
Interview last month with Blue Labour guru Maurice Glasman, on his admiration for & links with the far right figures Peter Thiel & Curtis Yarvin, use of the military for dealing with small boats, & backing of Shabana Mahmood.
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Just read the piece and Glasman comes across as a full-on loon/fantasist, especially on AI.
Just generally stunned right now.
Just generally stunned right now.
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
Interview last month with Blue Labour guru Maurice Glasman, on his admiration for & links with the far right figures Peter Thiel & Curtis Yarvin, use of the military for dealing with small boats, & backing of Shabana Mahmood.
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
November 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Interview last month with Blue Labour guru Maurice Glasman, on his admiration for & links with the far right figures Peter Thiel & Curtis Yarvin, use of the military for dealing with small boats, & backing of Shabana Mahmood.
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Reposted by Jonathan Kingham
The removal at that time of some nationality preference was part of the response to the Abdulaziz ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (May 1985), which had found gender discrimination in immigration policy contrary to the ECHR.
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The removal at that time of some nationality preference was part of the response to the Abdulaziz ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (May 1985), which had found gender discrimination in immigration policy contrary to the ECHR.