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Mary Margaret McCabe
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Ancient philosopher on either construal. Also, Philosophy in Prison www.philosophyinprison.com

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Mary Margaret Anne McCabe, known as M. M. McCabe, is emerita professor of ancient philosophy at King's College London. She has written books on Plato and other ancient philosophers, including the pre-Socratics, Socrates and Aristotle. .. more

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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · Sep 18
Just published my account of the work of Philosophy in Prison philosophyinprison.com#philsky #prison #philosophy
journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/12/...

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 22h
Our conversation about immigration is framed entirely on Nigel Farage’s terms.
Labour has completely capitulated the ground to the far right, the racism & the hate.

We no longer have a conversation AT ALL about how we need immigration & when we cut it, we pay the price. #r4today

Reposted by Richard Waite, Mary Margaret McCabe

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 23h
I feel angry about the all hostile narratives propagated against immigrants. It's socially hard for an ethnic minority woman to express anger but nevertheless I feel I must. Anger is the appropriate emotion here with such gross unfairness & public harm. Let's give eachother permission to express it.

Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Dorothy Bishop, Simon L. Lewis , and 13 more

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Ailsa Cameron, Mary Margaret McCabe , and 1 more

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 8d
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford

Reposted by Mary Bosworth, Steve Peers, Mary Margaret McCabe

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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · 10d
New post

The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts

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The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
Proposals for radical reform of the UK’s asylum system raise a number of legal and constitutional issues, with respect both to the European Convention on Human Rights and the domestic principle of …
publiclawforeveryone.com

Reposted by Peter Thorne, Mary Margaret McCabe

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 10d
I think you can get the measure of the deadness of someone's soul from the fact they kick up a stink about [checks notes] autistic kids wearing ear defenders

Reposted by John Foot, Mary Margaret McCabe

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 10d
Starmer’s anti-asylum policies show how utterly clueless he is about the right-wing media’s role in politics.

He’s trying to fix a “problem” contrived by Farage, GB News and The Telegraph. He’ll never win, because ultimately he’s fighting a ghost – he’s fighting something that doesn’t really exist

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Mary Margaret McCabe, James Cameron

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 10d
Ministers now appear to be confirming in broadcast interviews that they would audit and could confiscate assets (including jewellery) excepting wedding rings from the jewellery that they could confiscate.

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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 10d
Remembrance Day doesn’t seem to have had any impact on this *Home Office Minister*. To propose a reprehensible policy does its own moral harm, as well as revealing profound ignorance.
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d
Refugees’ jewellery could be seized to pay for asylum costs, says Home Office minister
Refugees’ jewellery could be seized to pay for asylum costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of refugees coming to UK Refugees could have jewellery or other valuables taken to pay for the costs of processing their cases, a Home Office minister has said, in another detail of changes to migration policy likely to cause worries among Labour MPs. Speaking to broadcasters before the formal announcement of sweeping changes to asylum policy on Monday, the Home Office minister Alex Norris said while this would not involve seizing wedding rings, jewellery without sentimental value could be taken. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Steven French, Mary Margaret McCabe

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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 10d
Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

Reposted by Mary Margaret McCabe

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 10d
There’s just so much performative cruelty and stupidity in the asylum announcements that it’s hard to know where to start.

But one place to start is that if its aim is to reduce small boats crossings, it won’t work.

We’ve had 5 years of deterrent policies. They don’t work.

Reposted by Mary Margaret McCabe

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d
Refugees’ jewellery could be seized to pay for asylum costs, says Home Office minister
Refugees’ jewellery could be seized to pay for asylum costs, says Home Office minister
Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of refugees coming to UK Refugees could have jewellery or other valuables taken to pay for the costs of processing their cases, a Home Office minister has said, in another detail of changes to migration policy likely to cause worries among Labour MPs. Speaking to broadcasters before the formal announcement of sweeping changes to asylum policy on Monday, the Home Office minister Alex Norris said while this would not involve seizing wedding rings, jewellery without sentimental value could be taken. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 11d
Up to a point — I recall Cooper saying that the Rwanda scheme was impracticable as well as unethical. I remember it because it made me so cross. You need to start with ‘unethical’ and figure out how to avoid it. ‘Ethical’ is not an afterthought.

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 11d
If you want more significant numbers of asylum seekers to work and find their own housing, rather than rely on statutory asylum provision, then you presumably need to…allow them to work? What am I missing

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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 11d
Mahmood’s word-salad to camouflage a vile move by government. If immigration is causing divides fix the divides not the legislation.
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11d
“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips

Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 11d
Does Shabana Mahmood realise she is in the Labour party? I'm struggling some days to see how some Labour MPs even joined the party.. they don't seem to have any of the ideals I associate with being a Labour supporter.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 11d
Today is not the day to argue "oh so you want Reform to win then" as an argument for Labour's indefensible and inhumane anti-asylum policies. At least be honest and own that you're defending racist policies promoted with genuinely far right talking points. Don't try and pretend this is "progressive"

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Gavin L. Foster, Mary Margaret McCabe

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 11d
Labour’s latest attack on asylum seekers is cruel & counterproductive. How does it help community cohesion to hold threat of deportation over vulnerable people? We don’t need an arms race with the hard right over asylum, we need safe routes & European cooperation #bbclaurak

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Simon Wren‐Lewis, Ralf Martin , and 2 more

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11d
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

Reposted by Jonathan Wolff, Mary Margaret McCabe

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 11d
Asked a question by Kuenssberg about whether her proposals on refugees would mean refugee families being broken up, Shabana Mahmood immediately started talking about illegal migration. Eventually, she’s admitted that yes, Labour’s policy will break up settled families. Vile.

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Mary Margaret McCabe

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11d
“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips

Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12d
Shabana Mahmood tells Sunday Times it should take 20 years for somebody granted refugee status in UK to secure permanent status (ie, reapply 6 times) if came without permission.

Paper says Denmark has toughest settlement timeline (8 years) but UK govt wants longer

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Stephan Lewandowsky, Steven French , and 9 more

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 12d
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.

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Mary Margaret McCabe @mmmccabe.bsky.social · 12d
What new hell is this? Not in
my bloody name.
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13d
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is to announce Saturday that “the era of permanent protection for refugees” is over in the UK.

She’s also going to say the UK’s borders are “out of control”.

Apart from sounding like a trailer for a Reform government, it’s already causing anger within Labour.
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk

Reposted by Michael Morris, Mary Margaret McCabe

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Alasdair Smith @alasdairmsmith.bsky.social · 12d
Imagine the Attlee government in 1950 expelling Claus Moser, Hans Krebs, Ernest Gellner, Frank Hahn, Sigmund Warburg, Herman Bondi, and three of the Amadeus Quartet

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Steve Peers, Lesley A. Hall , and 6 more

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 12d
Someone should ask Starmer and Mahmood whether they think the Kindertransport, for example, should have been a return ticket. Whether Alf Dubs, rather than becoming a Labour MP and now Lord, ought to have been sent back with his family to Czechoslovakia once it was liberated from German rule.
trillingual.bsky.social Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · 12d
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social · 12d
This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Nandita Sharma, Brigitte Nerlich , and 10 more

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12d
"The era of permanent protection is over"

Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Refugees from 7 decades gather to commemorate 70 years of refugee in protection in the UK
YouTube video by Refugee Council
www.youtube.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13d
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is to announce Saturday that “the era of permanent protection for refugees” is over in the UK.

She’s also going to say the UK’s borders are “out of control”.

Apart from sounding like a trailer for a Reform government, it’s already causing anger within Labour.
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk