Simon Cox
@simonfrcox.bsky.social
migration & equality, law & politics | lawyer | cis | he/him | @DoughtyStImm.bsky.social | trustee Right To Remain | ex-OSF | my views obvs, not doughty st | large photo Paul Trevor, 1978, Brick Lane
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Simon Cox
@simonfrcox.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Mahmoud has listened to same clique of senior Home Office officials who have advised for 30+ years that loud announcements of punitive policies will deter refugees from coming to UK to seek asylum.
Labour did this extensively last time. It didn’t work.
A history thread. +
Labour did this extensively last time. It didn’t work.
A history thread. +
I first met Gerry when I was 16 and volunteered for Searchlight. Completely committed, enormously knowledgeable about the far Right, and open to work with any serious anti-fascists. I learned a lot from him.
May his memory be for a blessing.
May his memory be for a blessing.
It is with the greatest sadness that we have to announce that Searchlight’s founder, Gerry Gable, has died at the age of 88. He had been in frail health for some time, but a recent hospital admission proved too much and he died peacefully last night.
You can read more here:
You can read more here:
Gerry Gable (1937-2026) | Searchlight
Gerry Gable It is with the greatest sadness that we have to announce that Searchlight's founder, Gerry Gable, has died at the age of 88. He had been in ...
searchlightmagazine.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:35 PM
I first met Gerry when I was 16 and volunteered for Searchlight. Completely committed, enormously knowledgeable about the far Right, and open to work with any serious anti-fascists. I learned a lot from him.
May his memory be for a blessing.
May his memory be for a blessing.
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Searchlight editor Gerry Gable (1937-2026)
Gerry Gable (1937-2026) | Searchlight
Gerry Gable It is with the greatest sadness that we have to announce that Searchlight's founder, Gerry Gable, has died at the age of 88. He had been in ...
searchlightmagazine.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Searchlight editor Gerry Gable (1937-2026)
This hards hard. From 1973, strangely not on radio playlists open.spotify.com/track/1tPsPj...
Dirty Ol' Man
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January 1, 2026 at 3:42 PM
This hards hard. From 1973, strangely not on radio playlists open.spotify.com/track/1tPsPj...
When your Danish Hat Game acting clue is a Nazi salute and that covers Farage, Musk and Kanye.
December 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
When your Danish Hat Game acting clue is a Nazi salute and that covers Farage, Musk and Kanye.
Overheard, late teen, early 20s “ I think I’m just gonna write Mum a poem for Christmas”
December 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Overheard, late teen, early 20s “ I think I’m just gonna write Mum a poem for Christmas”
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Jesus Christ. London does not belong to you. Nowhere belongs to you. Whatever you look like. Wherever you come from. This obvs doesn't apply to the Duke of Westminster lol
No surprise that Ed West thinks you have to be white for London to be "your city", but still shocking that the *London* Standard prints this stuff.
[NB 1/2 of Londoners born in 2000 were not "white British"]
www.standard.co.uk/comment/gen-...
[NB 1/2 of Londoners born in 2000 were not "white British"]
www.standard.co.uk/comment/gen-...
December 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Jesus Christ. London does not belong to you. Nowhere belongs to you. Whatever you look like. Wherever you come from. This obvs doesn't apply to the Duke of Westminster lol
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Mother Mary wearing a respirator to protect herself from tear gas. Baby Jesus with zip-tied hands. Masked centurions with green vests labeled “ICE.”
This is how the Lake Street Church of Evanston chose to assemble its outdoor Nativity scene for Christmas.
This is how the Lake Street Church of Evanston chose to assemble its outdoor Nativity scene for Christmas.
Evanston church’s Nativity scene depicted baby Jesus zip-tied by ICE agents
Lake Street Church of Evanston depicted baby Jesus’ hands zip-tied, Mary with a gas mask and ICE as centurions in its Nativity scene.
trib.al
December 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Mother Mary wearing a respirator to protect herself from tear gas. Baby Jesus with zip-tied hands. Masked centurions with green vests labeled “ICE.”
This is how the Lake Street Church of Evanston chose to assemble its outdoor Nativity scene for Christmas.
This is how the Lake Street Church of Evanston chose to assemble its outdoor Nativity scene for Christmas.
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A key difference between past law enforcement raids & prosecutions that resulted in legal settlements and the actions for which Trump & Co. are demanding restitution, @radleybalko.bsky.social writes, is that the former subjects were jailed or killed—and the actions against Trump & Co. were lawful.
Donald Trump’s restitution scheme is among the greatest heists in US history
Bogus claims of malicious prosecution could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions.
www.motherjones.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A key difference between past law enforcement raids & prosecutions that resulted in legal settlements and the actions for which Trump & Co. are demanding restitution, @radleybalko.bsky.social writes, is that the former subjects were jailed or killed—and the actions against Trump & Co. were lawful.
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The Home Secretary can take British citizenship away if she thinks that doing so is “in the public interest” - section 40(2) British Nationality Act 1981 www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/6... but not if that would make the person stateless: section 40(4).
That’s facially broad words. …
That’s facially broad words. …
British Nationality Act 1981
An Act to make fresh provision about citizenship and nationality, and to amend the Immigration Act 1971 as regards the right of abode in the United Kingdom.
www.legislation.gov.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The Home Secretary can take British citizenship away if she thinks that doing so is “in the public interest” - section 40(2) British Nationality Act 1981 www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/6... but not if that would make the person stateless: section 40(4).
That’s facially broad words. …
That’s facially broad words. …
Linger
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December 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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what if Putin cares more about Putin than Russia tho
December 28, 2024 at 12:21 PM
what if Putin cares more about Putin than Russia tho
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This is very basic stuff
December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This is very basic stuff
Spotify – Web Player
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December 3, 2025 at 11:45 PM
what have the Romans ever done for us?
They brought the cats.
hhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8dvdp9gn7o
They brought the cats.
hhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8dvdp9gn7o
Cats became our companions way later than you think
In true feline style, cats took their time in deciding when and where to join us on the sofa.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 AM
what have the Romans ever done for us?
They brought the cats.
hhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8dvdp9gn7o
They brought the cats.
hhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq8dvdp9gn7o
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“Often entire sections of networks or company internal networks are running slower than they would if all devices were up to the newer standards”
Boo fucking hoo.
Boo fucking hoo.
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
“Often entire sections of networks or company internal networks are running slower than they would if all devices were up to the newer standards”
Boo fucking hoo.
Boo fucking hoo.
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UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
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 11:05 PM
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
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The great thing about this is the fearless interviewer. Imagine if all journalists were fearless seekers of truth instead of folding in the face of Farage's prickly blustering.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The great thing about this is the fearless interviewer. Imagine if all journalists were fearless seekers of truth instead of folding in the face of Farage's prickly blustering.
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This idea that you can get by in the world with an app or by expecting everyone else to speak English - it's just daft.
But it's so ingrained in British policy and politics.
But it's so ingrained in British policy and politics.
Opinion: “More than ever before, we need British diplomats, spies and soldiers to speak the language of our adversaries. We need universities like Nottingham to be pumping out Russian and Mandarin graduates each year, to work across Whitehall.”
🖊️ Ian Proud
https://ow.ly/N6yw50XwM3X
🖊️ Ian Proud
https://ow.ly/N6yw50XwM3X
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
This idea that you can get by in the world with an app or by expecting everyone else to speak English - it's just daft.
But it's so ingrained in British policy and politics.
But it's so ingrained in British policy and politics.
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The BBC makes itself *extremely* hard to love with this stuff. I’ve worked in more than one small newsroom that’s discovered to its immense frustration that the country’s biggest news org has stolen its work with no credit whatsoever.
I guess it’s a compliment that the top story on BBC London’s TV/online output today is a direct lift of a month-old London Centric story? But once again the BBC is consistently the worst news outlet for actually remembering to credit others.
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The BBC makes itself *extremely* hard to love with this stuff. I’ve worked in more than one small newsroom that’s discovered to its immense frustration that the country’s biggest news org has stolen its work with no credit whatsoever.
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"My beloved working class" - i.e. the one that exists in his head, but in real life has always rejected this particularly ugly strain of 'you don't deserve commercial television, nice holidays or little luxuries' whenever Labour have taken it to the public.
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"My beloved working class" - i.e. the one that exists in his head, but in real life has always rejected this particularly ugly strain of 'you don't deserve commercial television, nice holidays or little luxuries' whenever Labour have taken it to the public.
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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
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I’d be more convinced that this was actually true had fossil fuel giants not spent the last decade since the Paris Agreement and 2 years since COP28 aggressively building out production infrastructure that will see a glut of oil and gas for at least 15 years more
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Fossil fuel giants finally in the crosshairs’: Cop30 avoids total failure with last-ditch deal
It took some oblique wording, but Saudi Arabia made a last-minute decision to sign deal that marks departure for Cop
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I’d be more convinced that this was actually true had fossil fuel giants not spent the last decade since the Paris Agreement and 2 years since COP28 aggressively building out production infrastructure that will see a glut of oil and gas for at least 15 years more
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
we can hope open.spotify.com/track/2XIr0K...
The Harder They Come
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November 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
we can hope open.spotify.com/track/2XIr0K...
Home Office spent £400,000 for boy band to sing “anti-radicalisation” song www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Home Office 'paid boyband to sing anti-radicalisation songs in Muslim areas'
Boyband Mr Meanor travelled across parts of the country as part of school visits
www.birminghammail.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Home Office spent £400,000 for boy band to sing “anti-radicalisation” song www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/uk-news...