Simon Parker
@sparkerworld.bsky.social
Prof of Politics with a focus on migration, cities & social justice.
Lord Reith must be turning in his grave at the knowledge that a corrupt foreign government led by a convicted criminal is able to censor the BBC into not broadcasting that fact.
‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Lord Reith must be turning in his grave at the knowledge that a corrupt foreign government led by a convicted criminal is able to censor the BBC into not broadcasting that fact.
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This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.
This is the guy who is being touted by his other very right wing and important friends in the media as the next Director General of the BBC because let's face it the last one was far too liberal. God help us all.
Was trying to work out in which way Shabana Mahmood, an otherwise pretty unremarkable politician, could possibly be described as a "luminous golden star" who "dazzles like a blue-white supernova" and then I realised, its simply a willingness to be a bit more cruel to immigrants
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This is the guy who is being touted by his other very right wing and important friends in the media as the next Director General of the BBC because let's face it the last one was far too liberal. God help us all.
Someone needs to tell Lord Glasman that his 'beautiful Labour Party' was founded by the progressive middle class in the figures of Sydney & Beatrice Webb and their fellow Fabians who would have been appalled by the Trump-addled gibberish the noble Lord spouts on subjects of which he has no knowledge
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Someone needs to tell Lord Glasman that his 'beautiful Labour Party' was founded by the progressive middle class in the figures of Sydney & Beatrice Webb and their fellow Fabians who would have been appalled by the Trump-addled gibberish the noble Lord spouts on subjects of which he has no knowledge
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We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We urgently need to know how many of these accounts have been spreading/amplifying hate, division and instability in Britain. We already know that a foreign actor - Elon Musk - promoted violent overthrow of the government. Has his platform been enabling foreign adversaries to do the same?
Why does this government of university graduates hate higher education so much?
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Why does this government of university graduates hate higher education so much?
I wonder why Sir Keir doesnt want a leadership election where his biggest chance of victory is if media darling and Tommy Robinson & Nigel Farage approved Shabana Mahmood stands against him.
Nov 18th - Nov 20th polling of Labour members on hypothetical leader contests if Starmer stood
Current leader loses by 26%, ties, and wins by 16-18% & even 34%
Starmer does best (+34) 50-16 against his new Home Secretary in a poll held as her asylum reforms were leading the news on Nov 17th
Current leader loses by 26%, ties, and wins by 16-18% & even 34%
Starmer does best (+34) 50-16 against his new Home Secretary in a poll held as her asylum reforms were leading the news on Nov 17th
November 23, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I wonder why Sir Keir doesnt want a leadership election where his biggest chance of victory is if media darling and Tommy Robinson & Nigel Farage approved Shabana Mahmood stands against him.
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that account location feature on twitter was the funniest shit ever
they shut it down quick lmao
they shut it down quick lmao
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
that account location feature on twitter was the funniest shit ever
they shut it down quick lmao
they shut it down quick lmao
Perhaps the Home Secretary, law graduate & barrister-at-law, Shabana Mahmood should read & understand the relevant section of the Refugee Convention to which the UK has been a signatory since long before she was born before putting out deliberately misleading & rabble rousing tweets like this.
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Perhaps the Home Secretary, law graduate & barrister-at-law, Shabana Mahmood should read & understand the relevant section of the Refugee Convention to which the UK has been a signatory since long before she was born before putting out deliberately misleading & rabble rousing tweets like this.
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They line up perfectly.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
They line up perfectly.
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‘If asylum is framed as illegality, and settlement is reshaped into a privilege that must be endlessly earned, then our understanding of equal membership – the idea that those lawfully in the UK should enjoy stability and a clear path to full inclusion – is fundamentally altered.’
Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two
The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
‘If asylum is framed as illegality, and settlement is reshaped into a privilege that must be endlessly earned, then our understanding of equal membership – the idea that those lawfully in the UK should enjoy stability and a clear path to full inclusion – is fundamentally altered.’
Amazing and also not surprising given the daily implosion of "Your Party" which looks to have blown up on the landing pad. People want a simple, clear radical alternative not endless navel gazing and the very worst of rule bound CLP factionalism, infighting and endless meetings.
Speaking in Brighton this PM, Zack Polanski has announced that Green Party of England & Wales membership is now over 170,000 - which means over 100,000 people have joined the party since his election in September
November 21, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Amazing and also not surprising given the daily implosion of "Your Party" which looks to have blown up on the landing pad. People want a simple, clear radical alternative not endless navel gazing and the very worst of rule bound CLP factionalism, infighting and endless meetings.
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Reform's former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, a 10.5 year jail term for taking bribes from the Kremlin.
Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.
Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?
Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.
Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Reform's former Leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, a 10.5 year jail term for taking bribes from the Kremlin.
Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.
Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?
Cosied up to authoritarian powers & traded principles for payoffs. Reform's leadership laughably claimed they barely knew Gill.
Will all this be on tomorrow's front pages?
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The Green Party announces that former Labour MP, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, has defected to them, after being de-selected by Keir Starmer's party last year
"My old party has left behind millions of people who want hope... In the Greens I see a party that is offering that," says Russell-Moyle
"My old party has left behind millions of people who want hope... In the Greens I see a party that is offering that," says Russell-Moyle
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Green Party announces that former Labour MP, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, has defected to them, after being de-selected by Keir Starmer's party last year
"My old party has left behind millions of people who want hope... In the Greens I see a party that is offering that," says Russell-Moyle
"My old party has left behind millions of people who want hope... In the Greens I see a party that is offering that," says Russell-Moyle
It's really important that the negative impact this will have on an already traumatised population and the damage it will do to integration efforts are shared by as many individuals & groups as possible.
No 10 today: "The Home Office is announcing details of a consultation setting out the criteria to double the standard qualifying time for settlement [ILR] from 5 to 10 years"
"The measures follow publication of the Immigration White Paper, setting out comprehensive reforms" to the migration system.
"The measures follow publication of the Immigration White Paper, setting out comprehensive reforms" to the migration system.
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
It's really important that the negative impact this will have on an already traumatised population and the damage it will do to integration efforts are shared by as many individuals & groups as possible.
BBC News - Trump signs bill ordering justice department to release Epstein files
"...although some could be withheld if they relate to an active investigation or are deemed to invade personal privacy"
So nothing that could inciminate Trump or his wealthy backers then
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"...although some could be withheld if they relate to an active investigation or are deemed to invade personal privacy"
So nothing that could inciminate Trump or his wealthy backers then
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump signs bill ordering release of Jeffrey Epstein files
The bill gives the US Justice Department 30 days to release all the files in a searchable format.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
BBC News - Trump signs bill ordering justice department to release Epstein files
"...although some could be withheld if they relate to an active investigation or are deemed to invade personal privacy"
So nothing that could inciminate Trump or his wealthy backers then
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"...although some could be withheld if they relate to an active investigation or are deemed to invade personal privacy"
So nothing that could inciminate Trump or his wealthy backers then
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Wes Streeting has said he completely backs the Home Secretary's Reform approved immigration policy which will devastate an already over burdened NHS. Starmer's right wing zealots are wrecking what's left of one of the best public health services in the world.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Wes Streeting has said he completely backs the Home Secretary's Reform approved immigration policy which will devastate an already over burdened NHS. Starmer's right wing zealots are wrecking what's left of one of the best public health services in the world.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My sympathies are limited since it was Major's 'bastards' who got us into this mess in the first place. It's no good crying over the smashed up house your own family has vandalised.
John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
My sympathies are limited since it was Major's 'bastards' who got us into this mess in the first place. It's no good crying over the smashed up house your own family has vandalised.
If the pyjamas fit as they say...
Did Labour MPs ever imagine that they would be ending the first period of their first government in more than 14 years with their own Home Secretary feeling the need to publicly deny that she plans to defect to Reform?
November 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
If the pyjamas fit as they say...
Immigration sols please consider applying for this position where you would be working in the award winning Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU) and alongside my amazing and inspiring spouse - who also bakes fantastic cakes!
Latest post from us: Immigration Solicitor at Islington Law Centre | Free Movement
Immigration Solicitor at Islington Law Centre - Free Movement
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November 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Immigration sols please consider applying for this position where you would be working in the award winning Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU) and alongside my amazing and inspiring spouse - who also bakes fantastic cakes!
Excellent article by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Let's hope this really is the final straw for Keir Starmer's disgrace of a government.
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
Let's hope this really is the final straw for Keir Starmer's disgrace of a government.
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
Labour’s Vile Appeasement of the Anti-Migrant Right Won’t Even ‘Work’
Stripping refugees of their jewelry is part of a cruel new anti-asylum plan by the British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.
open.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Excellent article by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social
Let's hope this really is the final straw for Keir Starmer's disgrace of a government.
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
Let's hope this really is the final straw for Keir Starmer's disgrace of a government.
open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
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New post
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...
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
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
New post
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...
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“This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.”
Another potential Denmark example for Labour to follow!
Another potential Denmark example for Labour to follow!
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“This was a cynical strategic manoeuvre to avoid losing voters to the far right, but it seems, based on polling, that all they have done is prime their own voters to join the far right rather than stay with the Social Democrats.”
Another potential Denmark example for Labour to follow!
Another potential Denmark example for Labour to follow!
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The way this Govenrment are treating some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
November 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The way this Govenrment are treating some of the most vulnerable people in the world is disgusting.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
And they the audacity to pretend it's coming from a place of compassion and concern.
Their only actual concern seems to be dancing to the tune of the far right rather than tackle inequality.
This Labour Home Secretary is the best membership and voter recruiter the Green Party has ever had.
Cruel. Callous. Cowardly.
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
The public are seeing this Labour government for exactly who they are.
We all have a responsibility to make them pay at the ballot box.
Reject the hate. Reject them.
This is not who we are. Let's make hope normal again.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This Labour Home Secretary is the best membership and voter recruiter the Green Party has ever had.