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Andrew Riley
@andrewmriley.bsky.social
Retired scientist, born in Yorkshire, living in London.
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August 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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This really is not getting the attention it should. The Tories' latest proposal is to exclude *any household that includes any foreign national from any benefit*.

And when asked about it, they keep citing small boat crossings - a minute fraction of migration - to justify it. ~AA
July 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
‘Labour must not chase coat-tails of anti-migrant right’ labourlist.org/2025/02/labo... – via LabourList
'Labour must not chase coat-tails of anti-migrant right' - LabourList
Labour MP Barry Gardiner on why Keir Starmer should make a positive case for immigration.
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February 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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If Corbyn had responded to antisemitism in Labour by saying that we need to have "tough conversations" about (say) the dual loyalties of British Jews, the reaction would (rightly) have been near-universal outrage.

The silence here is deafening.
January 6, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Look at the farmers’ protest, and then ask yourself: how will we ever make tax fairer amid such grumbling? | Polly Toynbee
Look at the farmers’ protest, and then ask yourself: how will we ever make tax fairer amid such grumbling? | Polly Toynbee
Labour inherited a dire situation that needed desperate change – but powerful lobbies make any tax reform near-impossible That was a state-of-the-nation image, those thousands of farmers in Whitehall protesting about inheritance tax (IHT). Their little…
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November 22, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Tiny mint moth on marjoram plant in back garden
August 14, 2024 at 9:13 AM