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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 21h

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 22h

Brilliant, intelligent and rightly furious rant.
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 22h

Me on some days, just hiding from bad news. 😅

Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 22h

Bilder des Tages – beeindruckende Fotos aus Deutschland und aller Welt www.der-postillon.com/p/bilder-des...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23h

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 23h

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 23h

While I agree that it wd have been a sign of empathy and respect towards the Jewish communities in Britain to pause the protest on this very day, I also do find these attempts to declare who is British and who isn't increasingly worrying.
Who is Starmer to define that ?

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’

Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 1d

An important piece. 👇

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

How the Far Right Project 2025 is going to be brought to the UK through the Reform Trojan horse.

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

Not a serious person. Zero mention of what this would mean for the over a million British citizens whose own access to welfare in the EU is protected by the withdrawal agreement.

EU citizens living in UK shouldn’t be allowed welfare benefits, says Tory rising star

Katie Lam — who is earning plaudits on the Conservative right — calls for Brexit withdrawal agreement to be reopened.

www.politico.eu

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 2d

Another day through the looking glass with UK politics starts with Reform finding out strangely enough that local government isn't spending all (or indeed virtually any) money on woke initiatives they can easily cut. www.ft.com/content/277c...

Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters

Nigel Farage’s party promised to revive local authority finances by slashing wasteful spending

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 2d

This is really worrying. And so sad.

How Reform ‘misinformation’ campaign sank town’s refugee sanctuary plan

Party accused of stoking divisions in Weston-super-Mare over scheme to improve support for asylum seekers

www.theguardian.com

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 3d

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d

Matthew Syed’s ‘journey’ has been grimly fascinating

Been following it ever since he wrote a column endorsing the Great Replacement ‘Theory’

Wild what passes for ‘public intellectual’ in Britain

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

The UK is “madly left, madly liberal, hyper-progressive”, Syed says. This is a deeply odd speech, seemingly from yet another person who spends a lot of time on X.

[I deleted earlier post which had the typo of saying, 'US' rather than 'UK'.]

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 3d

Latest post from by far the best analyst of global economic issues

Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 3d

Europe's future in a world of weaponised interdependence, counting the cost of Chinese involution and how the coming robot revolution will allow us all to live like Kings - my latest

Brave New World

Thoughts on Europe's future in a world of weaponised interdependence, counting the cost of Chinese involution, and how the coming robot revolution will allow us all to live like kings

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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 3d

Also ich finde das sollte man jetzt wirklich nicht auch noch kritisieren. Wenn der Deutsche es schon mal versucht… sollte man ihn lassen.. 😉

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

An admirably clear statement from Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council

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Erik Reger @erikreger.bsky.social · 4d

Die Weimarer Republik ging nicht nur an ihren Gegnern zugrunde, "sondern auch an mangelndem Mut und mangelnder Überzeugungstreue der damaligen demokratischen Politiker der bürgerlichen Mitte". Franz Karl Maier, 4. Oktober 1910 #OTD - 13. April 1984 #Tagesspiegel80 www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft...

Unbeschränkte Vollmachten für Hitler: Das „Ermächtigungsgesetz“ — Der schwärzeste Tag des deutschen Parlamentarismus

Zum Geburtstag des früheren Tagesspiegel-Verlegers Franz Karl Maier veröffentlichen wir hier noch einmal seinen Artikel vom 23. März 1983, genau 50 Jahre nach dem „schwärzesten Tag in der Geschichte d...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3d

Just got back from watching "One Battle After Another" to find a feed full of videos of ICE raids in the US and Badenoch promising to introduce it here. Whatever horror you put on film can't beat reality.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

The Israeli invitation to Tommy Robinson has initially been reported with headlines that largely reflect the glowing terms of the invitation by the extreme Israeli minister involved - even by the Daily Mirror - rather than reflecting how contentious, controversial this will be

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 3d

The Board of Deputies’ response to the Israeli government inviting Tommy Robinson to visit

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 3d

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

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