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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 3d

Badenoch: "I make sure that when I announce something I think about how it is going to impact people."

Badenoch is asked where the 750,000 people she proposes to deport will go.

Badenoch: "I'm tired of us asking all of these irrelevant questions ..."

Oh.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My approach will pay off eventually, says Kemi Badenoch

The Conservative leader defends her leadership as the party's conference begins in Manchester

www.bbc.co.uk

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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blayneydeborah.bsky.social @blayneydeborah.bsky.social · 2d

davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

Freedom is just another word for “a gap in the law”

7th October 2025 * The Home Secretary wants to ban more things * There are many ways in which freedom can be expressed. For example, the eminent jurist Janis Joplin averred that freedom is just ano…

davidallengreen.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3d

Gary Neville, "Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country"

"The messaging is getting dangerous"

"All these idiots out there spreading hate speech in any form, abuse in any form, we must stop promoting them"

"And get back to a country of love, peace and harmony"

"And become a team again"

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 3d

Michael Heseltine lays in to the current Conservative Party for cosying up to “rightwing equivalents to the fascists of the 1930s”, Farage and Reform :
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The Conservatives must never have any part in Farage’s po...

To describe asylum seekers as thieves or rapists encourages the worst sort of prejudice. We don’t need Trump’s mouthpiece anywhere near No 10

observer.co.uk

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blayneydeborah.bsky.social @blayneydeborah.bsky.social · 5d

Guns, cash and American aid: Investigation reveals Israel's support for Gaza militia | World News | Sky News share.google/sUwCkuqXB1TU...

Guns, cash and American aid: Investigation reveals Israel's support for Gaza militia

The former looting gang is living in luxury thanks to aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and smuggled cash, cars and cigarettes.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 5d

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 19d

The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America.

Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here.

www.vox.com/politics/462...

This is how Trump ends democracy

The past week has revealed Trump’s policy road map to veto one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?

www.vox.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15d

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 16d

White nationalist livestreamer Nick Fuentes has never been more popular, and he has a plan in place to leverage that popularity to infiltrate all aspects of US society to spread his racist, antisemitic worldview.

And it's already happening...

www.wired.com/story/nick-f...

Nick Fuentes’ Plan to Conquer America

For years, influencer Nick Fuentes was too extreme even for MAGA. Now he's working his way into the mainstream—and has a plan for his secret followers to seize the levers of power.

www.wired.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 17d

Should really say "Farage plans to tear up the Brexit deal he supported" since it would requiring reneging on the Withdrawal Agreement (most "foreign nationals" claiming benefits are EU citizens with settled status)

://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/2111398/nigel-farage-welfare-foreign-nationals

Nigel Farage to ban all foreign nationals from claiming benefits

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK leader to make announcement at press conference on Monday

www.express.co.uk

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 17d

This xenophobic nonsense illustrates why the government's proposals to restrict settlement rights is not only wrong but politically self-defeating.

Has just encouraged Reform to become even more extreme.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 17d

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

Farage pledges to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants
Reform says mass deportation would save £234bn as it warns ‘Boriswave’ of migration will take critical toll on welfare system

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 17d

Good to see CPS publicly retracting their nonsense numbers here.

I explained their errors to them when they first published, and wrote it up here - they simply didn't understand what the OBR was saying.

docs.google.com/document/d/e...

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 18d

Obviously this piece is absurd, and mainly designed to exploit rifts between Hermer and the rest of the govt.

But it’s also part of a deeply sinister attempt to delegitimise legal work on behalf of asylum seekers, in an environment where death threats & actual attacks have already occurred

Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 18d

Real "I saw Lord Hermes dancing with the devil at the crossroads" energy. The whole report is that a lawyer, then in private practice, gave free advice to a charity regarding the law. And if anyone avoided deportation as a result? That would be because they were legally entitled not to be deported.

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 18d

Good. Now, Canada and its allies must also act - to end the annihilation of Gaza and annexation of the West Bank.

Recognition is important but must not replace collective action to end the slaughter and theft of land.

Otherwise, what will be left of Palestine to recognize?

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 18d

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.

My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Quote graphic featuring the following quote from Prime Minister Carney’s statement on Canada’s recognition of Palestine: “Canada recognises the State of Palestine and offers our partnership in building the promise of a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel.”

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18d

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21d

WOW. Judge Kelly takes the Trump admin to task for their outrageous effort to deport children in the dead of the night. Not only does he say their justification "crumbled like a house of cards," he also says the admin was not engaging in "conduct ... that reflect[s] good faith."

Second, the record and Defendants’ conduct suggest that they are not applying their criteria accurately, consistently, or in ways that reflect good faith. Consider the criterion that excludes from eligibility any child whose “attorney of record” has “affirmatively protested the child’s reunification with their parent.” Salazar Decl. ¶ 10. How would any such attorney have had a reasonable opportunity to protest Defendants’ “reunification” plan when it was set in motion in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend? Of course, now that litigation has provided the objection opportunity that Defendants did not, many more attorneys have objected. Hearing Tr. at 26– 27. Still, questions remain. For example, Defendants asserted at the September 10 hearing for the first time that the named Plaintiffs were ineligible because their attorneys protested by filing this lawsuit. But if Defendants have always viewed filing a lawsuit as an attorney objection, why did they not bring this issue to the Court’s attention earlier—even as soon as the August 31 hearing? After all, Defendants need not have known the identities of the named Plaintiffs to have raised this point. True, maybe Defendants recently changed how they apply this criterion. But either way, its scope and application seem uncertain.

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 20d

The Israel Heritage Foundation's "social media, public documents, news reports, and videos [show] a mosaic of links between the 501(c)(3)...and Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign."

“We got President Trump elected,” IHF's Executive Vice President said at a May event. prismreports.org/2025/09/17/i...

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George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social · 18d

As Barbara says.

Barbara Rich @barbararich.bsky.social · Sep 2

Quite appallingly, the shadow Lord Chancellor and shadow Secretary of State for Justice has posted to X an inaccurate and misleading statement about the Court of Appeal’s judgment, mistakenly quoting and describing paragraph 114 of the judgment it overruled, not the Court of Appeal’s own reasoning

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blayneydeborah.bsky.social @blayneydeborah.bsky.social · 19d

Must read by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social

Reminded of @dziblatt.bsky.social & @stevelevitsky.bsky.social warning in 'How Democracy Dies'
& @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social warning UK of Farage & Brexit, & the US of Trump, following the RW populism path of Erdogan!

It CAN happen here!
#Authoritarianism

blayneydeborah.bsky.social @blayneydeborah.bsky.social · 19d

'How to Lose a Country: 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship':

'paralysing dissident masses through court cases is far easier when the leader can call people terrorists, and when members of society are too polarised to support each other in the name of equality before the law.'

#DefendDemocracy

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stevelevitsky.bsky.social @stevelevitsky.bsky.social · 23d

Are you ready to call it authoritarianism yet?

White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups

www.nytimes.com

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blayneydeborah.bsky.social @blayneydeborah.bsky.social · 19d

⚠️'warnings about the autocratic ambitions of Donald Trump that were once dismissed as hyperbole and hysteria now seem, if anything, too mild. Faster than most imagined, he has moved to weaken institutional checks on his power – whether the courts, the universities, the civil service or the press – '

Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 19d

'Farage's core claim is that he somehow speaks for the British people, that his views reflect the “commonsense” views of the silent majority. It’s not true. On issue after issue, including those that define him, he is out of step with most Britons.' Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain. Here’s how to stop him | Jonathan Freedland

It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 19d

'Farage's core claim is that he somehow speaks for the British people, that his views reflect the “commonsense” views of the silent majority. It’s not true. On issue after issue, including those that define him, he is out of step with most Britons.' Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump has dragged the US to the abyss and Nigel Farage would do the same to Britain. Here’s how to stop him | Jonathan Freedland

It’s not too late to puncture the Reform leader’s populist myth. His ‘make Britain great again’ act is out of step with the British people, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

www.theguardian.com

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