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Andrew Connelly

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Writer. Broadcaster. Shouter into the abyss. Host of Fortress Europe podcast - reportage from Europe's violent borders 👇 https://open.spotify.com/show/3uh4hHdjFLxRoTPfznlyNd?si=ad0512c0e82149b3

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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · Aug 14

With @ahnidzara.bsky.social and Maryam Ashrafi, I explored minefields, memory, and migration in Bosnia for @inkstickmedia.com inkstickmedia.com/mines-memory...

Mines, Memory, and Migration on Bosnia's Perilous Border

Refugees and migrants have to navigate terrain laden with leftover landmines and unexploded ordnance on Bosnia's border with Croatia.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 19h

Gov. JB Pritzker advises Chicagoans to knows their rights and to film everything after President Trump deployed the Federal Guard to the city.

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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 20h

Who had “Isabel Oakeshott writing propaganda for the Libyan National Army” on their 2025 bingo card?

Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 1d

Too busy doomscrolling on X to adequately prepare for an interview, then try to subvert the interviewer by rejecting the premise of their questions? Kemi B keeps being relatable 💫

Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 1d

It’s one of those points that could be technically correct but completely implausible and so creates the impression the speaker is being alarmist. Shades of ‘80 million Turks’…

Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 1d

Presumably that model would be perfect to defend against the *36 million migrants* the CPS guy said could be on the way to the UK 🙃

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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 1d

All CBS reporters now required to identify themselves to sources as being “from the fucking news”.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 4d

Why is the UK government still on X? This tweet about helping students from Gaza has a sea of racist bile in the comments and QTs.

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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 6d

People using the heinous attack on Heaton Park synagogue as an opportunity to flout ignorance and bigotry. The name 'Jihad' does not mean one is predestined to be a terrorist from birth. If al-Shamie arrived in the UK as a child his domestic radicalisation seems more key than his immigration status.

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Mike Harris @mjrharris.bsky.social · 6d

EXCLUSIVE: Former Reform leader convicted of taking Russian bribes.

This should be *huge national news* - a direct link between Reform and Russia. #Russiagate

national.thelead.uk/p/the-lead-u...

The Lead Untangles: The Reform leader’s Russian influence scandal

Not unreported, but certainly not given much spotlight, what do the Russian bribes taken by a former Reform UK leader tell us?

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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 7d

Labour removing one of the last safe routes for asylum seekers will only benefit smugglers. If Starmerism can be defined as anything it's daily performative cruelty against the oppressed, for no political gain.

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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 8d

yOu KNow FucK all aBOut BrITish pOlitICs

Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 8d

An honest government would admit to the public that crises will continue to force people to move, a small % of whom end up in the UK, and rather than melt into apoplexy when they get to the Channel establish orderly pathways for their legal arrival and successful integration.

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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 8d

The Dublin system is not only notoriously dysfunctional, it is a NIMBY invention of the wealthy northern European countries for southern countries to act as border thugs and asylum warehouses and keep bedraggled refugees far away. It is not a fair system to aspire to join.

Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 8d

Top nationalities of people on small boats: Eritrea,Iran, Sudan,Syria & Afghanistan. All have historically high asylum acceptance rates due to acute ongoing crises in those countries which are barely covered or discussed by UK media. The less we know about them, the less we care.

Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 8d

Brexit, 'one-in-one-out', Dublin system, French gendarmes. These are all parochial British conversations about how to stop asylum seekers who have almost completed their journey. It completely ignores what triggered their movement in the first place.

Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 8d

While it can be claimed that a post-Brexit UK offers a chance for asylum seekers turned down in other EU countries to apply here, safe in the knowledge they cannot be Dublin returned, I haven't seen any data to indicate that this is what motivates the majority of people crossing.

Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 8d

Having riddled the French ports with police, barbed wire and surveillance tech, the UK government completely failed to prepare for the inevitability of a small boat route emerging from the beaches - even after this exact thing had been playing out on the Greek islands since 2015.

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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 8d

It presupposes that the pre-Brexit Dublin system was a magic wand that would have saved UK from its "small boats crisis." But UK's transfer requests were frequently:
1) successfully challenged 2) mismanaged by Home Office and 3) denied by EU states already hosting many migrants.

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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 8d

It is fashionable to blame Brexit and Farage for "small boats" but all that does is reinforce the framing of asylum seekers as problems to deal with and pieces to be shuffled around. Given the current climate of hate speech and pogroms, that is unhelpful. It's also misleading. 🧵

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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 8d

UK and EU anti-immigration demagogues will jump on this as proof that they too can remove asylum seekers to Iran except:
a) they are not America
b) this is one plane, not hundreds, a plot twist not a border policy

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9d

Breaking News: The Trump administration is deporting a planeload of Iranians back to Iran after a deal between the governments, officials said.

U.S. Deports Planeload of Iranians After Deal With Tehran, Officials Say

The deportation flight to Iran is the most stark push yet by the Trump administration to deport migrants even to places with harsh human rights conditions.

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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 8d

Snivelling bootlickers every single one.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

US comedians defend decision to play in Saudi Arabia: ‘They’re paying me enough to look the other way’

Usual supporters of free speech are under fire for signing on to Riyadh festival despite the government’s human rights abuses

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Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 9d

The Health Secretary tells NHS workers "you are home" the day after the Home Secretary threatened them all with hostile environment rhetoric. These two positions are not compatible and voters will notice.

Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 9d

Laziness is also an option. But lazy journalism that recycles entrenched tropes also contributes to a toxic environment.

Andrew Connelly @connellyandrew.bsky.social · 9d

I wonder what kind of politics is held by the Times editor that decided to use a photo of asylum seekers in a boat to illustrate a story about migrant workers arriving on legal routes.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 9d

Tough new conditions to be imposed on migrants who want to settle in the UK will not apply to more than a million people who arrived in the UK under the post-Brexit immigration surge

Labour’s tough new rules will not apply to migrants already in UK

www.thetimes.com

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