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Dan Sohege
@danielsohege.bsky.social
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Director of human rights consultancy Stand For All. Specialist in international refugee law, human rights policy, comms and advocacy. Also posting about being autistic and LGBTQIA+ rights. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
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"This is the end. I feel it. We are doomed. I feel the icy breath of death upon my neck ... Take me to the window. I wish to say goodbye. Goodbye, cruel world"
Or more accurately, she wasn't allowed a double amount of Dreamies
Black cat hamming it up royally while being held
November 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Honestly, I have absolutely let it go. I mean, it was just a game. Nope, no hard feelings at all. 😁
November 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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If that is from the BBC piece then it was the mum of the autistic lad which really creeped me out.
She checks it a couple of times a day to make sure Owain is getting out and to keep an eye on his phone battery so she can remind him to charge it if needed. "He was a bit reluctant at first, but I was like 'I pay your mobile phone bill, so if you want me to continue to pay the bill you'll put this app on your phone'. "I say 'l see you're in Wetherspoons, what table and I'll send you some drinks?' So we keep it fun, but it is in the back of mind that it's for safety." She said she would be "disappointed" if Owain didn't want to use the app anymore, but would "go with it" while admitting she would text and call him more often. "I've let him go, he's got his independence. I'm not constantly checking it, it's just knowing there's that little bit of a safety net. "He's not a child, but he's my child. He's my baby."
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Locusts on the lines?
LIVE Euston station travel chaos as broken down trains cause 'biblical scenes' Travellers at Euston station in London described 'biblical scenes' following train cancellations today -it came after faults on two trains between Rugby and Northampton/Milton Keynes
November 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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I never had any hopes for this shambles, but am genuinely curious how you end up having "factions" this early on when there are only two of you.
Change UK suddenly celebrating not being the most embarrassing political launch in recent years.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Jon Lansman, a veteran Labour party activist, who has known Corbyn for around 50 years described him as "a reluctant leader" but with brand recognition that Sultana lacked early on. One leader who wants the job but doesn't have the following, another that has the following, but doesn't want the job. It's a situation ripe for mutual resentment. It's been reported that Zarah Sultana plans to hold her own separate rally in Liverpool ahead of Your Party's conference, and even that she could launch her own faction. With next to no hope of a united front at the conference, the question now is whether Your Party's founders can remain civil long enough for it to survive much beyond its birth.
November 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Btw, BBC, Le Monde et al, all include that interceptions will take place in the channel, so considering we already see deaths with interceptions at the coast are you really planning on carrying on this argument
France will soon start stopping at sea boats taking migrants across the Channel for southern England, local officials said on Friday, November 28, a major change in strategy following pressure from the United Kingdom. France has agreed to start intercepting small boats in the Channel, following months of pressure from the UK.
November 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Show me someone who hasn't done the required reading.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian Responding to Rachel Reeves's budget, the Conservative Party leader told the Political Thinking podcast that 'in early Christian times there was no state or welfare' NEW Steven Swinford, Political Editor Friday November 28 2025, 10.30am, The Times Kemi Badenoch has suggested that Rachel Reeve's decision to raise taxes to fund another £16 billion in welfare spending is unchristian.
November 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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You can't make me
HEALTH Remember to give thanks to yourself during the holidays and beyond
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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I think we may have a winner for Betteridge's law
Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani review – can you really rehabilitate Idi Amin?
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Ah, Tony. I will hold my hands up to bias here, having debated Tony on more than one occasion and personally considering him a raging moron, but, no, it is not "quite easy to disappear", unless you enter circumstances of exploitation, where you are quite likely to need protection. 2/
Tony Smith, former director-general of Border Force, said it was “quite easy" for a migrant on immigration bail who was close to being deported to disappear. He said: "We haven't really got to grips with identifying and catching people who are working cash-in-hand here. I know we have right-to-work checks and right-to-rent checks but it is quite easy to lose yourself in the black economy in this country.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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What Telegraph fails to mention here is, chances are, quite a substantial number of people on these statistics have already left the country and not been recognised as doing so. It's a piss poor attempt at trying to garner anger over a, relatively, non-issue 1/
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
A leaked document headed "absconder pool" suggests that, as of October, there are 53,298 migrants who have breached their immigration bail or escaped from detention whose whereabouts are unknown. A further 736 foreign offenders have also absconded and gone missing after being released from prison or from detention, according to the data. Most are believed to be facing deportation. The figures have been obtained from a "whistleblower" by Rupert Lowe MP, who was formerly a member of Nigel Farage's Reform UK party.
November 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Honestly, I am only surprised this hasn't happened sooner.

The one in one out scheme is a fundamentally inhumane policy which has already been seen to rely on disregarding even the most basic of safeguarding principles or recognition of people's asylum needs.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Immigration and asylum Asylum seekers in UK go on hunger strike over ‘one in, one out' removals scheme Many of the 30 people taking part in the protest are scheduled to be forcibly returned to France on Thursday Diane Taylor Wed 26 Nov 2025 18.01 GMT Share Thirty asylum seekers currently in detention in the UK have gone on hunger strike in protest against their imminent removal to France under the Home Office's controversial "one in, one out" scheme.
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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If I was implementing changes to immigration and asylum systems guaranteed to increase Home Office costs, as well as financial burdens on individuals, businesses, higher ed etc, decreasing spending in communities and risking increased costs for everyone, I'd simply not boast about it in my budget.
Text from the official Budget 2025 Policy paper: "Tightening up the asylum system to cut down on wasteful spend, reduce costs, and reform the core protection offer for refugees to make it less attractive. To date, the government has reclaimed £74 million from asylum accommodation suppliers and is going further by reforming the wider immigration system to recognise that settlement in the UK is a privilege and that individuals should contribute to the economy and society."
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Sorry, what now? Personally I tend to think this government suggesting scrapping the right to appeal is potentially an even bigger issue with Lammy's reported proposals than the idiotic idea of getting rid of juries. This would be dangerous territory. #r4today

solicitornews.co.uk/lammy-jury-t...
Magistrates would also see their sentencing powers widened to handle more serious cases, and the government is considering removing the automatic right to appeal against conviction.
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

I am not loving my chances.
Promotional poster for Celebrity Race across the world
November 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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This is objectively bollocks by Malhotra, so very much in tune with Labour comms on this.
People's circumstances change, global situations change. That is the main reason why you get people on one visa route needing to apply for asylum. It is not "abuse of the system"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The reforms are "in line with what countries around the world do" to stop the abuse of their immigration systems, Malhotra told the BBC in the southern Indian city of Chennai, adding that there was a "very strong message we also send, which is that we welcome those coming legally". According to Malhotra some16,000 international students from across the world had applied for asylum in the UK last year after completing their courses, which she said was evidence of abuse of legal migration routes.
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
Refugees who were months away from settlement now face 15-year wait Shabana Mahmood's asylum reforms will apply retrospectively, it has been confirmed — and it is claimed the bureaucracy will cost up to £1.3bn Matt Dathan, Home Affairs Editor Monday November 24 2025, 12.01am, The Times Thousands of refugees who believed they were months from settlement now face 15 years of instability after it was confirmed that Shabana Mahmood's overhaul of asylum rules would apply retrospectively.
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Absolutely not
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November 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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I think about this scene waaay too often while following politics*

*I have still quit drinking however
November 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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For those wondering, and wanting to read more, including where he compares the Home Secretary to Elizabeth 1st, it is from an interview today in the Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11...
To me, Shabana is like Elizabeth I – someone who is not only devoted to her job, but who never expected it.” He believes that the Home Secretary is here to redeem Labour and re-establish the integrity for the state. And though she’s “utterly unique”, in her “courageousness, her talents, her beliefs, her religion”, she’s not got her eye on the leadership
November 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Yup.
Pelt shoplifters with fruit in stocks, Labour peer demands ‘Public humiliation’ would act as deterrent against surging crime rates, says Lord Glasman
November 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Is that possibly because anyone with half a braincell and a genuine understanding of politics and issues knows GB News is a joke by any chance?
But he respects the Reform leader – both believe in sovereignty and reject untrammelled immigration – and insists on civility in public debate. He regularly joins Farage’s GB News programme, wryly observing that no one in the Houses of Parliament notices when he appears on the channel. “But when I do the BBC, with its 4,000 viewers, they’ll all mention it.”
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Why is transphobia the default state for so many arseholes?
Perhaps more than anything, Lord Glasman wants a return to sanity. He is repulsed by the officious, rules-based, professional classes who preach that “up is down, men are women, right is wrong”. Who tell us that truth is subjective and must be suborned to kindness. He recently took part in a Newsnight panel alongside a doctor. “In the lift afterwards, I asked him, ‘If a bloke comes to you with a penis and says they’re a woman, you’ll accept that?’ And he replied, ‘Of course.’ This is bonkers.”
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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What is this word salad?
Tag yourself
He came up with that phrase a few years ago. The lanyard is, to his mind, the ultimate symbol of the progressives. Of the technocratic managerialism, globalisation, transhumanism, wokeness and identity politics that has infected British politics, society and, perhaps worst of all, desecrated the working class
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM