No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

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Terrific opportunity to help shape and oversee Ada's work as a member of our board 👇🏻

🕵️‍♀️ I FoI'd DWP to try to find out how they are using AI

⁉️ I got some answers, and a lot more questions

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“We have to be really clear that there is no contradiction between saying clearly that antisemitism is completely unacceptable and demanding that the genocide end.”

Na'amod's Em Hilton spoke to @novaramedia.com about organising against antisemitism and for Palestinian liberation.

The Home Office sham "consultation" on cumulative protests closed on 29 September, so this immediate announcement shows Labour had already decided – yet again – to expand public order powers, well before the Manchester attack that is now used to justify it
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The instinct of this government is ever further restrictions on civil liberties. It is authoritarian at its core, and at this stage needs to be opposed by anyone who at all considers themselves a progressive.

BREAKING: Banner drop on Westminster Bridge ahead of the mass silent vigil taking place in Trafalgar Square today.

The banner says "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

As the genocide escalates in Gaza, and our rights to oppose it are under threat, we must resist.

I'll say it again. Our horror at the Gaza genocide and at the atrocity in Manchester comes in both cases from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity in the face of both these evils as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.

I’ve worked on and off on digital identity for a decade. I have plenty of thoughts about the UK govt proposal.

Right now though, based on my work with 14-24 year olds I’m curious how a compulsory DIGITAL ID will help with extricating young people from mobile devices? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Just under two weeks until the launch of @transitionsec.bsky.social — tickets still available, sign up for free at the link below!

We'll be launching Tom Parr's new book next week Thursday for our first LSE political theory seminar of the year. Register below!

Blog post on today's digital ID announcement. Most important issue is what the impact will be on people with low and no income - will the new rules create a new barrier for employment?
www.careful.industries/blog/2025-9-...

On the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast, D&S Climate, Technology, and Justice Program Director @tamigraph.bsky.social is among the experts exploring what a “tech agenda” for Climate Week might look like. www.techpolicy.press/setting-a-te... ]

Illuminating read on the Tony Blair Institute: "an organisation unusually close to the British government, able to lobby ministers directly, and which holds joint retreats with Oracle and is willing to engage in “tech sales” with governments in the rest of the world."

The most successful novelist of her generation can't actually enter this country to accept an award for fear of arrest, someone tell the BBC

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

The thing is "digital ID" as a category is absolutely freaking enormous. It could mean *all sorts* of things, which are all quite different to one another, but it cannot usefully include every single technology imaginary that is being bandied around in think tank papers and op eds

"In terms of its impacts on people and planet, AI is as physical as any other industry."

Thoughtful piece by @imogen-parker.bsky.social reflecting on last week's Global Fund for a New Economy convening in Nairobi:

www.globalgovernmentforum.com/lessons-from...

On Thursday 2 October, we'll be kicking off our 2025-26 LSE poltiical theory seminar with a book launch of Tom Parr's "Empowering Workers in an Age of Automation". The event will be followed by a reception at the George IV pub. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/empowering...

The US and UK have signed a Technology Prosperity Deal. But will it deliver public benefit or private profits? Is the UK an AI taker or an AI maker?

@halcyene.bsky.social, our Economic and Social Policy Lead, outlines the challenges for the UK's approach.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The success of China’s DeepSeek demonstrates the potential for the UK of a “fast follower” model whereby instead of begging for scraps from big tech’s table, we wait and see what innovations will yield the most value, and pursue cost-effective ways of doing it ourselves.” - @halcyene.bsky.social

The headlines — £31bn in investment, new jobs, faster medical treatments — sound almost too good to be true. What are we giving up in return?

Me in @theguardian.com on today's US-UK Tech Deal:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So much talk about Reform voters, but I'm yet to read much about their lives beyond tropes and excuses ('legitimate concerns').

I've been back in the midlands to interview people and learn more. Here's my piece on them and Reform's attempts to present itself as a community-minded, pro-worker party: