mokarim.bsky.social
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lmao British journalism just did another British journalism
October 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
lmao British journalism just did another British journalism
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losing my mind on this. she was murdered. she didn't die of a social media overdose.
Most of us have pathologically useless parents who don't care to learn about protecting us properly, but this dogshit really takes the cake.
October 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
losing my mind on this. she was murdered. she didn't die of a social media overdose.
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Democracy cannot survive if people like Jenrick, who is prepared to lie continually and without compunction, can prosper.
Football in the 80s was frequently violent and, especially in the first part of the decade, awash with racism. These were not halcyon days, especially for non-white Britons.
Football in the 80s was frequently violent and, especially in the first part of the decade, awash with racism. These were not halcyon days, especially for non-white Britons.
October 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Democracy cannot survive if people like Jenrick, who is prepared to lie continually and without compunction, can prosper.
Football in the 80s was frequently violent and, especially in the first part of the decade, awash with racism. These were not halcyon days, especially for non-white Britons.
Football in the 80s was frequently violent and, especially in the first part of the decade, awash with racism. These were not halcyon days, especially for non-white Britons.
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Making life more difficult for migrants helps nobody.
Making it harder for people fleeing war and persecution to find safety helps nobody.
Labour pushing xenophobia as policy helps nobody.
Pandering to far right politics doesn't combat far right rhetoric or "build trust in politicians"
#r4today
Making it harder for people fleeing war and persecution to find safety helps nobody.
Labour pushing xenophobia as policy helps nobody.
Pandering to far right politics doesn't combat far right rhetoric or "build trust in politicians"
#r4today
We can all bitch and moan and call out the utterly contemptible policies suggested by the likes of Reform and the Conservatives, but if that same condemnation is not applied to Labour then it shows it is not about supporting migrants, it is about being party political. 2/
October 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Making life more difficult for migrants helps nobody.
Making it harder for people fleeing war and persecution to find safety helps nobody.
Labour pushing xenophobia as policy helps nobody.
Pandering to far right politics doesn't combat far right rhetoric or "build trust in politicians"
#r4today
Making it harder for people fleeing war and persecution to find safety helps nobody.
Labour pushing xenophobia as policy helps nobody.
Pandering to far right politics doesn't combat far right rhetoric or "build trust in politicians"
#r4today
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This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
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This does say a lot about how much time our politicians are spending on Twitter, and I don’t think it’s a great sign of where Britain’s elite is.
Starmer did not tweet about the murder of Melissa Hortman (an elected official) and her husband.
Starmer did not tweet about the murder of Melissa Hortman (an elected official) and her husband.
I don't think it is callous of me to observe that it is weird to see the PM of the UK, the leader of the Opposition of the UK, and the ex UK PM all putting out solemn and devastated tweets about the death of a podcaster who is only a big name if you're constantly on Twitter
September 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
This does say a lot about how much time our politicians are spending on Twitter, and I don’t think it’s a great sign of where Britain’s elite is.
Starmer did not tweet about the murder of Melissa Hortman (an elected official) and her husband.
Starmer did not tweet about the murder of Melissa Hortman (an elected official) and her husband.
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A debate Labour badly needs to have:
Labour must champion inclusivity to tackle advance of far right, says deputy leadership hopeful
Exclusive: Alison McGovern says party needs emotive storyteller to fight against division promoted by Reform
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A debate Labour badly needs to have:
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There were more people taking part in protests against the board of Sheffield Wednesday than there were people protesting against all the Asylum Hotels in all of the UK this weekend. Don't mainstream bigotry!
I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers
August 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
There were more people taking part in protests against the board of Sheffield Wednesday than there were people protesting against all the Asylum Hotels in all of the UK this weekend. Don't mainstream bigotry!
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
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Labour is now undeniably, and deliberately, stoking division, hate and racial tensions. Absolutely any attacks can be laid at this government's door at this point. They have decided to incite the far right instead of combatting it, and there is no defence for that in any realm of reality.
July 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Labour is now undeniably, and deliberately, stoking division, hate and racial tensions. Absolutely any attacks can be laid at this government's door at this point. They have decided to incite the far right instead of combatting it, and there is no defence for that in any realm of reality.
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The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful
The UK’s economic problems are quite deep-rooted. The best summary I can offer is “we don’t make enough valuable, productive stuff and sell it to the world any more”.
Things like planning and energy no doubt play a role in that - but I don’t think they’re enough to fix it on their own
Things like planning and energy no doubt play a role in that - but I don’t think they’re enough to fix it on their own
July 22, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The UK did have one standout product that was considered globally valuable- universities- and unilaterally decided to stop providing the product because it was more important to be xenophobic than successful
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Abolish the Home Office.
UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone
While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Abolish the Home Office.
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This is also our daughter's story, a very hard read for a parent. But I'm also so proud of Camille and Mo, who were willing to share it; and so angry with the UK governement, which is inflicting such pain on people whose only crime is to love the 'wrong' person. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
In limbo: families hoping for change to UK income rules for spousal visas
Photographer Frankie Mills documents the lives of nine families whose stories illustrate the human cost of this policy threshold
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This is also our daughter's story, a very hard read for a parent. But I'm also so proud of Camille and Mo, who were willing to share it; and so angry with the UK governement, which is inflicting such pain on people whose only crime is to love the 'wrong' person. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Unintentionally, the greatest advert for a cinema I’ve ever seen
June 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Unintentionally, the greatest advert for a cinema I’ve ever seen
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Appalling to see how quickly this is spread from the US (the British term is EDI) and it’s telling that people always use the acronym so they don’t have to spell out that what they are against is literally just “equality”…
A group of Labour MPs, peers and supporters write:
“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”
Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“We should legislate to root out DEI in hiring practices, sentencing decisions and wherever else we find it in our public bodies.”
Devastated to see how quickly this has arrived in the UK mainstream.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters
Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Appalling to see how quickly this is spread from the US (the British term is EDI) and it’s telling that people always use the acronym so they don’t have to spell out that what they are against is literally just “equality”…
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Unlawfully Killed
Unfairly Blamed
Hillsborough Law Now.
Unfairly Blamed
Hillsborough Law Now.
April 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Unlawfully Killed
Unfairly Blamed
Hillsborough Law Now.
Unfairly Blamed
Hillsborough Law Now.
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I have shared this story, this thread, before - but I think given the state of the world, it's worth telling once again. Maybe it can help, especially if like me, you make art, and you wonder what the use of all of it is right now.
March 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I have shared this story, this thread, before - but I think given the state of the world, it's worth telling once again. Maybe it can help, especially if like me, you make art, and you wonder what the use of all of it is right now.
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I'm a UK graduate. I did all my schooling in the UK, undergraduate & postgraduate.
But I wasn't born here.
I came to this country as a child refugee.
If you have a shortage of doctors now, it's not the fault of immigrants.
It's because of immigrants you have any health service at all.
Do better
But I wasn't born here.
I came to this country as a child refugee.
If you have a shortage of doctors now, it's not the fault of immigrants.
It's because of immigrants you have any health service at all.
Do better
Not only does this sound like yet another "migrants taking our jobs" rant, not only does it show a complete lack of engagement with the reality of the situation, it also shows that Streeting has no idea what "remittances" are. The anti-immigration "brain drain" myth has been debunked for years.
February 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'm a UK graduate. I did all my schooling in the UK, undergraduate & postgraduate.
But I wasn't born here.
I came to this country as a child refugee.
If you have a shortage of doctors now, it's not the fault of immigrants.
It's because of immigrants you have any health service at all.
Do better
But I wasn't born here.
I came to this country as a child refugee.
If you have a shortage of doctors now, it's not the fault of immigrants.
It's because of immigrants you have any health service at all.
Do better
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Informative thread about seeking safety, asylum as legal recognition of that safety, and the ways the current general policy direction is counterproductive and expensive.
Two stories which perfectly encompass how governments do not look at the reasons people are forced into using smugglers, and why their whack-a-mole policies to "smash the gangs" are just wasting time and resources which could be being used to support people. #r4today. 1/
December 10, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Informative thread about seeking safety, asylum as legal recognition of that safety, and the ways the current general policy direction is counterproductive and expensive.