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Nicola Kelly

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Journalist. Used to work for the Home Office, now report on it. 'Anywhere But Here', my book on the small boats crisis, out now. Enquiries via IG DM @nicolakellywrites. https://linktr.ee/nicolakellywrites

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · Oct 7

My book, 'Anywhere But Here', is finished! It will take you inside the Home Office and behind the scenes of the small boats crisis for the first time.

You can pre-order from
Waterstones: bit.ly/4gBxHTV
Foyles: tinyurl.com/3n7p3w3h
Amazon: amzn.to/3XuF7Q8

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Nick @nicko66.bsky.social · 5d

An excellent point. The terms migrant, refugee etc are being used to dehumanise

Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 6d

Every newsroom should have an immigration correspondent.

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 6d

Every newsroom should have an immigration correspondent.

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 6d

Hurrah! Lmk what you think.

Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 6d

Every newsroom should have an immigration correspondent.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 7d

Telegraph admits article by Conservative immigration spokeperson Katie Lam used entirely fictional stats from Centre for Policy Studies (no, *not* the £234 bn, different ones!).

Publishes entirely inadequate correction which still makes false claims about migrant wages.

archive.ph/FkywM

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 8d

They're brilliant.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 9d

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 9d

Mahmood says she will introduce new conditions for indefinite leave to remain:

Lived here 10 years not 5
Being in work
Not taking a penny in benefits
No criminal record
Giving back to community eg volunteering

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Luke Piper @lukepiper.bsky.social · 8d

This sort of reality collision is going to happen over and over again so long as this government chases perceptions on immigration.

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely right from Streeting.

But then government/Mahmood need to make crystal clear this applies to people who have arrived since 2021 and are working in NHS/care right now -and that government is not going to change the rules and leave them at the mercy of a future Reform/Conservative govt

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 8d

Nigel Farage complained vigorously about “the UK’s readiness to criminalise merely unpleasant, challenging, or incendiary online speech" (discussing Graham Linehan and Lucy Connolly).

But of course that was when violence was being urged against immigrants or trans people.

A racist and a hypocrite.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 8d

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 8d

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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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 10d

Keir Starmer asks people to fight back against reform... yeah, we've been doing it for the last year mate while you've been enacting their policies.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 9d

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system!

Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 9d

Southwark Cathedral: you were magical, I was sleep-deprived. Thanks to the lovely 109 of you, bar the one guy who stood up to announce that everyone should be wearing St George's flags across their backs. I hope I disagreed agreeably. 🧡
@southwarkcathedral.bsky.social

Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 10d

Only took a week to say it.

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 14d

This is tomorrow! Southwark Cathedral, 6.30, tickets are a fiver. See you there.

Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 20d

Next Thursday 25th, I'll be speaking about my book 'Anywhere But Here' @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social.

And... tickets are only a fiver! Get them here, see you there.

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Anywhere but Here: Britain's Broken Asylum System - Southwark Cathedral

A talk by Nicola Kelly

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 15d

Great to take part in this fascinating discussion on migration in the media @theconduitlondon.bsky.social last night.

You can watch back here.

www.youtube.com/live/OgK4Dlw...

Migration and the Media: Fear, Facts, and the Stories We Tell

YouTube video by The Conduit

www.youtube.com

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HERS @pixels2pictures.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve just finished reading your thought provoking book and informative book. Thank you. It’s a shame it‘s not compulsory for politicians of all persuasions to read your book.

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks to @andrewharding.bsky.social Rob McNeil @migobs.bsky.social @ritula.bsky.social and Douna.

Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 15d

Ah thank you! Please do review, share, recommend on. Many thanks for your support.

Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 15d

Great to take part in this fascinating discussion on migration in the media @theconduitlondon.bsky.social last night.

You can watch back here.

www.youtube.com/live/OgK4Dlw...

Migration and the Media: Fear, Facts, and the Stories We Tell

YouTube video by The Conduit

www.youtube.com

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 15d

Alaa is free! I interviewed his sister @mon.asosh in October 2022 as she staged a peaceful protest outside the Foreign Office. She, her mother Laila, sister @sanaaseif and cousin @orhamilton feared they may never see him again, but they remained strong and defiant, calling for his release. Mabrouk!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16d

Have Reform been asked if forcing all foreign nationals with settled status to apply for a new temporary status really does mean renewing on & tearing up the UK/EU citizens agreements after Brexit? I would exoect/hope they would quickly exempt EU settled status from this

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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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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 16d

Nigel Farage: "We will abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status", and "We will rescind ILR statuses that have already been granted".

The first sentence is worryingly ignorant. The second sentence is frighteningly fascist.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 16d

Rather than saving £230 billion, as claimed, it would end the economy, cause widespread closures, and loss of jobs for everyone, cost hundreds of billions, including loss of taxes, cripple health, education and infrastructure services. Everyone is worse off with hostile immigration policies. 2/

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