Luke loves a migrant
@lukelovesamigrant.bsky.social
🌈 Queer Welsh/Canadian couple fighting to hold onto the life we've built on the so-called "island of strangers".
💚 Respect and dignity for ALL asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.
🏳️⚧️ Trans rights are non-negotiable. Draw the line.
⭐ Rejoin.
🗳️ PR now!
💚 Respect and dignity for ALL asylum seekers, refugees and migrants.
🏳️⚧️ Trans rights are non-negotiable. Draw the line.
⭐ Rejoin.
🗳️ PR now!
Pinned
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
📌 Any migrants or others affected by Labour's immigration proposals, please take a few minutes to respond to the Home Office consultation with your honest thoughts. I will provide some pointers on how to interpret deceptively worded questions in this thread soon 🧵
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Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March.
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wolf Alice and more to play all-star charity concert for trans rights
Organised by Olly Alexander and the Mighty Hoopla festival to ‘fight back against the politics of fear and exclusion’, Trans Mission will take place at Wembley Arena in March
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March.
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday!
Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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It's an interesting study, but flies in the face of "media effects are small" (the view more normally held by researchers).
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It's an interesting study, but flies in the face of "media effects are small" (the view more normally held by researchers).
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Despite being an important gig with lots of big names and at Wembley Arena, it’s almost certain that UK mainstream media will not whisper a syllable about this. So please share widely and keep sharing.
www.transmissionlive.uk
www.transmissionlive.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Despite being an important gig with lots of big names and at Wembley Arena, it’s almost certain that UK mainstream media will not whisper a syllable about this. So please share widely and keep sharing.
www.transmissionlive.uk
www.transmissionlive.uk
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We've moved from vote Labour as the only way to stop Farage to vote Farage as the only way to stop Tommy Robinson (I presume?). While each of those parties tries to appease the other by doing what each other wants anyway. What a wreck.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We've moved from vote Labour as the only way to stop Farage to vote Farage as the only way to stop Tommy Robinson (I presume?). While each of those parties tries to appease the other by doing what each other wants anyway. What a wreck.
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If you're trying to get your head round Mahmood's idiotic "earned settlement" proposals that aim to keep refugees in limbo 20 years, & offer a sliding scale of crulety to all immigrants based on their pay packet, this is a great, clear explainer by @praxisprojects.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If you're trying to get your head round Mahmood's idiotic "earned settlement" proposals that aim to keep refugees in limbo 20 years, & offer a sliding scale of crulety to all immigrants based on their pay packet, this is a great, clear explainer by @praxisprojects.bsky.social & @gmiau.bsky.social
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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New petition: "Include the Royal Family, Household & Duchies in the Freedom of Information Act"
Deadline 28 May 2026, created by Pablo O'Hana
#NewPetition
Deadline 28 May 2026, created by Pablo O'Hana
#NewPetition
New petition: Include the Royal Family, Household & Duchies in the Freedom of Information Act
Legislate to bring the Royal Family, the Royal Household, the Duchy of Lancaster, and the Duchy of Cornwall within the scope of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2000. We think this would help to modernise constitutional transparency, safeguard privacy and increase trust in the British Monarchy.
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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This time last year, I was asked about the new Labour government while being interviewed by a Japanese magazine. How wrong I was! (Apart from the bit on the US)
Cringing at how I parroted the Guardian's "grown-ups in charge" line, but laughing at how I didn't like Streeting even then.
Cringing at how I parroted the Guardian's "grown-ups in charge" line, but laughing at how I didn't like Streeting even then.
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This time last year, I was asked about the new Labour government while being interviewed by a Japanese magazine. How wrong I was! (Apart from the bit on the US)
Cringing at how I parroted the Guardian's "grown-ups in charge" line, but laughing at how I didn't like Streeting even then.
Cringing at how I parroted the Guardian's "grown-ups in charge" line, but laughing at how I didn't like Streeting even then.
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Nigel Farage isn’t shy in his admiration of Enoch Powell. ❌
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Nigel Farage isn’t shy in his admiration of Enoch Powell. ❌
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This is *exactly* the right level of cringe for cut through. Can you imagine any other party leader pulling this off?
Hope is here.
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November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This is *exactly* the right level of cringe for cut through. Can you imagine any other party leader pulling this off?
As the partner of a skilled worker visa holder and a patient at the dental hospital, this one is doubly important to me!
New petition: "Restore dental nurses to the Skilled Worker Visa List"
Deadline 28 May 2026, created by Deborah Okoligwe
#NewPetition
Deadline 28 May 2026, created by Deborah Okoligwe
#NewPetition
New petition: Restore dental nurses to the Skilled Worker Visa List
The Government should restore dental nurses to the Skilled Worker Visa List and allow UK employers to sponsor qualified dental nurses already living here. This could help fill staff shortages, ease pressure on practices, and ensure patients get timely, safe dental care.
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
As the partner of a skilled worker visa holder and a patient at the dental hospital, this one is doubly important to me!
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They’ve got nothing else. A nothing burger of a budget, a row back on workers’ rights… u-turns everywhere, but you don’t worry!!
They’re standing firm on making the uk a much worse place to be foreign or brown in 👍👍👍
They’re standing firm on making the uk a much worse place to be foreign or brown in 👍👍👍
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
They’ve got nothing else. A nothing burger of a budget, a row back on workers’ rights… u-turns everywhere, but you don’t worry!!
They’re standing firm on making the uk a much worse place to be foreign or brown in 👍👍👍
They’re standing firm on making the uk a much worse place to be foreign or brown in 👍👍👍
"The shift in power to ordinary people which the HRA enabled […] is resented in the corridors of power. The families of Hillsborough used the Act to achieve justice. The victims of John Worboys also needed it as did those subject to police infiltration in the Spycops scandal."
Why do they want us to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)?
The Government moots leaving the ECHR as a pragmatic solution to an immigration “crisis”, but is there a more sinister motive behind the push?
The Government moots leaving the ECHR as a pragmatic solution to an immigration “crisis”, but is there a more sinister motive behind the push?
Why do they want us to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)?
The Government moots leaving the ECHR as a pragmatic solution to an immigration “crisis”, but is there a more sinister motive behind the push?
westenglandbylines.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"The shift in power to ordinary people which the HRA enabled […] is resented in the corridors of power. The families of Hillsborough used the Act to achieve justice. The victims of John Worboys also needed it as did those subject to police infiltration in the Spycops scandal."
How many more will we find 🤔
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
How many more will we find 🤔
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
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Labour immigration policy explained:
✅ Net immigration rising: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED
✅ Net immigration plummeting: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED
✅ Net immigration rising: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED
✅ Net immigration plummeting: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED
November 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Labour immigration policy explained:
✅ Net immigration rising: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED
✅ Net immigration plummeting: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED
✅ Net immigration rising: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED
✅ Net immigration plummeting: CRACKDOWN REQUIRED
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"We can judge Farage not just by the words he, allegedly, shouted as a child, but by the words and actions he has chosen as an adult."
Zack Polanski on why Farage should be judged on his record as a politician which has seen him echo conspiracy and language of the far right.
Zack Polanski on why Farage should be judged on his record as a politician which has seen him echo conspiracy and language of the far right.
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"We can judge Farage not just by the words he, allegedly, shouted as a child, but by the words and actions he has chosen as an adult."
Zack Polanski on why Farage should be judged on his record as a politician which has seen him echo conspiracy and language of the far right.
Zack Polanski on why Farage should be judged on his record as a politician which has seen him echo conspiracy and language of the far right.
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Politician who fanned anti-LGBT sentiment stunned to find rising levels of anti-LGBT sentiment
"[...] the Labour leader said the homophobic attack left him worried for the future of the UK"
*clears throat*
I HAVE OPINIONS
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
*clears throat*
I HAVE OPINIONS
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Keir Starmer's fury after neice and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Politician who fanned anti-LGBT sentiment stunned to find rising levels of anti-LGBT sentiment
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- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
- A 100,000 drop in net migration costs us £7bn
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
- Scrapping the two-child benefit cap costs us £3bn
What gets more attention?
James O’Brien says 'we have become a ludicrous country'.
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Almost as if those people you keep trying to satisfy on immigration will never be satisfied, while the parties you are competing with won't react to the outcomes you deliver in good faith, and the unsatisfied voters listen to and trust them more than they trust you. Who could have predicted this?
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Almost as if those people you keep trying to satisfy on immigration will never be satisfied, while the parties you are competing with won't react to the outcomes you deliver in good faith, and the unsatisfied voters listen to and trust them more than they trust you. Who could have predicted this?
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Today I asked the Government why it is creating an authoritarian toolkit 👇
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Today I asked the Government why it is creating an authoritarian toolkit 👇
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PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Net migration drop ‘step in the right direction’ – Starmer
Net migration peaked at a record 944,000 in the year to March 2023 but has fallen sharply since then.
www.standard.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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starmer once again refers to "the boriswave". i would be so annoyed if i came here, jumped through all the home office hoops, paid a fortune, and was endlessly referred to as a negative by everyone from the prime minister down
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
starmer once again refers to "the boriswave". i would be so annoyed if i came here, jumped through all the home office hoops, paid a fortune, and was endlessly referred to as a negative by everyone from the prime minister down
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The important bit about this story - in reality the only important bit because nothing here is new - is that it delivers to an audience previously unaware of it a truth about the BBC's relationship to power: craven. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The important bit about this story - in reality the only important bit because nothing here is new - is that it delivers to an audience previously unaware of it a truth about the BBC's relationship to power: craven. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...