Nicola David
@nicoladavid.bsky.social
Founder of One Life To Live - collaboratively compaigning against large asylum-seeker containment sites in ex-RAF bases, former prisons & barges. Linton-on-Ouse, Bibby Stockholm. Ripon CoS 💪🏼 🇵🇸
I was only thinking yesterday that we all say what we don't want but how often do we actually have a coherent plan for what we DO want. Here it is!
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Time for Change is here!
Sick of the constant demonisation of migrants?
Want to see an alternative plan?
Our new report by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social outlines 9 steps to a system that delivers dignity for all.
Read it here: www.anothereurope.org/time-for-cha...
Sick of the constant demonisation of migrants?
Want to see an alternative plan?
Our new report by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social outlines 9 steps to a system that delivers dignity for all.
Read it here: www.anothereurope.org/time-for-cha...
Time For Change: The evidence-based policies that can actually fix the immigration system
A new report from prominent migration expert Zoe Gardner has been enthusiastically welcomed by senior Labour backbenchers.
www.anothereurope.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I was only thinking yesterday that we all say what we don't want but how often do we actually have a coherent plan for what we DO want. Here it is!
Letters are going out to Syrians with paused applications for ILTR. Doesn't seem to be about employment/volunterring, only whether or not safe to go back. Letters written in typically complex English - even I as (native speaker) having to keep re-reading paras
freemovement.org.uk/home-office-...
freemovement.org.uk/home-office-...
Home Office recommences processing of Syrian settlement applications - Free Movement
It appears that the Home Office has started writing out to Syrian refugees who have pending settlement protection (SET(P)) applications. I know this is
freemovement.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Letters are going out to Syrians with paused applications for ILTR. Doesn't seem to be about employment/volunterring, only whether or not safe to go back. Letters written in typically complex English - even I as (native speaker) having to keep re-reading paras
freemovement.org.uk/home-office-...
freemovement.org.uk/home-office-...
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
Last month Iran deported 750,000 (!) Afghans & said it will deport 4 million remaining undocumented Afghans (many born in Iran and never even been to Afghanistan). The UN can only assist 10% of returnees. Dumped into poverty and female hopelessness. Observer:
newsroom.observer.co.uk/cr/AQjcjBUQx...
newsroom.observer.co.uk/cr/AQjcjBUQx...
Unwanted
newsroom.observer.co.uk
August 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Last month Iran deported 750,000 (!) Afghans & said it will deport 4 million remaining undocumented Afghans (many born in Iran and never even been to Afghanistan). The UN can only assist 10% of returnees. Dumped into poverty and female hopelessness. Observer:
newsroom.observer.co.uk/cr/AQjcjBUQx...
newsroom.observer.co.uk/cr/AQjcjBUQx...
Horrifying story of arriving in the USA - having scrubbed his phone - but US officials had already viewed all his socials AHEAD of his flight. Detained and grilled for 12 hours due to his posts about the protests at Columbia University. Also quizzed re Gaza views.
www.instagram.com/reel/DK9E7tD...
www.instagram.com/reel/DK9E7tD...
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August 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Horrifying story of arriving in the USA - having scrubbed his phone - but US officials had already viewed all his socials AHEAD of his flight. Detained and grilled for 12 hours due to his posts about the protests at Columbia University. Also quizzed re Gaza views.
www.instagram.com/reel/DK9E7tD...
www.instagram.com/reel/DK9E7tD...
I am utterly gripped not only by the Salt Path débacle, as brilliantly investigated by Chloe Hadjimatheou @chloehadj.bsky.social for @theobserveruk.bsky.social, but by JUST HOW MUCH the path of the story wanders off the path of truth. Surely @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social MUST withdraw this fable?
August 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I am utterly gripped not only by the Salt Path débacle, as brilliantly investigated by Chloe Hadjimatheou @chloehadj.bsky.social for @theobserveruk.bsky.social, but by JUST HOW MUCH the path of the story wanders off the path of truth. Surely @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social MUST withdraw this fable?
The (abandoned) plan to use RAF Scampton as an asylum centre cost the taxpayer just under £50m. The cost to society was incalculable.
www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
Home Office wrote off £48.5m after scrapping plan to use RAF base for asylum seekers
Ministers axed RAF Scampton project after Home Office review found it did not represent value for money
www.civilserviceworld.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The (abandoned) plan to use RAF Scampton as an asylum centre cost the taxpayer just under £50m. The cost to society was incalculable.
www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
The National Crime Agency report on serious and organised crime in 2024 points out the connection between gangs & crime and far-right ideologies and affiliations - essentially the dates given refer to riots after the Southport murders.
Report: www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/nsa-overview...
Report: www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/nsa-overview...
July 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The National Crime Agency report on serious and organised crime in 2024 points out the connection between gangs & crime and far-right ideologies and affiliations - essentially the dates given refer to riots after the Southport murders.
Report: www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/nsa-overview...
Report: www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/nsa-overview...
So it has come to this: I just asked AI about the effects of AI on AI in the workplace.
Not sure who was more confused - me or ChatGPT. Anyway, it gave me a recipe for focaccia. I'll let you know how it comes out.
Not sure who was more confused - me or ChatGPT. Anyway, it gave me a recipe for focaccia. I'll let you know how it comes out.
July 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
So it has come to this: I just asked AI about the effects of AI on AI in the workplace.
Not sure who was more confused - me or ChatGPT. Anyway, it gave me a recipe for focaccia. I'll let you know how it comes out.
Not sure who was more confused - me or ChatGPT. Anyway, it gave me a recipe for focaccia. I'll let you know how it comes out.
Absolutely hysterical piece on Greg Wallace from Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social in the Times. The best piece of life advice I can give you is to go read it. Right now.
Here archive.ph/7iQMf
Here archive.ph/7iQMf
July 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Absolutely hysterical piece on Greg Wallace from Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social in the Times. The best piece of life advice I can give you is to go read it. Right now.
Here archive.ph/7iQMf
Here archive.ph/7iQMf
From Yoel Noorali at the @observeruk.bsky.social: beautifully written, laugh-out-loud existentialism - the art of not doing, but being.
observer.co.uk/culture/film...
observer.co.uk/culture/film...
‘Monetised standing’: the art of being a film extra
What skill does it take to be a background actor? A journalist finds out
observer.co.uk
July 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
From Yoel Noorali at the @observeruk.bsky.social: beautifully written, laugh-out-loud existentialism - the art of not doing, but being.
observer.co.uk/culture/film...
observer.co.uk/culture/film...
Well, well, well. And I should think so too - it was always very sketchy where that money was being spent. #BibbyStockholm
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2530866...
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2530866...
£100k to support barge asylum seekers 'to be returned to government'
AROUND £100,000, to help support asylum seekers, may have to be returned to the Home Office by Dorset Council.
www.dorsetecho.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Well, well, well. And I should think so too - it was always very sketchy where that money was being spent. #BibbyStockholm
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2530866...
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2530866...
OUTSTANDING investigative work by Chloe Hadjimatheou @chloehadj.bsky.social of @observeruk.bsky.social blowing up the "ommissions & commissions" (deceptions) in the story of the books/movie of #TheSaltPath by Raynor Winn (Sally Walker). @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social may have some explaining to do...?
July 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
OUTSTANDING investigative work by Chloe Hadjimatheou @chloehadj.bsky.social of @observeruk.bsky.social blowing up the "ommissions & commissions" (deceptions) in the story of the books/movie of #TheSaltPath by Raynor Winn (Sally Walker). @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social may have some explaining to do...?
The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN) is hiring a communications manager! Could that be you?
www.linkedin.com/posts/wearet...
www.linkedin.com/posts/wearet...
We’re #hiring a Communications Manager! | TERN - The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network
We’re #hiring a Communications Manager!
Could you lead on marketing and communications in our team?
If you have the skills & experience below, we’d love to hear from you!
🎯 Experience of deve...
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June 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN) is hiring a communications manager! Could that be you?
www.linkedin.com/posts/wearet...
www.linkedin.com/posts/wearet...
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Anna Foster OUTSTANDING against Sam Lundberg - Trump apologist re the LA protests - on Radio 4 Today this morning
June 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Anna Foster OUTSTANDING against Sam Lundberg - Trump apologist re the LA protests - on Radio 4 Today this morning
WANTED: Chaplain for Wethersfield Asylum Reception Centre
An essential role for this difficult site. Funded by Chelmsford Diocese Mission Opportunities Fund.
www.chelmsford.anglican.org/vacancies/ch...
An essential role for this difficult site. Funded by Chelmsford Diocese Mission Opportunities Fund.
www.chelmsford.anglican.org/vacancies/ch...
June 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
WANTED: Chaplain for Wethersfield Asylum Reception Centre
An essential role for this difficult site. Funded by Chelmsford Diocese Mission Opportunities Fund.
www.chelmsford.anglican.org/vacancies/ch...
An essential role for this difficult site. Funded by Chelmsford Diocese Mission Opportunities Fund.
www.chelmsford.anglican.org/vacancies/ch...
If you voted Labour in the last general election, email the secretary of your local Labour Party
Tell them what you think - and whether you'll ever vote for them again. Let them understand the scale of the betrayal.
Tell them what you think - and whether you'll ever vote for them again. Let them understand the scale of the betrayal.
May 14, 2025 at 5:09 AM
If you voted Labour in the last general election, email the secretary of your local Labour Party
Tell them what you think - and whether you'll ever vote for them again. Let them understand the scale of the betrayal.
Tell them what you think - and whether you'll ever vote for them again. Let them understand the scale of the betrayal.
Reposted by Nicola David
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
From Sensemaker at theobserveruk.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
From Sensemaker at theobserveruk.bsky.social
April 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Reposted by Nicola David
Love street food & microbreweries? Want to support refugees starting new businesses?
Join the Food Power Party 2025 hosted by @wearetern.bsky.social Tickets £16 for 3 dishes + a craft beer/soft drink, and give feedback to the entrepreneurs!
London SE27, near Crystal Palace overground station
Join the Food Power Party 2025 hosted by @wearetern.bsky.social Tickets £16 for 3 dishes + a craft beer/soft drink, and give feedback to the entrepreneurs!
London SE27, near Crystal Palace overground station
April 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Love street food & microbreweries? Want to support refugees starting new businesses?
Join the Food Power Party 2025 hosted by @wearetern.bsky.social Tickets £16 for 3 dishes + a craft beer/soft drink, and give feedback to the entrepreneurs!
London SE27, near Crystal Palace overground station
Join the Food Power Party 2025 hosted by @wearetern.bsky.social Tickets £16 for 3 dishes + a craft beer/soft drink, and give feedback to the entrepreneurs!
London SE27, near Crystal Palace overground station