@alasdairmackenzie
Immigration and asylum law. All views my own but reposts not endorsement. Refugees welcome🧡. Green Party member💚. Trans 🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights. He/him. "Lawyers have hitherto only interpreted the law. The point however is to change it."
Two opinions can simultaneously be right on criminal justice, ahead of the Courts and Tribunals Bill vote.
Victims are correct to say the process takes too long. It does and that's a national disgrace.
But lawyers are also right to say restricting juries is not the answer to this problem.
There’s a terrible tendency that any time anyone comes along and starts saying things that are popular from a left perspective, established thinking goes ‘all very nice yes, but it’s not SERIOUS is it’ even whilst all the accepted serious people fail absolutely constantly at the absolute basics.
This is violent, sickening rhetoric.
GB News commentator claiming here that non “indigenous” people are committing “genocide” against the UK.
GB News is beyond the fucking pale
Following the incident, a spokesperson said the confrontation had been caused by “a few angry men” attempting to “spread anti-trans bigotry”
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The UK should be expanding protection.
Instead, they’re restricting it.
As many countries amend asylum legislations to protect people fleeing conflict, persecution, and climate disasters, the UK government is moving backwards.
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It was never the rules-based international order that wouldn't allow us to kidnap leaders, invade other countries, or bomb the everloving god out of poor countries
It was that we agreed not to, because it led to very bad outcomes. And we created the rules to reflect this
The rules are not your mum
Government engagement on X latest
We are two rainy, windswept islands off the coast of Europe. We should be energy self-sufficient, and an energy provider for Europe.
The reason we are not is because of a lack of political will from those who are funded by big oil.
5/5
No report in the Guardian about a woman MP being attacked on International Women’s Day by transphobic fascists after just a week in the job.
They have these “news” items though
Until recently, even in the Tory party, Lam’s National Front-style ideas would’ve been grounds for instant sacking and ostracism. Now they‘re apparently desperate not to lose her
"We saw that change in Gorton and Denton – and that result unlocked a new level of confidence for potential Green voters that they can truly vote for what they want and get it."
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Mothin Ali - on point as ever. It is humbling to see that a community gardener from Gipton & Harehills holds more integrity in his little finger than the entire Westminster political Elite.
“My critics want silence. But advocating for peace is what democracy demands”
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Transphobic men, claiming to "protect women", chasing and harassing a woman on #internationalwomensday
How dare they.
A pretty good and damning summary of the far right flank of "gender critical" ideology.
Solidarity with @greenpartyhan.bsky.social
Hope you're ok.
Rachel Shabi delivers a necessary whack on the head to one of the most silly and irritating features of the fight against antisemitism
I was in Tehran this time last year. I want you to see how beautiful my city is. I want you to see the city the US/Israel is trying to wipe off the face of the earth
Today I am taking time to remember the hundreds of thousands of people in Britain who lost their lives in the pandemic, and to pay tribute to all those in the NHS and public health fields who worked tirelessly to manage the disease and save lives. #CovidDayofReflection
The primary US facing aim of Euro/UK foreign policy should be bringing down the Trump regime, and we must be willing to take calculated risks to do so. As long as the regime survives, we are in big trouble, there is no other acceptable outcome but deposing them
Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves
Good piece about a transnational trend in reactionary politics
Following in Murdoch's footsteps, we have seen countless reactionary billionaires building media empires, almost always at a huge loss
Profit is not the point, power is and weakened democratic institutions are unable to resist
Those saying ‘has Farage even considered war with Iran will result in more asylum seekers arriving by small boat?’. Of course he has. He doesn’t really want to stop the boats. He needs them for his grievance politics and to persuade the population to support policies which will harm them.
Incredible
Wish large corporations would just stop making out that they’re our mates
Excellent attack line & an excellent video
Yes I do also wonder if this is more performative than practical. Attempts to take away support eg from offenders seem liable to collide with Limbuela and Article 3, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see what the govt do and what the courts make of it
The 1968 My Lai massacre killed at least 347 civilians. It led to congressional hearings and criminal trials. The bombing of the #Minab school, if confirmed to be an American airstrike, is a comparable massacre and scandal. A dark day in American history.
Tomorrow's wrap-around front page of The National.
This is the human cost.
As the UK Government talks a big game of being ready to join the US and Israel in war, over 150 families are mourning their children.
Their little girls were mostly aged 7-12.
Graphic showing how asylum policies have shifted from protection to deterrence since the 1980's
The latest announcement from the Home Secretary follows a path of previous governments in creating ever harsher and more hostile asylum policies. What were once designed to provide protection and now created to prevent people getting it. There needs to be a change, with a focus back on protection.
"It's performative cruelty."
@rachelmillward.bsky.social speaks to Sky about Labour's lurch to the right on asylum policy - and why the Green Party is focused on real solutions to the cost of living instead.
