Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 리트윗함
That’s it. Very little else to add. aa.com.tr/en/europe/krem…
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡
@rmw
Consultant. Asylum and migration in UK and EU, evaluation.
Brighton, England 가입일 Ağustos 2007
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 리트윗함
Is the international refugee system collapsing?
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 리트윗함
These videos have been shown to increase likelihood of viewers saying they would vote Reform.
They raise the salience of immigration & present it as a threat.
But worse, obviously, it sickens decent people, abandoning Labour in droves & still being driven further away by this.
Shabana Mahmood MP@ShabanaMahmood
Nearly 50,000 illegal migrants removed or deported since the election. On Monday, I will announce plans to scale up the removal of illegal migrants. I will do whatever it takes to secure our borders.
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well said. The Home Secretary's proposals will undermine integration and give fuel do those who would divide us
Tony Vaughan KC MP@tonyvaughanMP
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong. We absolutely need immigration controls. And where those controls decide to grant asylum, we should welcome and integrate, not create perpetual limbo and alienation. The rhetoric around these reforms encourages the same culture of divisiveness that sees racism and abuse growing in our communities. The Government is wrong to think that reviews of safety in the person's country every few years will mean refugees can be returned at scale. That hasn't happened in Denmark. Brutal dictators tend to hang onto power. It would just move huge amounts of resource away from making our asylum system work as it should - by cutting initial decision delays and the appeals backlog, sorting out asylum accommodation, making the UK-France deal work, removing those whose claims fail etc. The Government must think again on this. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/n…
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 리트윗함
Britain’s asylum system is broken - uncaring, chaotic & costly. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
On the day the Government announces plans to erode asylum rights, new research by us & @pcs_union by @LSEEcon shows a fairer system could help refugees & boost the economy
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 리트윗함
New issue of Forced Migration Review out now on climate change and displacement: 'responses to climate displacement must be proactive, rights-based, and human-centered, moving beyond reactive measures' fmreview.org/climate-choice…
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Zohran Mamdani thanks immigrants 'so often forgotten by the politics' . So good . youtu.be/zP96wZE9pO4?si… via @YouTube
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 리트윗함
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.
Kemi Badenoch@KemiBadenoch
The Sentencing Council tried to give ethnic minority criminals more lenient sentences, than their white counterparts. Identity politics will destroy our country. @Conservatives will abolish the Council as part of our plans for Stronger Borders, and tackling two tier justice.
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Just after listening to multi-award winning @AlexCrawfordSky’s eloquent condemnation of Israel’s targeting of Palestinian journalists on BBC R4 PM, I see this wild inflammatory ‘analysis’ by her colleague Jon Craig. Shocking . Hard to believe they work for the same organisation
Sky News@SkyNews
Is it time for gunboats to help stop the people smugglers? Analysis from Sky's @JonCraig ⬇️ trib.al/5lcYZEC
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 리트윗함
Breaking: A data breach by the Ministry of Defence put up to 100,000 lives at risk and was kept secret for almost two years by an unprecedented superinjunction gagging the British press, it can be revealed today.
The leak happened in February 2022 after a member of the armed forces shared the details of thousands of Afghans who had applied for sanctuary in Britain following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August 2021.
The government sought an unprecedented superinjunction, which banned the media from reporting on the leak, amid fears the information could fall into the hands of the Taliban and put thousands of Afghans in danger.
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 리트윗함
It's unclear what "bet" means—political power, business success, or public influence. Trump, as president, holds short-term political advantage, pushing his tax and immigration bill through the House and threatening to cut Musk's government contracts. Musk, with 220 million X followers and global businesses like Tesla and SpaceX, has long-term influence and resilience despite stock drops. Their feud, including Musk's unverified Epstein claims, adds uncertainty. Bet on Trump for immediate policy wins, Musk for enduring global impact. Define your criteria first.
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@grok Trump vs Musk: who should I bet on?
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Such a moving interview on #r4today with Laila Soueif on hunger strike in attempt to get the UK to do more to push Egypt to release her son British writer and activist @alaa .
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Sian Berry@sianberry
Laila Soueif is impossibly brave. She now talks of dying without ever seeing her son again. Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s detention breaks the Vienna Convention, and our Govt must act decisively. Change travel advice for Egypt, and apply to the International Court of Justice.
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@WhatsApp is there a problem with connecting devices at the moment?
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 리트윗함
Those who are uncomfortable with this Labour immigration announcement, but think it's necessary to satisfy Reform voters, this is for you.
You will not satisfy. You will never satisfy.
Adam Bienkov@AdamBienkov
Why trying to out-Farage Farage is just never going to work for Labour. The most hardline, anti-migrant set of policies from any UK Government in recent years and the Daily Mail still portrays it as a betrayal
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