“They were taken back to the forest with their entire family.” 🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 of Fortress Europe - on the ground reporting on the EU’s violent borders. Episode 2: a race against time to save migrants trapped between Poland and Belarus. https://t.co/CSs3JB6vk8

Vast swathes of the UK media are incurably incurious and uninformed about this issue, despite screaming about it day and night, so unlikely any of Mahmood’s nonsense will be scrutinised.

The UK is not the ‘destination of choice’ for most asylum seekers. Many other EU countries have more and there is no evidence for the authoritarian myth that UK is a ‘soft touch’ or that it is the reason why people come here.

At a time of heightened disorder, the Home Secretary is fuelling public misconceptions about asylum seekers, rather than seek to inform and calm tensions.

The 2025 Sakharov Prize has been awarded to a pair of journalists - the Polish-Belarusian Andrzej Poczobut and Georgian Mzia Amaglobeli - both of whom are currently serving time in jail for charges related to their work.

I wonder how long it will take the thugs in the street to adopt this weasel term into their mantras.

“Culturally coherent”

Hoshoryu was gifted a giant soy sauce after becoming Grand Champion 😆

Katie Lam’s ancestors fled Nazi persecution to the UK and now she wants to block refugees and mass deport legal migrants. The Tories’ “new hope” can’t even stand up for her own existence.

A bomb explosion destroys the car belonging to investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci, who conducts the RAI programme "Report". Ranucci has been living under police protection for 11 years. The list of suspects will be very long as he's "upset" so many. https://t.co/AU3iWglYjY

Connolly's excuses for going on regime junkets are the height of arrogance and privilege, saying they “empowered me, enabled me & made me stronger as a voice for peace.” Unclear how she advanced the cause of peace by mingling with perpetrators of war crimes.

Being a useful idiot for the Assad regime should rule out being a candidate for Ireland’s President.

But of course that would not elicit flashy macho headlines, so instead we'll send our boys in blue to Vojvodina with some night vision goggles.

Smuggling networks thrive with the connivance of compromised border officers. If the UK was remotely serious about this issue they would ramp up investment in Balkan civil society and independent media that can tackle and expose corruption.

He still doesn't know what "asylum" means and no one is ever going to tell him.

Poland hosts one million Ukrainian refugees. Last year they generated 2.7% of GDP.

London murders have fallen to 89 in the last 12 months. The lowest rate on record.

North Sea oil rig workers rescue owl blown out to sea during Storm Amy.

NEW: POLITICO obtained private group chat messages between leaders of Young Republican groups across the country. They talk about putting their opponents in gas chambers, raping their enemies and refer to Black people as “monkey” and “the watermelon people” https://t.co/Ba28MweLYa

Home Office logic: 1-Offer no asylum route 2-People claim asylum using legitimate routes 3-Close those routes 4-People claim asylum using illegitimate routes 5-Post tweets screaming about small boats 6-? 7-Achieve strong borders

Outrageous. They should have come by small boat instead.