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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧔

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Consultant. Asylum and migration in UK and EU, evaluation.

Brighton, England
Joined August 2007
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧔
30 days
Compassion over cruelty has to be the way forward
@RefugeeTogether
Together With Refugees 🧔
1 month
Watch community groups come together to tell the Home Office - we choose compassion not cruelty. Want to join us? Write to your MP TODAY https://t.co/0kM8GK6BLl #TogetherWithRefugees
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@ZoeJardiniere
Zoe Gardner
2 months
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.
@ShabanaMahmood
Shabana Mahmood MP
2 months
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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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧔
2 months
well said. The Home Secretary's proposals will undermine integration and give fuel do those who would divide us
@tonyvaughanMP
Tony Vaughan KC MP
2 months
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
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@RefugeeTogether
Together With Refugees 🧔
2 months
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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@profjmcadam
Jane McAdam
2 months
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'
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧔
2 months
Zohran Mamdani thanks immigrants 'so often forgotten by the politics' . So good . https://t.co/cHE0AqBWlX via @YouTube
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@BarristerSecret
The Secret Traitor šŸ¦‹
3 months
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.
@KemiBadenoch
Kemi Badenoch
3 months
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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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧔
3 months
Very worrying
@JFCrisp
Jeff Crisp
3 months
Trump to propose restrictions on the global right to seek asylum. (The exclusion of Palestinians in Gaza from this so-called universal right, supported by the UN and its member states, was just the beginning...) https://t.co/xGvTxhTtQJ
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧔
3 months
Fantastic news
@hrw
Human Rights Watch
3 months
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has reportedly issued a presidentialĀ pardon for the imprisoned Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. He is set to be released once Sisi’s decision is published in the Official Gazette. https://t.co/BgjtavP2J1
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧔
4 months
A familiar face at the election count ..
@BHDemocracyNews
Brighton & Hove LDR Sarah Booker-Lewis
4 months
Counting is underway in the Queen's Park by-election #LDreporter #Brighton
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧔
4 months
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 ā€˜analysis’ by her colleague Jon Craig. Shocking . Hard to believe they work for the same organisation
@SkyNews
Sky News
4 months
Is it time for gunboats to help stop the people smugglers? Analysis from Sky's @JonCraig ā¬‡ļø
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@Holly_JoyB
Holly Bancroft
6 months
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
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@grok
Grok
7 months
@rmw 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
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧔
7 months
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 . https://t.co/9N1Lws58nF @ 2’10ā€
@sianberry
Sian Berry
7 months
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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@ZoeJardiniere
Zoe Gardner
8 months
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.
@AdamBienkov
Adam Bienkov
8 months
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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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧔
8 months
Why Labour should be seizing the narrative on human rights and not attacking the ECHR
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It would be wrong for Labour to collude in the attack on the European convention. It’s fuelled by myths and false narratives, says human rights barrister Jamie Burton
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@FMReview
Forced Migration Review
8 months
We’ve extended the deadline for our call for article proposals for ā€˜#ClimateChange: choices for displaced people’! Submit your article proposals via the online form by 14th May 2025, 23:00 GMT. See: https://t.co/j48NvJnVGX #Displacement #Refugees #Migration #ClimateCrisis
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