anitahowarth

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Migrated from Twitter. Academic. Research interests include migration, poverty and hunger, political communication. Value civility in debate; like new ideas and divergent views; hate attacks on the person rather than position or argument. Hope this space chimes with those values. Don't often post, but really enjoy listening/hearing
Very disappointed to hear the high court #Rwanda judgement. We must keep on highlighting the gross unfairness of this approach. Not everything legal is moral. The human struggle has always been to make the immoral illegal. That can never achieve via silence.
#Refugees
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/19/asylum-seekers-rwanda-uk-plan-legal-high-court
Suella Braverman restates Rwanda deportation goal after court ruling

Judges rule policy is legal but rebuke Home Office over attempt to deport eight people in June

The Guardian

I agree with @CarolineLucas . The high court may have ruled as "legal", the government's plans to send some asylum seekers to #Rwanda, but it is still "inhumane, morally bankrupt and unworkable".

Which is a pretty accurate summary of this #ToxicTories government in general.

#ToriesOut #GTTO

Also why would deportation to #Rwanda deter the smugglers? This widely promoted logic defeats me. Smugglers take money from very desperate people who may not necessarily have all the facts, and don’t give a monkey’s whether these people end up in the UK, Rwanda or Mars!

Feeling very ashamed to be British today. How can you just traffic people around, willy nilly, against their will? Particularly to a random country with awful human rights, and to be housed in awful conditions. It's like sending someone to prison for no reason whatsoever and without trial. It's just sick; I'm feeling very disillusioned at the moment.

#RwandaSchemeNotInMyName #Rwanda #FuckTheTories #AsylumSeekers #RefugeeCrisis #ToryScandal

Twitter death a few steps nearer, after the content blocking decisions. Which seem petty, insecure, highly inconsistent, and are raising the threat of possible legal challenges. Perhaps he will back off.

And it's not without some sadness I leave Twitter behind, for now. I have built a wonderful network there, and launched loads of projects and ideas there.

But by staying I'd be backing Musk's wrong headed approach. And I can't make him or Twitter change.

All I can do is leave.

High Court declares that the Home Secretary is acting unlawfully by failing to meet asylum seekers’ essential living needs and protect them from destitution in the cost of living crisis | Doughty Street Chambers

The High Court has today ruled that the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has acted and is continuing to act unlawfully by failing in her legal duty to provide for the essential living needs of asy

Poor little girl is just trying to keep warm
Thanks for doing this. V useful. I'd appreciate it if you could add my name to the list
"Twitter’s most recent transparency report, published in July, shows that it took action on 4.3 million accounts in the second half of 2021 and removed 5.1 million pieces of content. You could cherry-pick a few of those decisions to fit almost any ideological narrative"
Essential reading, from Renee Di Resta
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/twitter-files-content-moderation-transparency/672468/?s=09
The Twitter Files Are a Missed Opportunity

No one really knows what Elon Musk’s company is doing to free speech.

The Atlantic