Mastodawn

Daniel Sohege Aug 27, 2023

The irony of posting this on social media isn't lost on me, but the impact of misinformation on social media about refugee situations is clearly lost on many people. Social media has allowed refugees to show the horrors of what they are going through, but far more commonly it is used to make those horrors even worse.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/8/25/facebook-should-pay-for-what-it-did-to-my-people-rohingya

Facebook should pay for what it did to my people, Rohingya

For six years, I have been stuck in an overcrowded refugee camp. Facebook helped create the conditions that got me here.

Al Jazeera

Daniel Sohege Aug 21, 2023

The need for "extra space" is entirely down to this government failing to process applications for those seeking asylum. It has nothing to do with the number of people arriving. This government made a political decision to leave people waiting, and spend millions of taxpayers money on performative cruelty at the same time.

Daniel Sohege Aug 21, 2023

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Daniel Sohege Aug 19, 2023

It would be so much more entertaining watching the Home Office eat itself if it weren't for the fact that they are taking out their ineptitude on migrants, and particularly those seeking asylum. While they try and outdo themselves on performative cruelty others are suffering.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/222f23b0-3e98-11ee-bb14-4a4bb3eeebb7?shareToken=e01995032dce8804c712ef775a3c128e

Swearing and stand-offs as the Home Office goes full Tarantino

Two words still hold magical power to unsettle inside the Home Office, the great department of state where more political careers have gone to die than any othe

The Sunday Times

Daniel Sohege Aug 19, 2023

Someone was optimistic that people would even pay that price to be in the legionella ridden, rotting prison hulk.
BBC News - Bibby Stockholm: Hoax listing for asylum barge on travel website
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-66550863

Bibby Stockholm: Hoax listing for asylum barge on travel website

A man has admitted his listing for the Bibby Stockholm craft on Booking.com was done as "a joke".

BBC News

Daniel Sohege Aug 7, 2023

What a pointless and inhumane PR stunt. 15 people seeking safety stuck on a floating death trap just so this government can grab a headline

https://news.sky.com/story/first-15-asylum-seekers-moved-onto-bibby-stockholm-barge-12935384

First 15 asylum seekers moved onto Bibby Stockholm barge

Sky

Daniel Sohege Aug 6, 2023

Explaining on LBC News that it really doesn't matter if it is Labour or the Conservatives doing it, temporarily or not, the use of barges to warehouse people seeking safety remains a totally inhumane policy which should be scrapped immediately.

https://youtu.be/c-kKaj0RaIc

LBC news Labour position on Barges Made with Clipchamp

YouTube

Daniel Sohege Aug 6, 2023

Can pretty much guarantee that Braverman will use this to ramp up attacks against Iranians seeking asylum under the pretence of "national security", while the client media help stir more islamophobia on the back of it.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a02bd760-33c9-11ee-bd0d-b217d7a83feb?shareToken=9a5180295554a2e46019040e423dd370

Iranian state ‘now biggest threat to UK’

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is the biggest threat to Britain’s national security, the home secretary believes, amid fresh evidence of its reach int

The Sunday Times

Daniel Sohege Aug 5, 2023

Parris and his "only asking questions" schtick while simultaneously claiming that people are faking mental health issues is one of the sicker columns, and the bar is low, he has written recently, especially considering the number of disabled people who have already died because of this government's benefits system.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/77449e0e-32f2-11ee-b04c-88a034803f06?shareToken=c8a0a3933d0b457a1f94e031512e6dd2

Mental health crisis may not be all it seems

Puzzled by the swelling numbers of working-aged people in Britain who are neither working nor seeking work, we scratch our heads. Why? Many indicators point us

The Times

Daniel Sohege Aug 5, 2023

Sides with makes this sound like the Judge was taking a political position. She made a legal ruling. That is not "siding with". Unfortunately though, wording like this will cause the pro-life pillocks, who seem remarkably happy for mothers to die, to claim that it is all biased.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66412846

Texas abortion ban temporarily lifted for medical emergencies

Women in the US state with pregnancy complications will be exempted from the abortion ban, a judge rules.

BBC News