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Consultant. Asylum and migration in UK and EU, evaluation.
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Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 retweeted
That’s it. Very little else to add. aa.com.tr/en/europe/kremlin-…
Compassion over cruelty has to be the way forward
Watch community groups come together to tell the Home Office - we choose compassion not cruelty.
Want to join us? Write to your MP TODAY
tinyurl.com/382ujcwn
#TogetherWithRefugees
Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 retweeted
Is the international refugee system collapsing?
linkedin.com/pulse/grandis-f…
Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 retweeted
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.
well said. The Home Secretary's proposals will undermine integration and give fuel do those who would divide us
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…
Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 retweeted
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 🧡 retweeted
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-choices…
Zohran Mamdani thanks immigrants 'so often forgotten by the politics' . So good . youtu.be/zP96wZE9pO4?si=JS2l… via @YouTube
Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 retweeted
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.
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.
Very worrying
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...)
passblue.com/2025/09/19/un-s…
Fantastic news
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has reportedly issued a presidential 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. hrw.org/news/2025/09/22/egyp…
A familiar face at the election count ..
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
Is it time for gunboats to help stop the people smugglers?
Analysis from Sky's @JonCraig ⬇️ trib.al/5lcYZEC
Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 retweeted
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.
Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 retweeted
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.
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 .
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002d0…
@ 2’10”
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.
ALT Siân is stood next to Laila Souief, in parliament after Siân asked the Government to do more to free Alaa.
Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 retweeted
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.
Why Labour should be seizing the narrative on human rights and not attacking the ECHR theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Richard Williams @rmwilliams.bsky.social 🧡 retweeted
We’ve extended the deadline for our call for article proposals for ‘#ClimateChange: choices for displaced people’!
Submit your article proposals via the online form by 14th May 2025, 23:00 GMT.
See: fmreview.org/climate-change-…
#Displacement #Refugees #Migration #ClimateCrisis