BBC using the phrase 'approved asylum seekers' today. It's technically correct I suppose, but emotionally barren - taking a word that inspires sympathy and turning it into a dead administrative phrase. They are refugees.
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Was only a matter of time I guess before we became so dead inside that we would start punishing refugees themselves. These are people who we have accepted fled violence, torture and discrimination. And our response is what? To bar them from living with their loved ones.
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What a pitiful state of affairs. What a cold, dead-hearted act of petty misery. What a Christ-forsaken impoverishment of the soul.
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I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
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Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from.
I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR."
It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
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Where is the mainsteam media? Anyone out there? Can you hear me???
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Fifty-one of the 85 Federalist papers were written by a guy born in Nevis.
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‼️ This article is really important. Russian oil companies reported a drop in net profits in 1H 2025 of 50%-67%.
🛢️Rosneft: -68% 🛢️Lukoil: -51% 🛢️Gazprom Neft: -54% 🛢️Transneft: Unpublished 🛢️ Surgutneftegas: Unprofitable* 🛢️ Tatneft: -65% 🛢️Russneft: -69%
‼️ Russia: “Putin's Commodity Economy Is Cracking at the Seams: All of Russia's Biggest Oil Companies Report Plunging Profits”
A strong ruble, low oil prices, & refinery shutdowns will do that!
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"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on."
"When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?"
"All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
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