Samir Jeraj
Reporter and author. Writing on policy for The New Statesman. Commissioning editor for Hyphen. Senior Fellow John Schofield Trust. Swimmer with locs
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- Waiting for @direthoughts.com to do a Subject Access Request 👀
- Really moved by the latest episode of Starfleet Academy. Also - Jay-Den! ❤️ 🏳️🌈
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- "You could be a part-time Ambassador, (but you'd probably not do a good job)"
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- Reposted by Samir JerajLabour is creating a vulnerable migrant underclass @zoejardiniere.bsky.social
- I interviewed the Rhun ap Iorwerth on what a Plaid government would look like for Welsh Muslims and whether a Reform government in Westminster would mean a dash for independence: hyphenonline.com/2026/02/03/p...
- Strong Brasseye vibes: this is the one thing we didn't want to happen.
- What radicalised you? Me: excessive admin
- The PRs are getting better at gaming the subject line length
- Greens announcing their Gorton and Denton candidate at 11am.
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- Fun fact: The 1911 Parliament Act was also the piece of legislation that provided for the payment of MPs. Before then, the handful of working class MPs were sponsored by trades unions (Everyone else in parliament was rich). www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
- Reposted by Samir JerajJust had to go back through some of my work for New Statesman and honestly am not sure I will ever top this piece on councils' crappy investments into crappy business parks. www.newstatesman.com/business/202...
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- Apparently, deporting your parents is the new Cricket Test
- Reposted by Samir JerajEnd of an era for some of us. RIP.
- Reposted by Samir JerajThe New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
- Remembering a dear friend who passed 14 years ago today.
- Loved this. Shout out to the London A-Z and making maps of your route. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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- Reposted by Samir JerajSums up how rubbish Badenoch is that she has been forced into a “You’re dumping me? I’m dumping you!” rather than just sacking and disbarring Jenrick over the many, many things that would have kept him out of any Tory Cabinet since 1968.
- Reposted by Samir JerajThere's too many primary school places in London for not enough kids. So schools are competing to stay alive, copying private school marketing tactics with Instagram ad campaigns — and in one case offering a £50 Amazon voucher referral scheme for parents. www.londoncentric.media/i/184437718/...
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- Latest in modern digitised government: to store your will with HMCTS, you have to pay the fee (a modest £23 tbh).... by cheque or postal order(!). Last time I used a postal order was in 2017 to pay for a visa because the Embassy in question required it. www.gov.uk/government/p...
- Reposted by Samir JerajA new report out today by Unseen, a leading charity which manages the modern slavery helpline, has found that immigration laws brought in since 2022 have helped trafficking thrive. The changes have contributed to a "culture of disbelief" in victims. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
- Copilot is used in the Civil Service...
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- The dating site was named WhiteDate, they missed a trick not calling it PlentyOfFash: www.nnjournal.co.uk/p/reform-uk-...
- Reform-led Kent is raising council tax by 4% rather than the maximum 5%, effectively cutting services. It’s not a smart move. Wonder what the S151 officer (the CFO) will make of this. Law requires them to issue a warning if a budget is reckless. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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- Waiting eagerly for the story that brings all these tags together
- Time for a rewatch of Jo Nesbo’s Occupied and the last season of Borgen.
- Who’d have thought that the biggest threat to NATO wouldn’t be Zack Polanski.
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- Reform in Derbyshire will be raising council tax by the maximum allowed, 5 percent, meaning there has yet to be a Reform-led Council which has reduced the rise in council tax, or cut council tax, as many candidates promised in the run up to local elections. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Samir JerajHere’s a fun top five: things that are consensus among historians but are essentially unknown by the public. Richard I, a bad king of England. Roman Empire, fell in 1453. Paul, more important than Jesus. Witch burning, a modern phenomenon not a medieval one. Britain last invaded in 1688. Yours?
- I interviewed Operation Black Vote founder Lord Woolley for the New Statesman. We talked about his childhood, the hustle, racism and his role as Principal of Homerton College: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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- Reposted by Samir JerajDog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
- Worth noting that Councillors have had to declare membership of the Masons since 2004: www.lgcplus.com/archive/coun...
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- Reposted by Samir JerajI would like to let you know that I am reviewing Sarkozy's prison memoir for the Observer and reading it is making me lose my mind, he wrote a 213-page book about being in prison for twenty (20) days, the minutiae of it is exactly as agonising as you'd imagine, fucking *hell*
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- Reform is a minority administration in Worcestershire, meaning they need opposition votes to pass a budget.... I've flagged them here as the Reform Council most likely to go bankrupt, in part for that reason. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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- This is classist AF. I remember the CEO of a big national charity giving a speech about how he was the son of an unskilled refugee who had come to Britain, built a life and worked to ensure his kids had choices he never did.
- Reposted by Samir JerajBut the good news is, by doing this, we defeated racism in the UK.
- Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May. Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
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- Feedback from a staffer for a parliamentarian from another Party: “That really is one of those things to read if you're having a bad week and want to remind yourself of how it is for others.....”
- I wrote about how Labour staffers feel about nearly 18 months of being in government.
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- Reposted by Samir JerajSpot on. The terms of the plan 2 loan are utterly usurious. Notably the budget has not frozen just the threshold for repayments at a marginal rate of 9%, dragging more and more graduates into it, but it also freezes the interest of those loans which is as much as 6.2%! Which is ridiculous!!
- I'm constantly shocked (but not surprised) by how little we discuss the additional financial burden placed on young people by the Clegg-Cameron student loan regime. @rmcunliffe.bsky.social is one of the few journalists who brings it up continuously - once again in the wake of the budget 👇
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- OBR employee pleads for understanding pbs.twimg.com/media/Dltzz1...
- Reposted by Samir JerajBREAKING The entire Budget has leaked early - £22BN of headroom - £26bn tax rises - Freeze on tax thresholds - Pay per mileage confirmed - Changes to capital gains
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- I’m very in favour of min wage increase but this will have a significant impact on local council finances, unless Reeves can boost funding for social care: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- Reposted by Samir JerajWhy the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.
- Interested in what you make of this @stephenkb.bsky.social. I remember you writing(tweeting?) about the limited prospects for religious politics in the UK and potential role of London as a pretty religious city: www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
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- Reform took control of ten councils this May and lead several more, but not all is working as they might have hoped. Me for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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- Reposted by Samir JerajIt’s just nuts. Even if you accept Labour’s policy diagnosis, we “lost control” of our borders, and concern about immigration was rising long before the alarming rise of racism. The big change on racism has been we traded an anti-racist government for one that is at best Trappist on it.
- Echoes the excellent point made by @stephenkb.bsky.social
- Genuinely baffled as to what qualifies Jonathan Hinder to intervene in a discussion about race: www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
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- Will Labour sacrifice a functional NHS in their pursuit of an immigration policy that is unlikely to work even on its own terms? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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- Jewellery is still used as a means to identify bodies. Here's a recent example: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/w...
- How many people would be comfortable buying a wedding ring that had been seized from a refugee. Maybe it was the last item they had to remember a loved one. Is that the world we want our government to actively encourage?
- Reposted by Samir JerajThis sounds incredibly exciting www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
