Simon Cox
migration & equality, law & politics | lawyer | cis | he/him | @DoughtyStImm.bsky.social | trustee Right To Remain | ex-OSF | my views obvs, not doughty st | large photo Paul Trevor, 1978, Brick Lane
- Overheard, late teen, early 20s “ I think I’m just gonna write Mum a poem for Christmas”
- I once wrote a story for a relative when I was about 12 and was told it wasn't enough. I didn't exactly have an income.
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- This is very basic stuff
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View full threadThe Home Secretary can take British citizenship away if she thinks that doing so is “in the public interest” - section 40(2) British Nationality Act 1981 www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/6... but not if that would make the person stateless: section 40(4). That’s facially broad words. …
- A Reform or other government that didn’t even pretend to care about convention could really take advantage of that broadness. As a dual national I’d like to keep my ‘insurance policy’ but then that probably makes me more deportable.
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Putin is pushing Russia into the junior partner slot with China, rather than first among equals within Europe, but go on about his strategic genius.- what if Putin cares more about Putin than Russia tho
- Then you get mistakes like this, which will define his political end. He doesn't survive the end of this war, no matter the resolution.
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- between this and The Guardian's Chitra Ramaswamy not knowing that Kenneth Clark and Kenneth Clarke are two different people, I think journalism is having a great Tuesday in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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- Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.
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- This hits hard. My grandmother had jewellery sewn into the lining of her coat when the family arrived in the UK on a small boat in 1940.
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- I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄 Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque? It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage 🧵 1/26
- Sunder, as always with a rational, humanist and politics-aware summary.
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- Reconnecting with friends from 'the other place' @simonfrcox.bsky.social
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- a toss up for me between 'Salisbury on a Friday night in the late 1990s' - the combination of squaddies and townies makes it especially nasty - and 'Novosibirsk in broad daylight.'
