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Hendrik Epe

Moin zum !

Kids haben Osterferien und ich bin mal für drei Tage raus.

Vorher aber noch eine und zwei Vorgespräch für anstehende Projekte.

Und hier kannst Du nachlesen, was passiert, wenn entscheidet.

Und nein, es geht ausnahmsweise nicht um Zölle.

Es geht um die Beendigung der -Vereinbarungen aller US-Behörden mit ihren Angestellten.

Ganz amüsant, wenn's für die betroffenen Menschen nicht so absurd wäre...

👇

golem.de/news/return-to-office

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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

You'll recall the case of the Polish women denied the right to remain in the UK because she filled out the wrong (an online version rather than a paper form), well now the Home Office has relented.

Interestingly, the Home Office (no doubt instructed to be more business like) now seems to respond well to cases that are high-lighted by the media... just like commercial firms responding to consumer page complaints!

If only they could just be humane!

#politics #HomeOffice
theguardian.com/politics/2025/

The Guardian · Polish woman, 80, threatened with deportation can stay in UKBy Diane Taylor
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alecm

I don’t greatly like that the BBC have made me agree with Kemi Badenoch about something, but she’s absolutely correct to say that…

…policy making should not be a matter of responding to populist “gut feels” inspired by cinema or television.

Aside from anything else: back in the 1980s this was how we got so many terrible computer misuse laws & unjust trials, because of WarGames.

https://twitter.com/addicted2newz/status/1910281285798396237

https://x.com/addicted2newz/status/1910281285798396237

X (formerly Twitter)Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) on XKemi Badenoch torches BBC Breakfast: ‘I don’t need to watch Casualty to know what's going on in the NHS.’ 🔥 This is insane. The BBC are visibly offended that Kemi Badenoch *hasn't* watched the Netflix drama Adolescence. I had to post the whole thing, it's utterly absurd.
#cybersecurity#homeOffice#kemiBadenoch
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Geriatric Gardener

“The UK’s AI Borders: #Anduril’s #Autonomous #Surveillance #Towers”

by researcher Samuel Storey, hosted by the Migrants’ Rights Network

@UKLabour

“Criminalising people arriving via irregular routes has been a number one priority for successive UK governments. These silent, ever-watching towers are a physical marker of where the #Hostile #Environment begins”

migrantsrights.org.uk/projects

#Press#UK#Migrant
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INBELLA

‘WE WERE FORCED TO STEP BACK’ inbella.com/995362/we-were-for #AlQaeda #BANGShowbiz #BritishRoyalFamily #CourtOfAppeal #duchess #DuchessOfSussex #Duke #DukeOfSussex #ExecutiveCommitteeForTheProtectionOfRoyaltyAndPublicFigures #HARRY #HighCourt #HomeOffice #London #Meghan #MeghanMarkle #Megxit #NewYork #PrinceHarry #RAVEC #RiskManagementBoard #Royal #RoyalFamilies #RoyalGossip #Royals #RoyalsGossip #Sussex #uk

INBELLA · ‘WE WERE FORCED TO STEP BACK’PRINCE Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex were “forced” to step back from royal family duties because they were “not being protected by the institution”.The 40-year-old Duke of Sussex claimed as he challenged a decision made by the High Court last year, which dismissed his case against the Home Office and the Executive Committee for the Protection of Royalty and Public Figures (Ravec).He has now launched a fresh legal battle at the Court of Appeal, seeking to overturn that ruling by arguing his security arrangements were unjustly downgraded after he stepped down as a working royal in 2020
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Amnesty in Salisbury & South Wiltshire

Refugee report

Monthly report on this politically toxic topic

April 2025

The Government’s Border Security Asylum and Immigration Bill has now completed its report stage and will next go to the Lords.  While this is going on, an update on the numbers shows that the number of small boat arrivals this year so far has exceeded 6000, the highest yet.  Meanwhile the backlog of pending asylum cases has increased to 41,000 in December.

The PM has drawn together 40 nations for his Organised Immigration Crime summit last week.  A press release went without much comment, containing the usual statements about agreeing to enhance border security and dismantle the criminal networks.  One item which did emerge was an agreement with Serbia to exchange intelligence about what is now known as the Western Balkans route into Europe.

Following this event, some 136 organisations under the umbrella of Together with Refugees wrote to the Government, unhappy about the language used by the Prime Minister, which they described as “demonising.”  The PM had claimed: “There is little that strikes working people as more unfair than watching illegal migration drive down their wages, their terms and their conditions through illegal work in their community.”

New research from the European University has suggested that attitudes in Europe to irregular migration are more nuanced and varied than previously supposed.  This was from a survey which covered 20,000 people across Austria, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK designed to understand their preferences on policies regarding access to healthcare, social welfare and labour protections, as well as the obtainment of regular legal status or “regularisation” for irregular migrants. The results challenge the idea that public attitudes toward irregular migrants’ rights are simply “for” or “against”.  Instead, they found that variations in policy design matter – and when policies include both migration controls and protections for migrants, public support often increases.

Unusually, there is some emphasis this month about campaigning.  Refugee Week (third week in June) is this year under the theme of Community as a Superpower with its customary emphasis on small actions. The group might consider an action (s) which might include:

Following our action against denying asylum seekers the right to work pushing for a change in the law. Refugee Action have a petition to sign here and, for more information, you can Read the coalition’s report here. We could arrange our own petition using the Lift the Ban coalition’s resources.

  • Pressing for Salisbury to be a City of Sanctuary (Winchester and Swindon are)
  • A letter writing workshop for supporting asylum seekers (maybe using the Salisbury Ecohub)
  • A vigil for small boat arrivals (as we did a few years ago)
  • Safe Passage want us to write to our MPs about government  policy and the new bill

(They have a standard email, but this could be enhanced).

Also Refugee Action are offering speakers for local groups – they admit they would mostly be online, but they can make visits.

Finally, a recommended read is Labour’s Immigration Policy by Daniel Trilling (who many will remember gave a talk to us some years ago) in the London Review of Books for March.

Andrew Hemming

The ConversationEuropeans have more flexible views on how to respond to irregular migrants than policymakers think – new researchThere is a public preference for some policies that include a pathway to legal status.
#asylum#HomeOffice#immigration
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Patrick Georgi

#Koalitionsvertrag RN1842:
"Wir sichern durch eine Fachkräfteoffensive die Qualität und Verlässlichkeit im öffentlichen Dienst. Dazu gehören für uns: mehr Frauen in Führungspositionen, flexiblere Arbeitszeitmodelle, bessere Möglichkeiten für Führen in Teilzeit und eine bessere Abbildung der Vielfalt unserer Gesellschaft in der öffentlichen Verwaltung."

Sehr viel Fokus auf "Führung", was darauf hindeutet, was die Koalitionäre unter "#Fachkräften" verstehen.

Explizit nicht genannt: #Verdienst, #Homeoffice

(Auch nett: "flexiblere Arbeitszeitmodelle", nachdem 1000 Zeilen früher von steuerfreiem Geld für #Überstunden die Rede war.)

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Tino Eberl

Immer mehr Berliner:innen lassen das #Auto stehen.

Nur noch 22 % der Wege werden motorisiert zurückgelegt. Deutlich im Aufwind ist der #Fußverkehr mit inzwischen 34 % Anteil.

Dagegen stagnieren #Radverkehr und #ÖPNV. Verkehrsforscher fordern daher gezielte Investitionen in #Infrastruktur für #Radwege und einen flexibleren, bedarfsorientierten Nahverkehr statt pauschalem Ausbau.

tagesspiegel.de/berlin/grosse-

Der Tagesspiegel · Große Studie zum Berliner Verkehr: Das Auto bleibt immer öfter stehen, zu Fuß gehen boomtBy Christian Latz
#Mobilität#Verkehrswende#Berlin
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