Mr Kellie Strom

Trump and Musk have given the best reason why not to buy American. Customers - governmental and private alike - around the globe will take note of this and act accordingly, and I wouldn't be surprised if this won't be limited to US military products only.

This story is all about the Defence Industrial Joint Council, set up last year with Palantir on it At the council's first meeting, MoD's industrial strategy director Barney Kistruck said there would be an 'emphasis on procurement reform' Three months later, Kistruck left the MoD - for Palantir

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

Net migration was 171,000 for 2025 but visas were falling sharply & have kept doing so. Expect it to fall below 75,000 for July 2025 - June 2026 in November data, then zero for 2026 (announced May 2027) James has had vg modeling and predictions: his prediction is 50k bsky.app/profile/jame...

Meanwhile... "the foreign secretary has approved new drilling in the Sea Lion field, which is estimated to hold 1.7 billion barrels of oil and expected to start producing from 2028."

From @societyofauthors.bsky.social today on controversy over Charter of Ethical AI Use in the Creative Industries: “To allow time to listen to members’ views and concerns, the Society of Authors will withdraw from the Charter. There will be discussion about next steps at the AGM on 19 November.”

Desperate stuff Home Secretary originally argued (very misleadingly) care workers shouldn't be allowed to settle because their wages were so low that they'd be a fiscal cost. Now she's arguing they shouldn't be allowed to settle because they'd get better paid jobs www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Disappointing to see that basic facts about these proposals are not being accurately reported, almost a year after their publication The government's policy documents are clear that care workers face a tripling of their route to settlement to 15 years www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

French police use vehicles paid for by UK to charge at students. Cars funded by UK govt specifically to prevent asylum seekers crossing the Channel were used during a student protest in Dunkirk, injuring a 14-year-old girl. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Something I talk about in this article, which you can Google Translate if you're into that sort of thing. bsky.app/profile/euro...

Surgeon faces deportation as Home Office revokes refugee status for Syrians

Abolish the Home Office

The far right are escalating... and someone is going to get killed samanthaasumadu.substack.com/p/the-far-ri...

Ah, AI debt binge, we barely knew ye - www.ft.com/content/9c13...

We're all drinking the kool aid, folks. Even the investors who don't like the stuff are struggling to figure out how to avoid it. 🎁:- as.ft.com/r/310cd6d8-3...

It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

“An AI tool used to speed up the processing of thousands of asylum cases is failing basic accuracy tests…” The idea that synthetic text generating “AI” can be a useful aid in determining refugee status is ridiculous. We should challenge the automation of decision-making and erosion of our rights.

‘… Labour’s strategy seems not dissimilar from the “ming vase” approach that propelled Starmer into Number 10: keep your head down and stay out of trouble… Abdi-Wali’s team repeatedly rebuffed our requests to go out canvassing with her…’ www.the-londoner.co.uk/sagal-abdi-w...

Our statement on the recent Green Party of England and Wales motion 'Zionism is Racism'. europeangreens.eu/news/egp-pos...

The head of Jewish Greens has said she might quit the party, amid growing anger among some members at Zack Polanski for his inaction over the party’s policy motion equating Zionism with racism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Home Secretary rightly points out that nearly all women who make dangerous journeys to the UK are survivors of rape. So why does the Govt. detain women on arrival, let women languish in the asylum system for months and years on end, & close safe routes that support women and children? 1/2

The first school visit, 1972 Artist: Harry Wingfield

The Iran anti-sanctions motion wasn't debated in the end at Green Party conference (ran out of time as I understand it) 5 of the 12 named proposers of 'Zionism is Racism' motion were also proposers of the anti-sanctions Iran motion (and 2 more backed it in the internal party discussion thread)

Re. the Zionism is Racism motion passing Any legal challenge might look at the motion potentially making Jewish members going to Zionist synogogues - i.e. the majority - feel they have to choose between their place of worship and the Greens

Amendment 3 sought to include that the motion should not be used to “pressure, proscribe or discipline members based on affiliation with Jewish community institutions” - which had the support of party leader Zack Polanski. This amednment was voted down: 684 votes in favour 1026 votes against

Some Greens feel Polanski has shown a complete lack of leadership on the motion, saying he was happy to see an influx of new members but then did nothing to make sure they stuck with Green values. In fairness, the leader has few powers. But they do have influence - and Polanski has not exerted any.

I can only repeat what I said during Labour's Corbyn's phase: guys, you didn't read the manual properly. You start the purging and witch hunting AFTER you win power.

The Green Party deserves thanks on two fronts. Firstly, for helping to bring down Kier Starmer's government. And secondly, for reminding us how toxic and useless some parts of the British left are.

‘Three other amendments, including one that said the motion should not be used to “pressure, proscribe or discipline members based on affiliation with Jewish community institutions”, were voted down.’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Epic timing for a Holborn and St Pancras by election.

I did a deep-dive recently on the Iran motions re. Green Party conference for those interested. (The pro-sanctions motion did not get prioritised by members, the anti-sanctions one is likely to be debated and voted on) bylinetimes.com/2026/09/10/g...

What to do with the horses of Darndale? Grazing in public parks means other uses are being pushed out, and adding momentum to calls for an equine centre and stable club to properly support horse culture in the area.

Diane Taylor on Crowborough divided; showing it reflects the mobilisation of those at both poles of the asylum debate, in response to the use of Crowborough Training Camp by Home Office, housing 300 asylum seekers in a town of 22,000 people www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Green members of UK Friends of Standing Together have written to the party’s Conference Committee in response to their banning Standing Together, published below.

We welcome the reopening of the UK Resettlement Scheme (UKRS). Around one in four referrals will be for Afghan women and girls and Palestinian refugees fleeing war and persecution. In Palestinians’ case a war waged in part with British weapons and British military support.

Ex-minister Mike Tapp on "need to exempt care workers from retrospective settlememy extensions" There is broad support for this. But why not exempt engineers, vets & chefs & architects from "retrospective extensions" that could force 250k non-care workers to leave?

Safe and legal routes are a good thing, and welcome that Mahmood is going to be saying this later today. But, has to been seen in the context that arrivals will be in the hundreds, and the Government have shut down the Afghan scheme and refugee family reunion. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This was an entirely predictable act of economic self-harm - both the Sunak and Starmer government decided that the priority was to cut migration *when it was already falling fast*. ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration-...

And apologies… as has been correctly pointed out… £4- to £7bn is the cost to the Treasury, not the economy… where the cost is far higher, and should include the opportunities lost also… The relentless drumbeat to cut immigration has become a ruinous and dangerous national madness.

The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.

This is *not* the result of "the success of Mahmood's reforms", but of earlier measures/other factors. Her proposals could make it considerably *worse* in future years. A few other points linked below.. archive.ph/0psJ8

Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks

3/ People can, I think, reasonably disagree about whether this is a problem. (I think it is.) But British voters hate it. Public First ran some polling for us, and found that approval of AI writing on the job is lower for politicians than any other profession.