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Kaya Mar retweeted
David Lammy is right to raise this. Turkish businesspeople who came under the Ankara Agreement, built successful companies and played by the rules are now facing refusals riddled with errors and the threat of removal.
This has real consequences for families and for high streets across the country. The Home Office must fix these mistakes and apply the rules fairly.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
The Home Office's treatment of Turkish businesspeople applying for ILR through the Ankara Agreement is outrageous and reminiscent of the Windrush Scandal. Callous and careless mistakes are being made with devastating impacts. The Home Office must act now.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Kaya Mar retweeted
I’m delighted to see the police dedicating their precious resources to such pressing matters.
Kaya Mar retweeted
This is ridiculous. Kaya Mar (the artist) is certainly an eccentric, but the purpose of satire is to ridicule and provoke - he’s been hawking his peculiar pictures round Westminster for donkey’s years. In no way is it a legitimate police matter.
Kaya Mar retweeted
Meanwhile weirdos who are actually naked in real life cycle through central London without any bother. Make it make sense.
Kaya Mar retweeted
I started seriously in photography in the days of film and developing, and it cost money every time you pressed the shutter.
It took me a long time (almost there) to get used to the idea that you could take 85 pics of something and if one was useable that's a success:
Kaya Mar retweeted
I never met Jason Arday, and know nothing about him beyond what I have read, seen and heard in the media.
As the debate around him raged in recent weeks, I stayed out of it, precisely because it struck me as one of those occasional frenzies in which facts get lost and humans cease to be treated as humans. I now wish I had reached out to him, tried to encourage him that “this too shall pass.”
Many people today, those who knew him above all but also many like me who didn’t, will be feeling sadness and anger that this has all led to his death, a family suddenly without a father, parents without a son. None of us will ever know exactly what was going through his mind, but it is hard to disagree with @MayorofLondon that Jason Arday faced “an unacceptable public hounding and campaign of abuse … pernicious public shaming that other people in his position wouldn’t have faced.”
Whatever the truth of the allegations against him, would he have suffered such a hounding had he been white, with short hair? I doubt it. The zeal with which the Trumpian anti-DEI brigade in the U.K. leapt on this story to try to push back the wheel of progress towards genuine equality was horrible.
Again, Sadiq is right to say “His death was a tragedy but it should be a wake-up call for all of us.”
RIP Jason. And to all of us, if ever you think someone you know may have cause to be suicidal, reach out to them.
