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23 Nov, 4 tweets, 3 min read
What do you do if you are a righwing tabloid and see your beloved PM struggling?

The size of the #migration headline is inversely proportional to the size of the news that requires cover up.
Or, if the beloved PM writes for you, well you just pretend there was no #cbi speech altogether and you drop a call to a friendly minister to get a #Brexit bravado headline instead.
If the phone line of friendly minister one is busy, you call friendly minister two and publish an 'exclusive story'. To reinforce your loyalty you also drop on the front-page a royal news.
For The Times the most important news yesterday was civil service groupthink (you may be excused if you didn't pick this news elsewhere). But at least #PeppaPigGate is on the front-page, small font though and no image.

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22 Nov
Speaking to @BBCNewsnight about the moral panic surrounding boat arrivals across the English Channel and the need to defend the right to claiming #asylum
A 20 minute interview was distilled down to less than 2 minutes, but a lot of the conversation also filtered into the rest of the piece.
To go ve some perspective to the alleged #asylumcrisis, in 2021 Q2 Germany received almost four times more #asylum applications than the UK.
The growth in sea arrivals is a fact, however we should also mention the asylum applications are still below 2019 levels and well below 2000s levels. @BBCNewsnight
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If you really can't live without it, #Brexit-themed panel this morning at 9am at #britsoc19 incl. @Michaelacbenson @UKEurochildren (@UKandEU) Room WO11
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18 Dec 18
The rhetoric of big numbers ('there are 200 milion migrants we need a global response') is producing unplanned side effects. Rightwing parties are using it to mobilize voters against the 'invasion' by foreigners
#CharlesMichel resignation

theguardian.com/world/2018/dec…
There is huge confusion on what the #GlobalCompactForMigration is for and what it can do. It is NOT about the 220 million migrants in the world. This figure includes everyone who has left their country of origin for more than 12 months, is also someone who left Italy 18 years ago
What the #GlobalCompactMigration is really about is an infinitesimally smaller number of people who are moving now and what countries could do (it is not binding) to manage this mobility better.
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19 Aug 18
Sea arrivals in #Spain are increasing.
But the closure of a #migration route doesn't mean that automatically migrants just move to a different one. There is little evidence of a 'route replacement' trend.
#migrationEU
This is an important reminder that 'immigration policies' can affect migration flows but are hardly the only factor at play. The drivers of #migration are multiple and can't be reduce to the political will 'at destination'.
There is an overall and significant decrease in sea arrivals, which should be a warning for everyone still using the word 'migration crisis', but this is not the case, see newint.org/features/web-e… #Salvini #Italy
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