Mr Kellie Strøm

Artist, writer, editor.
Working at Also at — Enough is too much.

[Mr Kellie Strøm @kelliestrom]

Art from the archive.
https://t.co/CZE5GkJaaN

[Mr Kellie Strøm @kelliestrom]

A new issue of Syria Notes is ready. It includes some new drawings…
https://t.co/OZV7xbyfE3

[Mr Kellie Strøm @kelliestrom]

If Labour were to be serious about tackling racism, they would have to expel the entire cabinet who are collectively responsible for racist policies towards asylum seekers.

But instead: “Afghan lives for votes? We’ll take that trade. Sudanese lives for votes? Done deal.”

[David Maddox @DavidPBMaddox]

I don't normally publish conversations with Downing Street but this was my initial exchange with Downing Street's then director of communications over Mandelson failing vetting on 11 September last year.

[David Maddox @DavidPBMaddox]

Just pointing out that I broke the story 7 months ago that Mandelson failed vetting from the security services and put it to Downing Street...so the idea that Downing Street only found out on Tuesday is complete nonsense.

https://t.co/9Zp14BGCoD

[Mr Kellie Strøm @kelliestrom]

@TitusMichaeleus @SaraAfshar @DavidPBMaddox Is it different? MI6 is part of FCDO.

[Beth Rigby @BethRigby]

👀 This worth keeping eyes on.

Angela Rayner, talked about as a clear front runner in any Labour leadership race,was very forthright at Labour Mainstream event tonight

> Speaking after Tony Vaughan, who has been highly critical of Mahmood’s asylum plans & organised the letter from 100+ MPs asking the PM to think again, Rayner also weighs in: Says changes on indefinite leave to remain “pulls the rug from under those who have planned their lives and commitments and are contributing to our economy and to our society” Says it’s ’un-British’

“I believe in a country where we keep our word and live up to our values”

> She also appears to rebuke PM, saying the Labour party ‘cannot just go through the motions in the face of decline’ and that the party is ‘running out of time’. 

“The change that people wanted so desperately needs to be seen,  it needs to be felt.”

> She also says Labour must show the country “Reform is not on their side” by “proving that we are”. She says Labour’s task is to rebuild “this nation and this party - the Q is are we up for this fight?” Quite the rallying cry that plays into many MPs’ unhappiness in Starmer’s leadership…

[Rashad Ali @rashadzali1]

This 18-year-old Afghan girl nearly escaped the Taliban – then we took her visa away https://t.co/eOK0UImvw9

[Lou Calvey @LouCalvey]

‘Illegal Migrants’ don’t get housing or support. Asylum seekers, who are perfectly lawful, do.

This continuous stream of misinformation from a Civil Service comms feed causes real life harm on people in hotels.

[Mr Kellie Strøm @kelliestrom]

The impact goes beyond individuals.

Syrians who came to the UK on Chevening scholarships and then sought asylum went on to play an essential part in supporting Syrian civil society, and now have a key role in working for accountability after Assad’s fall.
https://t.co/BzvLza0zDo

[Khali-D- joker @khali_DJo]

Just 120 Sudanese students who arrived through legal student visas applied for asylum.
Yet you've effectively punished Sudan, a country facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis, one driven in no small part by regional and international power politics (including the actions of your own allies)
SHAME ON YOU

[Mr Kellie Strøm @kelliestrom]

Chevening scholarships @CheveningFCDO are a long-running programme by the UK Foreign Office, promoting UK soft power through the education of future leaders, and now torpedoed by the UK Home Office under Labour’s reactionary Home Secretary @ShabanaMahmood.
https://t.co/jqXYnSvbQD

[Eddie Thomas @eddiethomas88]

UK interior minister Mahmood cancelled all Sudanese student visas yesterday, because she thought that too many Sudanese students with UK visas have applied for asylum in 2025 (120 applications). Scholarship-winning Sudanese students are posting rejection letters online.

[Mr Kellie Strøm @kelliestrom]

@rashadzali1 Chevening scholarships are a long-running programme by the UK Foreign Office, promoting UK soft power through the education of future leaders, and now torpedoed by the UK Home Office under Labour’s reactionary Home Secretary. So stupid as well as malign.

[Eddie Thomas @eddiethomas88]

UK interior minister Mahmood cancelled all Sudanese student visas yesterday, because she thought that too many Sudanese students with UK visas have applied for asylum in 2025 (120 applications). Scholarship-winning Sudanese students are posting rejection letters online.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Dear @ShabanaMahmood,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

[Mr Kellie Strøm @kelliestrom]

It seems the party of Jo Cox is now led by the most vile collection of hypocrites:
https://t.co/VFOULTNFxI

Home Office to deport asylum seekers to Syria despite safety fears

[Mr Kellie Strøm @kelliestrom]

@BASSAMVA There are a lot of details in the story that it should be possible to follow up on and prove or disprove. The location of the attack is given, and it says locals there recovered the bodies. The hospital where the survivors were treated is also stated.

[Mr Kellie Strøm @kelliestrom]

Are we justifying current positions, or are we looking for ways forward?

[Mr Kellie Strøm @kelliestrom]

After more than 100 years, Copenhagen no longer has a Social Democrat mayor.
https://t.co/wSQ71rGGLf

[Oz Katerji @OzKaterji]

Heard that Google Gemini was pretty good, so I asked it a question about a local news story from 15 years ago and instead of finding the existing article on Google it fabricated a new one, even offering a fake URL to the fake news page and it insisted the website was real.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Ukrainian civil society transformed the nation in 2014 and held it together in 2022. Now it faces another test, under horrific wartime conditions...

[Syria Notes @SyriaNotes]

Find details on everything we’ve ever published on a single page.
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[Syria Notes @SyriaNotes]

Syria Notes no. 30

In this issue, our first of this new era, we take an in-depth look at two topics central to the country’s future: economic sanctions, and challenges faced by independent news media.
@syrianotes
https://t.co/72vGKdv00G