Stuart D Neilson<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DarkPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkPlace</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> </p><p>“10 years ago [those things] would simply not have not been imaginable... today it’s not just imaginable, it’s happening... Eighty per cent of the things that are said, or are written, or are accepted as a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/normal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>normal</span></a> part of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/discourse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>discourse</span></a> in today’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> [or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ireland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ireland</span></a>, or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>] would have been totally <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/unacceptable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unacceptable</span></a>, totally ridiculous, totally <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shameful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shameful</span></a>.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xenophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xenophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AntiMigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiMigrant</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/homophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homophobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transphobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transphobia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/26/third-country-asylum-plan-shows-uk-is-in-a-very-dark-place-says-albanian-pm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/jun</span><span class="invisible">/26/third-country-asylum-plan-shows-uk-is-in-a-very-dark-place-says-albanian-pm</span></a></p>