Unless blocked, Sunak is going to send c.100 terrified refugees 4,000 miles away in a symbolic gesture that will neither 'stop the boats' nor save him electorally. The main result will be to cause intense pain to a group of people who have already suffered plenty.

After 10.5 years, I’ve been laid off by openDemocracy.

This round of redundancy included most of the UK team. Three longstanding sections - oDR, ourEconomy and democraciaAbierta - were all also shut/mothballed in the last 6 months: a total of 21 journalists redundant.

Thrilled to have received a high commendation from judges at the The Press Awards last night!

Congratulations to Adam Bychawski, who came highly commended for 'Health Journalist of The Year' at the press awards, for his amazing work for openDemocracy 🥂🎉

Really sad and shocked by the job losses at openDemocracy. I loved my time at oD: really proud of what we achieved there and hope its work can continue

Thoughts with oD staff who were so amazing

And if you need an intrepid, tireless and resourceful reporter, I can’t recommend

Brilliant colleagues at openDemocracy UK have been laid off. Ramzy Ramzy Alwakeel, the best editor you can have, honors in this thread the amazing work of Adam Bychawski ruby lott-lavigna Lou Ferreira Anita Mureithi Sam Gelder Adam Ramsay. This is the journalism you need. Hire them!

It's a really shitty day for journalism. I've had the absolute pleasure of working alongside
Adam Bychawski ruby lott-lavigna Lou Ferreira Anita Mureithi Sam Gelder Adam Ramsay and Ramzy Alwakeel and will miss them and their stellar reporting. Hire them!

Look at this amazing cuttings list and offer Anita a job immediately. We desperately need more reporters like her who don't just repeat the same lines as everyone else but actually want to reveal how the changing world affects real people - especially those at its sharp end.

Ask any journalist he’s worked with and they’ll tell you Ramzy is quite simply the best editor around. Just if anyone wants one of those

This is a huge loss. Sam is an incredibly talented news editor, who has been instrumental in openDemocracy recent editorial successes. Hire him!!

Ramzy is the best editor I've ever worked with, bar none.

He's the absolute powerhouse of the newsroom - and has transformed openDemocracy's editorial output into a phenomenal success.

Along with other colleagues being made redundant, he will be massively, massively missed.

I'm absolutely devastated that Anita is going.

She's one of the most insanely talented journalists I've ever had the pleasure of working with. Her brilliant stories speak for themselves.

Newspapers: HIRE ANITA NOW!

This also means I'm looking for work! If you're after an award-winning editor who has helped local, national and international newsrooms punch above their weight for more than a decade, hit me up here or send an old-fashioned electronic mail to ramzyalwakeel at gmail dot com.

🚨i am being made redundant, alongside many of my amazing colleagues at openDemocracy

it is a sad day for radical, not-for-profit media (but also this seems strangely inevitable in this industry)

here are some pieces i'm proud of:

I’ve been laid off by openDemocracy, along with a load of my amazing colleagues in the UK. Another bad day for good journalism in this country

If anyone needs an editor, reporter, barman, ageing centre forward or hype man hit me up