Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

In fact the judgment does not turn on the ECHR (according to the summary)

"Asylum seekers are not allowed to work while their claims are being processed, which can take months, and sometimes years. They have absolutely no way of supporting themselves during that time, & yes, the State has a legal obligation not to let them starve" Frustrating it needs saying, but it does

The "culture war" is a contest for the collective imagination. Reactionaries have a clear interest in (a) promoting a benign view of the prevailing social order and its origins, and (b) stamping out critical counter-narratives. It's not a "distraction". It's a vital political struggle.

Last night fighting an ex Liz Truss minister (for goodness sake) on Newsnight about what to do about asylum accommodation. Pitch forks are dictating UK asylum policy now. 🤦‍♀️ My thanks as always to the brilliant @implausibleblog.bsky.social for the clip ❤️🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8auh...

Far right groups are threatening to burn down hotels full of refugees at events attended by senior politicians, while people of colour live in fear after being falsely labelled as paedophiles How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread

Far right demagoguery - thanks to crucial, repeated validation from the political mainstream - has painted a target on the back of every man of colour in this country. Everyone knows what is likely to happen next.

You can download A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland, edited by @esaldegheri.bsky.social, @dx-fisher.bsky.social and @alisonphipps.bsky.social for free here: www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...

Typical of the greedy rich to protest to protect their wealth and against improving the lives of those in poverty

Poverty obstructs economic recovery. 16m Britons live in poverty 800,000 suffer from nutritional deficiencies. 1-in-200 households experiencing homelessness 1-in-4 young people have mental health conditions. Scurvy/Rickets are back. £39bn GDP a year lost due to poverty. Must redistribute.

At 19 I had to flee my country, afraid for my life – without even saying goodbye to my family

“Merging truth with misinformation is once more straight out of the populist playlook: confuse people until they no longer know what to believe. Then, unable to believe anything at all, they are left only with feelings" inews.co.uk/opinion/robe...

What I want for myself and my kids, is a political system built around compassion rather than aggression: built around a global community, rather than isolated groups defined by race, religion, nationality and gender: built around people rather than wealth accumulation: @zackpolanski.bsky.social

A 2% tax on wealth would only (mildly) affect 20,000 people but would generate £24bn each year that we can spend on fixing the country. End child poverty, improve the NHS, fix our schools and all that good stuff. buff.ly/ssXrHMp

It is inherently absurd to proscribe a group as terrorists based on acts the public doesn't know about. Terrorism *by definition* involves violence intended to intimidate a civilian population. How can the target population be terrorised by acts they know nothing about? www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Court documents indicate how national security concerns were not a central factor in the Home Office’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action. “Indeed, they barely feature in the government’s open evidence.” 👉 Revealed: How Palestine Action was banned www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...

Just a basic fact check. The UK by its own admission exports arms (F-35 parts) capable of being used in Gaza where the IDF has, amongst other things, pursued a vast, genocidal campaign of state terror. "We" the British people may not support terrorists. But objectively the government does.

Really inconsiderate of Gazan children to choose the school holiday period to starve to death and therefore force Freeman to confront her own complicity in genocide. [But don't worry, she succeeds in blaming it all on Hamas and "very bad people."] archive.ph/6auwd

Labour mistakenly seem to think that the way to fight the far-right is to become more like them. They could be more wrong. Good luck Zack!

The right has gone absolutely nuts. The Tory party is chewed up with its brexity failure and the prejudice ticket that once gave it power. Reform’s rise from their ashes is the toxic aftermath. And the media dance along like it’s all so exciting, rather than a goddam nightmare for us all.

The shit is really going to hit the fan when M&S realise they have multilingual staff working at the world's busiest airport.

Oh I know this one. Is it because they object to children being murdered and a country bombed into the stone age?

British politics in all its diversity on display this morning

Is he wrong? Are they all wrong?

It is absolutely absurd that Diane Abbott has been suspended for this. She's describing the lived experience of anti-Black racism. She wasn't saying Jewish people and Travellers don't experience racism. She's saying that racism takes different forms.

1. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action." They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵

At our demonstration today, I'm holding a placard stating "I support Palestine. Action must be taken." My aim is to highlight the absurdity of the government dictating what can and cannot be said by peace-seeking people

Difficult to express how I feel about those in our politics and media who are more concerned about what some rapper said at Glastonbury than fact that, as a matter of deliberate policy, the Israeli government is paying mercenaries to murder starving civilians for fun. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excoriating. And absolutely 100% right. “Labour’s oh-so-clever strategists are moronically giftwrapping the country for Nigel Farage.”🔥 But we have time to create the alternative now by acting strategically in our constituencies to back the alternatives we have.

“Fascism becomes a serious political force when it taps into ‘a sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions’. In order not to arrive at that point, we could start by looking at what we stand to lose, and thinking about how we might preserve it.”

Among the children going without basic essentials, 1.3 million are children in large families receiving Universal Credit. The Observer is reporting the Prime Minister is putting his foot down to say the 2 child limit must go. This is vital. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

📣new @jrf-uk.bsky.social analysis shows 3.6million children in below-average income families are going without at least 1 of: enough food, a warm home or keeping up with bills. This shocking fact speaks to the real lives at stake as briefings abound about the child poverty strategy

🎯 Read our latest briefing which sets out which children are at greatest risk of severe and acute poverty, and which three policies a child poverty strategy must include to address it. www.jrf.org.uk/child-povert...

I can't even. How about removing the cap not because of how it plays politically but because it will bring tens of thousands of children out of poverty? Fucking hell. Winning power should be about helping people not running scared of losing power.

Thank you Gary Lineker for using the platform you earned with your talent and charm to stand up for some of the most victimised people in the world. You're a shining example to us all.

I don't even know where my birth certificate is. How many people are going to carry them round as standard. This is entirely unenforceable, unreasonable, and just plain unrealistic. The EHRC have lost the plot.

It’s official: 400,000 people in central London standing against Israel’s genocide, against British complicity, and for Palestinian self-determination

Really excellent guest post by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social on @graceblakeley.substack.com’s Substack - ‘how to counter the Reform narrative’ (basically just use facts, innit?) - graceblakeley.substack.com/p/how-to-cou...

Hard to say how disappointing this morning‘s speech really was. Morally AND intellectually. Agree with every line here by @iandunt.bsky.social 👇

After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.

The great @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social is so damn right about this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour hasn’t confronted Reform’s worldview—it’s validated it. You can’t spend nine months echoing your opponent’s values and then act surprised when the public decides to go straight to the source.