No way?!?! Well, I would have never guessed looking at the state of politics, the media, rivers, healthcare, education, poverty, climate etc www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“exiting the market”

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 UK Covid-19 Inquiry report has just been released - it details the damning failure to protect Disabled people as “too little, too late”, mentioning government's “remarkable” failure to anticipate and plan an effective response More👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/uk-covi...

While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/

Worth remembering as this unfolds that it was disabled people and people from ethnic minority backgrounds who disproportionately died. Tens of thousands needlessly lost their lives, many who died alone or with just an iPad. Thousands more were left with life changing Long Covid. A true scandal.

This does feel like a major crossing of the Rubicon – the world's best-funded and in many ways most powerful public health agency is now actively pushing disinformation. I know there's a *lot* going on to care about at the moment, but this one really is significant, and matters well beyond the US.

Don’t be disabled, ill or get injured, don’t have a disabled child or dependent, get made redundant, or do a low paid but vital job in social care. And crucially - when falling bombs, rising temperatures, or war threaten your life - just stay put and wait to die because this Government hates you

Unless I'm missing something, further to the policy announcement this week a refugee who arrived irregularly could face a 30 year wait for settlement....

'Nottingham will be the only Russell Group university not to teach modern foreign languages degrees if it approves plans to close a swath of courses including Spanish and French as well as music and dozens of others.' 1/3

BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

Worsens integration in both directions. Makes it impossible for newcomers to settle and build a proper life. And encourages everyone else to see and treat them as interlopers.

We have estimated the educational outcomes of refugee and asylum-seeking children in England. They are are as poor as those of other groups with statutory protections. Adding yet more instability to their lives by returning them overseas is unconscionable. We are supposed to protect children.

They won’t get a second childhood because their future is traded for imaginary polling gains. You get one chance to develop into an adult whose personality is underpinned by a sense of safety and belonging. Take that away and it can never be returned.

Shabana Mahmood asked by Labour MP John McDonnell to "give me the assurance that no child will be placed in detention as a result of this policy" Mahmood does not give him that assurance

"don't unpack yer suitcase, Paddington" - Labour

Asked about Tommy Robinson supporting her asylum plans Shabana Mahmood replies that "Tommy Robinson doesn't even think I'm actually English, so he will certainly not be supporting anything I've got to say." But he is supporting what she's got to say. That was the point of the question

My Dad escaped the Nazis in 1939 on the Kindertransport. He went to night school then University, trained as a physicist. Married my mum, brought up 3 kids, all work in public sector. Under these proposed rules, he would have been deported. 100% 'performatively cruel' @stellacreasy.bsky.social

There’s a myth that Britain has been historically generous and welcoming to refugees and latterly asylum seekers. The facts - and immigration law - tell a different story. And today’s news made me think about Benjamin Zephaniah’s poem about the death of Joy Gardner & how many more deaths we’ll see

Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

Labour pushes further & further to the right, enabling Reform to go even further still. We’re heading for catastrophe in this country aided by a government that has brought nothing but despair & more division so far. Labour in government appears to be the place where principles & humanity go to die.

Kuenssberg interview w Shabana Mahmood. The very first question she asks is whether a refugee who’s been in the U.K. for 19 years gets deported when their country is deemed safe. Mahmood avoids answering that question. So Kuennesberg asks it again. Question dodged once more.

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

Not sure what’s worse, Katie Lam’s comments or the fact that we can’t get Labour to criticise them … www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/a-brea...

Has this guy considered that making end of life decisions SHOULD be stressful and emotionally taxing? Earlier on, he notes that he doesn't even know if hospitals would want to use this, so why are we doing this? Why are "playing" with introducing AI into end of life decisions?

9 years since Paul was murdered - I think about the wild, daft teenager, getting him to work out songs I liked on his guitar, and the tragic trajectory of a life that should have been full of creativity but was ultimately destroyed by addiction, violence & despair ❤️

On my way from Guingamp to Rome on the train - stopping over in Milan tonight. Hard to capture the spectacle - mountains, clouds, and tiny churches but I’m glad I’m sticking to my decision not to fly in Europe. And looking forward to talking about disability, art, time & AI with colleagues in Rome.

Just to be clear: - Paracetamol does not cause autism. - Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK - We do not have a massive free speech problem here. - Britain is not on the verge of civil war. These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.

In a corporate owned care home, charging £1,800 a week. Residents face neglect/cruelty. Left in urine-soaked clothes, wet bedsheets, calls for help ignored, not showered for weeks, excrement in corridors, staff shortages. Cruelty is the norm when profits come before people.

Oi. BBC. Many experts are not skeptical. It is utter bullshit and you should call it out as such. This is the MMR bollocks x 1 million

Why are you threatening #UCU staff with pay deductions for ASOS? UCU policy is to oppose punitive deduction for ASOS And why are you asking staff to fill out a form when UCU members at QMUL were advised not to do this?

QMUL deducted a lot of people it shouldn't have deducted, such as people on bereavement leave or sick leave who didn't check their email. It's a toxic tactic and note one any decent employer should engage in.

oh, we know how we reacted, because we were advised by UCU HQ on that... Nobody fills this in. Absolutely nobody. People who are not taking action should should that kind of solidarity to ensure this doesn't get implemented because it's going to harm your workplace disastrously if they allow it.

Do you want to know how UCU senior management has responded to UCU branches calling on them to remove their threat of deductions? This is how. How would you react? uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/u...

@lavietidhar.bsky.social - we thought we might have to rearrange our ferry tickets in case we missed the delivery of Golgotha but thankfully not.

There should be a joint statement from the five unions in the next day or so (which also mentions pay, jobs, and nationally agreed employment conditions). For now, here is some further detail on what our dispute is about and what we UCU members will be balloted on nationally: #WeAreTheUniversity

UCU policy: “To work with the TUC and other TUs to campaign for a change to the law to prevent such deductions, including lobbying government and opposition parties” Maybe while @drjogrady.bsky.social is at @tuc.org.uk in Brighton she can work on thi… oh! policy.web.ucu.org.uk/motion-infor...

This is unbelievable @ucu.org.uk How can you be threatening 100% deductions for ASOS that is working at home rather than in office? UCU policy is against disprop ASOS deductions ASOS deductions breach workers Art 11 rights You contradict UCU support for members’ cases against employer deductions

Drafting a more extensive response, but for now we think that (1) @uniteucu.bsky.social rock [branch position, voted on in motions], (2) that this is no way of treating staff [union position, voted on in Congress], and (3) everyone should read this blog: uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

🔥 Third ballot win in 18 months: 76% YES on 77% turnout for @uniteucu.bsky.social members! UCU Management’s response? Threats & intimidation 🤦

100% deductions for ASOS is inhumane and destructive. We thought we had the backing of our own national union on this point. To see them implement what is a draconian policy (and not yet fully tested in the courts) against the colleagues who keep our branches running is devastating.

Shocking that UCU SMT are threatening to dock pay just for ASOS in Unite UCU’s dispute. Our branch is donating £150 + our Admin’s strike pay to their fund, with more to follow. We urge all UCU branches to donate asap to support our UCU staff strikers.

What a mess - when will the @ucu senior management team realise that this awful & aggressive strategy (a) isn’t working and (b) damages the reputation of the union and its members’ interests? uniteucu.wordpress.com/2025/09/04/u...

Why is our trade union emulating the worst behaviour of our employers towards UCU staff? How many of our letters, motions, attempts to bring motions from lay members pressing for resolution have been ignored now? Solidarity with all @uniteucu.bsky.social #UnionStrong #ReclaimUCU

We wonder what @qmucu.bsky.social thinks about their own union’s threat to make 100% deductions for ASOS. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🚨 Third consecutive vote for industrial action 🚨 ✅ strike action: 76% ✅ action short of a strike (ASOS): 80% ✅ turnout: 77% ASOS begins today with @ucu.org.uk threatening staff: "We'll deduct your wages." Double standards and vindictive attacks undermine us all. #ReclaimUCU

#AccessToWork Since February 2025 62,000 applications have been waiting for their access to work support clsims to be processed The government are slashing access to work funding Please sign thd open letter & write to your MP dpac.uk.net/2025/08/the-...

Of course Simon Jenkins (boarding school, Oxford PPE) thinks we should cut back on universities. Know your place, kids.