Campaign as ONE is about standing together on issues that matter — like NHS staffing levels. Understaffing is affecting patient care, workloads and wellbeing. This Frontline article explains what’s happening, actions happening nationally, and how members can campaign locally: https://bit.ly/4bGubb3

“The UK and US have sunk to new lows in a global index of corruption, amid a “worrying trend” of democratic institutions being eroded by political donations, cash for access and state targeting of campaigners and journalists.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Astonishing thread/blog on the rotten state of the @ucu.org.uk - a trade union of all things. I resent every pound of my membership that's spent on subverting democracy, bullying staff, and covering-up wrongdoing.

This is a really important case for democracy within UCU. Thank you to Vicky and Ewan for bringing this case. Given how difficult it is to get any legal support for @ucu.org.uk lay members wanting to go to ET, it is all the more galling that UCU leadership have hired King's Counsel.

Thank you for sticking up for members, and for democracy. I am sure that all those who believe in these principles are behind you.

Unite against TU Victimisation @Unitetheunion.bsky.social doesn't tolerate the victimisation of its reps by employers. Today our members in the North West are showing what solidarity looks like. It's time UCU ended the victimisation of Marie, our Health & Safety Officer. #Strike #HandsOffMarie

🚨NEW Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government The convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure, with the help of Peter Mandelson bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/j...

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

To talk about destroying opponents just for having the temerity to exercise a basic right in any democratic organisation- to stand for election or to disagree - is truly disturbing. This is not how we should treat each other in a union.

Peter Mandelson accompanied Keir Starmer to Palantir's HQ while his lobbying firm had Palantir as a client. Since then? Palantir has landed £720m+ in UK government contracts. We deserve answers. Sign the petition ⬇️ www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

Ewan has also posted ⬇️ We believe the evidence shows serious misuse of member-funded union infrastructure in an election. Even on the most charitable reading, that is a leadership and accountability failure. Hearing: 10 February 2026. Observers: info [at]certoffice[dot]org bsky.app/profile/ewan...

Marie is our Regional Support Officer & is fantastic. Trade union victimisation is indefensible & abhorrent. To see it done by a union employer undermines the work of all trade unionists. We have written to the GS to call for a stop to the victimisation and to settle the dispute. #HandsOffMarie

Our case concerns a basic democratic principle. Members’ subscriptions fund the union’s staff time and infrastructure. Those resources must not be used for any candidate’s personal advantage in an election. Clear institutional separation must exist between the union and any candidate’s campaign. /2

The @timeshighered.bsky.social has reported that @ewanmg.bsky.social and I have applied to the Certification Officer regarding concerns over the 2024 UCU general secretary election. UCU has characterised this as “smearing”, via a spokesperson. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/jo-grad... /1

I’m no longer shocked about the attacks on members for wanting a fair & democratic union but the UCU comment suggests they’ve forgotten the basic requirement to represent the interests of members not those of the GS alone - which is exactly what the case is all about. Our union, our subs #ucu

I have witnessed injustice after injustice occur to members of @uniteucu.bsky.social - utterly shameful to see UCU threaten the livelihood of a single mother of 3 for being a TU health and safety representative and fighting for a safer workplace. This threatens the wellbeing of a whole family.

Thrilled to finally be holding a physical copy of Art and the Critical Medical Humanities 📘 Co-edited with Allison Morehead and Imogen Wiltshire, this book has been a true labour of love.

Last week we were delighted to welcome over 50 attendees to our Creative Facilitation event, where we discussed how creative facilitation has been used in a variety of different organisational settings. Read our event round-up and testimonials👇 medhumsplatform.org/creative-fac...

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

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?