Let's put this really simply. ✅Migrants pay bills ✅Migrants buy things ✅Migrants create jobs and boost economies All of this includes undocumented migrants btw 🚨Cutting immigration undermines jobs for everyone, along with the economy as a whole. Migrants don't take jobs, they help make them.

BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...

No, @nytimes.com (www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/m...), experts do NOT agree emissions reductions aren't adequate to prevent 2C warming. You're using a false premise (see climateactiontracker.org/press/releas...) to justify potentially dangerous interventions (which take pressure off decarbonization)

Not one person has lost their job or been forced to apologise for supporting Israel’s genocide. You can support the mass murder of Muslims & you will never be in danger of losing your job in media or politics or the arts or business or education. Suggest Israel are wrong, & you will be targeted.

Govt minister Heidi Alexander on #trevorphillips this morning urging the Iranian govt to protect peoples right to peacefully protest

Videos show police in Germany forcibly arresting peaceful protesters who were demonstrating in support of Gaza in the capital city of Berlin.

By framing this brazen act of aggression in euphemistic terms, the media is falling in line with Trump.

a grave and flagrant violation of international law ..

Labour facing tough London elections in May. “The whole of the Olympic Park belongs to the Greens,” Labour source says. “There is no Labour party presence in one of the most sizeable developments in the whole of London… It’s all Green, Green, Green.” Story w @matildamartin.bsky.social

My "Lifelong Advocate of International Law" t-shirt is raising questions etc

Worth noting the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has been encouraging Trump to do exactly this ever since she won the prize. Another one to add to the dismal record of that prize committee, too. bsky.app/profile/elio...

Starmer has declared his ambivalence in the strongest possible terms and announced that the British government will equivocate with immediate effect.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

The rights and health of UK hunger strikers must be protected to prevent avoidable tragedy - Heba Muraisi – Day 61 T Hoxha – Day 55 Kamran Ahmed – Day 54 Lewie Chiaramello – Day 40 www.bmj.com/content/391/...

We've won all of our trans rights cases this year, and I am proud to have worked on all of them. This included a landmark victory on legal gender recognition.

There are 160million GP consults / year Just 65 more GPs employed could have delivered 1.9million appointments over 5 years and covered this ‘huge’ number of A&E additional attendances Imagine what 6000 more GPs could have done if 2019 Tory commitment had been met ~ 180million

Harassment, violence and vandalism routinely drive people from their villages in Area C, but three recent cases show the practice extends into areas controlled by the PA, and the IDF is actively taking part- Matan Golan reports www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

In Gaza, one way in which the Israeli military used AI was to give a score to almost every person in Gaza who has a phone number, determining how likely it was that person was a member of Hamas or Islamic Jihad. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Zuhrah is in a critical condition, now on day 50 of her hunger strike she could die aged only 20. In 1981, Irish republican Martin Hurson died on day 46. The government has refused to engage & reverse the decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation.

The UK’s largest planned data centre—a project by US firm QTS—is understating its true water consumption by a factor of 50, says new analysis by @watershed-i.bsky.social & @aiarmsracebook.bsky.social @digiconomist.bsky.social No mistake; AI is a heavy, polluting industry. shorturl.at/KXQxJ

Doctors Without Borders urges Israel to let critical aid into Gaza as children freeze to death. "At least 13 people, including two-week-old and one-month-old babies, have died from winter weather and a lack of adequate shelter and aid – blocked by Israel" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

We demand immediate hospital care now for Qesser Zuhrah.

Tomorrow's front page 📰 MPs laugh as meeting with families of hunger strikers is rejected

24-year-old Lewisham hunger striker Jon Cink is at day 41. Calls for @elliereeves.bsky.social MP to act and urge Justice Secretary David Lammy to intervene www.salamandernews.org/calls-ellie-...

Both the aviation and the wood burning (Ecostove) industry are exploiting the government's legislation blind spot says @peteknapp.bsky.social

Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May. Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...

Me, in The Guardian today: "This is a moment that requires bravery in standing up for what is right. Organisations that value trans people should know not just that the law is on their side – but so, also, are many people who will step up to defend them if they have the courage to take a stand."

Murals with words 'Free Marwan' starting to appear across London .. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

The exploitation and reality for NHS outsourced cleaners, canteen & domestic staff 👉🏾 ‘I can’t afford to live 👉🏾 ‘I can’t afford to go sick Shame on @iss.world paying below the London living wage @keepournhspublic.bsky.social @gmb.org.uk #londonlivingwage #sickpay #agendaforchange

"Europe’s hydrogen plans reek of green colonialism, offering little tangible benefit to host countries like South Africa, robbing communities of their available resources to transition to clean, safe energy" Yegeshni Moodley, groundWork South Africa, statement co-author @groundworksa.bsky.social 4/5

Read the open letter & see the list of signatories here: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/t... 5/5

The Phoenix Gaza A Collective Vision For Postwar Reconstruction And Recovery phoenix-gaza.org

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Janet Daby I beg you! Lewisham residents appeal to their MPs to attend the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate and #nature crises. Lewisham North tops league table for climate vulnerability. #NEB @janetdaby.bsky.social www.salamandernews.org/janet-daby-i...

"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement. theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

Europe's response to a flawed, lopsided, deceitful US plan for Gaza vs. Europe's response to a flawed, lopsided, deceitful US plan for Ukraine

This is genuinely horrific.

🟢 Climate change hits the poorest the hardest shows *Chapter 2.1 of the 2025 #ClimateInequality Report* ⚠️The bottom 50% wil bear ¾ of all income losses from climate change by 2050. Read more in the report 🔗 wid.world/news-article...

British Muslim Journalist to Be Freed From ICE Detention...Finally...all he seems to have been doing was #journalism while being #Muslim. zeteo.com/p/british-mu...

Spot on @arusbridger.bsky.social: I’d wonder why such close editorial scrutiny should have been entrusted to 3 key people who rejected journalism... Who would you trust more to be impartial on the Middle East—Robbie Gibb, Michael Prescott or Lyse Doucet? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Why is Lewisham rolling out unproven expensive 'tech'? Filters built in roads to suck out car pollution, by a one man shop, w/o scientific evidence Excellent story from @dorothystein.bsky.social on @salamandernews.org www.salamandernews.org/unproven-unb... #greenwashing #pollution #lewisham

Mamdani pledges free buses, could London be next?

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇 1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK 2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves 3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

The tribunal's message came as it released its genocide verdict following four days of public hearings in Istanbul.

And Oxford has also drunk the A.I. cool-aid, at undisclosed cost, and without consulation with the University's governing body (Congregation).

See how easy it is when there's a will bsky.app/profile/butt...

Industrial conversion has happened before, and it can happen again.   Military industrial sites are directed by public investment and can be used to make more than just military equipment.   Watch our new video and explore the interactive timeline below.   transitionsecurity.org/green-clydes...

“Reliance on military contracts to manage the economy will bring an insecure future: the military industry will create few jobs while investments in people’s everyday wellbeing are cut.” Khem Rogaly quoted in @scotnational.bsky.social www.thenational.scot/news/2556479...

For God's sake, TAX CAPITAL 50 families have as much wealth as HALF the population Maintaining this is indefensible and political suicide www.theguardian.com/money/2025/oct/23/rachel-reeves-is-considering-raising-income-tax-to-reduce-deficit-sources-say