Well done to all those who have tirelessly campaigned to scrap the 2-child benefit cap. Today, the government admitted it had been keeping thousands of children in poverty for no reason whatsoever. Next, tax wealth, reverse austerity and end the privatisation rip-off!

Why does this government find it so hard to tell Israel: you’re wrong, what you’re doing is illegal, and we are not going to let you get away with genocide.

Israel is blocking a million bottles of baby formula from entering Gaza. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians—including children, face imminent starvation. Our Government’s action must match the urgency of this moment. Immediate, widespread sanctions on Israel.

Yup it is.

Ulster University attempted to tell the British government today that Derry - a city more than twice the size of Dundalk - wasn’t fit to run its own university. It is time to end UU’s tenure in Derry so we can develop honest and open partnerships with reputable institutions.

Well done Mike Kane MP for raising the two Royal Irish Academy reports on the need for an independent North West university at the Commons Select Committee this morning. UU clearly very rattled - but their attempts to rubbish the island's top academics and Derry civic society aren't fooling anyone.

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Unspeakable suffering in Tawila. Over half of the fleeing survivors are children. One injured woman I met walked into the camp after surviving an attack, carrying her friend's starving child. They're asking the world if help is coming. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The magic of an Irish rainforest in fungi season.

Reform in Lancashire threatens closing five day centres and five care homes, with “reprovision” forcing disabled or older adults (including a 106-year-old) into alternative support.  🧵1/3

One for the Brits. Epstein wrote a list of names for Steve Bannon. The first one on it is Mandelson

What is wrong with these people. They just spent two weeks rolling the pitch for a U-turn on a policy they didn’t even do yet?

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Let's stop pretending that the billionaire media, endlessly attacking the BBC, has the slightest interest in balance, impartiality and accuracy. They won't be happy until the BBC is more rightwing than Vlad the Impaler. And then it still won't be enough.

The people of Sudan are enduring unimaginable suffering - and the world is watching. I have written to the Foreign Secretary demanding the suspension of arms sales to the UAE.

Today I attended a moving Remembrance Sunday event at Manor Gardens in Islington North. I read “Anthem For Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen. In memory of all those who have been killed in war, we must strive for a world of peace that treats all human life with equal worth.

Records of great spotted woodpecker, extinct in Ireland for centuries, but which reintroduced itself naturally to the east coast and has been moving west ever since. Still waiting for them to make it down to my place in Beara, but looks like it's only a matter of time! Nature CAN come back!!

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! You ignited a grassroots campaign, built on the radical idea that everyone deserves to live in dignity. This is a seismic victory — not only for the people of New York, but for all those who believe that humanity & hope can prevail.

‘Olives are everything for us’: West Bank farmers prevented from harvesting by settler violence

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

Many congratulations to @sjamcbride.bsky.social @fotoole.bsky.social and the @arinsproject.bsky.social for delivering such a serious, well-informed and readable contribution to reflections on possible constitutional futures. Essential reading.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social you can speak to living victims of #Royal sexual abuse. Look into #Kincora Boy's Home and Lord #Mountbatten. Open secret in Northern Ireland. Start here 🔽

Private equity decimated US hospitals, says Senate report; now targeting the NHS. PE practice, Cut staff/wages, high debt/price, asset-stripping tax abuse, poor service. PE makes millions in the UK from hip/knee/cataract surgery, GP surgeries, care homes, will run new NHS neighbourhood hubs.

'Mrs Hegarty' arrives for her ethereal annual visit.

I see the Daily Mail has taken the news well. #irishpresident #catherineconnoñly

Govt reduces London’s affordable housing quotas. Developers to get subsidies if they include 20% affordable housing instead of current 35% target. Bigger profits for developers. Yielding to developers won't solve homelessness and poverty crisis. Let councils build affordable homes.

The Caerphilly result is what we need to see everywhere at the next election: people coordinating to vote tactically for parties which seek a fairer, kinder, greener country. Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.

The government has misled the public - and it has been caught out. www.middleeasteye.net/news/corbyn-...

Today, England's water companies received their worst pollution ratings since records began. Rising bills. Soaring profits. Sewage in our rivers and seas. Enough is enough. Bring water back into public ownership, now.

My heart goes out to the Bloody Sunday victims and families, and everyone in #Derry who has struggled for justice since 1972

Solidarity with the Bloody Sunday families. Today and always.

View the Hansard contribution by Colum Eastwood (Foyle) (SDLP) on Tuesday 13 July 2021

One of the people killed by Soldier F was a man who stepped out to help another of his victims as he lay dying in the street. He waved a white handkerchief as he did so. Soldier F shot him in the head. His name was Barney McGuigan and today his family had to listen to a judge acquit his killer.

The extinction of the Slender-Billed Curlew should be a wake-up call. The world is upside down: billionaires jaunt to the moon while wildlife vanishes. Endless wealth for greed, scant care for what enriches all our lives. Nature belongs to all of us—we must defend it.

“I want to dedicate this award today to Anas Al-Sharif and Hossam Shabat and Mariam Abu Daqqa and Roshdi Sarraj...All of those brave Palestinian journalists murdered by Israel.” From my remarks accepting the Arab Center DC's Journalistic Integrity award. My full speech: zeteo.com/p/you-will-n...

Hey @zackpolanski.bsky.social I hear you are talking to Laura Kuenssberg tomorrow morning? Can you ask her why this story is being exposed by a 3-week-old-old outlet @thenerve.news & not the BBC?? 🤔

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?” Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT

I wrote about whether the hideous Thames Water bailout plan - which lets it off fines for up to 15 years - is lawful or will need the support of MPs. open.substack.com/pub/jolyonma...

Thanks to my fab panel @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social Naomi Luhde Thompson for making such a powerful case against Government assault on communities & natural world thro its planning “reforms” - the real housing crisis is one of affordability not planning #gpconf

Our friend Niamh McNally, Translink's Poet in Residence at Belfast's Grand Central Station, has written about her trip to Seamus Heaney HomePlace in a special travel blog - a lovely reminder of how easy it is to reach Bellaghy by public transport! 🚆✨ Read here > tinyurl.com/3jh4aac9

Brilliant speech from @zackpolanski.bsky.social - investing in climate, stopping the boats thro safe & legal routes, introducing a wealth tax on the very wealthiest, challenging privatisation, building community & spreading a #PoliticsOfHope @greenparty.org.uk #gpconf

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’… …but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...

Apparently Israel’s genocidal acts are just “daft”.

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