From Stoppard’s Arcadia:

So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.

I've never felt more ashamed of being a Labour supporter. Not even during Iraq, where at least we had cabinet members resigning in disgust. Now: just jostling for position. If I wasn't already turning my back on the party I've backed my whole life, I would be now. #ImmigrantsWelcome #NotInMyName

What is it like to live surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements and under constant threat of violence? On a hilltop farm just outside Bethlehem, Daoud Nassar and his family continue to live, resist and hope. We were privileged to invite Daoud - remotely - to talk to us about it this summer.

Powerful letter from Clare Herbert in today's Church Times

New report: "Life in the world’s most polluted town" covering the huge lead contamination in #Kabwe, Zambia, its terrible impacts on children and the case for corporate accountability By @actsa-uk.bsky.social #pollution 1/3 actsa.org/new-report-l...

This is absolutely vile. I get that Ghosts fans bring West Horsley Place a LOT of tourism, but this is disgusting. To evict a 70 year old woman who's lived there 20 years for a holiday cottage for fans?? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yesterday I had the honour of being on the team for this fantastic annual event. By, with and for disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people. Every participant extending the love, courtesy, accessibility & generosity that our faith asks of each of us. Utterly wonderful. #CanTheseBonesLive

These freaks keep getting on TV talking about opposing antifa and how they believe antifa wants to destroy them, and not a single person in mainstream media has asked or commented on what is the opposite of antifascism and who is threatened by antifascists

As Toby Young points out, Black people are over-represented in advertising. He somehow forgot to mention they are over-represented in poverty, unemployment and homelessness statistics too.

Imagine the Labour Party leader calling out racism & fascism, explaining how 14 years of Tory cuts impacted on integration, and the need to properly tax multi-millionaires and billionaires, in the way that the Green Party leader Zack Polanski did on Question Time last night. Yes. Just imagine that.

Layan Nasir, a 25-year Anglican Palestinian, was taken into Israeli custody on Thursday, although she had previously been told that her seven-and-a-half month sentence would not start until November.

If anyone doubted that the BBC is deliberately not covering the Russian/Reform bribery scandal, those doubts should have been removed by Fiona Bruce interrupting to prevent it being discussed on BBC Question time last night. #BBCQT

Oregon National Guard general said that if they were deployed, his troops would be instructed to protect the protesters, not ICE.

Huge thanks to @krysiawally.bsky.social , @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social & Bernice Hardie for sharing their work in faith communities for disability inclusion & social justice at @learningmet.bsky.social. Great to host such interesting speakers on a topic we don’t talk about enough in #DisabilityStudies.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

My Bangladeshi 🇧🇩 born friend with whom I talk about cricket & rugby in the pub told me that he was abused in traffic today by someone with not much grammar and told to ‘get back on his boat’ He has lived here since he was 8 years old and is a valued local accountant 😔 Only White people can stop this

Speakers: @krysiawally.bsky.social on research into autistic people's experiences of mosques & churches; Bernice Hardie on WAVE, a community #WithNotFor people with learning disabilities; @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social on neurodivergent & disabled-led work in the Church of England #AutRes #Disability 2/2

I'm excited to be chairing an online symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability on 8th Oct 12-2, as part of Manchester Metropolitan's Learning Disabilities and Autism Research Group seminar series. Speakers and topics in the next post... Details and sign-up link at tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d 🧵

I would refer us also to the fast-growing research evidence into ABA causing trauma & 'behaviour'. But as long as teams have a belief' that the child has had a lovely childhood with great interventions, and is just choosing to behaving badly, it's fine to drug them into submission. Is it?

Gentle reminder that autistic mums are a) more likely to have autistic babies and b) more likely to have pain conditions that need Tylenol (paracetamol). Tylenol doesn't 'cause' the autistic babies. It's not rocket science. Unfortunately, some leaders gave up science in year 3, I think.

Today, in 'What happens when ABA is used on children', we have the frankly shocking account of an eight year old boy. www.cureus.com/articles/361... At this very young age, he's already endured a parental divorce, ABA, other 'behavioural' interventions, restraints, and enforced mental health stays/

BBC, Reuters et al about the frantic race to save some of Gaza's historic artefacts. Fadel al-Otol, one of Gaza's leading the effort. From Switzerland, his new home, he and others guided volunteers and aid workers to move truckloads of artefacts to a safer loaction. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

half of the BBC website is Charlie Kirk stuff and I'm confused, I thought we're in Britain

How can we share knowledge and insight across generations within our communities? Read and watch searching conversations on faith and action between young Quakers and older members of the Welsh Quaker community. Read the full blog, and access our new film, here:

If you’re waking up to yet another news programme on tv or radio that is over platforming REFORM with 4 MPs and not mentioning any other opposition party, you know what to do. Sign here and get anyone else you know to sign. Fair coverage now. Takes 30 seconds petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

We’ve got one heck of a lineup of speakers for our autumn lecture series at St Martin in the Fields starting next month

Stream @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social from wherever you are. noflyzone.greenbelt.org.uk?_ga=2.492603...

Less than two years ago, an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza city merited a multi-day news cycle, with international outrage forcing Israel to issue denials and launch an absurd but ultimately successful attempt to muddy the waters with dubious theories about Gazans bombing themselves.

Amongst those arrested in London for peacefully protesting the genocide in Gaza is this blind person in a wheelchair. Staggeringly embarrassing and shaming for Starmer. “Shame on you!” being shouted by the crowd. (🎥 Defend Our Juries)

BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York. ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.

I am horrified. If you use US material, download all old reports you use. The record will be erased. Even that might not save you: every report sourced from the US will now have to be suspected of politicised manipulation and will in the future the same credibility as Iran’s human rights reports

#CofEPeeps If you want to see more inclusive people elected to General Synod, please support the Together for the Church of England fundraiser, either by donating and sharing or just sharing. Thanks. justgiving.com/campaign/inc...

Deeply impressed by this. As someone who has been on long lists and short lists, the pressure - psychological, emotional, financial - to stay on them can be huge. I have immediately bought Sacha’s book.

Proud of my (friend of a) friend Amy for this. Go buy her book, Spoilt Creatures, it's delicious.

As Together for the Church of England, with Inclusive Church we’ve launched a funding campaign to support a more inclusive C of E as the 2026 General Synod elections are only a year away now… www.justgiving.com/campaign/inc...

It also matters that decades of policy (on housing, interest rates, QE) made it much much easier for that generation to accumulate wealth than today. That *is* a bug. And it's a bug we don't talk about, along with the fact today's pensioners are expecting benefits far in excess of what they paid in

Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’

Just sit with this for a moment. Israel perpetrated what is certainly the largest single mass killing of trans people in history. And it's basically a footnote in an article in the NYT covered weeks after it happened.

We welcome that the Government has recognised the damaging effect of the proposed #PIP cuts. But serious cuts to #UC for #Disabled people are still there. Ministers should drop them too. The Government now has an opportunity to fully re-think its approach and work with Disabled people.

Thanks to @drrosena.bsky.social for voting against the bill today - and to her office, for promptly emailing to tell me. It is a relief to have an MP who continues to listen to and support disabled people. #TakingThePIP

“We in the UK face bathroom bans, violence, abuse, deliberate social exclusion, strip searches of trans women by male police, and calls to photograph us in toilets and other spaces.” #TransRightsAreHumanRights www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/30/t...

NEW FROM ME - Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability. Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity. We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate. tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4

It is a serious action of the state to suggest Palestine Action requires the same legislative intervention as the Russian Imperial Movement.

I’m always pro-disabled people leading what affects them but the reality is, many disabled and chronically ill people are paying a huge physical price for fighting tomorrow’s welfare bill. Many are suffering more pain and exhaustion from campaigning, all whilst in a brutal heatwave. 1/2

Starmer’s welfare cuts could leave thousands of disabled women trapped with abusers. Why no gender impact assessment? Women lose disproportionately more in public sector wage cuts, benefit cuts, state pension age hike. Despite equality laws gender pay/pension gap persists.

Disabled Labour MP says welfare U-turn would create ‘unethical two-tier system’ Olivia Blake dismisses Starmer’s welfare bill changes as ‘plucked from the air’ and urges rebels to stand firm www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Archbishop of Wales stands down over Bangor cathedral scandal

Cat Eccles, Labour MP for Stourbridge, writes about why she still cannot support the government's plans for disability benefit cuts, even with concessions which will mean current claimants are protected www.bigissue.com/opinion/labo...