Well, NYC, welcome to the club of "big international city, run by a progressive Muslim mayor"!

One reason why I love London. I can go anywhere at any time, and so can anyone else*. Plenty of people who tap on the bus machine before me have allowances, meaning they can travel for free. It's A Good Thing we have a system that lets them. *I know, we can improve

Look, I am in favour of upholding The Ministerial Code like the next person, but this sounds like a headmaster of an early 1900s elite school telling off a child. Is this how our government communicates? I wish I had seen half this energy in setting the record straight on immigration.

No reduction in Gaza hunger since truce: WHO. "The situation still remains catastrophic because what's entering is not enough." f24.my/BW8U.X

I have friends who tell their children "say hi to auntie Anna!" - I think this nonsense outrage is just pathetic. It also makes him more and more relatable, frankly!

Well, good morning! I'm waiting for my landlady to tell me how much my rent is going up next month. Which is, let's remember, an arbitrary number of her liking. I can then beg her to lower it (which we do every year). Half my salary for 45sqm in zone3.

One for the mortgage broker who insisted that instead of the 2 bed in N London I was considering, I should move to Colchester and for the same price get a much bigger 5 bed with garden. "It's only 1h by train and you are in Liverpool St!" Nope.

We should simply say that politicians who keep repeating this are lying and racist. That "the British people deserve better" actually means "we'll make some unfortunate non British people even more miserable". That austerity and Brexit are responsible for what worries people, not foreigners.

The national conversation around immigration is a total horror show at the moment, my cortisol spiking every second day. Thankfully I listened to this episode last weekend and I learned True Stuff around immigration that I think more people should know. (the pod is a lot of fun!)

Yes. And that's not immigrants' fault, let's be clear.

As someone said in the comments, let's wait for Labour to announce they will do this but even a bit nastier. It won't take long.

Absolutely shameful language from this Labour government. Why on earth should we expect immigrants to 'give more than they take'? And how are we going to measure this?! I so despise these people. They are paving the way for extremists to gain power because they fundamentally Agree with their racism.

We need to learn more about successful protests

It breaks my heart to think that people are still fighting for their life and that support is drying up.

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

No point in commenting as young people are not on here but I remember during a schooltrip a friend queuing to call home from a booth (the ones on the street!) and accidentally calling My Home because that's the number she called every day.

I'm having a flashback of a concert at the Bozar in Bxl. Max Gazzé started introducing his songs in French, then asked "who here does not speak Italian?" a couple of hands went up, he said "sorry guys!" and switched to Italian. Very weird.

This attitude is incredibly dangerous, imo. They won't use religious fundamentalism in the UK, they will frame it differently. If the conversation around trans people's rights is anything to go by, they'll invoke feminism. Also, Google "abortion decriminalised in the UK" and see where we are...

Absolute Truth! I mute liberally. I wonder if such people have ever interacted with others in real life. I've just been exposed by a bore of a man explaining my own life experience to me. But he's my friend's partner, so I nodded along and thought "at least I go home later". Silence is an option.

In relief beyond words that the bombardment has stopped and that those taken are reuniting with their loved ones, but there is something so deeply gross at the levels of self-congratulation global leaders are now partaking in. Stopping a genocide two years in is not success.

Growing old means loving a place and being happy to have left it. And holding the contradiction in you heart.

All the best and most interesting scientists I have met and worked alongside have creative interests. Those who dismiss the arts are usually such bores.

"the need is for leadership" Oh well, then I'm not holding my breath. No sense of leadership in the current government, they can't even make their mind up on whether it's OK to make people like me second class citizens or not!

Please read this. Shame on media outlets for not checking. I don't know what level of cognitive dissonance is needed to fabricate images using content that refers to entirely different places and not call it lying. The thought that this is used to justify killings is even more sinister.

I posted a book and a card to a friend in Spain in a padded brown envelopes. Only when I made it to the counter and was asked to fill in an entire customs declaration I realised the implications. My friend had to pay 7EUR on receipt (I'm still ashamed). Just 1 more way to make our life less pleasant

"The chancellor appeared to be referring to the little whirlpool ramshorn snail, which is 5mm in diameter, and one of the rarest creatures in Britain. It is an indicator of clean rivers and ponds as it is very sensitive to sewage pollution." Dispiriting.

Genuinely impressive rhetoric skills at play here.

Ladies and gentlemen, the Labour government, led by a human rights lawyer.

I just recieved my water bill. It's twice what it was 2 years ago. Twice. My consumption (which is already low) has not changed. I have not enough words for Thames Water's awful management who pocketed lots of money. None of it is responsibility of immigrants.

I agree. But many things appear impossible until they become a fact - I remember people being sure Brexit would never happen. I think a point comes when we need this silent majority to Do Something. Doing nothing won't prevent us from slipping into an authoritarian state.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

I've been thinking for a while that the biggest divide is between those of us who need to have a paid job to afford to be part of society and those who don't.

Thousands hit the streets of European cities after Gaza flotilla is intercepted 🇵🇸

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

Participants on the boat "Mohammad Bhar" announces a solidarity hunger strike as IOF vessels circle the flotilla and have already intercepted some boats

All my Italian- and Spanish-speaking timeline is reporting on this. The Israeli army have boarded the ships. General strike is called for tomorrow in Italy in support of the flotilla.

Breaking: The Italian General Confederation of Labour, Italy's largest union with over 5 million members, is calling for a general strike in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Italian government vessels, along with Spanish ones, have abandoned the GSF www.instagram.com/p/DPRv1o6iDq7/

I went to the post office to send a card & a book to a friend in Spain. I had to fill in a customs form, they had to type it into a system. I'm not sure if my friend won't have to pay to get the parcel. But at least I bonded w/ the person at the counter over the absolute economic insanity of Brexit.

BREAKING: Peaceful protestors arrested outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool Yet more peaceful protesters are being arrested today and hauled from the streets by police - a scene which just a few months ago would have been shocking but is quickly becoming the norm... 🧵

The great thing about knowing other languages is that you can learn how others see things. I cannot recommend it enough! Starmer having lower approval than Thatcher is quite a feat. I guess at least, with her, people knew what she stood for.

Disgusting. I've always been wary of pro-immigration campaigners focusing on the economic benefits ("we need them to pay our pensions, to look after our elderly, to do the jobs we don't want to do"). Always Us/Them. Measuring people by their 'contribution' means it will never be enough.

My timeline. I don't know if it's more terrifying to see things unfold in the US or that we are wondering about the same over here.

Some really lovely answers to this in the reposts. I'd say go and do something good for others (helping has proven positive impact on the mood) with others. Someone said "join a union" and frankly democracy and solidarity in action are a great antidote to a lot of scary things going on atm.

Absolutely this. Also "patriotic national renewal"?

Cose che gridano vendetta al cospetto di Dio, per citare mio padre.

More of this.

As so often my expectations of Starmer’s article were so low as to be basically subterranean and he still failed to live up to them. Let’s start with the weaselly and inflammatory conflation of seeking asylum with “illegal immigration“ 1/ [text in article below]

Not sure how I ended down this rabbit hole but you should too. 😂

I was expecting nothing less from the person who said a racist march was just a bunch of regular people having some legitimate concerns.

Things are so not good in the world that I'm here sobbing happy tears at this story.