Great news that the Windrush Untold Stories exhibition will be celebrated in Parliament tomorrow. I agree with its organiser that Windrush Generation’s contribution deserves greater national recognition and reflection.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Expert on extremism here: In 2025, there were 1798 right-wing extremism referrals to Prevent, the UK counter-extremism programme. This is *double* the amount of Islamic extremism referrals (870). And yet, the government is incapable of seeing far-right extremism as a threat. Why? 1/

For years the growing national security threat to the UK caused by the global far right has been either ignored, tolerated, or actively cheered on by mainstream politicians in the UK. After the horrific scenes in Belfast last night it can be ignored no longer www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

You will recall, less than a year ago, British police were instructed to disclose the ethnicity of suspects of crime as an explicit sop to the far-right after their last attempt to gin up pogroms. Our then-Home Secretary, now Foreign Secretary, lauded the move. Do we think this helped.

no other way to say it, this thing in the uk where every single time a non-white person is in the news being accused of a crime we have full on race riots is very very bad

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

Nigel Farage called for "pure cold rage" and that's exactly what he has now got. Why it's time for our leaders to finally start acting against the forces of hatred now bringing racist pogroms to our streets bylinetimes.com/2026/06/10/t...

The man is doing his own foreign relations on behalf of the UK and absolutely no one is doing anything about it???

I do think a lot of English-based analysis of what happened in Northern Ireland last night is missing the specifically loyalist aspect of the violence. These are groups with a long history of violently driving out "outsiders", turning their sights on a new vulnerable minority.

Horrific events in Belfast overnight and I am sure that there will be far-right actors across others parts of the UK who will try to manipulate the situation. Thoughts with the loved ones of the man attacked and with all the people of colour/migrants who were attacked overnight.

Politicians should understand that Reform's positions extend to British people of colour, and that is reason enough not to follow their lead. A network of campsites across the country is not a sign that something is fixed. It's a sign something is deeply broken. www.thenational.scot/news/2617801...

Burnham trying to please all parties won't work. Correct answer - he didn't use a Kirpan, read the conviction properly, let's not discriminate against entire community and commitment to tackling knife crime is 100% so will look at everything in detail - like have looked at the conviction in detail.

It's strange to me that Matt Goodwin seems to be on the BBC more than Hannah Spencer when he lost an election to her

This poll reflects my controversial support for the Greens not to stand down. Anyone on the left who is worried about far-right threats will naturally suck it up for Andy Burnham as a last ditch hope. That 2% are voting Green are doing it because they really really want to. Let them.

ICE is not about immigration. ICE is about normalizing a paramilitary force on peaceful streets. Abolish ICE.

Daily reminder that you can't beat fascism without anti-racism, and you can't do anti-racism without prioritising the needs of communities affected. And you can't prioritise the needs of communities if you don't prioritise the needs of everyone who is marginalised.

What Reform did today was an incitement to rioting and an insult to a grieving family. This bloke should have hung his goddamn head in shame.

Sorry for the link to the daily mail but remember that Farage is one of the main callers for "free speech" and targets the legal system and lawyers very regularly. Yet he's immediately crying to mommy for a one-word misquote which does nothing but express the exact same sentiment he was delivering.

Just wrote this for the @theguardian.com about the ongoing war between Reform and Restore and the increasing racialisation of our politics. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

She also compares it to the murder of Stephen Lawrence - four of the six suspects were not convicted for that murder! The Met's bungling allowed key evidence to be destroyed. It is just not usefully comparable to 'the Hampshire Police believed the word of two against one'.

The argument here is simple. There is no reliable statistical evidence on crimes committed using a Sikh religious knife. You can't target communities based on the acts of one individual. This is not comparable to Stephen Lawrence because the killer was convicted immediately and not 18 years later.

Tune in right now to watch my wonderful colleague @josephinewy.bsky.social giving evidence on migrant children in poverty. www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...

If you suggest police officers shouldn’t kick people in the head, you’ll get the chief of the Met condemning you on national television. If you say the police are institutionally racist against whites and suggest people should riot, you’ll get invited onto a BBC couch to expand upon your theories.

And he's given a column in The Telegraph today, not hounded out of public life forever, shamed, shunned. Possibly our next Prime Minister, instead of prison.

Farage knew exactly what he was doing yesterday. June hit and the far-right needed an excuse to restart another summer of riots and violence that is becoming regular for the UK. Another grieving family manipulated. Absolutely disgusting.

I.e. we won't get Trump 1, we will skip straight to Trump 2.

Unfortunately, nobody in the migrants rights or race equality sector has capacity to respond effectively to "white lives matter" because we have absolutely 0 money, time, capacity or interest from the media or politicians.

Today's discourse is truly intolerable. Classic British day of hell.

Britain, 2026. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Not sure why the comments on this are so negative. Maybe I’ve missed something. But depending on the funding model, housing stock etc. this is the right thing to do. Private contracts/hotels were a Tory invention, benefitting their mates. Community housing is the right approach.

If I’m understanding the Home Office’s trial age assessment tech, it gets people’s ages wrong by an *average* of 2.5-3 years, is inaccurate for the most crucial cohort (teenagers) and is worse in assessing women/girls and non-white people (umm…) but they’re going for it anyway, because computer

I think it's important to note that the EHRC guidance is also massively sexist, in that it also ignores most women, who are trans-inclusive, to appeal to right-wing men who are the most likely to harass women.

What some of us have been warning of for decades is happening, faster and fiercer than most imagined, even in the mildest and most temperate corners of the world. #ClimateBreakdown

"Doubling down on policies that mimic the logic of the far right will not restore public confidence, rebuild communities or defeat Reform." @minnierahman.bsky.social reflects on the local election results in @lbc.co.uk www.lbc.co.uk/article/labo...

So a combination of egregious cruelty and announcements of things that are already the law, but will be decoratively rearranged at great expense and confusion? Wonderful.

As we are coming up to the anniversary of the Grenfell Tower Fire, I am reflecting on the hardest job I've ever done and nothing will ever be harder. Words can't express what it was like to coordinate this, support the Grenfell community, and watch the defendants receive it. www.testimonyweek.co.uk

It feels fucking emotional to now live under a Green council. It’s no secret I worked for the Greens for 5 years. Most of that for the magical @carolinelucas.bsky.social. It’s easy to see this as an overnight boom. To belittle the wins as nowhere near enough. But this has been years in the making.

Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains.

The people "credible" on migration are the experts, people who provide services for migrants, economists who understand labour markets and migrants themselves. All ignored regularly by politicians/media, 0 funding, 0 resource, death threats and hostility. Gee whizz if only there was a solution.

Nigel Farage's beaming face is featuring heavily in the local elections coverage, but the truth is that the real architect of Reform's gains is the man whose disastrous 'Blue Labour' strategy we were confidently told would prevent them bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/l...

Don’t know why anyone bothers listening to pollsters or politicians for predictions. Should just talk to migration sector. We predict everything 2 years before anyone else because we’re deeply local, at the sharp end of fascism, nothing else experiences political whim like we do.

A barrister is being tried for simply accurately stating the law to a jury in a closing speech, possibly for the first time ever. It is chilling how quickly we are resorting to authoritarian measures, particularly in the context of the genocide in Palestine. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The first question we should ask ourselves in these and all other elections is: Which candidates oppose the inordinate power of the ultra-rich, and which ones accept or encourage it?

When billionaires and their stooges say that their priorities are "anti-woke", "anti-cancel culture" and "unrestricted free speech", don't take their claims at face value. They're a coded way of saying, “I should be allowed to do whatever I want, regardless of the impacts on other people.”

Glad reporting on this is occurring. Farage has been in bed with and bought by billionaires for years. 5 million for his own "security for life" and the billionaires get to set the agenda. Tells you everything you need to know about his priorities. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Horrendous attack in Golders Green. Thinking of the victims, their families and everyone who will once again be shaken by this attack. Thank you to all of those involved with the emergency response.

Everything is so stupid

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...