The Government wants to cut child poverty & educational inequality. But at the same time it's baking poverty and trauma for children into its migration policy. We're proud to join children's charities, social workers & lawyers in saying: every child's rights matter. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Caring about children's rights means caring about the rights of every child That's why we're speaking out, with @asylummatters.bsky.social & others, against new rules that put thousands of migrant & refugee children in UK at risk of poverty, homelessness & trauma www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Caring about children’s rights means caring about every child 🧡 New rules could put thousands of migrant and refugee children in the UK at risk of poverty, homelessness and trauma. 📣 Our Legal Director says: “What goal is punishing children achieving… How does that achieve integration?”

Alongside +140 other orgs, we're sounding the alarm over the Government's "sustained attack on children's rights" in their migration plans - from handcuffing children to keeping 90,000 children trapped in poverty. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Today the Government pledged another £662m of YOUR money to fund violent tactics by French police on our borders. Tactics that we already know cost lives, traumatise children, and utterly fail to prevent crossings. We must stop funding violence. Public inquiry now.

This week we've seen violence in Epsom after horrific reports of an attack on a woman were appropriated by people with a dangerous, racist agenda. When violence against women is used to justify racism, it gets in the way of what we all need: real work to end VAWG. Here's how to respond effectively:

"We cannot allow society, media and politicians to continue blaming migrants for VAWG. If we do, we risk never eradicating it." Absolutely vital words from our friends at @lawrsuk.bsky.social and Hibiscus 👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/pink...

BBC’s claims on MVDAC-DVILR misuse do not reflect frontline reality. Misuse is the exception, not the norm. With 92 organisations, we reject this framing and call for evidence-led debate rooted in lived experience. Read the full statement: southallblacksisters.org.uk/news/false-d...

We are aware of the BBC’s investigation into individuals allegedly helping people fabricate LGBTQI+ asylum claims. Read the full statement on our website:

These tragic deaths come just over a week after two people died in the Channel. Each death is a tragedy and completely avoidable. Our thoughts are with their loved ones and all who were on the boat. We urgently need safe routes. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Yesterday morning at least four people were killed whilst attempting to cross the English Channel. Our thoughts are with their friends, family and loved ones - and with all those forced to risk their lives seeking safety. Read the statement here - www.humansforrights.org/blog/2026/4/...

Signing this EDM is one clear way your MP can speak out against appalling new rules that will force people to wait decades for settlement, safety and security. Write to them now and tell them to sign: fightforasylumrights.org/back-edm-2908/

🚨 SIGN THE PETITION 🚨 There must be a full statutory inquiry into UK funding and policy relating to the border, how it has enabled human rights abuses, and the way it has put lives at risk. #StopBorderViolence #KnowTheirNames you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

🚨 New: Not a Stranger Campaign Report Migrant-led insights on the harms of new immigration proposals that would expand “earned settlement” and deepen precarity for migrants. ✊ Read the report, engage your MP (template letter in the report), and support migrant-led advocacy. buff.ly/lzNg62C

Paying millions to re-check claims while refusing refugees the basic security they’ need to put down roots, work and rebuild their lives. We'd love the Government to explain how exactly this lose-lose plan is going to make anything better for anyone. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Just so we’re clear: ❌ Travelling clandestinely or in a small boat to seek asylum: wrong ❌ Travelling safely and regularly to seek asylum: also wrong

When you close safer pathways, you don’t make desperation disappear, you just reroute it, meaning more people will be forced into taking dangerous journeys to save their lives. Singling out these countries, knowing so many people have already been displaced due to conflict, is especially cruel.

🔴‘Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Plans Will Put Lives at Risk for No Purpose’ The Government talks about wanting to reduce division and increase integration and then implements policies which will do the complete opposite, argues @danielsohege.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/03/03/s...

“A dark day for anyone who believes in the principle of sanctuary for people fleeing war and persecution... “It’s hard to fathom how anyone could think this absurd anti-refugee plan will improve our asylum system for anyone...” 📢 me in @mirror.co.uk www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

🚨We’ll soon be fighting the Home Office’s cruel suspension of refugee family reunion in court. Hear from our lawyer Cate on why this case matters, and how you can help. Support our crowdfunder today: www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-su...

State-sponsored border violence is causing avoidable deaths at the UK-French border. Demand a public inquiry into the UK's role in deadly border violence. Sign this urgent petition by @projectplayfrance.bsky.social and @humansforrights.bsky.social you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

The Labour Party says it's determined to lift children out of poverty. So why don't children seeking sanctuary count? ✍️ @nbphillips1872.bsky.social

Utterly cruel, pointless and harmful. It does not minimise how bad Conservatives were to say Labour are now the most anti-asylum government in most people's living memory. This prevents people feeling any sense of safety and security after fleeing persecution. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

"Not only are they opting against lifting asylum-seeking kids out of poverty, they are actively and aggressively impoverishing them further. "Who became a Labour MP to do that?" Me in @labourlist.bsky.social today 👇 labourlist.org/2026/03/labo...

Today is a dark day for anyone who believes in sanctuary in the UK. People who've fled war and torture should be able to rebuild their lives in peace and security - not live under a constant threat of removal. We must not stop fighting these appalling anti-refugee laws.

The government will be making a decision on the future of the 56 day move-on period in the next weeks. Use this tool to email your MP to call for 56 days for all – it only takes a couple of minutes, and you can help prevent refugee homelessness. action.youngroots.org.uk/make-56-days...

We all need a home. Take action today to stop newly-granted refugees being made homeless. Gov is deciding on future of 56 day move-on period in the coming weeks. Use @weareyoungroots.bsky.social online tool to email your MP – it only takes a few minutes! action.youngroots.org.uk/make-56-days...

A must-read by the brilliant Allan Njanji in @bigissue.com on what we can learn from Spain's approach to migration 👇

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Immigration is good for our country - this is further proof ⬇️ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/26/drop-in-overseas-workers-uk-hospitals-and-care-homes

How did Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor escape criticism and accountability for so long? Partly because MPs are "barred" from criticising the royals and need to be "respectful" of them, Lib Dem leader Ed Davey told the Commons yesterday. #DCUKparliament

Yet another prime example of FPTP being a broken electoral system. A clear majority of voters want a progressive MP, but Reform could sneak in. Voters would actually get better campaigns too, rather than dodgy bar charts, poll obsession and "only we can win here" tedium.

The response to policies which are based on "Christian nationalism" and far right racism is not "how will you afford it". Reform is promoting seriously far right, evangelical, fuckwittery, which is opposed by majority of the country, too many journalists keep treating them as "business as usual".

Wrote this back in September, and it is holding fast. Reform's sickeningly racist policies announced this week are far worse than anything we have seen thus far, but they are also enabled by Labour's own shift to the right with attacks on marginalised groups. 1/3 www.lbc.co.uk/article/keir...

Farage on his way to get himself diagnosed with Tourrette's after watching the BAFTA's

It's interesting and worrying to see people on here unable to see that Reform and Labour's diagnosis is ultimately the same. 'A large number of people came and it is bad for the UK'. They just differ on scope, language and policy.

There is no such thing as “the gaming culture”. Nor is there a particular “temperament” that goes with it. It’s like saying “the writing culture” or “the music culture”. This is why it is better to just say “not for me”, or nothing at all, about a bit of culture you don’t enjoy.

"So here’s a simple rule for Trump and his friends: if you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop hiring Nazis, quoting Nazis and posting Nazi imagery." From my piece from last month.

On irony

If you're horrified by Reform's headline-grabbing racism (and you should be), you should also be horrified by our current Government's attacks on Indefinite Leave To Remain. Our head of campaigns @nbphillips1872.bsky.social in The Guardian: buff.ly/JIRAiD7

Labour Together are also the "brains" (loose term) behind the Government's cruel and disastrous earned setllement changes. Setting hostile angi-refugee Government polivy whilst settkng investigators on journalists. Lovely bunch. All things considered.

when broadcasters repeat Mandelson claim he was “not motivated by financial gain” please also report the $75,000 of financial gain Mandelson received from Epstein in 2004 and 2004 and the £10s of thousands Mandelson’s husband received from Epstein in 2009/10 plus free flights & mansion stays

a year is a long time in politics

July 2024 vs February 2026

ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone. She goes out looking for him. "I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..." www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public. It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests. What else is the regime hiding from us?

Today Reform announces its dystopian vision for the UK. It's hard to believe anyone could look at the kidnappings and state-sponsored murders in the US and conclude that's what we need. But what's most worrying is this extremist plan isn't an outlier... (1/5)

That is not to say that people shouldn't condemn these policies, they actively should, but they also need to recognise that is what Reform wants. That's why @nbphillips1872.bsky.social from @asylummatters.bsky.social comments is so good, it provides wider contextualisation.

"There is a small part of me that will always be that person who arrived here by train knowing no one" 🎭 @alfdubs.bsky.social reviews 'Paddington: The Musical' 🐻🍊 at the Savoy Theatre, London #Paddington #PaddingtonTheMusical bit.ly/3ZNhqV0