The Government's Child Poverty Strategy begins to turn the tide on child poverty. As a result, child poverty rates will fall next year – the first time in nine years (outside the pandemic). But other child poverty headwinds remain. Read our full statement 👇 buff.ly/Tnqasir

THIS this this…

The UK right: ‘Why are we supporting so many foreigners, we should be supporting our own in this country’ Government announces plans to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty and to help struggling parents afford baby formula The UK right: ‘No we didn’t mean them’

“NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm…We’ve set up a simple tool so you can find out if your local NHS trust has started using the software & send an email demanding they say no to Palantir.” notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...?

Oof, had forgotten about this. As always, neo-imperialism and corruption go hand in hand.

Today the news will be about the government's proposals for juries. Please read this thread so as to be informed about the actual practical problems in the criminal justice system - problems which will not be solved by this misconceived and illiberal tinkering.

Donald Trump is taking money away from our hospitals & GP surgeries, and Nigel Farage is cheering him on. We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.

This week's letter to 99% members shows that the UK still risks repeating the Biden experience: lots of good things, but failing to tackle the key issues for the average voter. We cannot afford that.

We've created a simple tool so you can find out whether your local NHS trust is using Palantir's software and asking them to resist Wes Streeting's push to sign up for it. goodlaw.social/zr8w

It would be very in keeping with how UK elites are chronically 6-18 months behind the curve if UK university leaders torch their credibility in trying to appease Reform and MAGA only for further shifts in political trends to start seeing a decline in support for Trump and Farage

HM Treasury before the ref and the Tories own post ref DexEU department both produced analysis showing there was no version of Brexit which could have worked for the economy. www.gov.uk/government/p...

70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.

Please sign: No new tax breaks for Tech Giants!! Trump & big tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are pressuring the UK to drop our Digital Services Tax, a small 2% tax on the very biggest tech giants taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/protect-the-... via @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social

No, welfare spending is not 'out of control'. (There is an underlying rise in health-related benfits, but this needs sensible reform - not knee jerk cuts.)

🚨BOOM! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 70,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000 this week. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

At last! The 2 child limit on benefits is being scrapped. This is the piece I made last year after Starmer suspended 7 Labour MPS for voting against KEEPING the policy 🤦🏻‍♀️ Big shout out to those who kept pushing to get rid of this shameful policy! #budget2025 #embroidery

Call for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell fire inquiry. Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex behaved with “systematic dishonesty”, “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market” 72 died in 2017. No one prosecuted.

NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this. We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

”Too little, too late!”…indeed. #embroidery #covidinquiry #covidinquiryreport

Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...

Yesterday, we put out a report on the most important issues to voters. We know that immigration now tops the traditional most important issues question (see below from @yougov.co.uk). But that doesn't tell the full story. Here is a rundown of the experiments we did to test this out (A THREAD):

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...

In 2023-24 HMRC issued 456 penalties to wealthy individuals for £5.8m, 25 prosecuted. Tax scams designed by accountants, lawyers; five prosecutions in 2023-2024. Govt taking powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts; mainly poor, old, sick. Nothing equivalent on tax abuse industry.

No-one is going to switch to Labour because of this cruelty. Farage will be vindicated because the ECHR is back in the news & the economy will suffer. There was another way. We could have all been better off by 2029 & the Reform threat kneecapped. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Migration of any kind isn't tearing Britain apart. What is, is the media & press organisations, saying that it is. What is, is the Labour, Conservative and Reform parties parroting the media & press, whilst adding their own delusional opinions. The problem, right wing media, press and governments.

There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.

Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want

NEW: The biggest union in the BBC, Bectu, has written to culture secretary Lisa Nandy and BBC chair Samir Shah, demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board. They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.

New Universal Credit statistics today show the % of claimants in the ‘no work requirements’ conditionality group has continued to rise to 49%, and the proportion in work has fallen to 33%. This is likely to be written up as ‘a rise in claimants not required to work’, but context is very important! 🧵

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down

MAGA Will Rule or Ruin A roundup of the latest developments in America’s authoritarian crisis: How the Trumpists plan to bring down the Republic – and how they might react to electoral defeat. New piece:

Important, timely, analysis by @lgilbert.co debunking the commonly used line that "migrants are a burden". Shows that migrants are overwhelmingly bet fiscal contributors. Basically, you target migration, you crash the country.

This is an excellent listen, and gives glimmers of hope. Definitely worth 35 mins of your time.

Where America stands, one year after the election. A fascistic movement controls the government; they are building an authoritarian state; but they have not been able yet to extend authoritarian rule across society. A democracy no more, but not a consolidated autocratic regime yet. New piece:

From today's @financialtimes.com #foreverchemicals

A total and utter hero

🔴The UK Must Urgently Distance Itself From Elon Musk and Space X, Warns Parliamentary Report The UK’s infrastructure has become far too reliant on the far-right billionaire, who could ‘politicise’ our reliance upon his companies, the report warns bylinetimes.com/2025/11/04/t...

Fully repealing the two-child limit on benefits is by far the best way to ensure fewer children are growing up in poverty. Half measures – from moving to a three-child limit to exempting working families – would all still lead to an increase in child poverty by the end of the decade.

I can’t envisage a child poverty strategy which garners any credibility without fully scrapping the two-child limit. Unconvinced? Check out (even better share) this summary of the peer-reviewed evidence base @kittyjstewart.bsky.social @aaronreeves.bsky.social largerfamilies.study/publications...

The Government should act quickly to lift the two-child limit on benefits. Any further delay has significant human consequences, with more and more children captured by the policy every year. Read 'No half measures' 👉 buff.ly/qVc9CWs

Repealing the two-child limit in full is the most powerful policy lever the Government can pull to drive down child poverty rates. But they could go further ⤵️

Putting people seeking safety in barracks is cruel, performative punishment. We’ve seen what went wrong at Napier, Penally & Manston: they are unsafe and inhumane. We must not repeat that. We should welcome people and house them safely in communities. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025....

"We would all be better off if child poverty was reduced. And the most efficient, the quickest, the easiest, and the most politically, morally and socially justified way of doing that would be to lift the cap. We would all be better off as a consequence of that." www.lbc.co.uk/article/grou...

NEW: The cleavage shot no UK tabloid will print. If you want to understand how truly ignorant and absent the British media is on Russian interference, read on. A Kremlin spy scandal, a trove of bikini shots....and still nothing but tumbleweed. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

In huge positive news, the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their country’s creatives to AI companies for free 🙌 They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law. Other governments should do the same! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Sadly, we no longer live in a functioning democracy.