BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/bbc-trump-row-gaza-genocide-whitewashing-israel-bias

That Mahmood Mamdani’s child is poised to become the mayor of New York does make one teeter towards the feeling that anything is possible.

So the key question is whether Anthony Williams was known to the mental health system? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...?

- EGM tomorrow at 12 - Strike action begins 10th of November

The GGE showcase made us ask ourselves what the loss of GGE and its many connections in the University will mean for the ecosystem and sustainability agenda at the University.

Handsworth appears a model of integration, understood as everyday living together by diverse people.

There’s also a solid case for student number controls at the institutional level, to end the instability an open market for students has caused since 2015. As things stand, in every discipline, some universities are simply expanding at the expense of others.

Leicester UCU @leicesterucu.bsky.social will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October. Support our striking members, donate to the fighting fund if you're able. More details here: www.uculeicester.org.uk/leicester-uc...

Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October. Support our striking members, donate to the fighting fund if you're able. More details here: www.uculeicester.org.uk/leicester-uc...

Leicester UCU will be on strike from Monday 29 September until Friday 17 October.

If only commentators would recognise that in UK law ‘deportation’ is what happens to foreign nationals who have been convicted of serious criminal offences. Those affected typically had a right of residence beforehand.

Reform's plan to end ILR - including where it has already been granted - would involve a bonfire of treaties and legislation.

Disappointed that this BBC news piece about Trump not wanting Mayor Sadiq Khan at the State Banquet doesn't once mention Khan's race or religion. If you leave out that Khan is a brown Muslim man, you gloss over why he's targeted by Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just think Corbyn is too set in his ways to lead the left party that UK politics needs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...?

Can we agree that the main threats to free speech in the UK concern pro-Palestinian opinions?

By TNC. Has lost none of his edge.

Sorry, not buying the idea that Labour has been waving the UK flag to represent diversity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Why does the article refer to the St George’s flag? He’s surely referring to the British flag.

One of Labour’s problems is that under Starmer they have actively deployed the union flag as a backdrop, both in campaigning and in Government. Point is: Labour are now very badly positioned to challenge the ‘patriotism’ of the populists or of the far right.

Arctic Vardø is the most easterly town in Norway. Due south is Russia. I’m east of Kyiv and Istanbul. Closer to China than I am to Portugal. And from here to the most distant point in Schengen reachable by public transport is in excess of 5,500km as the crow flies. That’s a lot of 🚆 🚌 ⛴️ #Schengen200

Really not sure this will fly: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

Shocking threat to a US city. I had to check it was real.

Angela Rayner's fall shows unfairness in tax law around separation/ divorce. Why does someone face a higher rate of SDLT for buying a new property to live in, while keeping a share in the marital home? It just encourages people to sell up.

And @leicesterucu.bsky.social have a mandate for strike action, with the sole aim of preventing redundancies.

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

Lethal force against a civilian vessel in international waters is a war crime if not in self-defense. If not in self-defense, only non-lethal actions, such as warning shots or disabling fire, are allowed. "Not yielding to pursuers" or "suspected of carrying drugs" doesn't carry a death sentence.

What on earth is the point of delaying the family reunion of recognised refugees? bit.ly/4fZKzn2

Between @jowhitemp.bsky.social and Jacob Rees-Mogg, the ECHR lacking friends on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social tonight. The case needs to be made for it as a minimum guarantee of protection for all, and especially those unrepresented in a state’s political system.

This society needs to debate everyday racism, not asylum hotels.

The prospect of a Farage/ Reform Government taking power under the UK constitutional order is truly frightening to contemplate.

Rylan Clark showcasing the incoherence of the migrant panic: “I find it absolutely insane that all these people are, one, risking their lives to come across the Channel. And, two, when they get here, it does seem like: ‘Welcome. Come on in.’ This is the narrative we are being fed." What narrative??

Asylum Seekers - Time To Change The Rules? whycurve.com/episode/asyl...

I am quite worried that that UK 'safe and legal' asylum route won't last. If it tends to add new groups to those now seeking to cross the Channel, it's hard to see why France would allow it.

Seeing this on the news last night and just thinking: really, well done, you've bought the hammer down hardest on the thing the country most needs, just congratulations to everyone involved.

The Reform plan to end asylum rights seems built on sand … where would people in UK actually be sent to?

Does UK law recognise a distinction between opposing a ban on X and supporting X?

What nonsense about local people “not knowing” who is in hotels used as asylum seeker accommodation. Do the public usually expect to know who is staying in a hotel? Or indeed any other kind of property?

Calling what’s happening in Gaza a ‘war’ is a gross distortion … www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Awful announcement … will surely encourage prejudice against minorities and/ or people who moved to the UK. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...?

Amazed that it’s possible to write about the HE crisis without using the word ‘redundancy’: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sorry but how does this address a policy of starvation? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Happened to be there, impressed by their support for the Palestinian cause.

Indicative ballot results are out! Click here for more about our dispute: www.uculeicester.org.uk/appeal-to-co...

Going back to Uganda, just like you suggested !

Pure settler colonial revivalism www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...

But her point is correct, no? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If the Senate confirms the wildly unqualified Emil Bove, it will be responsible for the even Trumpier and more lawless Supreme Court for which the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is potentially but a Bovean stepping stone. He is an antijudge extraordinaire www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/o...

Calls for removal of ‘racist’ migrant effigies in boat placed on loyalist bonfire in NI Mannequins put on top of huge bonfire in Moygashel on the outskirts of Dungannon in Co Tyrone