UK Gov’s criminalisation of support for Palestine Action is untenable, morally and politically. It feels close to criminalising CND in the 1980s. Time for Gov to admit it is a mistake and back down.

Concerned parents at Epping.

People who say and act in a way ‘I’m too important to do THIS.’ You have no place in my world. Ever. Feeling happy that now this is very clear to me.

Numbers at Parliament Square have been swelled by demonstrators from the National March of Gaza. Police are now just being followed around by people cursing and booing them

Legal Update: Refugee family reunion: what’s changed, and what it means. The UK Gov has paused refugee family reunion from 4 Sept 2025. Existing cases continue, but new applications must now use strict visa rules creating new barriers for safety and reunion. righttoremain.org.uk/refugee-fami...

Hi everyone! Lots of things are thrown at us right now. The truth is, migration is life. We will stay connected, look after each other and spread solidarity and love, to build a society that protects us all. #RefugeesWelcome #NoOneIsIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall

I think it’s natural for anyone to sink into foul mood after sitting at the computer 13 hours. That was me today.

Any issue framed as a 'crisis' gives states an opportunity to curtail people's rights & liberty. This manufactured asylum hotel 'crisis' has emboldened the government to propose removing judicial oversight over asylum appeals as a solution. A TERRIBLE idea. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Elbit, the Israeli company that was Palestine Action's primary target, is close to winning a £2bn MoD contract to train British soldiers. The idea that as genocide continues it's "business as usual" is why thousands plan to shut down the DSEi arms fair on 9 Sept www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...

What do we do when our most virulent opponents have zero interest in having discussions or debates in good faith?

"It’s there, in people’s mutual care, in all our fractious getting on and survival and recombination that you see the ferment of new ideas." davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/where-are-...

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event - Charlie Warzel "What if we spend so much time waiting and arguing that we fail to marshal our energy toward addressing the problems that exist here and now?" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I’d like someone to count how many joint letters are issued by the sector I work in every year. I seem to see at least one such letter circulating almost every day.

So, what comes after solidarity?

Really tiring when grant application guidelines are written by people whose understanding of the differences between outputs, outcomes and impact is pretty dubious.

If you've been following today's hearing, a judicial review will take place in November after a judge found there are strong grounds for the ban on Palestine Action breaching human rights and failing to consult in advance. The government case is weakened–but the group remains banned. Read our advice

We need to wake up to the fact that £10 million that Home Office paid out as unlawful detention compensation to migrants is a lot of money to us but literally nothing in the eyes of this government. States don’t care how much border control costs.

It was one of these days where at 5pm I did not complete any of the tasks that was on my to-do list for today, tasks which were mainly from my to do list 3 weeks ago.

'The government said it was clamping down on “abuse” of hotels housing those seeking asylum with its new “failure to travel guidance”.' As someone who has been working in this area too long, I'd say that this guidance has been operating for decades and not new. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

'Turn empty London office blocks into ‘late-night party zones’, report suggests' - I'd rather see some blocks turned into housing units. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Worth reading in full >>> From economy of occupation to economy of genocide - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

I get blank stares from my NGO colleagues when I talk about this kind of stuff - but Tasha has helpfully written it out for all to read. Some sections which I think are particularly important include: "it’s also much bigger than Reform" thinkingdoingchanging.com/2025/07/02/w...

Maybe this is due to my old age but I feel uneasy about this excessive focus on interiority when the world is, literally, burning. Sure, we need energy to keep ourselves going because our struggle won't be over in a matter of weeks, months or even years. But we still need to get things done, today.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... AI and its use, as they currently stand, are only too regularly not only creating generations of people who can’t think or learn, but also wasting others’ time and energy.

Any writer worth their salt should know the critical difference between anger and resentment and use them with appropriately and skilfully according to the context of the text. With or without AI, is our writing deteriorating, collectively?

God, I hate cocktails.

BREAKING: Home Secretary Yvette Cooper wants to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist group. This decision will need to come before Parliament, and the House of Commons and House of Lords must debate and approve it. It will be open to legal challenge.

It’s nearly one year since the last General Election. Do we think there will be four years till the next one? Do we? I think we should be asking this question. We need to be doing scenario setting exercises. Now.

Just to put this out there for the record, again. NGO-industrial-complex is governed by the same capitalist market logic that dictates all aspects of our lives: the richer get richer.

Holding onto and enjoying one’s analytical correctness is, I suppose, a form of retreat into oneself. For comfort. For safety. And it seems to happen at every point of political & ideological spectrum, for better or worse.

At the moment, my biggest hate is ChatGPT, which is creating more, not less, work for me. People - if you can't use your brains or your brains cannot think, please please please don't bother me.

Is it just me who’s finding this? Some people use AI to appear clever. Or just get things done beyond their capability. But because they don’t really understand what they are meant to do, they submit wholly nonsensical stuff as their work. Why broadcast that you are an imbecile?

📣 BIG NEWS 📣 Right to Remain is delighted to (soon) welcome two new staff members! Raggi Kotak (Senior Legal Education Officer) and Ally Swadling (Legal Education Officer) will join our team in June and July. righttoremain.org.uk/raggi-kotak-...

That was a busy year. We just didn’t know how much busier it was to become in the following year.

Mo Salah and the Myth of the Good Migrant >>> newlinesmag.com/spotlight/mo...

#OtD 17 May 1966 Vassilis Palaiokostas, “the Greek Robin Hood,” was born in Moschofito, Greece. The became famous for robbing banks and the rich and giving to the poor, and repeatedly escaping jail stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8918...

When people get things finished but they don’t get things properly done - remind yourself it’s not your responsibility to educate them. Life is too short.

"We are not “the crisis”. We are neighbours, mothers, caregivers, workers, fighters. We show up when it counts. We care for one another when the government does not." Read how people seeking #asylum continue to fight for justice and freedom. #WhitePaper righttoremain.org.uk/grief-action...

‘… the line between madness and sanity is like a river that changes its course, both over time and as a result of human interference’ Lucie Elven, writing on Janet Frame in LRB.

And another thing - you will never change the world if you confine what you say to what the polling seems to imply (note the caveats) ‘people’ want to hear. I can’t believe I need to be saying this in 2025. The polling is a business. It’s a money making machine. It’s not public service.

I know I’m out of touch with loads of life matters but when I receive emails and messages which have been clearly assisted by AI, my general trust in the sender diminishes. Is this wrong? Is it a generational thing?

We will be holding an online mutual-support space next week, to reflect together on this latest development. We will share more details via our newsletter. righttoremain.org.uk/newsletter/ Sending you love and solidarity. Rigt to Remain team #MigrationIsLife #NoOneIsIllegal #TheseWallsMustFall

Keir Starmer unveiled Labour's immigration white paper, while using a very divisive language that scapegoats migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum. Solidarity with everyone who is now worried, anxious and scared. Remember that you are not alone - many of us fighting for migration justice.

Belatedly, reading the transcript of the ‘island of strangers’ speech (I was on leave today, OK?) Would love to know how other migrant people are feeling about being described as main contributors to ‘a squalid chapter for our politics, our economy, and our country’. www.gov.uk/government/s...

Can the Labour Party survive after Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech? Surely many of its members and the MPs feel unable to stomach this.

The first and foremost, I hope those who oppose Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech look out for and demonstrate solidarity with the communities that it scapegoates. That must be the starting point - the speech directly attacks them, including many who are already citizens.

When you live a perceived life assembled by layers and layers of misrecognitions, you learn to live away from categories and others’ affirmations because that is far more dignified. And free.

What’s gonna happen to people who speak English but don’t make sense? Like many politicians? Take away their citizenship?? (Note: Citizenship deprivation is something I’ll never advocate for anyone.) #labourpartynonsense

"Nearly 10,000 asylum claimants who had arrived in the UK legally on work or study visas were living in taxpayer-funded accommodation, such as hotels, at some point last year." Strangely this piece doesn't explain that asylum seekers aren't allowed to work... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...