A high emotional labour week as final year students reach UG dissertation deadline. Lots of anxiety but also this: 'Thank you for being supportive & helping me find new angles to take on new ideas :)'. Unsolicited, personal feedback is so valuable always, but more so as our institutions attack us.

In a new report published today by the Government’s independent anti-slavery commissioner, #ModernSlavery in the UK has reached record levels and is likely to worsen over the next decade. 📋Read the report: report-anticipating-exploitation_a-futures-analysis_final.pdf

Debbie from AFRUCA and the BME Anti-slavery Network highlights how the Modern Slavery Act needs to be applied. Prosecution is low. Let's focus on this today #PECconference

V pleased to be at the @modernslaverypec.bsky.social’s conference on “A human rights-centred approach to addressing modern slavery and human trafficking” today. Murray Hunt gives an excellent intro contesting polarizing HR framings that pits the rights of individuals against those of the majority.

Analysis of MAC data shows any fiscal savings of the settlement reforms would be a small fraction of the billions cited by ministers. Research from FoI request by @jdportes.bsky.social The govt must now show its own workings to inform MPs on policy choices www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

MAGA loyalty isn’t about policy, it’s about belonging. Guest writer Jordan Gonsalves explores how loneliness and identity keep the movement intact, even as Trump's coalition collapses.

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

Salek Ali Mohamed Elabd & Maria Carrion will discuss “Improvisation in contexts of infrastructural violence: a physician practising medicine in Sahrawi refugee camps.” Improvisation becomes key to effective medical care without electricity or standard supplies, such as gloves, bandages, or splints

Hoy viajamos hasta @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social para acompañar al doctor Salek Ali Mohamed Elabd en la presentación del trabajo publicado en @nature.com sobre la atención sanitaria en los campamentos de población refugiada saharaui. events.berkeley.edu/bph/event/31...

In a scary world there's someone at a local cafe who has learned how to make a snail with latte art. Every kind of art can be a salve for the soul in dark times.

"All of these deaths are preventable through the creation of safe routes. "We're sending hundreds of millions of pounds to France to fund the policing operation there, and this policing operation includes the snatching of life vests from people.

The big hole in the new Employment Rights Act is that some workers still have to risk deportation to report labour abuses. So pleased that Baroness Hamwee is supporting our call for migrant workers to be able to report bad employers without fear: bills.parliament.uk/bills/3929/s...

1/3 Huge evidence burdens stop survivors getting help "I had little control...there was limited documentation or proof" explains lived experience campaigner We told @sianushka.bsky.social @opendemocracy.net "Survivors should be met with support not suspicion" www.opendemocracy.net/en/epstein-s...

“Even for the minority of survivors able to overcome all the hurdles needed to be recognised as a victim by the Home Office, the support is not guaranteed,” said Esslemont. www.opendemocracy.net/en/epstein-s...

The report of the Commission on Ethnic and Racial Disparities (the "Sewell Report") was published 5 years ago today. I wrote this then: "It is almost impossible to find a topic on which someone with acknowledged expertise has not demolished the report’s analysis" bylinetimes.com/2021/04/09/r...

2nd Day of #SLSA2026 Labour Law and Society - Migrant workers! Starting, Jack Beadsworth @bonavero.bsky.social 'Forced Labour Indicators in Immigration Control: Legal Structures of State-Sanctioned Wage Deprivation Against Migrants'

This also shows up the disingenuous nature of Labour's bogus "safe routes" using work and study visas, which will take a year and a half at least for people to reach UK. Not to mention that this "crackdown on abuse" also includes trapping even Chevening Scholars in situations of extreme persecution.

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year. I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

This analysis is also highly relevant to rethinking labour market regulation and worker organising to tackle prolific labour exploitation "modern Britain is most defined by carers, sales people, retail workers, managers, teachers, tradespeople, cleaners, administrators, and logistics workers."

When we say Trump and his ass-kissers are fascists, this too is what it means: all of us will be judged by the colour of our skin and what’s between our legs without any limits imposed by law or policy. “Ending DEI” is fascist-speak for white, patriarchal supremacy.

Will it ever end? Shaken to finish an exhausting week with a 2 min stand-off with a group of men towering over me, crowded into the bike area of train & not budging when I ask them to move along so I can get my bike off. Their glee in the power of collective refusal & rudeness has really shaken me.

Bridging visas mean that workers whose immigration status is insecure or dependent on their employers can report exploitation without losing their immigration status. This is a cornerstone of being able to access rights

Latest post from us: Can asylum seekers work while waiting for a decision on their case? | Katherine Soroya freemovement.org.uk/can-asylum-s...

I've just written a frankly bleak book section on the perniciousness of the 'lump of labour fallacy' from WEB DuBois' US post-Civil War Black Reconstruction analysis to European C20th legitimisation of racist & discriminatory immigration controls so am glad for a short walk to this cherry blossom.

anyone who says "it needs to be more difficult" would be on the floor crying and begging for mercy on a single 5 year route with one entry visa, one renewal 30 months later, and an ILR application at 5 years

This list of so-called "safe" countries includes those which are very dangerous to queer people e.g. Nigeria and Ghana. Home Office routinely disbelieves the identity of queer people in the asylum system, rendering the "safeguard" referred to in the article useless www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2185...

I wrote something! Please read and repost. And please donate to Hear Me Out's funding appeal: donations before Tuesday are doubled! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Have this Labour government left it too late to show some courage by celebrating migration, diversity, peaceful co-operation, getting along and 'non-elite cosmopolitanism' to neutralise openly Islamophobic and racist commentators? Why are these people even being given oxygen?

I don't have the figures to hand, but I'm fairly certain that everything feels 1500% more possible when the sun is shining, the sky is blue, and the temperature rises above 13C.

'Seafarers are affected by global work trends, such as surveillance, precarious contracts and automation, even in remote locations.' Pallavi Sanil offers a thoughtful review of Helen Sampson's 'Sea-Time', a book which promises a rare insight into the isolation of seafaring workers.

There have been 41 ICE detention deaths so far during the second term. @austinkocher.com breaks it down here, and rightly calls on us to (continue to) demand accountability. austinkocher.substack.com/p/mapping-41...

🚨 New policy changes mean that every 30 months, survivors of torture and war will be forced to reapply for protection. MPs can challenge these changes - if enough of us speak out. Email your MP today! https://ow.ly/rZ7550Yv8po 📷: https://ow.ly/zf0q50Yv8fG Edited by Freedom from Torture

Islamophobia or Anti-Muslim prejudice? Does it matter? Is the avoidance of 'Islamophobia' pandering to FR commentariat? Interesting to see a local authority mainstream 'anti-Muslim prejudice'. I snapped this for a class in a few weeks' time on religion, tolerance & racism vs Islamophobia.

This is how I like to think of my academic trajectory. I don’t WANT to be a monitoring, evaluation and learning consultant. I’d rather be researching and writing about the archaeology of adaptation to rapid and severe climate change and what it can teach us about our current predicament.

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

Dan is right, any approach focusing on immigration status, nationality or ethnicity of victims and perpetrators is a barrier to addressing structural root causes of severe exploitation. Regardless of citizenship status, exploitation thrives wherever isolation & lack of safety net closes down options

Too often modern slavery and human trafficking, not exactly the same things, go unnoticed because authorities are focused on them being "immigration crimes". Too often victims aren't supported, especially if they are migrants where they are more likely to be penalised than protected. 2/4

This is a horrendous case, and I tend to be of the opinion Wixon should get life. It highlights a big issue with the way modern slavery and trafficking is often treated as an "immigration offence" though. Most victims, in UK, are UK citizens abused by UK citizens. 1/4 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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#HartfordVisibilityBrigade this afternoon honoring the late Rev. Jesse Jackson. Join us in keeping hope alive! [email protected] @tommorelloofficial.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social @barackobama.bsky.social @briantylercohen.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social

Having the right to work is of course very different to being compelled to work, possibly in restricted sectors/ circumstances which creates risks of exploitation #LiftTheBan www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Right to work is very different to cutting support from people seeking asylum. People seeking safety who are ready to work need support and options. Keeping people temporary while mandating work or destitution will drive exploitation. See the #LiftTheBan statement @asylummatters.bsky.social

Reminder that we are accepting submissions for two special issues - on 1) how communities participate in the development of policies & programmes that impact them; and 2) how different marginalised groups and social movements build solidarity. See more at antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...

30 years. This video should be on every network.

The government's fresh wave of asylum policy proposals are incoherent and cruel. They risk making our already brutal asylum system impossible to survive, while recreating measures that already exist and failing to establish genuine routes to safety. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

What a devastating week for refugee rights in the UK. Beyond the technical changes-which are mean-hearted & punishing-the absence of courage to reject baseless deterrent & racist rhetoric is deeply dangerous. Asylum rights are everyone's rights. Everything road tested in asylum regimes is expanded.

An economically, politically and morally bankrupt strategy. Bad for individuals, bad for families, bad for businesses, bad for public services, bad for integration and cohesion. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is such a powerful image. As well as a message of hope and unity, new MP Hannah Spencer flanked by Green MPs @elliechowns.bsky.social and Carla Denyer is a commentary on women involved in long term campaigning for social and environmental change driving political transformation.