Sleeping rough is not a lifestyle choice. After years campaigning, tirelessly led by @laylamoran.bsky.social, we are glad the government has finally repealed the Vagrancy Act. We must now focus on tackling the root causes of homelessness, not scapegoating the victims of it.

There’s a very good reason Reform aren’t active on #BlueSky because here moderators have a zero tolerance approach towards Bots 90% of Reform’s supporting comments on X are Bots - here they’d be swamped with real a/cs highlighting their dodgy funding, hypocrisy, racism, & BS @bsky.app #StopTheBots

The girl who was killed by russian glide bomb in Kharkiv today came to the city for her university graduation. ​A graduation robe lies next to her body...

Tackling poverty and inequality has been my focus since day 1 as Education Secretary. That's why I've rolled out funded childcare, free breakfast clubs, Best Start Family Hubs, expanded free school meals and scrapped the two child limit. 500,000 children out of poverty.

This is ​Fatima, a sixth-year medical student at Kharkiv National Medical University. Russia killed her today. She came to the city for her university graduation. She was only 23.

This was the biggest judgement call of Badenoch's leadership and she got it badly wrong. She then blamed Labour's refusal to back the war on Muslim voters, "whose political loyalties are swayed by conflicts in the Middle east, not the British national interest". It was a shocking, shameful episode

With one-time Leave voters thinking #RejoinEU doesn't sound so bad, next PM could unite country AND rebuild #EU links. Advice in @yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk from our Vice Chair @jazz072.bsky.social: "Don't mess it up, Andy Burnham." 👇 www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/politic... #UKPolitics

Some of our young members were recently interviewed by L'Express on why we shouldn't dwell on the past, and how they see the future of UK-EU relations evolving. You can read it (in French) here:

Ruth Curtice, CEO of the Resolution Foundation on #C4News Asking the question many people want answered: how is Andy Burnham going to pay for the changes he says he wants to make?

NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal. New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve.news. 🔗 below 1/

The cost of climate change will only get worse. Government’s need to get on with net zero France alone recorded at least 1,000 additional deaths in just three days. "Heat stress is often called the 'silent killer', and European homes, workplaces, and schools were not built for these temperatures"

News incoming from Israel: Jewish soldiers are now warning Christians in Southern Lebanon not to hide any Muslim residents as Israel's troops advance. Jewish troops are now searching for Muslims in the attics of Christians. If you're not seeing the parallels here, I don't know what to say.

Trump has wrecked the scientific community in the USA. We aren't safe here from a far right/Project 2029 assault. Time to wake up. unchecked.uk/public_body_...

A message for #Burnham and #Labour - It's time to scrap the red lines and start the process of #Rejoin

This is vital . Protect our scientific bodies. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

⚠️ Surrey beef farmer, Simon Maiklem, voted to remain in the EU. He said he has not seen any advantage from coming out of Europe. "If anything, things are probably worse than were predicted," he said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c621zrjl8z5o

It's time for a bold new deal with Europe to make Britain richer, safer and stronger. That means a UK-EU customs union and taking Britain back into the Single Market.

Hi Nigel Farage, what did Harborne buy with his £5m? #FiveMilFarage

"It's just the weather" "The [new] snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland’s glaciers is expected to have all melted away by Monday [today]" Which is 3 months too early than normal Which means the old glacial ice will melt and recede further #GlobalBoiling

🇬🇧 Brexit has worsened the lives of those who voted for change. It is time to reverse the mistake. 🇪🇺 It is time for EU membership.

From the Home Secretary appointing lynch mobs to England's shit-filled rivers, the UK is clearly a basket case. The product of decades of hollowing out by the ultra-rich, their lobbyists and bought politicians. How can their stranglehold be broken?

"I think the doctors have got it wrong on smoking." Farage (2016)

Climate.us 💥🌪️☀️❄️🌬️💦💧🌊🍀

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Charles Schulz received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 30 years ago, on June 28, 1996. The two stars:

Cummings was always a dangerous extremist. No surprise.

This extreme weather of the past week isn't a one-off. It's part of a dangerous new norm. The oil and gas companies fuelling the climate crisis - and driving up your energy bills - shouldn't be funding our politics. I've tabled an Amendment to ban oil and gas donations to political parties.

Nigel Farage's Admiration for Putin and 'Concern' for Russian Oligarchs Exposes His Fake Patriotism open.substack.com/pub/adambien...

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN AUSTRIA 40 DEGREES IN VIENNA for the 1st time All time records smashed allover the country including: 40.0 Vienna 39.9 Tulln 39.4 Krems 39.1 Retz 39.0 St Polten 38.8 Amstetten 38.3 Gumpoldskirchen 38.8 Lanngenlois 38.4 Poydorf tie Absolutely extraordinary

Nigel Farage and an 'Extraordinary Lack of Curiosity' from UK Government and Intelligence Services Over Possible Russian Interference in Brexit  – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/06/11/n...

"UK heatwave forecasts temperatures will hit record-breaking 41C" It's still just a forecast but hot weather once again appears to be on the way starting from 8 July and then rising further over the next few days - so it's not unlikely this new peak may be reached www.devonlive.com/news/uk-worl...

By far the most important takeaway from Scotland at the World Cup is not our poor performance but the worldwide cultural impact of the Tartan Army. Indeed, to see the English-created tropes and stereotypes obliterated forever has been beyond joyous. So to England, WM and the BBC, GIRFUY.

No actual evidence that this was a defenestration—Putin's assassination signature—but being talked about as a successor to Putin is a death sentence in today's Russia. Ask Ivanov.

Busy Sunday shift in A&E today. It’s much cooler today but the incredible team here powered through during the extreme heat we saw this week. They’re a credit to our community.

“This is growth on a planetary scale. Growth that makes any other option simply pale in comparison.” Tom Brufatto explains the transformative effect EU membership would have on the UK economy. https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/to-truly-transform-the-uk-economy

“She argues that the world needs to rediscover the idea of the common good, our shared fate that depends on equitably nurturing the bounty of our only planet.” Count me in, Prof Mariana Mazzucato! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?

Ford rehires "greybeard" engineers after its push for AI automation backfires. "Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product." www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

Of course we can rejoin and so we should. londonlovesbusiness.com/france-says-...

Utah is burning. The fires are nowhere near contained, hundreds of thousands of acres have burned and three firefighters have already died. But the same MAGAts who have spent the last 18 months blaming Newsom and Bass for the L.A. fires are calling Cox a p*ssy for listening to wildfire experts. 🤦‍♀️🤡

📢 INEQUALITY GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK (No.22) 🔽 The UK’s international ranking for life expectancy has fallen steadily for decades. We're going backwards... Source: Prof. Danny Dorling Peak Injustice: Solving Britain’s Inequality Crisis www.dannydorling.org/books/peakin...

The vindictiveness against this family is truly disgusting. Harry did not choose to be born royal. Perhaps he made some mistakes, but with the hatred towards him and his wife whipped up by the mob, it really isn’t safe for them to come without protection. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

“What comes in the next decade depends entirely on whether Britain’s mainstream politicians can finally do what it has spent the previous decade refusing to: tell the truth about what Brexit did, who bears the cost, and why the man promising to fix it helped cause it all in the first place”

So it turns out the massive scandal here is that Bridget Phillipson's mum bought a council house for £9k in 1990 and then sold it *33 years* later for £99k. That's the entire story

True! #BookSky

1/ Is a rebellion brewing in the Russian army? A Russian soldier's video appeal to meet with Vladimir Putin to avert a mutiny over the appalling conditions on the frontline has gone viral, and has clearly struck a nerve at the Kremlin. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/anto...

Really trashy & dishonest Mail attack. Apparently Bridget Philipson’s Mum bought the house for £10k in 1990 and the family sold 33 years later in 2023 for £99k. Personally, I think Thatcher was wrong to allow tenants to buy their council houses, but that’s hardly Philipson’s fault #Bbclaurak