Hussam Qassem made a drum set from plastic, wood, and metal scraps. Video shows him playing the drums and singing to his forcibly displaced family in their tent in Gaza while children around him sing and dance.

She's certainly a far better candidate than the one airdropped in by Reform - who are currently being investigated for electoral fraud in the G&D election campaign - from miles away.

That‘s the spirit.

🚨 NEW: MPs and peers must vote on two options to restore the Palace of Westminster 1: Fully move-out for 19–24 years (£11-15bn) 2: Phased works over 38–61 years, in which the Lords move out to a conference centre and MPs use their chamber for 2 years from 2041 (£19-39bn)

A win for the Green Party at the Gorton & Denton by-election on 26th February would halt the Reform Party's momentum and send a clear message to Keir Starmer. Want to help? Chip in here: donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/parliamentar...

Important links - Farage, Crypto and Paul Manafort. Great reporting from @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/n...

Over 8,000 emails sent and we have 24 hours left to stop Sex Matters sabotaging the vote for the conversion therapy ban 🔥 Email your MP right now 📩 https://goodlaw.social/945cd5

Progress expected to stall as deep poverty and child poverty reach record levels Both child poverty and deep poverty have reached record levels, Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s (JRF’s) state of the nation UK Poverty 2026 report finds northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

🚨Former Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman is the latest Tory to defect to Reform UK. We have been tracking Tory defections to Reform UK for months. Here’s what they tell us about Nigel Farage’s party. ⬇️

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

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Let's show MI our support...

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Trump's "Board of Peace" is expected to include Blair, Putin and Netanyahu - but not a single Palestinian. At Davos, Jared Kushner presented the board's dystopian real estate vision for Gaza. Gaza’s future is for Palestinians to decide. Not foreign powers or corporate greed.

You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse. A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!” A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉

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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

YouGov poll out today: Reform 24 (-) Labour 19 (-) Tories 18 (-2) Greens 17 (+3) Lib Dems 14 (-2) Changes on last week. 17% for Greens is the joint highest YouGov ever polled Greens.

At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater need for citizen journalism Who funds us? No one...except you. Become a friends of Bylines supporter:

Great way to use a spare £15! Lend your support to entrepreneurs in low-income countries through @lendwithcare.bsky.social Make your first loan for free with this link! lendwithcare.org/referral/RVA...

Francesca Albanese— "Ending Israeli Apartheid will be a rehumanising act - and a liberation - for both Palestinians and Israelis. "No one can treat other humans as the Israeli society treats the Palestinians, and not lose their humanity in the process."

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Yes, it is beyond insanity. Luckily, the American people aren’t buying it.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

🚨 BREAKING: Household energy bills will INCREASE this week, while temperatures could reach -12° in parts of the UK. Why on earth is the government allowing giant gas companies to RIP OFF the British public in the middle of winter? 🧵

89% of people worldwide want stronger climate action. Yet politicians consistently believe the opposite. They mistake the loudest objections for the majority, and it’s one of the biggest reasons climate policy keeps stalling.

It's ridiculous that the Government *still* haven't banned the sale of peat. Peat bogs are still getting dug up and used for compost and in horticulture. Ministers say they'll ban it 'when time allows'. Get on with it already! Sign the petition: actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

@octopus.energy What do I have to do to get help from your supposedly superb customer services team??? 3 absolutely useless phonecalls, 3 unanswered emails, 2 ignored integrate my charger forms. My 7 day IOG integration period runs out tomorrow! I am tearing my hair out!!!

One of the girl guide leaders has set up this petition to oppose the decision - there's a lot of backlash from within girl guiding www.change.org/p/allow-tran...?

Fairness in politics doesn’t happen by accident. A cap on donations would help ensure no single donor can shape our democracy in their own image. buff.ly/Zps1eVo

@quaker.org.uk Would be great to see the Quakers joining the Together Alliance. I can't see any Church groups listed, but Muslim Council of Great Britain are on board. Let's join them & encourage faith groups to speak out against racism. www.togetheralliance.org.uk?fbclid=IwY2x...

@urc.org.uk Would be great to see the URC joining the Together Alliance. I can't see any Church groups listed, but Muslim Council of Great Britain are on board. Let's join them & encourage faith groups to speak out against racism. www.togetheralliance.org.uk?fbclid=IwY2x...

@ctbi.bsky.social Would be great to see Churches Together joining the Together Alliance. I can't see any Church groups listed, but Muslim Council of Great Britain are on board. Let's join them & encourage faith groups to speak out against racism. www.togetheralliance.org.uk?fbclid=IwY2x...

@churchofengland.org Would be great to see the Church of England joining the Together Alliance. I can't see any Church groups listed, but Muslim Council of Great Britain are on board. Let's join them & encourage faith groups to speak out against racism. www.togetheralliance.org.uk?fbclid=IwY2x...

@methodist.org.uk Would be great to see the Methodist Church joining the Together Alliance. I can't see any Church organisations listed, but Muslim Council of Great Britain are on board. Let's join them & encourage faith groups to speak out against racism. www.togetheralliance.org.uk?fbclid=IwY2x...

More than 500 immigration law experts speak out against Labour’s asylum proposals Experts argue that the policies are “gimmicks” designed to make the government look tough, but they are not evidence-based leftfootforward.org/2025/11/more...

I've signed and so should you.

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Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed. THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Incomers: through the barricades – a matter of curiosity? Xenophobia fuels myths about migrants, but facts show asylum seekers enrich the UK and face hardship, not handouts or criminality By Jeremy Leslie-Spinks @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis suggests

The report found Israeli forces have committed four of the five acts of genocide, as are defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention.

A small list I maintain, happy to add more sources to it (not all local) go.bsky.app/RS16nQb

What country would be crazy enough to have an election system that gives extremist parties 100% of the power with just 31% of the vote? This is what we’ll be telling parties to fix NOW if they want our votes in 2029. PR has popular support, and no cost to implement. Labour could do it right now.

"My school saves thousands of pounds every year from those solar panels." The TUC directly takes on Reform, a party funded by the fossil fuel Industry. Posted on IG by tradesunioncongress