I’d have thought nothing cuts more against our precious British values than selling out your country for Russian bribes… And yet Reform, the right‑wing press, and all those self‑styled guardians of these values have nothing to say …funny that.

Nick Timothy, Tory MP most responsible for the Windrush scandal, gives Mahmood his support

Es freut mich ja unironisch, zu lesen, dass ihr euch so über die rechtswidrige Abschiebehaft empört. Mehr als ich, möglicherweise, weil die knapp fünfzehn Jahre, die ich diesen Mist jetzt schon beruflich mache, irgendwie auch schon abgestumpft haben und ich von Ausländerbehörden halt auch im Grunde

A must-read … www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sign the petition: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/now-more-tha...

On Sept. 20, Visit our MSF’s Human Chain Gallery for Gaza: An Art Action Against Genocide. Witness powerful MSF images from #Gaza. Discover which story resonates with you.

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Musk is inciting violence on London's streets.Tommy Robinson is financed by US tech bros. These are all very direct attempts to destabilise the British state. Starmer needs to stand up to this. A government that doesn't defend its country's values against these blatant attacks is not doing its job.

A massive, dangerous and disgusting scandal, of which far too few people are yet aware. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social we'll keep pushing to stop it. Congrats to @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social for continuing to shine the light: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Years too late. Incredible that the GMC - whose entire raison d'être is upholding professional standards in UK medicine - has allowed Aseem Malhotra to spew out his toxic, dangerous, anti-scientific disinformation for so long. Regulatory failure at its worst. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I am here to say vaccines are awesome because guess what Denmark is close to completely eliminating the two most dangerous HPV strains (serotype 16 and 18) and with the cervical cancer.I think that is bloody AMAZING!!!! bit.ly/4pbHxjT

Wie arg die Normalisierung von Antifeminismus und Behindertenfeindlichkeit aktuell ist, sieht man auch daran, dass solch eine Aussage von Söder nicht von seinem Presse-Team eingefangen wird und die Interviewenden von der FAZ auch nicht zurückfragen, wie er das meint. Alles normal, wa?

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is Israel’s Defence Minister... Never before has genocide been so publicly declared & brazenly broadcast It’s as if they’re emboldened & think they’ll get away with it Can’t think why. My heart breaks for the innocent souls awaiting their fate - betrayed by the west.

keir starmer’s press team up early this morning working on how best to say that yes actually shooting 11 civilians dead at sea is something the uk should start doing too. followed by yvette cooper on why we shouldn’t stop there: shoot their families too

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

Friday 5 September is the closing date for the following three funding calls, hosted by the Royal Historical Society: > Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History > Early Career Fellowship Grants > Open Research Support Grants Full details and eligibility for these awards bit.ly/425YJgC

This is ICE-style immigration enforcement in the UK, it is also very reminiscent of Windrush.

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I'm boycotting the state banquet to send a message to both Donald Trump and Keir Starmer that they cannot close their eyes and wish away the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Donald Trump can stop this catastrophe in Gaza and get the hostages released. youtu.be/4MqPsjiage8

Every day, another piece of nauseating news hits my gut in a way I thought I’d become immune to, reminding me that the decline towards fascism takes place through the actions, not just of the fascists themselves, but of weak humans who choose short term self-preservation over courage and conviction.

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

Following the double attack on a hospital killing the sick, medics, rescuers and journalists amongst others and as people starve in Gaza, when will governments move beyond hollow condemnation?

“You don’t fight Reform UK by making its strongest issue the national priority. Nor, as countless political-science research projects have illustrated, do you effectively combat the radical right by accommodating them.” 👏👏👏Also: there’s no such thing as ‘politically acceptable racism’. Depressing.

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There is nothing better than #books

Unternehmen, die nicht mit Familienfreundlichkeit werben, dürften es in Zukunft schwer haben. Gleichzeitig verdeutlicht der Verzicht darauf, dass der feministische Rollback in vollem Gange ist. @tazgezwitscher.bsky.social @taz.de taz.de/Zeitgemaesse...

Was wäre ein Funk, der sich vom Staat vorschreiben lässt, wie er zB mit Sprache umgeht. Funk - Staat / Staat - Funk… Ich komm einfach nicht drauf.

Well said, Mo Salah. Suleiman al-Obeid was shot dead by IDF forces whilst waiting for food aid in southern Gaza.

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts. The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative. Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

If the marketing team is struggling to understand what universities do and are for, they can read this by a former Warwick professor, HoD, research centre founder/director and PVC. 3/3

#PlasticWaste #PlasticPollution There is no escape on this #PoisonedPlanet. And unless we get a #PlasticsTreaty to slash production, the volume will just keep growing www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Hundreds gather in Oxford banging empty pans to highlight the starvation and genocide taking place in Gaza. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @doubledown.news

Read and weep … www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Let’s find the leaders and captains of industry who can facilitate the change necessary www.theguardian.com/environment/...

People suffocating while trying to get food. People being bombed while trying to get food. People starving to death unable to get food. And all being done with the support & assistance of our govt.

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"Several bullets penetrated the facility. Then, we heard multiple explosions around the clinic, and shrapnel hit the building. We were stuck for over 30 hours, we continued working after a 24-hour shift,” says Rami Abu Anza, Nursing Team Supervisor in Al Attar clinic.

Our teams had to suspend activities and evacuate Al Attar clinic today as Israeli tanks and gunfire approached as close as 100 metres away. The military incursion also meant that ambulance movements to Nasser hospital were stopped.

This morning, Israeli forces expanded their incursion in western Khan Younis, southern #Gaza. Tanks advanced, while airstrikes and drones fired into an area full of displaced civilians with no prior warning.

The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide. It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International. No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

There is no question now — no doubt, no room for manoeuvre — that Netanyahu, his government, & the IDF have committed genocide in Gaza. If you are still both sidesing because what Hamas did on October 7 was genuinely horrific (and it was) then you are complicit. If you support it I have no words.

A war criminal nominating a convicted criminal for the Nobel Peace Prize?!?! I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry …

Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard said: “Katz laid out an operational plan for a crime against humanity. It is nothing less than that.”

Anyone with some German, this is insightful and to the point and maybe even the UK government should give it a read …

One of the astonishing aspects of our times is that once-progressive parties are rushing us towards dystopia almost as fast as the far right is. This week's column is about what we might now face and how to contest it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thanks Juliet Stevenson, for speaking out so eloquently! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mission accomplished for Netanyahu ... at the cost of tens of thousands of lives. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Today, the UK government intends to ban the non-violent protesters Palestine Action as a "terrorist" group, exposing anyone supporting them to terrorism charges. In 2 days, 380,000 people have watched this video on YT alone. You're going to need a bigger prison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkV...