"These women in Calais are in crisis, but they are not a crisis. Each is a person. And how we treat them tells us everything about the kind of country we are choosing to be." Read the rest here 👇 bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i... @bylinetimes.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @care4calais.org

Our economic system is broken, the rules of the game were written by rich people for rich people. Inequality is growing and it’s no good to rich and poor alike. We need new rules.

Happy solstice - tonight is the longest night. The light is creeping back in, too slowly to notice it just yet. And maybe, so could the hope. Another world is possible ❤️

Deck the halls and lock him up. Written by Rikki Beadle-Blair Performed at Soho Theatre, Walhamstow for charity fundraiser "Comedians Do Carols."

The more I think about it, the more I reckon the 2003 Iraq War began the process that let Trump win. The blatant lies we were told by our governments, the disregard for public opinion and mockery of international law created a rupture that never healed. Trust, consent and cohesion were smashed.🧵 1/3

Palestine Action hunger strikes stir memories of the IRA in 1981

Citizenship is a right, not a privilege. Our new briefing with @reprievehq.bsky.social reveals a shocking racial disparity in citizenship stripping practices. 3 in 5 people of colour are at risk of having their UK citizenship stripped, at the discretion of the Home Office 🧵👇

🚨New research from Crisis and Heriot-Watt University shows more than 200,000 people in Britain are experiencing ‘hidden homelessness.’ This comes on the day the UK Government launches its much-anticipated homelessness strategy for England. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📽️ 🛩️ MAJOR NEW FILM COMING TODAY AT 4PM UK TIME Will this documentary put Keir Starmer behind bars❓ Watch the Trailer below 👇 Watch the full film here after 4pm 👉 youtu.be/0fk3t28TiAc

'But despite promises to reduce the use of temporary accommodation and halve the number of people sleeping rough, data from Shelter shows homelessness has jumped 8% over the past year.' www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Zack Polanski: We need hope, not cynicism 🖊️ @ZackPolanski.bsky.social

"The report also highlighted the critical role played by capital ownership in the inequality of climate-changing carbon emissions. “Wealthy individuals fuel the climate crisis through their investments even more than their consumption and lifestyles,” it said." www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

We should get to decide how we protect ourselves at demonstrations. But Government plans to restrict face coverings at protests could impact any of us. We need your support to make sure this law doesn't go unchallenged 👇 https://action.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/page/167409/petition/1

It’s 2025 and we’re still living as subjects, not citizens. It’s time for a referendum on the monarchy.

Bethlehem lights up Christmas tree for first time since 2022

Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal

Britain’s biggest hunger strike in decades – and the media won’t touch it. ELIZABETH SHORT reports morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...

I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Oligarchs + fossil fuel companies can sue the UK govt in secret courts for literally billions of pounds if they impose laws that protect the climate? If you’re not fine with this, @globaljusticenow.bsky.social have a petition: act.globaljustice.org.uk/uk-call-time...

Opposing genocide is not terrorism. Make your choice. www.wedonotcomply.org

The sources of the crises in our society – the super rich, oil and gas companies, banks and energy companies – will be delighted that today's budget chooses to protect them and tax us instead.

🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it: A 6–8% hit to GDP That's £180bn-£240bn a year It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything. Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.

The death of the living room: ‘It’s hard to invite people over – not everyone wants to sit on a bed’

New CPS data links vast majority of stalking and image-based sexual abuse charges to domestic abuse livingunderpatriarchy.org/2025/11/25/n...

Millions of British homes are owned by corporate landlords. They make you pay extortionate rent, while they rake in huge profits for their shareholders. Reform want you pointing the finger at migrants instead of the billionaires. @jimmythegiant.bsky.social

COP30. It's impossible to see this COP as anything other than a failure. 1️⃣The final agreement failed to include a road map setting out how countries could wean themselves off fossil fuels - oil, gas and coal - despite 80 countries pushing for this.

Darfur governor Minni Arko Minnawi told Middle East Eye that 27,000 people were killed in just three days after UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces seized el-Fasher in late October, far higher than earlier estimates of about 2,500. Survivors report mass executions, sexual violence & other atrocities...

I think if 24 people are dead it's more than "testing" a ceasefire.

If everyone could just have a word with the over 50s in your life, we could be looking at a green government!

Public Law Project's latest report finds that the average universal credit sanction is hundreds of pounds more than a criminal fine.

The media needs to rethink its role in protecting democracy — rather than just chronicling its demise, Peter Pomerantsev argues. #authoritarian #journalism #disinformation #media

🚨 BREAKING: Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, gets 10.5 years for Russia-linked #bribery offences. ⚖️ This is the first time a British politician has ever been convicted of bribery. 👉 Follow us for more from the courtroom later today.

Big Ag is investing heavily in greenwashing at #COP30, with lobbyists, pavilions, PR – the whole works.⁣ And while they pour money into protecting their image, we’re landed with the climate bill. See through the spin. Demand real action ✊⁣ 👉 #RespectTheAmazon & #StopBigAg 👉 act.gp/3LpWWxy

❗️ This winter, we expect to provide an emergency food parcel to someone every 10 SECONDS. The rising cost of essentials like heating and food - and our weak social security system - will drive thousands of people to the doors of a food bank for the very first time.

At COP30, the UK government is standing out as a blocker in critical just transition negotiations. With the world watching, we must raise pressure from the UK on our government to act. Take action now to call on Ed Miliband to support the Belém Action Mechanism: climatejustice.uk/cop30/uk-don...

Lords say employment rights will create unemployment, but the actual evidence shows an absence of rights kills jobs. If useless bosses can fire people without reason, that’s what damages the economy. It’s hereditary peers that need the boot. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

President Trump defended the Saudi crown prince over the killing of Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying “things happen” and that he did not hold the leader responsible for the murder despite a U.S. intelligence report assessing the opposite.

Trump’s pressuring the UK to axe the 2% Digital Services Tax (DST) on tech giants like Amazon, Meta and Google — one of the few taxes they actually pay. Scrapping DST could cost us £5.2bn. Starmer is apparently ready to cave. 📧 Write to your MP today. taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/protect-the-...

Human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want

What exactly is the Chancellor going to do?

Two-thirds of women in UK military sexually harassed at work in the past year, new MoD survey finds. #VAWG #sexism #misogyny livingunderpatriarchy.org/2025/11/13/t...

The Saudi regime has executed 322 people this year. Some were child defendants, most were alleged drug offenders, more than half were foreign nationals. This excellent Guardian article, reported with Reprieve's help, gives voice to some of the victims of this unfathomably cruel execution spree.

A decade of cuts has left a £1.5 billion NHS dentistry funding gap. Current funding is only enough for half the population to get an NHS dentist - and the rest, like Lizzie, Monica and Marquita, are left to suffer.

🔥 Harrods: What do the survivors do now?? The courts, the redress scheme, the police — all form part of the same legal abyss. ◾ Survivors cannot access the courts, let alone for trafficking ◾ Harrods’ “redress” is run by the institution itself ◾ The Met refuses to name the crimes as trafficking

Homelessness, foodbank use, and child poverty have all been growing alongside the wealth of the super rich. These things are two sides of the same coin: inequality is undermining our ability to provide for everyone.

Legal experts and politicians criticise process used to ban Palestine Action

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠

🌍The climate crisis is hitting hard — destroying lives, jobs & communities. At #COP30, it's time for real action! Workers & unions demand: ✅#JustTransition ✅#ClimateJustice for all ✅An end to fossil fuel subsidies ✅Protection of rights & democracy ✅A strong Gender Action Plan 👉 buff.ly/7slFIcW

Laffer's curve: the tax myth that promoted inequality youtu.be/lrO9VpQCXZU?...

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …