My mum had the experience of working for the NHS (as a speech and language therapist) then the service being privatised and the values of the organisation falling away into a laminated marketing pitch. Universities have always been compromised but watching them go through this convulsion

I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.

There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.

If Wes Streeting can release his messages with Peter Mandelson, why not release the ones with private healthcare donors?

this feels like a spoof from The Day Today

“Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes. Their government talks the language of ethnic cleansing”. - Wes Streeting, UK Health Secretary A UK government minister has admitted that Israel is committing war crimes - so why is the UK government refusing to act?

£240m. With no tender. Palantir. I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers. Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal. Palantir out.

I want some of these people who are suddenly questioning failures of the wider culture to have a public moment like where a hapless faithful, on entering the final throws of the Traitors, asks 'Why am I here!?' Of course this won't be Streeting. He's conducting some traitor on traitor action here.

Every day I wake up and fail to understand how no one is getting that if we lose on migrant rights - we lose on everything? Climate, the economy and to the far-right. It's this exact moment everyone needs to step in - but that's just not happening.

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example fortune.com/2026/02/04/p... *Not satire.

UN urges UK and France to halt ‘one in one out’ asylum system

Palantir fasciitis

The government has gone very far down a very dark road. This announcement of mass deportations while also seeking to gut rights protections is frightening. Meanwhile, the home secretary is openly using fascist rhetoric. We were quoted in the Guardian 👇

The Labour Party might be more successful in finding a successor to Starmer who is not tainted by association with Mandelson if only there hadn't been a deliberate effort, led by Mandelson and his mentees, to sideline or expell everyone who didn't fall in line with his faction.l

If you were looking for an exposition of what British values *could* be you could do a lot worse than Ian McKellen wielding Shakespeare like a rapier.

Did anyone vote Labour to get a reincarnation of Priti Patel in the Home Office

Steve Reed continues to pretend that Starmer & the govt didn't know anything about Mandelson when they appointed him ambassador & when they did find out he was sacked. Sophy Ridge knows he's lying. The viewers know he's lying. Even he knows he's lying.

An abhorrent policy which inevitably leads to people seeking asylum being denied necessary medical support. People seeking asylum don't receive enough financial support to pay for taxis, or often public transport, themselves, but still need to travel to appointments 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

👉The Response of Criminologists for Palestine (C4P) to the recent questions by the ESC to their members. The @ESC is hiding behind the the issue of scientificity - and of following swiss laws on equality- what about international law? Please vote to support C4P criminologists4palestine.wordpress.com

Is Mandelson's real sin that he gave confidential information to Epstein? Or that he got caught doing what so many do? Why do Ministers sell access to business people for huge 'donations'?

How we beat ICE👇

Fully signed up advocate of the Catbongo community and manifesto www.reddit.com/r/catbongos/...

If you think that Labour will lose the Denton and Gorton seat to Reform and it will be the fault of the GREENS you are actually nuts. Labour has stacked it on every piece of comms, they've fought publicly and stupidly, they've u-turned and are Reform's messenger on immigration.

Beautiful reflection on what remains after the spectacles of violence by immigration enforcement. How does activism and solidarity continue when the spotlight moves away? blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

Anyone forced to live at this camp will be rightly terrified for their safety. Impossible to see how anyone, let alone vulnerable and traumatised people, can properly be housed there now

What's the outcome that terrifies Labour most in the Gorton by-election? Reform winning? Nope. It's the Greens they're most worried about. They'd prefer Reform to win, rather than the Greens.

The British right: advocating pre-emptive criminalization of resistance to a British ICE in the event that Farage or Badenoch run a mass deportation programme."The government must ... be prepared to imprison hundreds or possibly thousands of agitators who refuse to abide by the law."

A vital read by our Founder, @natashawalter.bsky.social. 👇👇👇

After protests against the 'one in one out' policy were documented on www.detainedvoices.com, an important report by @medicaljustice.org.uk shows that ALL 20 of the people independently medically assessed had history of torture, ill-treatment and/or trafficking. medicaljustice.org.uk/politics-ove...

The best-performing, most intensely drilled teenagers tend not to become true superstars as adults. According to new research, those who do make that grade, by contrast, tend not to stand out early on econ.st/49Kv5Rd

John Sudworth: "More than 450 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire was announced. 11 deaths yesterday, including 3 journalists" If only we knew who killed all these people. We can't know, can we, because if we did a journalist like John would surely tell us.

Kent, Essex and apparently Sussex all decline to be gouged by Elsevier Read & Publish deals. Others may well follow. 1/2

A public-health approach to preventing violence worked in Scotland – why is it faltering in England & Wales? Preventing Violence by K. Irwin-Rogers @lbilli91.bsky.social @fraser81.bsky.social F. Gillon S. McVie @timnewburn.bsky.social @policypress.bsky.social reviewed @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

“you shouldn’t prepare for a hypothetical” is so good

"Be brave. It is scary right now. But all the more reason to be as brave as you can." interregnum.ghost.io/in-schutzsta...

Palantir was a warning sign. Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment. All in the name of "investment." What about national security?

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Calling for more ICE agent training is calling for more ICE funding, for a more efficient ethnic cleansing machine. They don’t need more training, they need to be destroyed. ABOLISH ICE. ABOLISH ICE. ABOLISH ICE.

📆 EVENT: after 7+ yrs, Seán Binder & 23 humanitarians have finally been acquitted of 'trumped up' charges inc money laundering and smuggling. Seán will speak alongside others facing criminalisation for migration and solidarity on 27 JAN @citystgeorges.bsky.social 👉 www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

Keir Starmer could not be more detached from reality referring to the period when the Tories left the EU as an "open borders experiment." People have always come to the UK to work, study, and be with family. They pay taxes, exorbitant visa fees, tuition costs, and the NHS surcharge. (1/2)

Do not be surprised if in the first days of an incoming populist radical government there is an entire raft of statutory instruments and other measures prepared and ready to go, exploiting every gap in our constitutional arrangements.

Absolutely gutted to hear that the Golden Fleece, a much-loved Nottingham institution, will be closing. Their friendly team always remembers my weirdly specific drink order. Its closure underscores why the government must do all it can to protect pubs - they're a key part of our social fabric.

We stand in solidarity with those at Harmondsworth & Brook House who are organising for justice. This shameful attempt to silence protest demonstrates the everyday violence at the heart of the hostile environment. We amplify detainees' calls for dignity and humane living conditions. #EndDetention

🚨 We are horrified by the disturbing footage of the response to peaceful protests in two detention centres against the harmful 'one in, one out' UK-France deal . www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... 1/3

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"