Today has been a massive victory for anti-migrant voices. Not only is Labour doing 90% of what they want, but they're also making it much easier for them to get the remaining 10% later

Very good on the legal implications of today's proposals. There's still a lot of missing details.

‘GDP reduced by 8%’ – Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...

Reform running on a record of filthy streets and more children getting hit by cars. That Farage government in 2029 is going to be great stuff

Lots of Labour MPs asking Mahmood tonight to rule out child detention. She won’t rule it out. That’s because forced removals of families will mean children in detention for periods. Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.

Digital ID, September's big idea, played no part in today's announcements on asylum. (Whatever the wider pros and cons, the case for it on immigration, asylum is quite margina - *unless* our doing it made the French v happy and so it helped deepen cooperation) www.politicshome.com/news/article...

BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

What's missing from the immigration debate - apart from any shred of compassion or decency - is the fact that Brexit ended the system which enabled returns to other countries in Europe. Along with lack of safe routes, Brexit is the biggest driver of small boat crossings. Please remind the Brexiteers

UK government is responding to concerns about migrants arriving on overcrowded small boats. To deter them, it’s threatening to seize their cars and e-bikes. Surely, if they had such things, they wouldn’t be on a small boat? 10/10 for cruelty AND stupidity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

On any average day in the last 35 years, about 115,000 people left extreme poverty behind. But based on current trends, progress against extreme poverty will come to a halt. Important slow news story on @ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org/end-progress...

A bit of visual council housing history for housing geeks. I reckon these two photos (immediately adjacent) of a street in Kent tell you to all you need to know. Any thoughts?

It is just false to say that " We have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" Opposition parties should write to the Permanent Secretary and National Statistician about this www.gov.uk/government/s...

The Home Secretary says "we have become the destination of choice in Europe, clearly visible to every people smuggler and would-be illegal migrant across the world" That is a factually untrue claim: the Home Office shows that the UK is fifth, getting 1/10 claims, while Germany gets 1/5 claims

My mum died of covid in January 2021. Every day that month over 1,000 people were dying from covid. We campaigned for this inquiry; now it must deliver: who was responsible for the incompetence, prioritising economy over lives, & corruption? We await this report 👇 @cbffjuk.bsky.social

“Traditionally” we don’t have a president who acts like a mad king.

Europe's health infrastructure faces threats from all sides — climate change, antimicrobial resistance and even another pandemic.  How ready is the bloc? That's what our reporter Claudia Chiappa wants to find out at our #POLITICOHealthSummit 👇  Sign up to watch: politi.co/3LFWI5B

📱 "The fundamental problem is that most of the means of communication are owned by the very rich." 🔇 "Like the kings and empire-builders of the past, they use their platforms to project the claims that suit them and suppress the claims that don’t." https://bit.ly/49jRoi1

The debate is now comprehensively framed by Farage. And whatever cruelties HM Govt comes up with will never be enough to sate the ‘dark forces’.

Only in Glasgow Fun 😊

“Portraying weakening the European Convention on Human Rights as the answer to the issues society faces is extremely dangerous. It opens the door to us leaving the ECHR altogether - just think about that”

Labour’s contribution to the field of “least surprising opinion poll results” continues to to be very strong.

New approach to accelerate the development of medicines and vaccines for public health threats like #AMR Improved scientific advice will speed up approvals and strengthen Europe’s preparedness. Learn more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/impr...

Stella Creasy ICE-style raids on Britain’s streets: that’s all Labour’s brutal asylum reforms will achieve www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... And here's a short thread from a Labour MP who happens to be an immigration lawyer. #WATO

After a year of sucking up, the PM can’t even get Donald Trump on the phone as he tries to destroy one of our most important institutions, the BBC. Was the state visit really worth this?

Scrapping the lower minimum wage for people aged under 21 is a mistake - a series.

This is very much the majority/median position in the Labour Party, among Labour voters and the general public.

Sending love to everyone who has lost someone to suicide. There is no wrong or right way to grieve. However lonely it feels please know you are not alone. #InternationalSurvivorsOfSuicideLossDay

Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.

This does does not indicate a great deal of confidence from the President. From a constitutionalist perspective, it is fascinating how this plays out. How would this matter actually take him down, if at all, when he has survived so many other political crises?

Can you see the problem 🤷🏻‍♂️ Wes Streeting can’t 🤦🏻‍♂️ 31million/month consult GP practices with similar number having haircuts 102,000 hairdressers in England with 40,000 salons 38,000 GPs with 6200 Surgeries On average people spend £400pa on hair GPs receive £169pa per patient

Ban on neonicotinoid pesticides is allowing insect-eating bird species to recover Skilled volunteer ornithologists looked at over 1,900 sites across France dividing data into 2 groups – 5 years before the ban, 2013 - 2018; & post-ban period from 2019 - 2022 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Specially designed bricks that provide safe nesting spaces for swifts are being installed on properties around Shirebrook Valley as part of a council-funded environmental scheme.

Great report on a huge problem for #Eastbourne: a dysfunctional & chronically underinvested wastewater treatment works. The recent massive spill of millions of toxic bio-beads from the plant is the worst single pollution incident so far, seriously contaminating local waters, beaches, & wildlife.

Alternate link: www.britishmuseum.org/collection

UK govt's war on bats & newts - update UK Govt still sees this war as necessary to unblock infrastructure projects But the Environmental Audit Committee of MPs, said nature was being scapegoated, wasn't a block to growth, and is necessary for resilient towns www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

✍️ "What has happened in Brighton and Hove shows that inclusion through admissions can be achieved." Co-Founders of Class Divide, Carlie Goldsmith and Curtis James discuss the significance of reforms to school admissions in Brighton in our latest blog ⤵️

6/10 Labour voters think refugees should be able to be citizens within 6 years, regardless of how they arrived before claiming asylum. Public supported that by 44% to 33% Tory voters 40% v 42% split Reform agin Keir Starmer and Shabana Mahmood propose 20 years, rather than 6 years or 10 years

"many people would forfeit democratic elections to avoid living in a dangerous society but not to obtain wealth and other goods. Electoral democracy is attractive globally but can be undermined by concerns about crime and safety." Interesting, considering crime is mostly a consequence of low wealth

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

Always remember that a parliamentary majority can (purport to) render a country "safe" by an Act. The Conservatives sought to do that with Rwanda, regardless of the facts.

Two-thirds of English councils have not prosecuted a single rogue landlord in past three years despite 300,000 separate complaints. Less than 2% of complaints led to any action. 2010-2020 Austerity: 41% cut in enforcement funding, staff cut by a third. Law without enforcement is a cruel hoax.

Labour concocts more ugly measures to punish asylum seekers and the right immediately demands worse… howling to leave the ECHR. This scapegoating of migrants must stop. It is failure - morally and practically. “Either we all have human rights or none of us do.” app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...

Wrapping an eventful first week at COP30 – from health announcements to geopolitics and flooded corridors www.croakey.org/wrapping-an-...

'Public First conducted focus groups with those who currently intend to vote Reform UK in university towns in England. This revealed a surprising chink of light in an otherwise very gloomy outlook on universities: focus group participants were broadly very positive about international students.' 1/3

A major five-year effort to build a technology base for Europe free of US influence flopped amid conflicting national strategies and powerful corporate lobbying.

Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

His association with Donald Trump is a *liability* for Nigel Farage - even given that half of the Reform 2024 14% are pro-Trump, once Farage is trying to go beyond his base. Labour is in too fragile a position to prefer the unreachable insatiable Reform base to its own voters or to swing voters

Of course you know why a private market in health care is so bad for health. The best way to make money is to sell a drug that relieves the symptoms of, but does not cure, a very uncomfortable chronic condition. The worst way to make money is to prevent illness through social change.

Hang on, I thought the real reason they were deserting the government was because Zack and Nigel have a better TikTok game.....