A mother with settled status whose child is disabled. The father is British by birth. They have received DLA for the child. A Tory government would deport her? I'd really like any Conservative who has ever talked about the "party of the family" to explain why this is the right thing to do.

The Conservatives are now a far-right party. It will be tempting to engage with this policy on practicalities: Windrush times a hundred. Don't. Engage on the reprehensible ethics of wanting to deport people who've lived lawful, blameless lives just because they're poor (and mostly not white).

This is important news #Labour delivering in power Campaigning #BrentCouncil in action Well done #HarlesdenLabour for your hard work

After years of making the running on immigration, Farage may this week have handed the initiative back to his opponents'. @robfordmancs.bsky.social for @ukandeu.bsky.social on the unpopularity of Reform's proposals on ILR ukandeu.ac.uk/reforms-radi...

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package. Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage? Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?

A lot of sensible people get squeamish at labelling Nigel Farage “far-right”, but his policy of cancelling the legal status of tens of thousands of settled immigrants can not be politically described as anything else. Reform are campaigning on a policy of cruelty & xenophobia.

How can there be branches of a party that doesn’t exist?

This is brilliant - and actually rather useful for anyone teaching methods (correlation isn't causation etc.) to undergraduates.

To anyone who doesn’t think that neighbourliness and community exists in London you missed a fantastic example at #QueensParkDay all put on by local residents. Great to meet many of them with @georgiagould.bsky.social and @redstarneil.bsky.social and a huge thank you to the QPARA volunteers.

The DUP’s support for Brexit, then hard Brexit, then Johnson (who betrayed them as he betrays everyone), and now ECHR-exit is perhaps the most obviously self-harming run of decisions that any democratic political party has ever taken.

The tracks are laid, the commuters are ready - all we need now is the green light. 🚦🚃 Here's why we're asking for a new Overground line for West London, from Hendon to Harlesden to Hounslow. 👇📰 www.facebook.com/share/p/16GT... #WestLondonOrbital

Teachers are so often a glue that holds society together.

any US congressman who is fully across a row between the Nottingham Post and Nottinghamshire council is welcome to holiday in the Cotswolds AT ANY TIME, and we will not refuse to serve him in our farm shops

Democrat @raskin.house.gov excoriates Nigel Farage for banning journalists from Reform UK events: "I'm asking you a direct question. Why do you ban journalists who oppose your views from coming to your events? Why did you tell local government not to do interviews with your local newspaper?"

This is my flag.

Unzoomed #584 4/6 🔴🔴🔴🟢⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com Excellent new geography puzzle

Like all right-wing nationalists, Farage's will not give up power once he has it. For that reason, being wrong about everything does not worry him in the slightest. The same applies to Robert Jenrick. These people do not believe in or feel constrained by liberal democracy. They are Orbánists.

Academics are very concerned that the BBC is changing access to its archival material by releasing material in an orchestrated way rather than allowing researchers to ask their own queries. Very worrying development and a good overview by @vanessathorpe.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.

This afternoon joined colleagues for this vigil outside the Embassy of Israel in London Some very good conversations with passing pedestrians Stop Starving Gaza Flood Gaza with Aid Free the hostages #Israel #Gaza #JewishEthics

Amazing. It's going to be funny watching Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage going into the next election pledging to reverse this, or whatever their incoherent policy will be by then

Put simply #TwoStates undermines -Hamas -Netanyahu What's not to like

Great to be out on Saturday #PowerHour #labourdoorstep in #QueensPark speaking talking to local people about getting the Bakerloo Line upgraded. Good to see lots of friendly faces out in the sunshine @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

2025: Zia Yusuf says it's not true that Nigel Farage is on the record saying to scrap the NHS #BBCQT 2012: Nigel Farage on the record saying he'd scrap the NHS and replace it with an insurance-based privatised health care system

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o... Powerful and necessary from @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social #Israel #Palestine #Netanyahu #Hamas

Support this local authority led campaign to -New trains -Total route modernisation -Build the extension www.backthebakerloo.org.uk Great to see councils united along current route and much needed extension Let's make the #Bakerloo fit for the 21st century #BacktheBakerloo

I have just signed this @yachad.bsky.social letter to Keir Starmer saying that UK Jews support UK government action to end the war in Gaza and bring the hostages home. Please add your name and share letter secure.yachad.org.uk/page/172039/... #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

Great morning with #LesleySmith in #QueensPark #KensalRise meeting residents from across NW2 NW6 NW10 as they made use of #BrentCouncil #communityskips Supporting and enabling local waste disposal and re purposing @brentlabour.bsky.social @lgalabour.bsky.social www.brent.gov.uk/bins-rubbish...

Back by popular request This weekend Sat 22nd and Sunday 23rd March #communityskips #BrentCouncil return to Brondesbury Park, Kilburn, Queens Park, and Harlesden and Kensal Green See this link for info www.brent.gov.uk/bins-rubbish... #fightingflytippers #BrentCouncil #BrentLabour 📢

If we first understand urban transport as a space problem, then we can make choices of mode of travel that help address that problem.

Hi gang. My films ‘In The Loop’ and ‘The Death of Stalin’ are on #BBCFour this evening, at 9pm and 10.40pm. Do enjoy if you’re a fan of repeated threat.

Meet our newish Chair - Cllr Neil Nerva @redstarneil.bsky.social: "LGIU has a track record of being an agile organisation, not afraid to take on and [...] meet the challenges." We couldn't agree more! #localgov lgiu.org/blog-article/meet-y...

Next Sunday in London! Join us to demand a permanent ceasefire and no expulsions from Gaza, as we rally in support of @standing-together.bsky.social. We're super-excited to announce that we'll be joined by special guest Ibrahim Abu Ahmad of the podcast Unapologetic!

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

I wonder if the UK media - press and broadcast - will ever get round to confronting the UK right for its support of Donald Trump, a US President whose policies are the most anti-UK in living memory. They threaten our key economic, defence and security interests in a way we’ve never seen before.

Out on #labourdoorstep for the cold but sunny #Alperton by election #SpecialTuesday Great to end polling day with co councillors for #QueensPark LesleySmith and Steve Crabb, and Prerna Thakkar our ace Labour candidate #Alperton Big thank you to #LondonLabour family for support today

Musk has a (vague and terrifying) plan. Trump has instincts and greed. Like a revolutionary cell leader and an aging mob boss they're dangerous in very different ways.

Life in the #21stCentury

In other news Taste the #lead Awful

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

Charing Cross Road, pedestrianised today. Glorious. Because whenever you take cars away, cities get better.

For oligarchs, the rise of digital finance provides large moneymaking opportunities. But for the rest of us, it increases the risk of another financial crisis. Some thoughts. ⬇️

We’re going to hear a lot more of THIS over the next four years. #Trumpflation

In honour of Holocaust Memorial Day I wrote an essay about Oświęcim, a historic and dignified town, and its Jewish and Polish history. And what the modern town is like open.substack.com/pub/lewisbas...

Powerful from #BBCRadio3 this morning #HMD2025 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… Well worth making time to listen

Today's newsletter: it is, in fact, very bad that the leader of the opposition doesn't appear to do the reading and instead goes on a strange combination of 'her personal experience', 'her instinctive prejudices' and 'potentially things that crossed her Twitter feed that day':

"We have not identified a shock that requires a fiscal contraction." Jagjit Chadha on the use and misuse of fiscal rules. www.centralbanking.com/central-bank...

With Trump’s military threats against European territory and NATO allies, Europe needs to come together more than ever. Iceland, Greenland, Norway and UK should be joining the EU - and we need to bolster defence against Putin. If you’re a Brit, join European Movement. 👇