Spring is in the air, and for gardeners, that's seed planting time. If you've ever been tempted to grow your own food - to reduce food miles, or just food bills - here are some tips for starting out, by our resident expert, Amandine.

Here we are location scouting for This Slavery graphic novel - I’ll think of a prize for anyone who can name the town from these clues alone…

I have personally seen the applications of many Afghani students to our gender studies programme: people who have started grassroots LGBT orgs; who have fought for women's education; who want to come to the UK to study to make their country & the world better... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

HOW TO HELP | DONATE 👇 https://crowdjustice.pulse.ly/mgoeirrfem Dr Ghassan is a war surgeon accused of supporting 'terrorism' after speaking up for patients in Gaza. A hearing found the allegation was false, but the GMC is asking the High Court to review the decision. Help him fight for justice.

This is the basis on which Starmer was elected Labour leader.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Naz Shah MP on Gorton and Denton Claims: ‘How Do Supposedly “Sectarian Muslims” End Up Voting for a Radically Progressive Party with a Gay Jewish Leader?’  – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/n...

Thinking of my Iranian friends with families in Iran and also all the worried people in that region of the middle east. No matter which side you’re on, war always means fear & chaos to those experiencing it. My heart particularly goes out to the children hearing or fearing the bombs. Been there 😢

"FUCK ICE” is Peyote-stitched in 30,000 beads on LA utility poles by Native artist. Kimberly Dawn Robertson’s “bead bombs” fasten Native feminist resistance to service poles, reflecting the city back to itself. lapublicpress.org/2026/02/ice-...

Huge thank you to Bob Fox for agreeing to let us use his song Farewell Johnny Miner in the Seeds of Dissent section of the Rebellion! exhibition video. I couldn’t get it out of my mind as I was photographing Easington Colliery and Horden last week. youtu.be/vQ2Ql7QrPoM...

They're playing dirty. Alexei is so right about this Starmer party 👇

Just been to Euan Uglow exhibition at Milton Keynes gallery - such a great venue & some brilliant exhibitions. Enjoyable but came away feeling that he enjoyed measuring (literally) women, often in v passive poses - but he *loved* pears.

New Migration Observatory analysis of today’s Home Office data shows: - Initial backlog nearly halved - 125,000 to 64,000 - Appeals backlog doubled - almost 70,000 - 101,000 asylum claims in 2025 - Grant rate fell to 42% (down from 47% in 2024) - 41,000 small boat arrivals More insights ⬇️

Stuart has people sleeping on his sofa and also in a caravan parked round the side of his flat. It's genuinely life-saving. That caravan is no longer functional, so Stuart is raising £1500 for a new one. If you can donate anything at all, please do gofund.me/5705d8df6

Ofgem, when will you cut the energy daily Standing Charge? New tariffs were promised in January, when will they arrive. A small clip from this week’s Energy Special episode of the Martin Lewis Money Show, watch the full show on www.itv.com/watch/the-ma...

The full brochure for our HuddLitFest 20th anniversary Festival is now available to download from our website - tickets already flying out! www.huddlitfest.org.uk/wp-content/u...

when broadcasters repeat Mandelson claim he was “not motivated by financial gain” please also report the $75,000 of financial gain Mandelson received from Epstein in 2004 and 2004 and the £10s of thousands Mandelson’s husband received from Epstein in 2009/10 plus free flights & mansion stays

Shenanigans afoot in Oxford? The city council have recently started charging for entry to the Museum of Oxford citing some seemingly dodgy figures… @oxfordcitycouncil.bsky.social @cllrsbrown.bsky.social @oxfordclarion.bsky.social saveourmuseum.weebly.com/updates/myth...

"So will it be the same act but with a different label?" Victoria Derbyshire humiliates Zia Yusuf on Reform UK's plan to scrap the Equalities Act, because, as she reads each of the things from the Equalities act he confirms they'll still be protected 🤷‍♂️

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

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Nesrine Malik hits the nail on the head again, from my perspective anyway…. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Browse the online archive for free at designreviewed.com/archive/

UK has lost its official status as a country that has achieved elimination of measles, as vaccination rates have fallen below the 95% required to achieve herd immunity. So sad, and likely due vaccine misinformation. If you haven't already, get your kids vaccinated ASAP. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just a little reminder that 99% of the British population have more in common with with each other (no matter their background, ethnicity, religion etc.) and immigrants than they do with ‘patriotic’ Billionaires who move to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the country they purport to love.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

G11 in Glasgow had the perfect retort to Nigel Farage's divisive comments about Turkish barbershops... 😂

That £240m contract Palantir won after Peter Mandelson took Keir Starmer to visit them? Government asserts "there were robust processes in place to ensure that government contracts are awarded fairly and transparently" but the award notice says it was a "directed award", ie without any competition.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Wes Streeting deleted all his tweets praising Mandelson, and now he's trying to act like he's a defender of Epstein's victims www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...

Weeks after the 1997 landslide Mandelson and flunkies turned up at the opening of a Martin Rowson exhibition at Iain Dale's old bookshop - and Martin did a truly vicious caricature of him as he was standing right there to give to a lady who told him she loved his work but couldn't afford a cartoon.

Get Palantir out of the UK. Protect our NHS. Protect our country. www.thenational.scot/news/2582860...

I’ve no wish to read this book, but I do like Hanif Kureishi‘s writing usually, and I imagine this is a fair review… www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

Peter Mandelson was directly involved in helping Morgan McSweeney select Labour’s parliamentary candidates ahead of the 2024 general election. This is despite his past misbehaviour. It was all part of the purge of the left and push Labour to the right. archive.ph/FXGiY

This needs to be re-upped

SEN. @hickenlooper.senate.gov : “Death cards left behind by ICE agents — cards with white supremacist history left in detained immigrants' abandoned cars… Imagine finding your brother's empty car with one of these in the driver's seat. Cruelty for the sake of cruelty." (H/T @lulacorg.bsky.social )

Prof David Howarth sets out constitutional paths to stripping peers of their titles, but concludes it’s best just to get rid of the whole damned bloated corruption riddled thing. 👇 open.substack.com/pub/drhow/p/...

What happened to this then? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🔴 Breaking: The first moments after Israeli forces bombed a condolence tent in Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing and injuring mourners, Shehab News reports.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

The House of Lords puts cronies, donors and disgraced politicians like Lord Mandelson in positions of immense power over our country for life. Unelected and unaccountable. Abolish this relic.

Lovely day for some of Wes [Dawn Foster tweet] Streeting's old socials? Go on then

Lets also talk about Nigel Farage appearing in the Epstein Files 43 times, lets do that too.

If you live in the UK and value the BBC, please give your thoughts on its future ahead of charter renewal dcms.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

1. Interesting to see Reform abandon its flirtation with nativism / birth rate boosterism in favour of the policy of the last Tory government 2. “Starve a kid for a cheaper pint” is quite the policy. Be interested to see how that performed in focus groups (especially all male versus mixed).