🚑 The anniversary of the NHS was last week. The right to health isn't only about healthcare, it's about the conditions that allow everyone to live healthy lives. It's time to turn the UK's commitments into action.

Right now, 1 in 153 people in England is experiencing homelessness. The next Prime Minister must make ending homelessness a national priority and recognise housing as a human right in law. Sign the Big Issue’s letter. 👇

Seventy-eight years after the NHS was founded, its founding vision remains unfinished. The right to health is about about ensuring everyone can access the care they need, alongside the foundations of good health: decent housing, food and social security. justfair.org.uk/seventy-eigh...

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Andy Burnham arriving in Westminster #thethickofit

Beyond chilling. While the proscription of Palestine Action has been struck down and the verdict in the Government appeal against this has not yet been given, escalating these sentences today clearly risks a serious injustice. novaramedia.com/2026/06/12/p...

🚨BREAKING -- Palestine Action activists will be sentenced as terrorists by John McEvoy & Dania Akkad Historic first sees protesters sentenced under terrorism provisions for criminal damage against Israeli arms firm www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...

Vulnerable families including women fleeing abuse are being illegally “dumped” hundreds of miles away by London councils in a practice “ripping at the social fabric” of deprived towns. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Today marks 50 years since the UK made a commit commitment on housing, food, healthcare, and social security as human rights. 50 years of broken promises. New blog for @justfairuk.bsky.social published by @povertyalliance.org www.povertyalliance.org/guest-blog-i...

🚨 Breaking: 76 civil society orgs have written to the UK Gov calling for economic, social & cultural rights to be recognised. 50 years ago today, the UK ratified #ICESCR50 and promised rights including housing, food & health. That promise remains unfulfilled. Read 👇 justfair.org.uk/wp-content/u...

New research shows that one in five of the UK’s “austerity children” have been scarred by poverty. This is why cumulative impact assessments matter. Without them, policies are made in the dark, and harm continues. The UN has called on the UK to act. It’s time to listen.

"The octopus on your plate can feel pain, delay gratification, and probably outthink a toddler. Just something to consider before you order."

The Renters’ Rights Act coming into force matters. More security, limits on arbitrary eviction, a shift in the balance. But it doesn’t end the housing emergency. Rents are still unaffordable and supply still shaped by profit. Rights in law must be matched with genuinely affordable homes.

Almshouses like these in Harrogate, built in 1868 by George Rogers, weren’t perfect. They were paternalistic, charitable, often conditional. But they were built on a simple premise: housing people mattered more than profiting from them.

"Housing is not a privilege, it is a human right recognised in international law. When that right is not protected, it affects everything: children’s health, education, stability and sense of security.” - @alexwfirth.bsky.social www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

🚨 New figures released today show another record broken – 176,00 children growing up in temporary accommodation. Behind every number is a child without the stability of a safe home. Housing is a human right. These figures show that right is being denied.

🚨 Record high: 176,000 children in temporary accommodation. This is not an accident. It is the result of decades of selling off social housing and relying on the market. Children are paying the price for political choices.

Does the Green Party support incorporating the right to food into UK law? @zackpolanski.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social

Living in temporary accommodation has contributed to the deaths of 104 children in England in the past six years. 76 of them were under the age of one. Temporary accommodation is killing children. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This is very sad news indeed. When I wrote a report on homeless children in temporary accommodation I DM’d Giles @nearlylegal.co.uk with a few questions. In response he asked for my phone number and spent over an hour talking through the complexities of the UK’s housing crisis with me.

When councils say breaking the law is the only way to house vulnerable children, the system is beyond strain. These are some of the most vulnerable children in the country, yet they are bearing the costs of housing failure. 2d866107-f4ba-408e-9c7e-8c933d69106b.usrfiles.com/ugd/2d8661_1...

📆 In just one week we will be in Geneva for the Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth: A Global Roadmap for a New Economy Wednesday 22 April - sign up to watch along here: www.eventbrite.com/e...

More than 50 young people who came to the UK to seek asylum have died in the past decade, the majority by suicide. Our system does not support children and young people enough.

Today, the two-child limit is scrapped. For years, this policy pushed 109 children into poverty every single day. This shows change is possible. Now we need sustained action to ensure every child can rely on the foundations of rights they need to live well.

It’s Trans Day of Visibility today and we’re sending solidarity to all our trans siblings. At TransActual we will continue being visible and advocating for the rights of trans people, as we do all year round. To find out more about our work go to: transactual.org.uk/our-work/ #TDOV #Trans

Again, the allegation here has to be left unsaid because the moment you spell it out it makes no sense – to affect the result here the claim needs to be that Gorton and Denton was full of Muslim women who wanted to vote Reform, but were coerced by their husbands into voting Green instead.

Children are children first. Our new briefing sets out reforms designed to centre and protect children in the wake of the government's new asylum and settlement changes: stable status, safe family reunion, fair age assessment and independent guardianship. www.refugeecouncil.org.uk/stay-informe...

London comes out above every single region in the country for one simple reason: housing. Renting in the capital is so expensive it is actively producing child poverty. Wealth is extracted through rent while families are pushed into hardship. This is a political choice.

🚨 New figures show that London has the highest child poverty levels in the country with 38% of children growing up in hardship. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

A council evicting private renters so it can buy their homes to house homeless families is late-stage housing policy. Displacement used to manage displacement. This is what happens when housing is financialised and social housing is gutted.

The far right says migrants are causing the housing crisis. It’s a simple story, and the wrong one. Housing shortages in the UK are political outcomes, not demographic accidents 🧵

Airbnb is restructuring housing markets. In Cape Town, short-term lets are pushing homes out of reach for residents. When housing is more profitable as a hotel than a home, the right to housing is at risk.

Community-owned housing could shift who controls land and homes, away from speculation and toward people. But without real scale it risks staying marginal. Transformation over tokenism.

🏠 This goes to the heart of the right to housing. Safety, dignity and accessibility are not extras. When evacuation plans are inadequate, it shows whose lives are prioritised and whose are treated as expendable.

George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier is a stark account of how housing conditions are used to discipline poverty 🧵

Pleased to have contributed to this work. Child poverty is not inevitable, it reflects the choices we make about how our systems are designed. It’s time to embed rights into this design.

“Workers are scratching their heads asking whose side are Labour on, who do they really represent, because it certainly isn’t workers.” - Unite general secretary, Sharon Graham

Tomorrow's wrap-around front page of The National. This is the human cost. As the UK Government talks a big game of being ready to join the US and Israel in war, over 150 families are mourning their children. Their little girls were mostly aged 7-12.

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

The Home Secretary makes a case for her reforms in the context of Labour values of contribution, compassion and control. You have to question whether segregation, insecurity, hostility, and separated families really are that reflective of Labour traditions. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We all need a home. Take action today to stop newly-granted refugees being made homeless. Gov is deciding on future of 56 day move-on period in the coming weeks. Use @weareyoungroots.bsky.social online tool to email your MP – it only takes a few minutes! action.youngroots.org.uk/make-56-days...

Reform’s vow to scrap the Renters Rights Act shows they’re “in the pocket of rogue landlords”, the Housing Secretary has claimed www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The sky pool apartments suspended over Wandsworth in south London is marketed as a luxury amenity. It turns housing into spectacle, floating above a city where secure, affordable homes remain out of reach. The question isn’t how exclusive it is, but who the city is being built for.

The number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record 1.23m. People subjected to insecurity, loss of workers rights. Labour 2024 manifesto promised to ban "exploitative" zero-hours contracts, Employment Rights Act diluted that promise.

Trans people were the canary in the coal mine. Labour gave tacit approval to ripping up the Equality Act by failing to uphold it or legislate for it when it was under attack from often dark money funded fascist lawfare. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Today’s High Court ruling overturning the proscription of Palestine Action is a stunning victory for the anti-war movement and a damning indictment of the government. It proves its authoritarian crackdown on protest can be defeated.

Stark and unacceptable. The right to housing is a human right, yet women are bearing the brunt of the rental crisis. This is not inevitable. It reflects policy choices about housing supply, social security and tenant protections. Different choices can protect rights and prevent homelessness.

This is exactly the shift we need. Treating housing as a right reframes the issue from market outcomes to state duties: affordability, security, and dignity are not optional.

🏠 Andy Burnham says clearly and powerfully: housing should be a human right, enshrined in UK law. When politicians talk about homes in terms of rights, not just markets, it shifts the conversation. This is what a rights based approach to housing sounds like.

Under Starmer, recognised refugees can no longer reunite with their children. Recognised refugees. Denied the right to reunite with their children. It’s diabolical. Worse than anything the Tories did. & no, the racists are not & never will be satisfied. So yes, he’s hated.