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.

I visited the Tenement Museum in New York recently, showcasing the housing conditions that immigrants arriving into the US lived in. It’s impossible not to see it as a living archive of why housing is a human right 🧵

1/4 UN Experts and Special Rapporteurs have sent formal allegation letters to both the UK and French governments over serious potential human rights violations under the ‘one-in, one-out’ deal. You may read the full story here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Scotland moving toward rent controls shows spiralling rents are a political problem, not a law of nature. When pay goes to landlords instead of living costs, the system is broken. Tenants across the UK need real limits on rent hikes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This street in Cartagena, Colombia captures gentrification in one frame. A renovated home now operating as an Airbnb sits next to long-standing housing shaped by informality, precarity, and survival. Gentrification isn’t just aesthetic, it’s a shift in access, affordability, and security.

Appeasing landlords. Decent homes standard for England’s private renters will not be enforced until 2035. Millions of renters are stuck paying hand over fist for shoddy homes that pose a real danger to their health. Govts put profits before people.

Doesn't feel particularly radical to suggest that the taxpayer should not subsidise organisations whose entire purpose seems to be to hound an incredibly marginalised group out of public life.

No mention here of the upcoming cut to Universal Credit, which will cost 700,000+ disabled people an average of £3,000 a year. From April, the health element of UC will be cut by nearly 50% for new claimants. Set out by @victoria-anns.bsky.social here: www.citizensadvice.org.uk/policy/publi...

Letting landlords stall on basic standards for years is indefensible. It condemns millions of renters, including children, to unsafe, poor-quality homes while those responsible face little consequence. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...

🎒 The UK Government is not supportive of a new proposed UN treaty that would support pre-primary education for kids globally. The UK needs to change its position and support these fundamental rights for all kids.

I understand Labour faces a largely hostile media environment, but its inability to make a big splash with genuinely positive news remains unfathomable. Like the Warm Homes Plan last week, this will make a big difference to the finances and lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

Temporary accommodation is harmful to all children, but if you are neurodivergent, it can be overwhelming, unsafe and have lasting effects. Noise, overcrowding, constant moves, no routine, no quiet space. Children deserve better.

Looking forward to reading this. Daniel is one of the best and most relentless reporters on the UK’s housing crisis.

Quick reminder that the men who were sent to live in disused army camps at Crowborough amid local protests this week could have been given safe homes in ordinary communities - at over 5x less cost to the taxpayer. This cruelty is costing us all.

Thousands protested in Crowborough today over plans for an asylum camp at a former military base. Anger is being directed at people seeking safety, not at a system that keeps choosing harmful, evidence-free solutions. Barracks don’t fix a broken asylum system. They make it worse.

Housing asylum seekers at Crowborough military camp is repeating dangerous mistakes While in opposition, Labour denounced the Tories for cramming people seeking asylum into military camps. Now they’re dusting off the very same failed playbook, argues Just Fair and Human Rights Watch

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

The Barbican is often framed as architectural ambition, but it’s also a reminder of a moment when the state built housing at scale, in the city, with permanence in mind. The tragedy is that this level of public ambition is now unthinkable.

🥀 When in opposition, Labour called housing people seeking asylum in military barracks “a failure.” Now it’s happening again.

🌍 Warm homes for a cool planet 🌍 The Warm Homes Plan matters. Cold, damp, energy-inefficient housing affects health, education, and family budgets. This is about more than bills or carbon. Warm homes are part of the right to housing and to an adequate standard of living.

Housing people seeking asylum in military barracks isn’t a solution, it’s a repeat of a failed policy. Our new piece with @hrw.org lays out why this new plan undermines the rights to housing & health. Rights-respecting solutions exist, ministers should choose them. www.bigissue.com/opinion/crow...

🏚️ Military barracks retraumatise people who fled war and imprisonment. In @bigissue.com, I write with @hrw.org about why the UK’s new military base accommodation for people seeking asylum revives an idea that inspectors, courts and rights groups have long condemned. www.bigissue.com/opinion/crow...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained a 5-year-old boy in Minnesota this week, taking him and his father to a Texas detention center. No one, especially a child, should be arbitrarily detained. Actions like this further terrorize families of color across the country.

172,000 children in England are growing up in temporary accommodation – overcrowded, unsafe and unstable. The Child Poverty Strategy is welcome, but without a rights-based approach to housing, these children remain at the mercy of politics, not protected by law. labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...

Children’s rights should never depend on market conditions. Scrapping the two-child limit matters, but without a rights-based framework, child poverty policy remains fragile. My new op-ed in @labourlist.bsky.social makes the case 🔗 labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...