In 2024 the government's Migration Advisory Committee recommended a series of reforms of the seasonal worker visa to protect workers from exploitation. 18 months later,the government has rejected or ignored the bulk of the worker rights recommendations www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

"More than 6,000 people were killed in just three days when Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city of el-Fasher last year, according to victims and witnesses cited in a UN report" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📫 We have written to the Home Secretary to strongly oppose the UK Gov's earned settlement proposals and express concerns that they risk causing harm, undermining the rule of law, and raise serious questions about compliance with international rights obligations. justfair.org.uk/moving-the-g...

‘Proposals to change settlement rules would pull rug from under migrant workers, inc in social care who provide dignity and comfort to our loved ones, often in difficult conditions and for low pay. The govt must uphold its promises - we cannot simply change rules halfway through an agreed process.’

Also I don't see an acknowledgment that he got the basic facts on which he based his racist comments wrong

The recent escalation by Israel's security cabinet, paving the way to land theft in the West Bank, show need for UK govt to ban the import of settlement products and suspend trade concessions with Israel, given breaches of human rights and democracy clauses in the Trade & Partnership Agreement

If the PM reckons Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for spreading this exact same lie, should the Home Office apologise too, or? 🤨

Family of worker killed on Saudi World Cup site still waiting for compensation a year on. ‘Arshad’s death was the first known fatality of a migrant worker linked to the 2034 World Cup.’ #SaudiArabia www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Imagine being presented with these accounts of stark unfairness and insecurity caused by the earned settlement plans and your response being ‘It is a privilege not a right to settle in the UK and it must be earned’ - the Home Secretary needs to go www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

If Starmer wants a reset - and not yet another U-turn when the parliamentary party balks at a policy - here is his chance.

It doesn't have to be like this! The Government's immigration plans are the wrong answer to the wrong questions. We need to support our communities and all who live in them. Restoring the right to work for asylum seekers makes sense! Thank you @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/4bHLN...

My Special Issue with Nuni Jorgensen on Families on the Move - Latin American Perspectives is out at @scmrjems.bsky.social We have 9 excellent contribution from amazing Latin American colleagues :) You can read more about it here sheffield.ac.uk/spir/news/ne...

Important piece on @freemovement.bsky.social re how the govt’s proposals on ‘earned settlement’ will disadvantage migrant women as as result of lower earnings and greater caring responsibilities freemovement.org.uk/a-fairer-pat... Two days left to respond to the consultation and oppose these plans!

Government launches ERA consultations on fire and rehire, tipping, union recognition and electronic balloting. The government are seeking views on a number of areas related to the Employment Rights Act 2025: www.ier.org.uk/news/governm...

“I think we can show that we are not just kowtowing to Reform, as we have appeared to be, and we can show that we are moving in a different direction and can persuade the public to come with us.”

"More than 1,000 bodies are buried in individual and mass graves on land belonging to Sudan University of Science and Technology after RSF forces used a campus site designated for a hospital to bury the dead during the war, a university official said" sudantribune.com/article/310390

Labour are knowingly putting more children at risk of poverty and destitution. We see this every day already @praxisprojects.bsky.social. The child poverty strategy acknowledges this too. The settlement proposals must be stopped.

just a reminder that the united states is essentially operating a network of torture camps holding individuals in arbitrary detention, without access to appeal and rarely to counsel.

THREAD 🧵: The Epstein files are real. The antisemitism they're fueling is also real. And right now, the second part is getting almost no attention.

Govt publishes updated timetable for key Employment Rights Act changes: 🔵 Majority of the Trade Union Act 2016 repealed on 18 Feb 🔵Fair Work Agency established on 7 April 🔵Fire and Rehire delayed from Oct '26 to Jan '27 See the full timetable here 👇 www.ier.org.uk/news/governm...

When some Na'amodniks went to the West Bank last month, local settler militias harassed us & the local Palestinian population every day. This article exposes how these violent, under-reported, and unaccountable militias work as extensions of the Israeli state. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Devastatingly sad. Every Labour MP should be forced to read this. In fact, every MP, who rushed back to Parliament to vote to save one steel mill, whilst hastening the collapse of dozens of universities - and harming the students, staff, communities and economies universities sustain and support

Solidarity with staff at Sheffield who are facing similar brutalising pay deductions for ASOS to those we have experienced @qmucu.bsky.social Punishing staff with 💯 pay deductions on days they are working but protecting their rights to take industrial action says a lot about failing uni leadership!

“International law prohibits an occupying force from developing or otherwise interfering with archaeological locations. Sebastia has been inscribed since 2012 on Unesco’s tentative list of world heritage sites for the State of Palestine.”

I wish visa fees were discussed more in the #earnedsettlement debate. ILR matters for security, stability and because it means an end to the visa fee cycle — not because it means the start of public funds. A Skilled Worker family of four will pay more than £35k in visa fees and IHS to get ILR.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

Despite a nominal ceasefire, Israel has carried out some of its deadliest airstrikes on Gaza in months, killing at least 30 Palestinians, some of whom were sheltering in tent cities for displaced people www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Humane and sensible step move by Spain in facilitating irregular migrants and asylum seekers to move to work with decent pay, social security and tax payments. Predictably the right is grumbling - unlike the UK, the govt isn’t allowing this to set their policies www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Fantastic to see UNISON push back against the horrendous plans to make essential care workers and other migrants more vulnerable. The government's plan is callous and counterproductive.

I have spoken to lawyers who are extremely enthusiastic adopters of AI, and who had no idea that Law Society etc has issued guidance on what they should be doing. Speaks volumes imo. Anyway, my final post as Editor is a thinly-disguised AI hate piece...

The old test in moral philosophy ‘what if everyone did that?’ is coming back to haunt us. LLMs only work because the information they are sucking up was not generated by LLMs. But as they drive more and more real researchers out of business they are building layers and layers on their own quicksand.

The Met Police is facing a legal challenge over its use of live facial recognition from two campaigners who say the technology is expanding without adequate safeguards and argue that the tool risks arbitrary and discriminatory use www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Windrush scandal victims may be eligible for exceptional case funding for legal aid after a “landmark ruling” from the Court of Appeal" melissasigodothesource.substack.com/p/landmark-w...

Labour’s sister party in Spain doing the right thing from a humanitarian perspective, a social cohesion perspective and an economic perspective…. But of course mainstream UK politicians are allergic to evidence-based policy on immigration.

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day - the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

At a time of rising hate and violence, we must continue to remember the millions of Jews and other people killed by the Nazis and commit to resisting fascism, antisemitism and hatred wherever they rear their ugly heads. UCU’s annual #hmd event is today at 1 Get along if you can: www.ucu.org.uk/hmd

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

It’s an honour to be invited by the Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group at Oxford to give a talk about my new book. If you’re around next week (4th February), feel free to come along. You can also join online. See here for more details: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even... 📖🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Employment Appeal Tribunal rules that Great Ormond Street Hospital indirectly discriminated against 80 black and minority ethnic cleaners because of the delay they experienced in obtaining NHS pay and benefits after their services were brought in house in 2021 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Not even 'both sides' here - the crucial bit is removed out from the parents' statement (giving the false impression that they did not rebut the administration's lies), while the administration's lie is presented without rebuttal. Truly appalling stuff.

Execution. Death squad.

This is spot on - a totally unjustifiable and counter productive decision to stop Andy Burnham from standing

Ten years ago, Giulio Regeni, an Italian PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, was brutally murdered in Egypt while conducting fieldwork. Italian prosecutors have charged four security officials, but Egypt has refused to cooperate: no one has been held accountable for this crime.

The same people who said that the mass murder of children in schools was a sad but necessary price to enable citizens to bear arms and oppose tyranny are now saying that if you carry a gun it’s your fault if you’re murdered.

In this piece I try to connect the fascism of Farage, Trump and Islamic State and show why Jewish organisations remaining silent, focusing on irrelevancies or refusing to name the enemy for what it is all give the fascists a free pass. www.vashtimedia.com/yes-pasaran/

Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos www.tpr.org/border-immig...

Sorry but if the most unpopular Labour government in history intervenes to block our only senior Labour politician with a net positive public approval rating - in doing so risking handing victory to a far right party - that’s putting petty factionalism before the country. 2/3

If this were happening in a Latin American country, ICE would simply be described as a death squad

Solidarity with Joanne Young now and through the next steps in the brutal legal process of bringing her ex-husband and five other men to trial for multiple alleged sexual offences against her

Myself & many colleagues are facing this at Sheffield Uni - double punishment for strike action. In the midst of this, yesterday many departments got an email announcing imminent structural reviews (ie redundancies). @sheffielducu.bsky.social