Another day another migration story. Terrifying in here tho is the reform of the ECHR she will attempt. This will be Labour's biggest and most dangerous mistake, I GUARANTEE. It will set up the infrastructure for a Reform govt. to dismantle all our protections. news.sky.com/story/home-s...

Comrades, the moving labour collective is oraganising its third summer camp, this time in Malmö: June 14-17. We are hoping to create a space where labour scholars, lawyers, activists, unionists will collectively work on intersectional solidarity praxis and organising strategies. Come join us!

"One witness to the fall of El Fasher told Reuters from Tawila that RSF trucks had sprayed civilians with machine-gun fire and crushed them with their vehicles. 'Young people, elderly, children, they ran them over'" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Respect to Frankie the flamingo - a 120-mile flight across the Channel with clipped wings is no joke! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In the shadow of Al-Aqsa, the Palestinian neighborhood of Batan Al-Hawa in Siwan faces mass evictions, with settlers backed by the Israeli state and courts taking over multi-storey homes www.972mag.com/batan-al-haw...

Petty, but showing

14 liberal Jewish groups condemn ADL’s attack on Mamdani “The ADL’s racist & Islamophobic attacks on our mayor-elect undermine our shared commitment to confronting both antisemitism and Islamophobia..We urge Jewish institutions to work in good faith with the new admin.” @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social

LPHR is deeply saddened by the death of Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC, who has passed away at the age of 92. Sir Geoffrey was a founding charity trustee of LPHR who exemplified the qualities and values of integrity, good judgement, humility and kindness lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

The seasonal worker visa’s structure impedes union organising, with workers in the country for no longer than six months. But with the scheme ongoing since the 2019 pilot and looking like it’s here to stay, it makes sense to ask whether major unions could be doing more to overcome these challenges

Important new article on informality under the IASHR by @mauropucheta.bsky.social and @renanbkalil.bsky.social, open access in the ILJ. Exploring the potential for a rights-based model and calling for a more systematic recognition of informal workers by the Court. academic.oup.com/ilj/advance-...

"Shabana Mahmood will model some of her new measures on the Danish system" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Not only does the UK government waste vast sums of money on demonising those seeking asylum, now it appears that they are complicit in quite a number needing it in the first place. Choosing to save money over a genocide, again. #r4today www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"Operation Dudula has been picketing hospitals and clinics in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, checking identity cards and stopping anyone who is not South African from entering. This has since extended to schools" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Jamaica contributed 0.03% of global emissions in 2023. Now warming oceans have cost it 30% of its GDP, while big oil keeps cashing billions. This is climate injustice in action. Time to put people before profit and phase out fossil fuels for good. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

We have this very interesting new post on @labourblog.bsky.social exploring the fairness of people losing their jobs over activities that take place outside work (like the unfortunate Coldplay couple) and its implications for the right to private and family life under Article 8 ECHR

Grok and Google AI falsely claim fake images of UK train attack are real - via @fullfact.org fullfact.org/crime/grok-g...

All the critics will come out and say “New York is unique, it can’t be replicated”. Yes it can. A strong progressive voice, creative campaigning, good organising and commitment can win anywhere. Let’s take that lesson and apply it.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

"The amendment proposes restoring key rights, including the ability to change employers without restriction, renew visas annually, and apply for family reunification – rights that were removed in 2012" www.thevoiceofdomesticworkers.com/post/support...

Al Mezan is highly concerned about the safety and wellbeing of Palestinians in Israeli custody after Israeli authorities renewed a ban prohibiting delegates from the International Committee of the Red Cross from visiting Palestinian detainees mezan.org/en/post/46797

81 Palestinians died in Israeli custody in the last two years, due to torture and neglect. Since 7th October 2023, Israeli prisons have become an instrument of mass torture on unprecedented level. There are currently over 11 thousands Palestinians in those prisons, most of them held without charge.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

More than 200 studies have provided compelling evidence of a link between rising temperatures and adverse pregnancy outcomes, including premature birth, stillbirth, low birth weight, congenital abnormalities and hypertensive disorders in mothers

Sheffield Hallam University complied with Beijing demand to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project on supply chains and forced labour being dropped. It was reinstated after threat of legal action but chilling effect remains www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Academic teaching Dogwhistling 101

This post is blowing up. Please read the full paper 😌✨ 👇👇👇👇👇👇 Guest, O., Suarez, et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

In Drogheda, fireworks thrown at an asylum accommodation centre resulted in a fire, with four children including in infant needing hospital care. 28 people resided in the hotel. In addition to arson, Garda is looking at attempted murder charges - which we had been calling for in the North

This is, quite literally, insane. A free market/property rights defence of a landlord's right to let damp and mouldy property that will kill occupiers. (Also an illustration of why housing conditions have been regulated by statute for the last 100 years or so.) thecritic.co.uk/against-awaa...

🚨NEWS🚨 Next week marks report stage of the Borders Bill. We're briefing to 2 urgent amendments: Amendment 43 calls on the right to work for survivors of modern slavery in the NRM & Amendment 44 calls on changes to the ODW visa Briefings available to read here: www.kalayaan.org.uk/resources/br...

One year on from settlement of air pollution claim and the govt has yet to make tangible progress following promise to deliver Clean Air Strategy. Our client, Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, has today written to Air Quality Minister, Emma Hardy MP, pressing for urgent action www.hja.net/news-and-ins...

There is still a draft bill which would do precisely this: bills.parliament.uk/bills/3970

This episode raises big questions about how the UK's "hostile environment" is operating in an information-sharing sense. Who exactly is sharing data on flights booked (not flights taken)? The UK doesn't have exit monitoring, so who thought there was reliable data? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Sudan's military government has ordered two senior officials at the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) to leave the country amid widespread famine sparked by a gruelling civil war that erupted in April 2023" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Been waking up to the reports from Sudan on the World Service every morning. Heartbreaking

I've written for the Metro on how Starmer's latest attempt to look 'tough' on asylum seeker hotels has exposed him as a coward. A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

Israel has bombed Gaza again. 104 Palestinians are dead. Critical aid being let into Gaza remains far below agreed levels.

These 2,000 killings of unarmed civilians being over the weekend www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

At least 49 family members and colleagues of Afghans affected by the MoD’s mass data breach have been killed, according to on-the-ground research into 350 affected people submitted to the Commons defence select committee www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Abuse victims will no longer have to pay £300 to hide their personal details in debt proceedings from abusers www.gov.uk/government/n...

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

As a healthcare worker myself I will never understand why patients have racist outbursts toward people who hold their lives in their hands. You would think that people would be able to keep a lid on their racism when their health is on the line, but apparently not.

Fuelled by the likes of Jenrick and Lam and by people like that Reform MP and by the marching and flagging.

The number of reports by nurses of racist incidents at work has risen by 55% over three years - the Royal College of Nursing calls on govt to stop using anti migrant rhetoric that drives this, and for employers to prioritise tackling racism and work with unions www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Please join us for this webinar on 28 October, 1-2pm UK time, on 'Modern Slavery and Human Rights: Migrant Workers in the Agricultural and Care Sectors in the UK,' with Prof Tomoya Obokata, the current UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery since 2020 www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Costs of asylum accomodation are down to firms making vast profits off of providing poor quality for people seeking safety and Home Office cruelty and ineptitude. It is not the fault of those forced into using them by a system which doesn't give them a choice. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Across the country, as a result of the two-and-a-half years of fighting that has crippled agriculture, almost 25 million people - half the population - are facing severe food shortages, including more than 600,000 who are experiencing famine, according to the UN" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"The postwar firewall between far-right & mainstream policy-making has eroded. A host of far-right ideas and policies have come tumbling through the breach." @kenanmalik.bsky.social on the ethnonationalist radicalisation of the Conservative Party & much of UK media. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

A French human rights group has filed a legal complaint against Airbnb and Booking dot Com, accusing them of promoting occupation tourism by listing accommodation in Israeli settlements in Palestinian Territories www.rfi.fr/en/middle-ea...

Wow at Lucy Powell’s deputy leader acceptance speech. Does not pull her punches at all. Tells Labour to stop “out reforming Reform” and attacks “command and control” culture in the party leadership. The first phase of the Manchester Labour Party insurrection has been concluded it seems.