This is grim - inc making volunteering a requirement when people are working long hours and facing high childcare costs, exacerbated by visas limiting labour mobility and no recourse to public funds, and penalising claiming benefits for those who have that option www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#BBCNews - Kyiv hit by 'massive' Russian attack, mayor says www.bbc.com/news/article... #UkraineWar

Some of you may remember I spoke about my best friend being assaulted by an ICE agent inside a Manhattan courtroom, as she was accompanying one of her students to his immigration hearing. This is the same man.

The Global Sumud Flotilla, a group of civilians aiming to bring much needed aid & solidarity to Gaza, is under threat from an Israeli government intent on genocide. Spain and Italy are sending navy ships to protect those on board - the UK should follow in taking tangible action.

As so often my expectations of Starmer’s article were so low as to be basically subterranean and he still failed to live up to them. Let’s start with the weaselly and inflammatory conflation of seeking asylum with “illegal immigration“ 1/ [text in article below]

The chair of the undercover policing inquiry faces legal action over decision not to allow blacklisted union activist Dave Smith to give oral evidence at the public inquiry in November www.hazards.org/blacklistblo...

Rights groups believe up to 30,000 alleged drug users & dealers, many of whom were poor and marginalised, were slaughtered during ‘drug war’ in the Philippines. As Duterte awaits trial at the ICC, interviews show some killers still believe they did the right thing www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Five hours apart

Earlier this month, a federal appeals court overturned the decision to close the South Florida detention facility (“alligator Alcatraz”) despite the reports of widespread abuse. Now, two thirds of its 1,800 inmates are somehow no longer in the ICE database

It seemed pretty clear from yesterday's hearing that the reason for the trafficking claim being raised later on was that the claimant was only able to access good lawyers after getting removal directions, after the Home Office and two lots of lawyers on the detained duty advice scheme heard that

““Every one is hungry, malnourished, has lost their home and loved ones, and every one is scared. We have not got enough of anything.””

It’s not clear what these changes will concretely consist of but this is an appalling proposal from Mahmood, ignoring the challenges that asylum seekers face in accessing legal advice and undermining protections for trafficking survivors

Farage’s plans to abolish Indefinite Leave to Remain would ruin lives and tear families apart. Rather than dismissing Reform’s xenophobic proposals as 'unrealistic' or 'unaffordable', our government should be clear that they are cruel and unjust. We must stand up for migrants' rights.

Tzipi Hotovely has concluded her term as Israel’s ambassador to the UK. Throughout her tenure, we opposed her appointment and campaigned against providing her with platforms due to the racism, incitement, and genocidal rhetoric she brought to the role.

Farage's proposal here would crash the economy. An economy already struggling as a result of Brexit. Not only are the numbers false but it takes rights away from migrants who have lived and worked in the UK for years. Many who have British partners and children born in the UK.

'Recognition must be the start of a sustained process through which Britain finally fulfils its historic responsibility to advance Palestinian self-determination' - Statement from Britain Palestine Project on the UK's recognition of the state of Palestine britainpalestineproject.org/wp-content/u...

“It’s time to change the narrative. Tommy Robinson does not represent the majority of Britons. We aren’t afraid. We’re angry. And we won’t be defeated.” The power we need coming from @sangitamyska.bsky.social here www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The RMT union held a demonstration this week against Home Office changes that have stripped whole categories of jobs from the Skilled Worker Visa scheme without consultation, stating they are short-sighted and threaten the jobs and futures of hundreds of rail staff www.ier.org.uk/news/rmt-dem...

In other words, 94% of those killed in Gaza since March 25 were civilians - up from 83% in the first 1.5 years of this genocidal war. Another symptom of stage 2 of the Gaza Genocide under Trump: fewer casualties so far, but targeting almost entirely civilians. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

When anti-fascism is considered terrorism, you know what kind of state you’re dealing with. You don’t need anyone to spell it out.

Mahmood’s response is ‘completely disingenuous unless she is completely clueless about how the system is operating… the “intolerable” “last minute attempts to frustrate a removal” are a direct result of the system designed by the Home Office’ @sonial77.bsky.social freemovement.org.uk/home-office-...

"Sarah Kyambi from Migration Policy Scotland has overseen research on Scottish attitudes for the past three years. She said: 'The idea that there is an inherent greater positivity amongst the Scottish policy towards immigration is likely to be mistaken'" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

there are often big panics around terms and condition changes that go viral, but this one seems to have distinguished itself by clickwrap contract permission to *take academics’ literal voices and use them to market the platform?*

Starmer's package of US investment apparently bringing jobs to the UK includes £1.5bn from the tech company Palantir - a company facilitating Trump's deportation machinery. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Israeli forces occupying parts of southern Syria since Dec 2024 have carried out abuses inc war crime of forcible displacement - seizing and demolishing homes, blocking residents from property and livelihoods, and arbitrarily detaining residents and transferring to Israel www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

This is more or less exactly what the Tories said, with equally little regard for the facts, when we stopped the Rwanda flights at the last minute

Yesterday, a UN Commission reached the conclusion that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza through deliberate targeting of civilians, enforced starvation, mass displacement, and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure.

Give it five years and only the most elite universities will be able to boast of their artisanal, hand-crafted student feedback

"at least 39 of the facilities operate militarisation programmes where [Ukrainian] children as young as eight are put through weapons training, grenade-throwing competitions and tactical medicine courses." What Ukraine is fighting against. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Today's Stop Trump protest in London Assemble 14.00 in Portland Place near the BBC’s New Broadcasting House, march leaves 15.00 down Regent Street through Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square onto Whitehall, past Downing Street to a rally at Parliament Square at about 17.00 stoptrump.org.uk/protest/

LPHR strongly welcomes the legally rigorous & compelling analysis by UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory finding the State of Israel is responsible for committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023 lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...

The deportation of an Eritrean man under 'one-in, on-out' has been halted by a judge after an NRM decision indicating reasonable suspicion he'd been trafficked. Charity Medical Justice say vast majority detained under scheme are torture and trafficking survivors www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

The Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territories has issued its 72 pages long legal analysis of submitted evidence supporting the charge of genocide against Israel. Full document here: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Reparations are not only necessary, but achievable. When done right, they benefit us all. Read our latest report: www.runnymedetrust.o...

77% of 2024 Labour voters who’ve since switched to Reform support reforms to unfair dismissal in Employment Rights Bill. Yet only about one in four voters are aware of reforms -unsurprisingly since govt makes its focus attacking migrants rather than promoting them www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

In my workplace they monitor: When you are usung your work laptop When you enter or leave your office How many people are in your office www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

This is hugely problematic. The overwhelming majority in the UK reject the far right yet our views aren‘t being properly articulated in the public sphere: the papers largely support it, the BBC is a mix of supportive & supine, the government simply absent

If you can, join the protest in London this Wednesday - it’s more urgent than ever

Remember: this is the *same person* who thinks that it's a grave breach of "free speech" for the UK to criminalise calls for asylum-seekers to be burned to death

This is so disturbing: western charity SOS International helped disappear hundreds of children who were kidnapped by the Assad regime and placed in orphanages during the Syrian civil war, colluding with military intelligence to break their parents observer.co.uk/news/interna...

I can’t believe my eyes, I can’t. Incomprehensible levels of destruction. Worse than wasteland. A once teaming, lively, bustling hub of life, eradicated. There’s no justification for this, none. Jabalia camp completely destroyed

At what point do Labour MPs decide to rescue their party - and their seats - by evicting Starmer and Reeves? When voting intention figures fall to 19%? 15%? 10%? (Last week they stood at 21%, and have prob fallen since) The longer they leave it, the harder and less plausible the recovery will be.

‘Harrods felt like a corporate trafficking system – not on the margins, but embedded in the very structure of the institution’ - survivors of abuse by Mohamed Al Fayed criticise compensation scheme for allowing Harrods to avoid responsibility for its own role www.opendemocracy.net/en/al-fayed-...

Awful news about the death of the great Conor Gearty. Perhaps the kindest and most encouraging law professor imaginable. A dreadful loss to the study of civil liberties and constitutional law.

The fuck is unfunded hobbyist research? My hobbies are millions of miles removed from the academy and if my research was of no interest to others, this would show in every aspect of my career. We have the REF for this, no? So what other than right wing talking points being echoed is this adding?

Public Law is looking make several appointments to its Editorial Committee - details etc ⬇️ - expressions of interest to [email protected] by 31 October 2025.

This is how a functioning democracy deals with a coup-plotting president charged with inciting thousands of rioters.

Follow the 'free speech' logic - liberal criticism of conservatives is reponsible for violence against them - but it's an unacceptable limit on free speech for the UK to criminalise people who directly call for burning asylum-seekers to death