Wage theft is theft. Governments must stop impunity for these corporate criminals.

This is a huge problem that @workrights.bsky.social have documented in the past. Crook opens company, treats workers like 💩, shafts contractors of pay - and then when sued declares insolvency, liquidates the company, starts it again under a new name - and good luck recovering your compensation.

"Glad you didn't get a penny from your claim as you don't deserve fck all...go fck yourself" That's the message a director of Crussh sent to Raf just after it went into administration.Two months earlier a tribunal had ordered Crussh to pay Raf over £30k www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

🚨Leaked Israeli documents reveal the British army’s 77th brigade held secret exchanges with the IDF. The 77th brigade specialises in psychological operations including online propaganda activities. www.declassifieduk.org/uk-psycholog...

People should be in prison for this, but instead they’re driving around in fancy cars, starting new companies, shitting on workers all over again…

"Glad you didn't get a penny from your claim as you don't deserve fck all...go fck yourself" That's the message a director of Crussh sent to Raf just after it went into administration.Two months earlier a tribunal had ordered Crussh to pay Raf over £30k www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thanks @jim.londoncentric.media for citing our investigation into the thousands of companies that ignore employment tribunal judgments. As it happenned one of the people we covered was Preston Benson, which @londoncentric.media did a deep-dive on days earlier www.londoncentric.media/p/preston-be...

In 2016 the UK government introduced a scheme to encourage employers to pay employment tribunal awards by threatening them with a fine if they didn't pay. But of the £9.6million pounds in fines issued, only £95,000 has been paid - less than 1%. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

In 2016 the UK government introduced a scheme to encourage employers to pay employment tribunal awards by threatening them with a fine if they didn't pay. But of the £9.6million pounds in fines issued, only £95,000 has been paid - less than 1%. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Great investigation into how a government initiative to force rogue bosses to pay up after tribunal findings against them is still failing workers nearly a decade after its launch 👇

It’s a real failing when even those who’ve battled a system where the odds are weighed against them to win an ET claim never actually receive the compensation they are owed

This is wild. People go through the mill taking on crappy employers in employment tribunals, win and then just... don't get the money. Really important investigation.

We collaborated with @tbij.bsky.social on this important story. We represented Nadine at the ET. She was awarded £35k but hasn't received any of it. Workers need co-ordinated action by government agencies to enforce rights. We'll continue to represent our clients to give them the best chance.

Without punishment there is no law! (sine pune sine lege.. if Latin's your thing)... It's a total disgrace that workers can go thru the utter mill to get awarded compensation only for bosses to sidestep it in preventable ways...

This is a huge story. Wage theft is rampant across the UK and the meagre legal protections meant to contest it are not even being enforced, with bosses laughing about how they just ignored judge’s rulings.

We're pleased to have collaborated with you on this research and report Emiliano. A really important issue for the economy. Everyone needs certainty that rights will be honoured - workers and companies that do the right thing and which don't want to be undermined. Massive change is needed.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social This is an astonishing storyline!

The tribunal system already leaves workers out of pocket even when they win. Introducing tribunal fees would only be another barrier to justice.

I’ve long been fascinated by how employment tribunal awards are reported in the mainstream press. This is a brilliant investigation into how the system is utterly failing people.

Legislation is only part of the puzzle. Without access to justice and *enforceable* remediation, the cards are stacked against workers. Read these shocking cases of workers left without a penny, despite winning at tribunal against their former employers.

This is really important work… Labour’s Employment Rights Bill may well transform workers’ rights. But only if people can access justice and enforcement of remedies can’t be dodged. Do you really have rights at all, if the barriers to asserting them are so difficult to overcome?

Revealed: thousands of rogue bosses have failed to pay tribunal awards Directors and owners of companies should be made directly liable for non-payment of employment tribunal awards. Read this investigation by @tbij.bsky.social 👇 www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Last year, Nadine made headlines after she was awarded £65,000 for unfair dismissal by Peckham Levels Preparing for the tribunal cost Nadine her health – but she has yet to see the money

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help. This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

The Tories employment tribunal fees were a disaster for access to justice and for rights at work. This Labour government cannot undermine its own employment rights commitments by introducing them. Just rule it out now. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

And asylum applicants are also banned from working while their claim is processed. Whole system is designed in a manner that largely prevents people from contributing and then blames them for the result.

Website @DeclassifiedUK has been declined a parliamentary press pass after officials flagged that reporter Martin Williams had a "particular standpoint" on Gaza and was the author of a "contentious" book about political corruption www.declassifieduk.org/parliament-b...

Would it be too much to ask for a journalist who gets this sort of access to ministers to question the underlying assumptions in this statement? The suggestion that the UK has “uncontrolled migration” is absolutely false. Not questioning these falsehoods is what is “feeding far right rhetoric”.

"Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike...long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome." apnews.com/article/ital...

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

‘Business secretary Peter Kyle was asked by Sky News’ Trevor Phillips this morning if the demonstration – organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson – “disturbed” him. Kyle said the number of people who turned out for the protest shows free speech is “alive and well” in the UK.’ For shame

“I’m sorry, we can’t put you in prison for holding a piece of cardboard, because we’ve deported the prison staff.”

1800+ film workers are boycotting Israeli film institutions implicated in the genocide & apartheid of Palestinians. Signers include: Aimee Lou Wood, Ava DuVernay, Ayo Edebiri, Brian Cox, Josh O'Connor, Mark Ruffalo, Olivia Colman, Tilda Swinton, Yorgos Lanthimos, Javier Bardem

NEWS: I’ve set up an independent anti-racist reporting and monitoring organisation. We’ll document racist attacks, support victims, pressure authorities to act, and amplify the voices of smaller, more isolated Black and Asian communities across Britain.🧵

In December 2023, Israeli president Isaac Herzog was pictured signing bombs due to be dropped on Gaza. Next week he’ll be in the UK at the invitation of the British government.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has launched its first Family Court Mentoring Programme giving reporters the opportunity to be mentored by Hannah Summers (the UK's first full-time family court reporter). Apply here. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/blog/2025-09...

NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]

Polanski: “Migrants are very much the backbone of this country.”

Israel’s killing of journalists follows a pattern of silencing Palestinian media that stretches back to 1967 - theconversation.com/israels-kill...

Our statement calling for urgent sanctions on companies breaking international law and supporting the Gaza genocide in The National today: www.thenational.scot/news/2541818...

“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink

Incredible that there hasn't been a single resignation in front line Britsh politics over UK Gaza policy during the last 22 months. Imagine the sheer depths of the moral rot in Westminster that not one of the horrors we've witnessed constitutes a red line for these people.

We need less think pieces on how new media is radicalizing the young and more think pieces on how old media is radicalizing the old

NEW — Reuters journalists accuse newswire of pro-Israel bias By @architmeta.bsky.social Exclusive: Insiders at the world’s largest news agency reveal their battles with management over covering Palestine www.declassifieduk.org/reuters-jour...

Here is my essay on Video Game Worker Unions and Revolution. Revolution is not a one-time event, it is more a culmination of many, many experiments. So what better way for us to experiment, than with video games? notesfrombelow.org/article/vide...

On anti-prejudice norms, I agree 100%. Nothing has done more to erode these over the past 10 years than the "legitimate concerns" narrative that whitewashed racism and xenophobia as mere "fears" and "concerns" while deriding anti-racism as the preserve of privileged cosmopolitans.

Despite all the hysteria whipped up by the far right, certain sectors of the media and our own government, official figures show the UK has HALF the number of asylum applications that Germay has, and significantly fewer than Spain, France and Italy.

This absurd suggestion that asylum seekers are living it up in luxury hotels reminds me nostalgically of the equally ridiculous confected outrage over homeless families being put up in seaside bed and breakfasts. The same nonsense is endlessly repurposed for the out group of the moment.

"I support Palestine Action. If this makes me a “supporter of terror” under UK law, so be it. If the British state considers this “terrorism”, perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that promote and fund my work, such as WHSmith and BBC". www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...