The Home Office has today announced it will use AI to ‘clamp down on fake age claims at the border and increase removals’ In the same breath it admits this AI tool has an error margin of at least 2.5 years for teenagers, and higher rates of error for females + some ethnicities What could go wrong?

Amin said the return of the internet was a reminder of all that had been lost: “What truly came back online is our misery, not freedom.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Thank you @weareyoungroots.bsky.social for joining us in calling this out. 🙏

I've been involved in plenty of government/regulator consultations where it's pretty clear they've already decided to do what they're consulting on, but usually they at least pretend otherwise.

New @hrw.org report exhaustively details how an Emirati private security company with close ties to the highest levels of the UAE government recruited Colombian mercenaries, trained them at a UAE military base, and deployed them for the siege and capture of El Fasher, Sudan.

“Why aren’t the Greens helping to shuffle this guy into power?”

France passes law on the restitution of cultural artifacts looted during colonial rule

It's been very difficult not being able to talk about this. This and many other things that have happened during the Filton retrial. As someone versed in the abuses of the state I didn't think I could be this shocked by things but as a Filton24 family member I have been horrified day in day out

It doesn't matter where they're born. Every child needs stability, safety and protection from harm. This Government has attacked children's rights on all sides through a raft of hostile migration policies - it must change course, now.

The UK is so 'appalled' at events in the West Bank that it: ❌ refuses to ban trade with illegal settlements ❌ keeps military accord with Israel ❌ keeps 'trade & partnership' accord ❌ continues arms exports ❌ refuses to mention Israeli nuclear arms ❌ refuses to respond to ICJ ruling on OPTs

👏👏 The government plans to double, triple or even quadruple settlement routes for care workers. Now these workers are saying clearly to Shabana Mahmood & her government that these plans are cruel, unfair & counter-productive. This is what people power looks like 💪 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The BBC undercover investigation into false immigration claims is deeply irresponsible journalism. It does not highlight that exploitation by unregulated advisors occurs because legal aid was cut and the system is insane to navigate.

Four people dead. 42 more people who've survived but now have to live with the trauma and terror of a near-death boat sinking. All completely avoidable. Our Government chose this. They can chose differently. Safe routes save lives. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Labour forces Davis to erase 'genocide' from her manifesto insidecroydon.com/2026/04/07/l... #Croydon #LocalElections2026 #Gaza @left-foot-forward.bsky.social @aljazeera.com

Indentured labourers typically had shorter periods of indenture than this in the 19-th century British empire.

New from Free Movement: Earned settlement: retrospective change is wrong but prospective change is even worse | colinyeo freemovement.org.uk/earned-settl...

£16m wasted - and who knows how many more children traumatised by violent police action, how many more people killed in crossings made more deadly by hostile border enforcement. Is this really what we want our money spent on? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

You may not think you'll need to know your rights today, that it's not "that kind of a demonstration". But unfortunately the Metropolitan Police crackdown on protests is wholly unpredictable and arbitrary. So take a moment to know the basics bsky.app/profile/netp...

Not only is this devestating for the academics, it makes the UK look petty and pathetic. What kind of a country thinks it's being diminished by being attractive to intellects from abroad? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Yesterday 100s of people from across the UK came together in Parliament to meet with their MPs about the Govt.'s disastrous earned settlement plans. Together, we shared our concerns directly with 80+ MPs. A massive thank you to everyone who joined & helped make it happen. This is just the start.

New stats show the asylum appeals backlog was over 80,000 cases at the end of 2025, relating to around 104,000 people - a 91% increase on a year before. 4 in 10 of all asylum appeals disposed of in the last 3 months of 2025 were withdrawals, the majority of which will be by the Home Office.

there is no rationale set out for why 42 days. 56 days would be in keeping with the timeframe under the Homelessness Reduction Act. Also not clear why the move-on period is 42 days, but the Home Office will still only give people 28 days written notice that their asylum support will be end.

The Home Office hasn't made a lot of noise it, but the move-on period for newly recognised refugees is now 42 days from date of decision, as confirmed in this written answer questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques... The evaluation of the pilot of 56 days has not been published.

We’re here in parliament to support the mass lobby for migrant rights ✊ “Earned” settlement will lock migrant households into years of insecurity and risk hardship for over 1 MILLION people - including 300,000 children. Incredible work @praxisprojects.bsky.social @citizensuk.org and @rcn.org.uk 👏

As of 9 March 2026, Israel has killed 486 people, injured 1,313 and displaced 667,831 people in Lebanon That's roughly 10% of the entire population displaced already

We are glad to have been able to feed evidence from our frontline work into the evaluation of a longer move-on period and to have been able to meet the Asylum Minister today to outline our concerns about why 42 days may not be enough to ensure young people have a home.

The new policy of a 42 day move-on period for newly-granted refugees shows that the government has been forced to listen to refugees and people who stand up for refugees rights who have said for years that 28 days isn't long enough to find a new home after getting status.

Thank you @stellacreasy.bsky.social for already tabling the motion opposing today’s immigration rules changes. The government should allow scrutiny of their plans and schedule a debate on this motion. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

People who are stuck waiting in the asylum system tell us that they are waking up in fear because of the barrage of hostility they face from this government. They say the state of constant fear is working directly against their ability to contribute and build a life here.

Given that the UK's position in the last 50 years is that settlements are illegal and Israel cannot annex the West Bank, banning trade with West Bank settlements is really the absolutely minimal ask. It's pathetic that it hasn't happened.

I have written up some context and analysis of the latest Home Office nonsense open.substack.com/pub/thoughts...

Just so we’re clear: ❌ Travelling clandestinely or in a small boat to seek asylum: wrong ❌ Travelling safely and regularly to seek asylum: also wrong

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

The government will be making a decision on the future of the 56 day move-on period in the next weeks. Use this tool to email your MP to call for 56 days for all – it only takes a couple of minutes, and you can help prevent refugee homelessness. action.youngroots.org.uk/make-56-days...

Written statement on the asylum changes confirms: - refugees will get 2.5 years leave instead of 5 - covers people who apply from today - details of 20 year settlement & core protection to come - doesn’t apply to unaccompanied children (for now) questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

May Labour's Yvette Cooper, the former Home Secretary, be remembered always as the politician who imposed the ban at the behest of Britain's powerful weapons industry, so it could continue to profit from the deliberate massacre of the people of Gaza

such democracy! so liberal!

The proscription order remains in place pending an appeal. Until further legal proceedings are complete, it remains a criminal offence to support or promote Palestine Action.

"The court considers the proscription of Palestine Action disproportionate"

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

From our friends at #CronxWatch - are you ready for #Palantir to peer into your life? #Mandelson #Streeting #NHS youtu.be/ShYgr-dHAOw?...

Alex Norris tells @maxwilkinson.bsky.social that the Home Office can't publish data on the outcome of asylum appeals since April 2023. Which makes me wonder what data the proposed reforms to the asylum appeals system are based on questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

“The money does not fix my mental health. It does not give me my time back, 7 years. The money is a good thing, but I wish these things never happened to me. I wish I had been allowed to live my life without these problems.” - Amir* @weareyoungroots.bsky.social @lisaleziza.bsky.social 👏💚

We're so pleased for Amir* that he got justice for all he endured, although we know that no amount of money can truly compensate the hardship he faced. His story is yet another example of how harmful age assessments can be, isolating and endangering the lives of young people who should be supported

Another day of the Israeli ‘ceasefire’, another massacre of civilians at the hands of the exterminationist state backed by the West

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

🚨BREAKING -- Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems has been denied a £2bn contract with the Ministry of Defence after being accused of "breaching business appointment rules".

More enforcement won’t fix broken policy -which only pushes more people into the shadows. The recent fatal shooting by an ICE officer in the US shows us where we are headed if we continue this hardline enforcement approach. news.sky.com/story/illega...

Note the timing of Home Office re-press releasing the “most ever raids” & “hardest ever immigration crack down” today. Signalling alignment with Trump & ICE. They haven’t got a clue how to make ordinary British people’s lives better, only how to make migrants suffer. #r4today

On Tuesday, the Israeli military invaded Birzeit University, attacking students with live ammunition. Israel's scholasticide is a core part of its attempt to obliterate the collective life of the Palestinian people. We have written to Yvette Cooper urging the British government to take action.