Completely unacceptable from the Board of Deputies. This nakedly partisan hypocrisy does not represent me or many other British Jews. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I think a period of silence from all Labour Together types would be very welcome. Their factionalism got us into the Starmer mess and only a return to Broad Church politics and internal democracy can save the Labour Party.

This entire pointlessly destructive war so far has cost the US military around $60 billion, which is around twice the amount cut from USAID which saved millions of lives.

If there was any doubt before, it is clear now, the House of Lords should be abolished because it is anti-democratic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All of us at Shelter were saddened to hear about the passing of Giles Peaker. Highly respected, he was a legend in the housing law world through his many achievements, such as drafting and pushing for the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, and the @nearlylegal.co.uk website.

There are small group of people whose views on housing I hold in such high regard that if I see them arguing a point, I naturally just think 'well I better cross the road to whichever side they're on, because I already know they're right'. Giles was probably top of that tree

Hungary’s PM-elect Peter Magyar says he would enact an ICC arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu and detain him on arrival. The election winner said Hungary would stay a member of the International Criminal Court which his predecessor Viktor Orban began withdrawing from last year.

The government froze local housing allowance, which effectively meant a real-terms cut to housing benefit. This is what it means for renters

Same as it ever was, same as it ever was @alisoninman.bsky.social @bushbell.bsky.social @tomemurtha.bsky.social @stevehilditch.bsky.social @simplicitly.bsky.social @lucyferman.bsky.social

Some positive news about efforts to tackle child poverty in Westminster.

Cherry blossoms in Japan.

1/ 'The Shadow of the Cutteslowe Walls' - class divisions in Oxford then and now. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

They could also find out who is making excess profits from the price rise and do something about that.

A U.S. oil blockade has cut off the Cuban government from accessing desperately needed fuel as the Trump administration intensifies pressure on Cuba.

Labour MP Ian Byrne: "The lines from the PM and Cabinet today essentially labelling the Green Party as extremist is appalling, desperate and frankly embarrassing. "It also makes very clear that the leadership has zero understanding of where it has been going wrong."

Children need their families. Refugee children are no different. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I wasn’t the only teenager there. @lucyferman.bsky.social was there with her mum and went on to a stellar #ukhousing career. We didn’t meet until 2014/15 where are shared roots came up as we campaigned for #SocialHousing at #SocialRent with #SHOUT www.theguardian.com/housing-netw...

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Neil McIntosh CBE, former Chair of the Board of Trustees at The Access Project. We are incredibly grateful to Neil for his thoughtful guidance of The Access Project. We extend our sympathies to Neil’s friends, family, and colleagues during this time.

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The Israeli military continues to demolish structures in northern Gaza while also blocking the entry of aid.

BREAKING: Ed Davey’s response to Keir Starmer’s statement

Can anyone tell me the difference between America wanting to control/annex countries on its borders and Russia wanting to do the same? Aren’t both equally bad?

With apologies for the self-promo, but I've just hit 50k followers here - over double the following I had on X I stopped posting on X earlier this year & have zero regrets. The move over here was never really about reach, so it's just a bonus on top of Bluesky not being owned by a far-right troll.

The Chancellor has scrapped the two-child limit, benefitting more than half a million families. More than half of the affected families have at least one member in work, and 88% had 3 or 4 children.

I really do object to the term ‘welfare’ which has become a pejorative word and is not ‘out of control’. I’ve paid for my pension through nearly 50 years of work and everyone pays in through taxes. Where’s the chart showing corporate welfare, tax breaks and tax avoidance?

The Tories doing their best to divide crudely between people who work who pay taxes and people on benefits. We all pay tax and we all receive public services, that’s how the system works. Calling everything ‘welfare’ is just ignorance.

Was trying to work out in which way Shabana Mahmood, an otherwise pretty unremarkable politician, could possibly be described as a "luminous golden star" who "dazzles like a blue-white supernova" and then I realised, its simply a willingness to be a bit more cruel to immigrants

The latest report came hours after the RSF agreed to a three-month humanitarian truce.

Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"

Almost every BBC current affairs programme highlights the newspapers, most of which are right wing. Free advertising every day for appalling products, importing bias into every programme. BBC should end this practice immediately.

BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service. Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

It isn’t real convergence, and it isn’t fairness, unless ‘Affordable Rents’ are included as well as Social Rents. Converging all rents - some up, some down- would bring back coherence to rent setting and enable the eventual repeal of the AR tenancy.

Much of this borrowing funded capital assets and kept businesses going during the pandemic - which now pay tax. Where do the benefits of borrowing appear in the national accounts and why do @theIFS never focus on the upside?

This story is missing the crucial information about what rents will be charged to the eventual tenant. Is it genuinely affordable?

It’s an example of how much our views are manipulated that almost no one will believe that welfare payments are stable and not out of control.

More than 500,000 marched for Palestine in London on 11th October. The reaction of a Labour Government- Bridget Philipson speaking to Trevor Phillips (12th Oct). 'We're bringing in restrictions to curtail the marches'. A Labour Government?? wp.me/p15p2Q-fgR

Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax? The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.

Despite many excellent correspondents, BBC News and current affairs is now a complete joke. And it seems from Chris Mason’s comments that it has a very thin skin. Ed Davey is quite right.

“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.” www.adl.org/resources/re...

Buying a retirement flat for £60k and having to sell for £40k sounds like a depressingly familiar story from that sector. But having to pay another £25k in 'deferred service charge' (despite already paying a service charge) to the developer is a new one on me www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

Shocking: less than 3% of private rentals in Britain are affordable for people needing housing benefit. People are being pushed towards homelessness and ill health. @RachelReevesMP can fix this in Nov’s budget by restoring housing benefit to the real cost of rent. Act now: bit.ly/3V1d76a

35% ‘affordable’, presumably only a share of it social rent, on a council-led development is really just not good enough.

So, the more candidates there are the harder it is for anyone to get to 80 except for the govt payroll candidate. Democracy in action.

Holding govts to ransom. Head of UK's banking lobby warns chancellor about additional tax on banks. Banks happy to be bailed out, take £895bn QE, £10bn+ interest a year on central reserves. Banks make excessive profits, must face windfall tax.

So much humbug about Angela Rayner in the right wing press. Literally hundreds, if not thousands, of MPs, Ministers (and journalists and newspaper owners) will have inadvertently filed a tax return with an error. Her actions are conceptually indistinguishable from theirs.

Given how many grifters infect our politics, media and business I see no reason why Rayner should resign given the complex family position she has explained and the advice she had. There are many many reasons to criticise her and the govt but this is not one of them.

This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...

Much the largest UK protest on Friday was a Palestine solidarity protest in London at the Embassy of Israel, with a small pro-Israel protest. That isn't being covered as newsworthy by UK mainstream print/broadcast outlets who are following the smaller asylum protests www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/pr...