3 dead so far at Krome ICE detention center in Florida. Max capacity was 500, they have over 4,000 and not enough water and food. Reports say they get 1 cup of water per day. These are already death camps. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n... english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...

There are now 92 universities in the UK actively making redundancies. That will be 100 by the end of the academic year. The rout is as stupid as it is wasteful. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

Today’s report must be a wakeup call. Over 164,000 children are growing up homeless, because, for decades, we have failed to build anywhere near enough social homes. Tell the government to commit to ambitious investment at the June spending review 👉🏽 shltr.org.uk/ZfmeU

The verdict? Utterly shameful. Today the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee released a report highlighting the impact of growing up homeless in temporary accommodation, including the appalling conditions faced by thousands of children. committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...

Matt Hancock used his personal email account to help a 'VIP' supplier win a £25 million PPE Covid contract The company, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of completely unusable PPE, later went bust, owing taxpayers millions bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

Terrific fun to be back on a podcast with @helenlewis.bsky.social, plus some guy, I think maybe he does some kind of art? Armando something?

Perhaps the top person at The Atlantic was added to the Signal chat because those on the chat believed there was a person in charge of the Atlantic.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

This is just awful. Read it.

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Clear diagnosis-capitalism & social media platforms exploit human weakness & we should do something. But instead of regulating social media, the answer here is to stop children having phones. No, we must target the content. Why are we giving up on regulation? www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

"Sexual & gender-based violence—which has risen in frequency & severity—is being perpetrated across the Occupied Palestinian Territory as a strategy of war for Israel to dominate and destroy the Palestinian people.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

I see Chris Philp is now repeating Matt Goodwin's deliberate lie. The correct figure is 17%, and most of those are long-standing residents (and in many cases will have British spouses/children).

Unis now have the perverse incentive to get you publishing loads of stuff, then sack you so they don't have to pay you, then get cash for you in 2029 that will last until 2037! Also, there's no point hiring you, cos your past work doesn't move with you. (2/2) englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

Yet another scandal brewing within UK Higher Ed: universities can get research money for everyone they've sacked. Big ghost fleets of lecturers who don't exist will be launched into the next Research Excellence Framework. Unis will laugh and cash in (1/2). englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

Very few newspaper columnists can match @kenanmalik.bsky.social’s ability to address difficult issues. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I guess the president of the United States is advertising Tesla at the White House today to help his top adviser Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, boost his stock price? What??? Again, you could be on 1960s acid and not see anything like this. BTW: Remember, Trump has slagged EVs for YEARS

"The start of Trump’s second term has delivered a stunning reversal for many of those billionaires sitting behind Trump in the Capitol Rotunda, with five having lost a combined $209 billion in wealth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index."

The marketisation of our universities has a lot of answer for. And much more to come, sadly OfS says each university "making perfectly rational commercial decisions about its financial model". That's the problem in a nutshell www.politicshome.com/news/article...

As a lawyer who does Equal Pay law it is interesting to note that the prospect of young men falling behind young women is causing a sense of societal crisis that the reverse position consistently failed to invoke.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

28 February 1914 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Roosje van Praag, was born in Rotterdam. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 30 September 1942 in a transport of 610 Jews deported from Westerbork. She was among the 454 people murdered in a gas chamber.

Universities announcing staff layoffs in the last two weeks: *Arts Univ Bournemouth *Bangor *Birmingham City *Canterbury Christ Church *Cardiff *Univ for Creative Arts *Dundee *Durham *Edge Hill *Edinburgh *Kingston *Liverpool *Reading *Sheffield *South Wales *Wolverhampton *York

Solar panels & chicken farms are contentious issues for East Anglia. Yet there may be a nature friendly farming win win solution... Chickens love to scratch underneath solar panels. As bottom of food chain, the panels provide protection & encourage them to roam further. Via @nffn.bsky.social

The mad merry-go-round of spending on stop-gap accommodation for homeless. Up 80% in a year. Huge waste of money that isn’t fixing the problem. New report out from LSE and @crisis-uk.bsky.social reported in @financialtimes.com w @amyborrett.ft.com @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social on.ft.com/43d3q9U

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

Can’t say too much about this one, as I was involved in earlier stages, but delighted to see Andrew Dymond and Mary Ward Legal Centre completely exonerated of professional negligence for advice to a defendant facing forfeiture. The claim was wholly misconceived. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

"I am the law." Hitler, 1942 "There is no law but the law of the people & the people are me." Gaddafi, 1975 "We have a constitution, but we must address the problems of the country first. The law is always behind when it comes to national survival." Bashar Al-Assad, 2011 Trump, 2025:

This looks excellent. A great afternoon treat this half term week. The only way it could be better if it were about housing law, 'tho I suspect that is a yet another minority opinion of mine.

V interesting thread. I wonder if one reason for UK’s outlier status is that we have experienced the clarifying experience of the Litvineko poisoning, Skripals, consequences of London laudromat, etc that other big western European states have not.

Hey lovely people. Something exciting to announce. I’m launching my own podcast. It’s called 3 People with Rebecca Front. My guest each time tells me about 3 people who changed their lives. I’ve got a terrific lineup. Coming soon (March, I think) wherever you get your podcasts.

The German saying is, if you sit at a table with 9 nazis there are 10 nazis at the table.

Some news, team! 🎙️ I’m so excited to make my broadcasting debut for BBC Radio 4 next week. ‘You Do Not Have to Say Anything’ is a 10 episode behind-the-scenes peek at (and love letter to) the criminal justice system. Join me, Mon-Fri at 13:45 on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds 🧡

Poor coverage of Gaza at the BBC: failure of journalism A BBC report on the ceasefire in Gaza fails to fact check Israeli violations, while obscuring key context – this isn’t journalism, it’s neglect.

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

By the fundamental construction of LLMs, they will give you either: Some words somebody once wrote on the Internet (plagiarism, source not identified) Or: A statistical remix of words several people once wrote on the Internet (same problem PLUS introduces errors and contradictions).

"Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and amplify it." An Ursula K. Le Guin classic:

Essex, Norfolk & Suffolk to get Mayors, though fewer councils, fewer councillors. Meanwhile county council elections are postponed. Is this local government reform, or a undemocratic sidestep? @stephenmcnair.bsky.social unpacks the upheaval ahead and asks are the big questions still unanswered?

Masha Gessen on the rather short window of refusal … and its own unique rationalities. (gift so everyone can read it)

Former Swansea and Brecon bishop admits indecent assault on child

Homelessness. 160,000 children in temporary accommodation. Lack of permanent home contributing factor in death of 74 (if not many more) kids since 2019. 39,000 families & pensioners placed out of borough. All @privateeyenews.bsky.social figures. The St Albans exhibition is a timely reminder...

Homelessness - "There’s little self-pity here, rather a sense of determination. "There’s the loyalty in refusing to give up a dog in order to get a home. "There’s resilience and kindness, but many of the faces are old before their time." @gardeningkate.bsky.social views a profound exhibition

Whatever decision was made would deeply upset some people, this was unavoidable. The legacy of that terrible night runs deep, and no-one has yet been held fully accountable. But an unsafe structure can't remain. A memorial in which all affected are involved should follow.

It is a pity that the story came out before this official release on the decision on the future of Grenfell Tower. This is measured, empathetic and clear. I fully understand how strongly felt views are on this, in different directions, but this at least explains why. www.gov.uk/government/n...

This is ghoulish from Labour. Using people's suffering to try and appease Reform, which is something no-one will ever go far enough for. Labour has the potential to actually be doing something to reduce hostility. Instead they are stoking anti-migrant attitudes just like the Conservatives did.

And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America