George Galloway detained under terror law at Gatwick airport on way back from Moscow www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

Bloody hell this is seriously seriously bad!

I’m deeply concerned about recent racist attacks in our capital city.

Rachel Reeves, on another panel, says the “simplistic and wrong” argument that static living standards are down to immigration is a big argument for the populist right. The real reason, she says, is a mix of austerity, Brexit, Truss’s mini-budget, Covid. Interesting Brexit named as an economic drag.

At least 50,000 disabled people could lose access to financial employment support if the government goes ahead with plans to scrap the WCA benefit assessment, according to a new report from Citizens Advice The true figure is likely to be higher By me, for Big Issue www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

Starmer really strong and authentic here on defence in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Nigel Farage is “endangering women’s health” by failing to condemn l claims that using paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism, Bridget Phillipson has said in an interview with the Guardian. She had used the painkiller throughout her second pregnancy. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

For those on the Right, free speech means the freedom to spread misinformation, fear, and hatred without being held to account. Read @adelewalton.bsky.social on the UK Online Safety Act.

Great undercover reporting in the Times about the rise of anti abortion counselling in the UK ‘UK charity encouraged me to take controversial abortion reversal pill’ www.thetimes.com/article/4b7c...

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This is really positive www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Some people need to remember journalism is about other people

Access to safe abortion is a matter of health, rights, and equality. The UK has made the top 10, but at 73% we're a whole 21% behind the leader! Where does your country stand? 🗺️ 🔗 Check the @epfsrr.bsky.social Abortion Atlas to find out: www.epfweb.org/node/1156 #abortionatlas

The prime minister of Denmark has formally apologised for a Danish health programme of forced contraception which for decades systematically implanted coils into young women in Greenland. Read @georgvh.com's article: www.channel4.com/news/denmark...

I did a story years ago about obstetric violence- interviewed a brilliant Slovakian activist who made this point; that mothers HAVE to suffer to be worthy.

🔴 BREAKING: Russian troops reportedly shot a family in Shandryholove, Donetsk region, and abducted a teenage girl as a human shield, Ukrainian military reports, citing the video of the crime and radio interception of conversations of Russian soldiers.

So I haven’t read them all but I feel Misinterpretation & The South were better than the two I read on this shortlist! Plus I loved Endling…but The South was marvellous.

🚩Saudi govt is using the Riyadh Comedy Fest to deflect attention from its brutal repression The festival takes place on the 7th anniversary of Khashoggi's murder Lineup includes: Jimmy Carr, Pete Davidson and others @mazjobrani.bsky.social @sammorril.bsky.social www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Next Tuesday, 30 September, Ukraine solidarity fringe meeting at Labour Party conference. Speakers including Olesia of @tradeunionkvpu.bsky.social @alexsobel.co.uk @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social and Chris Ford. The Liverpool, 14 James St, Liverpool L2 7PQ - from 5pm, meeting 6pm More info soon!

Great trustee roles at @bedehouse.bsky.social - the fantastic Southwark based community charity working on tackling domestic abuse and supporting people with learning disabilities. Please share with anyone you know who might be interested bedehouse.org.uk/volunteering/

It’s my birthday! 41 today! Started the year with an early morning swim in the Indian Ocean

No 10 trails Starmer speech against populism. It will be at the Global Progress Action Summit in London, which takes place Thursday & Friday www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Really important news

I wrote my first investigative piece raising concerns about Covid contracts in *April 2020*. Great to see this finally on screen

My book Bodies Under Siege explores this dynamic www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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The Sunday Times has named the man accused of killing Agnes Wanjiru in 2012 Revealed: the British ex-soldier accused of killing Agnes Wanjiru www.thetimes.com/article/39b9...

This is Ru’s Witkoff. A reminder that the Ru Orthodox Church is more of a state institution working to spread the policies of the Ru state domestically and abroad than a spiritual/religious institution

#BBCNews - RAF jets join Nato air defence mission over Poland www.bbc.com/news/article...

Such powerful reporting from @meghamohan as she speaks to friends of Agnes Wanjiru about the night she was killed The British Army cannot keep ignoring the murder of our friend in Kenya www.bbc.com/news/article...

Drinking a beer in Hemingways bar with a view of Kilimanjaro

Russian cruise missile strike in Dnipro.

Disappointed to learn @therestpolitics.bsky.social were bigging up Enough rape kits - behind the press releases there are real concerns about the kits, the company’s attitudes, claims, & lack of safeguarding As I reported! www.opendemocracy.net/en/enough-br...

More than 72% of tickets now sold for screening of rarely seen Bristol films 26 October with @swsilents.bsky.social. Book here: www.southwestsilents.com/event-detail...

Front pages are full of Trump telling Starmer to send in the military to stop the boats - voicing the racist, murderous fantasies of the far right. What happens when you put gunboats up against a dinghy? And are we asking our forces to drown desperate people? How can they obey criminal orders?

russian troops kidnapped Sasha and his mother from Mariupol. The boy was rescued by his grandmother. His mother is still being held in russian captivity. Sasha has only one dream — to return his mom home. This is his story👇 Source: DW

Russian bombing of Kostiantynivka killed five civilians. No empty promise could have saved them. No amount of concern will save others.

renewal.org.uk/articles/soc... my essay on Labour strategy in the face of Reform threat ... free to read 👇🏽 ( but subscribe if you can)

“Aberbaijan” which as everyone knows is between Aberaeron and Aberystwyth. But surprising they were at war with Albania but I guess those things happen.

The split in Your Party has broken into the open. Jeremy Corbyn urges supporters not to donate to the link promoted by Zarah Sultana. Sultana responds calling it a "sexist boys club."

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

Kharkiv citizens watch the sunset as russian drones fly over the city and the air raid alert wails. I can’t explain this to anyone who hasn’t lived here. Being so close to the frontlines, with no warning before the bombs fall, changes you. 1/3

What a day

The cowardice and complacency of so much of the UK political class in the face of what is both an obvious moral evil and a serious socio-political threat is as discrediting as it is dispiriting

Exclusive: Sadiq Khan has accused Donald Trump of doing more than anyone else to encourage the intolerant far right across the globe as the US president arrives in the UK. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Keir Starmer tells his Cabinet that scenes of police under attack at a march "led by a convicted criminal and egged on by a foreign billionaire calling for violence" sent "a chill through the spines" of British people. Says UK in "the fight of our times" against "toxic division" and "we must win"

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says the government must recognise and respond to a "increasingly visible tide of racism" . He acknowledges trans people feel less safe today than a decade ago. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...