Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain. They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

The UN inquiry report that finds Israel is committing genocide contains more than 90 references to women. Including women being targeted, reproductive healthcare destroyed, sexualised violence. Feminists, if you haven’t yet spoken, do so now.

One day, everyone will have been against this… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

OK, the far right march was heartbreaking, it was horrible. But this is why I don't feel hopeless today. 1. Because I joined the Women against the Far Right group on the counter protest, and there were all these amazing women who had showed up, inc black women & young women & disabled women. 2.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

I wrote about the 10th anniversary of the tragic death of Aylan Kurdi for @the-independent.com We saw an outpouring of empathy for refugees in those years. Now, we are seeing a rise in hate. We need to hold on to shared humanity in an ever more divided world. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Very glad that all the people I voted for in @greenparty.org.uk leadership election won. ✅ @zackpolanski.bsky.social for leader ✅ @rachelmillward.bsky.social and @mothinali.bsky.social for deputy Let’s hope they bring energy and determination to the fight for a greener & more equal country 💚

Good to see women speaking out on this. Harder borders and more deportations will not make women and girls safer. We need resources going into justice, support for survivors and education.

Excellent point Natasha! My mom took me on the march that led to that demo. I was nine. Quite honestly, it helped shape my life. Those ban-the-bomb marches didn’t get bombs banned, but I don’t think limits on nuclear weapons testing and nuclear arms control treaties would have happened without them.

Lots of people are saying that today marks the largest mass arrest in Britain. Not quite. Back on 17 Sept 1961, my mum helped organise this demo where over 1000 were arrested for sitting down in Trafalgar Square. If we don’t want today’s resistance to be forgotten, let’s not forget yesterday’s.

Fascinating by @abistephenson.bsky.social on the horror of hyperemesis. One of my dearest friends had this and really had to fight for appropriate care. I've always been struck by the fact that it was the probable cause of Charlotte Bronte's untimely death. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This impassioned article by Orit Kamir, reproduced by Robert Reich, explores the utter betrayal of moral values that we are currently witnessing. 'Every person, as a human being, has absolute and inviolable value... all the more so for children.' robertreich.substack.com/p/a-betrayal...

We geolocated the view out of the window as Jeremy Bowen's team filmed packages falling from a plane over Gaza yesterday. They were dropped into a "dangerous combat zone", which Palestinians are warned not to enter because it would put their lives at risk. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

Emergency demo of Mi-Neged + Na'amod Monday 28 July 5.30pm Opposite the Foreign and Commonwealth Office SANCTIONS NOW STOP THE STARVATION OF GAZA END UK SUPPORT FOR GENOCIDE

Women seeking asylum in Britain are sisters, not strangers. If the government is serious about tackling violence against women, it should do more to protect refugee women. Glad to sign this letter & grateful to all who signed @4refugeewomen.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

🚨🗣️ 52 influential women unite to urge the Government: do not abandon asylum-seeking survivors. Violence does not stop at the border, and neither should our compassion and support for survivors. Read more: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #WelcomeEveryWoman

A brilliant review of Geoff Dyer's Homework, which only James Wood could have written. (Perhaps they are the last generation who found their path out & away thru reading, writing, books. No young person would feel that now, would they? That escape hatch has closed.) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

Fascinating research on how a small number of super toxic people dominate our internet experiences. And how algorithms fuel their behaviour. By @jayvanbavel.bsky.social

Thank you Sally Rooney for your moral clarity and courage

So chuffed to have backing of the truly brilliant @natashawalter.bsky.social. And fantastic that you've joined @greenparty.org.uk! Thank you so much - and looking forward to working with you for justice & hope #Rach4Deputy rach4deputy.com

I find it increasingly absurd that, as a young-ish woman, I'm continuously nudged to do everything I can to prevent visible signs of ageing while also not even being sure there will be a liveable planet left to age on.

The fight back against a world of billionaire AI tech bros is being led by women. 💪💪💪 Here’s proof. The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social Empire of AI by @karenhao.bsky.social And on gender implications, The New Age of Sex(ism) by Laura Bates. All must reads!

Just as with the destruction of hospitals, so with the killing of starving people at aid distribution centres. At first Israel says oh no, we would never do that. And then it does it again. And again. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Here’s a brilliant woman trying to take the UK forward. I’m hoping she gets as much coverage as all the men who are trying to push us backwards. Good luck @rachelmillward.bsky.social

'The international community’s failure to uphold international law in relation to the occupied Palestinian territory...imperils the international legal system itself.' Hundreds of lawyers tell Starmer to act now. Will it make any difference?? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

"I have resisted going as far as you have done in your criticism of the Israeli government. I resist no more... we are in agreement." Piers Morgan to me on his show today. I cited retired Israeli general Yair Golan saying Israel is now killing babies as a hobby. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUjT...

Thinking today of Françoise Hampson. Françoise was my first IHL teacher. She dismantled for ever my scepticism that law could constrain conduct in war. Thank you to Başak Çali for capturing 🔽 some of what made Françoise one of a kind. @universityofessex.bsky.social www.ejiltalk.org/in-memoriam-...

‘Today I am compelled to speak, not as a composer but as a citizen.’ Brian Eno, who composed that Windows chime, writes to Microsoft about their complicity with Israel’s crimes. www.stopwar.org.uk/article/not-...

The rhetoric of this government threatens to create a more angry and divided world. What can we do? Every day, people are creating a different world on the ground. Today @westlondonwelcome.bsky.social posted this, reminding me we can hold faith with that world of connection and kindness:

📣Tomorrow! Join our event to hear from our research team and special guest, @carladenyer.bsky.social, to learn more about the work ban and what you can do to #LiftTheBan. 📆 Tues 13 May ⏰12-1PM 🎟️RSVP for your free place: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... We hope to see you there!

Just wanted to say that if you'd like to stand against what Israel is doing in Gaza but you worry that joining the protest on Saturday might make you antisemitic or a hater or a Hamas supporter, stop worrying, it won't. It isn't antisemitic to march or speak against Israel's crimes.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Does anyone have a contact at TikTok? They deleted my entire account without warning this morning for ‘profile violations’. My content is all about online misogyny and image-based abuse as an expert and survivor. The perfect example of how tech platforms fail to protect women & actively silence them

Brilliant interview with a brave, brave woman. @jess-davies.bsky.social's 'No One Wants to See Your D*ck' sounds just the book we need today. Not only laying out what's going on in the manosphere but also how women can and do fight back. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

US military lawyers have been slow to criticise Israel because they are preparing to adopt a similar approach. “What I can say is that the systems and processes that the I.D.F. implemented are very similar to what we would implement in a similar battle space.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

I was super lucky to go to the dress rehearsal for the new production of Die Walkure at the Royal Opera House yesterday. The most hypnotic and memorable staging I have ever seen. I wish more people could see it, but as always for the Ring the prices are sky high and sold out. 1/2

Fascinating & chilling article by Ben Smith on how group chats changed America. The male domination of these chats is mentioned only in passing, but the article still makes horribly clear that this is a patriarchal takeover as well as a right wing takeover. www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

'Feminism that cannot name Gaza is not feminism... This, too, is where the fight lives.' By Nadine Quomsieh. archive.md/dZBYZ

A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it. archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...

I still cannot fathom how those who protest these crimes have been portrayed as haters while those who carry out these crimes are still supported by our government.

This is so enraging. Labour is enabling the destruction of our most beautiful ecosystems. What can we do? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Beautiful ode to walking, to inclusion, & to nature by @anitasethi.bsky.social.

Brilliant as ever from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social AI will 'concentrate even greater power in an even smaller group of men, deplete planet’s resources even further, & it’s in the hands of reckless, careless people who seem to have no understanding of society.' www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

'Something is going badly wrong. The old systems don’t stand any more, but this generation needs support to create a society that doesn’t leave them looking into the abyss.” We can't forget the struggles of girls in our focus on the troubles of boys. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

But the crazy thing is that's still 43%. Who like what Trump is doing. Who are happy to see people scooped off the street & sent to jail without due process. Who don't mind hastening climate collapse. Or smarming up to war criminals & rapists. Or kids dying of measles. 43 percent, America!

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

Stumbled on this by Octavia Randolph on how women enjoyed more rights in Anglo Saxon than Victorian England. It hit home. Because it reminds me that feminism is never done & won. We resist, we move forwards, the backlash pushes back, we resist again... we never give up. octavia.net/womens-right...