Detained people without lawyers are only given a few days' notice of the intention to send them to France. In this time they need to find a lawyer, who will then need to gather evidence and consider whether there is a claim. Of course court applications are being made only shortly before removal.

Went into a bit of a rabbit hole listening to this and found out that (1) London doesn't have a municipal flag and (2) designer Juan Castro Varón has made one! flag.london

The summer transfer window has closed, with hundreds of millions changing hands once again. But alongside the billions spent on players, there’s another story worth telling: football giving. 🧵/5

I’ve been thinking a lot about flags, obviously. "Why is it only in England that you can't raise a flag without being called racist?", is a common question from people not really getting the point. In England, unlike many countries, raising one is an everyday civic act. 🧵/6

Very few people navigate being in the public eye better than Lotte Wubben-Moy observer.co.uk/news/sport/a...

The need for a clear alternative asylum policy has never been more apparent. British people understand rights, fairness, our historic role, and the economic benefits. Stop playing footsie with the radical right, and make the case. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In response to Arab parties uniting ahead of the elections, Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a full-on Kahanist whose career is built on incitement, said: “Prosecute them, revoke their citizenship, encourage them to leave. Not voluntarily.” (1/7)

I'm proud that @oursecondhome.org.uk was among the signatories #TogetherWithRefugees

Real-life panaceas are hard to come by, but proper, on the ground, youth work really does change futures for the better. Austerity meant cuts to youth work and youth clubs, and today's young people pay the price. This is just one step in the right direction. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I am left angry and heartbroken by Awdah's murder

And there's just 41 days until Dame Leah Williamson kicks off the season with the Arsenal 🤩

Gaza needs 1,300 tons of food each day. This is 500-600 trucks a day. Any less induces hunger. When that builds up, famine is inevitable - developed as policy, enabled by global silence. The IDF said that an average of 71 trucks entered Gaza daily over the past month.

A coverup that spiralled and spiralled, risking 100,000 lives (of whom some were killed by the Taliban), all to save the government the blushes of an uncomfortable truth – in 2025, you need a functioning, compassionate asylum system to cope with the global crises we face.

More Lauren James please

World class podcasting here. Criss-crossing the world to tell a big story in clear, simple ways.

🧵/1 #MediaLiteracy tip: Zohran Mamdani doesn't "make Jews feel unsafe" or "alarm Jewish voters," as social media posts and news headlines claimed. SOME Jewish folks feel that way. Not all. We are not a monolith. Universalizing about all Jews is dangerous. It fuels antisemitic conspiracy theories...

An amazing victory underpinned by a generational communicator. Someone with the discipline and empathy to ward off serious attempts to derail his candidacy with attacks and to turn them into a way to reassure voters.

This is very moving from Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This #WorldRefugeeDay we are further away than ever from the promise of the Refugee Convention, a global agreement that has saved and remade millions of lives worldwide. Each of us can commit to turning this authoritarian drift around.

What's worse: that this is the dross the Tories are sharing on Facebook these days? Or that the exact people they're whipping up into a frenzy will likely eat this up?

Annabel Rook is a remarkable person, and it is horrible that she has been taken from us so soon and like this. We never met, but she was a leader in the refugee sector with a lifelong commitment to make a difference and lived a stone's throw away. A true sadness.

You can nominate @oursecondhome.org.uk - the UK's refugee youth movement - for support from Movement For Good! youth.movementforgood.com#nominateACha...

Refugee Week is a time to celebrate those who seek refuge here and the contributions they make to our shared home. This year's theme is "Community Is A Superpower", and we, the UK's refugee youth movement, know this well – we are over 550 people from nearly 50 countries, but one OSH community.

Rarely so neat an encapsulation of who will pay the price of Netanyahu's behaviour vs who is salivating over it

This is an important step, if also too late this many months into the devastation of Gaza. While they're the most heinous leaders, let's not kid ourselves that these figureheads are the be all and end all...

I think people have forgotten the difference between 'symbolic' & 'performative'. It is symbolic to sail a ship with a small amount of aid to draw attention to a famine-inducing blockade. It is performative to talk about the hostages in Gaza while opposing the very ceasefire that would release them.

Even if "white British" will be a minority in the UK in 40 years - so what? Seriously, so what? What is so terrible about that? Make people spell out their horrors. Make them spell out the things they are supposedly not allowed to say. Make them own it.

Waking up to the shocking news in Boulder, Colorado. Strengthened by the words of @eladn.bsky.social.

Renée Josina Anna Slegers

Arsenal are European Champions gbyeeee

This is horrible news to wake up to. Thinking of the loved ones of those murdered, and all those whose world is a scarier place as a result of this cowardly and unjustifiable act.

➡️ coordinated clear statements with other national leaders ➡️ sanctioning key settler leaders, like Daniella Weiss ➡️ suspending FTA ➡️ summoning the Israeli ambassador The winds are changing, and governments are arriving late to the realisation that we can't just hope this issue goes away.

Multiple protesters were arrested, including our co-director Alon-Lee Green. This is an emergency , a catastrophic moment that demands we drop everything. In the last days, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, families wiped out, neighborhoods turned to dust, people starving. (1/2)

Who is this supposed to impress?

Confidence is hard to gain to but easy to lose. What's the upside of your sole focus is not losing the next election? 1% bump among Tory voters?

At a time when people who've come to the UK to seek sanctuary are being told they can never become British citizens, for the first time someone who became a refugee holds the title British High Commissioner. Proof that Britain is a country that welcomes refugees. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

It says it all that British Jewish institutions have more to say on Gary Lineker sharing a social media post he shouldn't have than on the Israeli cabinet's decision to cleanse Gaza & abandon the hostages. That they're more animated by mild & moral criticism (see FT letter) than thousands of deaths.

Welcome. Fairness. Decency. This is who we are.

We are not an "island of strangers" because of migration. The damage to our services and economy is not because of migration. We've seen a decades-long attempt to hollow out communities and public services.The trap laid by politicians & media to blame migrants shirks the hard work to fix it.

"We welcome migrants, we don't scapegoat them. Low wages, poor housing, poor public services, are not the fault of migrants... we have to make the case for the benefits of migration" The slogan - Keir Starmer: Another Future Is Possible - is now a plea

There was a time when someone would now tweet Popey McPopeface and go totally viral

A woman in Gaza gave up her gold ring for a bag of flour. This is what forced starvation looks like: People are being forced to sell their valuables  and dignity in order to feed their families. Stores have run out of food, prices have become exorbitant, and no aid trucks are being allowed in. (1/4)

📢BREAKING Our report #SafetyAndSurvival uncovers shocking findings about the impact of the work ban on women seeking asylum. Instead of finding safety, women are retraumatised and harmed. www.refugeewomen.co.uk/safety-and-s... [Content warning: rape, sexual assault, suicidality] 1/🧵

FUN FACT: Since 2019, Nigel Farage's Reform has taken more than £2.3 MILLION from oil and gas interests - making up an astonishing 92% of the party's donations. Reform are NOT for ordinary people. They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.

Israel & Hamas agreed to a 3-phase hostage release & ceasefire deal. Israel refused to move to phase 2, breaking the deal. It blocked all food & medicine. It attacked shelters, medics & hospitals, killing over 2,000 people in this period alone. [1/5]

Similarly, in the UK, the use of immigration detention has massively increased in the last 30 years. Are we safer? Do fewer immigrants come? Have we deterred asylum seekers? 🧐

There are people saying good let reform run councils to show how inept they are ignoring this reality