Forgive the makeshift invite + come to our event at #Lab25! This Sunday 2-3.30pm (ACC Wye room), we'll be screening one of our brand new 'Island of Strangers' films, and hosting a panel with @lucympowell.bsky.social, @alfdubs.bsky.social Adam Kelwick @johndomokos.bsky.social @kevmag.bsky.social

Wow, Farage has gone old school. Swan Eaters is one of the old hits from Now That's What I Call Racist '99... www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Hearing this I feel the world has slipped a little off its axis, and then I think somewhere in the In Our Time archive there is probably an entire episode dedicated to this concept scientifically, philosophically or both.

When our politics is so horrible and broken, a very classy & human response from @eddavey.libdems.org.uk to Angela Rayner's statement. "As a parent of a disabled child, I know the thing my wife and I worry most about is our son’s care after we have gone..."

Hand of Cod

Remember the plausible fascist Viv Rook's 'Erstwhile sites' from the brilliant drama Years and Years? And then have a listen to what Kemi Badenoch is proposing. Years and Years was supposed to be a warning, not a manifesto. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUPf...

Community leader Sacha Bedding warns the country stands on the brink again, after major disorder in #Epping. This week @roswynnejones.bsky.social visits the town to speak to residents & hears how community power could be the answer. In today's @mirror.co.uk

“I said if something doesn’t change, there will be civil disorder in this country,” Sacha Bedding tells @roswynnejones.bsky.social, reflecting on last year's riots. "In order to fix the foundations of our democracy, we must act boldly and do things differently." 🔗https://shorturl.at/hx9O6

Once again the Telegraph is shaming itself with its reporting of the hotels issue, now in Epping. Absolute disgrace. Headline should be 'I'm not Tommy Robinson but...' www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07...

The Birmingham bin strike has descended to a war of words almost as toxic as the piles of rat-infested rubbish residents have been facing in parts of the city. But in the end the strike comes down to stories like Adrian's. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Lionesses you are something else. Resilient. Bloody. Unbowed.

Every one of the betrayed Afghans is owed a British passport. But instead of a thank you – the communities they were dispersed into faced petrol bombs, screaming crowds and their accommodation being set on fire in last summer’s riots. What a welcome. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Been thinking all day about Gary O’Donoghue’s lovely interview with Trump - it's got a dreamy intimacy like Trump has phoned into a late night call-in radio show from his couch in his slippers, his voice thick with McDonalds milkshake and regret.

Second half. Come on #Dragons

I wrote something about Kemi Badenoch's charmless display of playground bullying at PMQs today - and how Parliament needs to change. Rachel Reeves is the Chancellor of the Exchequer. She's also a human being like the rest of us. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Thanks for the timely reminder of the alternatives tho

Been going to Glastonbury for almost 30 yrs, by hook or crook with the same mates... always fascinated to return and hear about the hate-filled/middle class/abomination I've attended that bears zero resemblance to the lovely, music and joy-filled 3/4 days I've witnessed on Worthy Farm

Labour should admit it's made a pig's ear of #WelfareReform, go away, come back with something practical & compassionate. Draw a line under winter fuel and disability cuts, and say look, sorry, we weren't confident enough to govern as ourselves - but we're ready now.

Parent Simon Morley: "Our lives would be apocalyptic without The Ark. The Ark is like the oxygen mask on a plane, it helps us to then help Ruby. Without it being there, her life would be so diminished, she would not be the happy girl she is." @journomaryamq.bsky.social @roswynnejones.bsky.social

"There were times growing up I was told not to open the door because of the bailiffs. All the physical things – like having nits for months because we couldn’t afford the treatments – have a real impact" - Georgia #REALBRITAIN @roswynnejones.bsky.social @journomaryamq.bsky.social

Spending Review saw welcome return to core Labour values - but no mention of lifting 2-child cap & Child Poverty Strategy delayed. Every day = one day too long for kids enduring hunger & humiliation bc (like the girl in our story) they can't afford nit treatment. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Managed to miss entire spending review up while filming up a Welsh mountain with no phone signal. Delighted to have come down to find the Labour government has become Labour again! Eryri is a powerful place. Long live Rachel from Redistribution.

More of this Attlee-channelling, Labour! And lets have some 'Underestimate me at your peril' t-shirts while you're at it www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Meet @floodmary.bsky.social aka Mary Mary Long-Dhonau, who became an anti-flood + climate campaigner after her family home was deluged by sewage. She describes impact on her kids, one of whom is autistic, precious keepsakes lost - and why she wants to protect others. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

After a brutal few months for progressive politics, this week Joy Dove won her case v DWP ♥️, Labour's finally seen the light on free school meals 💡 and now Zia Yusuf's resigned during a bit of cats-in-a-sack Reform in-fighting 😾 Hello there, June...

When I first met Joy Dove, I never thought she would still be campaigning for the truth about her daughter Jodey Whiting's death 8 years later. But I also knew she would never, ever give up. Today's coverage is a tribute to a mother's love. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Breaking news that Britain's greatest mum - aka Joy Dove – has finally won her battle for #Justice4Jodey. The Coroner concluded that Jodey's suicide was in the context of her deteriorating mental state precipitated by the withdrawal of state benefits. Exactly as Joy has always said.

The charity’s parent project Himmah has received a “significant donation” by Prince Harry – 4 yrs after wife Meghan donated £10,000. @roswynnejones.bsky.social @mirror.co.uk

It began as a community meal for 30, now serves weekly dinner for over 100 people, 700 takeaway meals are handed out & 500 bags of groceries given monthly. @journomaryamq.bsky.social visited the #Nottingham project, which was set up to bring their communities together, @roswynnejones.bsky.social

"You start to talk, there might be a few words or a conversation & then people start to get to know each other & then understand each other, learn how similar they are. We want people to look at one another & see the good things." @roswynnejones.bsky.social @hopenothate.org.uk @fortunejf.bsky.social

"Keir Starmer spoke of an island of strangers—but places like All Souls tell a different story," says our campaign leader Inayat Omarji. ‪Nice article on giving power to local people to “build an island of communities" by @roswynnejones.bsky.social & Claire Donnelly

Thanks so much to @asylumlink.bsky.social Merseyside and Climbing Hangar Liverpool for having us today. What beautiful people you all are 🙏

'Keir Starmer has got it wrong – here's why we're not an island of strangers'. This week's #RealBritain www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Background Radio 4 means half listening to #InOurTime's account of rise of Paul Von Hindenburg - master of political branding & spin, and the man who appointed Hitler as Chancellor – with creeping deja vu. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

You really couldn't make it up. Battle of Britain Farage is missing his chance to savage the EU deal at PMQs... because he is on holiday... in French France 🇫🇷 (At least he'll be able to get back through passport control as quickly as his French partner now)

A privilege to help uncover working class writing talent as a mentor for Michael Sheen & @newwritingnorth.bsky.social's #AWritingChance. Thanks to Emma Astra, Zainab Amer + Sunita Thind for their hard work & for Michael's generous determination to shake things up. www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...

A part of me fears there are people close to Keir Starmer for whom provoking an impassioned piece from John Harris is part of the game plan. But this isn’t a game. And there is still time to change course. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'I spent my son's childhood in prison for a murder someone else committed' Families of people in prison for 'joint enterprise' come together with @jengba.bsky.social to tell their story at @bradford2025.co.uk @clairedonmedia.bsky.social @roswynnejones.bsky.social www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Extraordinarily chilling. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

Important report from Work+Pensions Cttee on how DWP under Tories contributed to deaths of benefit claimants. Errol Graham and Jodey Whiting's families still seek justice. And Labour must explain how it will prevent future deaths. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

This is where 'Island of strangers' gets us. Jenrick ramps it up today, Farage tomorrow, someone else the next day. Don't think you can release toxic gas from the bottle and still control it. Populist poison replicates. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

My colleague @Kevin_Maguire - 'Restore winter fuel allowance instead of bashing migrants' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Fergal Keane’s report from Gaza tonight was absolutely horrific.

Honestly think whoever wrote that 'Island of strangers' line may yet end up losing Labour the next election.

Before Labour fights 2029, could it possibly get on with delivering 2024? Just that quite a lot of us voted for a Labour government and got one with a huge majority, and now we'd like it to do Labour things. Stop the ghost stories and try governing in the present.

Friends will know how heartbroken I am for Sudan, a country I've reported from many times. A violent deja vu of starvation and terror, yet somehow always at the bottom of the pile for international attention. Choose Love are doubling donations today. donate.chooselove.org/campaigns/ke...

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

White smoke from Vatican and White House in one day... pity poor hacks in our toil...

Finding it a bit gross that after trying to do a deal with Zelensky at Pope Francis' funeral, Trump's dropping the US-UK deal on 80th anniversary of VE Day. Main character syndrome anyone?

In case anyone in No 10 wants to know current status on the Mirror's poll - 'should Labour u-turn on winter fuel payments cut?' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...