Jenrick making things up again. His Dad was clearly never a gas fitter. Otherwise he certainly couldn't have afforded to have sent him to private school.

The news from the past few days is a stunning example of what happens when the state decides it wants to crush just one guy

This rescue kitten has been brought to my door (I co-run a local cat rescue group). A foster has been lined up immediately because I should think if you spend more than 5 seconds with him you’d keep him. He is suffering starvation issues but otherwise seems ok. VERY CUDDLY!

Great to see the brilliant McIntoshes in the Guardian, arguing for the right to funded legal representation for the Windrush Compensation Scheme. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Please sign their petition (link in the article) if you haven't already.

The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3

Alarming but predictable - Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows How did the city do it? Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue

I am looking for UK immigration law practitioners to fill in a short survey about their engagement with legal academic work. There is also an option to take part in an interview at the end. Please do consider taking part and share with your networks: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/northumbri...

Reverend Clive Foster speaking as the first Windrush Commissioner. He talks of encountering the scandal & those affected in his Nottingham church. "One by one, people came quietly and anxiously ... people who suddenly feared being treated as strangers in the only country they had ever known"

At Hackney Town Hall, where the Office of the Windrush Commissioner is launching today

❗️BREAKING — The UK Ministry of Defence admits it is “currently training” Israeli military personnel in Britain. The Labour government has until now refused to answer questions about this, which we covered last year. 👉 www.declassifieduk.org/amid-lebanon...

Quitting my lucrative job as an international fentanyl smuggler to pursue my true passion, vacuuming the hallways of a Holiday Inn Express

this is good

Efficiency is when you make the troops homeless *before* they're veterans

The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has reported back to the government on the financial requirement for a partner visa - assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/684704... - vague but recommending a financial requirement in the £25k region.

This really gets me. I'm 45, there's not many front benchers a lot younger than me, and Northern Ireland was a massive part of life as we grew up. The idea that settlement should be tossed is incomprehensible to me.

I have signed!!! #SaveWoT #TheWheelofTime

The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article titled “We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays” featuring “Al & Alexandra Moy” from its website... but, if interested, you can access an archived version here. h/t @alanrew.bsky.social archive.is/s1GPF

So if youve had your asylum claim withdrawn automatically+further submissions rejected without a right of appeal, can you actually be removed from the UK without anyone ever deciding your asylum claim? Seems...wrong?! (Reading this case fyi: tribunalsdecisions.service.gov.uk/utiac/jr-202...)

In my experience most refugees are desperate to learn English and if they don’t, the reason usually isn’t that they somehow lack motivation to integrate but that funding for English classes has been slashed over the course of many years

"Israel killed nearly two-thirds of the 124 journalists who died around the world in 2024" - you would imagine this would cause a commotion in the world of news journalism, wouldn't you.

I'd really, really like to see this covered with the prominence of the original Mail article. It deserves it and represents a very serious injustice as part of a picture of far right attacks on human rights defenders in the UK.

"Despite being entirely innocent of any professional misconduct, Khan was ruined by the combined actions of the Mail, the government and the SRA"

Ahead of report stage next week, the government have tabled their amendments to the Border Security bill, including trying to set a time limit for the hearing of some asylum appeals publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

The Home Office has fined asylum accommodation providers £4 million for underperformance, out of contracts now estimated to be worth £15,300 million over ten years, the National Audit Office reports. www.nao.org.uk/reports/the-...

Asylum accommodation has shifted a lot over the last 6 years. More hotels but also much higher share in London & SE than under the previous dispersal policy See our new briefing on asylum accommodation for the background migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

English language standards for work visas could be increased, and refugees required to pass an English test to get permanent residence, as part of white paper proposals (Times reports) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Striking graphic from this piece. Donald Trump’s tariffs will boomerang on US exporters bsky.app/profile/mart...

Douglas Adams saw it all coming.

I can't emphasise vehemently enough how much the answer to the asylum backlog is to pragmatically grant the stronger and even only-a-bit-strong claims of people who've been caught up in the massive delays. Instead the Home Office is fighting slow legal battles www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Truly shameful stuff. Labour simply pandering to the most bigoted voters and deliberately making it harder and more expensive for immigrants to become part of British society.

World Central Kitchen has run out of food to serve in Gaza. Its bakery ("recently the last working bakery in Gaza") is out of flour. There are 100,000+ tons of food in staging areas within driving distance of Gaza, and Israel refuses to let them in wck.org/news/gaza-up...

A watched cat *never* births. I swear she’s planning to stay pregnant forever.

Asked whether Musk and Doge had improved any government services, Gimbel burst out in laughter. “No,” she said. “There has clearly been a degeneration of government services.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I used to be a rape crisis counselor. I worked with girls as young as 11 and 12 who were raped by much older men. It was devastating. I see Dr. Bernard crying and I can’t help but think she’s weeping not for herself, but for this girl and the other girls this country is failing. #MomSky

“LGBTQ+ celebrations coast to coast are facing funding shortfalls as corporate sponsors cut back. And even backers are electing to be “silent partners.” wapo.st/43dOrfo

Excellent reporting here from The Observer on how deeply involved the British military are in the US bombing over Yemen which has recently included an attack on a migrant detention facility, killing at least 68 civilians. It should be a national scandal observer.co.uk/news/interna...

This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.

The obvious solution is to hire some, and then fire them.

The situation in Gaza is intolerable. reliefweb.int/report/occup...

Very helpful legal critique of the for women scotland case here, from a specialist barrister who has previously worked at the Supreme Court and who is trans: www.translegalproject.org/post/for-wom...

Sleepy Cerberus

People are facing jail sentences for giving water to the thirsty and food to the hungry. This is happening in the EU. How did our authorities become so disconnected from the most fundamental instincts of human decency? euobserver.com/Migration/ar...

To clarify, as far as I can see this proposal applies to people convicted of offences in the UK, under article 33 of the Refugee Convention, so wouldn’t operate to deny asylum to people persecuted eg for being gay in other countries

Foster cat looking magnificently pregnant

Trying to convince my partner that this box that needs to go to the tip is a performance art piece about the impact of single use plastics on native wildlife

As in the UK, where govt grants generously offer "80% of Full Economic Cost", leaving the individual university to scrape up the other 20% from teaching income. Yes, Virginia, that really IS how it works.

Last night, a federal judge in El Paso became the first to review ICE’s claim that someone was an “alien enemy.” It went SO BAD for ICE that not only did the judge order release for the people suing, without prompting he restricted the use of the Alien Enemies Act in west Texas.