New compensation scheme for Post Office victims is 'half-baked' Sir Alan Bates warns news.sky.com/story/new-co...

THREAD A week ago, we published this statement by the Greater Manchester Asylum Hotels Group. The response has been overwhelming. The group has had many messages of support from our local area and beyond, and people have been inspired to share the message far and wide in their own communities.

An excellent podcast discussion. Essential listening.

⚖️ "The 'VIP-lane' was one of the most egregious aspects of the way the former government went about procuring emergency supplies during the pandemic." Our Chief Executive @danieljbruce.bsky.social spoke with @bbc5live.bsky.social to discuss today's High Court ruling against PPE Medpro.

In a corporate owned care home, charging £1,800 a week. Residents face neglect/cruelty. Left in urine-soaked clothes, wet bedsheets, calls for help ignored, not showered for weeks, excrement in corridors, staff shortages. Cruelty is the norm when profits come before people.

🔴‘Racists Started Hurling Rocks and Abuse at My Family’: New Deputy Green Leader On His Own Experience of Far Right Hate Mothin Ali, co-deputy leader of the Greens, on being on the receiving end of racist abuse and his ‘disappointment’ in Jeremy Corbyn’s new project bylinetimes.com/2025/09/08/r...

SCIE’s Chief Executive, Kathryn Marsden OBE, has written to The Guardian about the role of social care in relieving the growing pressure on hospitals. Kathryn stressed that NHS reform will only succeed if health and social care are treated as equal partners.

Here is our guide to making refugee family reunion applications: freemovement.org.uk/refugee-fami...

Currently at the Artspace on the Prom in Cromer.

New from Free Movement: National Audit Office publishes report on Afghanistan Response Route | Sonia Lenegan freemovement.org.uk/national-aud...

Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". -seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951. This legally trumps all arguments of “but they arrived by illegal means”. That’s just a fact. That’s why you don’t see asylum seekers arrested & charged. Our MSM must do better.

YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.

@zoejardiniere.bsky.social dealing with ignorance. Is there a Nobel prize for patience? youtube.com/shorts/PnxLn...

excellent photographic exhibition The Outsiders by @marcdavenant.bsky.social at Cromer Artspace on the Prom. Moving stories of homeless and ignored people.

Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Me talking about the impact of disability cuts on poverty- and how the government underplayed its poverty impact assessment: the true number is closer to 400,000 people pushed into poverty. The government pledged to end the moral scar of food banks, not increase their footfall ⬇️

Last month the government released new details of how it intends to deliver its manifesto pledge to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments. See how our Government Tracker is rating progress on this pledge - and why - here 👇

Migrant workers in UK to fill care roles ‘charged up to £20,000’ in illegal fees www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

it's time to engage people and communities in improving health and using services wisely. Just expanding the supply of care is not a sustainable solution. Wanless in 2002 argued for a fully engaged population which has not been achieved www.nhsconfed.org/articles/mod...

We were very pleased to be able to attend the opening of Outsiders at @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social last night. We highly recommend you see this show. @marcdavenant.bsky.social thank you for your work.

How the ‘continuing healthcare’ system is failing sick and elderly people www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it! After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻

Labour had plenty of time to ponder social care. Now it has a chance to deliver www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ex-chief prosecutor rejects Musk’s calls for new child abuse inquiry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If we're going to have an honours system that is open to the whole community - in which we thank people, collectively, for service to the public - we can't keep demanding that they pass a loyalty test to a bygone empire. At least give a choice between "Empire" & "Excellence". It's such an easy fix.

NFU calling for guarantee Seasonal Agricultural Worker visas will stay in place long term as our food system relies on migrant workers. No discussion, of course, of widespread exploitation of workers trapped by stringent conditions of that visa #r4today www.workrightscentre.org/publications...

Hit TV show, tick. Millions for lawyers, tick. Now could we manage some actual justice for the subpostmasters? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Charity Commission has disqualified a “charity sector expert” and two other former trustees of a Bedfordshire-based international aid charity after a two-year investigation.

🔴My 'Expat' Is Your 'Migrant': How Language Is Used to Poison the Migration Debate The words used to describe human beings who choose to move to the UK reveals where power really lies in our politics and media, says @bearlypolitics.co.uk www.bylinesupplement.com/p/my-expat-i...

Refugees & migrants welcome.

The government URGENTLY need to unfreeze local housing allowance so that families can afford their rent. @jrf-uk.bsky.social research shows over 8 in 10 low income private renters are currently going without essentials. And 57% who have children are paying more than 40% of their income on rent.

Why do we keep failing abused children like Sara Sharif? www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Just unpacking this article - over half of asylum seekers can't get a legal aid lawyer at the moment (the pay is so low people have quit) so there is no capacity at all for asylum lawyers to apply for exceptional legal aid funding for refugee family reunion - it's a myth. This leaves kids in danger.

go.bsky.app/25nDNdz let me know if you...or anyone you know...should be added to our growing gang #morethemerrier

As an Indian, my contempt for (rich white) anti-vaxxers in the west is so deep I often cannot quite find the words to express my contempt. I grew up seeing polio-disabled children and adults crawling over rubble and roads in India. My father worked for the Pulse Polio program. What is happening?

Shelter condemns ‘shocking’ 14% rise in homelessness across England www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Channel 4 documentary on benefits was ‘atrocity’ and ‘insult’ to disabled people in poverty, say activists www.disabilitynewsservice.com/channel-4-do...

Farewell, then, Justin Welby. Good to see that you have already forgiven yourself www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Absolutely not the time for humour’, Bishop on Welby speech www.channel4.com/news/absolut...

There's been talk again of a royal commission on social care [cue collective groan from policy wonks] Like many I agree a royal commission would be a waste of time. BUT I do think there could be value in an inquiry modelled on the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards Short 🧵below:

Delighted to be part of the team that worked on this project for @socialcarefuture.bsky.social @tlap.bsky.social @juestanny.bsky.social - brilliant work from @angelacat.bsky.social & Rich Amos which I then supported by developing a guide for events and conference organisers

In case you missed it: Huge increase in rough sleeping among newly recognised refugees | Sonia Lenegan https://freemovement.org.uk/huge-increase-in-rough-sleeping-among-newly-recognised-refugees/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=huge-increase-in-rough-sleeping-among-newly-recognised-refug…

Private equity is a horror story for the NHS – one fifth of budget goes to it. Privatised services treat 10% of patients, 3% in 2011. 59,000 private contracts in the NHS. 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits, longer queues persist. End privatisation. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

This is both sad and infuriating. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I worked in charities for years – here’s how I make sure my money is going to a good cause, not Captain Tom’s family www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Revealed: Home Office ‘completely lost grip’ at notorious Manston asylum centre

Good thread by Zoe.

Large parts of adult social care in England face collapse, thinktank says. The budget blamed but there are other factors. Massive real cut in local govt funding since 2010. Privatisation: 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits. Money buys less. End Privatisation www.theguardian.com/society/2024...