Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...
In fact the judgment does not turn on the ECHR (according to the summary)
"Asylum seekers are not allowed to work while their claims are being processed, which can take months, and sometimes years. They have absolutely no way of supporting themselves during that time, & yes, the State has a legal obligation not to let them starve" Frustrating it needs saying, but it does
The "culture war" is a contest for the collective imagination.
Reactionaries have a clear interest in
(a) promoting a benign view of the prevailing social order and its origins, and
(b) stamping out critical counter-narratives.
It's not a "distraction". It's a vital political struggle.
Last night fighting an ex Liz Truss minister (for goodness sake) on Newsnight about what to do about asylum accommodation.
Pitch forks are dictating UK asylum policy now. 🤦♀️
My thanks as always to the brilliant @implausibleblog.bsky.social for the clip ❤️🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8auh...
Far right groups are threatening to burn down hotels full of refugees at events attended by senior politicians, while people of colour live in fear after being falsely labelled as paedophiles
How mainstream politicians and media organisations are allowing a violent far right movement to spread
Far right demagoguery - thanks to crucial, repeated validation from the political mainstream - has painted a target on the back of every man of colour in this country.
Everyone knows what is likely to happen next.
You can download A Handbook of Integration with Refugees: Global Learnings from Scotland, edited by @esaldegheri.bsky.social, @dx-fisher.bsky.social and @alisonphipps.bsky.social for free here: www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/...
Typical of the greedy rich to protest to protect their wealth and against improving the lives of those in poverty
Poverty obstructs economic recovery.
16m Britons live in poverty
800,000 suffer from nutritional deficiencies.
1-in-200 households experiencing homelessness
1-in-4 young people have mental health conditions.
Scurvy/Rickets are back.
£39bn GDP a year lost due to poverty.
Must redistribute.
“Merging truth with misinformation is once more straight out of the populist playlook: confuse people until they no longer know what to believe. Then, unable to believe anything at all, they are left only with feelings"
inews.co.uk/opinion/robe...
What I want for myself and my kids, is a political system built around compassion rather than aggression: built around a global community, rather than isolated groups defined by race, religion, nationality and gender: built around people rather than wealth accumulation: @zackpolanski.bsky.social
A 2% tax on wealth would only (mildly) affect 20,000 people but would generate £24bn each year that we can spend on fixing the country. End child poverty, improve the NHS, fix our schools and all that good stuff.
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It is inherently absurd to proscribe a group as terrorists based on acts the public doesn't know about. Terrorism *by definition* involves violence intended to intimidate a civilian population. How can the target population be terrorised by acts they know nothing about?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
“Court documents indicate how national security concerns were not a central factor in the Home Office’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action.
“Indeed, they barely feature in the government’s open evidence.”
👉 Revealed: How Palestine Action was banned
www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-how...
Just a basic fact check. The UK by its own admission exports arms (F-35 parts) capable of being used in Gaza where the IDF has, amongst other things, pursued a vast, genocidal campaign of state terror.
"We" the British people may not support terrorists. But objectively the government does.
Really inconsiderate of Gazan children to choose the school holiday period to starve to death and therefore force Freeman to confront her own complicity in genocide.
[But don't worry, she succeeds in blaming it all on Hamas and "very bad people."]
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Labour mistakenly seem to think that the way to fight the far-right is to become more like them.
They could be more wrong.
Good luck Zack!
The right has gone absolutely nuts. The Tory party is chewed up with its brexity failure and the prejudice ticket that once gave it power. Reform’s rise from their ashes is the toxic aftermath. And the media dance along like it’s all so exciting, rather than a goddam nightmare for us all.
The shit is really going to hit the fan when M&S realise they have multilingual staff working at the world's busiest airport.
Oh I know this one.
Is it because they object to children being murdered and a country bombed into the stone age?
British politics in all its diversity on display this morning
Is he wrong? Are they all wrong?
It is absolutely absurd that Diane Abbott has been suspended for this.
She's describing the lived experience of anti-Black racism.
She wasn't saying Jewish people and Travellers don't experience racism. She's saying that racism takes different forms.
