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This is similar to the attempts to make lifetime social housing tenancies temporary. Social landlords thought it was a great idea until they had 1,000s of tenancies to constantly renew ... At which point they pretty much all returned to lifetime tenancies again

The other reason is that the Home Office simply doesn’t have the resources to process each person‘s asylum claim several times over. It struggles to process the cases it‘s got. Delays are colossal. These proposals will hugely increase bureaucracy and cost, as well as the effects on people’s lives 4/

One reason is that people who’ve fled for their lives need security and permanency to rebuild their lives. The last thing they need is unending anxiety about being sent back to what they escaped. This will cause huge stress, damage to mental health, harm to children, difficulties in integrating 3/

To explain briefly: at the moment people successful in their asylum claims get permission to stay in the UK for 5 years, then have to apply for permanent residency. At that point a review of their status is done, but it’s rare not to succeed at that point unless they‘ve committed an offence 1/

On the most rainy day of the year, over 150 HASL families descended on Lambeth council's housing office to demand an end to the latest bullying tactics the council are targeting at homeless people.

You can read our letter here housingactionsouthwarkandlambeth.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/o...

A large group of HASL members protesting outside Lambeth council's Civic Centre with banners and placards and umbrellas due to the rain.

HASL shut down Lambeth’s housing office over bullying tactics!💥

Over 150 HASL members descended on Lambeth council's civic centre on the wettest day of the year!💪

Read our report here mailchi.mp/2160f92c871e...

YouTube video by Housing Action Southwark & Lambeth HASL shut down Lambeth's housing office over bullying tactics!

💥📽️🍿Watch HASL in action shutting down Lambeth council's housing office over their escalation of bullying tactics!

Last week in the pouring rain over 150 of us descended on the council to deliver a massive letter with our simple demand -stop bullying homeless people!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc4F...

Our amazing HASL values meeting this morning discussing and reflecting on our principles and organising to help make our group even stronger 💪✊🧡

So if Angela Rayner had to step down then surely Rachel Reeves does too eh eh eh

English councils’ temporary accommodation bill rises to £2.8bn Councils in England spent a record £2.8bn on temporary accommodation last year, with the annual bill rising by 25% as the homelessness crisis deepens.

Can't think of many better illustrations of how badly we have botched housing policy than the fact that our bill for housing homeless families (£2.8bn pa) is now higher than the money we spend each year on new affordable housing (£2.3bn)

www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/english...

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv

They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

Any help on this would be appreciated. We've been inundated with enquiries we cannot answer from academics, public sector workers and journalists about what they can and cannot say. One writer has been advised to temporarily stop promoting their book as it includes a chapter on Palestine Action

Trial date set for Palestine protest organisers accused of public order offences Benjamin Jamal, 61, and Christopher Nineham, 63, are both charged over the protest held in central London on January 18.

Ben Jamal of @pscupdates.bsky.social and Chris Nineham of @stwc.bsky.social will have to wait until on 23 February 2026 to face an absurd political trial for alleged public order offences, related to the Palestine solidarity march on 18 January this year www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/p...

"We hate war and injustice."

British punk duo Bob Vylan explained their pro-Palestine stance at a gig in Greece. It was their first performance since Glastonbury, where their controversial 'death to the IDF' chant sparked backlash.

The High Court judgement regarding Palestine Action's proscription and the enforcement of the order today from is the most extreme application of terrorism legislation we've yet seen in this country. It's so extreme, in fact, that it's causing the law itself to become openly incoherent. Thread🧵🔽

Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽

A witness backstage has confirmed for me that she was physically removed.

At Pride in London security came on stage to stop someone from waving a Palestine flag during Chaka Khan's performance on the main stage.

We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order".

And so it begins.

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.

A new direct action group calling itself 'Yvette Cooper' claims to have targeted Time Logistics for providing transport in Britain for Israel's Elbit Systems. Its message to the government on social media says, "if you want to ban Palestine Action, you'll have to proscribe Yvette Cooper too"

Palestine Action clashes with police after government 'bans' them under anti-terror laws Protesters in support of Palestine Action have clashed with police as the government moves to ban the civil disobedience group.

LBC, in a rare moment of honesty, reported: "The protest, which started relatively peacefully, quickly turned chaotic when police stormed into the crowd... after one of them allegedly pushed a police officer... It is unclear if a police officer was actually pushed" www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Mordechai Vanunu - Wikipedia

Remember? 👇🏼

It was when JK Rowling said that the Cass Review was a peer review itself and that's why it didn't need to be peer reviewed I realised she's an idiot.

Anyway, here's a peer review of Cass.

Guess what it finds?