Ann Bettys

NEW: This is worth your time.

@thenerve_news has the receipts.

A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.

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Together With Refugees new report 'Welcoming Growth: The economic case for a fair and humane asylum system'  - Together With Refugees Monday 17 November 2025 Britain’s refugee policies have been uncaring, chaotic, and costly for too long. They aren’t working for refugees, and they aren’t working for communities across the country.  ...

A fair, humane asylum system isn’t just right - it’s smart economics.
Let refugees rebuild their lives, and Britain will thrive too.

#TogetherWithRefugees

togetherwithrefugees.org.uk/welcoming-gr...

Politicians are tearing Britain apart. Instead of fixing our NHS, making housing affordable and reducing wealth inequality they are rolling out the red carpet for the far right. This racist package of hostility against people seeking safety will further divide our communities and create a two-tier society divided into people who are told they belong, and those who are told they don’t. Survivors of war, persecution and torture can’t properly rebuild their lives and feel settled in our communities with the constant threat of deportation looming over them. Deterrence policies like these may be a great distraction for a government worried about next week’s budget and wracked by political infighting, but they won’t stop Channel crossings nor build inclusive, thriving communities.

Our statement on the government’s abhorrent plans for people seeking safety.

Politicians are dividing communities, when they could be building affordable homes and strengthening them.

Petition: Defend BBC independence from Trump’s interference Stop Trump Coalition

stoptrump.org.uk/petition-bbc/

Vigil today!

Silent minority: 15 peers claimed £585k while not speaking in a single Lords debate Analysis shows 10% of peers make half of all contributions to debates while others claim allowances but say nothing

This is not acceptable. Time to replace the Lords with a second elected chamber www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This Thursday! 7:30pm. International order and arms production

Quakers in Britain: Job opportunities Find a range of jobs with Quakers in Britain. With a 1:4 ratio between our highest and our lowest paid staff, we are a Living Wage employer.

Lovely Leeds-based job with Quakers in Britain www.quaker.org.uk/our-organisa...

Happy New Year! Migration 2025 is nearly upon us! If you want to help amphibians in Henley, please contact us. Or if you are too far away, there is sure to be a toad patrol near you to get involved with. Please check out: www.froglife.org/what-we-do/t...

Looking for ways to keep on keep on speaking up and acting for peace? Here are 9 actions you can take: www.quaker.org.uk/blog/9-solid...

Basically the world can’t afford the rich

On my way to open up the Meeting House this morning!

Map of the world, showing thirteen high-traffic supertanker ports at severe risk from a 1-metre sea level rise Houston, US Galveston, US Rotterdam, Netherlands Ust-Luga, Russia Yanbu, Saudi Arabia Tas Tanara, Saudi Arabia Khor Fakan, UAE Fujairah, UAE Singapore Dalian, China Shanghai, China Ningbo-Soushan, China Gwangyang, South Korea

‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows
Ports including in Saudi Arabia and the US projected to be seriously damaged by a metre of sea level rise

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#r4today

Winter morning

Free Hybrid Seminar - Climate Change Immigration: Protection and Human Rights Claims | Garden Court Chambers Climate change is an increasingly significant driver of migration.  The aim of this seminar will be to introduce and discuss the ways in which the effects of climate change may be identified and relie...

Free Hybrid Seminar

Climate Change Immigration:
Protection and Human Rights Claims

Thu 16 January 2025, 5.30-7.30pm,

Hybrid,
Chambers & Online

gardencourtchambers.co.uk/event/free-h...

Great news!

Here’s to the trains getting better and better up north

Screenshot showing Bylines Scotland on 18.8K followers

Amazing, looks like @bylinesscotland.bsky.social are going to be the first Bylines to pass 20K followers, can they do it this weekend?

If you're interested in joining their team as an editor, proofreader, writer, photographer etc then please email editor@bylines.scot and help spread the word

**Black UK PhD students**

Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend

-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

**Tell everyone**

www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Despite Netanyahu arrest warrant, UK keeps sending arms and intel International Criminal Court’s stance on Gaza should trigger an end to British military ties with Israel, critics say.

Flight tracking data shows RAF spy planes over Gaza have not been interrupted by the ICC issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant.

What will it take for the UK government to stop providing intelligence support to Israel?

www.declassifieduk.org/despite-neta...

Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Revealed Through Evidence and Analysis Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza strip. Watch this video to understand how Amnesty International arrived at this conclusion.    For…

Hugely significant report from @amnesty.org finds Israel has perpetrated 3 acts against Palestinians in Gaza which are prohibited under genocide convention

Overwhelming case for full UK arms sales ban & for UK to fulfil duty to prevent further genocide
vimeo.com/1035909869

@amnestyuk.bsky.social

Democracy For Sale A survey into people's attitudes to the health of British politics from leading investigative journalists who write about lobbying and dark money

Worried about #ElonMusk buying his way into UK politics? Think we need to take money out of our democracy?

Help #DemocracyForSale's people-powered plan to #SafeguardDemocracy by taking this short survey: democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard Please share. Thanks!

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Very kind of you, Chris!
(Last time we met I so loved your showing me that short video of cockroaches swarming over metres of bat dung. 🪳🦇)

I was at an incredibly moving and upsetting session in the House of Commons today where MPs heard from a group of professionals including doctors, nurses and humanitarian organisers describing their first hand experience of the abhorrent situation in Gaza

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Day 4 brings a burst of green to winter's palette. 💚

Can you guess who's behind today's advent window?

#RSPBAdvent

Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵

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Lucky to live here on the edge of the Pennines
#yorkshire

Great news

The fire seems to have a message for me…