Alex Firth

Labour’s housing hypocrisy: councils serve almost 200 families with no-fault eviction notices Exclusive: firms run by five of the party’s councils have used legal loophole to serve section 21 notices Labour-run councils have used a legal loophole to issue almost 200 families with no-fault eviction notices since the party was elected on a promise to ban the practice, a Guardian investigation has found. Scrapping these orders, known as section 21 evictions, was one of Keir Starmer’s main pledges before last July’s general election but, more than a year later, they remain lawful. Continue reading...

Labour’s housing hypocrisy: councils serve almost 200 families with no-fault eviction notices

Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn

Would the Greens also recognise housing as a human right in UK law?

It’s long overdue.

172,000 children in England are homeless tonight. And instead of fixing it, Housing Secretary Steve Reed is cutting affordable housing.

How many more families need to suffer before housing is treated as a right?

Why is Britain letting 170,000 children grow up without a home? New data out today shows the number of children classed as homeless is the highest since records began. Alex Firth writes of a nation’s shame

172,000 children are growing up without a home in England.

We’ve normalised a level of child homelessness that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.

I wrote in @independentvoices.bsky.social about why a right to housing matters now more than ever 👇
www.independent.co.uk/voices/homel...

Why is Britain letting 170,000 children grow up without a home? New data out today shows the number of children classed as homeless is the highest since records began. Alex Firth writes of a nation’s shame

New data out today shows the number of children classed as homeless is the highest since records began. @alexwfirth.bsky.social writes of a nation’s shame www.independent.co.uk/voices/homel...

Why is Britain letting 170,000 children grow up without a home? New data out today shows the number of children classed as homeless is the highest since records began. Alex Firth writes of a nation’s shame

🚨 New figures just released show a record 172,000 children in England growing up without a home.

This isn’t just a housing crisis, it’s a human rights crisis. Every child has the right to a safe home.

New op-ed by @alexwfirth.bsky.social in the Independent.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/homel...

🚨 New figures just released show that there are now over 172,000 children in England who don’t have a home.

That's not a statistic, it's a national shame.

Behind every number is a child living in a B&B, a family torn from their community, a right to housing denied.

Universal Credit is back in the dock, this time at the UN | Just Fair This article was orginally published in the Big Issue.  In just a single week this month, the UK’s new Universal Credit Act has triggered two separate interventions from the United Nations. That is no...

🧑‍🦽 The UN has raised the alarm over the UK’s treatment of disabled people.

International scrutiny matters, but true justice means the UK must uphold rights at home.

Our advocacy officer @alexwfirth.bsky.social writes with @gmcdp.bsky.social
justfair.org.uk/universal-cr...

This isn’t an unavoidable fact of life. It’s the direct result of policy choices made my those in power.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations United Nations special rapporteurs have called for the UK government to question its reforms to universal credit.

🚨 The UN has raised the alarm over the UK’s Universal Credit Act. Disabled people’s rights are under threat.

International scrutiny matters, but justice means the UK must uphold rights at home.

Our advocacy officer @alexwfirth.bsky.social writes with @gmcdp.bsky.social

Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations United Nations special rapporteurs have called for the UK government to question its reforms to universal credit.

🚨 The UN has raised the alarm over the UK’s social security system. People’s rights are under threat.

International scrutiny matters, but true justice means we must uphold rights at home.

Our advocacy officer @alexwfirth.bsky.social writes with @gmcdp.bsky.social
www.bigissue.com/opinion/univ...

Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations United Nations special rapporteurs have called for the UK government to question its reforms to universal credit.

The UK is being shamed on the world stage for how it treats disabled people.

Labour ditched its pledge to protect rights in law, and disabled people are paying the price. The UN shouldn’t have to step in, justice must start here at home.

✍️ My piece
www.bigissue.com/opinion/univ...

Turns out, there were no billion pound diversity programs and the grifters were indeed lying

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Well said.

Replacing the two child limit with a three child limit, or a tapered rate of support after the first child, would just substitute one cruelty with another.

The new "lesser" cruelty might be more palatable or actuarially justifiable to politicians, but would still leave kids in poverty.

A child has washed up on a beach trying to cross the English Channel. No one should lose their life seeking safety.

Every government response must start from a simple truth: children have the right to protection, safe routes, and a future.

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

“You can’t beat the radical right by being a pale imitation of it.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨 NEW: Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has set the dates for the next wave of train nationalisations:

- Greater Anglia - 12th October 2025
- West Midlands Trains - 1st February 2026
- Thameslink, Great Northern, Gatwick Express and Southern - 31st May 2026

Big Issue founder on the 'great distraction' stopping UK from tackling 'emergency' crisis "Chauvinistic" debates on immigration are distracting ministers from tackling the child poverty "emergency", the founder of the Big Issue has told Sky News.

Big Issue founder on the 'great distraction' stopping UK from tackling 'emergency' crisis

Wow.

This is absolutely huge.

After the attacks, Spain is offering direct military protection to the flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza.

So what now, Israel?

Are you going to risk acts of war against a European nation so you can attack humanitarian vessels?

🚌 No child should miss school because they are homeless.

@rebeccalongbailey.com is right, free bus passes for children in temporary accommodation in Manchester would mean stability during upheaval.

Human rights start with the basics: a safe home, access to school, connection to community.

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

Obviously this piece is absurd, and mainly designed to exploit rifts between Hermer and the rest of the govt.

But it’s also part of a deeply sinister attempt to delegitimise legal work on behalf of asylum seekers, in an environment where death threats & actual attacks have already occurred

I of course welcome the recognition of the state of Palestine.

And there won't be a Palestinian state left if government's continue enabling Israel's unfolding genocide.

Labour can't credibly support Palestinian statehood whilst also continuing to arm Israel.

The UK recognising Palestine is 100 years too late.

It acts as a reminder that the colonial powers that carved up the region in the first place now get to “grant” recognition. Palestinians never needed permission to exist.

🇵🇸 The UK recognising Palestine is a positive step, but recognition is not liberation.

This would only really matter if it’s followed by real action: arms embargoes, sanctions, ending complicity in occupation.

Slowly but surely they’re saying the quiet part out loud

👦 So important to see this being raised in the Lords.

The right to play is recognised as a human right in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Safe, accessible, imaginative play spaces give every child the chance to explore, connect, and grow.

The 50 richest families in the UK hold more wealth than 50% of the population.

We desperately need redistribution.