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🏠 Andy Burnham says clearly and powerfully: housing should be a human right, enshrined in UK law.

When politicians talk about homes in terms of rights, not just markets, it shifts the conversation.

This is what a rights based approach to housing sounds like.

Together Alliance TOGETHER is an alliance of over 120 civil society organisations united against the far right.

🧭 We’re glad to have joined the Together Alliance.

At a time when division and scapegoating are being used to distract from broken systems, the Together Alliance brings people together to challenge far-right narratives and build a fairer, more inclusive society.

Further 22 sets of infant remains recovered at Tuam site A further 22 sets of infant remains have been recovered from the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway as excavation work continues there.

A further 22 sets of infant remains have been recovered from the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway as excavation work continues there

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding

Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted

*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it

Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

UN CESCR, norm setting and country monitoring: General Comment No. 27 and the UK review | University of Essex UN CESCR, norm setting and country monitoring: General Comment No. 27 and the UK review.

Join us for a discussion with two members of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Joo-Young Lee & Julieta Rossi) on the role of UN Treaty Bodies in norm setting and country monitoring.
🗓️ 12 March
⏰ 13:00 - 14:30 (UK time)
Hybrid event
Details 👇👇👇
www.essex.ac.uk/events/2026/...

Alongside CAJ and Migrant Centre NI, I was part of this painstaking work over 3 years for WRDA. Really all of this was kicked off by Luke's reporting and would not have happened at all without it. Proud and delighted to see it come to fruition on Monday.

PSNI curbs migrant victims’ data sharing with Home Office after ‘institutional racism’ concerns

NEW: Police in Northern Ireland will curb sharing data on migrant victims of crime with UK immigration enforcement, after admitting that routine sharing “could be perceived as constituting institutional racism”.

I wonder if a dedication - anonymous perhaps - would be appropriate/appreciated?

Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment?

"Pull factors" on steroids.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

New online tool for advisers: searchable caselaw summaries

Bringing together over a decade of caselaw summaries from our Welfare Rights Bulletin, you'll find summaries of several hundred cases and we’ll update it regularly with new cases relevant to your advice work.

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The only route to accepting Mandelson or Andrew's "silly me!" version of events, is to believe that they only ever exhanged sensitive information or access in exhange for cash or favours or sex to one man, and by sheer dint of bad luck it was the one man on Earth whose emails everyone gets to read.

Steve Bannon and Noam Chomsky laughing together in a photo from the Epstein files.

"Hahaha we disagree about some things but we agree about how much we hate women and girls lol"

Imagine you're a world renowned left-wing professor of LINGUISTICS and when your paedophile pal gets arrested you get so mad on his behalf your disdain for women bubbles over to such an extent that you can only find the word "hysterical". Twice.

Today the Bill to end the two-child limit starts to make its way through Parliament.

The policy is responsible for driving child poverty to its current record high. Poverty has a devastating impact on young lives.

We’ve joined 65 other orgs in asking all MPs to support this Bill.

Jeffrey Epstein sent $75,000 to Lord Mandelson linked accounts, documents appear to show Lord Mandelson says he has no record or recollection of receiving the sums and does not know if the documents are authentic.

Epstein sent $75k to accounts linked to Mandelson
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A photograph of the front exterior of kincora boys home in East Belfast.

With more material from the Epstein files released today, I feel compelled to remind us that NI had its own version. It was called Kincora Boys Home and there are powerful ppl walking around today who are very glad that email didn't exist when they were abusing children and having it covered up. 💔

a woman in a sequined dress is walking in the fog . Alt: Catherine O'Hara as Moira Rose wearing a sequined dress is walking in the fog. Birds scatter as she opens her arms.

Catherine O'Hara, too soon.

So many evil people still alive and the big man takes Catherine O'Hara

WRDA & Menstruation Matters Survey on Access to Toilet Facilities in Schools Access to bathroom facilities is a human right, but too often we hear reports of bathroom access being restricted in schools across Northern Ireland. This can lead to students missing class time or…

If your child attends school in NI please take a few minutes to help us understand the impact of these restrictions and push for better school environments by completing our survey. The survey closes on Friday 13 Feb at 5pm. Have your say here buff.ly/zy3R0sb

WRDA and Menstruation Matters survey.

Parents—Have your say on restricted toilet access in our schools!
Access to bathroom facilities is a human right, but too often we hear reports of bathroom access being restricted in schools across NI.

54 years ago today ,the British Parachute regiment invaded Derry's Bogside and murdered 14 men and boys .The murderers are protected by their government and the PPS.
The murderers LIED to two inquires,still no justice.

Striking numbers which demonstrate, in spades, how tiny is the popular support for the culture of hate that Britain's institutions seem determined to impose on a kind and accepting majority.

(Expect the BBC to ignore it or qualify it to oblivion.)

Primary school enrolment falls by 6,500 in past year Primary school enrolment has fallen by almost 6,500 over the past year.

"Eleven primary schools have closed permanently since last June due to low enrolment making them unviable" Yet apparently there's a CRISIS of immigration numbers and we need to make refugees wait three years and show self-sufficiency to be joined by their children here 🤯

www.rte.ie/news/educati...

Card showing an image of a family with a mother and two children, below a metaphorical poverty line. Text reads 'The average person in poverty now lives 29% below the poverty line, compared with 23% in the mid 1990s.

📢 The latest figures from #UKPoverty2026 reveal a picture of poverty hardening, not easing.

The average person in poverty in 2021-24 was 29% below the poverty line.

This is up from 23% in 1994-97.

As people fall further into poverty, the impact on their lives worsens.

Dr Eirini Gkouskou: What pre-schoolers had to say about the right of all children to have an early education - Nursery World What would pre-school children across the world do to improve access to early years education? Erini Gkouskou found out.

🎒 The UK Government is not supportive of a new proposed UN treaty that would support pre-primary education for kids globally.

The UK needs to change its position and support these fundamental rights for all kids.

Sharron Davies ranting against 15 minute cities, because of course she is.

Suzanne Moore in the Telegraph saying she wants to... kill all dogs??

Julie Burchill asking "does it matter if Grok undresses us all?" in The Spectator

Graham Linehan in the midst of his now four-day-long double down on Alex Pretti's murder being justified and fine.

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

We’re delighted to host the HRLC Annual Lecture today w/ keynote speaker Michael Fakhri, UNSR on the Right to Food.

His lecture, The Right to Food and the Global Order, explores systems shaping the realisation of the right to food worldwide.

Follow this thread for highlights of the lecture ⬇️

Event Poster for the HRLC's Annual Human Rights Lecture with Professor Michael Fakhri (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food).

Today is the final day to register for our Annual Human Rights Lecture on 'The Right to Food and the Global Order' w/ keynote speaker Professor Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.

Join us online tomorrow (27 Jan) at 17:30 GMT.

Register ➡️ hrlc-right-to-food.eventbrite.co.uk

🥀 When in opposition, Labour called housing people seeking asylum in military barracks “a failure.”

Now it’s happening again.