Cllr Kiran Khan

I am extremely relieved that the High Court has ruled that the proscription of Palestine Action is unlawful.

The court found that the ban was a disproportionate interference with the right to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly. 1/2

Across our city, important celebrations are starting for many communities.

To Muslims beginning Ramadan, and Christians starting Lent, may this period be one of reflection and renewal.

And to all celebrating the Lunar New Year, may the Year of the Fire Horse bring with it prosperity and happiness.

Farage want to end homeworking?I work for an integrated care board that manages the NHS in my area. We decide what services are needed and try and ensure they are run properly.
The Tories cut our budget by 30%. Now we can't afford offices.
Will Reform increase spending to provide us with offices?

A photograph showing Nadia Whittome MP holding up a sign that reads: “Don’t let bad bosses block union support for workers. Back the trade union right of access.”

I was proud to vote for the Employment Rights Act, but we must ensure that bad employers can’t exploit legal loopholes.

This #HeartsUnions Week, I’m calling on the government to prioritise strengthening trade unions’ access to workplaces and the banning of exploitative zero-hour contracts.

Reform by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have kids should pay more tax Exclusive: The Reform politician’s suggestion would ‘punish millions of women and strip them of their basic dignity to choose’, Labour’s deputy leader has warned

Reform’s by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have children should pay more tax.

He wants the govt to “remove personal income tax for women who have two or more children”.

Do they think women are just baby producing machines?

Insane policies.

There must be full transparency about the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to the US.

Any government amendments seeking to exclude publication of information on the grounds that it could be “prejudicial to international relations" are simply unacceptable. [1/2]

I was born the year Higgins made his masters debut, still playing at top level 31 years later is incredible. #bbcsnooker

Government U-turns on mandatory digital ID cards for workers The government has abandoned plans to make digital ID cards mandatory for workers.

Government U-turns on mandatory digital ID cards for workers

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

This is the man who activists in the UK advocate for. A man who thinks it’s an unreasonable level of censorship to stop a platform making sexualised images of children and women.

In a way it’s good that they’re being so clear about whose team they’re really on. Get in the bin.

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

Juliet Stevenson: "The situation in Gaza for mothers and babies and children is imaginably brutal"

September 1, 1939: Using lies as justification, Hitler broke international law by invading Poland.

February 24, 2022: Using lies as justification, Putin broke international law by invading Ukraine.

January 3, 2026: Using lies as justification, Trump broke international law by invading Venezuela.

Screenshot of an archived tweet from Donald J. Trump dated October 9, 2012. The tweet claims that President Obama might launch military strikes in Libya or Iran due to falling poll numbers and describes him as desperate. The image shows the tweet in the older Twitter Web Client interface, with the timestamp visible at the bottom.

There’s always a tweet.

Happy Holidays to everyone who doesn't have a family. I wish you self compassion and comfort.

Absolutely thrilled that @andrea4gs.bsky.social has been elected as the new General Secretary of UNISON, with a resounding mandate to put democracy at the heart of the union.

▪️ Lift the puberty blockers ban
▪️ Reject EHRC guidance
▪️ Legislate to ensure single-sex spaces are trans-inclusive by default.

Posting this from my speech at the Trans Day of Remembrance vigil, because yet again trans women and girls are being excluded from their spaces.

YouTube video by Zeteo Mehdi Pays Tribute To His Late Father

My tribute to my dad, who passed away last month in the UK.

He was a proud Indian immigrant *and* a proud British citizen.

His life story is one long rebuttal to the nativists, bigots and xenophobes.

Look at all that empty real estate up front… don’t tell me they couldn’t fit a few USB-A ports in there..........

A full year on the M4 Mac Mini and… yeah, my 30-year streak stands. Windows is still the best OS for work, everyday use, and gaming.

We all desperately want to clear the courts backlog seeing victims withdraw from the criminal justice process.

But the backlog was caused by chronic underfunding, not juries.

Restricting jury trials would undermine our democracy and right to a fair trial, and may even be a false economy.

Guess what?
I am not a robot

When bad bosses can unfairly dismiss workers from day one, workers must be protected from day one. That’s what we promised in our manifesto.

A Labour government must not turn its back on the very people we were elected to represent.

Billionaire wealth keeps piling up. Everyone else is left with less and less.

With this mountain of pasta, I show why we need to tax the Billionaires.

🔻

Praise where praise is due: scrapping the two-child benefit cap is an excellent move. And the most consequential of any of the measures announced today.

2.7m workers will benefit when the national minimum wage goes up to £12.71 in April 😍

Image of a rail ticket with text 'Labour is freezing rail fares'

For the first time in 30 years, rail fares are being frozen by this Labour Government. Passengers using an annual season ticket from #York to Leeds will save £176 next year. #Rail #Transport

R.i.p Scotland

The existence of trans and nonbinary people is something that benefits even cis people. There is no universal experience of being female or being male. No longer gatekeeping who gets to be what frees us all.