'No society can or should be at ease when children are being brought up in houses without heating, kitchens without cookers, bedrooms without beds, floors without floor covering, or toilets without toilet roll or soap.' Gordon Brown

Britain is stuck in a doom loop of poverty.

With will and ingenuity, communities, charities, companies and government could work together to raise billions and rescue millions of people.

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Sometimes the smallest snapshots show the biggest contrasts. After the State of the Union, Trump cruelly mocked Biden for his childhood stutter. Here’s how Biden previously interacted with a child he met who was struggling with a stutter. Watch this.

Retirement goals. Hanging about playing football with your mates. 😂👌

Everything about this video is perfect. The awkward anticlimactic ending. The cringe music. The completely bewildered look as she doesn’t know where to go or whether to keep saying thank you. And then, the camera zooming out to emptiness.

Shameless.

As Ukraine marks 2 years of conflict, we want the country's children to know they're not forgotten. Education can provide hope for a brighter future and that's why @Theirworld has announced two ambitious new projects working with the Ukrainian government: ow.ly/C3eO50QGLzG

Kieran Tierney, you’ve changed, man. But then Donosti can do that to you. He didn’t make it to tonight’s game — will be back for the second leg — and the two injuries have been frustrating but he’s loving it at Real Sociedad theguardian.com/football/2024/…

Thursday at Labour Business Conference speaking to business leaders.

The weekend campaigning in Mid Calder and Pumpherston talking about Labour’s #NewDeal for working people.

A government in service to working people requires a partnership with business and trades unions.

New Interview: I talked to international law expert Oona Hathaway about how to understand the International Court of Justice ruling on Israel. newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/t…

Maidstone United manger George Elokobi addressing the fans when they arrived at Portman Road earlier today. What a leader! 🫡

Their side currently lead against Ipswich at half time! 👏

A couple of teams out in Greenock today. Heartened by the Labour supporters sticking with us to kick out the Tories and longtime SNP voters switching. One woman put it best:

“I liked Alex Salmond and thought Nicola did a good job during Covid, but after this week...never again.”

Every vote matters - Scotland can lead the way in booting out this rotten Tory government.

A seamless transition from 'vote SNP because Labour has no chance of winning a general election' to 'vote SNP because a Labour government is inevitable.'

Door after door today in Livingston Station and East Calder now former SNP voters are voting Labour for change.

At the General Election a vote for Scottish Labour is a vote to put Scotland’s voice at the heart of government.

How my incurable brain cancer is giving me a new lease of life bbc.in/48Vq0Uf

You're not going to believe this, but Owen Jones' first article for The National is an attack on Starmer. Who could have predicted, etc.

2023 was the year ⁦East Lothian Labour⁩ members did me the immense honour of selecting me as our Scottish Labour⁩ candidate.

2024 will be the year of the General Election and we’re determined to be part of the change our country desperately needs.

It’s time for change.

Human rights are on the back foot globally and neither the UN alone nor old 'naming and shaming' practices can address that.

My column for tomorrow's Financial Times outlines a way forward for human rights, focused on bottom-up change:

ft.com/content/a36607…

Scores of Palestinian journalists have been documenting the horrors suffered in Gaza, and many of them have lost their lives doing so. Now CNN’s Clarissa Ward, Scott McWhinnie and Brent Swails managed to enter without Israeli military escort. Watch their extraordinary report.