More costs added to the ‘eat out to help out’ scheme as documents finally released about the £2 million spent on focus groups to try and get public to support an idea for which no scientists were consulted and almost certainly accelerated a second wave 😡 theguardian.com/business/2024/…

The introduction of voter ID was a voter suppression tactic and it could still work. If you know any young people - I don't - make sure they understand what they'll need to vote.

bestforbritain.org/voter_id_mrp_s…

Still overwhelmed with all the love and support I received on Eid Day from extended family and friends (especially elders) about the news of my recent divorce. Bit worried about how it would go down (after 22 years of marriage) but instead of disapproval all I received was love♥️

🚨 From today, the minimum income threshold for spouse visas rises from £18600 to £29,000 - pricing 50% of the UK population out of cross-border love.

In early 2025, the threshold will increase to £38,700 - around 70% of the UK population don't earn this.

This is maddening. The Bill literally does the things the Minister is saying she doesn’t want to happen. Has she read it?

Why are we wasting time on this nonsense? We could be working together to provide homes, support, jobs…

Absolutely love this reel from Channel 4 featuring some of our legendary activist contributors and a few other faces you may know from the telly.

Now the series has finished, what does #Defiance mean to you?

“I think our policy has got to be very clear: not another nickel for Netanyahu’s right wing extremist government while hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza face starvation,” argues Bernie Sanders. “That we… are continuing to supply 2000lb bombs… is unacceptable.”

'Sara once thought the welfare state was on the side of people like her... She now knows it is a cruel welfare state, that punishes those it could support': very good piece by Professor Sue Yeandle on the carer's allowance repayment scandal centreforcare.ac.uk/commentary/202…

After I tweeted this thread, the Home Office phoned me up and said I was lying.

I remember being at a relatives’ house and a brick was thrown through the windows. My cousins chased home from the football by skinheads. The daily name calling. It sort of stays with you for life

🚨Important win in a legal case brought on behalf of families in Gaza. The Home Office unlawfully denied families from applying for reunion visa due to their inability to give biometrics.

This put lives at risk in Gaza, with some having died waiting.

theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

The devastated mother of a missing 23-year-old university graduate is appealing for anyone who might have found his phone to come forward.

Jack O'Sullivan was last seen over a month ago after going to a house party in Bristol.

The woman stabbed in Bradford Kulsuma Akter had prior contact with West Yorkshire Police (it’s referred itself to police watchdog as a result)

#Newsnight can reveal thro FOI requests to the West Yorkshire force, 18 women who’ve had previous contact with their officers, have…

I wish grand dad, and mum & dad were around to see this. It was such a pernicious aspect of their lives in the East Midlands. I have vivid and terrifying memories of the National Front from my childhood #Defiance

“Each week has brought with it yet more horror. More bodies pulled from beneath the rubble of destroyed homes. More funerals… And now, more children left emaciated by a hunger crisis.”

Nada Bashir reports on the devastating impact of six months of war in Gaza.

This now has 76,000 signatures. The Home Office has said it won't consider a safe route for Palestinians to reach the UK.

Meanwhile tens of thousands of Palestinian families have resorted to crowdfunding to get their loved ones out of Gaza. The average cost per person is £10k.