The cost of a child citizenship application is £1012. It costs the Home Office £372 to process each application - a £640 mark-up. Children in families who can't afford the fee are left facing barriers to healthcare, employment, university, renting & personal banking.

Priti Patel’s Anti-Refugee Bill went to parliament yesterday. Here's why it breaches international law according to legal experts 👇 THREAD 🧵 1/

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We're proud of the lifesaving work our volunteers do in the Channel – we make no apology for it. Those we rescue are vulnerable people in danger & distress. Each of them is someone’s father, mother, son or daughter - every life is precious. This is why we launch:

Right now, hostile voices are loud, but there is a quieter, stronger, more determined movement growing. Motivated not by self-interestedness nor fear - but by the clear & obvious sense that whatever our differences, we have far more in common than things that divide us. 1/3

The UK government must create a safe route for those fleeing Afghanistan. Sign the petition now: change.org/p/priti-patel-…

The Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme will welcome 20,000 Afghan refugees to the UK. But far more than precisely 20,000 need help and need it now. What of the 20,001st Afghan refugee, arriving outside the scheme fleeing the same crisis? The #AntiRefugeeBill would punish them.

If you can today, please come to our centre at: Unit 9, Griffin Centre, Staines Road, Feltham, TW14 0HS. We are in desperate need of in-person volunteers to help us sort through donations.

Pls sign to keep Sherko in the UK. He lives in #Inkersall, owns a house +runs a successful business. He came here over 18 years ago from the war-torn region of N Iraq. He has no family/friends in Iraq + would be in danger if deported. change.org/p/home-office-…

At the same time when universities countrywide are offering students holding places £10k+ sweeteners to defer their places, this deeply ironic shittery starts up again.

The sickness in our universities is no better exemplified than vice chancellors earning as much as £600k each year voting to cut thousands of pounds from their own staffs' pensions #NotTodayUUK

This is hysterical dog-whistle politics - there is no safe, practical or legal way to turn people back. If govt wants to prevent dangerous crossings, it should start co-operating with France and introduce safe routes to asylum in the UK. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-584959…

Last Friday I confronted Tory MP Thérèse Coffey with Green New Deal Rising about her party's failure to tackle the climate crisis. #GreenNewDeal #ClimateEmergency

The science museum is a vital national institution, a place I have loved since a child. So it is with great sadness that I have decided to resign from my position on the board of trustees. thetimes.co.uk/article/hannah…

#COP26 let's goooo It's a privilege to attend COP when so many important voices have been unable to come. So, we'll hold the UK government accountable for their climate hypocrisy and empty promises, call for them to #StopCambo & for #NoNewOilAndGas globally ✊🏾 #ClimateJusticeNow

Three people are sleeping in this tiny tent tonight- camp is full of equivalents. No toilet or washing facilitates available save the woods. This isn’t some distant frontier, it’s our own.

What a despicable move by our employers to dishearten us in the weekend, after our successful week of strikes and marches. RIGHT! All out Monday and Tuesday. Come to the pickets if you can. Show your anger and strength, good people of. University of Nottingham UCU branch UCU.

Was in Manston today, at the detention camp. We saw so many young children - from Syria, Afghanistan and Iran. The narrative much of the media is presenting is false. The chants of "freedom" and "we need your help" will stay with me for a long time.