🧵Here it is, my big #EastEnders catch-up thread for people who only see it when they go home for Christmas with the family. Allow me to get you all caught up on the goings-on in Albert Square in its most explosive week of the year! And this year is a DOOZY!

Out today! 'Diversity and welfare provision: tension and discrimination in the 21st century Britain' thanks so much to eds Lee Gregory & Steve Iafrati - includes my chapt on exclusion of migrant hhs from social security LSE Social Policy CASE bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/diversity-and-…

🚨BREAKING: Over 18-months, the Home Office wrongly assessed 1,300 children seeking asylum in the UK to be adults. Our new report with Refugee Council 🧡 and Humans for Rights Network 🧡 reveals the extensive harm caused to child refugees by these flawed decisions. 🧵1/3 helenbamber.org/resources/repo…

People seeking asylum get only £8.86 a week & can't afford bus fares in London. This takes a huge toll on their mental health and isolates them. Outside the city hall today, we urged Seb Dance to make buses free for those seeking asylum. shorturl.at/rAKTU #roomonthebus4us

Last week, the govt gave a shameful response to our report w/ Humans for Rights Network 🧡 on the asylum camp in Wethersfield. It’s widely known that Home Office hasn’t allowed charities into the site, yet our inability to ‘visit’ is used to discredit our findings 🧵 members.parliament.uk/member/4234/wr…

We have seen Palestinians die while waiting to be reunited with their family in the UK because existing family reunion schemes are insufficient and not working. Establishing safe routes to reach the UK is an essential part of an international system of refugee protection. 1/2

Once again, the Lords fight back against Rwanda. I thought they'd resist a couple times then let it go. I was wrong.

If you, like many of us, are feeling frustrated at the government's appalling plans to send people to Rwanda, please do support this work 👇 Asylum Aid has time and again stood up for the human rights of people seeking asylum. Your contribution will help make all the difference.

Wrong. Literally paying people to go in a way that has nothing to do with the Rwanda scheme. The last pathetic gasp of a pisspoor government, desperate to avoid a local election wipeout, reprinted by credulous journalists who should damn well know better.

🚨 BREAKING: We have launched legal action against Home Office’s new Safety of Rwanda guidance to ensure that all individual cases against removal to Rwanda are properly considered. 1/3 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-689514…

Tories get slaughtered in elections. Cue anti migrant propaganda. People aren’t buying what they’re selling. They’ve been out in their thousands this week protecting people. We like migration. We need migration. People move. Get over it.

The Refugee & Migrant Children's Consortium repeatedly warned of the risk of children 'assessed' as adults by the Home Office being removed to Rwanda & the govt hasn't acted: refugeechildrensconsortium.org.uk/rwanda-bill/ Please support the wonderful Humans for Rights Network 🧡 in this vital legal challenge 👇

🚨 In a first of its kind research study in the UK, our clinical psychologists have looked at the extent of the harm that the age assessment process can cause to the mental health of hundreds of young people seeking asylum.🧵1/4

There is ALWAYS a The Thick of It scene:

Rishi Sunak shouting over a protestor playing THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER in the pouring rain is peak Britain. 10/10.

purdah on the dance floor time 💃

🚨 Our new study shows that living in asylum hotels causes extreme harm to the mental & physical health of people seeking protection. This #RefugeeWeek let's remember that thousands remain stuck in awful conditions in hotels across the UK. Our report: helenbamber.org/resources/repo…

🚨 BREAKING: Our new report with Humans for Rights Network 🧡 shows that there has been an alarming increase in the number of men self-harming and attempting suicide in the asylum camp at RAF Wethersfield. 🧵1/4 Read the report here: helenbamber.org/resources/repo…

Election 2024: A new day has broken in the most beautiful of all possible worlds iandunt.substack.com/p/election-202…

The kitten will REPORT to Larry the Cat.