Visibly Jewish, visibly welcome

The incredible new cohort of North West Spokespeople - we can't wait to see them all on the airwaves!(left to right)

Natalie Carbon Coop, Amanda Elwen, Sarah Rowe, Rivka Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit, Bill Ruthhart, Liz Godfrey, Mark Slater, Dom Smithies 🦉, Caroline The Equality Trust Maria Romanenko 🇺🇦

You heard of carbon offsets, now there's plastic offsets.

Here at the plastic treaty talks in Ottawa, the World Bank & Verra (the biggest carbon credits certifier) are discussing growing this new market. #INC4

We've been investigating it.
Our new story:
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Tickets now live – join me and Gideon Rachman in London on the evening of May 28th at the Tabernacle theatre! Intelligence Squared eventbrite.co.uk/e/pulling-back…

This is excellent news for Praxis 🧡 and the wider migration sector 🎉🎉🎉

We're delighted to share that Minnie Rahman has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer at Praxis, following the retirement of Sally Daghlian OBE.

Minnie is a champion for migrant rights and we can't wait to welcome her to the team!

Read more ⤵
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Ahead of the mayoral election, parts of the anti-ULEZ movement have evolved into an Islamophobic smear campaign against Sadiq Khan. My latest for Hyphen: hyphenonline.com/2024/04/25/how…

🚨🎊🎉Labour has announced they’ll be fully taking our railway into public ownership within 5 years.

This is brilliant news for passengers and rail workers. It’s bad news for train company shareholders around the world. Here’s who owns our railway: weownit.org.uk/who-owns-our/r…

The AFD is now the biggest party amongst 14-29 yrs olds in Germany and inflation is the biggest stated reason. Without a genuine alternative economic offer we're screwed - not just tweaking around the edges. This story is being repeated nearly everywhere I go.

Less than 10 per cent of cities worldwide have some degree of privatisation of their water system.

Public ownership is the norm in most places around the world. It’s the best solution here too.

Eleanor Shearer spoke to Vanessa Feltz on Monday.

It was a pleasure to be on this episode alongside Leila Zadeh 🧡 from Rainbow Migration

Climate breakdown is one of the single greatest threats to global security.

We need to invest in decarbonization, not more bombs.

👀 List of Tories supporting one of the key amendments to water down the Renters Reform Bill. What does the (R) by names mean? Registered interests. Looks like landlords turning out in force to scupper a bill that was meant to protect renters' interests, not their own finances

So, Nigel Farage - one of the founders & owners of Reform UK - can present an “impartial” programme on a TV “news” channel during the general election according to the broadcasting regulator @ofcom. The leader of the party Richard Tice 🇬🇧 & its only MP Lee Anderson MP can…

'Watching five people die isn't a deterrent, and yet Rishi Sunak arranging a flight to Rwanda is a deterrent?'
'It's nonsense, Shelagh.'

Asylum specialist Louise Calvey tells Shelagh Fogarty the Rwanda Bill is 'funding increased risk, which is why we're seeing more fatalities'.

The shameful #Rwanda plan is political showboating & makes a mockery of our international legal obligations. Thanks for hosting Al Jazeera English

NEW: French coastguard confirm that five people have died attempting to cross the Channel.

The five include three men, a woman and a child. French media are reporting the child is a four year old girl.

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Already the case that one in ten people of working age is receiving a health related benefit. These are remarkable numbers. And they are rising.

The number of new awards each month has more than doubled since 2019.