NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great Timothy Snyder. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The older I get, the more I not only loathe nationalism but patriotism as a whole. I’ve been a community organiser for a long time and in that time have had a great many elders call me a “Bosniak Patriot” except I am not. Patriotism is nationalism less unnerving cousin.

In a historic move today, Belgium has been convicted of crimes against humanity for acts committed during colonisation. amnesty.org.uk/press-releases…

It is never sufficiently understood quite how much the vast majority of refugees yearn above all else to go home.

Listening to politicians talk about asylum seekers it sounds like their one & only purpose is to keep people out. Which of you is not too much of a coward to say: it is GOOD that people escape from danger. And it is GOOD that the UK can be a place of sanctuary, actually.

I actually can’t describe how much of a RELIEF it is that a journalist FINALLY FUCKING SAID THIS. Australian offshoring didn’t “work” it caused massive scale abuse. I hate being so pathetically grateful but no other journalist seems to give a damn about that small detail.

Such pleasure to work with Amnesty for #InternationalMigrantsDay to share this simple, but too often silenced message: How we treat people matters. It always will. Please share :)👇

Bashar al Assad shook hands and had a pretty blonde wife. He also slaughtered half a million Syrians. The debate about handshakes is tedious, ignorant, superficial. Focus on how/whether Sharaa and co apply governance, rule of law and build an inclusive state, handshake or not.

Farage should have been asked about this - he should be forced to own it ⁦Laura Kuenssberg⁩ European Movement UK (on BlueSky)

In a few months when people wonder how Elon Musk developed such an outsize influence over British politics, it’ll be worth noting the contribution of push notifications like this from the national broadcaster.

Principal tower in Shoreditch - looking at it every night I’d say it’s around 40% occupancy. Prices 600k for a studio up to £9million for 3bed. Massive waste of real estate. Been empty for years. Councils would rather give planning permission to that crap than proper housing.

Nature belongs to no one and everyone. The British countryside isn’t being 'taken over'—it’s being celebrated. Prayer doesn’t claim land; it leaves it untouched, just like we found it. How about we focus on what unites us, like the beauty of this shared land? 📍Longshaw

‘We owe it to the thousands of children who have been killed to pause and open ourselves up to the fullness of the little lives that were snatched away.’ Goodbye to the slain children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This morning, we won a court order blocking Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, from accessing Americans’ private data. Musk and his DOGE employees must destroy all records they've obtained. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: no one is above the law.

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

This is Hossam’s team, and we are sharing his final message : “If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed—most likely targeted—by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old—a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18

Sadly, the US Academy, which awarded us an Oscar three weeks ago, declined to publicly support Hamdan Ballal while he was beaten and tortured by Israeli soldiers and settlers. The European Academy voiced support, as did countless other award groups and festivals. Several US

Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal. And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.