Loved working on this film about a Luton you never see, with the brilliant @tajali1.bsky.social @maeveshearlaw.bsky.social and all the big hearted Lutonians we met along the way working tirelessly to build up their communities. Fun town, even better food. youtu.be/eArGP8CdIXA?...

Luton vs Tommy Robinson: the myth of a UK town divided

YouTube video by The Guardian

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New video from me (and @christophercherry.bsky.social) looking at the resistance to The government's welfare bill and the continuing fight for disabled people www.theguardian.com/news/video/2...

‘Voting Labour is my biggest regret’: UK government's betrayal of disabled people – video

When ministers announced major changes to welfare, many were left in shock that such deep cuts would be enacted by a Labour government. The Guardian spent time with dissenting voices in the run-up to ...

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Gutted at the death of Peter Krykant. Spent days with him at his safer consumption van, making a film. Service users told us how he saved their lives. Stood up for the ones in society nobody cares about. That’s some legacy. Always a hero Pete. RIP www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why I decided to run the UK’s first drug consumption van | Peter Krykant

I cannot stand back and allow governments to be complicit in allowing people to die, says drugs policy campaigner Peter Krykant

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“We would not be here if western reporters and Joe Biden hadn’t manufactured consent for the genocide by repeating the incendiary lie that Hamas had beheaded babies.” A column filled with exhausted rage at what we’ve witnessed for more than a year and a half. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi

When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?

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Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer never more relevant. Read by Jesse Welles. youtu.be/cs9osSYa1FA?...

Bertolt Brecht “War Primer”

YouTube video by Jesse Welles

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‘Send Warrior Mums’: The exhausted parents fighting England’s schools crisis. Our film (and a riposte to Farage’s ignorant comments yesterday about how easy SEND kids / parents have it). A colossal crisis without depth in the UK. With the mighty Rich Sprenger reporting: youtu.be/K21bENDSd8A?...

‘SEND Warrior Mums’: The parents fighting England’s schools crisis

YouTube video by The Guardian

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An image being shared a lot on Chinese social media:

Crazy to think China could be bullied when CCP’s entire legitimacy is built around resisting foreign bullying. 百年国耻 (Century of National Humiliation) is taught to every kid, part of every museum exhibit, nationalist movie etc. The first line of the national anthem is 起来, “stand up” ffs.

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Today, China escalated tariffs on imports from the US to 125 percent, in response to US President Donald Trump's punishing regime against Chinese goods.

Seeing infinitely more outrage about the leaked planning of military attacks by bungling politicians than outrage around slaughter of innocent kids by such attacks. Has to be new to be news.

Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2y ago

Report: Four children among 25 civilians killed in a week of US bombing in Yemen - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/report-four-children-among-25-civilians-killed-week-us-bombing-yemen

By Labour’s own estimates today, they are about to force yet another 50,000 kids into acute poverty, the impact of which will last a lifetime. This in a country where 1 in 4 kids are already growing up in poverty. Astonishing this story doesn’t lead every broadcast, every newspaper.

Save the Children UK@savechildrenuk.bsky.social · 2y ago

The UK Government committed to tackling child poverty, and right now it is rising. At the moment, this will be the first Labour Government likely to oversee a significant rise in the number of children in poverty. 2/3

New video form me and colleagues @christophercherry.bsky.social @kyrievangelou.bsky.social and Noah Payne Frank

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Can the UK fix its broken prison system? – video

God knows the media needs working class representation. Now more than ever. A Guardian paid scheme that’s a start: workforus.theguardian.com/entry-level-...

A terrifying time for disabled people, with rumours swirling / ground being rolled for cuts. We made a film with the brilliant punk singer John Kelly recently… awful just to get smallest glimpse of the dread a phone call from the DWP and a needs assessment brings:

Always a joyous day when a new Anywhere But Westminster lands out of the blue. @johnharris1969.bsky.social youtu.be/XJFgewA3FA0?...

Do Trump's politics connect in these English towns? | Anywhere but Westminster

YouTube video by The Guardian

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This is excellent on rise of Andrew Tate, blaming brute individualism and the shattering of communal working class cultures. “WC solidarity functioned like a street barricade—erected in protection but with the effect of binding a community as one.” www.dissentmagazine.org/article/mr-l...

Mr. Lonely - Dissent Magazine

Some have suggested that young men are drawn to Andrew Tate because they suffer from a dearth of social contact. Yet men go to Tate not to alleviate loneliness but to intensify it.

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Scotland (and the UKs) 1st Overdose Prevention Centre opens in Glasgow today. But of course, it’s the not the 1st. That was opened by the heroic Pete Krykant who bought a van and let people inject heroin and cocaine safely inside as an act of civil disobedience. Our film: youtu.be/PPM_TOFMM-8?...

Scotland's drug deaths crisis: saving lives with an 'illegal' injection van

YouTube video by The Guardian

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Happy retirement to the mighty Mick Lynch… An absolute WC legend, so needed as a sure-footed, authentic voice in broadcast circles (and briefly a media phenomenon thanks to how little they platform such figures). 20 more Micks and we could really be somewhere. youtu.be/809-KxuhVeU

Kay Burley and RMT Union's General Secretary Mick Lynch Media Interview

YouTube video by PR Agency One

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Honoured to share that our investigation into Press House Gaza by Guardian + ARIJ + Forbidden Stories has been shortlisted for the True Stories award. A reminder that Palestinian journalists continue to die in record numbers. #Gaza

Next year will see the UK’s first sanctioned drug consumption room open in Glasgow after a decade of work - and experts and campaigners hope it might change drugs policy across the UK. I spoke to some of those involved for today’s Observer: www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

UK to open its first safe drug consumption room amid soaring deaths

The Thistle in Glasgow aims to save lives by providing a supervised environment in ‘Europe’s drug deaths capital’

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What a photograph.

Earl Charlton is one of most powerful, urgent voices out there on misery of homelessness (a crisis that has soared by 14% in past year). Someone’s Daughter, Someone’s Son full documentary: youtu.be/vhiwguIxoyA

Inside the Hidden Lives of Britain’s Homeless: The Real Stories of the Streets (Documentary)

YouTube video by Java Discover | Free Global Documentaries & Clips

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Please do call today or otherwise donate to our 2025 Guardian and Observer charity appeal, raising money for War Child, Médecins Sans Frontières and Parallel Histories www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

The Guardian and Observer charity telethon 2024: speak to our journalists and donate

Marina Hyde, John Crace and Simon Hattenstone are among those ready to take your calls to raise money for War Child, Médecins Sans Frontières and Parallel Histories

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@billybragg.bsky.social and the multimedia crew on the Guardian pickets. Striking in support of our Observer colleagues. Cheers Billy!

New film on the MIGHTY John Kelly, a punk musician and disabilities activist fighting endless gvt cuts to disabled services and the right to an independent life. “They just want me to sit in my wheelchair and do nothing. Which I ain’t gonna do, obviously.” www.theguardian.com/society/vide...

The 'war' on disabled people and my fight for an independent life – video

Disability services in the UK have been consistently cut after 14 years of Tory rule and austerity, but with the promise of change from a new Labour government, musician and activist John Kelly is con...

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A Channel 4 documentary that claimed to expose the “scandal” of the disability benefits system has been described as an “atrocity” and an “insult” to the millions of disabled people in poverty.

Channel 4 documentary on benefits was ‘atrocity’ and ‘insult’ to disabled people in poverty, say activists

A Channel 4 documentary that claimed to expose the “scandal” of the disability benefits system has been described as an “atrocity” and an “insult” to the millions of disabled people in poverty. The…

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“There are, it seems, endless uses to which a politician can put a poor child.” Great, miserable read on the Scottish budget yesterday announcing “ending” the two-child benefit cap and the political games behind it. thejaggythistle.substack.com/p/the-politi...

The political uses of poor children

Some thoughts on the two-child benefit cap

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A week ago, I joined 12 parents from @changingrealities.bsky.social for a meeting at No 10 with Bridgit Phillipson & @alimcgovern.bsky.social It felt symbolically important. We need a child poverty strategy that works with the grain of everyday lives www.bigissue.com/opinion/chan...

We went to Downing Street to demand an end to child poverty

Nearly 200 parents and carers, alongside the Child Poverty Action Group, went to parliament to demand action from the Labour government.

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The mighty Mick Lynch joining the Guardian and Observer picket line outside offices. 2 days of strike action this week and next.

Morning. I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours over the sale of the Observer For more information please @GoNUJ93 and @NUJofficial or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver

Not for Sale: Save The Observer

Journalists at the Guardian & Observer are taking strike action in opposition to the hurried sale of the title.

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When the show 'Benefits Street' was produced, a poll showed that the public thought 41% of the welfare budget went to people who were unemployed; the real figure was 2.3%. Politicians and journalists don't just respond to public opinion — they actively shape it.