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"By resourcing communities to play a greater role in community-led regeneration and to take ownership of local assets, strategic authorities can enable communities/social economy organisations to have agency over local spaces/places, building more sustainable communities in the long run."

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Take a look at this image and weep - and then act This is the direct legacy of the appalling way we are treating our world Hothouse Earth is coming www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

68% of people who sought safety in the UK in the past year were from countries directly affected by British colonial rule. It’s time political language welcomed people whose lives are shaped by our history instead of stoking hate that puts them in even more danger. www.bigissue.com/opinion/immi...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Has the Conservative party, which is currently averaging at 17% in the polls, considered actually trying to win over some votes from Britain's 4 million Muslim citizens, rather than constantly making it clear how much they despise them?

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

"Old fashioned print media is in decline everywhere but in the mind of the nation’s political class. The result is that our leaders are getting a very warped sense of what the average voter thinks, reads and cares about."

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

Very cool. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Enough of this racist fiction. Enough. Not a single non-white person in England is in a job in the NHS because they are non-white. Not a single one. And as for the idea that England's criminal justice system goes easy on non-white people because they are non-white. Well. Just think about that.

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

Only 16% of Brits think that Rachel Reeves is doing a good job as Chancellor - the same level of support that Kwasi Kwarteng enjoyed post mini Budget, according to Ipsos

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

The number of people living in temporary accommodation has reached record levels in the UK. Those from Black African, Black Caribbean and Arab backgrounds are heavily over-represented in the homeless population. Learn more about ethnic inequalities in housing affordability here ⤵️ buff.ly/4U3ZPBb

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 👍👊@patmillsuk.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

submitted 33 days ago • 49 comments

"Shelter and National Housing Federation have suggested about 90,000 social homes a year would be needed to hit the government’s manifesto target of 1.5m new homes." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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There is growing consensus across the political spectrum that we should remove the two-child limit 📢 All the evidence shows it is the most cost-effective way to lower child poverty. 1/2

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

This is extremely very not good.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

As ever, the loudest voices calling for the collapse of universities, presumably in the post-92 sector, benefitted from privileged educations.

submitted 16 days ago • 37 comments

NEW: "There is no set of measures the DWP can cook up that will achieve the savings the Treasury is demanding, on the timescale it is demanding them, without blanket-bombing disabled people." My deep dive on what the DWP isn't trumpeting about its latest research: www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

submitted 106 days ago • 13 comments

All of my six top tips for fundraising in no particular order are now on the blog! Here they are in summary form: Listen 1st Involve & engage Show your working Document your processes Plan, Do, Learn Use pictures www.3rdsectormissioncontrol.co.uk/my-six-top-t...

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We are disappointed at the delay to the child poverty strategy which the UK Government promised to publish in spring. Pushing this important work back will mean 20,000 more children will be dragged into poverty. 1/2

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

"The Government can reap £1.7bn of economic rewards by spending less than a third (£500m) on community-led grants in doubly disadvantaged neighbourhoods." localtrust.org.uk/news-and-sto...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

'there is a special place in hell for politicians who object to solar farms & other renewable projects. But perhaps the hottest part is reserved for those who seek to slow pylons and other forms of electricity transmission, they keep us on course for a burning world. bright-green.org/2023/11/07/g...

submitted 32 days ago • 26 comments

The fact that we have a Member of Parliament effectively endorsing and certainly normalising incitement to violence against a marginalised and racialised social group says everything about just how dangerous the spread of fascist logic in British society has become.

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

Rotterdam unveils a museum about migration while anti-foreigner sentiment rises in Europe. Exhibits include thousands of suitcases from travelers, portraits of refugees and a life-sized city bus. apnews.com/article/migr... @apnews.com

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The notion we should learn from the United States - where people are getting swept up off the streets and imprisoned by the state for their politically inconvenient speech - might be the most absurd thing the Financial Times has ever published.

submitted 21 days ago • 24 comments

Labour's attempts to pursue a bunch of cross-departmental policy reforms piecemeal, and aligned with neither the Spending Review nor a fiscal event, continue to unravel. A truly baffling approach to some of the most important things government does - child poverty, SEND, migration, HE, devolution.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

NEW from me: Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is operating 35 gas turbines without any pollution permits, belching asthma-worsening emissions into an area that leads Tennessee in ER visits for asthma. www.eenews.net/articles/elo...

submitted 44 days ago • 36 comments

Yup this is definitely fine

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Almost 3 million emergency food parcels were provided by food banks to people facing hunger in the past year – equivalent to one parcel every 11 seconds. This is a 51 per cent increase compared to five years ago www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 24 days ago • 19 comments

📢 These cuts will mean: “specialised services for survivors of rape will disappear, girls will miss out on education, and women will continue to be excluded from positions of power and influence”. @rachelschraer.bsky.social for @the-independent.com ✍️ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Look at this and tell me we don’t need electoral reform Farage could win an absolute majority with only 3 in 10 support

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

If only there were someone in a senior position of power in this relationship

submitted 23 days ago • 84 comments

Yesterday’s immigration stats highlighted how vital refugee family reunion is as a safe & legal route. Due to the asylum backlog clearance just over 20,000 visas were granted in the last year, 90% to women & children. But the route is potentially under threat www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

12 data centers have requested 6 gigawatts of new electricity generation in Nevada, which would amount to a 40% expansion of the state's power sector. We found the projects could also consume billions of gallons of water in the nation's driest state. <Now sharing my deep dive with a gift link.>

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

Even Reeves's closest colleagues are telling her what should be obvious: she should be taxing wealth fairly, not stripping support from the most vulnerable. Time for her to start listening. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

“Now that solar PV is the cheapest source of electricity in history, African governments are increasingly leaning on the technology to plug the power access gap. In the process, they’re largely leapfrogging the traditional, centralised electrification model.”

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Reform made huge gains in the local elections. But as well as winning councils, they won influence on £100bn of LGPS pension assets. A US-style war on 'woke investments' looks to be coming to UK asset mgmt. on.ft.com/3ZhOh4j

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

The key trends here and their implications: - Lab less popular with Lab voters (increases defections from Lab) - Lab less popular with LD/Grn voters (bad for anti-Con/Ref tactical voting) - Ref more popular with Con and Lab voters (increases defections to Ref and good for pro-Ref tactical voting)

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

The Coat of Hopes, a patchwork coat on an ongoing walking pilgrimage through the UK, raising ecological issues, made by, worn and walked by 100s of people on a journey on foot over more than a 1000 miles so far.... #FridayFeeling

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

Labour faces watershed moment with Black and Asian voters, experts warn

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

The coverage of this EU deal acts like the last five years haven't happened. Polls now show overwhelming support for a closer relationship with the EU, with even Reform voters backing things like the youth mobility scheme, and yet the coverage is still being framed about "betrayals" of Brexit

submitted 27 days ago • 103 comments

We’re a proud member of the #LiftTheBan coalition. Yesterday, it released new research showing why giving people seeking safety the right to work is common sense. Congrats to @refugeeaction.bsky.social, @asylummatters.bsky.social and the whole coalition! Read more below 👇

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

The top solar nations might surprise you: Netherlands leads per capita, Greece gets 28% of its power from solar, and Poland just hit #13 globally. It’s not just about big installs—it's about smart policy, rooftop adoption, and clean power share. The solar revolution is spreading globally fast! ☀️⚡

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

We've coordinated an open letter to the Home Secretary, signed by over 100 refugee, migrant, and racial equality orgs urgently calling for a meeting. We're urging the govt. to meaningfully engage with migrant communities & orgs like ours that represent them. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

🔥9 in 10 people want stronger action on climate — across continents, cultures, & communities — united in the belief that our governments must do more. We are the majority! 🌎✊ We need to keep building momentum to push our leaders to act fast to redesign our energy system & protect our futures.

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

The reality is, Britain economically benefits from immigration and illegal migration is too small to impact most. The communities that blame immigration for decline are actually suffering the effects of 15 yrs of Tory austerity, under-investment in public infrastructure and the reality of Brexit.

submitted 28 days ago • 99 comments