Lucy

📢We’re delighted to share that today we have published our most recent report #FindingASafeHome, focussing on the UK’s response to displaced Ukrainians and learnings for solutions to refugee accommodation. Read it below 👇 bit.ly/FindingASafeHo…

Tim Farron, "The amount money the Conservative government have wasted on the Rwanda plan so far is the equivalent of 5.7 million GP appointments" @timfarron #BBCQT "The Conservative party are pushing the Rwanda plan because they think it will give them a few points in the opinion polls" "75% of asylum seekers, when they are processed turn out to be genuine asylum seekers.. What would you want to happen to you if this country was an unliveable basketcase -audience claps- and that is your answer" "France takes 3x more asylum seekers than we do. Germany takes 4x as many. 17 European countries take more asylum seekers per head than we do" "How do we deter people coming here? Spend the Rwanda money on 6,000 case workers" "What would be a deterrent? 25% are not genuine asylum seekers. If we had a government that was competent enough to deal with the backlog, and then remove the people who are not asylum seekers, that would be a deterrent" "The Rwanda plan is a waste of time. A waste of your money that could be spent on the NHS" "They're playing politics with the lives of the most desperate people on the planet" "What 0.2% of all asylum seekers will go to Rwanda. Is that really a deterrent?" "Either Rwanda is a safe place, in which case it will not be a deterrent. Or it is an unsafe place and no decent government would ever send anyone there"

My day so far 8am: It’s going to be 21C today 9am: I cycle past a heavily policed Just Stop Oil protest 10am: Shell confirms it paid no tax on North Sea oil this quarter 12pm: UN predicts 2.5C global heating & catastrophic extreme weather 4pm: Rishi Sunak will not attend COP27

🚨 BREAKING: The government has announced it will impose a windfall tax on renewable energy firms - but NOT on fossil fuel giants. Fossil Fuel profits totalled close to $100bn in the first 6 months of this year. (can you reference this?) Why the double standards?

A spectacular sight 1225m (4019 ft) beneath the waves off Baja California as EVNautilus encounter the amazing Halitrephes maasi jelly.

BREAKING🚨: The #BigPlasticCount results are out & they are shocking! UK households throw away almost 100 BILLION pieces of plastic a year & only 12% is recycled in the UK. @10DowningStreet dumps the rest abroad, buries it in landfill or burns it. RT to expose

Barney and I have walked 108 miles for refugees in June, raising money for @BritishRedCross. Any final sponsorship if so inclined would be beautiful! miles.redcross.org.uk/fundraising/lu…

@nilingunu @oliviamayafield @msnaomiphillips @pennysims @tamaramanuel96 Massive congrats @nilingunu, it was brilliant working with you and am excited to see what great things you do at Mind

Wait so you don’t like vaccine mandates but you think a pregnancy mandate is ok?

This day in 1954, Alan Turing took his life by his own hand, driven to death by society’s inability to accept a different form of sexuality. He invented the modern computer. Whatever device you are reading this on, came from his genius.  #PrideMonth

We ask the Government to urgently rethink these plans; the offshoring of human beings should play no part in the UK’s asylum system. If you believe #EveryRefugeeMatters, stand with us: bit.ly/3wo4FQo

These scenes in Germany are genuinely moving. We must remember in the darkness most people are good.

Today, a man harassed me on the Green Line for several stops until someone stepped in and pretended to know me. And let me say — that shit works.

THREAD 1/8: Many of us are watching Ukraine & asking 'why is this happening? We've made a series of videos to try and help - on Ukraine's history (below), the troop build-up, NATO, Russia's denials, sanctions, Putin's world view and Putin's justification.

📢 Still 5 days left to apply! 👇 We are hiring! We are looking for a Senior Policy Research Officer to join our team and help deliver our exciting research plans for 2022. Could this be for you? Follow the link below to apply 📅Deadline is 8 February. careers.redcross.org.uk/vacancies/4221…

We’re in the Scottish Parliament with @RefugeeSurvival to share our report How Will We Survive – on asylum seekers’ experience of destitution – with MSPs. You can read our report here redcross.org.uk/dass-how-will-…

Get some Red Meat in your reading, with the brand new edition of Private Eye, in shops now.

@allgoodbookshed No problem!

@lucy__fish Sorry, no.

All the 2nd hand books are available in this shop. And the bookshelves. Make an offer.

@allgoodbookshed @allgoodbookshop Oh no! Missed this news. Will def pop in. Hope the last few days are storming!

This is the last few days of the bookshop in the Blue House Yard. But the @allgoodbookshop in Turnpike Lane will still be there to sell you books. You should pop along. It's right next door to some tasty food places.