Woman wearing headphones and a blue raincoat holding a smartphone while standing on a bus, with International Women's Day logo visible.
To mark #InternationalWomensDay our latest blog looks at the inequalities which continue to shape women and girls’ experiences of transport and what's been done to tackle them: bettertransport.org.uk/blog/tacklin...
Plenty more to do
"I've spent a decade #writing #anti-war #fiction for children and readers of all ages. It's the horrifying realities (like the #IranWar) that drive my conviction that it is immoral to glorify war in our books or movies. Heroes don't win wars. They stop them."
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#BookSky
Well done these men, showing there was no excuse... Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
A blue-hued screenshot from a "Salty Girls" dance video in which protesters evoked the Morton Salt Girl with rainjackets and umbrellas as they creatively protested ICE at the Broadview Detention Center in Chicago, IL. Yellow line art figures of dancers create a layered image of the dancers.
This week's edition of Nonviolence News is packed with impressive #boycotts, a little good news, and a bunch of wildly #creative #nonviolent actions. Oh, and 4 million people #QuitGPT over killer robots.
Read it here:
nonviolencenews.org/2026/03/06/m...
#nonviolence #resistance #peace
£40 billion to refurb the House of Commons? Surely that's a typo. You could build around half a million units of social housing for that 🤔
BBC News - Parliament refurb chair defends potential £40bn costs
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
An interior of a hallway, with an arch, and a door in the background. A dog lies on a floral rug.
Women artists have been overlooked throughout history.
Our A-Z resource highlights 1,000 women artists. Here's E 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/curations/an-a-z-of-1000-women-artists-represented-on-art-uk-eardley-to-evans-18092
🧑🎨 Mary Dawson Elwell (1874–1952) 📷 Bradford Museums
#WomensHistoryMonth
1/ Yesterday, the Trump administration notified Congress of a $151.8 million sale to #Israel of 12,000 1,000-pound bombs, declaring an emergency to bypass the Congressional review period. www.forumarmstrade.org/us-israel-tr...
see notification www.state.gov/israel-munit...
I am trying Le Chat Mistral... could be slightly better
#c4news
Programme has been halved two days in a row. Yes, paralympics important but the schedule should still find room for a full news programme, especially when your hardworking reporters are out in the field and BBC often unwatchable. Crufts is not more important than war.
End tax breaks on oil and gas, and support workers instead... Please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...
Party Total reported Donations accepted (excl. public funds) Public funds accepted Total accepted in this quarter Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland £65,140 £20,538 £44,602 £65,140 Conservative and Unionist Party £4,216,224 £2,401,452 £1,614,729 £4,016,181 Co-operative Party £131,180 £131,180 £0 £131,180 Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P. £104,320 £0 £104,320 £104,320 Green Party £294,069 £189,010 £98,764 £287,773 Labour Party £2,043,007 £1,943,824 £31,836 £1,975,660 Liberal Democrats £2,190,101 £1,314,139 £749,173 £2,063,312 Open Party £197,151 £155,067 £0 £155,067 People Before Profit £8,605 £0 £6,453 £6,453 Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales £63,967 £30,000 £33,967 £63,967 Reform UK £5,473,000 £5,456,000 £0
The funding gap between Reform UK and the Greens is astounding.
New Electoral Commission stats today reveal the reportable donations in Q4 2025:
🟢 Green Party: £189,010
🟣 Reform UK: £5,456,000
Greens are bringing in barely 3.5% of Reform UK's large donations - but still polling around 20%.
For 20 years, BAE Systems has run STEM roadshows for over a million children, while selling fighter jets and weapons linked to tens of thousands of civilian deaths.
Michal Grant explores why schools need to reconsider giving the company a platform to influence young people.
#STEM4peace
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
That’s not what I saw, Home Secretary. How about some safe routes?
Safe routes = no business model for the gangs.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=lopM...
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
I just took action with @theactionnetwork.bsky.social: 2027 Action Scorecards Volunteer Registration: Second Cohort . Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/2027-a...
The Dinah Project received £90k from the UK for a report on sexual violence during October 7 — a partisan report littered with propaganda
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I'm honoured to have been named one of The House Magazine’s ‘Women in Westminster: The 100’ for 2026! Brilliant to be in company with so many inspiring women shaping our future. #WiW100
The value of fines handed out by the UK’s financial regulator has plummeted to “pitiful” levels, undermining the country's fight against economic crime, according to data we obtained from public releases and freedom of information requests
Trump’s empty threat to cut trade ties with Spain will not intimidate Europe.
We stand with Spain, as we stand with Iranians and international law.
Today in the Freethinker, @maryamnamazie.bsky.social writes about the importance of blasphemy to human freedom - particularly women's blasphemy.
'In [theocratic/authoritarian] systems, being a woman is in and of itself an act of blasphemy.'
freethinker.co.uk/2026/03/wome...
👉NEW -- ‘We deserve to know the truth’: 11 questions about US bases in Britain
by Mark Curtis
From where they are exactly to the laws governing them, here’s what we need to know to hold the UK government accountable for the US use of British bases
www.declassifieduk.org/we-deserve-t...
This whole war is an isreali land grab.
Millions in Somalia are inching toward famine. Drought and hunger are arriving together, as scientists warned. Yet aid is being cut as the crisis deepens.
These aren't statistics — they are people. Abandoned by a system that had every warning and chose profit anyway.
phys.org/news/2026-02...
About 46,000 U.S. troops and a network of air, naval, and logistics bases stretch across the Middle East.
Washington calls the presence “defensive.” The region experiences the consequences differently.
Monochrome photograph featuring a standing Iranian woman in a hijab holding a portable radio and tape deck on her shoulder in an interior
Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian, Untitled (from the Qajar series), 2002 #womensart
Seven-spot Ladybird seen on a window frame in Cheshire today.
Fines for UK financial crime nosedive to ‘pitiful’ lows.
Penalties from the FCA drop by 78% in five years.
Regulator now has a duty to promote growth of the sector. It is a race to the bottom.
Financial crime not investigated. Bankers bonuses will increase from illicit financial flows. To
