Hundreds of domestic abuse victims face jail under new law: Women who call police to help deal with abusive partners are being criminalised for assaulting emergency workers https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/domestic-abuse-victims-criminalised-tory-law/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Exclusive: Government hands private firms £3bn in bid to ‘stop the boats’: Research reveals the business of Channel security is booming, as companies profit off asylum seekers’ desperation https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/exclusive-government-hands-private-firms-3bn-in-bid-to-stop-the-boats/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

The UK clamped down on migration. The LGBTIQ+community was collateral: Conservatives knew their immigration plan would disproportionately impact LGBTIQ+ people. They did it anyway https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/hostile-illegal-migration-act-lgbtiq-india-georgia/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Wales’ prisons will keep failing as long as England controls its judiciary: Rising custodial deaths, self-harm and rampant racial disproportionality are being masked by lack of a devolved judiciary https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/prisons-wales-england-need-devolved-judiciary-failing/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Gaza faces increasingly bleak reality one month after Israel ended ceasefire: Western states are still failing to put the pressure on Israel needed to end the bloodshed https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-war-gaza-unlikely-end-trump-us-uk-starmer-netanyahu/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Reform backers are importing the US’s ‘big money’ playbook to UK politics: Great British PAC wants to unite the right. To do so, it hopes to Americanise UK politics with help of donors like Elon Musk https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/gb-pac-uk-right-us-reform-farage-political-action-committee-elon-musk-donors-america/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

In response to our reporter going undercover at #NigelFarage’s #Reform party rally we had this reply: "The "left" needs to admit that immigration is a problem. NOT immigrants themselves, but immigration. With the current lack of investment in public services then continuous immigration becomes a problem. With no "leftist" party stating that immigration is a problem then that leaves a vacuum for Farage and his party to thrive unchallenged in." What do you think about this take?

Trump’s tariffs are not unlike previous US plan that ended in disaster https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/trump-tariffs-bush-project-new-american-century-us-imports-markets/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

How the far right is using thinness to radicalise women and teen girls https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/far-right-radicalise-thin-skinny-fat-shame-women-girls-social-media-tiktok/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Inside massacre of Gaza aid workers found dead and buried with hands bound https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/massacre-gaza-aid-workers-found-dead-buried-hands-bound-first-responders-palestine-israel/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS