Keir Starmer could win back many voters by standing up to Israel: By abandoning its left-wing values, Labour has lost many supporters. Taking action to help Gazans could win them back https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/gaza-israel-keir-starmer-ban-arms-sales-netanyahu-labour-party-uk/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

If you're in the UK let's talk #GreenParty! How do you feel they're doing at the moment? Also we'll be chatting with Green Party leadership hopeful Zack Polanski soon, so if you've got any questions you'd like us to ask him drop them in the replies. #ukpolitics #UKpol

Reform knows exactly what it’s doing in local government. What about the left?: Left-wing councils were waiting for a Labour government to turn the money back on, but help isn’t coming. So what now? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/what-left-do-in-local-government-councils-labour-greens-plan-reform/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Indigenous communities near Panama Canal have a bigger problem than Trump: Residents tell of anger over government's plans to flood villages to build reservoir to increase water for the canal https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/panama-canal-new-resevoir-flood-indio-indigenous-communities-donald-trump-us/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

What’s next for Reform?: Nigel Farage’s party now has the resources and momentum to capitalise on mass disillusionment with both major parties https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/what-next-reform-party-nigel-farage-local-elections-labour-conservatives/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

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