Let's try to predict the future! Do you think the government's planned welfare reform will pass when the vote takes place next Tuesday? In April, Mary-Ann Stephenson told us that women will be disproportionately affected by these proposed changes, here's why: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/disability-benefits-cuts-hurt-women-most-carers-rachel-reeves-keir-starmer/ #UK #UkPol #UK_Politics #Labour #Starmer #LabourParty #Welfare

What next for Iran-Israel conflict after US strikes on nuclear facilities?: Donald Trump has gone fully in on Israel’s war aims. That decision may yet come back to hurt him – and Keir Starmer https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/what-next-iran-israel-conflict-us-strike-fordow-nuclear-trump-netanyahu/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Activists’ arrests must be reviewed after government drops anti-protest law: Labour has quietly dropped legal fight over unlawful crackdown on protest. But what about those already arrested? https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/protest-law-braverman-overturned-labour-yvette-cooper-liberty-greta-thunberg/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

20 years ago I warned that attacking Iran would not end well. That’s still true: Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear programme may mark the start of a long and drawn-out global conflict https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/iran-israel-nuclear-us-attacks-long-drawn-out-conflict-netanyahu-trump/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Inside Bolsonarists’ campaign to impose US sanctions on Brazilian judges: Former president's son and his allies are lobbying US government to punish judges investigating 2022 coup attempt https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/eduardo-bolsonaro-lobbying-us-sanctions-brazil-justice-supreme-court-marco-rubio-figueiredo-moraes-magnitsky-act-coup/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Locked up: Protestors in prison with Katy Watts: Protestors now face lengthy prison sentences for 'conspiring to cause disruption', we asked a human rights lawyer what this means for us all. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/podcasts/in-solidarity-podcast/liberty-protest-laws-prisons-labour-conservatives/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Who’s funding Reform – and why?: Nigel Farage says his party is a break from the political establishment. That claim doesn’t match up with its donors https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/reform-uk-funders-nigel-farage-5-million-donations-fossil-fuels-tax-havens/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Women in prison ‘punitively’ restrained 424 times amid mental health crisis: Revealed: Dozens of women with mental health problems ‘stripped’ and made to wear ‘last resort’ anti-rip clothing https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/women-prison-restrained-anti-rip-clothing-mental-health-self-harm-crisis/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Labour’s defence review is rehashed, uninspired, and doomed to fail: Keir Starmer’s defence plan overlooks by far the biggest threat facing global security https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/labour-strategic-defence-review-ignores-climate-crisis-biggest-threat-keir-starmer/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Join the conversation: ‘Outrage’ at UK locking up climate protesters: openDemocracy readers discuss an op-ed we published by an activist who has been sentenced for planning to protest https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/readers-thoughts-uk-climate-protester-imprisoned-outrage-ella-ward-just-stop-oil/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS