Zack Polanski, migration, the Greens, and an economics of care www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...

"Volunteering with HWR is a very moving and rewarding experience" Read more from our fab new team of volunteers at www.hertswelcomes.org.uk/volunteer-st...
To join our team just contact [email protected]
@govolherts @communities1st @refugeestogether

"I am happy that you did not abandon me." Today we hear from a delightful family who we supported with this equipment for their new born from #AlternativesWatford. The parents started English classes with us on day 1 of their arrival. Read more at www.hertswelcomes.org.uk/feedback-fro...

Can you spare an hour a week to help refugees in the #Borehamwood and #Hertsmere area? Here are Annabel and Birim at the @communities1st.bsky.social volunteer fair in Borehamwood – they would love to hear from you. Do get in touch via @[email protected].

It's not Bake Off. It's a global far-right insurgency.

To normalise Nigel Farage, is to normalise Donald Trump.

We, the media, have to wise up fast.

broligarchy.substack.com/p/springtime...

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022.

That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations.

So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

Plato

(This quote is worth repeating every day!)

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This country is awash with money. The very rich are rich beyond imagination. So when Starmer wants to stay within his arbitrary fiscal rules, who does he decide to take money from? The very rich? No, from people with disabilities who depend on benefits for the bare minimum of a decent life.

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke