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Michelle Cross
@michellecross.bsky.social
(@shellysaboteur on twitter/x)
I sometimes go back there for work/research purposes (unfortunately😉).
Studied BA and MA criminology. Homelessness volunteer (rough sleepers) 8 years.

Photography 📷
Love to run🏃‍♀️
Forever European
Glad to be here😉🦋
Pinned
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I want my country back.

Proud to be on the counter demonstration in London yesterday

#StandUpToRacism
#NoToHate
#RefugeesAreWelcome
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At least 20,179 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, according to the UN's latest reports.

Children should be playing, learning & laughing - not part of a casualty list.

They've been forced to grow up in unrelenting violence & suffering during Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
December 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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NEW RESOURCE WITH @streetskitchen.bsky.social

Info cards to support people who are being criminalised for experiencing homelessness and poverty, for example under ‘anti-social behaviour’ laws.

Share with your networks and download the info cards ⤵️

www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/advice_infor...
Criminalisation of homelessness: Information cards - Liberty
Liberty has designed and produced information cards in collaboration with Streets Kitchen Legal to support people who are being criminalised, for example under ‘anti-social behaviour’ laws, for experi...
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
December 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Homelessness is on the rise all around the UK. These are the rough sleeping figures and homelessness facts you need to know...

www.bigissue.com/news/housing...
Homelessness facts and stats: The damning numbers you need to know
Experts worry about a looming crisis of homelessness. These are the rough sleeping figures and homelessness facts you need to know.
www.bigissue.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Prison population to top 100,000 by 2030
The prison population is projected to increase to between 98,000 and 103,600 by March 2030, with a central estimate of 100,600.
www.russellwebster.com/prison-popul...
Prison population to top 100,000 by 2030
The prison population is projected to increase to between 98,000 and 103,600 by March 2030, with a central estimate of 100,600.
www.russellwebster.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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When I arrive at the party
November 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Inside British Army’s child training college where violent abuse is the norm
Inside British Army’s child training college where violent abuse is the norm
An 11-month investigation reveals culture of violence, criminality and sexual abuse at army training centre for teens
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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The latest episode of the Trapped podcast is now live and includes their report on the Howard League’s recommendations for how to end the detention of people on IPP sentences. Listen now on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

https://podfollow.com/1689277181
Trapped: The IPP Prisoner Scandal
Listen to episodes and learn more about Trapped: The IPP Prisoner Scandal. Podcast series charting the #IPP prisoner scandal. Listen on #Acast #ApplePodcasts #Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Today there are over 2,500 people trapped in British prisons on the now abolished indeterminate IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) sentence, many for minor crimes like stealing a mobile phone. None of them know when they are getting out, or whether their IPP sentence could mean life in prison. To date, 95 IPP serving prisoners, with a lack of certainty and losing hope, have taken their...
podfollow.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Please take a listen to this poignant and powerful combination of poetry and images:
@hopenothate.org.uk
@stopfundinghate.bsky.social
#StandUpToRacism

youtu.be/qkFxe8Q8DIs?...
I will not wave your flag
YouTube video by trystan lewis
youtu.be
October 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Be Part of Britain's Weekend of HOPE 💛

hopenothate.org.uk/weekend-of-h...
October 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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After the unite the kingdom rally, the flag raising campaigns of recent weeks now look like astroturfing.
Starmer has enabled the far right – promises of ‘progressive patriotism’ are no longer enough
After the unite the kingdom rally, the flag raising campaigns of recent weeks now look like astroturfing.
tcnv.link
September 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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This by @jamesomalley.co.uk is good.
It's time to tell the racists to fuck off
Anti-racism norms are good and should be socially enforced
takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
September 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I can't get over how weird this photo is. I love that someone in England captioned it: "Darling, be a dear and DO click on the floor lamp."
September 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Musk can’t dispute that he himself has repeatedly retweeted Tommy Robinson & other far right accounts... the company has reinstated countless profiles which are now spreading dangerous narratives about refugees.

If you advertise on Twitter, this is what you’re enabling: inews.co.uk/news/my-x-fe...
My X feed tells me I’m a Tommy Robinson fan – what’s going on?
As data reveals anti-migrant hate on X is spiking, an investigation by The i Paper shows how a new account on the platform is pushed far-right content from the start
inews.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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“Rather than getting despondent - which is easy, at the moment - we’ve got to mobilise, we’ve got to get active." — HOPE not hate CEO @nicklowles.bsky.social, speaking to @theguardian.com today.
September 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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I want my country back.

Proud to be on the counter demonstration in London yesterday

#StandUpToRacism
#NoToHate
#RefugeesAreWelcome
September 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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The most important news from today's reshuffle:
September 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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And we are hearing the same nonsense about London and other UK cities being overrun by crime and bedlam too. Social media culture allows for moral panics on steroids.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Fear of crime exaggerating the statistical risks is a constant of surveys over my 79 year life. Media and right wing politicians have much to answer for. And repairing broken windows
is good. Better still is socioeconomic policy enhancing security and welfare
Trump is wrong about crime – but right about the fear of it | Austin Sarat
The deployment of the national guard in Washington ignores the data. But Democrats must not ignore how people feel
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Well done #Lancaster 👏👏🇪🇺😃😅
August 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Prison and probation performance continues to nose-dive
MoJ statistics show full extent of prison and probation crises
www.russellwebster.com/prison-and-p...
Prison and probation performance continues to nose-dive
MoJ statistics show full extent of prison and probation crises
www.russellwebster.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Thought-provoking article. Looking forward to watching this & still have my doubts.
#lucyletby

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? review – one of the most meticulous documentaries in years
The science and statistics around Letby’s case are brilliantly unpacked by this considered programme. By its end, you are filled with questions
www.theguardian.com
August 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I genuinely feel sorry for satirists these days.
Considering this is exactly the response to far right thugs from government Minsters it's so hard to tell what is satire and what isn't.
Legitimate Concerns?
July 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Long-awaited first report from Post Office Horizon scandal inquiry lays bare devastating personal toll of one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in British legal history and the slow-motion failure of government & Post Office to deliver meaningful redress
news.sky.com/story/flavou...
Post Office scandal inquiry lays bare a second injustice
As well as laying out the personal toll, Sir Wyn Williams said Fujitsu, the Post Office, and the government should engage in formal restorative justice programmes.
news.sky.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:20 PM