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News
Levelling Up With Community Tech Aid: tackling digital exclusion
It was an honour to present Community Tech Aid with their Levelling Up Award for Closing the Digital Divide.
Lambeth Council’s Summer of Food and Fun
This summer, Lambeth Council is hosting a Summer of Food and Fun. They are working with local holiday club providers across the borough to provide an exciting programme of meals and activities for children and young people in our local communities.
The culinary centre of South London: Streatham Food Festival
The Streatham Food Festival, organised by Streatham BID, was just what we needed coming out of lockdown, bringing us together and encouraging people to put money into small independent businesses in our local economy.
Stop the NHS Data Grab
Thankfully, after a strong backlash, the NHS Data Grab has been pushed back until the 30th of August, giving patients until then to opt out and giving us a little more time to raise awareness around the issue.
Parliamentary Work & Campaigns
We need a humane and fair asylum system, not another anti-refugee bill
I voted to throw out the Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill at Second Reading. Rather than creating a fair and humane asylum system, the Tories are punishing people who come here seeking safety and exposing them to further risk of exploitation and human rights violations.
Northern Ireland Protocol
The Prime Minister personally negotiated the Northern Ireland Protocol. Now the Government is threatening to tear it up.
Opposing the Health and Care Bill: money we spend on the NHS should go into our health services, not Tory donors’ pockets
How are the Tories celebrating the NHS’s 73rd birthday this month? By introducing a Bill that undermines its foundations: increasing privatisation, putting private companies at the heart of NHS management and paving the way to sell off our health data.
Keep campuses hate speech free zones: opposing the Tories’ Campus Crackdown Bill
The Tories’ Higher Education (Free Speech) Bill is nothing of the sort. It tramples on students unions’ autonomy, overturns long-standing no-platform policies, narrows the legal definition of academic freedoms and fails to address real threats to campus free speech: the ever-failing Prevent duty, casualised employment, insecure research funding and, of course, the Government.
Articles
Misogynistic incel culture must be treated as violent extremism
Online platforms must take responsibility and work to prevent incel culture gaining credence and indoctrinating more young men.
Youth safety: tackling knife crime means investing in safer neighbourhoods
By resourcing local governments properly and adopting a holistic public health approach to violence, we can work effectively with the local community to make harm reduction the number one focus.
Our battle over the Police Crackdown Bill was never going to be won in parliament
We need to recognise that this authoritarianism fundamentally comes from a place of weakness, and ultimately, fear, and that hope is stronger than fear. It falls on us to stand together and build a movement that’s so big even this government can’t ignore it.
Set the vaccine patents free
What we needed was an internationally coordinated response to prioritise the vulnerable and prevent healthcare systems being overwhelmed. What we got was wealthy nations using their purchasing power to secure enough doses to vaccinate their populations several times over, at the expense of poorer nations.