More than 50 MPs, peers, rabbis and communal figures gathered in central London last week to launch the UK’s largest ever Refugee Shabbat, with a record number of organisations taking part.
The event, hosted by HIAS+JCORE on Thursday 12 March, marked the start of Refugee Shabbat 2026, a global initiative bringing Jewish communities together in solidarity with refugees and asylum seekers.
Founded by HIAS in 2018 and coordinated in the UK by HIAS+JCORE for the past five years, the programme has grown rapidly. This year, 66 organisations across England and Scotland are participating – more than double the number involved in 2025.

Interesting purchase

Oddly the person responsible is someone called Ibrahim Iqbal...

https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/leeds-hospital-multi-faith-room-33614751

The natural consequence of stacking the Lords with Life Peers who are a mirror of their counterparts in the Commons.

An African YouTube channel conducted an independent IQ test in Lagos, Nigeria. The average was 73.4, and the median was 69.7.

Interestingly heard this on the radio news this morning. Labour to set steel tariffs in certain areas to improve our steel production capabilities.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98q8q4zl8qo

Avon and Somerset Police said the suspect is of mixed heritage, aged approximately in his early 20s, with braided hair and a tattoo on his left forearm...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2183903/police-hunt-man-child-sexual-assault-bristol-brislington

A prayer room has also been set up in the castle for guests to use...

https://www.itv.com/news/2026-03-18/king-charles-holds-adapted-state-banquet-for-nigerian-president

Some are getting very rich.

"The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a more than $200 billion request to Congress to fund the war in Iran, according to a senior administration official, in an enormous new ask that is almost certain to run into resistance from lawmakers opposed to the conflict.

That number would far surpass the costs of the administration’s massive airstrike campaign to date and instead seek to urgently increase production of critical weaponry expended as U.S. and Israeli forces have struck thousands of targets over the past three weeks, according to three other people familiar with the matter, who confirmed that the Defense Department is seeking packages of that size."

Yesterday Saudi said they may enter the war with the US-Israel and call in their defence pact with a nuclear Pakistan. Yesterday also Trump promised fire and brimstone if Iran kept attacking gas fields in Qatar (and implications elsewhere). This morning, Iran gave their response at this Saudi gas refinery station.

I was just looking for something completely different and encountered this post. Check out the biography. He has thousands of followers and this sums up the modern Left to me.

Israelis try to take out RT

"Those migrants will become eligible for ILR from next year." The following year they can apply for citizenship.

This is the legacy of Johnson and Patel.