Melissa Sigodo
@melissasigodo
Zimbabwean & British 🇿🇼 🇬🇧 Awarded Journalist | ✍🏾 Founder of The Source Newsletter |The Space on YouTube| Formerly @DailyMirror 👇🏾Justice for Grenfell💚
‘This is our home. I was born in this country’ Deputy Mayor of London - Debbie Weekes-Bernard sits down with me on The Space. Premieres Sunday 8pm on YouTube.
Has this been condemned yet or have they only got enough energy for Diane Abbott?
Police vans attacked outside the Bell Hotel in Epping during an anti-immigration protest. Comes days after two security staff were attacked near the hotel in what is being treated as racially aggravated assault. Some in the crowd lobbing objects at police and counter protestors
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The appalling scenes in Gaza are unrelenting. The UK will pull every lever we have to get food and lifesaving support to Palestinians, and we will evacuate children who need urgent medical assistance. This humanitarian catastrophe must end.
This quote that Professor Gus John mentioned during the Windrush space will probably stick with me forever. It gave me chills.
Thank you for joining the Space yday. I Will be editing the recording & making it shorter so it can be shared. Don’t forget to sign the petition so that Windrush victims can get legal aid. It’s the least anyone can go 🙏🏾
Sign the petition change.org/p/fund-free-le…
The Space is starting. Come and support the Windrush generation 👇🏾
⭐I look forward to joining the panel for this tonight. Lots to discuss from 8pm tonight @J4Windrush #justice4windrush Well done for organising this @melissasigodo 👏🏽
Tonight at 8pm we discuss: -Can people trust the new Windrush Commissioner? - Why don’t we hear from Home Office head Yvette Cooper? - Is the Black community being manipulated? - Is the compensation scheme a scandal of its own? And so much more. Come & support tonight👇🏾
The far right and fascists are on the march again, threatening serious violence directed at asylum- seekers. All the politicians who have demonised vulnerable people trying to exercise their lawful right to seek asylum bear responsibility for this. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…
Tonight at 8pm we discuss: -Can people trust the new Windrush Commissioner? - Why don’t we hear from Home Office head Yvette Cooper? - Is the Black community being manipulated? - Is the compensation scheme a scandal of its own? And so much more. Come & support tonight👇🏾
As promised, another Twitter Space about the ongoing hell that is the Windrush scandal & it’s compensation scheme will take place next Monday July 21 at 8pm. This issue has not gone away for the last 7 years & victims say enough is enough.
A £20k reward has been offered to find the killer of Rene Graham, 15, who was shot dead a year ago in Ladbroke Grove. Copa have released CCTV footage of the suspect and say the answers sit within a “a small pocket in the community”. Rene is my friend's grandson - please share 🙏🏾
Live facial recognition tech will used at Notting Hill Carnival next month the Met Police has said but Big Brother Watch director Rebecca Vincent has called for plans to be ditched stating the tech was ‘less accurate in scanning minority faces.’bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
Tributes have been paid to two Brits who died while on holiday in Portugal. The bodies of friends King Edonmi, 29, and Mo, 27, were discovered in a hotel pool. Reports suggest they drowned but their cause of death is to be determined. RIP 🙏🏾 itv.com/news/anglia/20…
