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Writer. Fellow, Royal Historical Society. Coming Up: "Prisoners of Colonialism" (Hurst, 2025); Previously"AcrossTheLakes", "RepresentationsOfIndia,1740-1840", "WritersOnWriting"; plays, Tutor,MSt Creative Writing,Oxford Uni.; Migrant, grumbler
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Personally, I'm hugely impressed by the condemnation of the Trump Vance show by Biden, Obama, Clinton, Starmer, Macron...sorry, didn't happen? Oops.

Journalists, please do not describe what happened at the White House today as a "spat", "heated exchange" or as Zelensky-Trump "going at each other". Zelensky was ambushed by Vance while very calmly explaining why Ukraine needs security guarantees and doesn't trust a ceasefire...

I am not the first to say it but I do sort of see where JD Vance's mom was coming from when she traded him for drugs

Slava Ukraini.

We can still show we stand with Ukraine stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...

Unsurprisingly, this petition is racing at pace. 👇👇

MAGA are mad at Zelenskyy for not wearing a suit for an official White House meeting. Meanwhile:

The European Union has to finally and unreservedly stand by Ukraine, give Ukraine everything it needs right now, no more buts and ifs, no more dragging of feet. This is the Whatever-it-takes moment of the century 🇪🇺🇺🇦

It was an ambush by a gang of overgrown high school bullies, acting like gangsters, in possession of a huge military arsenal.

The past presidents' silence at this moment is fascinating to me.

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

Zelenskyy went into that nest of vipers and roasted them all. Good. They all exposed themselves, they demeaned themselves in a way that was undeniable. Perfect.

I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.

We have a bizarre situation in Britain where the public have to wait years for their operations, yet NHS doctors are out of jobs. 20000 drs will potentially have no training job in August. These jobs are being restricted by government. Unemployed drs and rising waiting lists. 21st century Britain.

Parents of under-fives could be exempted from the UK govt’s two-child benefit limit. Children over-five need food, housing, clothes, shoes, transport, family life too. End child benefit cap, cuts in real wages; redistribute income/wealth. Blighting lives is a political choice.

There are certain words and phrases that reliably tell you that you're in a bad-faith conversation, and you can stop engaging. They include: "cultural marxism", "critical race theory", "woke", and "Katharine Birbalsingh".

DID YOU KNOW: NEW anti-protest law proposed The proposed Crime and Policing Bill continues the long pattern of restrictive anti-protest laws. The last government tried to pass many of these measures. Together we opposed them last time. And we will do it again. Stay tuned…

UK solicitor for Andrew Tate's victims hits out at Keir Starmer amid Whitehouse visit Andrew Tate has escaped to the US. But a UK solicitor representing women survivors has urged Starmer to raise it during his Whitehouse visit. Not that the coward PM will. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Oliver Darcy has some very good points here

Confirmed: GB News has now lost over *£100 million* as major advertisers steer clear amid concerns over the channels toxic content: www.cityam.com/gb-news-huge...

Everything about this is unsurprising, including the surprise that it is the norm in the Netherlands. Discrimination in NL isn't just structural, it's foundational. nltimes.nl/2025/02/28/k...

On March 16 from 3-5 PM EST, I'll be teaching Approaches to Writing Flash Fiction for the 92Y. We'll be reading pieces Lydia Davis, Franz Kafka, George Saunders, and Jamaica Kincaid before turning to writing exercises to help us generate our own flash fiction. Sign up below ✨

We are eliminating vaccines, food support for children, healthcare access, medical and ecological research while tax money produced by the collective is redistrubuted to rich people & a death machine. Its not even a class war, its a malignant tumor eating its host.

When Rishi Sunak made the Vaccine deal with Moderna as Chancellor, he had up to £530m invested in Moderna. Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up. Like if you want Mone on trial. RT if you want them both facing the music.

A minute's silence for each of the children murdered by Israel in Gaza would extend to over 300 hours. Powerful speech to the UN from Daniel Levy, a former Israeli government adviser.

Of course it is.

Show Israel the Red Card is taking over the footballing world Football supporters across the world have taken part in Show Israel the Red Card, a movement that started with Celtic fans - but Western MSM won't report on it www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Sila Abd Alqader. 46 dagen oud. Een meisje. Dood. Dit is genocide. Dit is de zieke, zieke genocide van Israël, de VS en hun bondgenoten - waaronder Nederland - op de Palestijnen.

'The research, conducted by the Sutton Trust and University College London (UCL), looked at almost 94,000 applicants to UK medical schools between 2012 and 2022, which represent almost half of all UK medical applicants.' 1/2

We know the Greek coastguard systematically illegally pushes back migrant boats & leaves them adrift without engines in international waters. It’s still horrific to hear them cynically & deliberately try to palm off the Pylos ship with 650-800 people who ended up drowned, anywhere but here #r4today

The UN reports that Israeli occupation forces have killed at least 50 Palestinians since the beginning of their offensive in the occupied West Bank, with over 40,000 people displaced from their homes.

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

“This dossier could have surfaced in Putin’s memory in 2000 when Trump announced his nomination for president from the Reform Party and it became clear that he had great political ambitions” bylinetimes.com/2019/11/13/r...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has reportedly ordered a CUNY college to remove a job posting for a professorship in Palestinian Studies, sparking outrage among advocates who say she is contributing to the censorship and dehumanization of Palestinians.

Caroline Lucas, "Keir Starmer himself recognised that our aid budget is a way to protect our countries security" "Starmer criticised the Tories for cutting aid" "To cut the aid budget does not make us more secure" @carolinelucas.bsky.social #Newsnight

In other words: they're Nazis, but they're our Nazis

4.3m UK children (three-in-ten) live in poverty, will hit 4.6m by 2030 Lives blighted. Must end two child benefit cap. Provide free school meals to all, or at least to those in families receiving universal credit. End real wage cuts and profiteering.

Picture this: the Mail and accuracy.

Star Observer writer @carolecadwalla.bsky.social has had her contract ended by @tortoisemedia.bsky.social ahead of take-over of the title on 20 April. NUJ expresses "serious concern" that her exit follows her making public criticism of deal. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

This is bound to end in tears. Prostrating at the feet of the manic emperor might buy time - it may not though, he's as capable of sudden humiliation. Starmer though isn't ready to take on hard choices, except those that harm the vulnerable as he chases the approval of right wing phantoms.

Location: Indora, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh Date: February 24 A Hindu nationalist mob harassed a vendor outside Kathgarh temple during the Shivratri Mahotsav for cooking chicken.

THISSSS💯💯💯💯💯 The class confict/relations of farming/agriculture get systematically obfuscated in the coverage and talk of so-called "farmers" grievances (as if there was one "farmer" class rather than a brutal system of exploitation)

This horrifying news is a clear consequence of the lack of safe routes, which would save children’s lives and prevent people from being forced to take dangerous and traumatic journeys in order to seek protection.