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ashifakassam.bsky.social
Correspondent covering communities and stories across Europe for The Guardian. Previously based in Spain & Canada for @TheGuardian.com. Thoughts & ideas always welcome
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‘Now is the time of monsters’: young Berliners despair at far-right surge www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f... via @theguardian.com @ashifakassam.bsky.social

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‘Now is the time of monsters’: young Berliners despair at far-right surge @ashifakassam.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 16 days ago • 589 comments

‘Our neighbours are daring to choose #fascism again’: #Germany ’s election leaves many fearing what lies ahead A high-stakes campaign defined by anti-#Migration rhetoric has stoked fear instead of discussion of pressing structural problems @ashifakassam.bsky.social search.app/G4hWp4r7V8CF...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

‘Our neighbours are daring to choose fascism again’: Germany’s election leaves many fearing what lies ahead www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f... via @theguardian.com @ashifakassam.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The Spanish economy grew more than any major economy last year. Why is Spain doing so well? One key reason is immigration. Keir Starmer and other leaders of low-grow economies running out of ideas should take note. My opinion piece @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar. By @ashifakassam.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

It's so important to be armed with both the humanitarian, moral argument in favour of immigration, and the cold, hard economic benefits. This is a great explanation of how Spain is doing things differently, by @ashifakassam.bsky.social and an indictment of Labour's lack of ambition in the UK

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Alice Weidel refuses to say whether she agrees with the statement by the AfD's honorary chairman Alexander Gauland that the Nazi period was a mere "speck of bird poo" in the vast expanse of German history

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“No one is illegal on stolen land,” said Diné elder James Jackson.

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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“If I need sugar or if I have an emergency, there’s no door I can knock on…We are planning on moving because I can no longer handle not having a community.” www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja... @ashifakassam.bsky.social on how over-tourism is changing a defining characteristic of Southern Europe.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

TWIT Did Elon Musk give a Nazi or Roman salute, and what’s the difference? @ashifakassam.bsky.social @thetimes.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The strange loophole that transformed Berlin from tenant’s paradise to landlord’s playground www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... via @theguardian.com

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Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/

submitted 50 days ago • 75 comments

Are you an experienced researcher with a focus on climate justice? The @ccj-ubc.bsky.social is hiring for a senior research manager. Join our team! ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcsta...

submitted 54 days ago • 5 comments

Hopes Gaza ceasefire deal in final stages as mediators meet in Qatar

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

‘It was extraordinary’: Spanish captain recalls rescue of woman who gave birth in dinghy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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‘Don’t feed the troll’: German chancellor responds to Elon Musk comments @ashifakassam.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Austria’s president to meet far-right leader amid coalition speculation. ‘New path’ to power may be opening for FPÖ after collapse of talks between country’s centrist parties. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... via @theguardian.com @ashifakassam.bsky.social

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

Tonight is the ‘lluvia de peluches’ at Real Betis. The annual tradition of stuffed toys thrown on to the pitch and collected for disadvantaged children ahead of Christmas. An estimated 15,000 toys are expected for collection.

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