Sathnam Sanghera

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I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school - he's wrong about race • NEW The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn't see'another white face. You can't judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian Sathnam Sanghera

I hoped that the outrage about this scandal across the political spectrum demonstrated we were finally moving away from such thinking. But Jenrick's remarks show that we are, in 2025, in an even worse place. The comments are a symptom of a new cult of ethno-nationalism, imported from the USA and supercharged by bad actors on social media. Suddenly, a great many people - including, bizarrely, Suella Braverman - are keen on the racist idea that you simply can't be English and non-white.

We all hoped the Windrush scandal would be shame enough. But no. The Tory party plumbs new depths with its vile rhetoric. Nothing good comes from their prejudice. But our communities prove them wrong every day.
Important response to Jenrick from @sathnam.bsky.social

www.thetimes.com/article/3af4...

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

This is what I - a non-Midlander young in the peak of the Reggae wave - thinks of when someone mentions Handsworth

How grey & thin would English life be without the influences from outside - most from parts for which Victoria was Empress

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Fixed thanks

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

A quite insane tour schedule

This is the maddest tour I've ever seen in my life. It seems like he's doing more gigs than there are days in the year.

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him.

He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?"

Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

BBC Radio 4 - Empire of Tea, 7. Punjabi Cha and Masala Chai How tea, in various forms, became India’s national drink.

9:30am TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

From 2023, Ep 7 (of 10) 📻 “EMPIRE OF TEA” - “Punjabi Cha and Masala Chai”

Punjabi cha is the drink of Sathnam Sanghera's childhood; one of many varieties that make tea India's national drink. From 2023.

#TuesdayTea 🫖

@sathnam.bsky.social

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

This is very good from @stephenkb.bsky.social on.ft.com/433rk6P

#Handsworth could teach @RobertJenrick how to live in a global society. #BenjaminZephaniah - spirit of #Birmingham - said "Handsworth for me is...where I learnt all my skills, my communication skills, my hustling skills, my poetic skills, everything."

Everything is horrible, and politics is nothing but a cauldron of despair, but even within this Robert Jenrick sticks out for his unrelenting vileness.

Another great series. You get the feeling with so many podcasts that the presenters have not really done the reading, with Origin Story it feels like they've done too much reading, if anything. Always wonderfully digested.

*gasp*

In Japan, convenience stores are the real deal I don’t just mean these konbini are ubiquitous, though they are. It’s that they provide almost anything you might need

Notebook for @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/article/9842...

How can it even be legal for Linkedin to automatically set you up with an account if you even glance at the website? Then they make you set up a password to delete the account you didn't even set up. Been through the ritual about five times.

Elizabeth Catlett, Sharecropper, 1952, US printmaker and sculptor who focused on the lives and the struggle for Civil Rights of US Black communities #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

The next general election is going to be unbearably awful isn’t it

Just parties lining up to outdo each other in awfulness

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

BBC Radio 4 - Empire of Tea, 5. Innovation, Espionage and Propaganda How did the introduction of tea plantations to India change the trade forever?

9:30am TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

From 2023, Ep 5 (of 10) 📻 “EMPIRE OF TEA” - “Innovation, Espionage and Propaganda”

Sathnam Sanghera discovers how the tea industry changed forever when plantations were introduced to India. From 2023.

A hideous, and for traumatised British Jews profoundly unhelpful, expression of allyship & agreement with a violent, racist, serial criminal & former member of an avowedly anti-Semitic organisation from the *Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs* and so, as Sunder says, the Israeli government. 1/3

Am looking forward

SATH Conference 2025 Sign up now to attend the Scottish Association of Teachers of History Conference 2025!

Very excited to finally see @sathnam.bsky.social make his way up to sunny and bonny Scotland! Very much looking forward to the event. Would love the opportunity to say hi and discuss my research on teacher confidence in applying decolonial approaches 😀

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sath-confe...

I'm not sure how Taylor + Max Martin + George Michael turned out to be such a lame combination

'It's a fight we share with other minorities that are increasingly threatened by violence, abuse and intimidation....It’s critical that, like the numerous Muslim organisations that offered support in the past few days, we continue to stand together and work against hatred.'

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment