Sanjiv Sachdev

A text from my mum. The general population appear to be losing their minds

‘Glad you didn’t get a penny’: cafe boss gloats over unpaid tribunal… Cafe chain popular with MPs has lost two unfair dismissal cases but still not paid up

"Glad you didn't get a penny from your claim as you don't deserve fck all...go fck yourself"

That's the message a director of Crussh sent to Raf just after it went into administration.Two months earlier a tribunal had ordered Crussh to pay Raf over £30k
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

And then there's always a darker question lurking behind the one about whether or not robots can be people, and it isn't about robots but about people, and what it means when they - when we - treat others as if they weren't human. It is, or should be, troubling to realise that we have little difficulty not only in anthropomorphising computers, cars, toys or fictional characters, but also in dehumanising the people whose lives, sometimes but not always remote from our own, are instrumental to our happiness, or to our comfort.

From a review of Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021)

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ordered & received this today. Will read your review with interest.

Cheap & dumb shot

In Ham (South West London) today. I suspect this wasn’t expressing ardent support for the impending game against Wales.

Isn’t this the one that made Proust faint?

TOP 10 BOOKS RADICALIZING THE LEFT and why they are creating political violence against Patriots 2 LORAX 3 CHUCK PALAHNIUK FIGHT CLUB 1984 GEORGE ORWELL 1984 REASONS: - Anti-Patriot - Anti-Authority - Anti-Conservative - Pro-Violence - Pro-Antifa 6 IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE SINCLAIR LEWIS IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE REASONS: - Anti-Patriot - Anti-Authority - Pro-Antifa - Anti-United States - Pro-Left wing terrorism WE ARE STARTED -LIBERTY• Dr. Seuss THE LORAX REASONS: - Pro-Antifa - Anti-Authority - Pro-Violence - Pro-Environment FIGHT CLUB REASONS: - Anti-Masculinity - Anti-Authority - Anti-Christian - Anti-Consumerism - Pro-Left wing terrorism 7/8 HOWARD ZINN PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES REASONS: - Pro-Radicalism - Pro-Communism - Pro-Violence - Anti-Authority - Pro-Antifa 9 5 MARGARET ATWOOD THE HANDMAID'S TALE A HANDMAID'S TALE REASONS: - Pro-Feminism - Anti-Christian - Anti-Fertility - Pro-Left wing terrorism - Pro-Antifa - Pro-Violence - Anti-Conservative 10 dalton trumbo FUN HOME ALISON BECHDEL REASONS: - Pro-LGBT - Anti-Science - Anti-Christianity - Atheistic - Gender Propaganda GENDER QUEER GENDER QUEER REASONS: - Pornography - Sexualizing Children - Pro-LGBT - Anti-Christianity - Gender Propaganda - Pro-Child Confusion ata american family association THE GRAPES OF WEATH THE GRAPES OF WRATH REASONS: - Pro-Communism - Anti-Patriot - Anti-Authority - Pro-Violence - Pro-Antifa - Anti-United States - Anti-Christianity renspect Johnny got his gun JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN REASONS: - Anti-United States - Anti-Patriot - Pro-Communism - Anti-War - Anti-Wealth - Anti-Authority - Pro-Violence * CITIZENS DEFENDING

THE ANTIFA LORAX

The migrant soldiers - josimarfootball.com For months, the Russian army has secretly recruited hundreds, if not thousands, of jobless migrant workers in Qatar to fight on the frontline against Ukraine.

Many migrant workers who came to Qatar to build the 2022 WC infrastructure found themselves jobless after the tournament. @josimarfootball.bsky.social reveals how some of them have been recruited by the Russian army, are fighting and die on the Ukrainian front.

josimarfootball.com/2025/09/25/t...

Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...

‘A Londoner spreading deepfakes of white women saying they don’t feel safe “because of migrants” told me impatiently that everyone knows the videos aren’t real, but I was missing the point: “It’s about us showing everyone what’s really happening.”’

Claire Wilmot: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

It's time for a maximum wage New data from the High Pay Centre shows that the median FTSE 100 CEO now earns £4.58 million a year – 122 times more than the typical UK worker, with some, like Tesco’s CEO, paid 431 times more than t...

CEOs are earning hundreds of times more than their staff. Tesco’s boss made 431x the average worker last year! 😳 Sign the petition for a maximum wage and help make pay fair you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it...

Surely ‘colourful’? (Not colorful)

Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds

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This, from The Londoner yesterday, also features people on the march who claim not to be racists. Though the things they say prove otherwise

Our govt + national media currently *exceptionally tolerant* of racism

Willing to be mute, engage with + endorse spaces that promote & amplify racism (if person promoting racism is rich & connected)

There is zero tolerance of racism only in football & cricket. Infinite tolerance of online racism

Müllermilch Boss with Fringe Friends: A German Dairy Billionaire's Links to the Far Right The dairy billionaire Theo Müller is friends with Alice Weidel, the co-leader of the right-wing extremist party Alternative for Germany. She and other fringe figures were invited to his extravagant bi...

Müllermilch is very big in UK and other countries, so we translated our piece about Theo Müllers extravagant birthday party and his right wing friends with the help of our trusted translator Charles:

www.spiegel.de/internationa...

The programme is now discussing the harm being done to bird populations in Britain by climate change.

Everywhere we look, the lights on the ecological dashboard are flashing red.

But heaven forfend that this might affect our economic decision-making - or even, it seems, the questions we ask of it.

There are a lot of idiots enraged by this misleading Times headline.

The article itself - yes, the exact same one - points out that:

A) In any typical year, about 50 independent schools close

B) More independent schools opened than shut, so the overall number went up.

But that's far too nuanced.

Noa Hoffman @hoffman_noa Key difference here (rightly or wrongly) is that he hasn't spent the last five years fashioning himself as a holier-than-thou moral god whose ethical conduct knows no bounds This comes down to rank hypocrisy for the Deputy PM ) Pippa Crear O G @PippaCrerar • 6h EXCL: Nigel Farage is using a private company to reduce his tax bill on his GB News media appearances and other outside employment

The Sun, here.

This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.

I really don't think it should be tenable for Labour government ministers to have still remained mute about such a visible, vocal rise of racist abuse in our country by this rally on 13th September, being held by Tommy Robinson, with the proactive support of Elon Musk, the radicalised X owner

Are we going to see bleating that this is "free speech" that doesn't merit a prison sentence?

I hope not

Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van

Amazing story: one of the organisers of the group putting Union Flags up around Manchester previously did time for being part of a people smuggling gang.
manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...

London’s SUVs now take up the same space as Kensington and Chelsea The number of SUVs in London has increased by almost three-quarters of a million since 2002.

London’s SUVs now take up the same space as the entire borough of Kensington and Chelsea, with more than 800,000 registered in London alone. Madness.
www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, sadly died in July 2024. But that didn’t stop Reform UK six months later picking her as their Croydon mayoral candidate. By our Political Edit…

Reform will have to reselect in Croydon, as their initial candidate for Mayor had been dead for 6 months when they selected her, Inside Croydon report

Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually

insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...

Well you have made one convert. New to me. Thank you.

Farage says a year ago in on the record TV interview that mass deportations are a political impossibility so he won't waste his time talking about it. Maybe I missed it but I didn't see this reported in the BBC's wall-to-wall coverage of his latest plan for, yes, mass deportations.

Reform leader bans engagement with Notts Live in unprecedented step All of Reform UK's Nottinghamshire county councillors will now refuse to speak to any of our journalists

Eesh. Notts Reform leadership blacklisting both the local paper and the local democracy scheme that covers the council for the BBC. Don’t like this at all

www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...

Millionaires may not be fleeing the UK in droves – but there are reasons these stories persist It’s often not the super-rich who argue for lower taxes – but those whose incomes depend on their wealth.

"Some newspapers, writers, influencers and those in the finance, luxury and property sectors may have good reason to perpetuate a sense of a wealth exodus."