Ramya Jaidev

“No worries if not” -President Yoon Suk Yeol

I watched Season 2 of The Wire that aired in 2003, so yeah, I think you could say I'm well informed about the issues facing longshoremen in 2024.

Livestock: musical festival for animals

Guardian, Larry Elliot: ‘It’s tragic: Bank of England governor watching Middle East crisis closlely. Exclusive: in an interview with the Guardian Andrew Bailey says he fears conflict will affect oil prices

At least wait till the dead are buried, will you?

Literally all I can think about is that bit from The Day Today where Chris Morris goads the guest into declaring war on tv.

A political cartoon from the Vietnam war era that says onwards and upwards and onwards, and has several bombs that someone is climbing the first set bomb says increase bombing will win the war. The second says increased bombing will stop the infiltration. The third said increase bombing will break Hanoi’s morale the last one says just one more step up in the bombing.

Always works

So should some politicians *stares hard into the middle distance*

Next stop: banning trans women from the world staring without blinking championships

Please help, I'm trapped on this island. No no don't rescue me, just blow it up.

I’m enjoying the implosion of Diddy, as a person who has deeply loathed him. He has a fundamental detestability about him. I hope he is made very very poor.

if there’s a continent-wide war in the Middle East, whose side does everyone think the Allies from 1939-45, those guys, will be on? this kind of defines who wins the narrative for a long time. there’ll be VE days and shit.

how many unofficial wars do you have to be waging before you become a rogue state

A bunch of teenagers in my city, who aren’t old enough to vote, when door-to-door in their neighborhood asking their neighbors to vote for their future. Something is happening here, and I like it.

BBC News app landing page showing four headline articles: ‘Israel strikes southern Lebanon as Hezbollah leader warns red lines crossed’; ‘Surgeon became robotic to treat sheer volume of wounded Lebanese’; ‘I’m in control, says Starmer after Sue Gray pay leaks’; and ‘Late Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed accused of rape by female staff’

fuck everything so much

Raise your hand if you've had the "rude" label applied to you while defending your marginalized identity against an abusive person 🙋🏻‍♀️

The "rude" label should not exist. It is *subjective* and easily weaponized by bigots and bad actors. Suspension based on rude labels is going to CAUSE HARM.

Remember though, saying "from the river to the sea" is a hate crime and call to genocide.

And if you live in the West and your government is an ally with Israel… you should be very worried about this precedent

Rule 80. The use of booby-traps which are in any way attached to or associated with objects or persons entitled to special protection under international humanitarian law or with objects that are likely to attract civilians is prohibited. Practice Volume II, Chapter 28.

I don’t know why this has to be said but the use of booby traps is a war crime

Even some of the less overtly insane things are things no one has ever said done or thought - “being absolutely devoed that the pub’s run out of scotch eggs”. Everything is wrong with it: the sentiment/observation itself, the type of joke it’s trying to be, unhinged use of ‘devoed’.

The rise of Britishcore: 100 experiences that define and unite modern Britons Forget the pomp and pageantry. As people worldwide are now discovering, the UK was built on crisp sarnies, trips to B&Q and that age-old question: Corrie or EastEnders?

A few weeks ago I said something was objectively the worst thing I’d ever read and it wasn’t, it’s this www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

When you’re so theatrical that you’re in Hairspray and the Met still finds a way to pepper spray you in the face

People move, always have, always will.

The only way to stop people taking dangerous journeys is to let them take safe ones.

Most people fleeing for their lives have no safe way to claim asylum in the UK - that’s why people escaping war and persecution are arriving by small boat.

Parents separated from children amid small boat crossing seek UK reunion Turkish parents, who want UK asylum, are still in France awaiting Home Office response while children are in Britain

🚨NEW: I spoke to a Kurdish mother who was separated from her two children, aged 5 and 9, while attempting to cross the Channel by small boat. She and her husband have called on the Home Office to allow them urgent entry to the UK. Very sad to report.

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Starmer under pressure to distance UK from Italy’s hard-right immigration plans Backbenchers and NGOs criticise decision to explore how country has cut migrant numbers at Rome talks

As Starmer sets his sights on an Italy-style deal to reduce boat crossings, respect to Kim Johnson who has criticised the PM for seeking to learn lessons from a "neo-fascist government".

"Cosying up to Meloni is shameful," said another Labour MP.

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New Border Security Commander appointed as Prime Minister's European reset continues in Italy Martin Hewitt CBE QPM has been appointed to lead the UK’s new Border Security Command – marking a significant step forward in the fight against illegal migration and criminal smuggling gangs.

I have an evidence-based prediction…..

This will not stop deaths for those forced by U.K. and European policies with no option.

The middle-class policy makers belief that everyone can just ‘choose’ their way to a golden future and safety is complete bunkum

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A Border Force official just messaged on appointment of Border Security Commander Martin Hewitt:

"It's a rinse and repeat and will not yield much. How do you expect to do things differently when you put the same people with the same background and experience in the same role?"

Keir Starmer and Giorgia Meloni to discuss migrant boat crossings Meloni has overseen a 64% drop in migrant crossings from north Africa, but not without controversy.

The last thing needed after yet more deaths in the channel is making deals with Italy's far-right. There needs to be international cooperation to ensure people can seek asylum, not more barbaric measures to try and prevent them doing so. #r4today
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Benefit sanctions more likely for minority ethnic claimants, UK data shows Black universal credit claimants 58% more likely to get sanctions than white people, while mixed ethnic groups are 72% more likely

Black and minority ethnic benefit claimants are disproportionately likely to be hit with universal credit sanctions – financial penalties typically running into hundreds of pounds – according to official statistics www.theguardian.com/society/2024...