Diyora Shadijanova

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Home Office to deport refugees already granted asylum in the UK Nigel Farage fails to back Home Secretary, and former child refugee Lord Dubs says Labour MPs are 'uneasy'

Oh my god. This is utterly horrendous.

Asylum and returns policy statement This policy statement sets out significant reforms to the UK’s asylum and returns policy.

I'm reading through the white paper or whatever it is. RESTORING ORDER AND CONTROL: A statement on the government’s asylum and returns policy www.gov.uk/government/p...

No need for the sarcasm, I also have eyes and live within this political landscape. The original question is whether a backbench Labour MP has more power to affect policy inside or outside the party, and my point is that I can see the arguments for staying.

Respectfully, you don't know anything about me to be calling me naive. My original point is that I don't think it's fair to Nadia to say she supports the government when she clearly doesn't.

Farage vs. left Labour MPs is not the same fight when they have very different resources available to them. I'm not saying it's impossible, but they're working under very different conditions!

And Farage is also funded by the super-rich, dominates our media landscape, and has been propped up by the far-right internationally. Could you say the same for any MPs who have left the Labour Party?

Look, it's just very frustrating that a handful of very genuine Labour MPs get told every day that they're staying in the party for personal gain or because they secretly agree with the policies. I think it's ungenerous, and I would go so far as to say it's very unkind.

But it can and does have tangible effects alongside other actions, such as media rounds, private meetings, letters, questions, and debates in Parliament. The most recent Labour rebellion over disability benefits cuts meant that hundreds of thousands of people kept their benefits!

I don't think it's working well, and it's clearly a huge struggle. But what's the alternative, and does it actually build more power? I imagine these are the questions many Labour MPs are asking themselves right now.

They can clearly see that they have far more power to influence policy in real-time inside a governing party than outside of it.

You can disagree with the fact that some progressive Labour MPs are staying in the party, but it's unfair to jump to the conclusion that it’s because they support everything the government does or because of self-interest.

Your analysis is incredibly ungenerous to Nadia and all the work she does fighting for her values within the party. Firstly, social media is one of the ways MPs put pressure on their leadership and subsequent policies, and secondly, MPs do far more work outside of social media than we'll ever know.

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

Can we agree that the BBC clearly has shifted rightwards despite claiming political neutrality – whitewashing a genocide, amplifying anti-immigrant and anti-trans narratives – but that it’s also very worrying to see it capitulate to the Orange Man and his cronies for not being far-right enough?

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

I SCREAMED when Mamdani mentioned Uzbeks of New York in his victory speech!!!! That's my mayor (I live in London)

Really excited to be taking part in @resurgencetrust.bsky.social's Festival of Wellbeing tomorrow. If you are available at 2 pm, please join the talk I’m giving on the Right to Rest.

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Book recommendations: top romance novels from Muslim authors - Hyphen From chick lit to stories of forbidden love, our book columnist has selected her top reads from Muslim women writers

Looking for your next romantic read? 💕

From enemies-to-lovers to heartwarming slow burns,
@thediyora.bsky.social rounds up the best romance novels by Muslim authors you should have on your shelf.

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all signs point to this being just an incredibly destabilizing moment. very very bad stuff. we're in a very dark place.

there’s always a tweet…

Excellent response from Hasan Piker, who was scheduled to debate Charlie Kirk in two weeks. On his stream he said: “The reverberation of people seeking out vengeance in the aftermath of this violent, abhorrent incident is going to be genuinely worrisome.” Also talked about his own vulnerability

Killing the other side's negotiating team (multiple times!) should make it pretty clear the Israeli Government does not want a negotiated peace in Gaza. Netanyahu wants an end to Palestinian statehood as a possibility.

This is becoming abundantly clear to everyone, except it seems, our leaders.

Top travel books to transport you to faraway places Writing that reminds us just how beautiful and vast our world really is and here's a selection of nonfiction titles to whet the appetite

From the bustling markets of central Asia to gripping tales from the streets of Karachi, @thediyora.bsky.social rounds up the best books to read if you’re looking for escapism and adventure.

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Journalist missing in Norwegian wilderness found in good health Alec Luhn set out on trek in Folgefonna national park last week and was reported missing on Monday

A rare bit of good news! I don't know Alec, but was really worried about him!

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

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Can anyone else pls confirm so I can relax lol

RE the allotment outcry, my understanding is that the allotment story been blown out of proportion? In the sense that what Angela Rayner has done is not new, has been done since 2016, but is being reported as something that’s brand new under this gov?

Fun fact: we devote ten times more space to golf courses in England than we do to allotments (source: OS Greenspace data) www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

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