Shazia Saleem

Thames Water wants to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO. Thames Water wants to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

I have signed @weownit.org.uk's petition to block Thames Water's plans to dump sewage in our rivers for the next 15 years. We have until 21st Oct to stop it. Add your name now.

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Just heard about Afghanistan having the third most land mines and 85% of death and injury from contact are children.
What a world to live in.
UN special rapporteur mentioned this as a side issue, funding to clear land mines has plummeted.

Of all the issues the home sec could deal with this week. Labour need to re-prioritise.

Thank you @data.ft.com for continuing to cover this story. Tony Blair desperately following the money.

I'm not sure he's up for going out in the rain.

Yes, well spotted. Gorgeous building.

Thanos and I waiting for the march for Palestine to start from Westminster.

Author denied UK visa unable to attend premiere of play based on his memoir Exclusive: London theatre urges Home Office to reconsider as Ibrahima Balde unable to watch adaptation of award-winning book

We're very concerned by the UK Home Office's refusal to grant a visa to PEN Translates award-winner Ibrahima Balde. This raises serious concerns for artistic freedom and exchange – we urge them to reconsider this decision.
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Cleaning out the flat and need to get rid of some of these books so let's have a competition. The next eight people to take out a paid subscription to the newsletter get a signed copy of either the Westminster book or the complete Origin Story set. Sign up here iandunt.substack.com

Ten assaults a day on asylum seekers in Home Office care, figures reveal Exclusive: There were 380 safeguarding referrals of victims of hate crimes from January 2023 to August 2024

How can this be the way that we treat asylum seekers in the U.K.? A woman with one arm expected to empty buckets of rain water from a leak in the ceiling, why is she in low quality accomm. Many eg of cruelty in the article.
@ukhomeoffice.bsky.social

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What happened in Wisconsin is an example of what is most feared: That in a true democracy regular people have more power than a billionaire, that all the money in the world doesn’t change one person one vote.

The Second Season of “Wolf Hall” Surpasses Its Acclaimed Predecessor In the culmination of the Hilary Mantel adaptation, Mark Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell becomes a more poignant figure, weighed down by regrets.

The second season of “Wolf Hall,” a PBS/BBC adaptation of the novelist Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of the same name, arrives a decade after the first season but it is “arguably greater than its acclaimed predecessor,” @inkookang.bsky.social writes.

So horrific and tragic for those who lost their lives.
Gift article for 3 views sorry it’s not more!

on.ft.com/4hlr73e ‘Extermination camp’ discovery horrifies Mexico

The Fate of Migrants Detained at Guantánamo In the early nineteen-nineties, Haitian refugees and asylum seekers were held on the base in abysmal conditions. Their experience now seems like a preview of what’s to come.

In the 90s, photojournalists captured the detainees at Guantánamo who were subjected to inhumane conditions. “It was a lawless place,” an interpreter for Haitian refugees imprisoned there said. “There was no accountability.”

Sarah Snook’s Wilde Adventure The Australian actress, best known for her work on “Succession,” brings all twenty-six characters in “The Picture of Dorian Gray” to Broadway.

In a new interview, Sarah Snook talks about bringing Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”—a play in which she plays 26 characters—to Broadway.

What super news to wake up to.

How gorgeous is the Royal Albert Hall?

Toni Morrison and the Ghosts in the House From 2003: As an editor, author, and professor, Morrison has fostered a generation of black writers.

“Being a black woman writer is not a shallow place but a rich place to write from," Toni Morrison said, in 2003. "It doesn’t limit my imagination; it expands it." Revisit Hilton Als’s Profile of Morrison, who was born on this day in 1931.

The ban on refugee citizenship corrodes our better sense of what Keir Starmer is all about.

Talking about the anti-refugee initiative with the Institute for Government.

I love long read articles from the New Yorker that bridge academia and journalism. Academic papers can be impenetrable at times and I enjoy reading articles outside of my subject specialism.

The precise moment my support for Keir Starmer began to crumble Labour is going to prevent refugees from ever becoming citizens of Britain

Writing this with a heavy heart: the refugee citizenship ban is the single most unconscionable policy Labour has proposed since it entered power. It’s the moment that I felt my support for this administration begin to crumble inews.co.uk/opinion/colu...

What you are seeing this morning over the refugee decision is Labour alienating and offending its remaining liberal supporters without bringing any new voters onside.

And Thanos!

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

The Prince Charles - a West End institution - is under threat. Support them, unless you want to see another fucking M&M superstore where this beautiful cinema is. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Want to hear a living legend live in London?
Going to see Angel Davis at the Royal Albert Hall in March ❤️
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Shein backlash fails to deter shoppers at the fast-fashion giant Some young shoppers will continue to buy from the fast fashion giant despite concerns over how workers are treated.

Am part of this BBC article commenting on a popular ultra fast fashion brand (not a fan ofc!)

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He actually is a perfect example of how e-bike customers are antisocial with the way they abandon their bikes in the middle of streets, outside people’s homes and businesses without any consideration.