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12th March - Happy Independence Day ‘Let June 23rd go down in our history as our independence day.’- Nigel Farage, 24th June 2016The irony of Britain searching for an independence day would not be lost on many around the world. Sixty tw...

Back in 2019, before the Telegraph cared about the Chagos Islands, I wrote this piece for a Mauritian newspaper (Le Mauricien). Some of the facts, and indeed complexity, of the case have been lost since.

www.hisnameissatya.co.uk/post/12th-ma...

12th March - Happy Independence Day ‘Let June 23rd go down in our history as our independence day.’- Nigel Farage, 24th June 2016The irony of Britain searching for an independence day would not be lost on many around the world. Sixty tw...

Back in 2019, before the Telegraph cared about the Chagos Islands, I wrote this piece for a Mauritian newspaper (Le Mauricien). Some of the facts, and indeed complexity, of the case have been lost since.

www.hisnameissatya.co.uk/post/12th-ma...

Mauritius is also quite close to India - one of the outer islands (Agalega) hosts an Indian military presence. And last time I checked, India was part of the 'Quad'. Telegraph's reporting on this topic bears little relation to actual existing reality.

Keir Starmer's Substack post about his trip to China

Keir's substack has big 'what I did on my holiday' school report vibes.

Javid has had a strange career in politics. Such a spectacular CV, and yet so little to show for it. Does he feel satisfied by what he achieved? “Given the opportunities I was given, it would be churlish to say I wasn’t satisfied. That said, did I achieve what I wanted to achieve? I wanted to be prime minister. And I tried.”

One of the, inadvertently, revealing responses he gives. It was not how I read the question. Another politician who wanted to 'be someone', rather than 'do something'.

Tuesday briefing: Why efforts to tackle Britain’s long history of antisemitism have fallen short In today’s newsletter: A scholar of antisemitism on how we define it, how it has operated in Britain, and what can be done

BISA’s David Feldman on antisemitism in Britain and what can be done

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Any politician who refers to 'ethnic enemies' as a serious and legitimate part of political discourse should not have been taken seriously in the first place.

Feels like a job for Blair's '3 second, 30 second and 3 minute' platonic ideal of political communication

Gains in historical understanding often come from the defeated - forced to confront the reasons for failure. Whereas victors rarely feel the need to evaluate success in a similar fashion, seeing victory as inevitable or pre-ordained. An observation Eric Hobsbawm used to make. Always seems apt!

A recent trip to visit family in Mauritius had me reassuring family concerned for my safety that London was not in fact a dangerous crimehole. Quite a lot of reputational damage for not much gain, I guess.

Putting together a module reading list on the history of the family in Modern Britain. Anyone got any recommendations of good scholarship on impact of immigration controls on family life in late 20th / early 21st century Britain?

‘A tall and broad fellow with a very graceful, military personality’: Punjabi Sikh men, military service and belonging in Southall 1947–67 Abstract. In the 1950s, Southall became home to a Punjabi Sikh community, largely due to Sikh men arriving for work in local factories. Their migration fro

Hope it's not too gauche to suggest an article of mine in 'Modern British History' on Punjabi men working and living in Southall and how life there changed. Might be of interest!

academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

It seems ethnic minority politicians who are anti-immigration become unpopular pretty quickly. And the online right appear to take a strange pleasure in using Badenoch's full name/maiden name. Something which Sunak didn't face. Linked to his gender and Badenoch's personal immigration story.

I guess the minimum wage going up might have a status perception effect on those sort of middle class professions. Like the BMA advert about barista wages at Pret a few years ago

‘A tall and broad fellow with a very graceful, military personality’: Punjabi Sikh men, military service and belonging in Southall 1947–67 Abstract. In the 1950s, Southall became home to a Punjabi Sikh community, largely due to Sikh men arriving for work in local factories. Their migration fro

Happy to share my article in Modern British History @mbhjournal.bsky.social . A milestone of sorts!

'A tall and broad fellow' - about post-war migration and military service in one neighbourhood in West London.

Link: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

‘A tall and broad fellow with a very graceful, military personality’: Punjabi Sikh men, military service and belonging in Southall 1947–67 Abstract. In the 1950s, Southall became home to a Punjabi Sikh community, largely due to Sikh men arriving for work in local factories. Their migration fro

Happy to share my article in Modern British History @mbhjournal.bsky.social . A milestone of sorts!

'A tall and broad fellow' - about post-war migration and military service in one neighbourhood in West London.

Link: academic.oup.com/tcbh/article...

He does draw attention to the *many* problems with the ad. But if multi-ethnic and multi-cultural Britain is a success today it is because of both mainstream left and right being able to agree, more or less, on certain 'non-negotiables.' And being able to say those out loud.

Yes, in 'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack.' There was another version of the poster as well, with the same text but with an image of a South Asian man instead.

1983, I believe.