Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler)

"Sarwar's"

There are 550,000 new University students in the UK every year.

Amazon alone could fund 200,000 of them if it paid taxes in the UK.

This is how we funded higher education, the billionaires and their companies paid tax.

Now they don't and you pay for the rest of your life.

Australian police crack down on protests during Israeli president’s visit Thousands protest Israel’s Gaza genocide in Sydney as police enforce strict protest bans

Australian police crack down on protests during Israeli president’s visit - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/australian-police-crack-down-protests-during-israeli-presidents-visit

Sarwar outstanding feature has never been courage, certainly when it came to facing down his Westminster masters, this may be the beginning of the end of Starmer. Who has done much harm.

The billionaire Media wants you to vote Reform.

The first page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in different colors of pencil. Transcript: “Hello, my name is Susej F and I’am 9 years old. I’am from Venezuela. I have been 50 days in Dilley Immigration Processing Center. And I want to go to my Country. But I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long. I have been 2 years and 6 months in united states, and I was happy with my friends in The school but now I need to leave. I miss my family in my country so now I want To go to Venezuela. But my mom do not want to leave because she wants a better future for me.”

The second page of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil on notebook paper. Transcript: “Seen how people like me, immigrants are been treated changes my perspective about the U.S. My mom and I came to The U.S looking for a good and safe place to live, and my mom was looking for a Good job.”

2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.”

From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days

More than 1,000 bodies are buried in individual and mass graves on land belonging to Sudan University of Science and Technology after RSF forces used a campus site designated for a hospital to bury the dead during the war, a university official said, Sudan Tribune reports. The university reports about $258 million in losses, including the destruction of all 300 laboratories, including a rare nuclear chemistry lab, and extensive looting of medical equipment, computers, power transformers, libraries, and campus facilities.

More than 1,000 bodies are buried in individual and mass graves on land belonging to Sudan University of Science & Technology after RSF forces used a campus site designated for a hospital to bury the dead during the war, a university official said, Sudan Tribune...

sudantribune.com/article/310390

Just beyond parody at this point

They're beginning to get uneasy with being so blatantly cowardly and hypocritical.

⚡️ GAINS AT A HIGH COST

So far this year, Russia has had net gains of 381 km², at the cost of 37k casualties, incl. an est. 10k killed — equivalent to 98 casualties per km².

To put this into perspective, the USSR lost 26k people over 10 years in Afghanistan.

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Prince Andrew helped deepen UK relations with Gulf regimes for eight years after Epstein scandal The queen’s second son has held 70 meetings with repressive Middle East monarchies in the decade since the Arab Spring uprisings. Most meetings took place after Prince Andrew’s role as official trade ...

The BBC is reporting that former prince Andrew shared information with Epstein while acting as a UK trade envoy.

But did you know? UK governments used Andrew to deepen relations with their Gulf regime allies for 8 YEARS after the Epstein scandal broke.

www.declassifieduk.org/prince-andre...

Impress Warns Against Misuse of Privacy Notices Following Mandleson Notice to IPSO Publishers - Impress As ITV's dramatisation of the phone-hacking scandal hits our screens, we introduce a new initiative to help independent journalism.

Independent press regulator Impress has warned against misuse of privacy notices after a request from Peter Mandelson’s team for media to stop contact amid scrutiny over his links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein www.impressorg.com/impress-warn...

Brief van de hoofdredactie: over de mythe van ‘neutrale’ verslaggeving in een wereld vol leugens In een tijd waarin autoritaire machthebbers liegen zonder schaamte, zien we hoe ‘neutraliteit’ vaak wordt opgevat als het netjes doorgeven van alle claims, ook als ze aantoonbaar onwaar zijn. Bij De C...

In een tijd waarin autoritaire machthebbers liegen zonder schaamte, zien we hoe ‘neutraliteit’ vaak wordt opgevat als het netjes doorgeven van alle claims, ook als ze aantoonbaar onwaar zijn. Bij De Correspondent doen we dat anders. decorrespondent.nl/16725/brief-...

Jetten cares nothing for human rights, they were a convenient wrapper to get votes and to power.

1. People struggle to reconcile Keir Starmer’s ruthless ambition, Machiavellian manoeuvres, breaking of promises, collaboration in genocide, bans on protest, aid cuts, benefit cuts and war on nature with his history as a human rights lawyer. But perhaps there is no contradiction.
Read on.🧵

‘Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t ‘just do things because of their background’

Saying it out loud, the drawbridgers are a real threat to society and, immediately, to individuals and families.

in the UK, the Netherlands, across Europe, the US, and other European settler states.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

McSweeney toddles off. Having shorn and butchered.

Close, too close. There needs to be clear alternative, not frantic last minute...

Turkish barber hits back at Nigel Farage comments with hilarious hairstyle snaps Artist the Rebel Bear helped G11 Barbers in Partick with the Farage haircut the Reform UK leader took aim at the growth in the number of high street barbers.

Glasgow Turkish barber hits back at Nigel Farage comments with hilarious hairstyle snaps

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

The Minneapolis Strategy for Fighting ICE Is Worth Studying In Minneapolis, years of robust labor and community organizing set the stage for the fierce pushback against federal immigration agents’ aggressive invasion. Their experience may soon be relevant to cities elsewhere in the US facing incursions from ICE.

In Minneapolis, years of robust labor and community organizing set the stage for the fierce pushback against federal immigration agents’ aggressive invasion.

Their experience may soon be relevant to cities elsewhere in the US facing incursions from ICE.

South Africa was banned from the Olympics from 1964 to 1988 because it was an apartheid state.

The ICJ declared Israel to be an apartheid state, so when does its ban start?

Peter Mandelson got five-figure payoff for sacking as ambassador Despite his Epstein disgrace, the Labour veteran secured an exit payment equivalent to three months’ salary

Sunday Times reports suggest PM's chief of staff would like to control the terms (ie, timing) of a probable imminent + voluntary departure from government
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Gorton and Denton by-election: Zack Polanski urges 'hope over hate' Zack Polanski joined candidate Hannah Spencer, a councillor and plumber, on the campaign trail.

BBC News - Gorton and Denton by-election: Zack Polanski urges 'hope over hate' - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Renee Good's partner addresses Minneapolis immigration crackdown one month after killing Becca Good has seldom spoken out since Renee Good was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

UK billionaire Len Blavatnik is selling Israeli TV channel 13 to a Natanyahu ally.

In the UK, Blavatnik puts his name on the Tate, Oxford School of Government, and as producer of "Zone of interest"

In Israel, he is helping Netanyahu to kill a TV channel critical of the government.

The utter whiteness of this, Louverture and the Haitian Revolution are a watershed in equality.

New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

Self-service...