Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler)

Environment Secretary urged to apologise for ‘misleading’ Scottish water claims Holyrood’s Climate Action and Energy Secretary has written to Steve Reed about ‘inaccurate and misleading comments’ about water quality in Scotland.

UK Environment Secretary must apologise for ‘misleading’ Scottish water claims.

Claimed water “pollution levels in Scotland are worse than they are in England”.

Water Commission found 66% of Scotland’s water bodies to be of good ecological status; 16.1% in England; 29.9% in Wales.

Nick Timothy has always been an unpleasant authoritarian racist but the direct endorsement of racist mob violence (and attacking the police for preventing it) is genuinely a new low.

nos.nl/regio/noord-... When I say we have a "caste system" nobody really wants to acknowledge is there.

"being Dutch"

Footballer, journalist, fashionista: whatever French Muslims do, we’re treated as the enemy within | Rokhaya Diallo Ministers have accused us of ‘infiltration’ and posing ‘a threat to national cohesion’. They’re old racist tropes given a dangerous new life, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

Footballer, journalist, fashionista: whatever French Muslims do, we’re treated as the enemy within | Rokhaya Diallo

Elon Musk is a symbol of American collapse in many ways, but one of the big ones is how for years he has constantly engaged in multi-billion-dollar securities and consumer fraud, and the "consequence" has been him making billions more, including from the federal government paying him directly.

There is no caste or class system , nor racism in the Netherlands. There's behaviour that looks like it, but bring Dutch, it's different. The only issue is how migrants don't behave/understand...(sarcasm alert).

Should Britain remain a member of the ECHR?

Yes 58%
No 29%

Much party/media pressure on the leader of the Opposition to shift to the side with half of the support! Often predicated on the mistaken media/political assumption that is the popular side of the argument

(Sunday Times)

People do not risk their lives crossing one of the world's busiest shipping routes. They do it because they have no other alternatives. Pushing the whole "social media advert" angle reinforces the idea that people seeking asylum are choosing where to seek it like some twisted package holiday. 2/

View of Gaza taken from a Jordanian military aircraft.

Nothing justifies this. Where are people meant to go? What are they meant to do? 💔

‘Richard Osman made £10m, but I  got £250 last year’: How much money novelists really make The big hitters of the literary world draw headlines for their book deals. But the reality of writing fiction for a living is an altogether less lucrative existence

It really is an industry that doesn’t serve its most valuable people (authors) at all. What future does that have? inews.co.uk/culture/book...

A daily reminder Germany is complicit in genocide

And 1 in 8 of all people in this country were born overseas so..... 🤷‍♀️

Germany's angel of history is screaming As Israel obliterates Gaza with Berlin's backing, German public support is plummeting. Yet the government is crushing dissent and refusing to change course.

As Israel obliterates Gaza with Berlin's backing, German public support for the war is plummeting. Yet the government is crushing dissent and refusing to change course — all in the name of atoning for Germany's own genocidal history.

By Amos Brison.

www.972mag.com/germany-gaza...

This is the week Scotland was forced to confront its role in slavery, and say: ‘Yes, that was us’ | Hannah Lavery Guardian revelations about Edinburgh University’s links to both the practice and theory of the evil trade must now provoke a national reckoning on race, says poet and playwright Hannah Lavery

This is the week Scotland was forced to confront its role in slavery, and say: ‘Yes, that was us’ | Hannah Lavery

‘Natuurlijk wil het Westen zeggen dat Israël een land is zoals zij. Omdat het Westen weigert om zijn eigen criminele geschiedenis te erkennen − zijn geschiedenis van uitbuiting en misbruik, van etnische zuivering en genocide −, verdedigt het uiteraard een land dat hetzelfde wil doen.’

Must read!

I don’t want to start a pile-on. A lot of people would be involved in commissioning & editing this piece. But it’s currently leading site: a major editorial choice that is endorsing what is unarguably access journalism. In a moment in which UK govt ministers have never more needed to be challenged.

Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism’ Pattern of ‘hostile language’ in media and debates likely to describe people of colour with less sympathy, report says A pattern of “hostile language” in news reports and UK parliamentary debates is more likely to describe people of colour as immigrants, or with less sympathy, researchers have found. The race equality thinktank the Runnymede Trust analysed more than 63m words from 52,990 news articles and 317 House of Commons debates on immigration between 2019 and the general election in July 2024. Continue reading...

Language on immigration in UK news and politics found to have ‘shaped backlash against antiracism’

‘It’s his safe place’: searching for Tommy Robinson in Tenerife Far-right activist flew to the Spanish island again this week in a moment of peril – but friends deny seeing him there

Goede bekende van Wierd Duk en Geert Wilders.
Tommy Robinson.
Wierd Duk noemde hem martelaar van (de) arbeidsklasse.
Robinson is een Britse crimineel, extreemrechtse activist.
Robinson wordt nu door de Metroplitan Police gezocht wegens mishandeling

Geert Wilders presteerde het zelfs om de Britse crimineel Tommy Robinson in de Tweede Kamer uit te nodigen.
Dilan Yesilgöz (ex minister van Justitie) moest toch toen ze de samenwerking met de PVV zocht van het criminele verleden van de vriend van Wilders hebben geweten.

New report shows 24 million people in the UK are below minimum socially acceptable living standards New research reveals a sharp rise in the number of individuals in the UK living in households with incomes below the Minimum Income Standard (MIS).

The state we are in.

24m Britons, 36% of the population, live below minimum socially acceptable living standard.

Wealth systematically transferred to the rich - 1% have more than 70% of the population combined.

Can't rebuild without improving spending power of the bottom 50% of population.

Amsterdamse ambtenaren waren tijdens de oorlog ‘slaafse stempelaars’ Historicus Jeroen Kemperman oordeelt hard maar genuanceerd over de gemeente Amsterdam tijdens de bezetting. Die voerde niet alleen anti-Joodse maatregelen ijverig uit, maar voldeed aan bijna ieder ver...

Slowly, very slowly, Amsterdam and the Netherlands are getting closer to admitting active involvement in the crimes against humanity committed in WWII.
www.trouw.nl/boeken/amste...

David Lammy and JD Vance bonded over ‘dysfunctional’ childhoods – and a Diet Coke The UK foreign secretary opens up about his friendship with the VP, that ‘island of strangers’ speech, and his guilt over Zelenskyy’s Oval Office encounter

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

Critics of de-extinction research hit by mystery smear campaign Several researchers who have been critical of Colossal Biosciences’ plans to revive extinct animals say they have been targeted by online articles trying to discredit them

Yesterday, Matthew Sparkes at @newscientist.com ran the following article…. www.newscientist.com/article/2490... 4/n

New York Times: Israel isn’t starving healthy children to death. Just the ones with preexisting conditions. A few days after writing a story on starvation and malnutrition in Gaza, the New York Times issued a clarification that it felt readers must know: that the emaciated Palestinian boy it had profiled…

A few days after writing a story on starvation and malnutrition in Gaza, the New York Times issued a clarification that it felt readers must know: that the emaciated Palestinian boy it had profiled actually had a preexisting health condition.

Placing “anti-west, anti-white, anti-Jewish” in succession despite the history of antisemitism in western white societies kind of gives the game away.

Israeli author David Grossman says Gaza war is genocide <article data-history-node-id="426619" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-author-david-grossman-says-gaza-war-genocide" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-author-david-grossman-says-gaza-war-genocide" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli author David Grossman says Gaza war is genocide</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli author David Grossman has said that his country is committing genocide in Gaza.</p> <p>“For many years, I refused to use that term: genocide,” the writer told Italian daily La Repubblica in an interview published on Friday.</p> <p>“But now, after the images I have seen and after talking to people who were there, I can’t help using it.”</p> <p>“This word is an avalanche: Once you say it, it just gets bigger, like an avalanche. And it adds even more destruction and suffering,” he said.</p> <p>Grossman’s works have won many international prizes, including Israel’s top literary prize in 2018.&nbsp;</p> <p>His comments come days after two major Israeli rights groups also used the term amid growing global alarm over Israeli-imposed starvation in Gaza.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>

Israeli author David Grossman says Gaza war is genocide - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-author-david-grossman-says-gaza-war-genocide

Hengshan Park by Amal Chatterjee The windows shudder as another train roars past. Through the grey-streaked glass, he sees the city growing, cranes yellow against the sky, towering over the already giant blocks …

Another story
arsnotoria.com/2025/08/01/h...

Data Shows Former Indian MP’s Terror Trial Largely Conducted in Her Absence Pragya Chandrapalsingh Thakur and her co-accused were acquitted of terror charges for the 2008 Malegaon bombing on July 31 this year.

An explosion killed six people and injured over a hundred in the predominantly Muslim town of Malegaon, India. A Hindu nationalist activist, who later became MP, was one of the suspects in the case. Bellingcat analyses the court data of the 17-year long trial. www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of...

Tweet from Craig Mokhiber: September will mark the one-year deadline set by the UNGA for Israeli accountability before further measures are imposed. This week's UN conference on 2 states and the belated recognition of Palestine by a few Western states are part of an effort to return to the cruel status quo ante (Oslo-ism), to buttress Israel and Zionism, and to ensure the Israeli regime's continued impunity. They are a cynical response to public outrage at Israeli apartheid & genocide, and an effort to derail the growing movement for Israeli accountability and Palestinian human rights (ICC, ICJ, UN rapporteurs, human rights orgs, social movements, etc.).

Craig Mokhiber, the first UN human rights official to resign over the Gaza genocide, points out why western countries are tripping over each other to recognize Palestine but not take any concrete action to reign in Israel