WG Saraband 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇹

Ukraine is a sovereign nation and therefore Russia is an invader, but Lebanon isn't white so obviously sovereignty isn't afforded to them as Israel occupies, bombs and murders at its leisure

Reminded of the quote "bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity"

The world is a bit mad with all the senseless violence caused by angry men, but this is a painting created to inspire beauty, colour, joy and hope. A reminder that there's more.

"Order in Times of Chaos" - 121x91cm, graffiti spray & acrylics on canvas

Available here: wgsaraband.com/geometric-co...

This is actual, literal terrorism perpetrated by Israel against the Lebanese

One of the newest paintings added to my website, "Love Koi II" blends my love for the organic chaos of watercolours with the controlled order of abstract geometry.

"Love Koi II" - 29,5x21cm, fine liner and Japanese watercolours on paper

Available for purchase here: wgsaraband.com/geometric-co...

For some reason, feel like sharing one of my green paintings today 💚 Inspired by the Trossachs, one of my favourite and happiest places in Scotland, which I can never get enough of.

"Trossachs" - 80x70cm, acrylic on canvas

Available here: wgsaraband.com/scottish-lan...

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

This is actual, literal terrorism perpetrated by Israel against the Lebanese

No talk of magic money trees when it comes to European countries' taxpayers subsiding the defence of Gulf states currently under threat because of Israeli-American warmongering overwhelmingly opposed by European citizens

I can’t get over how terrified Starmer looks

The world is a bit mad with all the senseless violence caused by angry men, but this is a painting created to inspire beauty, colour, joy and hope. A reminder that there's more.

"Order in Times of Chaos" - 121x91cm, graffiti spray & acrylics on canvas

Available here: wgsaraband.com/geometric-co...

A world without Iran or a world without the US, which would be safest? Don't answer, we all know anyway

Our Spanish siblings should be well proud of how their government has been a moral cornerstone of a profoundly rotten Europe

A world without Iran or a world without the US, which would be safest? Don't answer, we all know anyway

My biological child, blood of my blood, light of my world

Blimey. Sky News reporting YouGov / Sky News / Times voting intention

*Greens leapfrog Labour into second place*

RefUK 23% (-1)
GRN 21% (+4)
LAB 16%(-2)
CON 16%(-2)
LDEM 14%(nc),

Pollster note: This is the highest we've had the Greens, the first time we've had them in second

ويقول إن المملكة العربية السعودية لا يوجد بها مهاجرون. My fault for wasting my time indulging you reading something I never said anyway I'm not the one here unfamiliar with the reality of the Gulf states

Lmao mate it's clear you don't know me or anything about me, my academic background or why I'm particularly invested in the reality of Gulf states, so please, go ahead and be ignorant about Portugal and Scotland at your leisure, that statement paints enough of a picture re your ignorance in this 👋

There are entire "expat" compounds in Riyadh and other Saudi cities rivalling the lavish lifestyle offered in places like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, kinda floored that you don't know that and would imply I was being ignorant by mixing up the two places.

If I make a mistake by all means correct me but how can you not know that SA is a giant tourist destination and that it draws a massive amount of foreign workers through the promise of a luxurious, safe, high-end lifestyle?

Sorry but not only do I clearly know the difference, Saudi Arabia has around 14 million so-called expats, around 40% of its population - many being drawn by the offer of lavish lifestyles; it is also one of the world's quickest growimf tourist destinations (>110 million last year).

Had a bit of a rant on insta about these insufferable Gulf "expats" and the associated tourist industry used to whitewash some of the world's most brutal regimes

The Home Sec really getting into her fash couture to deliver her fash speeches on the fash news channel, huh

Amazing and safe for whom, exactly, you hypocritical privileged cunts??? Not for much of the people born there or those who've built those places up

Fucking hate with a passion self-described "expats" living in Gulf States like Saudi Arabia built on modern-slave labour, that oppress, brutalise and execute their own people whilst funding proxy wars and genocides around them, who go on about these being "amazing, super safe places to live"

Turkish coffee & pide for brunch, and then a stroll through Edinburgh Botanic Gardens with bonus cat

Turkish coffee & pide for brunch, and then a stroll through Edinburgh Botanic Gardens with bonus cat

White people have governments, brown people have regimes; white heads of state live in palaces, brown heads of state live in compounds; white people have the freedom to bomb others, brown people become free through bombing, apparently.

So privileged to be a white westerner. So damn ashamed.

A friend still on twitter sent me this

A friend still on twitter sent me this