Asif Kapadia
@asifkapadia.bsky.social
Director / Producer / Writer: 70UP, KENNY DALGLISH, 2073, AMY, SENNA, DIEGO MARADONA, Mindhunter, The Warrior, Far North, CREATURE, FEDERER: 12 Final Days, The Sheep Thief, Standard Operating Procedure + Yasiin Bey. More soon…
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from minority ethnic backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees
National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims
Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from minority ethnic backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees
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Gianni Infantino has lost the support of 90 of the 211 Football Associations. If he loses 106 it is Game Over. Get him out, and get him investigated!
Must watch. If you don’t fully understand how international fascism works, watch this movie. Spoiler alert: it’s all about the money. Money = Power.
Asif Kapadia@asifkapadia.bsky.social · 2y ago2073.film Details of the theatrical release of 2073 in the UK and US:
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jul... ‘We’re shocked that Palestine Action barrister faces contempt proceedings, We stand with Rajiv, believe that these proceedings must be dropped immediately’ Tariq Ali,Margaret Aspinall,Sue Roberts,Marieha Hussain,Selma Taha,Divina Riggon,Danae Thomas,Tippa Naphtali
We are shocked that Palestine Action barrister faces contempt proceedings | Letters
Letters: Former clients of Rajiv Menon KC, including Tariq Ali and Hillsborough family members Margaret Aspinall and Sue Roberts, say the charges against him must be dropped. Plus a letter from Andrew...
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Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Zohran Mamdani; ‘He’s a war criminal’: Mamdani exploring whether he can arrest Netanyahu if he visits New York NYC mayor says in Times interview that’s he’s in ‘active conversation’ with city’s law department about the matter
‘He’s a war criminal’: Mamdani exploring whether he can arrest Netanyahu if he visits New York
NYC mayor says in Times interview that’s he’s in ‘active conversation’ with city’s law department about the matter
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Overwhelming:"a system that has achieved the remarkable feat of making individual cowardice feel like responsible complexity, and of making the refusal of Palestinian humanity feel like a carefully considered position, despite its brute stupidity" @hamayel.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/mor...
Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.
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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... Gaza DOCTOR almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail. Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison WITHOUT CHARGE or trial.
Detained Gaza doctor almost unrecognisable after injuries in Israeli jail, lawyer says
Hussam Abu Safiya faces ‘tangible danger to his life’ following 18 months in prison without charge or trial
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Disgusting. After years of broken promises, Thames Water continues to pollute our waterways with raw sewage. London deserves clean, safe rivers, not more sewage and excuses. Water companies and regulators need to get their act together.
High levels of E. coli recorded after Thames spill in West London
Fulham Reach Boat Club recorded levels more than 60 times the threshold for suitable bathing water.
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The Charity Commission is "assessing concerns" over the Great Israeli Real Estate event where, we showed, properties from seven illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank were advertised. 👉 www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-ill... www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/regulat...
Regulator assessing concerns over Great Israeli Real Estate event hosting
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Is Palantir the most dangerous corporation in America? https://youtu.be/x_VwyhErd88?si=8i9QIXkV_iIZIqEc
The Most Dangerous Corporation in America?
The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.
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Interview - Democracy Now Q&A - Jonathan Glazer, Kaouther Ben Hania, Motaz Malhees, and Nadim Cheikhrouha Q&A - Michael Moore and Kaouther Ben Hania Q&A - Jane Campion and Kaouther Ben Hania Q&A - Shaunak Sen and Kaouther Ben Hania Booklet featuring an essay by critic Siddhant Adlakha English subs
Palantir Acquires Pentagon For $800 Billion https://theonion.com/palantir-acquires-pentagon-for-800-billion/
www.theguardian.com/global/comme... The Elbit four will be labelled as “terrorists” because they were convicted, of a quasi-terrorist offence that was never charged, never put to the jury, and never proven by the prosecution.
You may not sympathise with the Elbit four’s methods. But you should be outraged by their treatment under the law | Geoffrey Robertson
The jurors who found the pro-Palestine activists guilty of criminal damage had no idea their verdict would be treated as a verdict on terrorism, says Geoffrey Robertson KC
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The genocide in Gaza is a moral litmus test for Burnham.
"The Treatment of Iran’s World Cup Team Exposed the West's and FIFA's Double Standards" Iran’s football captain was asked about LGBT rights. So, why then wasn’t the U.S. team captain asked about the U.S. bombing of the girls' school in Minab, asks Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo?
The Treatment of Iran’s World Cup Team Exposed the West's and FIFA's Double Standards
Iran’s football captain was asked about LGBT rights. So, why then wasn’t the U.S. team captain asked about the U.S. bombing of the girls' school in Minab?
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Perhaps the greatest football film of all. (That’s right, including ‘Escape To Victory’).
Asif Kapadia@asifkapadia.bsky.social · last mo.My DIEGO MARADONA movie on Channel 4 in UK at midnight, straight after the England game, in case the you like some drama with your footie. 'Diego Maradona' Watch it here on Channel 4: www.channel4.com/programmes/d...
My DIEGO MARADONA movie on Channel 4 in UK at midnight, straight after the England game, in case the you like some drama with your footie. 'Diego Maradona' Watch it here on Channel 4: www.channel4.com/programmes/d...
Diego Maradona
(2019) Acclaimed biopic. The pressure's on as the great Diego joins Napoli in 1984.
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It seems that several commentators have set themselves a challenge: to write a thread or article expressing disbelief as to why Starmer was so loathed without mentioning his stances on AI, Black Lives Matter, Gaza, trans rights, and then dismiss that loathing as the hysteria of out-of-touch elites.
'Hanif Kureishi is a prophet.' Sathnam Sanghera chose The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi as the book that made him become a reader: foyles.co.uk/further-reading/national-year-of-reading-writers-on-the-books-that-made-them
