This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms

Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · 2d ago

news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest

Trans history post: Hijron ka khanqah (Hijra/transfeminine retreat) is a compelling reminder that our trans & queer histories do not require imprimatur from dominant global north-biased queerness. We are alive. This resting place for Hijra sisters in Delhi dates from 1452-1526 (Lodi dynasty). 1/2

Really powerful thread - Tomasz says it how it is.

Tomasz Oryński@orynski.eu · 3d ago

I am seeing more and more posts in places like Reddit from British people wanting to move to Poland and struggling to get a job. Oh, how the tables have turned. But I didn't want to talk about it but about why I don't predict many of them to be too succesfull. Why? Here is a thread for you:

It’s 49C in Basra, Iraq today. Coolest it will get overnight is 36C. Temperatures will top 50C next week. #Climate breakdown is already well underway. Furnace-like conditions like this will continue to spread, year after year.

Brexit, just one of the most unhinged things I have seen in my lifetime. Just an absolute xenophobic car crash from day one. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’

After years of building lives in UK, potentially thousands of EU citizens could be told they have no right to remain

theguardian.com

Please share with all women (yes it affects cis women too) and trans + people. goodweeplace.com

It is incredibly disappointing that: - @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social did not have a Black person, more specifically a Black woman, on this segment to discuss this - @boardofdeputies.bsky.social has not reached out to Black Jews to have this discussion, specifically after their Commission report *And*

The only people who want AI in publishing are (1) the soulless ghouls at the top who are taking the publishing industry’s contempt of authors to its logical extreme, to cut them out entirely that they don’t have to pay them; and (2) people who want to be authors but don’t want to do the work.

Important to note that Bev Craig, the new Mayor of Greater Manchester, won her overwhelming victory on a platform of trans inclusion, as an out lesbian. A stark reminder to the GC crowd that a) transphobia is a losing policy, and b) the vast majority of lesbians support trans inclusion.

FIFA > the Republican Party

Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · 6d ago

In a week of incendiary statements, this from Kevin Lamour, who at least for tonight remains FIFA COO, is incredibly damning in that it is from an insider that goes beyond this one scheme and is an assassination in a few hundred words of the FIFA president as a leader of global football.

Uncover the legendary storyteller behind the Arabian Nights 📖 🌙 Signed copies of @matthewteller.com's upcoming book #FindingAladdin are available to pre-order now through @lighthousebks.bsky.social via the link below! 🔗 lighthousebookshop.com/book/9781805227250

Far be it from me, etc ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Profile Books@profilebooks.bsky.social · 6d ago

Uncover the legendary storyteller behind the Arabian Nights 📖 🌙 Signed copies of @matthewteller.com's upcoming book #FindingAladdin are available to pre-order now through @lighthousebks.bsky.social via the link below! 🔗 lighthousebookshop.com/book/9781805227250

Congrats on getting Hamas to say “okay fine, we’ll disarm after Israel totally withdraws” and Israel to say “okay fine, we’ll withdraw after Hamas totally disarms.” No one’s accomplished that before, better make it the top headline.

UEFA as working-class heroes

A couple of months ago someone asked me “What do you think of the DJT administration’s policy on Africa?” To which I replied “what policy?” I stand by that answer. USG Africa map mislaabels every single country on a slide deck at a conference. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

reuters.com

It's believed Assad left £40 million of his money in an HSBC London branch before he left to become President in 1994 and that millions accrued in interest in the years since. Can it be recovered and used to compensate his victims? From @ruthmichaelson.com: observer.co.uk/news/interna...

‘The money must be there’: The hunt for Bashar-al Assad’s...

The Syrian dictator is said to have left £40m in a London bank when he went home in 1994. Campaigners want to see it returned to victims of the regime, but face a battle with HSBC

observer.co.uk

Biological sex is not a thing. Govt and media should stop using the term because it is meaningless. The observation of a clinician at the moment of birth does not denote immutable fact. It may be made in error. A person’s biology is one aspect of their reality among many and not necessarily defining

12. Beyond anything about the film as a film, it was a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice to film the Trojan Horse sequence in occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara, without the consent of the indigenous population.

Read it all. It’s short, but it’s a book that matters ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Carolyn Petit@carolynmichelle.bsky.social · last wk.

From pages 38-45 of this remarkable book is a section on journalism that is so urgent, so compelling, so precise in identifying some of the major flaws and failures of mainstream journalism as an industry at this moment in time, that I wish I could make all American journalists read it.

Hard pass. 🙄

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · last wk.

Imagine a world where you could ask a book a question as you read it. That's the pitch from a wave of new AI tools letting readers do exactly that u.afp.com/Sr2q

1989: Margaret Thatcher, "Water privatisation I believe will go very successfully indeed. It will go very successfully indeed" 2026: BBC News, "Both terminals at the UK's second busiest airport, Gatwick, are without running water.. Toilets can't be flushed"

“Moving back to London left a gaping, Yemen-sized hole in my heart and stomach.” - I know that feeling. Nostalgia for Yemen and Yemeni food. Highly recommend the Yemeni za’atar made by Yemen Heaven, although yet to make it to their restaurant in York. It was so good I gave it as gifts at Christmas.

Hyphen@hyphenonline.com · 2y ago

Despite the long history of Yemeni communities in port towns, authentic dishes like mandi, zorbiyan and khaliat nahal are still hard to find. Zaynab Asaadi brings to the spotlight the flavourful Yemeni gems dotted around the UK. 📷Isra Saker hyphenonline.com/2025/01/21/y...

The misdirection briefing over chancellor is very funny. But fair play to the mysterious people who this morning and at lunchtime curiously backed John Healey for chancellor at odds of up to 130/1, days after the last time any bets been placed on him for the job with Betfair.

🇵🇸 Gaza bookseller rebuilds roadside library from rubble Mohamed Saad arranges rescued books and welcomes customers at a roadside tent bookstore in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, after rebuilding his library with volumes recovered from the rubble of his home in Beit Lahia.

At what point will governments and journalists finally pull the plug?

Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2w ago

UK consulate in Palestine account suspended on X - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-consulate-palestine-account-suspended-x

One thing I will say, before anything or everything goes wrong. It’s a small relief to have a politician as PM again, rather than another in the grim line of lawyers, billionaires, chancers, pundits, PR gurus or obvious no-hopers. This bloke can, at least, talk the talk. The rest remains to be seen

🇵🇸 Celebration of the Spanish goal last night in Gaza. Video via QNN.

Striking stat in today's FT in the context of new EU laws to control destruction of unused clothing. A very good example of how the capitalocene functions: extractive production matched by destruction in service of maintaining shareholder value, with no human benefitting from the actual products.