Putting aside I was born in England, and both my parents were - these are my biological, maternal grandparents on their wedding day not long after the end of the war in the 1950s But the white nationalist would say I’m not English, because I have more melanin than them It’s just racism

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · 11h ago

Best way to find out if someone is being a white nationalist as opposed to genuinely interested in identity is whether they see mixed race people with a white English parent as ethnically English If they can’t give you a straight answer of “well obviously” then it’s about melanin, nothing else

Best way to find out if someone is being a white nationalist as opposed to genuinely interested in identity is whether they see mixed race people with a white English parent as ethnically English If they can’t give you a straight answer of “well obviously” then it’s about melanin, nothing else

What a timeline we’re on 5 years ago, the thought of military action on Iran by the US seemed far away - now, its president is mooting annihilating them and driving them ‘into hell’ at the UN

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

Trump to the UN: "Do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly? Do I drive them into hell?"

This is not normal!

I’ve got the SNL Lime bike song stuck in my head

Truly upsetting to see this after spending the day fasting and avoiding social media for the most part Thoughts with Canadian Jews right now, we are with you 💙

Andy Burnham should appoint a homelessness tsar to help eradicate rough sleeping, the head of a leading charity has said Matt Downie, Crisis CEO, also called on the Labour government to unfreeze Local Housing Allowance at the Budget and embrace Housing First, reports @nadinebh.bsky.social

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Andy Burnham should appoint a homelessness tsar to help with his pledge to end rough sleeping, according to the head of a leading homelessness char...

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Given it’s Yom Kippur at sunset, I feel compelled to say: The world has became a very unforgiving and cruel place because of social media People who have not been truly evil, or cruel, or villains keep finding themselves subjected to mediaeval mobs - sometimes with horrible consequences

Are you fasting tomorrow? This is your starting gun for water drinking. We are going to do 3L of water over the next 6 hours, OK? It's completely doable. Go and drink 500ml of water right now. Go. We go again in 45 minutes.

Had the best time previewing @afuahirsch.bsky.social amazing doc this evening ❤️

Baffled at why activists, particularly American activists (given this is Trump’s Iran war) are not talking more about the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Yemen I know there an attention economy, but if my govt was waging war leading to this, I’d have more to say www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

The story of the Archbishop of Canterbury unknowingly giving an Imam who praised Osama Bin Laden an interfaith award on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 sounds like it’s a story churned out by an anti-woke propaganda generator Thoughts with the Archbishop’s comms team, can only imagine the carnage

So I’ve felt extremely tired for no reason thinking I was ill and turns out the boiler next to my room has been leaking carbon monoxide and gas 💀

Recommendations for a city break in October?

Watching The Ai Doc on Netflix, and I’ve lost count of the amount of time I’ve said “we are so f*cked” The fact an AI discovered it was gonna be shut down and knew one of the engineers was having an affair from emails, so threatened to out the affair if he was switched off, is INSANE

I often think about what I’d do if I was a millionaire celebrity with a stupid amount of money at times like this I think the first thing I’d do is donate to a different charity everyday and post about it on my social media channels urging others to do the same

1/ Alon-Lee Green, one of the founders of Standing Together and co-chair of the political party A Place for Us All, was arrested by the police yesterday. He spent the night in detention and police are now seeking to extend his detention.

There is no excuse for gunning down unarmed civilians, killing children, burning people alive in their homes, sexual violence, or the kidnapping of civilians (again, including children) to name a few of the war crimes perpetrated by Hamas If you think there is, you should probs be on a watch list

Môr Leidr@bartiddu.bsky.social · last wk.

Palestinians have been left with no alternative but to respond to illegal occupation, apartheid, imprisonment without trial (including of children), torture, and extra judicial murder with violence. Just as the ANC did in South Africa. The terrorists here are the IDF & the Settlers.

I have an dear friend who lives in Israel and she regularly travels to West Bank villages being displaced by settlers to take photos and to document Palestinian daily life before their homes are taken away or erased Her photos capture how much life there is despite impossible circumstances

Have there been other examples of celebrities bearing the brunt of public frustration due to political inertia like this before? It’s like Macklemore has become a stand in for Palestine and Ed Sheeran has become a stand in for Israel because there’s no constructive political leadership at all

Netanyahu conflating Jews and Israel and making it confusing for people who know little about the topic is *not* the same as people heading to Jewish areas to kill Jews in the UK If you get up in the morning and want to kill Jews, pretty sure you’re beyond misunderstanding & are deeply antisemitic!

100% this, a rubicon has been crossed The Israeli govt has killed tens of thousands of people, including 20,000 children, over the course of just a few years - and have showed no accountability, no genuine remorse, and came under little meaningful intl pressure to end the killing

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · last wk.

I think people like Kraft (and some responding to Ed Miliband's statement here last week) just haven't grasped how much sentiment has shifted in the last few years.

My heart is with civilians in Yemen, what they continually have to endure is unfathomable

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

Saudi Arabia and the Houthis in Yemen have accused each other of launching attacks at their territories, with reports of casualties on both sides. The full scope of ground fighting remains unclear but the hostilities have displaced approximately 125,000 people in Yemen since September, the UN said.

Just reading about the recent developments with the Houthis in the Strait of Hormuz - and how African nations are now getting involved - and what all this means for the global economy and civilians in Yemen It’s disturbing how little attention it’s getting politically here

Funny how I knew how bad it was because I read the OBRs reports and talk to economists Both Labour and the Tories were not honest in the manifestos in 2024 about tax rises Reeves could argue she didn’t know *some* details, but Healey - a cabinet minister under Starmer and Burnham - cannot

Part of the reason public discourse is so poisonous on so many issues is because it cannot make space for the reality that there is no such thing as the perfect villain or the perfect victim

We are on the weirdest timeline, only makes me think AI killing all humans is more likely

See! End of the rainbow! Given it’s the start of the Jewish new year I’m taking this as a very good omen

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · last wk.

I just saw the end of a rainbow what does this mean

I just saw the end of a rainbow what does this mean

Shanah tovah v’shabbat shalom! ❤️ 🍎 🍯 ✨