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Two years. I can't believe it. What a disgusting time. What a horrific time. We live in the age of monsters, and all we can hope for is to finally defeat some of them. Free palestine.

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

no excuse for being this bad

IMAGINE SENDING 20 WARSHIPS TO INTERCEPT BOATS CARRYING MILK POWDER AND BABY FORMULA FOR STARVING CHILDREN. THIS IS THE GREATEST EVIL EXISTING IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW!!!!!

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson

this one has been ten years in the making ... ✍🏽

I'm looking for work!! 👀 - I'm a freelance editor for Metro UK and writer for newspapers. - I'm a consultant for museums such as Horniman Museum and Kensington Palace. - I'm a mentor for LGBTQ+ charity Just Like Us. - I'm the founder of Burnt Roti magazine and Middlesex Pride. sharandhaliwal.com

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

just a bunch of war criminals deciding the fate of civilians, nothing to see here www.ft.com/content/527b...

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Ignore Labour’s fake rage over vile messages about Diane Abbott. It knew there was toxicity. It condoned it | Nadine White

“More than 650 organisations including Ben and Jerry’s, Lush and hundreds of small cafes and pubs have written to the government to warn that the EHRC’s draft guidance on single sex spaces is ‘unworkable’ and would ‘cause significant economic harm’.” https://bit.ly/4guj9Gf

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

The UN still hasn't declared Israel is committing genocide - it's a commission of inquiry, meaning it is an independent mandated fact-finding report. The UN itself are yet to use the word genocide. We can't stop pressuring them to do so.

This is how they’re protecting women. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Cancelling all plans to go to London today because I live with anxiety and Tommy Robinson’s fascist rally will give me a panic attack x

Graham Linehan's arrest was the good news we needed today, but it needs to be reported as "suspicion of inciting hate", instead of "just three X tweets". When people feel comfortable typing hate on their keyboards, you soon see others emboldened to burn down asylum hotels. It's never just tweets.

I mentor young queer migrant students, who have talked to me about the apprehension they feel when applying for graduate visas. Now this is another hit on their anxiety. But why do bright young people have to take their skills and dreams elsewhere? What are we gaining by losing them?

And meanwhile, Adnan Hussain - a member of @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social and @zarahsultana.bsky.social's new political party - has bent over backwards to be transphobic.

Is anyone shocked that the "we risk becoming an island of strangers" guy likes that racists intimidate vulnerable people with flags?

Another day, yet ANOTHER stupid, pointless announcement on immigration from this stupid pointless government. Today: you are a student - we're going to write you a stern letter about how you better not be thinking of staying! Insanity. Racist, cowardly, insanity. #r4today

Just me doing a forensic takedown of each misinformed & incorrect claim Rylan made about asylum seekers 😎 Already received one hate-filled email 💅🏽 www.independent.co.uk/voices/rylan...

what's happening today? oh not much, just Rylan pushing the model minority myth, while calling people "illegal" and spreading misinformation, claiming that asylum seekers get "iPads" and "three meals a day" at hotels. a normal day. metro.co.uk/2025/08/28/r...

remember this? it's almost September...

Ever since the National Front co-opted the St George’s flag in the 70s, its presence has become a shorthand for ‘You’re not wanted here’, writes @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/voices/flags...

This is so bloody tough and good – what we need to read. Brilliantly and generously written by @sharandhaliwal.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/voices/flags...

In 2024, I got talking to Mahmoud in Gaza, and have been trying to get his story published since. This is it as it was told to me from November 2024 - January 2025. 🇵🇸 open.substack.com/pub/sharandh...

In 2024, I got talking to Mahmoud in Gaza, and have been trying to get his story published since. This is it as it was told to me from November 2024 - January 2025. 🇵🇸 open.substack.com/pub/sharandh...

I’m an official judge of the British Journalism Awards 2025, for a third year ✨ Entries are due on 26th September: pressgazette.awardsplatform.com

Only a dumbass like Keir Starmer can think that continuing the starvation of people in Gaza until his made up September deadline while threatening Hamas with an ultimatum, is the way to peace.

“While the film didn’t explicitly stipulate Jess’ sexuality, her rejection of over-sexualisation of teenage girls and disinterest in boys made her the blueprint for a baby queer like me, and many others, to help understand ourselves.” metro.co.uk/2025/07/28/b...

The EHRC – the body which is meant to protect our human rights – is proposing guidance which would turn the Equality Act into a bathroom ban. If this becomes law, it would force trans people out of public life. And terrifyingly - this is all happening behind closed doors 🧵

“It was almost a perfect, and chilling, echo of last year’s riots.” metro.co.uk/2025/07/18/e...

BREAKING 🧨 I'm now in possession of evidence confirming a second trans youth suicide, where the patient's data was NOT sent to NHS England, for inclusion in Appleby's flawed DHSC report "Review of suicides and gender dysphoria at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: independent report"

The Metropolitan Police says it will have an increase in officers at tomorrow's Palestine Coalition march in London, looking specifically for anyone trying to "test the limits of the law by expressing support for Palestine Action" and for chanting at the flashpoint where pro-Israel supporters gather

“This shouldn’t be the end of the matter, and I want to know what is being done to make a change in the systems upholding this behaviour, at the BBC and other institutions.” metro.co.uk/2025/07/16/j...

Hello! I wanted to share that I’ve been ✨ nominated ✨ for the Ethnicity Awards with Investing in Ethnicity under ‘Broadcaster, Journalist and Host’, if you would like to vote, please lovingly do so here! ❤️ www.ethnicityawards.com/shortlisted-...

The real Superman is anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, anti-racist - he is a socialist warrior. He fought Nazis and the KKK at a time that the American government held fascist values. open.substack.com/pub/sharandh...

Bob Vylan gets lambasted, dropped by their label, visa revoked for saying the want the death of an organisation participating in genocide. Meanwhile, nothing will happen to Ann Coulter.

This Palestinian boy is comforting his younger siblings after they were injured in an Israeli attack that targeted a displacement shelter in Gaza City.

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

Netpol has published a guide on what the threatened ban on Palestine Action is likely to mean in practice netpol.org/2025/06/26/p...

Anyway, Pride Month is over. In case anyone noticed it was happening.

Here's my take on 'Death to the IDF'...I don't see anything wrong with saying that. I think the organisation 100% needs to die. It can't f-off, or go away for a bit. It needs to be destroyed, demolished - we can't have this system continue to uphold genocide. They're a plaything for Netanyahu.

On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.

Child Q: Two Met Police officers committed gross misconduct during strip search of 15-year-old schoolgirl