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Hyphen
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A proposed new law in Barcelona could force thousands of South Asian taxi drivers to pass an intermediate Catalan language test — or risk losing their jobs.
Cecilia Butini
speaks to those affected.
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/10/21/barcelona-new-taxi-law-catalan-language-test-south-asian-drivers/
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Barcelona taxi drivers’ warning over Catalan language law
Draft law introducing new language standards could put the jobs of thousands of South Asian cabbies at risk, PakTaxi union warns
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/10/21/barcelona-new-taxi-law-catalan-language-test-south-asian-drivers/
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Prem Sikka
6 days ago
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she “can’t leave welfare untouched”. Treasury considering axing up to £1bn in VAT and insurance premium tax breaks for a scheme providing cars for disabled people. Silence on corporate welfare. Any chance of targeting the super-rich?
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Chancellor says she ‘can’t leave welfare untouched’ this parliament as budget looms
Rachel Reeves understood to be eyeing cuts to Motability scheme as she tries to plug hole in country’s finances
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/17/chancellor-says-she-cant-leave-welfare-untouched-this-parliament-ahead-of-tough-budget
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Farrukh
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Matt Frei, "Netanyahu has ruled out a Palestinian state in English and in Hebrew, repeatedly, that's a problem isn't it?" Emily Thornberry, "Nobody said there wouldn't be any problems"
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Nina Antonia
17 days ago
'O, wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing....' Shelley/ Art Lucien Levy Dhurmer
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Jeremy Corbyn
22 days ago
Israel’s illegal interception of the Gaza Aid Flotilla is an affront to human decency. My piece for
@novaramedia.com
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novaramedia.com/2025/10/02/i...
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Israel’s Illegal Interception of the Gaza Aid Flotilla Is an Affront to Human Decency | Novara Media
Israel’s detention of hundreds of peaceful activists - including my constituent, Novara Media’s Kieran Andrieu - is both a violation of their human rights and a further act of cruelty against the peop...
https://novaramedia.com/2025/10/02/israels-illegal-interception-of-the-gaza-aid-flotilla-is-an-affront-to-human-decency/
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Farrukh
22 days ago
Jimmy Kimmel on Donald Trump, "I never imagined that we’d ever have a president like this and I hope we don’t have another like this again”
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Zarah Sultana MP
22 days ago
Israeli forces are minutes away from illegally intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla. One of the ships - the Ohwayla - sails under a UK flag. Onboard are humanitarians with vital aid, demanding a humanitarian corridor. The Labour government must act NOW to protect UK citizens.
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goldmartin
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We need immigrants
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Esheru
30 days ago
Nigel Farage is shameless, imagine kissing the ass of Donald Trump so much, that you choose to follow his ludicrous statements. Another clear indicator as to why he cannot go anywhere near number 10. The man is a nutcase, an idiot, a racist, an incompetent fool and not fit for office
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Wajahat Ali
about 1 month ago
Of course
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Israel’s culture minister vows to defund ‘Israeli Oscars’ after film about Palestinian boy wins big | CNN
Israel’s minister of culture has vowed to cut funding for the country’s film academy and its annual awards show after a movie about a Palestinian boy’s dream of seeing the ocean won big.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/middleeast/israeli-oscars-palestinian-film-intl
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Zarah Sultana MP
about 1 month ago
Well, we did warn you. (Check the date 👀)
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Oliver
about 1 month ago
#BlameMillionairesNotMigrants
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Hypocrite.
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about 2 months ago
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Stop Trump Coalition
about 2 months ago
🎺🎺
@zarahsultana.bsky.social
will join us Wed 17th September To tell Donald Trump he is NOT WELCOME in the UK! We won't stay silent while our government bows to the Trump regime!💪
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Hyphen
about 2 months ago
Nigel Farage wants to deport 600,000 people and leave the European Convention on Human Rights. Shehab Khan explains Reform UK’s new migration policy — and finds out how it’s going down in Westminster.
hyphenonline.com/2025/08/27/n...
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What Westminster is saying about Reform’s first attempt at migration policy
Nigel Farage has given the public a glimpse of what a Reform UK government might do — including deporting 600,000 people
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/08/27/nigel-farage-reform-deportations-shehab-khan/
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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳
about 2 months ago
The beautiful York Tap at York station which was part of the station built 1872-1877. In 1907 it became a tearoom for the North Eastern Railway. In 2011 conversion to the current York Tap pub was completed. The building features art deco stained glass ceiling domes & windows & a terrazzo floor. /1
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Ramzy Alwakeel
about 2 months ago
Today's announcement about a statutory definition of "honour" violence is good news for campaigners – but govt hasn't been able to say whether it intends to adopt the definition that groups like
@karmanirvana.bsky.social
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‘Honour’ violence could be defined in law for first time
Home Office announcement pre-empts plans backed by 35 rights and research groups to introduce their own definition of ‘honour’ violence
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/08/26/honour-violence-definition-home-office/
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about 2 months ago
Zarah Sultana is dead right. Starmer and Lammy, “senior British figures” and everyone in civil service, army/airforce involved in helping Israel should be in The Hague. “Only following orders” is no defence as Nazis discovered as they faced the hangman’s noose.
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Hyphen
about 2 months ago
Hamad Butt pushed the boundaries of what it was to be a queer South Asian artist in the 1990s. Thirty years after his death, his legacy is being honoured with an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Read more about his life from M.Z. Adnan ⬇️
hyphenonline.com/2025/08/26/l...
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The life and legacy of artist Hamad Butt
Contemporaries remember Butt’s influence as a Young British Artist, and call for his work to be recognised as part of a larger canon
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/08/26/life-legacy-hamad-butt-apprehensions-young-british-artists/
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amy brown
2 months ago
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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The New Yorker
2 months ago
After accidentally killing his toddler son, the pediatrician Greg Gulbransen poured himself into helping others. “He didn’t overthink it,” Joshua Rothman, whose children see Dr. Gulbransen, writes. “In a way, not thinking was the point.”
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A Family Doctor’s Search for Salvation
Instead of turning inward after the death of his son, Dr. Greg Gulbransen turned outward: toward documentary photography and people whose lives he might be able to save.
http://nyer.cm/y55vZwO?utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=bluesky&mbid=social_bluesky&utm_brand=tny
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Tim Onion
3 months ago
From this month's edition of The Onion.
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Wajahat Ali
3 months ago
Finally, a Democratic Leader The Democratic establishment could learn from Zohran Mamdani, who hasn't caved to Trump's bullying, but has instead lifted up immigrants, workers, and members of the LGBTQ
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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Finally, a Democratic Leader
The Democratic establishment could learn from Zohran Mamdani, who hasn't caved to Trump's bullying, but has instead lifted up immigrants, workers, and members of the LGBTQ
https://open.substack.com/pub/thelefthook/p/finally-a-democratic-leader?r=36kin&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Mehdi Hasan
3 months ago
"Signatories include Sky News' special correspondent Alex Crawford, broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, CNN's Christiane Amanpour and chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, as well as iconic war photographer Don McCullin."
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Over 100 journalists demand 'immediate and unsupervised' foreign media access into Gaza
Signatories are calling on both Israel and Hamas to allow foreign journalists into Gaza to report independently on the war, something they have been barred from doing since the conflict started in 202...
https://news.sky.com/story/over-100-journalists-demand-immediate-and-unsupervised-foreign-media-access-into-gaza-13406107
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Carole Cadwalladr
3 months ago
Digital ID is a Blair obsession. ‘Solving immigration’ is simply the latest spin on it. But it *is* spin. Blair has taken hundreds of millions of tech money to push a corporate AI agenda on Starmer’s government with huge success. This is part of a vast massively resourced big tech lobbying op 2
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Mehdi Hasan
3 months ago
“So to the Biden and Trump administrations, to Democrats and Republicans in Congress, to the US media, I say this: history will judge you. For non-stop complicity in a genocide; aiding and abetting the crime of crimes.” My latest op-ed for the Guardian:
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The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise | Mehdi Hasan
The US government, enabled by the media, is an active participant in Israel’s atrocities in Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/02/the-us-complicit-genocide-israel-gaza
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Imran Khan's sons say they are willing to risk being arrested to go to Pakistan to try and free their father.
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“Respect The Rule of LAW!” Sons of Imran Khan Speak Of Assassination Fears | Piers Morgan
YouTube video by Piers Morgan Uncensored
https://youtu.be/SXw_ImU1Izg
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🤷🏽♀️ My ethnic identity is so important to me but yet we have those who wish theirs away. Considering that Kemi grew up in Nigeria too, I’m puzzled as to what she’s trying to achieve.
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Kemi Badenoch says she no longer identifies as Nigerian
The Tory leader said she is "interested" in the country she grew up in, but her home is with her family and the Conservative Party.
https://news.sky.com/story/kemi-badenoch-says-she-no-longer-identifies-as-nigerian-13405449
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Hyphen
3 months ago
Telegram is in the spotlight again, accused of allowing far-right groups to spread hate and coordinate action during recent anti-immigrant riots in Spain.
@butinicecilia.bsky.social
speaks to critics of the platform's content moderation.
hyphenonline.com/2025/07/29/t...
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Telegram under fire as ‘living room’ for far-right extremists
Analysts say online agitators who fuelled anti-immigrant riots in Spain are part of an international network exploiting lax moderation
https://hyphenonline.com/2025/07/29/telegram-far-right-extremists-anti-immigrant-riots-spain/
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A retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution centres.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/
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Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC
A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cy8k8045nx9o?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL28pRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHof2JBQlrco97HnvqSnLOt3SbQC1t4YipYOXhCWdcUqxzmN1Qd9T6c8IzPVG_aem_SqiS6Iidauy6hG44WFZZEA
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As usual Zarah is on point and not afraid of speaking the truth.
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Cleo Laine, Britain's most successful jazz singer, dies aged 97
Versatile singer straddled jazz, classical, pop and musical theatre with four-octave range, and collaborated for decades with husband, John Dankworth
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/25/cleo-laine-britain-jazz-singer-john-dankworth-dies
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Gita Ralleigh
3 months ago
Today is the start of
#SouthAsianHeritageMonth
which runs until 17th August in the U.K. & celebrates the rich cultures of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bhutan & The Maldives. Here are some
#kidlit
reading suggestions! (Titles & authors in alt)
#kidlituk
#ukkidlit
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Severe malnutrition in under-5s has tripled at Gaza City clinic, charity reports
Charity says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/25/severe-malnutrition-under-5s-gaza-city--tripled-two-weeks-charity-msf?CMP=share_btn_url&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLwz5xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHl0BkvJJIlrxqIMj5sXiwrScoX5iPiv8OWMmsVQSMETtMqChdhOk_WkmV84C_aem_tnwjxbC0OSLIHRDKFujTlQ
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A dear friend passed away today. I’ll miss him and his sarcasm which was unmatched and always made me laugh. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un" (إِنَّا لِلَّٰهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ)
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Zarah Sultana MP
3 months ago
Unlike Reform, we’re doing things differently with democracy & inclusivity at the core. From the launch to the party, conference, structures & yes - even the name! - we’re building it together. It might feel unfamiliar to you. It’s called democracy. 🔗
yourparty.uk
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Saul Staniforth
3 months ago
Lammy "The grotesque spectacle of kids holding out their hand for food & being shot" Are you imposing sanctions on Israel? No Are you halting all arms sales? No Are you stopping all trade? No Are you ending all military assistance? No Are you expelling the Israeli ambassador? No
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Brilliant actor as well as having a social conscience. Watched Truly, Madly, Deeply yesterday evening with the late great Alan Rickman.
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Artist or activist? For Juliet Stevenson and her husband, Gaza leaves them with no choice
Film-maker Hugh Brody hopes to honour his mother, a Holocaust survivor, with a show of solidarity for Palestine
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/12/juliet-stevenson-hugh-brody-gaza-palestine
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KazzyAnnie1
3 months ago
Having read the Forde Report I'm not surprised , she wouldn't consider the impact because she doesn't care
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Esheru
3 months ago
Earlier this month the government blocked an inquiry into its complicity, in the Gaza genocide. Read more about the genocide and the role played by the British government in, The Gaza Tribunal
thegazatribunal.uk
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The Gaza Tribunal: Inquiry into War Crimes | The Gaza Tribunal
Explore The Gaza Tribunal's official site for information on Britain's complicity in Israeli war crimes. Watch the tribunal proceedings and stay informed about this critical inquiry into justice and a...
https://thegazatribunal.uk/
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Mehdi Hasan
3 months ago
I hate to say I told you so but… I told you so.
#mythofantiwartrump
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goldmartin
3 months ago
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A 77-year-old country is bombing a 5000-year-old city
The settler-colony has the right to erase history
https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/a-77-year-old-country-is-bombing?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=xkwif
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Esheru
3 months ago
Ah, so that makes it okay then?!
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