Prof Sunny Singh
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Writer, reader, thinker. Founder & director of the Jhalak Prize
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Looking forward to speaking with readers about
#Refuge
: Stories of War (and Love). Some more dates to be added and tickets are for sale now for most of these. Would be wonderful to see as many of you as possible (Will add links for events in replies)
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Snigdha
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Raj, the shopkeeper, doesn't have a surname, because why bother drawing out a proper character? He short changes customers and sells out of date food. Because that's what all shopkeepers hailing from the Indian subcontinent do, right?
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Snigdha
6 days ago
Won't actualty share The Daily Mail. But it seems writers at The Sun were told to drop stories about Walliams' conduct with women because both HarperCollins is owned by Rupert Murdoch's NewsUK. Women were warned to work 'in pairs' when dealing with Walliams. Archive link:
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https://archive.ph/2025.12.20-033239/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15400303/untouchable-David-Walliams-women-KATIE-HIND.html
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Snigdha
6 days ago
Harper Collins denied Miss Tutelage is a black woman, mocked for her hair, and called Desmond Tutu by a bully. Have a look at two illustrations: what would you say her race is?
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Of course they are
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GREUBE HUMAINE
6 days ago
Almost 8 years inside Egyptian prisons for a journalist with his father and brothers
#FreeThemAll
#Egyptian_hell
@me_vignoli
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Leah McElrath
7 days ago
This entire thread is grim. Content warning.
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Leah McElrath
7 days ago
I encourage people posting to stay mindful of the fact that countless real little girls and young women were horribly victimized by the Epstein network—and there are also MANY other survivors reading what is written here.
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Leah McElrath
7 days ago
Wow—the complaint above dated 1996 was made by Maria Farmer:
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Leah McElrath
7 days ago
This Epstein files document says that Epstein allegedly threatened to burn a young woman’s house down if she revealed that he had stolen and sold personal photographs she had taken of her sisters. The sisters were 12 and 16 years old.
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Tammi Gaw
7 days ago
We will never be short of evidentiary support for the 'women will laugh at them/men will kill us' allegory
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Ada Palmer
8 days ago
Launched in 2023, London’s free-school-meals programme has officially delivered more than 100 million meals to pupils in state primary schools, saving families an estimated £500 per child per year.
buff.ly/bopsJfX
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London free school meals scheme achieves 100 million lunches
A scheme to provide free lunches to all state primary school pupils in London reaches a milestone.
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Sam Missingham
7 days ago
And to add insult to injury , his books are full of disgusting stereotypes and the huge marketing money HC spent ensured they ‘owned’ retail space and reduced choice.
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Sam Missingham
7 days ago
Real question is, if HC paid a member of staff off, why didn’t they drop him then? Ie continue to put other young female staff in danger FOR YEARS?
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9197cdb...
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Exclusive: David Walliams dropped by publisher over inappropriate behaviour towards women
Telegraph investigation into best-selling children’s author uncovers claims that he ‘harassed’ junior female employees at Harper Collins
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9197cdb1761216ba
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾
7 days ago
“The old racists just have to die out” Kids of color BEEN trying to tell you
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
7 days ago
It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).
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Snigdha
7 days ago
If you've ever known someone with the name Wong, the teasing was frequent and awful.
www.bbc.com/news/enterta...
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David Walliams: 'Harmful' Chinese character removed from children's book
Children's author David Walliams has been criticised for using "harmful stereotypes" of a Chinese boy.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58786769
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There is real world harm caused by racist writing. No matter how much UK publishing and press pretend otherwise
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Snigdha
7 days ago
David Walliams got away with writing stereotypical characters in his kids books. The publisher just removed them and continued to rake it in.
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Almost as if an industry dominated by white middle class people enjoys publishing books demeaning and dehumanising everyone unlike themselves….
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Another writer ‘cancelled’ by a British publisher? Shall we expect the usual suspects in UK press lining up to bemoan his cancellation? Or is the sauce for the goose different from the one for the gander?🙃
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Declassified UK
7 days ago
An arms firm owned by Israel’s government paid a group of MPs as part of a “PR and marketing campaign”, an inquiry has found, following our investigation. Will this be considered in the government’s review of “foreign interference” in Britain?
www.declassifieduk.org/westminster-...
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Westminster group was funded by Israeli government, inquiry confirms
Official probe was sparked by Declassified investigation into weapons firm
https://www.declassifieduk.org/westminster-group-was-funded-by-israeli-government-inquiry-confirms/
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Rima I Anabtawi
8 days ago
Sorry, kids with cancer, and their families, you see Bernie chose the perfect over the good, again, and your child is shit out of luck.
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Tammi Gaw
7 days ago
I would like this embroidered on a sweatshirt pls
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folukeifejola
9 days ago
One of the arguments I make here is that Black women academics, especially, often have our academic credentials disregarded (implicitly and explicitly) if we mention, even in the slightest way, how our discipline reproduces inequality – structurally or conceptually.
folukeafrica.com/activist-or-...
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Activist or Academic or Both? The Quandary of Scholactivism for the Minoritised in the Ivory Tower
What makes a scholar an activist, & can an activist be a “proper” scholar?
https://folukeafrica.com/activist-or-academic-or-both-the-quandary-of-scholactivism-for-the-minoritised-in-the-ivory-tower/
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folukeifejola
8 days ago
In 2021 a mainstream newspaper wrote an article on decolonisation and cited me [without context]. I was also named as “an activist”. My irritation with that made me question that naming particularly. Why did they call ME “an activist”? Why was no one else who was cited described as an activist? Ah.
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folukeifejola
8 days ago
In this
#newblogpost
, I discuss the relationship between Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism: how they help us understand and respond to law's inadequacy, dystopia, racial injustice, appropriation of trauma and the algorithmic racist bias of digital technologies.
folukeafrica.com/afrofuturism...
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Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism Duelling and Dwelling Within ‘Black African Science Fiction’
An umbrella for reimagining racial justice covering a diversity of origins, methods, and futures
https://folukeafrica.com/afrofuturism-and-africanfuturism-duelling-and-dwelling-within-black-african-science-fiction/
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E.J. Dionne
9 days ago
An exceptionally well-researched piece on Stephen Miller by
@gregsargent.bsky.social
. It’s well worth your time. The irony that Greg points to is that the Miller-Trump immigration approach will make America less great, less prosperous & untrue to its best traditions.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
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Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
https://newrepublic.com/article/204191/stephen-miller-maga-terror-state-dark-plot
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Greg Sargent
8 days ago
Thank you,
@ejdionne.bsky.social
!
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Jolyon Maugham KC
8 days ago
Russian billionaire Alex Gerko is amongst the funders of the Cambridge Union TERF society, reports The Times.
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Eric Topol
8 days ago
This about sums it up, folks.
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So far not one name revealed by these Epstein files has been a surprise.
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Omar Sakr
9 days ago
Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.
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Oooh! I am here for Suhaag (1979). Peak Bachchan, friendships, and men who actually understand female consent. Also helicopters! 😁
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Aurelien Mondon
8 days ago
"Too often, policies are justified not by whether they work, but by whether they sound punitive enough to satisfy an increasingly volatile media ecosystem. People seeking safety are framed as a problem to be managed, rather than lives to be protected"
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I Met Migrant Women in Calais Hoping to Reach the UK and This Is What I Learnt
It is time to move away from a politics in which cruelty is always portrayed as “toughness” and moral abdication as “realism”, argues Green Party Deputy Leader Rachel Millward
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i-met-migrant-women-in-calais-hoping-to-reach-the-uk-and-this-is-what-i-learnt/
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“Rhymes with banker”
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Chaminda Jayanetti
8 days ago
Another McSweeney profile talking about rescuing Lambeth from Militant and Ted Knight By the time McSweeney arrived in London, Militant had gone and Lambeth Council was led by Jim Dickson - a Blairite and now Labour MP for Dartford It's mad mythology
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/lab...
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Zack Polanski
8 days ago
This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.
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Revealing how quickly these boards, organisations and institutions have folded before a foolish bully. Turns out that loud USian bluster they paraded before the world was just Hollywood created bluster 🙃
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Spyro the Antifascist Dragon
8 days ago
Lot of propaganda to cover up the fact Britian didn't peacefully leave the subcontinent but fled before they were thrown out.
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There is ONE simple lesson. Learn it. Believe it. Teach it. There is NO benevolent Empire. No matter how politely it dresses up its violence
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On that note. Are we ready to talk about the state’s monopoly on violence yet? Because we effing must!
#westphalianstatemustfall
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Barry Parmegiana
8 days ago
"They built the railways" is uncannily similar to "he made the trains run on time".
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Good Law Project
8 days ago
Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial. We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️
https://goodlaw.social/3e3320
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Reminded of how UK has deployed Indian resistance to construct an image of itself as a benevolent empire. Yet the reality for Indian protesters was nothing like Attenborough’s Gandhi. It was closer to that of Bobby Sands.
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Brandy Schillace
13 days ago
Help! To my
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#history
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#genderstudies
friends: THE INTERMEDIARIES is exactly the kind of book the current admin don’t want you to teach—
#trans
history,
#LGBTQ
fight against nazis, real 🧪 science. Knowing y’all, you may be teaching it anyhow (yay!) if so TELL ME. I will come.
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Greg Sargent
16 days ago
Brutal for Trump: Republicans are now openly warning that his corrupt 2026 rigging is backfiring, because MAGA coalition is collapsing and GOPers in seats made less safe by redrawn maps will be in real peril. On the pod, Rep Jamie Raskin unleashes bigly on all this:
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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Trump Erupts in Fury as GOPers Humiliatingly Defy His Plot to Rig 2026
As Republicans fear Trump’s effort to rig the midterms is backfiring, Rep. Jamie Raskin talks about the need to counter GOP gerrymandering—and about his new plan to reform the system with ranked choic...
https://newrepublic.com/article/204217/trump-erupts-fury-gopers-humiliatingly-defy-plot-rig-2026
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The English Association
16 days ago
⬇️💫🌟⬇️
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Jonathan Portes
17 days ago
Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
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I taught Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire (edited Jehad Abusalim et al, 2022) yesterday. The supplementary texts included this TED talk by Refaat Alareer thanks to which my students have discovered his lecture videos. Looking forward to their essays
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Stories make us | Refaat Alareer | TEDxShujaiya
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
https://youtu.be/YsbEjldJjOw?..
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Joe Noonan
19 days ago
By
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for
@irishexaminer.bsky.social
Both excellent and to be supported.
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