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 He short changes customers and sells out of date food.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?

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: archive.ph/2025.12.20-0...

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?

Of course they are

Almost 8 years inside Egyptian prisons for a journalist with his father and brothers #FreeThemAll #Egyptian_hell @me_vignoli @anaamancay.bsky.social @profsunnysingh.bsky.social

This entire thread is grim. Content warning.

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.

Wow—the complaint above dated 1996 was made by Maria Farmer:

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.

We will never be short of evidentiary support for the 'women will laugh at them/men will kill us' allegory

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 #ShareGoodNewsToo

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.

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...

“The old racists just have to die out” Kids of color BEEN trying to tell you

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).

If you've ever known someone with the name Wong, the teasing was frequent and awful. www.bbc.com/news/enterta...

There is real world harm caused by racist writing. No matter how much UK publishing and press pretend otherwise

David Walliams got away with writing stereotypical characters in his kids books. The publisher just removed them and continued to rake it in.

Almost as if an industry dominated by white middle class people enjoys publishing books demeaning and dehumanising everyone unlike themselves….

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?🙃

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-...

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.

I would like this embroidered on a sweatshirt pls

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-...

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.

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...

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...

Thank you, @ejdionne.bsky.social!

Russian billionaire Alex Gerko is amongst the funders of the Cambridge Union TERF society, reports The Times.

This about sums it up, folks. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

So far not one name revealed by these Epstein files has been a surprise.

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.

Oooh! I am here for Suhaag (1979). Peak Bachchan, friendships, and men who actually understand female consent. Also helicopters! 😁

"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" bylinetimes.com/2025/12/18/i...

“Rhymes with banker”

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...

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.

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 🙃

Lot of propaganda to cover up the fact Britian didn't peacefully leave the subcontinent but fled before they were thrown out.

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

On that note. Are we ready to talk about the state’s monopoly on violence yet? Because we effing must! #westphalianstatemustfall

"They built the railways" is uncannily similar to "he made the trains run on time".

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

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.

Help! To my #academic and #history and #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.

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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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.

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 youtu.be/YsbEjldJjOw?...

By @colinivan.bsky.social for @irishexaminer.bsky.social Both excellent and to be supported.