Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler)

The US isn't just going backwards, it's turning into the worst version of its deeply flawed past. With the vulnerable attacked, rendered ever more vulnerable...

From mortgages to fruit and veg – how the Iran war will make everything dearer

The war on Iran is already hitting consumers and, with contradictory claims coming from the White House on its conclusion, the worst could be yet to come ⬇️

Keep in mind that Pete Hegseth's reported Pentagon spending spree happened just months after Trump and Republicans made devastating cuts to the social safety net in exchange for huge tax cuts for the rich.

And defense spending may soon hit a record $1.5 trillion.

Priorities.

UNICEF says that in just 12 days of war in the Middle East, more than 1,100 children have been reported injured or killed in the violence. “This includes 200 children reportedly killed in Iran, 91 in Lebanon, four in Israel and one in Kuwait.“

This lawless war has to stop.

These files confirm that Mandelson's malign influence runs through this Labour government.

Starmer knew exactly the choice he was making when he appointed him. He has to go.

This is wholly unnecessary - and deeply hypocritical. Collaboration with genociders...

All you need to know about the so called Asylum Seeker invasion.

It doesn't exist.

Yes, regime change - in Washington and Israel - can end the Middle East wars Only the cutting of US support sparked by America’s growing revulsion at the Israel-linked Epstein class will end Israel’s drive for regional domination

Yes, regime change - in Washington and Israel - can end the Middle East wars - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/regime-change-washington-and-israel-one-way-end-forever-wars

Elke week (!!!) vermoordt/verwondt een cis man een vrouw, en all we get is een halfzachte campagne die “foei!” zegt.

Een incident waar een trans vrouw bij betrokken is en @dvhn.nl trekt het haatregister open alsof er geen morgen zal zijn.

Levensgevaarlijk.

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Great time to join us to push to protect our rights: join.greenparty.org.uk

Guardianship Scotland, delivered in partnership by us and @scotrefugeecouncil.bsky.social, is calling on all political parties ahead of the Scottish Election in 2026 to protect the rights of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Read all our calls 👇

If plant-based foods must be more honest, let’s do the same for meat – fancy some ‘cow muscle’? | Deirdra Barr EU rules banning terms such as ‘bacon’ for veggie products are problematic, btw cow muscle = steak, says the Vegetarian Society’s Deirdra Barr

If plant-based foods must be more honest, let’s do the same for meat – fancy some ‘cow muscle’?”

Absolutely spot-on take on the EU’s illogical ban on plant-based food names. The EU’s decision quite clearly bowed & curtsied to animal exploitation vested interests.

By blocking Chevening scholars from coming to the UK the Home Secretary has officially put paid to any arguments that her hostile anti-immigration/asylum policies are anything other than right wing xenophobia. These are the best and the brightest, and she is blocking them.

Scale of extreme wealth in UK revealed It's time for the government to listen and make sensible choices to fix our country. Taxing wealth can raise tens of billions to invest in the economy and improve everyone’s living standards.

UK’s 50 richest families hold more wealth than 50% of the population

#TaxWealth #TaxBillionaires #VoteGreen

taxjustice.uk/blog/scale-o...

Yep, they do turn up in other places sometimes...like this time :)

It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.

Why the latest attempt to deter asylum seekers won't work - Free Movement From 2 March 2026 refugee status in the UK became temporary rather than permanent. This dramatic change is the Home Secretary’s attempt to deter asylum

New from Free Movement: Why the latest attempt to deter asylum seekers won’t work | Wyon Stansfeld freemovement.org.uk/attempt-dete...

a useful idiot plot

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

When an illegal war, likely to cause mass murder, is launched, we have a choice of 2 positions:
1. It's wrong and has to stop.
2. Hurray! Let's join in.

Much of the UK Establishment - Conservatives, Reform, the billionaire media - went straight for Option 2.
Which tells you all you need to know.

"Hands up if you flew 4,400 miles to kiss the arse of a tangerine turd, only for him to ignore you"

How US President Donald Trump and his advisers miscalculated Iran’s response to war Commercial shipping has come to a standstill in the Gulf, oil prices have spiked, and Washington has scrambled to find ways to tamp down an economic crisis that has triggered higher gasoline prices fo...

The full article, without a paywall www.telegraphindia.com/world/how-us...

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

Apparently, Kegseth hasn’t destroyed their ability to drop truth bombs.

And there it is

Performative saving Other women followed by full on ramping up of exclusion, while being actively involved in killing.

Ik ben ver weg van NL, in landen waar moslims en christenen naast elkaar bestaan. Elkaars religieuze vieringen delen. Er zijn hier veel problemen. Van prangende, dagelijkse aard. Daarom laten ze zich door dit soort haat, die domme westerlingen wél naar de stembus drijft, niet verdelen. Beschamend.

My typing is as good as the food. The rain not the Dam. The Dam too, though. No frogs.

Pockets are actually just portals to the seams. Everything finds its way there. That is how the universe... never mind...

Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?