Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler)
@amalkc.bsky.social
Writer. Fellow, Royal Historical Society. Coming Up: "Prisoners of Empire: How Former Colonies Were Set Up to Fail" (Hurst, 2026); also "AcrossTheLakes", "RepresentationsOfIndia,1740-1840" etc plays, Tutor, Creative Writing,Oxford Uni.; Migrant, grumbler.
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@rafaelbehr.bsky.social is spot on with this analysis of Starmer’s quandry and the need at least to reintegrate with Europe.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Is Starmer’s reluctance to criticise Trump smart tactics – or the sign of a man without a plan? | Rafael Behr
The PM won’t call out Trump over Venezuela, and won’t commit to Europe. His refusal to choose leaves vital choices for Britain to be made by others, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:46 AM
@rafaelbehr.bsky.social is spot on with this analysis of Starmer’s quandry and the need at least to reintegrate with Europe.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Starmer has put himself with Farage in a very similar position on Venezuela.
The only difference being - gobsmackingly - that Nigel Farage at least acknowledges it's contrary to international law!
The only difference being - gobsmackingly - that Nigel Farage at least acknowledges it's contrary to international law!
I think it is as absurd that Polanski is lumping Starmer together with Farage as it is that Starmer is lumping Polanski together with Farage. I also think it is probably doing neither of them any good.
"The only flags Farage and Starmer have been waving this weekend are white."
Written for the Metro 👇🏼
metro.co.uk/2026/01/05/z...
Written for the Metro 👇🏼
metro.co.uk/2026/01/05/z...
January 7, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Starmer has put himself with Farage in a very similar position on Venezuela.
The only difference being - gobsmackingly - that Nigel Farage at least acknowledges it's contrary to international law!
The only difference being - gobsmackingly - that Nigel Farage at least acknowledges it's contrary to international law!
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🚨SHOCKING AND SHAMEFUL
Last night Keir Starmer - a former human rights lawyer - whipped against Lord Thomas's amendment to the Sentencing Bill which would have been a significant step towards ending the #IPPscandal
Last night Keir Starmer - a former human rights lawyer - whipped against Lord Thomas's amendment to the Sentencing Bill which would have been a significant step towards ending the #IPPscandal
🚨On January 6 Keir Starmer has an opportunity to end one of the most CRUEL, INHUMANE & MONUMENTAL INJUSTICES of the past half-century - the #IPPscandal - by supporting an amendment to the Sentencing Bill tabled by Lord Thomas.
Will he take it?
youtu.be/O1gkY3gByHg?...
Will he take it?
youtu.be/O1gkY3gByHg?...
Keir Starmer now has an opportunity to end the shocking & monumentally unjust IPP scandal - will he?
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
January 7, 2026 at 7:45 AM
🚨SHOCKING AND SHAMEFUL
Last night Keir Starmer - a former human rights lawyer - whipped against Lord Thomas's amendment to the Sentencing Bill which would have been a significant step towards ending the #IPPscandal
Last night Keir Starmer - a former human rights lawyer - whipped against Lord Thomas's amendment to the Sentencing Bill which would have been a significant step towards ending the #IPPscandal
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🚨 On this day – 5 January 1948
Zionist Haganah militias bombed the Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem at 1am, killing 26 civilians and injuring 60. Entire Palestinian Christian families were wiped out. The aim was to force Palestinians from Qatamon. History did not begin in 2023. 🇵🇸
Zionist Haganah militias bombed the Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem at 1am, killing 26 civilians and injuring 60. Entire Palestinian Christian families were wiped out. The aim was to force Palestinians from Qatamon. History did not begin in 2023. 🇵🇸
January 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM
🚨 On this day – 5 January 1948
Zionist Haganah militias bombed the Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem at 1am, killing 26 civilians and injuring 60. Entire Palestinian Christian families were wiped out. The aim was to force Palestinians from Qatamon. History did not begin in 2023. 🇵🇸
Zionist Haganah militias bombed the Semiramis Hotel in Jerusalem at 1am, killing 26 civilians and injuring 60. Entire Palestinian Christian families were wiped out. The aim was to force Palestinians from Qatamon. History did not begin in 2023. 🇵🇸
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the METR study is gonna go round again because Fortune *just* posted a fresh writeup of it yesterday, based on their own article from July last year
fortune.com/article/does...
every time you see an AI guy dismiss it as insufficient, ask them where the better studies are. (there aren't any.)
fortune.com/article/does...
every time you see an AI guy dismiss it as insufficient, ask them where the better studies are. (there aren't any.)
Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer | Fortune
As more workers use AI, a recent study adds to growing evidence the tech doesn’t always deliver on promises of boosted productivity.
fortune.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:16 PM
the METR study is gonna go round again because Fortune *just* posted a fresh writeup of it yesterday, based on their own article from July last year
fortune.com/article/does...
every time you see an AI guy dismiss it as insufficient, ask them where the better studies are. (there aren't any.)
fortune.com/article/does...
every time you see an AI guy dismiss it as insufficient, ask them where the better studies are. (there aren't any.)
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Labour rightly blasted for biggest ever MoD contract to IDF-linked Palantir
Labour blasted for awarding biggest ever MoD contract to IDF-linked tech firm
Labour have been condemned for giving the biggest ever Ministry Of Defence contract to IDF-linked tech giant Palantir
www.thenational.scot
January 6, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Labour rightly blasted for biggest ever MoD contract to IDF-linked Palantir
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In het land van Jetten…
January 6, 2026 at 1:53 PM
In het land van Jetten…
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Ik hoor mijn hele linkse leven: kijk buiten je bubbel. Rechtse mensen horen dat volgens mij nooit. Het is dus vooral code voor "denk links, maar doe dat privé". Zou het te maken hebben met het gebrek aan links zelfbewustzijn vandaag de dag? Moet links niet juist weer een linkse comfortzone creëeren.
Ah ze wil dat mensen uit hun bubbel komen en niet in hokjes denken. Waarom betekent dat toch altijd dat we naar racisten en seksisten luisteren die zich op een platform bevinden waar kinderporno wordt gegenereerd?
www.nijmansnieuwsbriefje.nl/p/renske-lei...
www.nijmansnieuwsbriefje.nl/p/renske-lei...
Renske Leijten - Uit de comfortzone
Nieuwe columniste voor Nijmans Nieuwsbriefje stelt zich voor
www.nijmansnieuwsbriefje.nl
January 6, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Ik hoor mijn hele linkse leven: kijk buiten je bubbel. Rechtse mensen horen dat volgens mij nooit. Het is dus vooral code voor "denk links, maar doe dat privé". Zou het te maken hebben met het gebrek aan links zelfbewustzijn vandaag de dag? Moet links niet juist weer een linkse comfortzone creëeren.
The Europeans aren't supporting the rights of the Greenlanders (not white), they're talking of the claim of Denmark, white colonisers like the US. They'll come to an agreement, and Greenland will be Puerto Rico by the Pole.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s new world order is being born – and Venezuela is just the start | Owen Jones
The US president has been quite clear that Cuba, Mexico, Colombia and Greenland are in his sights. We must believe him, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:34 PM
The Europeans aren't supporting the rights of the Greenlanders (not white), they're talking of the claim of Denmark, white colonisers like the US. They'll come to an agreement, and Greenland will be Puerto Rico by the Pole.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The question isn't whether they'll cave but how far they'll go caving.
Wes Streeting is asked if Trump has broken international law when it comes to Venezuela. Streeting says he's got nothing to add and he's not here to be a commentator.
I mean, which idiot thinks politicians should answer questions when they're being interviewed in a TV studio!
I mean, which idiot thinks politicians should answer questions when they're being interviewed in a TV studio!
January 6, 2026 at 9:30 AM
The question isn't whether they'll cave but how far they'll go caving.
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Jessica Plichta helped Grand Rapids Opponents of War inspire dozens of locals to march through snowy city streets. But in a bizarre turn of events, Plichta’s exercise of her First Amendment rights ended with authorities handcuffing her live on air. trib.al/HRGjJMn
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Jessica Plichta helped Grand Rapids Opponents of War inspire dozens of locals to march through snowy city streets. But in a bizarre turn of events, Plichta’s exercise of her First Amendment rights ended with authorities handcuffing her live on air. trib.al/HRGjJMn
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This is just as significant as Maduro’s seizure. The inability of governments to collect tax from multinational companies is a key factor in the relative poverty of the Global South. Trump’s USA has gained extraordinary exemption from a scheme to mitigate it.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
US will be exempt from global tax deal targeting profits of large multinationals
Agreement finalised by the OECD waters down a landmark 2021 deal that set a minimum global corporate tax of 15%
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:57 AM
This is just as significant as Maduro’s seizure. The inability of governments to collect tax from multinational companies is a key factor in the relative poverty of the Global South. Trump’s USA has gained extraordinary exemption from a scheme to mitigate it.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Even though the State may have fabricated a key conspiracy meeting, relied on a discredited witness & hasn’t produced any physical evidence, #SupremeCourt refused bail to Muslim activists #UmarKhalid & Sharjeel Imam, reports @betwasharma.bsky.social
article-14.com/post/how-the...
article-14.com/post/how-the...
How The Supreme Court’s Bail Order Against Umar, Sharjeel Enables Govt Efforts To Silence Muslim Voices
Time and again, lower courts have caught the Delhi Police fabricating evidence in riot cases. Yet in Umar Khalid’s case, even as their claims about a key conspiratorial meeting fell apart, judges—from...
article-14.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Even though the State may have fabricated a key conspiracy meeting, relied on a discredited witness & hasn’t produced any physical evidence, #SupremeCourt refused bail to Muslim activists #UmarKhalid & Sharjeel Imam, reports @betwasharma.bsky.social
article-14.com/post/how-the...
article-14.com/post/how-the...
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EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK appeared on Question Time panels in 2025 more than four times as often as the Green Party, analysis has shown
The party’s head of policy, Zia Yusuf, was also on the programme more times in 2025 than the Green Party as a whole
The party’s head of policy, Zia Yusuf, was also on the programme more times in 2025 than the Green Party as a whole
Reform UK appear on Question Time four times more than Greens in 2025
www.thenational.scot
January 6, 2026 at 9:08 AM
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK appeared on Question Time panels in 2025 more than four times as often as the Green Party, analysis has shown
The party’s head of policy, Zia Yusuf, was also on the programme more times in 2025 than the Green Party as a whole
The party’s head of policy, Zia Yusuf, was also on the programme more times in 2025 than the Green Party as a whole
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'There seems to be little interest in uncovering who was actually responsible for the riots that killed 53 people—the vast majority of them Muslim—and far more eagerness to pin the blame on Muslim activists'
Even though the State may have fabricated a key conspiracy meeting, relied on a discredited witness & hasn’t produced any physical evidence, #SupremeCourt refused bail to Muslim activists #UmarKhalid & Sharjeel Imam, reports @betwasharma.bsky.social
article-14.com/post/how-the...
article-14.com/post/how-the...
How The Supreme Court’s Bail Order Against Umar, Sharjeel Enables Govt Efforts To Silence Muslim Voices
Time and again, lower courts have caught the Delhi Police fabricating evidence in riot cases. Yet in Umar Khalid’s case, even as their claims about a key conspiratorial meeting fell apart, judges—from...
article-14.com
January 6, 2026 at 9:16 AM
'There seems to be little interest in uncovering who was actually responsible for the riots that killed 53 people—the vast majority of them Muslim—and far more eagerness to pin the blame on Muslim activists'
There's a huge gulf between diplomacy and subservience, the latter is complicity. There only degrees of complicity here.
"The only flags Farage and Starmer have been waving this weekend are white."
Written for the Metro 👇🏼
metro.co.uk/2026/01/05/z...
Written for the Metro 👇🏼
metro.co.uk/2026/01/05/z...
Zack Polanski: Starmer and Farage have proven their craven cowardice on Venezuel
This weekend has proven it beyond doubt - Keir Starmer is a coward.
metro.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 8:24 AM
There's a huge gulf between diplomacy and subservience, the latter is complicity. There only degrees of complicity here.
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Independent republic or subservient State? bsky.app/profile/joen...
'The European Union and nearly all of its Member States have failed to respond meaningfully to these horrific events.'
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Former EU ambassadors warn: Europe’s silence on Gaza is complicity
In an open letter, 58 former EU envoys urge the bloc to end arms exports, sanction Israel, and stop atrocity crimes.
www.aljazeera.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Independent republic or subservient State? bsky.app/profile/joen...
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There are two reasons why the European Union cares deeply about Ukraine but doesn't care about about DR Congo, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Western Sahara and West Papua:
Racism is one reason that includes all the countries.
Zionism is a second reason that includes most of them.
Racism is one reason that includes all the countries.
Zionism is a second reason that includes most of them.
January 6, 2026 at 8:03 AM
There are two reasons why the European Union cares deeply about Ukraine but doesn't care about about DR Congo, Lebanon, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela, Western Sahara and West Papua:
Racism is one reason that includes all the countries.
Zionism is a second reason that includes most of them.
Racism is one reason that includes all the countries.
Zionism is a second reason that includes most of them.
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France at the UN Security Council:
"The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."
"The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."
January 5, 2026 at 4:48 PM
France at the UN Security Council:
"The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."
"The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."
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Judd Legum on Trump-supporting billionaire Paul Singer, who recently got his hands on CITGO and stands to profit significantly from Trump’s Venezuela invasion, after donating to Trump’s campaign. Because of course.
Venezuela raid enriches MAGA billionaire
The ouster of Maduro is a financial windfall for a prominent Trump-supporting billionaire, investor Paul Singer.
popular.info
January 5, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Judd Legum on Trump-supporting billionaire Paul Singer, who recently got his hands on CITGO and stands to profit significantly from Trump’s Venezuela invasion, after donating to Trump’s campaign. Because of course.
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The walk-in location of the Sexual Violence Center Amsterdam-Amstelland is open 7 days a week from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM starting January 12.
Source: Municipality of Amsterdam
#Amsterdam
#CentrumSeksueelGeweld
#Veiligheid
Source: Municipality of Amsterdam
#Amsterdam
#CentrumSeksueelGeweld
#Veiligheid
Extended Opening Hours of the Sexual Violence Center
The walk-in location of the Sexual Violence Center Amsterdam-Amstelland is open 7 days a week from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM starting January 12.
openrijk.nl
January 5, 2026 at 2:12 PM
The walk-in location of the Sexual Violence Center Amsterdam-Amstelland is open 7 days a week from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM starting January 12.
Source: Municipality of Amsterdam
#Amsterdam
#CentrumSeksueelGeweld
#Veiligheid
Source: Municipality of Amsterdam
#Amsterdam
#CentrumSeksueelGeweld
#Veiligheid
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🚨 CfP Alert! 🚨
Thanks to the generosity of the Susan Manning Workshop Fund at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, my colleague and I are delighted to be organising a symposium, "1725-2025: Historical and Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia.”
PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1IuTn...
Thanks to the generosity of the Susan Manning Workshop Fund at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, my colleague and I are delighted to be organising a symposium, "1725-2025: Historical and Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia.”
PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1IuTn...
January 1, 2026 at 4:44 PM
🚨 CfP Alert! 🚨
Thanks to the generosity of the Susan Manning Workshop Fund at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, my colleague and I are delighted to be organising a symposium, "1725-2025: Historical and Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia.”
PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1IuTn...
Thanks to the generosity of the Susan Manning Workshop Fund at @iashedinburgh.bsky.social, my colleague and I are delighted to be organising a symposium, "1725-2025: Historical and Contemporary Links Between Scotland and South Asia.”
PDF here: drive.google.com/file/d/1IuTn...
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Tara Roberts is a Black Woman Scuba Diver who works for National Geographic that goes deep into the ocean in search of lost slave ships.
Tara Roberts is surfacing human stories from the shipwrecks that killed enslaved Africans
The storyteller joins a team of African American divers on their worldwide quest to shed light on the untold history of the slave trade.
www.nationalgeographic.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Tara Roberts is a Black Woman Scuba Diver who works for National Geographic that goes deep into the ocean in search of lost slave ships.
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For many of those seeking asylum a mobile phone isn't just a lifeline to keep in contact with loved ones, it's an essential resource in accessing information and resources. State mandated theft is another example of Labour's dehumanisation of people seeking safety
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK’s plans to seize asylum seekers’ phones condemned by campaigners
People who are sent to Manston processing centre will be eligible for searches for electronic devices from Monday
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:32 AM
For many of those seeking asylum a mobile phone isn't just a lifeline to keep in contact with loved ones, it's an essential resource in accessing information and resources. State mandated theft is another example of Labour's dehumanisation of people seeking safety
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...