Dilan Tulsiani
@diltulsi.bsky.social
PhD, University of Edinburgh. Anticolonialism, Surveillance and representations of violence. Filmmaker. Edinburgh x Borough of Brent, NW London.
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose refusal to move seats on a segregated bus helped spark the civil rights movement, dies at 86.
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Just a screenshot from one of the best films ever made (M, 1931).
January 12, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Just a screenshot from one of the best films ever made (M, 1931).
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The events of 5 years ago today mark one of the darkest days in US history.
A sitting president encouraged a coup against our government—attempting to overturn a free & fair election.
The absolute shame & criminality of that attempt will never be forgotten
No matter how hard they try to erase it.
A sitting president encouraged a coup against our government—attempting to overturn a free & fair election.
The absolute shame & criminality of that attempt will never be forgotten
No matter how hard they try to erase it.
January 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
The events of 5 years ago today mark one of the darkest days in US history.
A sitting president encouraged a coup against our government—attempting to overturn a free & fair election.
The absolute shame & criminality of that attempt will never be forgotten
No matter how hard they try to erase it.
A sitting president encouraged a coup against our government—attempting to overturn a free & fair election.
The absolute shame & criminality of that attempt will never be forgotten
No matter how hard they try to erase it.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
December 7, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
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It. Is. Murder.
I worked these issues with Todd.
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
He knows what he’s talking about.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It. Is. Murder.
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Congratulations Dr Tulsiani!
Very happy to graduate from @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social after passing my Viva with zero corrections! (With the help and support of a lot of scholars, family and friends!)
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Congratulations Dr Tulsiani!
Very happy to graduate from @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social after passing my Viva with zero corrections! (With the help and support of a lot of scholars, family and friends!)
November 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Very happy to graduate from @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social after passing my Viva with zero corrections! (With the help and support of a lot of scholars, family and friends!)
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Traditions that sustained the Inuits for many generations in some of the world’s most hostile conditions are vanishing along with the ice. Ben Taub reports from the most remote settlement in Greenland. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2irCnd
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Traditions that sustained the Inuits for many generations in some of the world’s most hostile conditions are vanishing along with the ice. Ben Taub reports from the most remote settlement in Greenland. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/2irCnd
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While campaigning, Zohran Mamdani frequently noted that New York is the richest city in the richest country in the history of the world, and that its government could do more for the people who live here. Tonight, he was elected mayor.
The Mamdani Era Begins
His opponents tried to smear him for his youth, inexperience, and leftist politics. But New Yorkers didn’t want a hardened political insider to be mayor—they wanted Zohran Mamdani.
www.newyorker.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 AM
While campaigning, Zohran Mamdani frequently noted that New York is the richest city in the richest country in the history of the world, and that its government could do more for the people who live here. Tonight, he was elected mayor.
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The premise of “Bugonia” sounds like a sci-fi thriller, but the film is much more interested in the human condition—and in having very long conversations about it, Shirley Li writes:
The Alien Invaders Just Want to Chat
“Bugonia” is surprisingly subdued for a movie about a conspiracy theorist’s quest to save Earth.
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The premise of “Bugonia” sounds like a sci-fi thriller, but the film is much more interested in the human condition—and in having very long conversations about it, Shirley Li writes:
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Socialist History Seminar. Mon 20th Oct Dilan Tulsiani, Traditions of Dissent. The British Section of the League Against Imperialism. 5.30pm. Free on Zoom. Booking essential at link 👇
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Socialist History Seminar. Mon 20th Oct Dilan Tulsiani, Traditions of Dissent. The British Section of the League Against Imperialism
Monday 20th October 5.30pm on Zoom Dilan Tulsiani ‘Traditions of Dissent: The British Section of the League Against Imperialism and British interwar anticolonialism’. Free on Zoom. Booking essentia…
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October 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Right. A bit more about what we’re up to.
Would love feedback, do stick a comment at the end. And do please consider signing up to find out more www.thenerve.news
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Would love feedback, do stick a comment at the end. And do please consider signing up to find out more www.thenerve.news
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The free press fights back...
Introducing the Nerve. From the wreckage of my old newspaper, comes a new all-women, journalist-owned, independent publication. Join us!
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September 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Right. A bit more about what we’re up to.
Would love feedback, do stick a comment at the end. And do please consider signing up to find out more www.thenerve.news
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Would love feedback, do stick a comment at the end. And do please consider signing up to find out more www.thenerve.news
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Privileged and honored to be speaking tonight at Wembley Arena at the Together for Palestine (@T4Plive) concert, alongside some big names from across the world, at 7pm UK time.
You can watch live on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
You can watch live on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
September 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Privileged and honored to be speaking tonight at Wembley Arena at the Together for Palestine (@T4Plive) concert, alongside some big names from across the world, at 7pm UK time.
You can watch live on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
You can watch live on YouTube.
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
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‘Prejudice against the disabled was still so widespread that in 1980 a Frankfurt court ordered the reimbursement of the cost of a hotel to a tourist who had been upset by the presence of a group of guests with cerebral palsy.’
Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard J. Evans · Alien to the Community: Eugenics in Germany
In Hitler’s mind, eugenics was part of Germany’s long-term preparation for victory in the struggle between races....
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September 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
‘Prejudice against the disabled was still so widespread that in 1980 a Frankfurt court ordered the reimbursement of the cost of a hotel to a tourist who had been upset by the presence of a group of guests with cerebral palsy.’
Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard J. Evans on German eugenics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Cuomo: I am now running on affordability.
Also Cuomo: there is no “real answer” on affordability.
Also Cuomo: there is no “real answer” on affordability.
July 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Cuomo: I am now running on affordability.
Also Cuomo: there is no “real answer” on affordability.
Also Cuomo: there is no “real answer” on affordability.
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British forces’ role in suppressing the Arab Revolt (1936-9) by training and brutalising Israeli forces to target civilians in Palestine is hardly known of in the UK:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
British forces’ role in suppressing the Arab Revolt (1936-9) by training and brutalising Israeli forces to target civilians in Palestine is hardly known of in the UK:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it
The film the BBC refused to air shows the targeting, detainment and torture of medics in Gaza. Its relentless timeline of horrors will never leave you
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack review – this crucial film is the stuff of nightmares. But the world needs to see it
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1/3 The untold story behind National Service. From 1949 - 1963, two million British men did military service mainly to retain control over British colonies, because “Indian independence in 1947 meant that Britain no longer had the huge Indian Army at its disposal”.
www.nam.ac.uk/explore/what...
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What was National Service?
National Service, a standardised form of peacetime conscription, came into force in 1949 for all able-bodied men between the ages of 17 and 21.
www.nam.ac.uk
June 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
1/3 The untold story behind National Service. From 1949 - 1963, two million British men did military service mainly to retain control over British colonies, because “Indian independence in 1947 meant that Britain no longer had the huge Indian Army at its disposal”.
www.nam.ac.uk/explore/what...
www.nam.ac.uk/explore/what...
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1/3 Quick round up of blogs contesting nationalist right wing historical revisionism in last two years:
1. Slavery & colonialism were not irrelevant for Britain’s economic development:
blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...
1. Slavery & colonialism were not irrelevant for Britain’s economic development:
blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...
Imperial Mismeasurement
Kemi Badenoch, The Institute of Economic Affairs and the Distortion of Colonial History[1] Alan Lester De Beers African Migrant Labour Compound, c.1886 The IEA (Institute for Economic Affairs) was …
blogs.sussex.ac.uk
June 18, 2025 at 7:11 AM
1/3 Quick round up of blogs contesting nationalist right wing historical revisionism in last two years:
1. Slavery & colonialism were not irrelevant for Britain’s economic development:
blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...
1. Slavery & colonialism were not irrelevant for Britain’s economic development:
blogs.sussex.ac.uk/snapshotsofe...
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If what Musk is posting about Trump tonight is true, it begs the question of why he was happy to sit on this information while he was in government.
I know many people are enjoying this cage fight, but what a sickening display of the morals behind this grotesque political alliance.
I know many people are enjoying this cage fight, but what a sickening display of the morals behind this grotesque political alliance.
June 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
If what Musk is posting about Trump tonight is true, it begs the question of why he was happy to sit on this information while he was in government.
I know many people are enjoying this cage fight, but what a sickening display of the morals behind this grotesque political alliance.
I know many people are enjoying this cage fight, but what a sickening display of the morals behind this grotesque political alliance.
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China is the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter, emitting twice as much as the United States.
But now there’s been a key shift: China’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen even as energy demand has gone up. This milestone is "ahead of schedule."
from @vox.com via @climatedesk.org
But now there’s been a key shift: China’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen even as energy demand has gone up. This milestone is "ahead of schedule."
from @vox.com via @climatedesk.org
The world’s largest emitter just delivered some good climate news—for now
China may have met an important milestone ahead of schedule. We'll see if it persists.
www.motherjones.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
China is the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter, emitting twice as much as the United States.
But now there’s been a key shift: China’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen even as energy demand has gone up. This milestone is "ahead of schedule."
from @vox.com via @climatedesk.org
But now there’s been a key shift: China’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen even as energy demand has gone up. This milestone is "ahead of schedule."
from @vox.com via @climatedesk.org