Hardish Virk (He/Him)
@hardishvirk.bsky.social
DJ * Promoter * Journalist * Author * Artist * Activist * Archivist * Curator
These are my personal opinions & thoughts
These are my personal opinions & thoughts
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Since 2021, I have in partnership with Coventry Artspace, St. Mary's Guildhall, Coventry Archives & Herbert Art Gallery & Museum been working on #StoriesThatMadeUs
Supported by DESIblitz, South Asian Heritage Month & Uni of Warwick.
Check out the project video by Ayesha Jones: bit.ly/3CyqzZ6
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Supported by DESIblitz, South Asian Heritage Month & Uni of Warwick.
Check out the project video by Ayesha Jones: bit.ly/3CyqzZ6
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Happy Diwali - Peace & Love 🪔
October 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Happy Diwali - Peace & Love 🪔
The museum @philsilvers.bsky.social at FarGo Village #Coventry is a treasure trove of popular cultural history and comedy. And then there's #FunkoPop merchandise enroute to the museum. All in the heart of Coventry's own mini-Camden.
#PhilSilvers
#SergeantBilko
#PhilSilvers
#SergeantBilko
October 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The museum @philsilvers.bsky.social at FarGo Village #Coventry is a treasure trove of popular cultural history and comedy. And then there's #FunkoPop merchandise enroute to the museum. All in the heart of Coventry's own mini-Camden.
#PhilSilvers
#SergeantBilko
#PhilSilvers
#SergeantBilko
Coventry's own Pa Salieu getting props and respect for his album, 'Afrikan Alien' as it's nominated for a #MercuryPrize 2025
www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventr...
www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventr...
Coventry musician shortlisted for prestigious album of the year prize
Previous winners include Arctic Monkeys, Pulp and Dizzee Rascal
www.coventrytelegraph.net
October 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Coventry's own Pa Salieu getting props and respect for his album, 'Afrikan Alien' as it's nominated for a #MercuryPrize 2025
www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventr...
www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventr...
Complaints of racism were often recast as “banter” or personality clashes, protecting perpetrators and leaving those who spoke up accused of “playing the race card” or being “too sensitive”.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
2025 within the Met Police Force might aswell be the 1980s.
#Racism
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
2025 within the Met Police Force might aswell be the 1980s.
#Racism
‘Damning’ review of anti-Black racism within Met police ‘buried’ by force
Exclusive: External consultancy report found discrimination ‘baked into HR systems’ at London force
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Complaints of racism were often recast as “banter” or personality clashes, protecting perpetrators and leaving those who spoke up accused of “playing the race card” or being “too sensitive”.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
2025 within the Met Police Force might aswell be the 1980s.
#Racism
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
2025 within the Met Police Force might aswell be the 1980s.
#Racism
On FRIDAY 5th DECEMBER we are putting on a MUSIC night of DEFIANCE where we will be raising funds for LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM
It's FREE ENTRY and you can donate what you can afford (if anything at all) on the night
2GETHER we are STRONGER
#LoveMusicHateRacism
#MusicOfDefiance
It's FREE ENTRY and you can donate what you can afford (if anything at all) on the night
2GETHER we are STRONGER
#LoveMusicHateRacism
#MusicOfDefiance
October 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
On FRIDAY 5th DECEMBER we are putting on a MUSIC night of DEFIANCE where we will be raising funds for LOVE MUSIC HATE RACISM
It's FREE ENTRY and you can donate what you can afford (if anything at all) on the night
2GETHER we are STRONGER
#LoveMusicHateRacism
#MusicOfDefiance
It's FREE ENTRY and you can donate what you can afford (if anything at all) on the night
2GETHER we are STRONGER
#LoveMusicHateRacism
#MusicOfDefiance
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Some more pictures from Saturday’s huge Palestine march
#FreePalestine
#FreePalestine
October 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Some more pictures from Saturday’s huge Palestine march
#FreePalestine
#FreePalestine
Reposted by Hardish Virk (He/Him)
We must sever all diplomatic ties with the genocidal apartheid state of Israel immediately.
Expel the ambassador. Close the embassy.
As apartheid South Africa was isolated, so too must Israel be — a pariah state.
We’ll march until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.
Expel the ambassador. Close the embassy.
As apartheid South Africa was isolated, so too must Israel be — a pariah state.
We’ll march until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.
October 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We must sever all diplomatic ties with the genocidal apartheid state of Israel immediately.
Expel the ambassador. Close the embassy.
As apartheid South Africa was isolated, so too must Israel be — a pariah state.
We’ll march until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.
Expel the ambassador. Close the embassy.
As apartheid South Africa was isolated, so too must Israel be — a pariah state.
We’ll march until Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.
Diane Keaton - RIP
October 11, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Diane Keaton - RIP
#Labour has legitimised a divisive culture like we never thought a Labour government would. From passing draconian legislation, leading to the aggressive arrests of innocent protestors calling for a stop to a genocide to spreading anti-migrant/ anti-refugee rhetoric. Voters will NEVER forget.
August 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
#Labour has legitimised a divisive culture like we never thought a Labour government would. From passing draconian legislation, leading to the aggressive arrests of innocent protestors calling for a stop to a genocide to spreading anti-migrant/ anti-refugee rhetoric. Voters will NEVER forget.
British government has a history of silencing legitimate protest and resistence #RowlattAct whilst supporting attacks on the innocent #JallianwalaBagh
British governments will always have colonial oppression in their DNA.
Doesn't matter if it's a Labour or Tory government - both are the same.
British governments will always have colonial oppression in their DNA.
Doesn't matter if it's a Labour or Tory government - both are the same.
August 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
British government has a history of silencing legitimate protest and resistence #RowlattAct whilst supporting attacks on the innocent #JallianwalaBagh
British governments will always have colonial oppression in their DNA.
Doesn't matter if it's a Labour or Tory government - both are the same.
British governments will always have colonial oppression in their DNA.
Doesn't matter if it's a Labour or Tory government - both are the same.
UK would not be the country it is without it's looting of countries like India and over 100 years of migration. It would be much worse of. Colonialism and commonwealth has led to British born children of migrants like me. We have contributed significantly to the country we call home - England.
August 4, 2025 at 8:11 AM
UK would not be the country it is without it's looting of countries like India and over 100 years of migration. It would be much worse of. Colonialism and commonwealth has led to British born children of migrants like me. We have contributed significantly to the country we call home - England.
#Britain was responsible for the Balfour Declaration and Mandate for Palestine, which led to the displacement and oppression of the #Palestinian people for 77 years. British governments don't care about Palestinian lives, otherwise they would have not supported the genocide in #Gaza 1/2
July 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#Britain was responsible for the Balfour Declaration and Mandate for Palestine, which led to the displacement and oppression of the #Palestinian people for 77 years. British governments don't care about Palestinian lives, otherwise they would have not supported the genocide in #Gaza 1/2
July 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
It did NOT start on the 7th October 2023.
The ethnic cleansing began over 75 years ago.
Learn the history so that we/ you can challenge those committing and enabling the genocide in #Gaza
The ethnic cleansing began over 75 years ago.
Learn the history so that we/ you can challenge those committing and enabling the genocide in #Gaza
Timeline of a Genocide - Defend Our Juries
defendourjuries.org
July 24, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It did NOT start on the 7th October 2023.
The ethnic cleansing began over 75 years ago.
Learn the history so that we/ you can challenge those committing and enabling the genocide in #Gaza
The ethnic cleansing began over 75 years ago.
Learn the history so that we/ you can challenge those committing and enabling the genocide in #Gaza
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Unlike Reform, we’re doing things differently with democracy & inclusivity at the core.
From the launch to the party, conference, structures & yes - even the name! - we’re building it together.
It might feel unfamiliar to you. It’s called democracy.
🔗 yourparty.uk
From the launch to the party, conference, structures & yes - even the name! - we’re building it together.
It might feel unfamiliar to you. It’s called democracy.
🔗 yourparty.uk
July 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Unlike Reform, we’re doing things differently with democracy & inclusivity at the core.
From the launch to the party, conference, structures & yes - even the name! - we’re building it together.
It might feel unfamiliar to you. It’s called democracy.
🔗 yourparty.uk
From the launch to the party, conference, structures & yes - even the name! - we’re building it together.
It might feel unfamiliar to you. It’s called democracy.
🔗 yourparty.uk
#28YearsLater where are the Black and brown characters?! Or was the token brown character one of the alphas? Which would make it even worse. Otherwise not as good as the first two movies but had some very good set pieces and interesting symbolism. 3/5
July 24, 2025 at 12:16 AM
#28YearsLater where are the Black and brown characters?! Or was the token brown character one of the alphas? Which would make it even worse. Otherwise not as good as the first two movies but had some very good set pieces and interesting symbolism. 3/5
It is NOT a war
It is NOT a conflict
It is NOT a fight
It is NOT defence
It is a GENOCIDE
Calling it anything else contributes the mass ethnic cleansing in #Gaza
It is NOT a conflict
It is NOT a fight
It is NOT defence
It is a GENOCIDE
Calling it anything else contributes the mass ethnic cleansing in #Gaza
July 22, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It is NOT a war
It is NOT a conflict
It is NOT a fight
It is NOT defence
It is a GENOCIDE
Calling it anything else contributes the mass ethnic cleansing in #Gaza
It is NOT a conflict
It is NOT a fight
It is NOT defence
It is a GENOCIDE
Calling it anything else contributes the mass ethnic cleansing in #Gaza
Don't believe a word David Lammy said on the radio this morning about the UK government not being complicit in the genocide in Gaza.
Labour is bringing in draconian laws to silence pro-Palestine & anti-genocide protests.
We will continue to protest for a STOP to the ethnic cleansing in #Gaza
Labour is bringing in draconian laws to silence pro-Palestine & anti-genocide protests.
We will continue to protest for a STOP to the ethnic cleansing in #Gaza
July 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Don't believe a word David Lammy said on the radio this morning about the UK government not being complicit in the genocide in Gaza.
Labour is bringing in draconian laws to silence pro-Palestine & anti-genocide protests.
We will continue to protest for a STOP to the ethnic cleansing in #Gaza
Labour is bringing in draconian laws to silence pro-Palestine & anti-genocide protests.
We will continue to protest for a STOP to the ethnic cleansing in #Gaza
STOP bands like Disturbed playing concerts, because they not only support the genocide in Gaza but also sign the bombs that are killing innocent people including children.
#FreePalestine
#StopKillingPeople
#FreePalestine
#StopKillingPeople
Scotland says no to Disturbed band playing gigs while backing bombs.
By July 10, 2024, the Lancet reported over 37,396 people to have been killed by Israel's assault and genocide on Gaza, with a high proportion of this number being children. As of July 3, 2025, this h...
actionnetwork.org
July 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
STOP bands like Disturbed playing concerts, because they not only support the genocide in Gaza but also sign the bombs that are killing innocent people including children.
#FreePalestine
#StopKillingPeople
#FreePalestine
#StopKillingPeople
The least decent human beings should be feeling is a rage of words against a genocidal regime and the governments who are shifting the blame from the perpetrator to the protestor.
Those being attacked for challenging murderers & advocating human rights will be remembered for doing the right thing.
Those being attacked for challenging murderers & advocating human rights will be remembered for doing the right thing.
Welcome to Britain 2025: where a musician's words cause more outrage than the murder and horror in Gaza | Owen Jones
Welcome to Britain 2025: where a musician's words cause more outrage than the murder and horror in Gaza | Owen Jones
The issue of what happened at Glastonbury is obscuring the outrage about real bombs and actual death, and I think that is deliberate, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The least decent human beings should be feeling is a rage of words against a genocidal regime and the governments who are shifting the blame from the perpetrator to the protestor.
Those being attacked for challenging murderers & advocating human rights will be remembered for doing the right thing.
Those being attacked for challenging murderers & advocating human rights will be remembered for doing the right thing.
British monarch is symbolic of the atrocities of the British Empire through its' honours system whilst putting on performative social events like garden parties to justify the millions of public money spent on them. Decolonising the mind-set is more urgent than ever.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Royal train to be cut in Palace cost-saving measure
The announcement has come alongside the annual publication of royal finances.
www.bbc.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
British monarch is symbolic of the atrocities of the British Empire through its' honours system whilst putting on performative social events like garden parties to justify the millions of public money spent on them. Decolonising the mind-set is more urgent than ever.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anti-IDF is NOT Antisemitism |
It's Pro-Human Rights | Those in authority telling you otherwise are part of the problem |
They are diverting focus from the genocide in Gaza to calling pro-human rights activists terrorists |
Staying silent isn't an option - only power to the people is the answer ✊🏽
It's Pro-Human Rights | Those in authority telling you otherwise are part of the problem |
They are diverting focus from the genocide in Gaza to calling pro-human rights activists terrorists |
Staying silent isn't an option - only power to the people is the answer ✊🏽
July 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Anti-IDF is NOT Antisemitism |
It's Pro-Human Rights | Those in authority telling you otherwise are part of the problem |
They are diverting focus from the genocide in Gaza to calling pro-human rights activists terrorists |
Staying silent isn't an option - only power to the people is the answer ✊🏽
It's Pro-Human Rights | Those in authority telling you otherwise are part of the problem |
They are diverting focus from the genocide in Gaza to calling pro-human rights activists terrorists |
Staying silent isn't an option - only power to the people is the answer ✊🏽
Music artists calling for the death of a military force responsible for the death of babies & children are the one's being attacked. Words of the artist will not result in death but the bullets of the military continue to kill!
#BobVylan
#Kneecap
#Glastonbury
#FreeGaza
#FreePalestine
#StopKilling
#BobVylan
#Kneecap
#Glastonbury
#FreeGaza
#FreePalestine
#StopKilling
June 29, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Music artists calling for the death of a military force responsible for the death of babies & children are the one's being attacked. Words of the artist will not result in death but the bullets of the military continue to kill!
#BobVylan
#Kneecap
#Glastonbury
#FreeGaza
#FreePalestine
#StopKilling
#BobVylan
#Kneecap
#Glastonbury
#FreeGaza
#FreePalestine
#StopKilling
What's worse than listening to Trump's unintelligence and vile narcissism, is watching world leaders unashamedly sucking up to him, whilst innocent people incl. children are being massacred under their watch. Watching #Trump speak with his stooges at the #NatoSummit is beyond belief.
a purple sign says the will of the people is stronger than the noise of politicians
Alt: A sign says the will of the people is stronger than the noise of politicians
media.tenor.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
What's worse than listening to Trump's unintelligence and vile narcissism, is watching world leaders unashamedly sucking up to him, whilst innocent people incl. children are being massacred under their watch. Watching #Trump speak with his stooges at the #NatoSummit is beyond belief.
#Kneecap are being attacked by the state for essentially supporting human rights & challenging a system upholding human rights violations whilst White supremacy groups get away with advocating hate & violence. It's hypocrisy & millions can see through it.
June 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#Kneecap are being attacked by the state for essentially supporting human rights & challenging a system upholding human rights violations whilst White supremacy groups get away with advocating hate & violence. It's hypocrisy & millions can see through it.