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Rajesh Thind
@rajeshthind.bsky.social
Filmmaker, writer, gospel choir-boy etc.
Links: bio.site/rajeshthind
Agent: www.sternwild.com/film-makers/rajesh-thind
‘Israel’s parliament has backed a controversial bill that seeks to impose a mandatory death sentence on Palestinians who kill Jewish Israelis for nationalist reasons, but not on Jewish Israelis who kill Palestinians.’

on.ft.com/47xhHA4
Israeli parliament backs death penalty bill targeting Palestinians
Bill passed by 39 votes to 16 but must clear two more parliamentary votes to become law
on.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Fully agree.
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Jeez #r4today really is going all out culture war shit this morning. Woke up to some idiot blathering about BBC capture by trans ideology, and now the usual wank about how horrid those brown people were to Kate Clanchy
November 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Even the companies can't know or say for sure how many of the layoffs are due to AI.

We're just in a mode where corporate managers are going after past over-hiring, padding margins, navigating big tech-spending commitments and conveying to investors they are forward-thinking and efficiency-minded.
October 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
October 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I’ve four free tickets to this talk on Troilus and Cressida at Shakespeares Globe tomorrow afternoon - Wednesday 22 October - at 5pm. I can’t now use them, and it’s too late to return them to the venue. Would anybody like them?

www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/the...
The Globe Talks: Troilus and Cressida | What's On
Delve into the world of Troilus and Cressida for The Globe Talks: Troilus and Cressida in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
www.shakespearesglobe.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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What a brave man in the crowd
‘Robinson received a warm welcome in Tel Aviv…’

‘As he began speaking, a lone man stood up to yell that “Tommy Robinson is a racist”, before being booed and jeered out of the room by hundreds of people yelling “shame”, before he was assaulted and spat on.’

observer.co.uk/news/interna...
Tommy Robinson receives warm reception in Tel Aviv
The British far-right activist was invited to Israel by a government minister
observer.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
‘THE GLAMOROUS TV HOST, THE WEB OF INFLUENCE AND A MYSTERIOUS TRIP TO MOSCOW – INSIDE THE DOWNFALL OF REFORM’S DISGRACED MEP’

www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow – inside the downfall of Reform’s disgraced MEP
Ahead of a critical Welsh byelection for Reform next week, part two of our investigation into Nathan Gill uncovers the web of Russian influence that encircled him – and asks why it took so long to cha...
www.thenerve.news
October 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
‘Robinson received a warm welcome in Tel Aviv…’

‘As he began speaking, a lone man stood up to yell that “Tommy Robinson is a racist”, before being booed and jeered out of the room by hundreds of people yelling “shame”, before he was assaulted and spat on.’

observer.co.uk/news/interna...
Tommy Robinson receives warm reception in Tel Aviv
The British far-right activist was invited to Israel by a government minister
observer.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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According to one of our crew involved in preparing it, today's opening statements by Netpol co-founder Newham Monitoring Project is a damning condemnation of police racism and the Inquiry's abject failure to understand it
The Undercover Policing Inquiry returns today, 13th Oct 10am, starting with 3 days of opening statements, online only. This will be 3rd Tranche of hearings, which will look at deployments of Special Demonstration Squad officers from 1993 until that unit was closed in 2007 youtube.com/@undercoverp...
Undercover Policing Inquiry
The Official YouTube account of the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Please email info@ucpi.org.uk to contact the Inquiry.
youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The Undercover Policing Inquiry returns today, 13th Oct 10am, starting with 3 days of opening statements, online only. This will be 3rd Tranche of hearings, which will look at deployments of Special Demonstration Squad officers from 1993 until that unit was closed in 2007 youtube.com/@undercoverp...
Undercover Policing Inquiry
The Official YouTube account of the Undercover Policing Inquiry. Please email info@ucpi.org.uk to contact the Inquiry.
youtube.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Great job for the right person!
🚨 Historic moment for UK documentary: the DFC is recruiting its first-ever CEO.

We’re seeking an experienced, respected documentary professional (or jobshare) with proven leadership, networks and advocacy experience.

Deadline: 7 Dec 2025
👉 bit.ly/DFCRecruitin...
October 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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The next Conservative government will take the UK out of the ECHR and repeal the Human Rights Act. Kemi Badenoch announced her decision after taking advice from Lord Wolfson of Tredegar KC, who had warned her that withdrawal would not be a “silver bullet”.

rozenberg.substack.com/p/how-uk-cou...
How UK could leave ECHR
Withdrawal would allow EU to end criminal law enforcement co-operation
rozenberg.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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It is remarkable bordering on shocking how UK political debate still obsesses over small boats and other issues that will not be all that significant in the broad arc of history even as the basic foundations of the global system unravel
We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.
October 6, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Help get Abdelrahman, who has cerebral palsy, from Gaza to Ireland to Study. I have just donated. chuffed.org/project/1514...
Help Get Abdelrahman from Gaza to Ireland to Study
For the past four years, I have been working to secure a postgraduate study opportunity abroad. When the war on Gaza began two years ago, it shattered those efforts and dreams, and survival itself bec...
chuffed.org
September 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A White House videographer, who was traveling backward up the escalator to film the president’s entrance, may have inadvertently triggered a built-in safety mechanism.

For many, the incident was trivial. But for the Trump admin, it was grounds for an investigation.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...
Escalator Malfunction at U.N. Sets Off Conspiracy Theories
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Wrote a short piece in this issue. And check out Ben de Pear’s piece, ‘Gaza: Five lessons for the BBC’
REPRESENTOLOGY ISSUE EIGHT IS NOW LIVE!
✏️Commentary & research from leading figures in British culture, journalism, academia & diversity
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September 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)
September 22, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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My analysis here not only explains why the CPS numbers are wrong - but estimates that if they'd got their own arithmetic right, they would have concluded that migrants are a large long-term fiscal *benefit*. (3/3)

docs.google.com/document/d/e...
The long-run fiscal impact of recent migrants
docs.google.com
September 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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The CPS' own website now admits they got the numbers wrong and should not be used.

Farage isn't just making up numbers - he/Reform are deliberately using numbers that they know to be wrong and have been withdrawn (2/3).
September 22, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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- Yvonne Singh on Una Marson, Britain's first Black female broadcaster
- @colinamcfarlane.bsky.social & Justice 4 Windrush
- @rajeshthind.bsky.social talks British Asian documentary film
- research on post production sound & mythbusting higher education's relationship with screen industries
September 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Wrote a short piece in this issue. And check out Ben de Pear’s piece, ‘Gaza: Five lessons for the BBC’
REPRESENTOLOGY ISSUE EIGHT IS NOW LIVE!
✏️Commentary & research from leading figures in British culture, journalism, academia & diversity
📖Download for Free - tinyurl.com/2wxr7afe
Read, Share, Enjoy!
September 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A United Nations commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza: killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says
The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 7:08 AM