Satbir Singh
@satbirsingh.bsky.social
Campaigner, consultant, carer. Londoner via Delhi & NYC. I spend my time thinking about rights, justice & authoritarianism.
Former CEO of openDemocracy, JCWI. Ex UN/World Bank/Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. Trustee @PraxisProjects.bsky.social
Former CEO of openDemocracy, JCWI. Ex UN/World Bank/Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. Trustee @PraxisProjects.bsky.social
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The "why do you care so much about the NY mayoral election" takes strike me as pretty obtuse. The world's sole superpower is being taken over by fascists, and this was part of the struggle to define what the opposition to that will look like. That obviously has major implications for all of us?
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The "why do you care so much about the NY mayoral election" takes strike me as pretty obtuse. The world's sole superpower is being taken over by fascists, and this was part of the struggle to define what the opposition to that will look like. That obviously has major implications for all of us?
Cuomo's gift to us is the debunking of the myth that racism, oligarchy and entitlement are the preserve of the parties of the right.
Never forget that the harshest treatment of a 34 year old Muslim of unimpeachable integrity and raw talent came from the Democratic establishment's favoured son.
Never forget that the harshest treatment of a 34 year old Muslim of unimpeachable integrity and raw talent came from the Democratic establishment's favoured son.
November 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Cuomo's gift to us is the debunking of the myth that racism, oligarchy and entitlement are the preserve of the parties of the right.
Never forget that the harshest treatment of a 34 year old Muslim of unimpeachable integrity and raw talent came from the Democratic establishment's favoured son.
Never forget that the harshest treatment of a 34 year old Muslim of unimpeachable integrity and raw talent came from the Democratic establishment's favoured son.
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left-winger wins: BUT WILL HE DELIVER
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
November 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
left-winger wins: BUT WILL HE DELIVER
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
right-winger wins: WHY ARE THE LEFT SO OUT OF TOUCH
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
23 things on my to-do list before a flight tonight but all the Christmas ads (and associated takes) are dropping everywhere I look...
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
23 things on my to-do list before a flight tonight but all the Christmas ads (and associated takes) are dropping everywhere I look...
There was a moment after the Trump-Zelensky Oval blowout, and then again after the tariff war began, in which even fiscally conservative finance ministers saw an opportunity to say "the world has changed, so must our policy frameworks".
That logic doesn't really work as well eight months later.
That logic doesn't really work as well eight months later.
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
There was a moment after the Trump-Zelensky Oval blowout, and then again after the tariff war began, in which even fiscally conservative finance ministers saw an opportunity to say "the world has changed, so must our policy frameworks".
That logic doesn't really work as well eight months later.
That logic doesn't really work as well eight months later.
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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⚠️ ICYMI: Our new report shatters mainstream consensus on voters' priorities and reveals that concerns around immigration are being inflamed by media exposure and political discourse, rather than being based on experience.
https://www.bestforbritain.org/the_uks_biggest_challenges
https://www.bestforbritain.org/the_uks_biggest_challenges
The UK's biggest challenges: Public attitudes towards the most important issues facing the UK and local communities
Best for Britain's latest polling report suggests that the cost of living is the top priority for people both nationally and locally. Conversely, the salience of immigration and asylum drops from the ...
www.bestforbritain.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
⚠️ ICYMI: Our new report shatters mainstream consensus on voters' priorities and reveals that concerns around immigration are being inflamed by media exposure and political discourse, rather than being based on experience.
https://www.bestforbritain.org/the_uks_biggest_challenges
https://www.bestforbritain.org/the_uks_biggest_challenges
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How short our memories are.
Just a few years ago, nurses carried this country through a pandemic, and now they're suffering a 55% surge in racist abuse.
To every nurse: London stands with you. You are loved and valued, and always will be.
Just a few years ago, nurses carried this country through a pandemic, and now they're suffering a 55% surge in racist abuse.
To every nurse: London stands with you. You are loved and valued, and always will be.
October 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
How short our memories are.
Just a few years ago, nurses carried this country through a pandemic, and now they're suffering a 55% surge in racist abuse.
To every nurse: London stands with you. You are loved and valued, and always will be.
Just a few years ago, nurses carried this country through a pandemic, and now they're suffering a 55% surge in racist abuse.
To every nurse: London stands with you. You are loved and valued, and always will be.
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It‘s going to be a wild ride tomorrow when pundits around the globe explain to us what kind of party D66 is and why they did exactly what they have always told us their favorite strategy is
And just to emphasize it again: yes, PVV is down by a lot but the other two far-right parties are up by a lot
And just to emphasize it again: yes, PVV is down by a lot but the other two far-right parties are up by a lot
October 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
It‘s going to be a wild ride tomorrow when pundits around the globe explain to us what kind of party D66 is and why they did exactly what they have always told us their favorite strategy is
And just to emphasize it again: yes, PVV is down by a lot but the other two far-right parties are up by a lot
And just to emphasize it again: yes, PVV is down by a lot but the other two far-right parties are up by a lot
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Reposting my @theguardian.com piece on today’s election in the Netherlands. Since then, PVV & CDA have dropped and D66 has risen in polls. Biggest 3 parties will be small and probably close together.
If Wilders doesn’t come first, “peak populism” will be media frame — it will again be nonsense.
If Wilders doesn’t come first, “peak populism” will be media frame — it will again be nonsense.
Geert Wilders failed in government, but the far right retains its grip on the Netherlands | Cas Mudde
A media in thrall to Wilders’ party ensures its agenda is entrenched in Dutch politics and will dominate Wednesday’s election, says political scientist Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Reposting my @theguardian.com piece on today’s election in the Netherlands. Since then, PVV & CDA have dropped and D66 has risen in polls. Biggest 3 parties will be small and probably close together.
If Wilders doesn’t come first, “peak populism” will be media frame — it will again be nonsense.
If Wilders doesn’t come first, “peak populism” will be media frame — it will again be nonsense.
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This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.
The claim that "civil war is inevitable in the UK" is better understood as an expression of the author's desire to see blood spilt on British streets.
October 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.
The “pushback” here is that Zohran refers to his Dad’s cousin as his aunt.
Which leads me to ask … how is your dad’s cousin not your aunt?
Have I missed something?
Truly one of those moments when Anglo/ Western European culture feels incredibly quaint and not remotely intuitive.
Which leads me to ask … how is your dad’s cousin not your aunt?
Have I missed something?
Truly one of those moments when Anglo/ Western European culture feels incredibly quaint and not remotely intuitive.
In the final days of New York City’s mayoral race, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback over a story he told about his aunt being afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway after the September 11, 2001, attacks. https://cnn.it/432IAcr
October 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The “pushback” here is that Zohran refers to his Dad’s cousin as his aunt.
Which leads me to ask … how is your dad’s cousin not your aunt?
Have I missed something?
Truly one of those moments when Anglo/ Western European culture feels incredibly quaint and not remotely intuitive.
Which leads me to ask … how is your dad’s cousin not your aunt?
Have I missed something?
Truly one of those moments when Anglo/ Western European culture feels incredibly quaint and not remotely intuitive.
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Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
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Best canvassing they've managed all by-election
Welsh Labour have just posted this on their official social media.
October 23, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Best canvassing they've managed all by-election
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Why do right's odious lies & horrifying claims break through not merely as rhetoric but policy? Because center-left keeps wielding thermometers to take temperature while right power up flame throwers to change it. New evidence from Germany:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Why do right's odious lies & horrifying claims break through not merely as rhetoric but policy? Because center-left keeps wielding thermometers to take temperature while right power up flame throwers to change it. New evidence from Germany:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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Joking in your Young Republican group chat about the mass murder of 6 million people who'd been scapegoated for decades as morally degenerate ethnic/religious outsiders is just locker room talk. Speaking lightly of the murder of Charlie Kirk to your 400 friends on Facebook is a fireable offense.
October 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Joking in your Young Republican group chat about the mass murder of 6 million people who'd been scapegoated for decades as morally degenerate ethnic/religious outsiders is just locker room talk. Speaking lightly of the murder of Charlie Kirk to your 400 friends on Facebook is a fireable offense.
We are at the stage of institutional/state decay where:
The nurse tells you that you have to stay the night because there aren't enough nurses to care for your loved one.
And then another nurse tells you to leave the hospital in the middle of the night because visiting hours are over.
The nurse tells you that you have to stay the night because there aren't enough nurses to care for your loved one.
And then another nurse tells you to leave the hospital in the middle of the night because visiting hours are over.
October 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
We are at the stage of institutional/state decay where:
The nurse tells you that you have to stay the night because there aren't enough nurses to care for your loved one.
And then another nurse tells you to leave the hospital in the middle of the night because visiting hours are over.
The nurse tells you that you have to stay the night because there aren't enough nurses to care for your loved one.
And then another nurse tells you to leave the hospital in the middle of the night because visiting hours are over.
We should all hope upon hope that the ceasefire holds. And it's also ok to be skeptical about Trump's intentions here.
But Biden/Harris dems would do well to reflect on the fact that the tools available to Trump (making US support a tiny bit more conditional) were all available to his predecessor.
But Biden/Harris dems would do well to reflect on the fact that the tools available to Trump (making US support a tiny bit more conditional) were all available to his predecessor.
October 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
We should all hope upon hope that the ceasefire holds. And it's also ok to be skeptical about Trump's intentions here.
But Biden/Harris dems would do well to reflect on the fact that the tools available to Trump (making US support a tiny bit more conditional) were all available to his predecessor.
But Biden/Harris dems would do well to reflect on the fact that the tools available to Trump (making US support a tiny bit more conditional) were all available to his predecessor.
If you can spell/pronounce Cuomo you can spell/pronounce Mamdani.
October 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If you can spell/pronounce Cuomo you can spell/pronounce Mamdani.
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Even just a couple years ago, Jenrick would have already been sacked for this and would be a pariah from across the political spectrum, including most of the media. The change we’ve seen over the last ten years is incredibly stark. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood
Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit
www.theguardian.com
October 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Even just a couple years ago, Jenrick would have already been sacked for this and would be a pariah from across the political spectrum, including most of the media. The change we’ve seen over the last ten years is incredibly stark. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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"Polarisation may be an unhelpful term .... It implies that both sides are becoming equally extreme. Arguably the real dynamic is that elements of the right have hardened, embracing positions that would have been unacceptable a decade ago" on.ft.com/46TGRHs by @henrymance.ft.com 1/
How polarised is Britain?
Behind media perceptions of a sharpening political divide is a more complicated picture
on.ft.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
"Polarisation may be an unhelpful term .... It implies that both sides are becoming equally extreme. Arguably the real dynamic is that elements of the right have hardened, embracing positions that would have been unacceptable a decade ago" on.ft.com/46TGRHs by @henrymance.ft.com 1/
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JUST IN: A UK mosque was set ablaze with two people still inside in a suspected arson attack that police are treating as a hate crime.
UK mosque set ablaze with two people inside, police investigating suspected hate crime | CNN
A UK mosque was set ablaze with two people still inside in a suspected arson attack that police are treating as a hate crime.
edition.cnn.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
JUST IN: A UK mosque was set ablaze with two people still inside in a suspected arson attack that police are treating as a hate crime.
Horrendous. Feeling this morning for survivors, victims and their families. For people in Manchester and for Jewish families everywhere who will be feeling less safe.
October 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Horrendous. Feeling this morning for survivors, victims and their families. For people in Manchester and for Jewish families everywhere who will be feeling less safe.