Amerjit Basi

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... The mass murder of Palestinians, that still goes on and on, should be the biggest question facing the Israeli state & those within it supporting such killing. Will it be stopped and will atonement follow? The treatment of Palestinians has utterly corrupted Israel.

“When the people concerned are being told that their contribution is insufficient to deserve settlement, yet apparently too important to allow them to leave their occupation, the contradiction becomes clear.”

Loving BBC 6 music's all day tribute to the wonderful Amy Winehouse. Always makes me sad that she died so early, and suffered.

We gave banks millions of pounds with no strings attached. I get why at that time, the money, not the no strings, but blimey we should have no hesitation in getting lots of money back off them www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

The issue with racism in Britain is the pattern of shock, surprise and disgust. When we platform racists at the highest level, fail to call them out at dinner tables and in pubs, what do we expect?

This is so fucking cool -- a member of the @garbageday.email discord saved every meme they found funny from 2012ish to 2016ish. They just shared the drive containing over 8,000 memes and images. What an archival snapshot of a very specific time for meme culture! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

Just seen that @doctorow.pluralistic.net is coming to Sheffield courtesy of Juno Books. www.instagram.com/p/DeG1pnSFix... Absolutely delighted.

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

Daily bunny no.3455 prefers the classics

'We thought this time would be different – it hasn't been. Perhaps we need to accept an uncomfortable reality: higher education simply isn't high enough up the government's political priority list.'

Even by the already abysmal standards of Northern Irish "unionism", this is insane

Pretty certain there is something absolutely enormous missing from this list. I think I am still shocked that the mass murder of Palestinians is something that is seemingly either forgotten or not worth mentioning. But of course in reality I shouldn't be shocked about the worth placed on such lives.

Racism will not be defeated from above. It will only be defeated by us – ordinary citizens who refuse to look away. My piece for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This was a striking bit about Rushdie’s upbringing where ‘people would talk about everything’

You know that saying about how the way they treat asylum seekers is the way they’d treat everyone else if they thought they could get away with it? Well,

Tell me again how Germany has understood the Holocaust and its Nazi past. Makes me think "remembrance" can be very different to actual understanding and then change built on that understanding. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

I wonder if there is anyone not white in that village. The fact that their parish council is welcoming rabid racists must make that place hellish. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

‘This should be condemned by any thinking human’: film industry rallies behind NAZA directors

My heart melted a bit at this one. His dad was a lorry driver and during his summer holidays as a ten year old he’d go with dad and loved stopping at the Little Chef www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead.

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

The Guardian should have asked someone else to review this book, perhaps someone who didn't feel compelled to be so patronising and sneery about Stephen King & his readers. What smugness to assume King's readers are not interested in the art of his writing. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence

Livid that the assisted dying bill being voted down is being painted as religious zealots that all want people to die in agony. Everyone deserves to die in dignity, but they also deserve a robust bill with safeguards that reduces the chance of being coerced into it. That's what we fought for.

Liars have to have very good memories and he clearly doesn’t.

Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

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If you have the time, Ed Miliband's speech in the House of Commons is worth reading in full. It literally includes the words: "Holding British Jews responsible for the actions of the Israeli Government is antisemitism, plain and simple." www.gov.uk/government/s...

That the government's response to a large-scale fascist mobilisation is to say stuff like "the right to protest is fundamental" and "we already *are* stopping the boats" is in itself the story of how we got here.

Given that Tommo is now causing disruption over in Portsmouth you have to wonder what the police and intelligence services are actually doing.

As we all know this is the massive differential in policing. These people are a clear threat but face no restrictions from the police. Protest about genocide and the killing of the planet and you have no rights at all. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I do think “every rich person went insane during covid because it was the first time they’ve been inconvenienced in decades” felt a little reductive at first but damn if isn’t more and more compelling as the years drag on

Watching Renovation Rescue reminds me of being ripped off by a builder in Sheffield, on a much smaller scale. And threatened when I said I'd post an honest review. None of the rip off builders get punished or have to pay back money stolen. Absolutely need regulation of the trades.

I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.

'It is understood that senior museum leaders were warned about the possible public perception of special treatment for someone with connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and whose public software company, Palantir, plays a controversial role in the British state.' 'the possible public perception'

Mahmood's proposals would force medium-skilled & care workers to leave the UK & would deter high skill workers from coming in future. This would widen the deficit/fiscal home. Would be deliberate economic and political self-harm for Burnham/Healey to proceed with them. inews.co.uk/news/politic...