Cathy Otten

In 2025, Omer Shatz and colleagues submitted a second communication to the ICC: "European officials suspected of Crimes Against Humanity against ‘migrants’ on the Central Mediterranean route" www.crimesagainsthumanity.eu/en

Indonesian nickel miner Harita Group approved hundreds of thousands of dollars in “incentives” for community leaders, flights for politicians, and financial support for military projects between 2013 and 2023. www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Enoch Powell level bile and lies from the Times www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

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Haaretz's detailed story on the Israeli gulags, in which nearly 10,000 Palestinians are held, vast majority of them have not been charged or convicted. These are crimes against humanity. archive.ph/LdVXQ

Diplomatic cable leaked to me shows Marco Rubio order embassies to bar people from the US for speech-related reasons. Hours later, Rubio gave a speech at the Acropolis celebrating "free debate and public discussion": www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-speech...

As unprofessional as it may be, I suspect I will be shouting "we have been saying this for years" a lot today. Harsher immigration policies don't just ruin individual lives, they damage the economy, reduce jobs, and generally harm the whole country.

The labour party conference is underway. If you could ask policymakers one question about support for torture survivors, what would it be? Comment below 👇

The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.

The US cut health aid to Africa by 70%. Now, some of that aid money is being used to secure deportation deals with African governments www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

i bet the focus groups would have gone crazy during the reformation

Nick Candy and Holly Valance. Britain’s most expensive house. A £265m sale. Usual consequence: £32m of stamp duty. But five small flats were included in the sale. By an extraordinary happy accident, that cut the tax by £18.5m. The curious sale of Nick Candy’s mansion A 🧵:

Easier to convict a victim than to live up to the UK’s obligations to refugees

Isabel Coles on the diplomatic backstory to last week's trade ban announcement observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

A campaign for *MSF* to be banned as a terrorist group (on the paper thin basis of claims about 2 past employees) is the product of the UK Govt being willing to divorce any meaningful conception of societal threat from its use of proscription powers. Govt needs to wake up to the madness of this:

Pregnant woman among more than 10 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza

The 117 people who left Libya with Daniel did not share one fate. By the journey’s end, 79 had reached Italy, 35 had been returned to Libyan detention, and three had drowned. @cathyotten.bsky.social examines the hostile migration policies that shaped every outcome.

@ stephenkb.bsky.social hitting the nail on the head of course. "the Labour Party has now produced two governments whose response to acts of thuggery and intimidation is to reiterate that perhaps the thugs have a point" - as.ft.com/r/97d33f08-a...

LOLOL "What stood out most was ꜱᴛʀᴜᴄᴛᴜʀᴀʟ ʙᴀᴄᴋ-ᴇɴᴅ ꜱʜɪᴘᴘɪɴɢ ᴛʀᴀᴄᴋɪɴɢ, which feels like the kind of nuance that naturally sparks layered and honest conversation in our group."

It seems a very apposite time to ask Richard Tice to explain why he needs to head a company with no employees and no products, that appears to do nothing other than receive large amounts of money which it then swiftly transfers to the accounts of Reform Ltd.

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

Amazing. It seems that plagiarism is only a problem for The Times when black people do it

Daily Mail headline story about how a town has become a ‘no go zone’ for women due to threats from immigrants The only evidence given for this is from Mike, aged 66 The only violence documented in the article is from far-right agitators

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

This is what happened in the siege of Sarajevo, which was said at the time to bring shame upon the entire continent.

Fun fact: Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed. Wonderful Heart ♥️ RIP Dolly ❤️

World affairs editor of @the-independent.com rightfully demands sanctions against Israel over the killing of his journalist colleague. Meanwhile, Reuters and the Associated Press mark Israel's same massacre against their journalists a year ago with hollow expressions of grief.

Sharing this after returning from Magdeburg in east Germany, and going to report at an AfD rally in the nearby countryside. People outside of Germany do not understand how urgent this situation is right now. The AfD have a nationwide polling lead + are tipped to win control of two states next month.

Why does BBC radio 4 continue to give air time to every policy announcement from Reform UK and little or none to Lib Dems or Greens? Political incorrectness gone mad? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A really miserable piece of writing, wholly based in electoral impressionism. No thought for principles or the rights of migrants, and including spurious calculations about lifetime fiscal costs and benefits that simply ignore the real costs of what would happen if these workers were absent.

Transportation, 21st century style. And not just transported, but transported to a foreign prison from which they may never be released. Extraordinary how quickly this has become normalised. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m...

If the PM is going to achieve this, then he needs to have some serious words with the Home Office. Kicking refugees out of Home Office accommodation with only a few weeks' notice and no support leaves thousands facing homelessness after a positive asylum decision www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian has serious questions to answer and yet it's still trying to defend itself

Absolutely pathetic editorial from the Guardian showing no awareness of their role in the making of a modern day witch hunt. The public interest argument just does not stand up & blaming the right wing media does not cut it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Investigate reporting being expensive, lengthy, uncertain and often litigious is a real market failure. So is the insane lucrativity of writing the same anti-woke slop opinion ragebait/red meat once a week.

The trouble is that most important and necessary journalism is still quite difficult and expensive, and can’t be done via google searches.

"One news bulletin described him as “the Black professor accused of plagiarism”: as if the most important thing was not the plagiarism, but the temerity to be simultaneously Black." Brilliant as ever from my old boss @stephenkb.bsky.social on Jason Arday giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The British Media Vs. Plagiarism

Increasingly common trend: when controversialist columnists run out of real minority groups to victimise they just make one up.

Deaths of newborns have risen by 81% in just a year, for the most vulnerable people across sub-Saharan Africa, in the wake of global aid cuts Deaths of babies in the first year of life are up 111% in a year. Deaths of under-5s have risen 50% in a year www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

The continued political silence over the spread of these anti-migrant, anti-refugee pogroms in the UK is a disgrace. This one has been going on for three nights in a row now and the Home Secretary and Prime Minister haven't said a single word about it www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

And yet reports are still commissioned on way people think the media is out of touch when editors peddle culture war guff like this about elite job drama over real reporting

I would say it is not important news

*Government: we need a sense of place and stronger regional policy to bring us together! *Also government: it's okay to shut this local uni campus in an area of high deprivation! *Thick-as-mince country. No joined-up thinking anywhere. 🇬🇧 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible." Emily Wilson's take on the Odyssey is very C4 Four in a Bed

Mamdani criticizes Netanyahu. Later, a crazy man stabs a Jewish man and an Asian man. And we get an article suggesting that while one stabbing (dismissed in six words) is just a shrug, the other implicates the mayor. Disgraceful framing. Shame on everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/n...