Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler)
@amalkc.bsky.social
Writer. Fellow, Royal Historical Society. Coming Up: "Prisoners of Colonialism" (Hurst, 2025); Previously"AcrossTheLakes", "RepresentationsOfIndia,1740-1840", "WritersOnWriting"; plays, Tutor,MSt Creative Writing,Oxford Uni.; Migrant, grumbler
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but I absolutely despise Starmer and the whole government for how far to the right they have gone on attacking vulnerable people. UK pushing for this shows a complete disregard for the lives of people crossing the channel.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
France to approve new plans to halt small boats crossing the Channel
Keir Starmer has urged the French government to intervene before asylum seekers board vessels heading for the UK
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I absolutely despise Starmer and the whole government for how far to the right they have gone on attacking vulnerable people. UK pushing for this shows a complete disregard for the lives of people crossing the channel.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
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UK energy bill payers to hand £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, owned by the French govt, for building two nuclear power stations.
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
UK energy bill payers will hand £2bn a year to EDF for new power stations
French government-owned company to receive funding for Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
UK energy bill payers to hand £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, owned by the French govt, for building two nuclear power stations.
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
Reposted by Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler)
*Kemi reading the bible*
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
*Kemi reading the bible*
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
"suffer little children"
well that's enough for today, think I got the gist of it
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It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
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This is how the Mail has covered a 70% fall in net migration.
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
November 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is how the Mail has covered a 70% fall in net migration.
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
The Government should stop kidding itself it will ever get credit for being anti-migration. They could cut numbers to zero and there would still be front pages blasting them for making the UK a socialist wasteland no one wants to come to
We're already here. Despicable.
Dutch stand by decision to deport three Afghan women www.dutchnews.nl?p=260509
Dutch stand by decision to deport three Afghan women
www.dutchnews.nl
November 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We're already here. Despicable.
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"The most obvious cause for Britain's difficulties is Brexit," says Salman Rushdie. "Yet nobody of any political party is willing to say that."
The author on life, death, the 'dumb' BBC and how a brutal stabbing in 2022 gave him "another act"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/salm...
The author on life, death, the 'dumb' BBC and how a brutal stabbing in 2022 gave him "another act"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/salm...
Salman Rushdie: ‘The BBC continues to be really stupid – and there's no cure for stupidity’ | The News Agents
Author Salman Rushdie, who The News Agents describe as a man who "spent probably half of his life under the threat of death" discusses his new book, the root cause of problems in UK society, and the…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"The most obvious cause for Britain's difficulties is Brexit," says Salman Rushdie. "Yet nobody of any political party is willing to say that."
The author on life, death, the 'dumb' BBC and how a brutal stabbing in 2022 gave him "another act"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/salm...
The author on life, death, the 'dumb' BBC and how a brutal stabbing in 2022 gave him "another act"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/salm...
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New from #Identities, by Catherine Martin:
'White with ‘native’ blood: the formative role of Anglo-Indians in the colonial construction of the White race'
Part of our upcoming #SpecialIssue on Global Configurations of Whiteness
Read with #OpenAccess:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
'White with ‘native’ blood: the formative role of Anglo-Indians in the colonial construction of the White race'
Part of our upcoming #SpecialIssue on Global Configurations of Whiteness
Read with #OpenAccess:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
New from #Identities, by Catherine Martin:
'White with ‘native’ blood: the formative role of Anglo-Indians in the colonial construction of the White race'
Part of our upcoming #SpecialIssue on Global Configurations of Whiteness
Read with #OpenAccess:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
'White with ‘native’ blood: the formative role of Anglo-Indians in the colonial construction of the White race'
Part of our upcoming #SpecialIssue on Global Configurations of Whiteness
Read with #OpenAccess:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
But, but, all those campaigns?! And glib talk of solidarity, that didn't work?! 15 years. 15!
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
But, but, all those campaigns?! And glib talk of solidarity, that didn't work?! 15 years. 15!
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abolish the Home Office
November 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
abolish the Home Office
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A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison.
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
Israeli soldiers had taken Mohammed Ibrahim from his home in a night raid when he was only 15 years old
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:24 AM
A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison.
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
You can trust them and their word... right? 😂😬
November 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
You can trust them and their word... right? 😂😬
The evil - yes, they choose to be that - xenophobes want to leave a legacy, of harm.
The VVD and BBB – the only remaining parties in the outgoing coalition – are pushing to deliver the promise of stricter asylum rules and want the amended legislation adopted before the break.
Minister wants controversial asylum laws "passed by Christmas" - DutchNews.nl
Caretaker asylum minister David van Weel has warned that the Netherlands faces “a big problem” if MPs do not back his revision of two previously approved asylum laws before the Christmas recess. In…
www.dutchnews.nl
November 27, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The evil - yes, they choose to be that - xenophobes want to leave a legacy, of harm.
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One big risk to the OBR forecasts has already materialised -migration is falling more quickly than their projections and that will hit growth and tax revenue.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration drops sharply to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration fell by around two-thirds - from 649,000 in the year to June 2024 to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
One big risk to the OBR forecasts has already materialised -migration is falling more quickly than their projections and that will hit growth and tax revenue.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
Reposted by Amal Chatterjee (migrant, grumbler)
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Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today's migration stats illustrate the migration doom loop in action...
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
(from my presentation at the IMF last week)
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MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Marjorie Taylor Greene Came So Close to Getting the Joke
What the Georgia representative learned in Washington
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
MGT has seen her networth jump from $700k to $25 million since joining Congress in 2021. And she served juuust long enough to get a lifetime tax payer-funded pension.
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
She got the joke.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The Public Prosecution Service imposes a fine of 101 million euros on Morgan Stanley for dividend tax evasion.
Source: Public Prosecution Service
Source: Public Prosecution Service
Fine of 101 million for Morgan Stanley due to dividend tax evasion
The Public Prosecution Service imposes a fine of 101 million euros on Morgan Stanley for dividend tax evasion.
openrijk.nl
November 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The Public Prosecution Service imposes a fine of 101 million euros on Morgan Stanley for dividend tax evasion.
Source: Public Prosecution Service
Source: Public Prosecution Service
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Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Today we’ll get latest net immigration figures - They’ll show immigration for work is plummeting.
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
Why is this not part of the discussion on Rachel Reeves balancing her books & stalled growth?
For every 100,000 drop in net immigration, the OBR adds £7bn to the deficit. #r4today
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The drop in people coming to the UK will be celebrated by some, but there's nothing to celebrate. This is a sign that the UK is becoming an even more hostile place. We see that with increases in hate crimes as well. Why would you celebrate that? Why be happy that the country is becoming worse?
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The drop in people coming to the UK will be celebrated by some, but there's nothing to celebrate. This is a sign that the UK is becoming an even more hostile place. We see that with increases in hate crimes as well. Why would you celebrate that? Why be happy that the country is becoming worse?
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Regular reminder that behind all the guff about immigration statistics we are talking about actual people's lives.
We are pretty much guaranteed to see today's figures used to defend anti-immigration policies, and ignore the harm they cause. These are people's lives.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/uk-m...
We are pretty much guaranteed to see today's figures used to defend anti-immigration policies, and ignore the harm they cause. These are people's lives.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/uk-m...
UK migration is at a record high – but immigration should be celebrated, not weaponised
Experience tells us that there will be those who try and “weaponise” immigration no matter what, says Stand for All's Daniel Sohege.
www.bigissue.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Regular reminder that behind all the guff about immigration statistics we are talking about actual people's lives.
We are pretty much guaranteed to see today's figures used to defend anti-immigration policies, and ignore the harm they cause. These are people's lives.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/uk-m...
We are pretty much guaranteed to see today's figures used to defend anti-immigration policies, and ignore the harm they cause. These are people's lives.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/uk-m...
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It’s not Israel’s land.
Israel to bring 5,800 Bnei Menashe Jews from India for settlement in occupied Palestine
www.middleeasteye.net
November 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
It’s not Israel’s land.
A reminder that despite the hype, the xenophobia fed pols are still very much pushing their agenda...
Minister wants controversial asylum laws “passed by Christmas” www.dutchnews.nl?p=260461
Minister wants controversial asylum laws “passed by Christmas”
www.dutchnews.nl
November 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A reminder that despite the hype, the xenophobia fed pols are still very much pushing their agenda...
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While making openly racist calls to ban "non-natives" such as Rishi Sunak or Priti Patel from office (UK-born citizens, Asian ethnicity) and expel Deputy Speaker Nus Ghani from Commons (birthplace), Lucy White is a colleague of Kwarteng at Gunster Strategies
www.gunsterstrategies.com/about/team/
www.gunsterstrategies.com/about/team/
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 AM
While making openly racist calls to ban "non-natives" such as Rishi Sunak or Priti Patel from office (UK-born citizens, Asian ethnicity) and expel Deputy Speaker Nus Ghani from Commons (birthplace), Lucy White is a colleague of Kwarteng at Gunster Strategies
www.gunsterstrategies.com/about/team/
www.gunsterstrategies.com/about/team/