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Kartik Raj
@kartikraj.bsky.social
Work @hrw.org on poverty, inequality, social security, human rights in Europe
Migrant. Parent. Pedant. Anorak. #dadjokes. He/him.
Barcelona-based.
Work output here: https://www.hrw.org/about/people/kartik-raj
There is more that could be said, for instance about the decision to wait until April to formally end it, or to have to have taken so long to get here, but ... it's worth saying it is good news that a terrible policy that increased child poverty by the day will soon be gone.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
2/2 And to join in the Home Secretary's first person credibility olympics, as an immigrant to the UK (like her parents) and someone who has (like her) been called a 'f**king P**i' (and worse) and told to 'go home', I find the "moral mission" she has drawn from those experiences altogether appalling.
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Reposted by Kartik Raj
The 750-page document also has stinging criticism of “toxic and chaotic” culture inside Boris Johnson’s Downing Street – which it said the then PM. actively embraced – in which loudest voices held sway and women were sidelined.
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It also repeats the, which is a minor copy editing matter.
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This sentence almost certainly requires a further fact check/correction.

“In what is believed to the the first instance of ministers being found in breach of article 3 of the European convention on human rights…”
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM