I’m always fascinated by the idea that Possession was discovered online around this point because becoming a cinephile in 90s Brazil meant every annoying older guy into movies you know would tell you about how you had to watch Possession.
Treasury Brain, as Joan Robinson warned us a long time ago, will keep Britain stuck in the status-quo, however destructive for both politics and the economy.
The Immigration and Asylum Bill targets the human rights of asylum seekers and refugees.
The provisions in the Bill are performative and cruel.
I voted against it last night.
One thing about the Bill tabled yesterday, is the provision that strips Commonwealth Immigrants before the 1971 Immigration Act of one of their few remaining protections.
Zero institutional shame around the Windrush Scandal.
I hate that "hot like Papa John's" line in that one Chappell Roan song. Naming a brand is a sure fire way to make your song irrelevant in 10 years. Unlike timeless classics like "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Andy Burnham has just voted in favour of Shabana Mahmood's Immigration and Asylum Act, an Act opposed by 80 Labour MPs colleagues and slammed by refugee groups and Alf Dubs himself. It will make successful asylum seekers in this country more marginal and vulnerable. A pitiful capitulation to the moral panics of the far-right.
It doesn’t matter if the man killed by ICE in Maine was authorized to work in the United States or not. It doesn’t matter if he had a social security or not. ICE should not be killing anyone. Period.
The only reason why ICE would continue to engage in reckless car-based arrests is because they want to create incredibly dangerous situations for their own sick joy with the opportunity to murder people with impunity.
A couple of weeks back, I wrote about what the National Security Act (now rammed through Parliament and into law) represents - a deliberate attempt to intimidate and to stifle the flow of inconvenient information out of Iran, Gaza, Lebanon and elsewhere: https://t.co/LIxxzyELrh
We are in the middle of a country-wide ICE surge and this will unfortunately become a regular feature of it if some new kind of repertoire to meet it isn’t devised.
“Trans women are stealing our HRT” is such a good example of how trans exclusionary feminism reroutes cis women towards conservatism. Instead of joining the fight against the capitalist state to liberate sex alteration, they’re blaming other women.