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Human dignity is inviolable. Make the world you want to live in. There is no spare planet; progressive and reflective not mutually exclusive. Brexit disaster.

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Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · Nov 7

It is not the best of times, the worst of times are still to come.

It is the age of uneasy alliances, it is the age of isolationism.

It is the epoch of climate crisis, it is the epoch of selfishness.

It is the season of division, it is the season of chaos. /1

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 39m

He is brilliant. Love what he has to say on most things. Decent. bsky.app/profile/amra...

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 57m

My goodness, Zack Polanski is bloody impressive.
His views on immigration, Brexit, NATO, and Palestine are spot on.
Calling out Farage and Trump, absolutely brilliant.

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 43m

I saw him take on Zia Yusuf on immigration at BBCQT so looked up some of his videos. When I see Tories and Labour targeting reform voters with their half baked narratives, and then see Polanski just saying what he believes in and calling out reform lies. It is so reassuring and feels so authentic.

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 57m

My goodness, Zack Polanski is bloody impressive.
His views on immigration, Brexit, NATO, and Palestine are spot on.
Calling out Farage and Trump, absolutely brilliant.

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 9h

Norway and Venezuela must be on tenterhooks, will toddler Trump throw tariffs or toys of mass destruction?

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 20h

Wait till she finds out that 80% of people in Dubai are migrants… just like her.

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 22h

🥰 you take care now.

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 22h

Yes. Now it has. I slayed a demon that was festering in my mind. Tomorow there might be another and I will be ready.

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 23h

Hello.🥰🥰

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 23h

* 18.3% is the approx total population which isn’t white in Britain.
Apologies for all the race stereotypes used my third post. They unfortunately exist and weren’t made up in my dream.

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 23h

And when I wake,
only one thing remains,
a limp Union Jack clinging
to a black lamppost outside my window,
as if ashamed
to remember what this county had become in my dream. /

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 23h

So what if the prisons never emptied,
So what if the hospitals never fell still,
So what if the buses stopped,
So what if the streets went hungry,
and the silence grew too large to bear..

What a great country it would be. /5

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 23h

Eighteen percent*, they said had taken it all.
All the houses, the jobs, the benefits,
the country itself./4

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 23h

No foreign voices cluttering the air,
no black men glancing sharply,
no Turkish hand spoiling a haircut,
no Bangladeshi curry rushed from fire to plate,
no Indians taking jobs fit for kings,
no Filipinos smiling through 16hr shifts,
no foreign doctor saving lives that were never meant for theirs./3

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 23h

Schools filled with white children taught by plenty of white teachers.
Hospitals all calm and empty.
Doctors smiling, pure and eager to serve,
now that all the foreigners were gone./2

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 23h

I dreamt a dream,
of an England without foreigners.
How calm, how cultured it would be,
Union Jacks hoisted proudly
on every lamppost, every pole,
So civilised it all seemed,
the streets almost paved with gold. /1

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 1d

In your case I assume they just want to be sure it isn’t anything nasty that compromises your health. Best wishes for it to get sorted soon and you are up and ready for Halloween trick or treating. 🎃🎃

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 1d

😳😳 pints? Are you still in Italy? We had gone for a wedding at Lake Maggiore and my mum got really bad food poisoning and we had to take her to the hospital, they took loads of blood (I mean test tubes upon test tubes😳) but she immediately felt better and said she wanted to go back to the hotel.

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to hear that❤️.
Covid is back on the scene with a nasty new variant (hubby already caught it) and flu is in full swing(older one already got it). Keeping away from my school going kids. (I am a big germophobe) xx

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 1d

Ooof. Hope you are ok.

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 2d

Love it. It is beautiful.

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 2d

…Not to wound, but because not speaking would betray everything I was taught to honour.”

This is such a beautifully expressed opinion piece. 👇

apple.news/A0KxCPwkYSGG...

Opinion | When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love — The Guardian

Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone’s chasing Reform voters, now polling at 34%. But why is no major party appealing to the rest, the clear majority that Reform can never beat?

What a paradox of modern British politics, a system that rewards fear of a minority more than faith in the majority.

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 4d

What kind of pudding?

Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 4d

The story of how Ireland became the first western nation to implement a nationwide ban on South African goods during the apartheid era beautifully told. This cheered me up immensely.
www.youtube.com/shorts/O5yK7...

Fruit for thought. Never judge a book by its cover. #comedy #histoty #storytelling #standup

YouTube video by David Nihill

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Dipa @amrakunj.bsky.social · 4d

How long before Tories and Reform merge?