Ratan Vaswani 🇺🇦
@ratanvaswani.bsky.social
Interested in languages, travel, cinema, books, visual arts…but mainly here for politics. Русский военный корабль иди нахуй
America’s civic institutions have to address the full monstrosity of this. So too do democratic governments elsewhere in the world. It’s not happening. It’s being allowed to pass - so as not to rock the boat. Rock the boat, guys, rock it hard, rock it now.
“What is remigration, which the Department of Homeland Security is calling for?”
It’s this:
It’s this:
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
America’s civic institutions have to address the full monstrosity of this. So too do democratic governments elsewhere in the world. It’s not happening. It’s being allowed to pass - so as not to rock the boat. Rock the boat, guys, rock it hard, rock it now.
London. Always disconcerting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
London. Always disconcerting.
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Such important context for the scrapping of the two child limit:
70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Such important context for the scrapping of the two child limit:
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Spotted on this morning's walk: 'cordwainer', a shoemaker or worker with cordwain leather. You might not guess from its appearance that 'cordwain' has Mediterranean origins – the word comes from the Spanish city of Córdoba.
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Spotted on this morning's walk: 'cordwainer', a shoemaker or worker with cordwain leather. You might not guess from its appearance that 'cordwain' has Mediterranean origins – the word comes from the Spanish city of Córdoba.
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Also not all welfare spending is the same. Eliminating child poverty is to an extent not just redistribution but an investment in their education, employment, future earnings, tax payments, and propensity to be involved in crime.
Welfare spending is currently 1.2% of GDP *lower* than in 2012-13.
Abolition of two-child cap is best viewed as a correction than an increase.
Abolition of two-child cap is best viewed as a correction than an increase.
Is welfare spending ''out of control''?
Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
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Total welfare spending in Britain in 2025-26 is estimated to be 10.8 per cent of GDP.
That's just 0.8 per cent of GDP higher than in 2007-08, and total welfare spending has actually fallen fallen by 1.2 per cent of GDP since 2012-13⤵️
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November 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Also not all welfare spending is the same. Eliminating child poverty is to an extent not just redistribution but an investment in their education, employment, future earnings, tax payments, and propensity to be involved in crime.
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‘The way Brexit was mishandled’ is designed to con you into thinking there is a Labour piloted Brexit that won’t carry those costs.
Labour’s James Murray "The report that the OBR put out alongside the budget shows the impact on productivity from the previous government"
"Austerity, the way Brexit was mishandled" #BBCQT
Labour Brexit right now costs us £90 billion a year in lost tax revenue
"Austerity, the way Brexit was mishandled" #BBCQT
Labour Brexit right now costs us £90 billion a year in lost tax revenue
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM
‘The way Brexit was mishandled’ is designed to con you into thinking there is a Labour piloted Brexit that won’t carry those costs.
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Glorified phone doodle (ie I drew it while I was on the phone)
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Glorified phone doodle (ie I drew it while I was on the phone)
This is unambiguously Nazi rhetoric. I mean, I don’t think the US will establish industrial death camps for non-white residents but we should take seriously Trump’s threat to strip them of citizenship. This is a white supremacist White House.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
This is unambiguously Nazi rhetoric. I mean, I don’t think the US will establish industrial death camps for non-white residents but we should take seriously Trump’s threat to strip them of citizenship. This is a white supremacist White House.
I like Zohran Mamdani. Heart, soul, brain - and such a lovely smile.
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I like Zohran Mamdani. Heart, soul, brain - and such a lovely smile.
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African people and Indigenous people were enslaved, trafficked, and forced into servitude by the colonists. That’s a key truth the Thanksgiving story erases.
The Thanksgiving Myth Hides the US’s Inability to Reckon With Its Own History
“I’m not against giving thanks. I’m against celebrating a falsehood,” says Choctaw historian A. S. Dillingham.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
African people and Indigenous people were enslaved, trafficked, and forced into servitude by the colonists. That’s a key truth the Thanksgiving story erases.
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A Ukrainian woman is saying goodbye to her home as the front line approaches.
"The front is getting closer, and today my Mom said goodbye to our home and asked for forgiveness that she won’t be able to go there again until victory," Viktoriia wrote.
📷: asiya666
"The front is getting closer, and today my Mom said goodbye to our home and asked for forgiveness that she won’t be able to go there again until victory," Viktoriia wrote.
📷: asiya666
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A Ukrainian woman is saying goodbye to her home as the front line approaches.
"The front is getting closer, and today my Mom said goodbye to our home and asked for forgiveness that she won’t be able to go there again until victory," Viktoriia wrote.
📷: asiya666
"The front is getting closer, and today my Mom said goodbye to our home and asked for forgiveness that she won’t be able to go there again until victory," Viktoriia wrote.
📷: asiya666
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NO ONE FORMS POLITICAL IDEAS FROM WHAT THEY SEE IN THE WORLD.
THEY FORM POLITICAL IDEAS FROM WHAT THEY HEAR FROM OTHER PEOPLE.
There are many, many, many important implications of this!!
THEY FORM POLITICAL IDEAS FROM WHAT THEY HEAR FROM OTHER PEOPLE.
There are many, many, many important implications of this!!
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
NO ONE FORMS POLITICAL IDEAS FROM WHAT THEY SEE IN THE WORLD.
THEY FORM POLITICAL IDEAS FROM WHAT THEY HEAR FROM OTHER PEOPLE.
There are many, many, many important implications of this!!
THEY FORM POLITICAL IDEAS FROM WHAT THEY HEAR FROM OTHER PEOPLE.
There are many, many, many important implications of this!!
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Spike Milligan is a great poet as well as a ground breaking comedian. His poetry is often funny & frivolous, but can be deep, poignant, and moving too.
In this poem he has caught both, reflecting on the quiet heartbreak watching a child step out into their own life.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
In this poem he has caught both, reflecting on the quiet heartbreak watching a child step out into their own life.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Spike Milligan is a great poet as well as a ground breaking comedian. His poetry is often funny & frivolous, but can be deep, poignant, and moving too.
In this poem he has caught both, reflecting on the quiet heartbreak watching a child step out into their own life.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
In this poem he has caught both, reflecting on the quiet heartbreak watching a child step out into their own life.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
I haven’t travelled the whole world, but I’ve travelled a bit, and the number one country for extravagantly dressed counter-cultural eccentrics is Britain, particularly London. I love it.
A woman walks down the escalator. She wears a gold coat and gold flared leggings. Her pale pink hair is swept up into many victory rolls. She is rocking 70s android chic. Or she is a 70s android trying to fit in.
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I haven’t travelled the whole world, but I’ve travelled a bit, and the number one country for extravagantly dressed counter-cultural eccentrics is Britain, particularly London. I love it.
Hallelujah. This isn’t the Labour government I want but at least it’s done a Labour thing. It ends the obscenity of punishing children for having more than one sister or brother.
November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Hallelujah. This isn’t the Labour government I want but at least it’s done a Labour thing. It ends the obscenity of punishing children for having more than one sister or brother.
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And the two child benefit limit is abolished. An enormous victory for those who have campaigned tirelessly for eight long years through successive governments. This will lift at least 450,000 children out of poverty. Fewer kids will be hungry. No more women forced to disclose their rape.
November 26, 2025 at 1:37 PM
And the two child benefit limit is abolished. An enormous victory for those who have campaigned tirelessly for eight long years through successive governments. This will lift at least 450,000 children out of poverty. Fewer kids will be hungry. No more women forced to disclose their rape.
Rafael Behr points out that in practice Labour has prioritised continuity over the ‘change’ it promised. And that Britain’s dismal economy cannot truly be revived until it extricates itself from its Brexit trap. *Sigh*.
Rachel Reeves has many problems. She’s realising that her Brexit bind may be the biggest of all | Rafael Behr
Brutal economic realities are prompting a shift in Labour’s tone on Europe. But will it dare tell the whole truth about Britain’s predicament, asks Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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November 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Rafael Behr points out that in practice Labour has prioritised continuity over the ‘change’ it promised. And that Britain’s dismal economy cannot truly be revived until it extricates itself from its Brexit trap. *Sigh*.
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
The inevitable question is what’s in it for Witkoff? The inevitable answer is Russian money.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The inevitable question is what’s in it for Witkoff? The inevitable answer is Russian money.
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Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Because people *still* don’t understand that overseas students subsidise home students. This is punishing everyone involved.
The BBC really is very confused about impartiality and the difference between a speaker’s opinion and the platform on which he delivers it.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The BBC really is very confused about impartiality and the difference between a speaker’s opinion and the platform on which he delivers it.
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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Reform's Twitter account is showcasing the new range of black shirts they plan to start selling soon.
The metaphors write themselves, and they know it.
The metaphors write themselves, and they know it.
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Reform's Twitter account is showcasing the new range of black shirts they plan to start selling soon.
The metaphors write themselves, and they know it.
The metaphors write themselves, and they know it.
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I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
You know that adjective to describe how Spurs typically crumble in the face of opportunity, ‘Spursy’? I’d like to propose ‘United-y’. Dismal times for us United fans.
November 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
You know that adjective to describe how Spurs typically crumble in the face of opportunity, ‘Spursy’? I’d like to propose ‘United-y’. Dismal times for us United fans.