Sathnam Sanghera
@sathnam.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. Pre-order my book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador in 2026. www.sathnam.com
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5. Recycle the pretexts that British colonists at the time used to launch unprovoked invasions. The point of the Ijebu invasion was not that the state broke a trade agreement but that it would not allow aggressive British traders to usurp its control. Quote on right from Lugard.
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
5. Recycle the pretexts that British colonists at the time used to launch unprovoked invasions. The point of the Ijebu invasion was not that the state broke a trade agreement but that it would not allow aggressive British traders to usurp its control. Quote on right from Lugard.
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4. Create straw men. Olusoga could not have been any clearer that Mountain Horse was a volunteer. This criticism suggests utter desperation to find something - anything - to criticise!
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
4. Create straw men. Olusoga could not have been any clearer that Mountain Horse was a volunteer. This criticism suggests utter desperation to find something - anything - to criticise!
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3. Berate the presenter for sticking to historical realities rather than myths Britain had not introduced democracy anywhere before the end of empire and there was no thought of developing colonies until 1929, even then based on loans with interest.
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
3. Berate the presenter for sticking to historical realities rather than myths Britain had not introduced democracy anywhere before the end of empire and there was no thought of developing colonies until 1929, even then based on loans with interest.
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2. Pretend that you have consulted expert historians who accuse Olusoga of being an activist when the reality is the reverse. As ever, it is the private right wing lobbying company History Reclaimed who supply what insubstantial critique there is.
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
2. Pretend that you have consulted expert historians who accuse Olusoga of being an activist when the reality is the reverse. As ever, it is the private right wing lobbying company History Reclaimed who supply what insubstantial critique there is.
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1. They didn’t bother to watch it all because they knew how they were going to attack it regardless. Maybe no one will pick up in the fact that it doesn’t actually end with WWI but extends into the 1950s.
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
1. They didn’t bother to watch it all because they knew how they were going to attack it regardless. Maybe no one will pick up in the fact that it doesn’t actually end with WWI but extends into the 1950s.
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1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
1/5 It was entirely predictable that The Telegraph would jump on @DavidOlusoga’s Empire series to fight its right wing culture war for control of our public history. Let’s see what they’ve done:
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BRAND NEW 🍏 How Do You Like Them Apples? 🍎
From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
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From the Garden of Hesperides to the Garden of Eden, from the Atalanta and the Trojan War to The Beatles and the iPhone, apples are laden with often conflicting symbolism.
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BONUS - How Do You Like Them Golden Apples?
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November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'
He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
As for Farage’s use of racist slurs being confined to his childhood - well, that's not what Alan Sked, the founder of UKIP, claimed in this 2014 interview.
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
He says here that Farage was using the "n" word as late as 1997.
Farage would have been about 33 at time.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
How is this allowed? We are being failed and failed again by regulators.
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising. Meta probably made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024 pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/sc...
Scam ads on Meta in UK likely worth more than all online news advertising
Meta likely made more than £600m from fraudulent UK advertising in 2024.
pressgazette.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
How is this allowed? We are being failed and failed again by regulators.
Not everything is political strategy. The truth matters for it's own sake.
this is going to backfire, the way putting Trump on trial for campaign finance backfired. In both cases, the target claims a witchhunt, and his base believes that claim.
I'm sure the stories are true, but Farage will just continue repeating "I was a teenager".
I'm sure the stories are true, but Farage will just continue repeating "I was a teenager".
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Not everything is political strategy. The truth matters for it's own sake.
Another contemporary accused the Reform leader of being a “complete liar” in an interview on Tuesday afternoon. Andy Field, a GP who was two years below Farage at Dulwich, said he had directly witnessed racial abuse from the Reform leader.
www.thetimes.com/article/94cb...
www.thetimes.com/article/94cb...
Nigel Farage’s abuse was persistent, not banter, claims ex-schoolmate
Peter Ettedgui says he was targeted at Dulwich College. The Reform UK leader denies he racially abused anybody
www.thetimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Another contemporary accused the Reform leader of being a “complete liar” in an interview on Tuesday afternoon. Andy Field, a GP who was two years below Farage at Dulwich, said he had directly witnessed racial abuse from the Reform leader.
www.thetimes.com/article/94cb...
www.thetimes.com/article/94cb...
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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2014 - Farage then said he may have made comments that he did not know were racist at the time. "You can define namecalling in all sorts of different ways", he said. Asked if he had used a racist term to confront a fellow boy, he said "I don't know, I don't remember. It's not relevant, is it?"
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
2014 - Farage then said he may have made comments that he did not know were racist at the time. "You can define namecalling in all sorts of different ways", he said. Asked if he had used a racist term to confront a fellow boy, he said "I don't know, I don't remember. It's not relevant, is it?"
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BBC World at One reporting on our investigation into Farage's schooldays, with one of the contemporaries who has spoken to us, Andy Field, speaking on the programme. It also features an excerpt from a 2014 interview with Farage on BBC Kent, which is a new bit for the timeline of his positions.
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
BBC World at One reporting on our investigation into Farage's schooldays, with one of the contemporaries who has spoken to us, Andy Field, speaking on the programme. It also features an excerpt from a 2014 interview with Farage on BBC Kent, which is a new bit for the timeline of his positions.
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My Facebook feed no longer has anything from people I know. Instead it's 99% AI slop videos of "trains floating on canal boats having accidents in which someone falls into the water". It's horrible, mainly because I can't stop watching them on repeat and the algorithm knows the darkness of my soul.
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
My Facebook feed no longer has anything from people I know. Instead it's 99% AI slop videos of "trains floating on canal boats having accidents in which someone falls into the water". It's horrible, mainly because I can't stop watching them on repeat and the algorithm knows the darkness of my soul.
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Just a periodic reminder.
Wish people would stop saying Trump has done a U-turn on Ukraine. He does this every few weeks. Putin then makes a violent point of ignoring him. Trump's alleged change of heart is just a prelude to his next humiliation by Putin.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Just a periodic reminder.
There it is. Our national broadcaster living in fear of the most openly corrupt US president in American history. This is where the British patriots on the right have got us.
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 11:20 AM
There it is. Our national broadcaster living in fear of the most openly corrupt US president in American history. This is where the British patriots on the right have got us.
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Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.
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 10:00 AM
Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.
"The guidance is not enforceable".
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
Ofcom bans social media giants from using ‘toxic’ algorithms
Regulator targets ‘manosphere’ misogyny and hate as seen in content produced by Andrew Tate
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"The guidance is not enforceable".
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
Ofcom is hopelessly out of touch with what is a national emergency.
www.thetimes.com/article/c47a...
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Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
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This is one of the most damning videos I’ve ever watched of Farage.
He essentially admits being racist at school - only says he didn’t do it “with intent”.
The quiver in his voice at the end - he knows he can’t squirm out of this one.
He essentially admits being racist at school - only says he didn’t do it “with intent”.
The quiver in his voice at the end - he knows he can’t squirm out of this one.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
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Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is one of the most damning videos I’ve ever watched of Farage.
He essentially admits being racist at school - only says he didn’t do it “with intent”.
The quiver in his voice at the end - he knows he can’t squirm out of this one.
He essentially admits being racist at school - only says he didn’t do it “with intent”.
The quiver in his voice at the end - he knows he can’t squirm out of this one.