Amerjit Basi
@amerjitbasi.bsky.social
Into books, politics, the arts, SF, urban space. Civil servant, DfE; former Head of Policy,University of Sheffield.Personal views expressed. Same name on Twitter.
I went to three Christmas Nine Lessons services this year, and in two of them was lucky enough to be sat very near to someone who could sing the descant. Wonderful. Sheffield Cathedral was the last one.
December 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I went to three Christmas Nine Lessons services this year, and in two of them was lucky enough to be sat very near to someone who could sing the descant. Wonderful. Sheffield Cathedral was the last one.
Xmas decs up at last. There is more tinsel around but more out of reach of certain members of the household who will try and nibble it.
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Xmas decs up at last. There is more tinsel around but more out of reach of certain members of the household who will try and nibble it.
Eddie is "helping" me make my Christmas cards. If helping meant placing his whole body over the things I'm trying to use.
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Eddie is "helping" me make my Christmas cards. If helping meant placing his whole body over the things I'm trying to use.
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There are sick burns, and then there is the kind of 3rd degree that chars the entire epidermis like bacon
Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
December 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
There are sick burns, and then there is the kind of 3rd degree that chars the entire epidermis like bacon
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‘Research carried out last year found that if net migration increased by 31,000 a year as a result of a youth mobility scheme, it could increase GDP by 0.45% in ten years. The House of Commons library has suggested it could be worth as much as £5 billion a year’
www.thetimes.com/article/ea32...
www.thetimes.com/article/ea32...
UK needs ‘ambitious’ EU youth migration deal, says Rachel Reeves
The chancellor believes allowing young people to live and work in Britain would boost the economy and reduce the need for tax rises in the budget
www.thetimes.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
‘Research carried out last year found that if net migration increased by 31,000 a year as a result of a youth mobility scheme, it could increase GDP by 0.45% in ten years. The House of Commons library has suggested it could be worth as much as £5 billion a year’
www.thetimes.com/article/ea32...
www.thetimes.com/article/ea32...
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Cute but deadly. In his "yes you may want to risk stroking me cos I look super cute, but I'm heading into 'nighttime Eddie mode' phase".
December 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Cute but deadly. In his "yes you may want to risk stroking me cos I look super cute, but I'm heading into 'nighttime Eddie mode' phase".
Half watching the King's Man & sound a bit low but it looked like a plot point was about offering up a young pretty man to Rasputin as a sex toy. Thought surely I was mistaken...but no. Then a strange pseudo sex scene between Rasputin & the Ralph Fiennes character. An odd film.
December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Half watching the King's Man & sound a bit low but it looked like a plot point was about offering up a young pretty man to Rasputin as a sex toy. Thought surely I was mistaken...but no. Then a strange pseudo sex scene between Rasputin & the Ralph Fiennes character. An odd film.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
"Come here and let me smell your scab", just one of the sweet nothings you should expect to say to your cat at some point, and probably on more than one occasion.
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"Come here and let me smell your scab", just one of the sweet nothings you should expect to say to your cat at some point, and probably on more than one occasion.
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Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners
Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners
Fifty groups write letter calling for policy in high-profile cases in England and Wales to be scrapped
The police’s decision to reveal the ethnicity and nationality of suspects in high-profile crimes has had a “devastating effect” and is helping to spread prejudice, racial justice campaigners say.
The warning comes from the Runnymede Trust and 50 other groups demanding that the policy in England and Wales is scrapped, in a letter sent to the home secretary and police chiefs on Friday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Police disclosing suspects’ ethnicity is fuelling prejudice, say campaigners
Watching TOTP 1981 on BBC2 and hearing Phil Collins's In the Air Tonight thinking that there will be so many people, like me, who can no longer hear that song without thinking of a man in a gorilla suit playing the drums.
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Watching TOTP 1981 on BBC2 and hearing Phil Collins's In the Air Tonight thinking that there will be so many people, like me, who can no longer hear that song without thinking of a man in a gorilla suit playing the drums.
Travelling on the train day after the Covid review reports, perhaps reminding people of the importance of masks and not spreading their viruses. But nope, people with raging colds, hopefully not covid or flu, merrily wearing no masks and coughing and sneezing away.
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Travelling on the train day after the Covid review reports, perhaps reminding people of the importance of masks and not spreading their viruses. But nope, people with raging colds, hopefully not covid or flu, merrily wearing no masks and coughing and sneezing away.
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Powerful op-ed from Btselem on accountability in Gaza: "Accountability is essential – not for revenge, but because there’s no reckoning without responsibility. Genocide must not be normalized. And a system that carries it out must not go unchallenged." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel needs to face accountability for our genocide. And so does the US | Yuli Novak
The international community allowed all of this to happen. We must not look away or move on
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Powerful op-ed from Btselem on accountability in Gaza: "Accountability is essential – not for revenge, but because there’s no reckoning without responsibility. Genocide must not be normalized. And a system that carries it out must not go unchallenged." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.
November 18, 2025 at 8:54 PM
the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.
Glasgow is such a great city. Obviously I love Sheffield (home) but how much better the city centre would be if we hadn't had the abomination of Meadowhall created. Didn't see all the xmas lights but this reindeer was quite spectacular.
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Glasgow is such a great city. Obviously I love Sheffield (home) but how much better the city centre would be if we hadn't had the abomination of Meadowhall created. Didn't see all the xmas lights but this reindeer was quite spectacular.
I don't get why the selling point for the Volvo XC70 seems to be it has a totally annoying driver assist function, comparable to an over-nervous and over-interventionist parent. And of course another ridiculously over-large vehicle.
November 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I don't get why the selling point for the Volvo XC70 seems to be it has a totally annoying driver assist function, comparable to an over-nervous and over-interventionist parent. And of course another ridiculously over-large vehicle.
Eddie seeing if he can find the RSPCA's number as he has both had a small head wound cleaned and some belly support stuff forced on him this evening. A terrible time according to Eddie.
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Eddie seeing if he can find the RSPCA's number as he has both had a small head wound cleaned and some belly support stuff forced on him this evening. A terrible time according to Eddie.
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The whole of the HMRC Board got me to present to them about the opportunities and risks of AI about 18 months ago and my main messages were be very careful with high stakes decision making and remember the Horizon Post Office scandal which was about governance and accountability…
Somebody at HMRC needs to be canned for this idiotic ‘fraud-detection’ idea. And I fear future use of AI in welfare cases might well produce this kind of story regularly (as they have in Nevada for example).
UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’
Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the trip
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The whole of the HMRC Board got me to present to them about the opportunities and risks of AI about 18 months ago and my main messages were be very careful with high stakes decision making and remember the Horizon Post Office scandal which was about governance and accountability…
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Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
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This is absolutely nuts
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign over Trump documentary edit
Davie says
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is absolutely nuts
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
Trump did incite the January 6 riot. Splicing a video to make that point is shoddy editorial but hardly a resignation event
When BBC is needed more than ever, Telegraph/Boris Johnson running the show
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...
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It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
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The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.
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Yes really — the “we asked this guy. He doesn’t actually know jack shit but he’s rich” model of reportage really needs to go
theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
November 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Yes really — the “we asked this guy. He doesn’t actually know jack shit but he’s rich” model of reportage really needs to go