Richard Trillo
@richardtrillo.bsky.social
East Africa Manager @ExpertAfrica. Travel writer (@RoughGuides Kenya, Madagascar, WAfrica) Grandad (Granddad?)
Please read this - everyone should read this excellent piece. George, thank you.
Trump thinks immigrants will destroy Europe. The truth is the opposite.
This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
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This column is about the long arc of population change, the hybridity of European cultures, and the widely-misinterpreted results of demographic momentum.
Big issues we need to understand.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The facts are stark: Europe must open the door to migrants, or face its own extinction | George Monbiot
These are the facts: plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Please read this - everyone should read this excellent piece. George, thank you.
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Anna Ford narrates a LedByDonkeys video about the decidedly not unbiased people accusing the BBC of bias
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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November 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Anna Ford narrates a LedByDonkeys video about the decidedly not unbiased people accusing the BBC of bias
youtube.com/shorts/h5kF1...
youtube.com/shorts/h5kF1...
Congratulations! @shafikmeghji.bsky.social
Chuffed to have won the blog category at last night’s AITO Travel Writer of the Year awards for my @runnymedetrust.bsky.social feature on exploring London’s South Asian heritage 🎉
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October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Congratulations! @shafikmeghji.bsky.social
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Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well.
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A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty
Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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October 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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You’ll search long and hard for a more powerful denunciation of the Gaza genocide by an Israeli journalist. Brutal.
Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is our only remedy
The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich. It must be confronted at its root.
By Orly Noy.
www.972mag.com/israel-holoc...
The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich. It must be confronted at its root.
By Orly Noy.
www.972mag.com/israel-holoc...
Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is the remedy
The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich. It must be confronted at its root.
www.972mag.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
You’ll search long and hard for a more powerful denunciation of the Gaza genocide by an Israeli journalist. Brutal.
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An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind - we must put revenge aside and end the war in Gaza. Our immediate tasks as Israelis and Palestinians are to end the war forever, change all of our leaders, and make sure that this war must be the last war. We cannot and must not keeping doing this.
September 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind - we must put revenge aside and end the war in Gaza. Our immediate tasks as Israelis and Palestinians are to end the war forever, change all of our leaders, and make sure that this war must be the last war. We cannot and must not keeping doing this.
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Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson sign letter calling for Israel boycott
Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson sign letter calling for Israel boycott
More than 200 writers request cessation of all trade until people of Gaza given adequate food, water and aid
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Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson are among more than 200 writers who have signed a letter calling for an “immediate and complete” boycott of Israel until the people of Gaza are given adequate food, water and aid.
Hanif Kureishi, Brian Eno, Elif Shafak, George Monbiot, Benjamin Myers, Geoff Dyer and Sarah Hall also signed the letter, which advocates the cessation of all “trade, exchange and business” with Israel. Continue reading...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Zadie Smith, Michael Rosen, Irvine Welsh and Jeanette Winterson sign letter calling for Israel boycott
Interesting that all the usual suspects say the BBC was wrong to broadcast Bob Vylan’s anti-IDF chants, but not that the BBC are wrong to repeat them in every news bulletin. Presumably because newsreaders would never repeat genuinely racist and violence-inciting slogans.
July 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Interesting that all the usual suspects say the BBC was wrong to broadcast Bob Vylan’s anti-IDF chants, but not that the BBC are wrong to repeat them in every news bulletin. Presumably because newsreaders would never repeat genuinely racist and violence-inciting slogans.
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He didn’t say that.
He chanted “Death to the IDF”.
If he’d have changed “Death to the Russian Army”, the Daily Mail wouldn’t have splashed on it, or demanded his arrest.
This rag shows infinitely more rage over a chant than the IDF incinerating thousands of little children.
He chanted “Death to the IDF”.
If he’d have changed “Death to the Russian Army”, the Daily Mail wouldn’t have splashed on it, or demanded his arrest.
This rag shows infinitely more rage over a chant than the IDF incinerating thousands of little children.
June 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
He didn’t say that.
He chanted “Death to the IDF”.
If he’d have changed “Death to the Russian Army”, the Daily Mail wouldn’t have splashed on it, or demanded his arrest.
This rag shows infinitely more rage over a chant than the IDF incinerating thousands of little children.
He chanted “Death to the IDF”.
If he’d have changed “Death to the Russian Army”, the Daily Mail wouldn’t have splashed on it, or demanded his arrest.
This rag shows infinitely more rage over a chant than the IDF incinerating thousands of little children.
Yeah, right “de-escalation” is really served by sending planes to the region. Starmer’s government really is a lame duck, and with no ethical core.
June 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Yeah, right “de-escalation” is really served by sending planes to the region. Starmer’s government really is a lame duck, and with no ethical core.
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We did this. Proud of everyone who signed
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid
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May 28, 2025 at 5:43 AM
We did this. Proud of everyone who signed
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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The Last Days of Gaza
The genocide is almost complete.
When it is concluded it will not only have decimated the Palestinians, but will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization.
CHRIS HEDGES
JUN 9
open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
The genocide is almost complete.
When it is concluded it will not only have decimated the Palestinians, but will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization.
CHRIS HEDGES
JUN 9
open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
The Last Days of Gaza
The genocide is almost complete. When it is concluded it will not only have decimated the Palestinians, but will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization.
open.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Last Days of Gaza
The genocide is almost complete.
When it is concluded it will not only have decimated the Palestinians, but will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization.
CHRIS HEDGES
JUN 9
open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
The genocide is almost complete.
When it is concluded it will not only have decimated the Palestinians, but will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization.
CHRIS HEDGES
JUN 9
open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
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North African 'resilience convoy' heads to Gaza, aiming to break Israel's siege - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/north-africa-convoy-heads-gaza-break-israel-siege
North African 'resilience convoy' heads to Gaza, aiming to break Israel's siege
Land convoy to travel thousands of kilometres across North Africa to raise international awareness over Gaza war and deliver life-saving aid
www.middleeasteye.net
June 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
North African 'resilience convoy' heads to Gaza, aiming to break Israel's siege - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/north-africa-convoy-heads-gaza-break-israel-siege
Excellent clarity on #BBCR4 Today programme from @craigbennett3.bsky.social on Rachel Reeves’ fixation with economic growth at any cost and her “bats and newts” comment. Turns out the “£100m HS2 bat shed” is HS2’s idea.
January 31, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Excellent clarity on #BBCR4 Today programme from @craigbennett3.bsky.social on Rachel Reeves’ fixation with economic growth at any cost and her “bats and newts” comment. Turns out the “£100m HS2 bat shed” is HS2’s idea.
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A screamer and a chip.
The long awaited highlights of London VS Homelessness are here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi0E...
The long awaited highlights of London VS Homelessness are here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi0E...
A Chip and an Absolute Screamer 🤯 London VS Homelessness: The Highlights
YouTube video by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan
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December 20, 2024 at 1:09 PM
A screamer and a chip.
The long awaited highlights of London VS Homelessness are here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi0E...
The long awaited highlights of London VS Homelessness are here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi0E...
A perfect Painted Lady sunning on the cliff this morning at Hive Beach, Burton Bradstock in Dorset. Glorious day.
December 2, 2024 at 1:44 PM
A perfect Painted Lady sunning on the cliff this morning at Hive Beach, Burton Bradstock in Dorset. Glorious day.
Stunningly good article @nesrinemalik.bsky.social nails where we’re at in 2024. Reads like history from the future: back in the 21st century people weren’t all blind to the fails of globalisation and neoliberalism. This Labour govt could help shift the world in a new direction. But no chance.
'Liberals are struggling for answers because they cannot grasp that the benefits of rationality, individual freedoms, and the pursuit of scientific endeavour and personal prosperity just do not accrue meaningfully to enough people any more.'
This week's column
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This week's column
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Behind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis | Nesrine Malik
As authoritarians triumph by lying and scapegoating, there is no hope for centrists doubling down on a broken neoliberal system, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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November 20, 2024 at 8:08 AM
Stunningly good article @nesrinemalik.bsky.social nails where we’re at in 2024. Reads like history from the future: back in the 21st century people weren’t all blind to the fails of globalisation and neoliberalism. This Labour govt could help shift the world in a new direction. But no chance.