Ash Sarkar
@AyoCaesar
Author of 'Minority Rule'. Contributing Editor @novaramedia. Views my own. Literature bore. Muslim. THFC. Kebab aficionado. Luxury communism now!
That sound you hear is the marketing machine cranking up! I wrote a book, and now that's your problem. The pitch? Everyone is black-pilled, the social contract is broken, but those responsible are richer and more powerful than ever. I'm explaining how they get away with it.
But it's not the case that all expressions of solidarity were equally prohibited. Even Barts NHS Trust admit that they've enforced a different standard for Palestine than they did for Ukraine.
NO ONE is "clamping down on expressions of solidarity with Palestinians" NHS staff should be neutral for very obvious reasons, they shouldn't be expressing solidarity with anyone when they are at work..Do what you want outside work but in work there are & should be standards
Even spending a short time in Belfast will make you realise how actively depoliticising English culture is designed to be. Our education system teaches us remarkably little of recent history – I grew up knowing heaps about the Tudors, and virtually nothing about the Troubles!
I agree - public schools like Eton, Gordonstoun, Radley and Winchester should be abolished.
Not all cultures are equal, in fact some are absolutely medieval and have no place in Britain.
What you are, David, is a liar – and not even a particularly good one. Like most hasbara accounts on here, you're running out of ideas. People can see the truth about what's happening in Gaza. They can see the starvation, the massacres, the targeting of children by the IDF. You…
@AyoCaesar thinks this sort of behaviour is acceptable
The Roald Dahl books, while hugely culturally important, did not have the single-minded and rapidly-moving machinery of several international conglomerates working behind them to craft movies, theme parks and online spaces to turn them into an augmented reality - or a lifestyle.
My generation read Roald Dahl books as kids but we didnt build our identities around them nor did the books become a constant debate point in endless discourses. Thats the thing I don’t understand about the Harry Potter phenomenon, which are children’s books at the end of the day
One element of the political policing intimidation attempt is over. We played a historic set at Glastonbury. Whole area closed an hour before due to crowds. A celebration of love and solidarity. A sea of good people at the world's most famous festival. Shortly afterwards we…
Huh, I wonder what the difference is between criticising a letter written in 2023, and agreeing with a different set of comments made yesterday. Maybe a journalist could tell me.
Incredible watching people go from “no doubt about it Diane was wrong & she apologised” to “actually what she’s saying is true” with breakneck speed.
I wrote a book criticising standpoint epistemology. How you feel about the world isn't the same as what's going on in it!
How would you know, based on *standpoint epistemology*? Have you ever been Jewish or white? Or does your intersectionalism degree entitle you to just make it all up?
Here's how the sausage gets made – take a reasonable political criticism of Israel (that it should be banned from football competitions), and contextualise it with antisemitic incidents. Might Gary Lineker have caused people to feel upset? Maybe. But is it reasonable? No!
Guess who's back in the big chair - join me at 6pm for #NovaraLive! youtube.com/live/0ZwkCzapl…
Genocide is the crime of killing with the intent to destroy a national, religious, ethnic or racial group in whole or in part. Genocidal acts may include, for instance, cutting off food and water to millions of people, destroying infrastructure that's critical to the preservation…
Can you explain what genocide means?
What did @lisanandy have to say when a Centre for Media Monitoring report found persistent BBC bias in favour of Israel, and 33 (!) times more coverage per fatality for Israeli deaths compared to those of Palestinians? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
'I asked the board directly why nobody had resigned or been fired,' says Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy on whether people should lose their jobs over BBC failures. She added: 'This is our national broadcaster... it's vital the highest standards are upheld.'
Is that so
You don’t like Ukrainian refugees because they’re white.
Kneecap and Bob Vylan didn't become big stories because people found what they said objectionable. As you can see, there are plenty of objectionable statements you can find around 11th Night. It's because there are well-organised networks of pro-Israel lobbyists who make it…
"Death to the IDF" (a genocidal army) will cause weeks of uproar in UK but "Kill All Taigs" (Catholics in a part of UK UK signed a peace agreement for) is met with silence. Irony is that loyalists believe silence is support in reality they don't care about any of us here.
'We didn’t just pick Palestine. It’s very, very deep, on both sides.’ @BlindboyBoatclub in conversation with @AyoCaesar. Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
The interesting thing here is surely that people my age have generally been told, our entire adult lives at least, that we *can't* have it all -- and indeed are foolish for thinking we could have anything at all.
Earlier today, Richard Hughes, chair of the OBR, got to the heart of a significant problem with British politics, which is that politicians don’t feel able to be honest about what is achievable. “The UK public finances are in an unsustainable position in the long run. The UK…