Ben Margulies
@chequeredfuture
Reporter, Insurance Day (Lloyds List Intelligence). Tweets are mine, not my employer's. PhD in political science, sass. Half-Cylon. He/Him/His.🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Please remember to support my friend Nils, because US healthcare won't: gofundme.com/f/support-nils…
This would be a lot more credible if I'd never heard of the King David Hotel bombing.
Macron’s recognition of a Palestinian state after the October 7th massacre isn’t diplomacy; it’s moral collapse. It rewards mass murder and tells Islamist terrorists: kill Jews, and the world will hand you a state. This shameful decision will be tossed this into the dustbin…
You can't call people "fake 'asylum-seekers'" unless you examine their claims.
Letting fake "asylum-seekers" stay in this country is massively unfair to the immigrants who applied properly but are denied entry & genuine asylum-seekers whose appeals are delayed for months/years. We seem to have lost all sense of "doing right by those who do the right thing".
So wait, this is two hot gay men who collect music circa 1920? You know where they had a lot of music? New Orleans. Just thinking out loud. #IYKYK : youtube.com/watch?v=dZmuTi…
Also DJ Provaí has several tracks celebrating the Treaty of Trianon.
💥Viktor Orbán’s government banned Irish band Kneecap from entering Hungary over “antisemitic hate speech,” per gov’t propaganda paper Magyar Nemzet. Kneecap were set to play Sziget Festival on August 11, but Orbán's government urged cancellation—which Sziget organizers refused.
I'm pretty sure Mandy Patinkin more or less used this argument a few weeks ago, so right or wrong I don't think the "wants-Jews-dead" camp has a monopoly on it.
People have been accusing Israel of “doing to the Palestinians what was done to the Jews by the Nazis” since AT LEAST 1948. It is the most unoriginal, boring, anti-intellectual, bad-faith and antisemitic argument said only by people who want to see more Jews dead.
The back of the queue for asylum-seekers?
People have been accusing Israel of “doing to the Palestinians what was done to the Jews by the Nazis” since AT LEAST 1948. It is the most unoriginal, boring, anti-intellectual, bad-faith and antisemitic argument said only by people who want to see more Jews dead.
He's already got the justice portfolio.
If @RobertJenrick isn't given one of the top jobs in Kemi Badenoch's shadow cabinet there really isn't any point to this reshuffle.
Wait, how are both trans women and trans men restricted to the men's category? Wouldn't that just prove the point that gender is socially constructed, different from sex and a function of power relations?
Breaking News: The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee quietly changed its rules to bar transgender women from Olympic women’s sports, complying with President Trump’s order. nyti.ms/3IWJ24E
This is how private pensions work, not the state pension. People who confuse these should really end up in a Quonset hut on the Isle of Man.
People pay National Insurance for decades. It’s for their state pension. It’s part of the social contract. And for the Labour government to conduct a review into the state pension age is a complete betrayal of working people and their national insurance contributions. Shameful.…
Israel is a state. International law sets the standard for its behavior, not a terrorist organization.
If Israel had the morality of its enemies, the war would have been over in a weekend and millions would be dead.
Well, that's all the productivity late capitalism is getting out of my gay ass for 2025.
Sam serving as The Vampire Lestat in season 3! via Entertainment Weekly #IWTVs3
It's also the sort of harassment Muslim families have dealt with more than 20 years.
This is INSANE A mum of two was investigated by police… because she went on an influencer trip to Israel.
So did the Arabs.
Zionism didn’t start with Herzl. It started with Abraham.
So not only did European Christians commit crimes against humanity, they also came in second.
Historians estimate that between 10 to 18 million people were enslaved through Islamic or Muslim-majority regions’ slave trades. That ranks Muslim-majority regions as number one in history for slave trades.
This country hasn't been self-sufficient in food since at the latest the repeal of the Corn Laws, which was Sir Robert Peel's doing.
A country that can’t feed itself cannot be truly secure. That’s why farming matters. Food security is national security.
They are. That's what seeking psychiatric help is - getting a grip on your problems.
Gen Z seems defined by mental health issues—‘Oh, I have depression,’ ‘Oh, I have anxiety,’ ‘Oh, I have this and that.’ At some point, you have to get a grip.
Respecting the law is quite often an act of bigotry. Law is one of the main vehicles for enforcing bigotry within the social order.
Respecting the law is not an act of bigotry. It’s a commitment to democracy, equality, and clarity. It is the only way we ensure everyone’s rights are protected including women’s. 🙏🏽🙏🏽
Did someone say cast Adele Haenel as Gabrielle? Yes. It was me. I said that.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) Interview With The Vampire (2022)