#MIGRANTS

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

Now watching the @britishlibrary live stream where @DavidOlusoga is in conversation with @omaromalleykhan Black History Month was 'enormously overshadowed' by the Windrush scandal in 2018 and 2019. 2020 feels different.'There

Ariel Ron

arielronid

ANIMAL ENERGY, a THREAD on the surprising history of industrial capitalism's core and periphery:You'd think animals are a primitive power source quickly discarded once fossil fuels entered the picture. But

Dr Anne Hanley

DrAnneHanley

Today is the start of #SHW2020! Each day this week, I'll be tweeting about Britain's long, tempestuous and ever-so-slightly bonkers love–hate relationship with its #sexualhealth.Darlings, brace yourselves. #SHW20 We

J Street

jstreetdotorg

THREAD: We are #100Days out from the most important election of our lifetime. You know how crucial it is to prevent another 4 years of Donald Trump. But if you

श्रीमाली हितेश अवस्थी

HiteshAwasthi89

#ThreadWhen Modi came to Delhi in 2014 he thought he'll create a Gujarat model. Kept talking about it.He realised that the judiciary was still with Congress. Media was with Congress.

Pankaj Sethi

PankajSethi00

1. “The Origin of Secunderabad” THREAD # 1 of 2 LONG THREADSRead on, if you are a Hyderabadi. Or if you are interested in history. Or both! 2. Today Secunderabad

Michael Clemens

m_clem

A thread of remarkable research on the economics of international migration that I've discovered recently.I'll add to this regularly in the days ahead, in no particular order. I'm summarizing frontier

Chandrahaas Uniyal

taru_uniyal

Let us unbox this sham. #20thYearOfNaMo #DisasterDecades https://twitter.com/BJP4India/status/1313683681945419776 1. 2001, Oct, "Took oath as CM of Gujarat"--Keshubhai was not well and Modi pitched to replace him.Advani and Atal d

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖

kixes

These are photos of meals provided to migrant workers confined to their rooms in dormitories declared "isolation areas" in #Singapore 'cos of #COVID19 clusters. Again Singapore has different realities: one

James Wilson

jamewils

Heart-rending visuals of masses of migrants walking desperately to their villages hundreds of kilometres away after the sudden lockdown were not enough to move the government to unleash a more

Ahmed Sewehli

LibyanIntegrity

1/11 Thread about conflict of interest of Elham Saudi @Elham_LFJL Director of charity @LibyanJustice which receives millions in donor funding. Evidence includes video. For background Elham’s father Abdullah Saudi was

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

long-term thinking makes people unhappy because it almost necessarily means they’re thinking about big problemsthe only future thing you can be fairly sure about is that the big problems of

Hounslow Council

LBofHounslow

The murder of George Floyd & the Black Lives Matter movement makes us think about the actions we can take to address the scourge of racism.Here’s one thing you can

Byzantine Ambassador

byzantinepower

The identity of West hinges on literary productions of Ennodius. In him we see a Latin go from mocking Germanics & loving Eastern Romans to vice versa. His fave intellectual

Migrants in Culture

MigrantsCulture

A few weeks ago, we asked some questions on #FUKAccountability, this being public money et al, and they yet again went unanswered. So gather around folks, we have some more

Dan West

DanyeWest82

The UK Arts & Culture scene has been dealt such a clinical, ‘perfect storm’ coup-de-grace from its own government’s policies that it’s becoming difficult to tell if much of the