Aditya Chakrabortty
@chakrabortty
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I am gainfully employed by a newspaper. Future generations will not be able to say that.
Guardian Towers
Joined March 2009
What my mother’s glorious life taught me about Britain today. My column.
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RT @ChrisMcGreal: In the UK you can be arrested for flying a Palestinian flag but it's fine to send millions of pounds to an illegal Jewish….
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A terrific piece - the point about nostalgia is spot on.
I've written for the Guardian on Labour's nostalgia for the warfare state @kingshistory @KingsCBH
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Mr Beast "reflects a world in which people are isolated subjects of vast economic mechanisms. Competing for deliverance from their personal financial torments." @mrkocnnll on how dopamine became the sigh of the oppressed creature.
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RT @Shoben_campaign: Good chart @LukeTryl . Flow of 2024 non voters to Reform is significant. ‘Non voters’ in eastern England, had big impa….
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Next week marks a year since the 2024 election was called heralding the end of Rishi Sunak's Government. But do people prefer Starmer's Government or Sunak's? Overall people are split 36% preferred Sunak's, 31% Starmer's & a sizeable 33% don't know - with big partisan splits.
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RT @DisRightsUK: We gave evidence at the Work and Pensions Select Committee today, alongside @Dis_PPL_Protest, @scope and @Rethink_. We….
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RT @Taj_Ali1: 'When the white working class started peeling off from New Labour, Peter Mandelson declared they had nowhere else to go. Exce….
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RT @paulpowlesland: It’s now confirmed that Toby Carvery did indeed fell the Whitewebbs Oak, on the same day that evidence is emerging the….
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RT @BrynHGriffiths: @chakrabortty @rachshabi Here’s Rachel Shabi on the Labour Left Podcast talking about her excellent new book. https://….
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'Even now, a Middle East policy specialist told me, Britain’s Labour government is still treating this apocalyptic war as “a minor little conflict in which the odd person gets killed”.' . A powerful piece that does not succumb to despair, by @rachshabi.
If Israel’s allies don’t act now, Gaza will be lost as Palestinians are killed – directly or through starvation and disease – or forced onto a patch of the strip, a process the Israeli journalist Meron Rapoport summed up in two words: ‘concentration camp’.
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RT @Taj_Ali1: If anything, the rise of Independent candidates is a response to pre-existing sectarian voting which benefited Labour. Labour….
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RT @patrickjbutler: "A Labour government, really?": my Guardian analysis on yesterday's disability benefit cuts announcement .
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RT @KatieSchmuecker: 📢New @jrf_uk analysis. There is no way to cut £5bn from PIP without affecting people with problems feeding and clothin….
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RT @johnmcdonnellMP: Benefits cuts now? What’s the point of a Labour MP who votes for something so cruel, tin-eared and short-sighted? http….
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RT @andyverity: Are we a 'high welfare' country where we pay people too much not to work, meaning the government could save billions by sla….
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RT @popsyosh34: 🇬🇧🎹🎭🏁 Dudley Moore .Visiting his Parents. Baron Road ,Dagenham .#BecontreeEstate #EssexThing.#Maserati . @ValenceHouse h….
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RT @hangbitch: Do #lettingagents accept #tenants who claim #benefits? Do they hell. Here are some recordings with agents who make that clea….
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RT @dieworkwear: right wing "style" accounts on here never say anything substantive about style. they just photos like this and write "the….
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RT @patrickjbutler: In case you missed it: Macmillan Cancer Support sacks a quarter of staff and scraps hardship scheme for financially str….
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RT @Phil_Free_: “Call it Thatcher’s hangover. Public money was spent on building those homes; public money was lost through giving them aw….
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