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Samir Jeraj

@sajeraj.bsky.social
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Reporter and author. Writing on policy for The New Statesman. Commissioning editor for Hyphen. Senior Fellow John Schofield Trust. Swimmer with locs

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Jasmin Mujanović @jasminmuj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
An important piece from @haaretzcom.bsky.social on how BiH's sectarian political regime continues to disenfranchise Jews, Roma, and large swathes of the country's population, despite successive ECtHR rulings mandating reform of the same in line with the ECHR. www.haaretz.com/jewish/2026-...
haaretz.com
Bosnia's Jews reckon with their place in Europe's most complex political system
Bosnia will soon vote for a tripartite presidency that excludes up to 100,000 minority citizens – including the country's small Jewish community. Local leaders say the peace deal that ended the Siege ...
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's giving Gatwick drone. Someone needs to commission @samirashackle.bsky.social to do the longread.
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bluesky users on the outage
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As Lord Harris so eloquently told me earlier in the week.. it’s the scourge of NIMTOism… Not In My Term of Office
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This could be an urban myth, but wasn’t this changed before in the 90s because there was concern that people might think the cow was laughing because it had BSE?
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Bron Maher @bronmaher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's easy, perhaps, to imagine that the days of open street homophobia in the UK are a thing of the past. And sure, things aren't as bad as they were even two decades ago, of course. But, as I find in a new piece for @thefence.bsky.social, abject anti-gay hate remains a familiar occurrence.
the-fence.com
Hate in Hampstead
Our LGBT dispatches have taken a sadder turn.
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I spoke to Rachel Marsh, the Piddington resident who courageously spoke out against the far right, and has received doxxing and abuse as a result. What does her treatment tell us about where Britain is heading - and what we need to do now? www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...
thenerve.news
‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm
Natasha Walter talks to Rachel Marsh, the resident of the newly ‘independent’ Oxfordshire village whose anti-racist BBC interview led to abuse, doxxing and death threats
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Cha-ching!
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Watching the season finale of SNW and I can’t help but hear Rimmer from Red Dwarf saying “a white hole?”
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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"His message, according to one former Israeli official later briefed on the visit, was: If you don’t change course, Gaza is going to blow up in your faces" Yet another report indicating that Netanyahu ignored warnings before 7th October www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
theatlantic.com
Egypt’s Warning to Israel
Cairo’s intelligence chief visited Tel Aviv shortly before October 7 with a dire message about Gaza.
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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
thebureauinvestigates.com
Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…
Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Does anyone know why S4 of Babylon Berlin is no longer available on Now TV?! I need to rewatch before S5 is released in the uk.
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
See me with a smouldering look and a coffee in this piece about the delightful Wild Thing Colombian Coffee: hyphenonline.com/2026/09/16/h...
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The west London cafe giving diners a halal taste of Colombia - Hyphen
Wild Thing Colombian Coffee brings different cultures together over a good brew, empanadas and arepa sandwiches
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you have a big story about Reform and approach them for comment it seems they go quiet and then quickly give the news to a friendly outlet (ie the Telegraph). Lesson seems to be: don’t approach Reform.
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Taking stock of the current climate. We would never have won anything for Windrush generation if we did it today. There would be hordes of people saying…yeh send them back, they’re not British.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Have to remember we have an insane electoral system. This poll is a 2 point swing away from Labour having another majority over 100.
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Six months since the government announced an official, but non-statutory, definition of "anti-Muslim hate" but relatively few public bodies have adopted the government's definition and the Tsar has yet to be appointed, all while hate crimes soar. My Hyphen story. hyphenonline.com/2026/09/11/a...
hyphenonline.com
No anti-Muslim hostility tsar six months after government pledge - Hyphen
Appointment of ‘special representative’ was delayed twice, Hyphen understands — now MP tells Burnham: ‘Get on with it’
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fascinating and fun on the bizarre saga of charter renewal by @barbaraspeed.bsky.social - no one should opine on the BBC's future without reading this must-read first!
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‘A completely unique opportunity’: the secretive process that will decide the BBC’s future
The long read: Every decade, the BBC’s continued existence must be secured through an elaborate multi-year negotiation with the government. But what does charter renewal actually involve – and will it...
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When I visited a nearby village where the men had stopped off on the night before the Dover protest – parking their cars all over the main road and blocking spaces at the butcher and village hall – locals told me it had quickly become clear what they were planning to do.
newstatesman.com
The violence in Portsmouth and the rise of vigilante Britain
This has become a country where men in balaclavas target lifeboat volunteers
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Copilot has access to my self-doubt and indecision. This is how we defeat the AI.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I simply do not understand what's going on in Labour that renders its leaders incapable of finding a TV camera and speaking out against street violence. Even if you assume they agree about immigration, violence is wrong, unpopular AND against the interests of any even vaguely left wing govt.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Incredible stuff - on 10 July, Hampshire Police arrested a man at Heathrow Airport who was wanted for violent disorder in the riots after the murder of Henry Nowak When they checked his suitcase, it was packed with £600,000 of cannabis smuggled from Thailand nca-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/southam...
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Southampton man jailed for cannabis smuggling and violent disorder
National Crime Agency for Journalists and Press
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So it looks like Reform policy chief James Orr has straight up broken the law here. It's also exactly the same crime Farage has been accused of re: George Cottrell donating via his mother and which Parliament is currently investigating.
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Reposting my interview with Simon Woolley published earlier this year: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
newstatesman.com
Simon Woolley: "We changed the colour, but we didn't change the nature of British politics"
The founder and activist on running a Cambridge college
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
NEW - A Green party spokesman said: "Zack has always made it clear he would like to be a London MP. London has been his home for over 20 years." Sounds like Polanski might fancy a tilt at Holborn and St Pancras.
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Is there still time for a u-turn?
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 01/09/2026
god I'm actually quite gobsmacked by Starmer's decision, it's just so......small, so revealing of his complete and utter lack of interest in Parliament and parliamentary politics, until the very end
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New post: With climate change now visible all around us opponents of action are changing tack. Dismantling their new attacks helps identify a hidden structure in political argument that is often used to try and kill popular + necessary policies. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/how-to-kil...
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How to kill a popular policy
Opposing action to tackle climate change is getting tricker.
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George Greenwood @georgegreenwood.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I've written for the British Journalism Review on the appalling state of access to court records. The relationship today between reporters and the judicial system is fundamentally broken. And it is a lack of transparency that is at the heart of this breakdown. bjr.org.uk/what-are-the...
bjr.org.uk
What are they trying to hide? - BJR
Selected article from September's online edition of the British Journalism Review (BJR): Volume 37 Number 3 September 2026.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/08/2026
???? feel like I knew on some level that Serbia was Not Doing Great Politically but what the everliving fuck
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Worth remembering that Mladic was only able to accomplish his acts of astonishing evil because European countries and the US sat by and watched. With the British govt the most determined of all to avoid decisive action.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
FT exclusive: Israel is considering expelling British and potentially other European officials from the US-led co-ordination centre for postwar Gaza in retaliation for criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies in the Palestinian territories www.ft.com/content/e931...
ft.com
Israel considers expelling UK from postwar Gaza headquarters
Prospect of ousting British and potentially other European officials from US-led ceasefire hub comes amid growing criticism of Netanyahu government
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Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com · 27/08/2026
What's up with the economics profession? Recently I've been hearing a lot about senior profs dusting off their CVs and trying to get gigs with the AI labs, as well as more arms-length collaborations. Working with an AI lab is seen as very cool. 🧵 www.ft.com/content/8471...
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https://www.ft.com/content/84718e2b-13c9-4469-a1d6-52556c7f637f?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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Ramzy Alwakeel @journoramzy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This week marks four years since riots broke out involving Hindu and Muslim communities in Leicester. My colleague @sajeraj.bsky.social visited the city to find out what's been done to repair community relations – and why cuts to an adventure playground could be a disaster for the recovery.
hyphenonline.com
Leicester riots: why park cuts could set back city’s recovery - Hyphen
Grassroots groups working to bring together Hindu and Muslim communities say the hard graft was left to them — and austerity isn’t helping
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
@romanmars.bsky.social
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sharing to counterbalance the outrageous hit pieces against rewilding in the wake of the wildfires www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Channel 4
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I thought the replicated-food-tastes-bad set were like the wellness types of the 24th century who probably also believe that Wolf 359 was an inside job.
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
'If there’s “no justice until there are Serco houses in Kensington”, as one former Labour minister put it to me, then we will be waiting a long time for a policy fix.' My piece on the Thetford violence, asylum, HMOs, and Britain's snowballing race-riot problem:
newstatesman.com
Race riots have become an annual British event
Once again – this time in Thetford – asylum seekers have become a locus for violence
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Far-right activists are drawing up lists of suspected asylum seeker HMOs across Britain HMO use is increasing as hotels close, and the attacks in Thetford and Belfast have raised concern that they will become a target for mobs elsewhere inews.co.uk/news/vigilan...
inews.co.uk
How far-right vigilantes are targeting asylum seekers as HMO attacks rise
Experts said the targeting of asylum seekers in houses 'represented a new escalation of anti-migrant harassment and violence'
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And just like that, Andy Burnham solved wildfires and, by extension, climate change... temporarily. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
independent.co.uk
Disposable barbecues banned as UK battles several wildfires
Prime minister Andy Burnham previously urged retailers to suspend selling single-use grills during extreme heat
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Two weeks is barely anything and I can't see it changing the culture in the Police. I wonder how many, if any, cops take shared parental leave... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Paid police paternity leave to double after fathers reported being ‘ostracised’
Exclusive: Pay increases to two weeks in England and Wales after Guardian revealed officers ‘mocked’ for taking time off
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Weird watching the right-wing columnist cohort try to collectively pull the handbrake on ethnonationalism. Like the world's biggest hotdog man convention.
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Just a member of Wales' official opposition saying an entire faith (and by extension its adherents), "deserves hate". Doesn't look like this has got coverage outside of Wales... nation.cymru/news/reform-...
nation.cymru
Reform MS urges council to ditch Islamophobia definition arguing Islam 'deserves hate'
Emily Price A Reform Member of the Senedd has been branded “vile” after he called on a Welsh council to abandon its adopted definition of “Islamophobia”, arguing that some aspects of Islam are “psycho...
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The fragility of gambling recovery care, by Rhi Storer
newstatesman.com
The fragility of gambling recovery care
The national support network is delicate
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Waiting for calls for a Rowling Windfall Tax to pay for this: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
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Samir Jeraj @sajeraj.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
That and their accrued wealth and privilege largely insulated them from any accountability.
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