Amyn Merchant
Musician, Bookworm, Europhile, Family Man & #AutismParent. All views are personal.
- Reposted by Amyn Merchant1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantTomorrow's front page 📰 In the public interest
- @mrjamesob.bsky.social Just in case you hadn’t seen this yet?
- @iandunt.bsky.social You probably saw this already, but just in case.
- Reposted by Amyn Merchant🚨 This evening, a notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news wire, to all media across the UK We believe it is strongly in the public interest to publish this memo. This is it in full 👇
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- Reposted by Amyn MerchantNigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantWhy is every scandal existential for Starmer? Because he has actively worked to eradicate his own support base. And that, along with the Mandelson decision, can be laid at McSweeney's door iandunt.substack.com/p/starmers-m...
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantDemocracy dies in billionaire hands. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantNo joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantSomehow, I was reminded of this…
- Provision and funding for kids with SEND has been dragged into the culture war, but it is undeniable that diagnoses are rising sharply, and costs spiralling. As the parent of a disabled child, rumoured changes make me very nervous. @quietriotpod.bsky.social have the explainer we need, as always.
- 🔥 NEW: Binfire of the Vanities 👿 Mandelson: Beyond the schadenfreude 🎒 Education: What next for SEND policy? 🏺 Plus a very Homeric Wokey Dokey @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social & guest @samfr.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/61di... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
- Reposted by Amyn Merchant🔥 NEW: Binfire of the Vanities 👿 Mandelson: Beyond the schadenfreude 🎒 Education: What next for SEND policy? 🏺 Plus a very Homeric Wokey Dokey @sturdyalex.bsky.social, @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social & guest @samfr.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/61di... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantRemember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.
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- Reposted by Amyn MerchantWhy Spain is breaking the mold in Europe - choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!! Two reasons: morality & pragmatism. 🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantSpain has effectively made the argument that their economy NEEDS migration. They don’t have the hostile environment which every govt. has kept despite Windrush promises. This could be us if we weren’t cooked.
- Why Spain is breaking the mold in Europe - choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!! Two reasons: morality & pragmatism. 🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
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- Reposted by Amyn Merchant🚨🚨" Some leaders have chosen to hunt them down and deport them through operations that are both unlawful and cruel. My government has chosen a different way: a fast and simple path to regularize their immigration status." Spanish PM Pedro #Sanchez on why #migrants are essential for Western society:
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantMake Peter Thiel into the villain, Democrats. It's all there. He is the node that connects Trump, Vance, Palantir, Musk, Epstein, and so many other terrible players. Just expose it and make him and Musk the face of these psychopathic billionaires ruining our lives.
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantIan McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
- Reposted by Amyn Merchant🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
- Russia and the United States are no longer bound by any limits on the size of their strategic nuclear arsenals after their last arms control treaty expired on February 5 with no agreement between them on what should come next reut.rs/4aekQVk
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantI don't think any of the usually cited individuals will single-handedly resolve Labour's problems. I do think any of them - right or left - would be preferable to Starmer & McSweeney.
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantI grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantThis fucking clown observer.co.uk/news/politic...
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantStress Break, Cool Science
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantA new study has revealed that two 7,000-year-old mummies found in the Sahara Desert belong to a previously unknown branch of the human family tree.
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantThis is Nigel Farage with Nick Candy, the treasurer of Reform UK 👇 Candy appears numerous times in the Epstein files over more than a decade, The National has uncovered. The Scottish Greens are putting pressure on Reform to explain the links.
- Reposted by Amyn Merchant"Are you saying the survivors are being identified and the potential abusers are being protected?" "That is exactly my point." Epstein survivor Jess Michaels on survivors’ names and personal information being published in the Epstein files. #Newsnight
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantThat would be Will Lewis. Knighted, inevitably, by Boris Johnson.
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantA fair point well made by David Aaronovitch.
- Reposted by Amyn Merchanthappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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- Reposted by Amyn MerchantWeird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantHot Take 2: if this is Mandelson's position, there is no reason for him not to issue a statement to this effect. If he has not issued a statement to this effect, the BBC's "understanding" of his actual position may be inaccurate. Stop letting people play this game.
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantIt is worth recalling that the position of U.K. Ambassador to the US was not vacant at the time the Prime Minister chose to appoint Peter Mandelson to the role. A highly competent and respected woman was replaced.
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantJust a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantINBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantHow did they redact abusers but not the victims? And they expect us to believe 40 nude photos went unnoticed? That’s exactly why people think the DOJ did this on purpose, to shame these women for coming forward.
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantPeter Mandelson – the great genius at the heart of New Labour. Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'. Nick Timothy – the great genius at the.... Morgan McSweeney – the great genius at the.... Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantThey're protecting the names of the pedophiles while revealing the names of their victims
- “A review of 47 victims’ full names on Sunday found that 43 of them were left unredacted in files that were made public by the government on Friday, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. Several women’s full names appeared more than 100 times in the files. “ www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
- Reposted by Amyn Merchantthe problem with this newfound “bursary” argument aired in the Times is this: twhen we first heard about these payments in September a person close to Mandelson said it couldn’t possibly be the case and, er, threatened to sue us
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantBREAKING on ft website: Lord Peter Mandelson leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans www.ft.com/content/fdf7...
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantThese are some of the lines from Federal Judge Biery’s order to release 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias “Apparent also is the government’s ignorance of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence.“ “And then there is that pesky inconvenience called the Fourth Amendment.”
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- Reposted by Amyn MerchantChotiner shot that man right in the face with his own gun and he never heard the *click*.
- New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
- @sturdyalex.bsky.social Trump’s closing the Kennedy Center, to celebrate 4th July in America’s 250th year. Philistine.
- To honour the 250th anniversary of the founding of the US, on 4th July Trump is closing the *Kennedy* Center, presumably to remake it as a monument to himself. Trump is a philistine and degrades everything he comes into contact with.
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantTrump: "I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything."
- Reposted by Amyn Merchant“Dear ICE agents - I hope you’re respectful to everyone and show kindness… we should treat all people the same, even if we don’t know them.” If this doesn’t shatter your heart you don’t have one. 💔 Our kids are watching. 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantBREAKING: Peter Mandelson resigns from Labour to avoid causing "further embarrassment" to party as result of Epstein links.
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- @quietriotpod.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @pimlicat.bsky.social @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social Ps. Happy birthday Alex! X
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- Reposted by Amyn MerchantBREAKING: CBP agents who murdered Alex Pretti have been IDENTIFIED: Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
- Reposted by Amyn MerchantPrivate equity owns lion’s share of children’s foster services and is ‘bleeding the sector of money’ observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
