Ash Sarkar Quotes

Ash Sarkar

Profession : Journalist

Birth : April 17, 1992

Feminism isn't about curating or policing the boundaries of womanhood.

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Bengal in the early 1930s was a hotbed of anti-British revolutionary activity - and women were at the heart of this insurrectionist moment.

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It is up to us to push for a transformation in political culture in which the basic human dignity of migrants is unequivocally respected.

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The Simpsons has shaped my psychology to a degree one would usually attribute to a parent, or a particularly devout upbringing. I am a zealot.

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Let me be clear: I recognise the necessity of tackling antisemitism in the Labour party head-on.

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Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century.

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Our priorities are all wrong if we only care about how long people are in prison for, and not what goes on inside them, and what happens after people are released.

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Nothing in this life is certain aside from death, taxes and English literature graduates writing in the Guardian and spoiling your enjoyment of things you had previously thought were fine.

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The left cannot be complicit in the marginalisation of Palestinian people in the interest of fighting racism. We can, and we must, do much better than that.

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I mean, the thing is, is that Britain has got a great tradition of irreverent political satire.

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There shouldn't be a barrier between rich and poor in terms of the kind of health care that they can access.

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Offering a politician's non-apology that accepts everything but responsibility isn't the same as accountability.

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So, there are lots of different reasons why people came out to protest Boris Johnson, but what they were united in was their disdain for a system which has imposed a prime minister who is deeply divisive on the rest of the electorate.

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This is what people have been missing: politics shouldn't be about the dour cultishness and pomposity that dominated the left for decades - it should be joyful and exuberant.

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The key to stopping the hard-right nationalist forces poised to pounce on Brexit isn't going to be finessing a reprieve for the status quo. It's about actively creating consent for meaningful change, and expanding democratic participation beyond a second referendum.

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Research has shown that the availability of mental health care prior, during, and after imprisonment reduces violent offending drastically.

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If you want any hope of staying in the EU, or having a Brexit that doesn't mean capitulation to ethno-nationalism, you've got to tie it to a wider vision of political and economic transformation.

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Study after study has shown that the availability of stable employment, reduced income inequality and post-imprisonment neighbourhood affluence are three of the most significant factors in reducing the frequency of violent offences.

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No one but the ruling class wins in a culture war.

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British women's history was never confined to the British mainland; and contesting the narrative around enfranchisement shows us that rights were not bestowed by the state, but extracted from it by force.

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