Andrew Purcell
@andrewpurcell.bsky.social
Journalist turned human rights activist, creative project enthusiast, runner, father of two boys, exhausted shell of a man.
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All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”
January 4, 2026 at 11:39 AM
All it takes for evil to thrive is for mediocre world leaders to say “I’d rather not say”
Compare this admirably clear analysis with BBC News at Ten last night: "there are fears this may undermine international law" - not one but three weasel words.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation
A scholar of international law on the implications of the U.S. arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.
www.newyorker.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Compare this admirably clear analysis with BBC News at Ten last night: "there are fears this may undermine international law" - not one but three weasel words.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Roz is absolutely correct.
Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review).
In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.
Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review).
In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.
December 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Roz is absolutely correct.
Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review).
In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.
Deprivation of citizenship should not be a matter for mere ministerial discretion (with light touch judicial review).
In the extreme circumstances when it can happen, the determination should be made by a tribunal, where government and citizen can make their cases.
The original Whisky Galore is the best Christmas Day family movie.
December 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The original Whisky Galore is the best Christmas Day family movie.
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Your citizenship could be at risk.
Our research with Reprieve shows that 9 million people could have their citizenship stripped at the discretion of the UK Home Office, including 3 out of 5 people of colour.
Visit the link in our bio for more 🔗
Our research with Reprieve shows that 9 million people could have their citizenship stripped at the discretion of the UK Home Office, including 3 out of 5 people of colour.
Visit the link in our bio for more 🔗
December 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Your citizenship could be at risk.
Our research with Reprieve shows that 9 million people could have their citizenship stripped at the discretion of the UK Home Office, including 3 out of 5 people of colour.
Visit the link in our bio for more 🔗
Our research with Reprieve shows that 9 million people could have their citizenship stripped at the discretion of the UK Home Office, including 3 out of 5 people of colour.
Visit the link in our bio for more 🔗
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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If these people own your football club, pay extortionate fees to your favourite comedians, or have bought rights to international sports events you follow then protest, call them to account, ask questions.
Saudi Arabia used to execute an average of 71 people each year. Then MBS took over.
Last year they executed 345. Today they broke their own horrific record. More than 200 of the people killed this year were convicted of drugs offences, including 97 for hashish alone.
Last year they executed 345. Today they broke their own horrific record. More than 200 of the people killed this year were convicted of drugs offences, including 97 for hashish alone.
Saudi Arabia: Rights groups condemn new record number of executions in 2025
At least 347 people have now been put to death this year, according to the UK-based campaign group Reprieve.
www.bbc.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If these people own your football club, pay extortionate fees to your favourite comedians, or have bought rights to international sports events you follow then protest, call them to account, ask questions.
Saudi Arabia used to execute an average of 71 people each year. Then MBS took over.
Last year they executed 345. Today they broke their own horrific record. More than 200 of the people killed this year were convicted of drugs offences, including 97 for hashish alone.
Last year they executed 345. Today they broke their own horrific record. More than 200 of the people killed this year were convicted of drugs offences, including 97 for hashish alone.
Saudi Arabia: Rights groups condemn new record number of executions in 2025
At least 347 people have now been put to death this year, according to the UK-based campaign group Reprieve.
www.bbc.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Saudi Arabia used to execute an average of 71 people each year. Then MBS took over.
Last year they executed 345. Today they broke their own horrific record. More than 200 of the people killed this year were convicted of drugs offences, including 97 for hashish alone.
Last year they executed 345. Today they broke their own horrific record. More than 200 of the people killed this year were convicted of drugs offences, including 97 for hashish alone.
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Not many things in life will have you pumping your fist in the air, but watching little Tommy Robinson’s (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s) face and bravado drop when he gets called out for his racism and hypocrisy by boxer Ty Mitchell is one of them.
This is glorious. 🔥
This is glorious. 🔥
December 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Not many things in life will have you pumping your fist in the air, but watching little Tommy Robinson’s (Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s) face and bravado drop when he gets called out for his racism and hypocrisy by boxer Ty Mitchell is one of them.
This is glorious. 🔥
This is glorious. 🔥
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Christopher Anderson's pictures for @vanityfair.com are a piercing study in power and corruption. Kudos to him and to the team that ensured they would be published. If I were teaching a class in representation and resistance, this work and its entry into the public sphere would be front and center.
December 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Christopher Anderson's pictures for @vanityfair.com are a piercing study in power and corruption. Kudos to him and to the team that ensured they would be published. If I were teaching a class in representation and resistance, this work and its entry into the public sphere would be front and center.
Superb bit of analysis, about a small, ageing country that desperately needs migrants, and what happens when the entire political class agrees that we must stop them coming, at all costs.
The Overshoot
What happens to politics, and the country, as net migration collapses?
samf.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Superb bit of analysis, about a small, ageing country that desperately needs migrants, and what happens when the entire political class agrees that we must stop them coming, at all costs.
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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The exact people now saying "Nigel Farage was young and foolish at school" (to excuse his racism, bullying and harassment of fellow pupils at Dulwich College) are the same people who said "Shamima Begum was old enough to know what she was doing".
December 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Así es como se comunica que España no participará en Eurovision. Bravo RTVE. Bravo Silvia Intxaurrondo. Una vez más.
December 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Así es como se comunica que España no participará en Eurovision. Bravo RTVE. Bravo Silvia Intxaurrondo. Una vez más.
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This is fine! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
Rail services were cancelled after a 'hoax' picture of a damaged bridge appeared on social media
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This is fine! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Just finished shortlisting applications for Media Officer job at Reprieve. It was an exceptionally strong field and some very good candidates won't even get an interview. Feel bad for them, because it's a tough market in media and NGO sectors, and rejections can be dispiriting. Keep at it.
December 3, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Just finished shortlisting applications for Media Officer job at Reprieve. It was an exceptionally strong field and some very good candidates won't even get an interview. Feel bad for them, because it's a tough market in media and NGO sectors, and rejections can be dispiriting. Keep at it.
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They were 8 and 11 years old
December 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
They were 8 and 11 years old
Britain's political and media establishment is still on X, pretending it's a news source and measure of public opinion.
Our politics is deeply influenced by rage bait that is manufactured and amplified overseas, for profit. It is so broken and so damaging. Will the govt do anything about it?
Our politics is deeply influenced by rage bait that is manufactured and amplified overseas, for profit. It is so broken and so damaging. Will the govt do anything about it?
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Britain's political and media establishment is still on X, pretending it's a news source and measure of public opinion.
Our politics is deeply influenced by rage bait that is manufactured and amplified overseas, for profit. It is so broken and so damaging. Will the govt do anything about it?
Our politics is deeply influenced by rage bait that is manufactured and amplified overseas, for profit. It is so broken and so damaging. Will the govt do anything about it?
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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I read “It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain” initially as “thank goodness”. Then I realised that Phillips *wants* this for Britain! He wants a Britain where visible minorities live in fear of abduction and deportation? WTAF?
Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times.
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
November 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I read “It is hard to imagine that taking place in Britain” initially as “thank goodness”. Then I realised that Phillips *wants* this for Britain! He wants a Britain where visible minorities live in fear of abduction and deportation? WTAF?
RIP Jimmy Cliff. Interviewing him was one of the great privileges of my time at BBC 6Music. Few have done "sweet but tough, tough but sweet" even half as well, and the songs on The Harder They Come will live forever.
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
RIP Jimmy Cliff. Interviewing him was one of the great privileges of my time at BBC 6Music. Few have done "sweet but tough, tough but sweet" even half as well, and the songs on The Harder They Come will live forever.