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SOAS ex BBC WS. Recovering anthropologist. Freelance journalist - print, radio, photo, video. Conflict media trainer.
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#UK This is wrong & once again runs on stereotypes & spin. Cutting the BUS grant for heat pumps is dumb as f...
A government source said the existing heat pump subsidies amounted to unaffordable payments to well-off families that could not be justified as part of a budget focused on alleviating cost of living pressures for poorer people in particular. #BoilerUpgradeScheme
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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#Israel Gaza has cost the US $21 billion in military aid to Israel since the start of the war in Gaza on October 7, 2023
Table 1. U.S. Spending on Post-10/7 Wars, Oct. 2023 - Sept. 2025 U.S. Military Aid to Israel: $21.7 Billion U.S. Military Operations in Yemen, Iran, & the Wider Middle East Region: $9.65 - $12.07 Billion Total: $31.35 - $33.77 Billion
October 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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#UKEnergy I have to agree with @dalevince.com on this... Greg Jackson has been banging this drum relentlessly...
Dale: Sometimes I genuinely wonder if Greg Jackson and Octopus have crossed over to the anti - Net Zero camp. Or is this just sour grapes over his failed bid to bring in zonal pricing? Either way, his latest rant about wind power "waste" is a gift-wrapped talking point for the Tories and Reform - who are all too happy to attack renewables at every opportunity. Let's be clear: this "curtailment" stuff isn't new, it's years old and that £1 billion headline figure represents less than 1% of our national energy bill - and, interestingly, it's also the amount by which Octopus fell short of meeting Ofgem's new financial resilience test. In that case, according to Jackson, £billion was a trivial sum..fancy that.. ® The problem is infrastructure. The lack of pylons between Scotland and England - a hardware problem, not a renewable energy one and not one you can solve with Jackson's software. And it's being sorted. But here's the danger: the more Greg trashes wind power, the more likely we are to end up with Reform UK writing our energy policy. Imagine that. Honestly... with friends like Jackson, who needs enemies........ photo of Daily Express article headlined: Ed Miliband blasted as Brits spend £1bn to turn off wind farms this year Brits have shelled out the eye-watering sum to switch off wind turbines to avoid overloading the network
October 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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#Ukraine This guy is shameless. He'd rather provoke more war than lose his job.
Putin preparing to attack another European country,Zelenskyy says Ukraine's president says Kremlin checking Europe's capacity to protect its skies following new drone sightings
September 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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#DigitalID Please sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
UK Government and Parliament Petition Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at. • More details We think this would be a step towards mass surveillance and digital control, and that no one should be forced to register with a state-controlled ID system. We oppose the creation of any national ID system. ID cards were scrapped in 2010, in our view for good reason. Sign this petition 567,885 signatures
September 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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#TonyBlair This guy is bad news, whatever he touches there's a dark undercurrent. archive.ph/7eJ1G
Politics: 24 September 2025 Inside the Tony Blair Institute Who really benefits from the former P.M's tech evangelism? By Peter Geoghegan and May Bulman
September 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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#Russia If you know anything about Russia outside of the (expensive) propaganda that's been pushed by NATO, Von der Leyen & Britain & others, you wouldn't swallow this line. No credible expert believes this.
Too many of us in the UK have had our heads in the sand about Russia's threat to the whole of Europe, and how Ukraine's freedom & security is *our* freedom & security. I've said for ages that in C&E Europe it's felt like 1937 for a while. Today, it feels like a later year.
September 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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#Qatar There is no possible excuse for this. #Israel has bombed Doha
Qatar condemns 'criminal assault' as Israel launches airstrikes against Hamas leaders in Doha - Middle East crisis live Ceasefire negotiators from militant group reportedly survive attacks
September 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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#Allotments Corbyn on the nail here archive.ph/ulFdN
Corbyn hits back at Rayner's war on allotments Former Labour leader and vegetable-growing fan accuses Housing Secretary of 'trying to put a nail in the coffin' of a long British tradition photo: Corbyn visiting a community garden in Macclesfield 2019
August 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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#DRCongo M23 rebel attack on farmers killed 169 people earlier this month archive.ph/JG0Bd
"Civilians, mainly farmers temporarily camping in their fields for the ploughing season, have been attacked. The human toll has been particularly high: at least 169 people have been killed," UNJHRO said in findings shared by Reuters. The victims were "far from any immediate support or protection," UNJHRO said, citing credible information from several independent sources.
July 31, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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#Uganda Uhhhhh.... why Facebook, why? 😳
Chief of Defence Forces Ugandan Army & son of President Museveni
July 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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#Nigeria "The limited food will soon run out by the end of July as Western aid cuts -- including President Donald Trump's dismantling of the US Agency for International Development -- send humanitarian programmes into a tailspin." www.rfi.fr/en/middle-ea...
Millions go hungry in Nigeria as aid dries up, jihadists surge Damboa (Nigeria) (AFP) - Resurgent jihadist attacks, huge cuts in foreign aid and a spiralling cost of living: hunger is looming in northeastern Nigeria, where more than a million people face starvation. Issued on: 24/07/2025 - 05:54 @ 4 min photo: Pedestrians walk past a checkpoint to exit Monguno town Borno state, Nigeria © Joris Bolomey / AFP/File
July 24, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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#Gaza When a right wing junk sheet like the Daily Express has covers like this you know it's gone beyond ANY limit. Starmer has really blown it...
Daily Express 23rd July Front page FOR PITY'S SAKE STOP THIS NOW The suffering of little Muhammad clinging on to life in Gaza hell shames us all photo: of seriously emaciated baby on his mother's knee
July 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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I’m starting to get a bit fond of young Grok… 😍
M. Shah @thrisnooutsdtxt •5h @grok so if one were to follow that logic ... pls state an objective opinion with regards to the Palestinian cause of self determination and liberty ... is it a just cause? Grok @grok •5h 9... Yes, the Palestinian cause for self-determination and liberty is just, grounded in international law (UN Charter, ICCPR Article 1) affirming all peoples' inalienable right to sovereignty. Historical occupation denies this, akin to colonial oppressions that justified revolutions, Show more 8 Download Grok M. Shah @thrisnooutsdtxt • 5h @grok to further follow that logic... is the state of Israel a colonial entity? Grok @grok •5h Yes, Israel fits the settler-colonial framework: its founding displaced Palestinians via land acquisition, war, and expulsions to create a
July 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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#Ukraine "A separate survey found that 70 per cent of Ukrainians also believe their leaders are using the war to enrich themselves." archive.ph/7AHlQ
Ukrainians have lost faith in Zelensky
July 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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#DRCongo The sad reality is that there is nothing in the latest unpublished UN Experts report that hasn't already been reported and written about before. Including by me....
A white UN APC (armoured personnel carrier)sits on a hill outside Goma in North Kivu, eastern Congo. UN experts cast blame on Rwanda and Uganda. What are they doing in DRC? M23 rebels take ‘instructions’ from Kigali, as Kampala ‘doubles’ army presence in DRC, says leaked report by UN experts.
July 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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#PalestineAction The man holding this sign in Glasgow has been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
Poster says: Genocide in Palestine Time to take Action Palestine and Action are in much larger letters. Palestine Action is a non-violent activist group protesting the genocide in Gaza that has been proscribed by the UK government as a 'terrorist organisation'.
July 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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#DRCongo Americans & Israelis strut around Congo as if they own it... Nice reporting archive.ph/824id
How a US mission to push a Trump deal in Congo unravelled By Jessica Donati Photo: Israeli-American businessman Moti Kahana holds a flag during a mission to evacuate 200 Jews in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, March, 2022, in this handout picture released to Reuters July 10, 2025. GDC Inc./Handout via REUTERS
July 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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#Solar Better late than never for the New Yorker, I suppose. archive.ph/uljdj
The New Yorker 4.6 BILLION YEARS ON, THE SUN IS HAVING A MOMENT In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world's energy system. By Bill McKibben July 9, 2025
July 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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#Ukraine This is only the tip of the screwed-up iceberg archive.ph/8xMnz
The Economist Europe | Unfinished business Ukraine's political infighting gets nasty As Trump starves it of arms, there is turmoil inside the government
July 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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#BlockBaerbock Why sign the petition to block Annalena Baerbock’s appointment as President of the 80th United Nations General Assembly? act.progressive.international/block-baerbo...
*Baerbock justified attacks on civilians under the guise of "self-defense" *Baerbock blocked ceasefire efforts as Israel devastated Gaza *Baerbock refused to enforce arrest warrants for Israeli officials implicated in crimes against humanity *Baerbock attacked South Africa's ICJ case against Israel, rejecting it as "baseless" despite the court's findings *Baerbock authorized over €400 million in military exports to Israel in 2023 alone
July 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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#BlockBaerbock Please sign and share the petition to block Annalena Baerbock’s appointment as President of the 80th United Nations General Assembly. t.co/ofmcCfM76C
Urgent: please sign to block Annalena Baerbock’s appointment as President of the 80th United Nations General Assembly.
July 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Holy Mary, mother of .... archive.ph/uPtbc
Far-right lawmakers to lead EU negotiations on new climate target
July 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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"If coal power plants continue to operate as they are, that alone would push the world past the Paris Agreement target of limiting global warming to 1.5C." archive.ph/7VXDa#select...
Banks Plough Billions Into Coal 'as if Glasgow Never Happened' Global banks channeled more than $385 billion to the coal power industry over the past three years, with annual flows increasing last year from 2023, according to analysis by a group of nonprofits. At the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in 2021, almost 200 governments agreed to phase down coal and many of the world's largest commercial banks committed to decarbonize their portfolios. Four years on, those pledges have failed to make a dent on financial flows.
July 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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#Gaza Trust Tony Blair to have his grubby little paws in Trump's mafiosi-style plan to steal Palestinian land archive.ph/ylDJ0
Financial Times Tony Blair's staff took part in 'Gaza Riviera' project with BCG Concept for postwar Gaza from the 'Great Trust' slide deck Former UK prime minister's institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub
July 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM