Lesley
@lesley53.bsky.social
Traveller, historian, writer & nomad. Looking for a home. Inspired by islands & sea & wild places. Annoyed by borders. Outspoken, wayward & often awkward. Proudly ‘unAustralian’. Despises cruelty, all things Trump, Brexit & war-mongering.
Jean-Pierre Filiu has published a supplement to his wonderful Gaza: A History, called A Historian in Gaza. In it, he writes: “The Gaza I knew, and whose length and breadth I’ve travelled, has ceased to exist.” #WilliamDalrymple on #Gaza
‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins
The territory’s ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Jean-Pierre Filiu has published a supplement to his wonderful Gaza: A History, called A Historian in Gaza. In it, he writes: “The Gaza I knew, and whose length and breadth I’ve travelled, has ceased to exist.” #WilliamDalrymple on #Gaza
All about Nigel as usual - he must keep a file of photos of ‘me with famous right wing people’ for every eventuality - this was posted within minutes of the shooting.
September 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
All about Nigel as usual - he must keep a file of photos of ‘me with famous right wing people’ for every eventuality - this was posted within minutes of the shooting.
The Scots call Starmer out …
September 11, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The Scots call Starmer out …
From the Sydney Morning Herald today.
September 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
From the Sydney Morning Herald today.
“Further escalation in the Middle East must be avoided” - Yvette Cooper. Yes she condemned Israel’s actions but how weak & pathetic this is.
September 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
“Further escalation in the Middle East must be avoided” - Yvette Cooper. Yes she condemned Israel’s actions but how weak & pathetic this is.
Why @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social is Nigel Farage on the news every night spreading his dangerous divisive nonsense. You have giving him excessive oxygen since 2016. He has & is continuing to damage this country. His party has 4MPs. Stop giving him attention.
August 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Why @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social is Nigel Farage on the news every night spreading his dangerous divisive nonsense. You have giving him excessive oxygen since 2016. He has & is continuing to damage this country. His party has 4MPs. Stop giving him attention.
Bob Katter says his family has been here since the “dawn of time”: that would be 1898 when his grandfather Carl Katter (originally "Khittar") born in Bsharri arrived.
Bob takes an MP salary & threatens to punch a journalist asking about his heritage. He gives Lebanese-Aussies a bad name. #katter
Bob takes an MP salary & threatens to punch a journalist asking about his heritage. He gives Lebanese-Aussies a bad name. #katter
August 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Bob Katter says his family has been here since the “dawn of time”: that would be 1898 when his grandfather Carl Katter (originally "Khittar") born in Bsharri arrived.
Bob takes an MP salary & threatens to punch a journalist asking about his heritage. He gives Lebanese-Aussies a bad name. #katter
Bob takes an MP salary & threatens to punch a journalist asking about his heritage. He gives Lebanese-Aussies a bad name. #katter
Trolling Trump - Gavin Newsom, the Gov of California having the last laugh. 😆
August 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Trolling Trump - Gavin Newsom, the Gov of California having the last laugh. 😆
So it seems that the “antisemitic” attacks carried out in Australia between 7 Oct and the present are not “antisemitic” at all. They were carried out by criminal gangs supported by the Iranian regime. I think the Zionists and Jewish organisations owe Australians an apology.
August 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
So it seems that the “antisemitic” attacks carried out in Australia between 7 Oct and the present are not “antisemitic” at all. They were carried out by criminal gangs supported by the Iranian regime. I think the Zionists and Jewish organisations owe Australians an apology.
Trump chaos www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Breaking: Australia Post halts most parcel postage to US immediately
Australia Post is taking the extraordinary step of immediately suspending many forms of shipping to the United States, as a Trump administration tariff deadline approaches on Friday.
www.abc.net.au
August 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Trump chaos www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Imagine living like this - an army of Israeli drones spying on the enclave 24 hours a day from Gaza’s skies.
Similarly, every Palestinian’s phone in Gaza is tapped by Unit 8200 and their calls stored on Microsoft servers.
Similarly, every Palestinian’s phone in Gaza is tapped by Unit 8200 and their calls stored on Microsoft servers.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Imagine living like this - an army of Israeli drones spying on the enclave 24 hours a day from Gaza’s skies.
Similarly, every Palestinian’s phone in Gaza is tapped by Unit 8200 and their calls stored on Microsoft servers.
Similarly, every Palestinian’s phone in Gaza is tapped by Unit 8200 and their calls stored on Microsoft servers.
Meanwhile on the West Bank … how can the world help brave people like Saeed? We need to stop these settlers but how? youtu.be/2zhk_NZYNGU
Saeed's story: shot by settlers while defending his West Bank home
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtu.be
August 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Meanwhile on the West Bank … how can the world help brave people like Saeed? We need to stop these settlers but how? youtu.be/2zhk_NZYNGU
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DanTehan MP for Wannon is not known for nuance, empathy or depth of intellectual thought. The brilliance of Cathy Wilcox.
Do the electors of #Wannon support such a moral and intellectual vacuum?
Do the electors of #Wannon support such a moral and intellectual vacuum?
July 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
DanTehan MP for Wannon is not known for nuance, empathy or depth of intellectual thought. The brilliance of Cathy Wilcox.
Do the electors of #Wannon support such a moral and intellectual vacuum?
Do the electors of #Wannon support such a moral and intellectual vacuum?
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✍️ When evil becomes normal: what Gaza reveals about the human condition
A Gaza doctor’s chilling account challenges us to face the banality of evil – and the global powers quietly enabling it
A Gaza doctor’s chilling account challenges us to face the banality of evil – and the global powers quietly enabling it
When evil becomes normal: what Gaza reveals about the human condition
A Gaza doctor’s chilling account challenges us to face the banality of evil – and the global powers quietly enabling it
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
July 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
✍️ When evil becomes normal: what Gaza reveals about the human condition
A Gaza doctor’s chilling account challenges us to face the banality of evil – and the global powers quietly enabling it
A Gaza doctor’s chilling account challenges us to face the banality of evil – and the global powers quietly enabling it
Are we just gullible, paranoid or plain stupid? Morrison’s poisonous legacy lives on www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
Australia quietly pays US another $800 million for AUKUS despite review
The second payment, made in the second quarter of this year, takes Australia’s contribution to the US industrial base to $1.6 billion with no guarantee AUKUS will continue.
www.smh.com.au
July 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Are we just gullible, paranoid or plain stupid? Morrison’s poisonous legacy lives on www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
How can we just stop this? Or make the world stop it? Sharing information, going on marches & feeling distress is nothing … does the world need to travel
to Gaza and stand with the Palestinians? We need to intervene somehow. Now.
to Gaza and stand with the Palestinians? We need to intervene somehow. Now.
July 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
How can we just stop this? Or make the world stop it? Sharing information, going on marches & feeling distress is nothing … does the world need to travel
to Gaza and stand with the Palestinians? We need to intervene somehow. Now.
to Gaza and stand with the Palestinians? We need to intervene somehow. Now.
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Stop calling it a ‘war’. This is not a ‘war’.
July 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Stop calling it a ‘war’. This is not a ‘war’.
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If you’ve ever helped an elderly neighbour navigate a banking app, call a helpline or read a tiny screen – you’ve witnessed digital exclusion first-hand. We must stop designing customer service systems that exclude.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @oscarwoofs.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @oscarwoofs.bsky.social
Stay young – the online world isn’t designed for the old
Technology should empower, not exclude. For many, ageing means lost independence in a digital online world built without them in mind
eastangliabylines.co.uk
July 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
If you’ve ever helped an elderly neighbour navigate a banking app, call a helpline or read a tiny screen – you’ve witnessed digital exclusion first-hand. We must stop designing customer service systems that exclude.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @oscarwoofs.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @oscarwoofs.bsky.social
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Has it ever been harder to pick a side?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump sues Murdoch and Wall Street Journal for $10bn over Epstein article
The lawsuit is over a story claiming the president wrote a "bawdy" personal note to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.
www.bbc.com
July 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Has it ever been harder to pick a side?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Yet again, to our shame, an Israeli newspaper is more forthright than our mass media and politicians
"Under the smokescreen of Gaza's destruction, Israel has been working simultaneously on two tracks – a genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank"
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
"Under the smokescreen of Gaza's destruction, Israel has been working simultaneously on two tracks – a genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank"
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
Israel is ethnically cleansing the West Bank, too | Opinion
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www.haaretz.com
July 19, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Yet again, to our shame, an Israeli newspaper is more forthright than our mass media and politicians
"Under the smokescreen of Gaza's destruction, Israel has been working simultaneously on two tracks – a genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank"
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
"Under the smokescreen of Gaza's destruction, Israel has been working simultaneously on two tracks – a genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank"
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...
The Antisemitism report by Jillian Segal is out in Aust & causing unease & concern.
This analysis of the 16 page report is worth reading in full as it says what many are afraid to say & highlights the pitfalls of engaging in actions that may well be not all they appear to be.
#segal #australia
This analysis of the 16 page report is worth reading in full as it says what many are afraid to say & highlights the pitfalls of engaging in actions that may well be not all they appear to be.
#segal #australia
None of this passes the pub test - The Shot
Jillian Segal’s report, the entire double-spaced, decorative and glossy 16 pages of it, is largely insulting dross.
theshot.net.au
July 19, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The Antisemitism report by Jillian Segal is out in Aust & causing unease & concern.
This analysis of the 16 page report is worth reading in full as it says what many are afraid to say & highlights the pitfalls of engaging in actions that may well be not all they appear to be.
#segal #australia
This analysis of the 16 page report is worth reading in full as it says what many are afraid to say & highlights the pitfalls of engaging in actions that may well be not all they appear to be.
#segal #australia