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Petition to reopen Afghan women's access to UK education via @UKChange. If you're in the UK, it's here: petition.parliament.uk/petit…. If you're based outside the UK, you can sign this one: c.org/hXqcmbfc6W
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Shutting down the internet is the Taliban’s latest attempt, under their brutal system of gender apartheid, to cut Afghan women and girls off from the world.
Without reliable internet access, they cannot access their courses or connect with their peers and teachers.
This cannot be tolerated. Governments must immediately put maximum pressure on the Taliban to reverse the internet shutdown and restore Afghan girls' and women’s basic rights, especially their right to education.
Malala Fund condemns the Taliban’s decision to shut down the internet in at least 11 provinces in Afghanistan.
Online learning has been one of the last lifelines to education for thousands of Afghan girls. This is yet another attack on the rights of the Afghan people — especially girls and women who are banned from secondary school, university and employment, and confined to their homes. mala.la/4n4xITn
anna bruce-lockhart retweeted
I kindly beg you please share our page and don’t let the voices of Afghan women be silenced. The Taliban fears WDI Afghanistan because we share daily updates and news from inside the country.
That’s why they’re trying to get our page reported and taken down. 💔
@jk_rowling
Previous page was reported& suspend to silence the voices of Afghan women, but Afghan women continue to fight for their own rights .
thank all for your solidarity
Please follow & share to support Afghan women and ensure their voices are never silenced.
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Ever wondered if spies read spy books? After chatting to @ChiefMI6 Sir Richard Moore recently, I can tell you they do. One in particular: a gripping new biography of Robert Bruce-Lockhart, Britain's agent in Russia, by @DrJCrossland. Check it out here: eandtbooks.com/books/rogue-a…
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🚨In her address to the 🇺🇳 UN General Assembly’s Third Committee, Special Rapporteur @FranceskAlbs told those delegates who had ignored the crisis in #Gaza "Is it possible that after 42,000 people killed, you cannot empathize with the Palestinians?"
This is a thrilling podcast - and not just because the subject is my ancestor. RBL was a restless Scottish lad who became Britain's agent in Bolshevik Russia and Churchill's chief propagandist - via scandal, diplomacy, journalism and a ticking-off from his Highlands grandma
Russian double agents, MI6 dreamers and a catastrophic intelligence failure - I caught up with @thehistoryguy to discuss Robert Bruce Lockhart's exploits in revolutionary Russia for @HistoryHit
#History #podcast #Russia #spytwitter
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anna bruce-lockhart retweeted
A reminder that the clocks go back in the UK tonight. Enjoy your extra hour in bed, unless you live with a cat in which case breakfast will be expected an hour earlier and refusal to comply will result in loud miaowing.
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Truly extraordinarily powerful interview of Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, on Gaza.
I can't stress enough how rare it is to hear a former French PM speak like this.
He says France "no longer has a voice on the international scene", because (among other things) of its "double-standards" and lack of action with regards to Gaza.
He calls France's internal silencing of what's happening in Gaza a "real scandal in terms of democracy", making France live in "absurdity" and resulting in it "fading away". He says that we (France and the West in general) would have many levers to stop the war - in terms of armament or economic sanctions - "but we refuse to use these levers with arguments which are absolutely unreal culturally or intellectually speaking. Saying 'we need to let Israel fight its war to the end': but what end? What is the end?".
As a consequence he says that France and the West will "foot the bill" for what's happening in terms of loss of credibility and legitimacy.
On Gaza specifically he calls it "undoubtedly the biggest historical scandal since... I don't even dare to find a reference", calling it a war "not like the others since it is civilian populations that die". He also rebukes the journalist for using the usual term "according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health" with regards to the number of death: "There's not only the Ministry of Health from Hamas which says that there are 40,000 dead. And there are probably many more, MANY more! So from this basis let's not give the feeling that it would be a number like that, unreliable. No!"
Probably the most powerful quote of the interview, literally gave me shivers: "In Gaza bodies are torn into pieces, Hearts are in pieces! Souls are in pieces! Heads are in pieces!" ("À Gaza les corps sont en morceaux! Les coeurs sont en morceaux! Les âmes sont en morceaux! Les têtes sont en morceaux!")
He says that ""Israel has no political objective and when you have no political objective the only thing you can do is war... There is a security objective, there is an identity objective, there is a messianic madness and that explains the catastrophe that we're witnessing."
Gifted broadcaster yes. And also 'beguiling velociraptor' and 'annoying baby penguin'. This lovely obit captures some of the playful spirit that made him so loved.
"A naturally gifted broadcaster, he was a reassuringly authoritative presence who never pushed his own personality into the foreground, even though he felt deeply about the fate of the Ukrainian people."
You can read @Telegraph's beautiful obituary here:
telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2…
Moving tribute to David Knowles by his audibly devastated team at the Telegraph's Ukraine: The Latest podcast @DomNicholls, @FrancisDearnley
and @adeliepjz podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
anna bruce-lockhart retweeted
My newsroom frérot. Sneakily putting the cricket on TV; trying to crack a joke in French; telling an anecdote about the right-back of a Ukrainian 2nd division football team; and a new quote from The Office every day.
“There goes David Knowles. I must remember to thank him.”
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This boy 💔
My heart is in pieces, David Knowles. Japester, clever-clogs, mandolin-fancier, fluting tenor, Napoleonic fanboy, sardonic tweeter, theologian, random spouter of unverifiable Aramaic. I will miss you xx
anna bruce-lockhart retweeted
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of our colleague, David Knowles.
David was a talented journalist and a much-loved friend and a colleague. He will be greatly missed.
Nice one, Scotland. 🏴
Afghan women arrive in Edinburgh to finish medical degrees
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anna bruce-lockhart retweeted
The Lemkin Institute has had it with the cynical lies and propaganda from Israel and the USA. One can have different views about the definition of genocide, but one may not use definitional disputes to deny genocide. If a genocide may be occurring, every nation is compelled by customary law to try to stop it.
Let us be clear: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The US is complicit in genocide. These are not political statements. They are statements that are made from knowledge and experience. Nevertheless, you do not need a PhD , a law degree, or X-ray vision to see the genocidal dimensions of Israel’s carnage in Gaza. It is clear in the behavior of the state and its military, on full display in yesterday’s horrific bombardment of a Rafah camp.
But even if there were legitimate doubts about Israel’s genocide, there is no doubt that Israel is committing atrocity crimes of the most barbaric kind. Israel must be stopped. Israel must be stopped now.
We are disgusted by Western leaders, especially in the USA, Germany, and the UK. They have demonstrated not only that they don’t care one bit about genocide prevention and human rights, but also that they are willing to allow an ally to commit atrocity crimes while they offer material and diplomatic support. It is reprehensible and the individuals involved in this gaslighting campaign should be deeply ashamed. They should also be put on trial.
Humanity has a choice: Either we decide that our children can all be killed whenever a superior force alleges that “terrorists” are among us, or we decide that under no circumstances will we allow these superior forces to lay waste to our world any longer.
We each must choose and act accordingly. The watershed moment is now.
Young family, busy job, two novels. How DOES he do it? 😜 Wish I could have made this magical soirée, @DBrucelockhart! Can’t wait to read No 2
Here, a thought from the launch party at @Dauntbooks to mark today’s publication of Second Skin. Clip courtesy of the great @SnashallSimon!🥃🍸🍺🍷
@MuswellPress @Brownlee_Donald @WriteWorkshopNY #CrimeThriller