Stories of Syria: Hopes and Fears
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Feel it's time to be more open. Making Light came about because of John's kidnap in Syria. John is a journalist. John is my brother. Making Light is my legacy to him, continuing his work to tell stories of people of Syria. Quiet Voices need to be heard too.
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You asked us this last year.
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So well deserved ! Incredible charity doing remarkable work. Congratulations 👏👏👏
.@oursansar win the International Aid and Development #CharityAwards for their work to put an end to child labour in Nepalese brick factories. 🎉
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The lovely little church of All Saints in Steep, #Hampshire Laurence Whistler designed two lancet windows on the south wall of the church to commemorate the poet Edward Thomas, who lived in the village.
#writers #travel
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The review of Prevent, #Britain's counter-extremism policy, showed alarming amounts of public money going to #Islamist extremists. Worse, £10,000 went to the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), an #Iran-aligned group, through the pandemic relief funds. kyleorton.substack.com/p/sha…
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Every word of this. And the look on Ken Clarke’s face tells me he agrees but is still Tory enough not to say so.
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Listen to this. I just cannot understand the lack of imagination and concern it takes not to understand why it’s appalling to lock male offenders up with the vulnerable group of women in prison. In the name of “progress” too. Yeah, right.
Worth listening to former governor @HotchkissRhona speaking in December 2021 about life in the women’s section of HMP Greenock/Gateside.
It’s not just the sexual violence: it’s also the huge psychological impact of male fury:
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It was six years ago, and my mate, Pink, had just been told he was going to die. He accepted the news with a grace I can only marvel at, but he said he’d a list of things he’d still like to do.
We sat in a pub one night and read it over. Eight things? Four months? Ok. Deal.
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Whatever you think of him, this story from Richard Hammond is quite something – at Lingfield, South East
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Was in Manston today, at the detention camp. We saw so many young children - from Syria, Afghanistan and Iran. The narrative much of the media is presenting is false.
The chants of "freedom" and "we need your help" will stay with me for a long time.
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National Geographic Picture of The Year. Black images are shadows of zebras. Zoom in and you will see zebras.
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Let this sink in…this is the most blatant inside trading I can think of and no one is holding them to account. They belong behind bars. – at Camberwell, London
According to last month's Private Eye @KwasiKwarteng has been working for Odey's hedge fund on the side as a paid 'political advisor' at £20k a month since he was elected as an MP in 2010.
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After a summer of winter problems, we at @CitizensAdvice are very worried about the prospect of even greater hardship as the weather gets colder. Lots about our data, and the crisis it shows unfolding, in this piece by Peter Stanford for the @Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10…
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Imagine being part of Santander’s media relations team and walking into this tomorrow morning…(well done, Twitter!)
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GCSE is not a 'level playing field'. Some young people have to work much harder.
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Breaking news: Rather than erect a statue to commemorate Boris Johnson’s illustrious premiership - a sewage outfall at Bexhill beach has been named after the politician. A spokesman said “this conduit of effluent will become his lasting memorial.”
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Well, well. Here's a copy of @thameswater's licence to operate as a water company issued by @Ofwat.
It's signed by Cathryn Ross as Chief Executive of Ofwat.
Would that be the Cathryn Ross that is now Director of Strategy and External Affairs at Thames Water?
Of course it would
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To @The_Globe
A poem written nearly 30 years ago by the incomparable @MagiGibson
This matters. It still matters.
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What are the "quiet" novels that you love? Publishing is so often focused on books that are "not quiet" but I really love "quiet" books, too.
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This is after the fall of the #ISIS #Daesh ‘Caliphate’ . Unrepentant, uneducated, inhumane. European citizens who chose to join genocidal mass-rape death cult of ISIS and still committed. No antidote can work without justice!
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