20 years in war zones. Now reconnecting Greater Manchester with nature, one massive project at a time. Polyglot polymath. Joining dots with story-telling 👇🏻
Greater Manchester, UK
Joined September 2012
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Observing #Brexit and #BLM reminds me of the importance of learning languages & how bad we are at it in the UK. Are you multilingual? @hellobensalt @TravelGuideANZ @PaulSalopek @susie_dent @GylesB1 @Mikeachim @Al_Humphreys @MichaelRosenYes @commapress medium.com/the-ascent/how-le…
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Please retweet if you will never forgive the lying politicians who robbed us of our EU Freedom of Movement.
#RejoinEU
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“Our resolve to live is stronger than ever.”
Young Palestinians in southern Gaza are finding resilience through parkour by turning neighbourhoods, destroyed by Israeli bombing, into arenas for their favourite sport ⤵️
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The brilliant Avi Shlaim on the prospect of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza
All that remains
Israel has brought death and destruction to Gazans many times. But in retaliation for Hamas’s terrorist acts, it has raised the possibility of something much worse than before: ethnic cleansing
By Avi Shlaim
prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…
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🇵🇸🇺🇸 A Palestinian’s message to America.
“They give us a piece of bread and a sandwich, and they give the Israelis tanks, rockets and warfighters.”
“He saw his father dying, he saw his uncle martyred, he saw his house stolen, he’s living in a tent — how can we remove hatred from the hearts of these children?”
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Medical staff in #Gaza are so inundated by the sheer mass of patients arriving that the surgical board used to keep track of the weeks upcoming surgeries has been wiped clean and replaced with these words:
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For many years I have been posting little observations on here. What you may not know is that for many years, artists have been illustrating them - for no reason other than they wanted to respond. Below is a thread of some of these beautiful drawings, because they should be seen:
I just signed the petition calling on Boris Johnson's resignation honours to be blocked. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitio… via @38degrees
Good morning @StagecoachGM, the 799 school bus is 20 minutes late again, second time this week. Our kids are late for school every day. Is anyone working to resolve this?
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We've done our own mini-budget (check out kamikwasi.tax)
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Serious question - when do the protests begin? How do we organise them? Where are we meeting? People need to start clearing the diaries and we to be on the streets of London - pretty fucking soon. 1/7
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The UK needs a general election fast.
We should also hold a second referendum, return to the EU and put the nightmare of the last few years behind us.
Retweet if you agree
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President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, before leading his people in defence of the nation, won his country’s version of “Strictly”
Is there no end to his talents?
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⚡️Ukraine launches a website to help Russian families find their relatives killed in combat.
The Interior Ministry has launched 200rf.com, where it publishes photos and documents of the dead and captured Russian soldiers.
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Here's state TV presenter Sergei Brilyov lauding Russia's "special military operation" on tonight's news
He holds a British passport and owns an apartment in West London
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With one sentence the NHS is gone.
Removal of the duty to provide free care and treatment.
