Journalist/author. The Invention of Essex is published by Profile Books. BUY IT: https://xitter.cf/t.co/itNewWWY36 Agent: ZRoss@unitedagents.co.uk
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Tim Burrows retweeted
I asked colleagues about starvation in Gaza. They said there is no precedent for what is happening | Devi Sridhar theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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“I have never… seen a place… so bombarded for such a long time with such a trapped population without any escape. People are traumatized beyond belief.” Jan @NRC_Egeland of @NRC_Norway is in Gaza for the first time since Oct 7. “I’m pretty shaken, actually, from what I saw.”
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This was a really sad story to report. How the education of Ukrainian school children is being hurt by the war.
Just under a million Ukrainian children are studying remotely and another million are doing a mixture of in-person and online classes because of air raid alarms.
How Ukraine is trying to help its ‘lost generation’ ft.com/content/d9acb360-9416… via @IKoshiw
Tim Burrows retweeted
Watching mealy mouthed, lost, pathetic Tory politicians pandering to extremists by being weather vanes instead of being signposts and leading from the front is always a good reason to post this take down of Enoch Powell by the great late Jonathan Miller.
Tim Burrows retweeted
In this photograph Chris Evans and Laurence Fox have very strong 'German couple who have just checked into an AirB&B in Twickenham because they are going to see Depeche Mode but are 'first looking to have some of the famous British fish and chips!'' energy.
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Tim Burrows retweeted
Quite something to complain about how not enough American journalists are reporting on the Russian side of Putin's invasion of Ukraine when two of them – Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva – are *in jail right now* for doing just that
Tim Burrows retweeted
Oh my goodness it’s 2pm and no one I mean no one has been into the bookshop today we’ve not sold a single book, this is a first in 4 years!
Not after sympathy just telling you how it is because these kind of trading conditions have massive knock on’s for the entire industry.
Tim Burrows retweeted
This is a problem I think about a lot, but I don't think policy makers consider anything like enough. My parents' generation are only really able to retire because they either paid off their mortgage or have social housing tenancies. What will become of us?
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Blinne Ni Ghralaigh "I share with you 2 photos. The first is of a whiteboard.. with a handwritten message by a MSF doctor 'We did what we could. Remember us'. The second photo is of the same whiteboard after an Israeli strike on the hospital that killed the author of the message"
Tim Burrows retweeted
I'm not slagging off Press Gazette in particular but, five months after I published this piece about whether freelance journalism is becoming unviable, I haven't been paid the £250 commission fee.
pressgazette.co.uk/comment-a…
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Trials will also be needed. Criminals who have planned, ordered & executed such crimes must be brought to justice.
National courts with jurisdiction over war crimes, CAH& genocide must be activated, as the @IntlCrimCourt is proving slow/ineffective on the Situation of Palestine.
More than 10 children per day, on average, have lost one or both of their legs in Gaza since conflict erupted three months ago - @Save_GlobalNews
Lifetimes of pain management and medical care will be needed
savethechildren.net/news/gaz…
Tim Burrows retweeted
Thinking this piece, in which I am quoted, might have landed better with a different headline. Not all writers are rich! PLR isn’t a shiny bonus - it’s hard-earned and much-needed income for writers, most of whom face shrinking advances, cuts in grants and career instability.
Richard Osman among authors missing royalties amid ongoing cyber-attack on British Library theguardian.com/books/2024/j…
Tim Burrows retweeted
136 of our colleagues in Gaza have been killed in 75 days – something we have never seen in @UN history.
Most of our staff have been forced from their homes.
I pay tribute to them & the thousands of aid workers risking their lives as they support civilians in Gaza.
Tim Burrows retweeted
In stock 😀📚
Very nice of @maxjliu to recommend The Invention of Essex as one of his books of 2023 on @BBCRadio4's Open Book 🧑🎄😊bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001th…
Tim Burrows retweeted
The largest Swedish evening paper publishes an investigation of child labour in mica mines in Madagascar that is being used in Tesla cars. If you click on any link to this story on Twitter today, this platform will give you a warning that the story might be spam or dangerous.
Trettonårige Laha bryter glimmer i gruvan på Madagaskar. Aftonbladets @staffanlindberg och @magnuswennman lyckas koppla mineralen till Teslas leverantör – som erkänner att man inte kan skilja ut barnbruten glimmer. Tesla vägrar svara på frågorna. aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/jlW…
Tim Burrows retweeted
This is what gentrification and a housing crisis does to a city:
'There are simply not enough children in the borough... ...household growth in Hackney until 2039 will be predominantly in single people and cohabiting households' news.hackney.gov.uk/four-pri…