I wrote a piece on the old Turkish proverb (not) that has been a thread running right through my year from January and still ongoing:
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I have an essay in the new issue of @thebafflermag about the mundane, incredible fact that London, alongside many other cities, has for the last 50ish years been filling up with Himalayan parakeets - and on the contested realm of invasion biology itself.
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The trouble with hope is the disappointment when reality doesn’t match the expectation.
And I’d quite like people to say what they mean and mean what they say.
But 100 days and counting.
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A heartbreaking moment from Alex Crawford’s Sky News documentary:
an Afghan girl dreams of becoming a doctor, engineer or teacher, yet sees her future slipping away. How can the world and UN, normalise relations with the Taliban while millions of girls are denied education?
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Replying to @ElizabethBangs
It doesn’t take 5 minutes thought to understand why Keir knew that rebuilding a good working relationship with our European neighbours is key.
He knew just how much division going in feet first would cause.
So much quiet positive rebuilding undone by the 100th day @andyburnham
Freedom of movement is reciprocal. We've lost OUR freedom movement. Why the fuck, why the fuck, is this NEVER mentioned?
What govt actually demands fewer rights abroad for its own citizens? That's what happened to us. The British govt demanded the British passport be degraded ffs
If we're going to 'have the conversation' ffs you've got to make your case! Passionately. Not keep rowing back and trying to appease people you know have got it fucking wrong. This 'the British people are the bosses' 'we're not going to decide' is the worst of all fkin worlds.
EU. Of course Burnham didn't tell the cabinet what he was going to say. How could he? He doesn't know himself until it comes out of his fkin mouth.
Oh ffs. We had a cautious PM with heft who was getting results and now we've got this.
Some mornings it's just too much.
#R4today
Burnham wants to 'have the conversation' about the EU and FoM. What a relief to all of us who've never stopped having the conversation!
But it's so fkin naive without a plan. Who else wants that 'conversation' for ever? Farage. It's all he's got. He can't believe his bloody luck.
"In a minute we'll be hearing from Nigel Farage who said Brexit would never have happened if he hadn't been born."
Burnham, who blabs like a teenager with no idea where he's going or how, has ensured a delighted Farage will never be off air or our screens again now ffs.
#r4today
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I wonder why Burnham has remained silent over Lula’s win. Miliband has tweeted. I find that odd. Especially as Lula congratulated Burnham.
The contrast between media treatment of Starmer and Burnham is so great I sometimes think I'm going mad. I ask other people, am I imagining this? No, they agree I'm not. But it doesn't bother them as much. To me, it's so undermining of our democracy I can't see it the same way.
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The world cannot ignore what is happening in Sudan.
One year on from the mass atrocities in El Fasher, the UK is sanctioning those linked to these and other atrocities, and strengthening support for survivors and communities at risk of famine.
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من #نیلوفر_اصفهانی، ۱۸ ساله، از بازداشتیهای دیماه هستم. جانم در خطرست. صدایم باشید!
If the death penalty is wrong, it's wrong, let alone when it's given for protesting or opposing a regime. If you scroll by, what is your excuse for doing so, when Iranians try to get the world to notice this?
🔥 Tomorrow is Tuesday—a day of solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike in Iran’s #NoToExecutionTuesdays campaign.
We call on human rights defenders, civil society activists and freedom-loving people worldwide to join this growing chain of solidarity. Stand with prisoners who are resisting executions and state killing from behind prison walls.
Every voice matters. Every act of solidarity can help amplify their call. Let their voices never be silenced behind prison walls.
Let every Tuesday become a global day of action for life!
✊ Speak out, spread the word and unite to demand an immediate halt to executions in Iran.
#NoToExecutionTuesdays #StopExecutionsInIran
#EndImpunity4Mullahs
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Absolutely indefensible. Utterly inexcusable.
In a sickening roll back of basic wildlife protections, a cruel new rule by the Trump regime officially grants trophy hunters the legal authority to bait and execute black and brown bears across millions of acres of Alaska’s national preserves.
This isn't hunting — it is a point-blank slaughter. By allowing hunters to lure these magnificent animals with piles of high-calorie human foods like bacon grease, doughnuts, and meat scraps, the Trump regime has turned our protected public lands into personal execution chambers for wealthy hobbyists. This pathetic, lazy practice creates an extreme safety hazard by deliberately conditioning wild bears to associate humans with food, spiking the risk of aggressive encounters and putting park visitors in direct danger.
Shamefully overturning a common-sense 2024 Biden administration ban, this rule change is nothing more than a corrupt political gift to cowardly right-wing trophy hunters at the direct expense of American wildlife and public safety. Our national preserves belong to the public, not to the special interests of people who need a pile of junk food just to kill a bear at close range.
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Afghan women are erased from the society and they are ignored by UN and UN Women!
To me, cultural relativism works only as thin layer of topsoil. Digging down I can't accept all cultural values are equal in their own context. If I want equality of opportunity/education for women in my country I want them for women in every country and I won't shut up about it.
🚨This is Afghanistan if the world remains silent.
A dark place where women lose all basic human rights
the right to education, freedom, even control over childbirth.
Forced marriage. The sale of girls at a young age. and women will be just as sexual slavery.
and men are allowed to have multiple wives.
This is a warning to the world:
If this situation becomes normalized in Afghanistan, it can reach your country tomorrow.
Silence does not stop oppression it spreads it.💔
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🚨This is Afghanistan if the world remains silent.
A dark place where women lose all basic human rights
the right to education, freedom, even control over childbirth.
Forced marriage. The sale of girls at a young age. and women will be just as sexual slavery.
and men are allowed to have multiple wives.
This is a warning to the world:
If this situation becomes normalized in Afghanistan, it can reach your country tomorrow.
Silence does not stop oppression it spreads it.💔
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Trophy hunting is a mental sickness
🔴#BanTrophyHunting NOW! 🚫
“What must have happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal and then lie next to it smiling?" - @RickyGervais
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