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7 Dec, 4 tweets, 4 min read
“I can see clearly now.” (Johnny Nash, 1972)

A truly great song & stonking video (the best bit comes right at the end) - via @mikewarburton
VIDEO DIRECTOR: I thought we’d shoot in Jamaica. Palm trees, sandy beach, girls in bikinis...

JOHNNY: Let me stop you there. I want horses in stables, ardent forest & a little old lady dressed as a waitress pouring me a cup of tea from a silver tea pot in an English Stately Home
JOHNNY: One other thing. In the middle of the video I want at least 10 seconds of just of the sky

VIDEO DIRECTOR: Just sky?! For 10 seconds?! In the middle of the video

JOHNNY: Yeah. Just blue sky

VD: But Johnny, we're shooting in black & white

JOHNNY: You arguing with me?
JOHNNY: Also I want lots of close-ups. Close-ups of garden furniture

VIDEO DIRECTOR: Garden furniture?!

JOHNNY: Yeah. You know. Tables & chairs & shit. And I want close-ups of the horse...and close-ups of the old lady...and close-ups of the chickens

VIDEO DIRECTOR: Chickens?!

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9 Dec
1/. The many emotions of Matt Hancock

REMORSE: @MattHancock realises that the deliberately late lockdown increased the #COVID death toll by at least 20,000 & that the govt’s policy of transferring people from hospitals to care homes without testing also killed tens of thousands
2/. GUILT

Hancock is asked about failures with the contact tracing app, with testing, with providing PPE to frontline NHS staff, with doing checks in airports, with late introduction of masks & why he says he “didn’t know about asymptomatic transmission”!
3/. DISTRESS

@MattHancock is asked why billions of £ of #COVID19 contracts were fast-tracked to unqualified companies (including his neighbour’s) & why companies with links to #CambridgeAnalytica -
#Palantir & #FacultyAI - are running the NHS data store.
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5 Dec
1/. Britain prepares to leave the EU on 31 December, with or without a deal. #Brexit #NoDeal #NoDealBrexit #BrexitDeal [Sound on]
2/. Preparations for #Brexit continue at a pace across the country. #Brexit #NoDeal #NoDealBrexit #BrexitDeal
3/. Brexit the Board Game.

Fun for all the family this #Christmas . (video by @ShortList) #Brexit #BestThingsAboutBrexit #BrexitDeal
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3 Dec
Wow!

“I just reckon we've got the very best people in this and we’ve obviously got the best medical regulators. Much better than the French have, the Belgians, the Americans have...Because we're a much better country than every single one, aren’t we.” @GavinWilliamson on @LBC
“All 27 EU members will have access to vaccines at the same time. Some countries could have gone quicker but they chose solidarity.” @jensspahn German health minister

“We're first! We’re the best!” UK govt ministers

Pfizer = American
BioNTech = German
Manufacturer = Belgian
“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs...reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
(Arthur Schopenhauer)
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2 Dec
In June, when @KayBurley asked @MattHancock why the contact tracing app was such a disaster he could hardly stop laughing

Today, when she was asking him about the six-fold increased risk of death for people with learning difficulties, he was grinning.
A govt minister grinning & laughing inappropriately isn’t a big deal

What’s more concerning is how unaffected ministers have remained in the face of the soaring death toll that has resulted from their #COVID19 strategy

Watch their body language, their eyes, their bullishness.
The only time the Cabinet seemed truly ruffled was NOT when the death toll became the highest in Europe or when the #CareHomeScandal broke or when it was revealed late lockdown had cost 20,000+ lives

It was when #Cummings’ trip to #BarnardCastle came out.
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1 Dec
1/. The ordeal continues

A Turkish court has upheld the unjust convictions of four human rights defenders, including my former @amnesty #Turkey colleagues, Taner Kilic & Idil Eser

When human rights defenders are silenced, ALL our rights are put at risk.
2/. They were arrested almost 3 years ago with seven other human rights activists

Between them, they spent 1,158 days in pretrial detention

More than 2 million people around the world have demanded justice but truth & justice have become strangers in Turkey #FreeRightsDefenders
3/. “We are responsible not only for what we say but what we fail to say by staying silent." A. Nesin

At times of greater repression, the job of human rights activists becomes more vital...& also more dangerous

In 2018, @Snowden called for their release.
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27 Nov
"If you're cold, take one. If you can help, leave one"

With freezing temperatures hitting the UK, & forecasters predicting this could be the coldest winter in eight years, why not help #TakeOneLeaveOne?

Drop off warm clothes to your local #TOLO rail or set one up where you are.
To set up a #TakeOneLeaveOne rail where you are, all you need to do is:

1 Get a rail

2 Find good location (ideally covered) outside a church/town hall/shop/underpass

3 Get permission of locals/shopkeepers

4 Make a sign/order one for £30 or DM me

5 Hang up warm clothes #TOLO
Thanks for spreading the word & helping homeless people & rough sleepers to stay warm this winter

We got the idea for #TakeOneLeaveOne from a woman in the US who got the idea from Mexico

#TOLO is not a solution to homelessness. But it is sadly needed.
voanews.com/europe/mexican…
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