“144-page issue with magical souvenir magazine” @DailyMailUK

“Magical”?
“Souvenir”?
“144 pages”?
#PrincePhilip #dukeofedinburgh #RIPPrincePhilip
Only 16 pages in the Irish edition of the Daily Mail!

They cut 128 pages!
(pic via @CSBlenner)
“It’s a stretch to call him a feminist icon but...” @guardian
#dukeofedinburgh #PrincePhilip #RoyalFamily
Wow!

#PrincePhilip was often criticised because of his ‘gaffs’, but they weren’t really gaffs because most people were thinking that anyway.”

Former royal correspondent Dicky Arbiter on @itvnews talking about #dukeofedinburgh
Asked about #PrincePhillip’s “sense of fun” on @itvnews, Lady Pamela Hicks who was the Queen’s Lady-in-Waiting for years, responds with surprising frankness.
#dukeofedinburgh #RoyalFamily
JOURNALIST: “It was the #dukeofedinburgh himself who decided that they should spend the day of the anniversary on Malta, for this most public of private couples

PHILIP: You finished?
#PrincePhillip photo-bombs @romillyweeks while she is talking about him.
Wow!

The BBC have set-up a special form on their website for people to complain about their wall-to-wall coverage #PrincePhilip’s death.

I’ve never seen them do this before. #dukeofedinburgh #RoyalFamily #RIPPrincePhilip bbc.co.uk/contact/death-…
There has been some discussion on my TL about what Lady Pamela says here

It does sound as if she uses the word “lul”, a lewd Dutch word for a male member (the diminutive = “lulletje”)

It can also have other obscene connotations such as “stomme lul!” meaning “stupid a***hole!”
Some people are suggesting that Lady Pamela is saying “leva lul” which they say translates to “topsy turvy” (in a bawdy way!)

But remember, large swathes of the British upper classes are so posh they don’t speak properly

They just make noises #LevaLul
A Dutch person has helpfully sent me this example of how #LevaLul is used in sentence.

“Hij glimlachte toen ik mijn hand tussen zijn dijen legde en zijn leva lul begon te wrijven.”

I think that settles it!
No surprise!

The BBC’s coverage of #PrincePhillip’s death is the latest skirmish in the culture war

Is BBC DG, Tim Davie, who once stood as a Tory councillor & was deputy chair of a local branch, bowing to absurd Tory claims BBC “isn’t patriotic enough”? theguardian.com/media/2021/apr…

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In this chilling 2013 interview, @BorisJohnson admits he’s not really bumbling

“I’m hard as nails” he says

He also tells us “a terrible truth about politics & human nature”

That you can “make a good case for any course of action.” #HerdImmunity #COVID19
When the subject moves to ethics, @BorisJohnson becomes more guarded

Asked whether he believes one "can derive the ethics from the science" he avoids answering

Perhaps he’s aware that discussions of genomics can easily slip into the subject of eugenics.
I know!

Most of us switch-off at the mention of “genomics”, but it is crucial to understanding how the world is transforming & how “super forecasters” see the need for society to transform too

This thread👇offers a potted summary of just some of what is going on. #GenomeUK
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1/. In non-#COVID19 times, today would have seen the start of the world's remotest film festival, in a refugee camp deep in the Sahara desert

#FiSahara has a special place in my heart

10 years ago, 6 days & 6 nights in the desert, changed my life forever
2/. I'd gone as journalist to cover the festival, but had been struck by how little the world knew about #WesternSahara

"As our convoy headed back across the empty desert, our thoughts were with people we'd left behind" I wrote in @Independent at the time independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…
3/. When I got back to London - the sand still in my hair - I handed in my notice

A month later, in May 2009, I became a full-time journalist, started planning for the #FiSahara Film Festival 2010 and - with a small but dedicated team - launched the Free Western Sahara Network. ImageImage
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100,000 volunteers

10 miles each

The Million Mile Beach Clean is launching today

This time lapse video shows how much plastic we found on a beach in just 2 hours in 2019.
#MillionMileBeachClean #MillionMileClean
#beachclean @SAS_London_ @sascampaigns
Before #COVID19 hit, it felt like the world was starting to wake up to the harm of plastics

But with the arrival of #coronavirus,
single use plastic is now seen as ‘safer’ & millions of masks & gloves are ending up in our oceans
@GelarehDarabi @AJEnglish
We cannot plead ignorance

We can no longer afford apathy

In the UK, each of us discards about 100kg of plastic per year, mostly in packaging

There’s a ‘trash vortex' / ‘plastic soup’ the size of Texas in the Pacific where there are 6 kilos of plastic for every kilo of plankton
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1/. QUESTION: What’s the worst day of the year for dictators, despots & populist autocrats?

ANSWER: April 7

Tomorrow, @amnesty release our annual 2020/21 report covering the state of #HumanRights in 149 countries

JOURNALISTS: For a copy or to an interview👉 press@amnesty.org
“How's life in your country?"
"We can't complain"

This cartoon was about #Turkey but it also applies to:
#Myanmar
#China
#SaudiArabia
#NorthKorea
#Syria
#Egypt
#Turkmenistan
#Eritrea
#Yemen
#Uzbekistan
#CAR
#Vietnam
#Sudan
#Iraq
#Bahrain
#Belarus
#Bangladesh
#Laos
#Somalia etc.
“I don’t care if they respect me, so long as they fear me.” (Caligula)

At @amnesty we don’t respect dictators, autocrats & human rights abusers

We don’t fear them either

As we publish Annual Report, here’s a guide for dictators human on ‘how to respond’ amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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1/. EU Leaders @CharlesMichel & @vonderleyen are meeting #Turkey’s President Erdoğan today

This comes as it was revealed that the prosecutor in the trial of @amnesty’s honorary Turkey Chair, #TanerKilic, has requested that the court uphold his conviction ahvalnews.com/eu-turkey/eu-l…
2/. If the court upholds #TanerKilic’s conviction, he’ll be taken back to jail to serve the rest of his 6yr jail term

He’s already been behind bars for 1+ years

This despite the fact not a SHREAD of evidence has been produced of any criminal wrong doing.
3/. "We’re responsible not only for what we say but what we fail to say by staying silent"

In 2018 when #TanerKilic was in jail, @snowden joined 2m people to demand his release

They included @aiww @itspetergabriel @OfficialSting @BiancaJagger @DavidLammy
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1/ SAGE minutes still redact names of attendees (including a scientific adviser)

But since July, it’s been the #JointBiosecurityCentre that shapes #COVID19 strategy

Run by Tom Hurd (MI6) then Clare Gardner (GCHQ), the #JBC hasn’t released ANY minutes or named ANY of its members
2/. SAGE’s advice is fed to the secretive #JointBiosecurityCentre who often seem to ignore it

In Sept, SAGE’s call for a circuit-breaker lockdown was ignored

SAGE has been sidelined since the took over #COVID19 strategy

Why are It’s membership & it’s discussions kept secret?
3/. The #JointBiosecurityCentre, was launched as a £9 billion directorate of @DHSCgovuk, on 1 June 2020

According to sources, there is no actual ‘centre’. Instead the #JBC is spread across Whitehall offices

There is much speculation as to its membership
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