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
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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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
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.
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
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