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19 Jun, 4 tweets, 5 min read
Today women’s & LGBTI+ organizations, political parties & people from all over Turkey are marching to demand that #Turkey reverse it’s decision to withdraw from the #IstanbulConvention on violence against women. THREAD👇#İstanbulSözleşmesindenVazgeçmiyoruz
Report via @ahval_en: “Turkish police battered women who gathered in Istanbul to protest #Turkey's withdrawal from the #IstanbulConvention on domestic & gender-based violence”

Five protesters were reportedly detained #IstanbulConventionSavesLives #VAM
“Feminism isn’t a Western invention. Feminism wasn’t invented by American women. It’s embedded in the culture & in the struggle of all women all over the world" #NawalElSaadawi Egyptian feminist to @krishgm in 2018 #MeToo  #TimesUp #IstanbulConvention
“Autocrats are afraid of free & independent women

They’re afraid of societies where women can freely decide over their bodies & lives

They’re afraid of the strength of women’s & LGBTI movements

That's why they hate the #IstanbulConvention” @TerryReintke

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20 Jun
1/. On Wednesday, @MattHancock claimed that GPs having exclusive access patient data was "undemocratic"(!)

This is bonkers

There are 7.5k trusted data controllers in the NHS at the moment

How will it work with 60m?!

He ALSO broke #COVID rules & lost his voice👇
#BreakingNews
#MattHancock often seems to have problems when asked simple questions

When FINALLY asked who issued the instruction to send people from hospitals to care homes without testing & if it was approved by a Minister &, if so, which one? - he lost his hearing!
When asked about the failure of the App & @didoharding’s “cherry on the cake” (the £37b Test & Trace fiasco) @MattHancock faked hysteria

“I think many of my viewers will think this isn’t a laughing matter,” said @KayBurley

The death toll had hit 65,000
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19 Jun
1/. “All countries must stop selling arms to #Myanmar following the a resolution by the UN”

How about this for a crazy idea?

Why don’t we stop the arms trade altogether

Why flood the world with a never-ending flow of ever more advanced deadly weapons? amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
2/. For hundreds of years this tidal mill was one of 9 grinding corn for London

In 1588, one of the mills was turned into a gunpowder mill

This was a choice

To grind corn for bread to feed people or grind gunpowder for the muskets & canons to kill people

They chose gunpowder
3/. The world has lurched from one bloody conflict to another

The 1914-18 “War to End All Wars” was followed by another war & another & another

A year ago, even a meticulously negotiated attempt to call a global ceasefire during the coronavirus pandemic was derailed...by the US
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19 Jun
Perhaps it says more about the state of my mind than it does about the state of the country, but watching the #ENGSCO game in the pub, I thought I saw a British Union of Fascists flag

They were at the anti-lockdown demo last year

Look out for them at the ‘Freedom March’ today. ImageImage
The anti-lockdown movement has brought together an strange confluence of groups

But the involvement of the far-right is disturbing

Their spores of hate travel wide on the winds of social media, even parasitically hijack the language of human rights: “freedoms”, “liberties” etc. ImageImageImageImage
Language has always been a battleground, but the “Culture War” is intensifying very rapidly

Even before the #COVID19 pandemic,
the forces of progress had been in retreat as the narrative was increasing framed not just by conservatives but by the far-right.
#ThisIsNotADrill
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18 Jun
1/. Dido Harding officially applies to become CEO of NHS England

“If she gets the job after spaffing £37bn on Test & Trace, it’s blatant corruption & we should report it to the government’s corruption tsar who is - *checks notes* - #DidoHarding’s husband. Oh.” @davidschneider
2/. #DidoHarding will no doubt draft very compelling cover letter, but I’d suggest anyone on the @NHSEngland interview panel looks at this @PrivateEyeNews article

It puts together things that Dido somehow left out of her official CV

Her career appears to be a litany of disaster Image
3/. “Putting Dido Harding in charge of the NHS would be like putting Gavin Williamson in charge of schools” @davemacladd

As well as getting a peerage, Dido
has also won awards: two wooden spoons from @DailyMailUK for “worst customer service in the UK” while she was at @TalkTalk Image
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16 Jun
1/. I am at #CogX2021 for @MattHancock’s first public appearance - Live Tweeting from the front row

Oh dear! He’s just started & has lost his voice lost his voice

Short pause...
#MattHancock #COVID19 #coronavirus #Genomics #GenomeUK
2/. Matt’s back!

@MattHancock has regained his voice & is continuing his keynote address at #CogX2021

A friend just DMed:

“Maybe he lost his voice when he you in the front row & realised you’re going to ask him about the links btw #Palantir #FacultyAI & #CambridgeAnalytica!”
3/. #MattHancock says that he thinks that GP’s having exclusive control of patient data is “undemocratic”

Instead he says he wants every citizen to control their own data(!?)

He says people are enthusiastic about sharing their health data as long as privacy is assured #CogX2021
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15 Jun
Disturbing footage of @BBCNewsnight’s Nick Watt, being pursued by anti-lockdown protesters

@umairh wrote recently “Britain — the gentle, wise, intelligent, expansive one — was put to the torch. It became a nation afflicted by a fever dream of nationalism”
Such scenes became commonplace in America where #Trump denounced the media as “fake news” or “enemies of the people” (see @AP’s @johnminchillo at the #CapitolRiots👇)

The problem is, once the genie has been let out the bottle, it’s hard to put it back in.
The Reichstag fire in 1933 shows how quickly a modern country can be hijacked & transformed into an authoritarian regime

How they laughed at Hitler in 1923 when he marched on a Munich beer hall with his comedic moustache

Rule by Decree introduced after the fire wasn’t so funny!
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