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Mar 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
What if Russian rockets hit OUR homes?

Destroyed OUR towns?

Bombed OUR critical infrastructure.

Maimed and killed OUR family and OUR friends and neighbours?

Spend a few minutes every days thinking about that. Feeling that.

How would you want the world to respond then?
Our lives go on…nit ideally but so much more untouched by disaster than theirs.

But theirs? This is the reality for millions of Ukrainian people.
And this in memory of the children killed in just the last three weeks.

What if these were YOUR children?

Doesn’t bear thinking about, does it?
Message from people who escaped from Mariupol yesterday.

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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
Mar 19
That takes some quite extraordinarily twisted and desperate thinking given Ukraine is positively begging to join the EU.

The staggering dishonesty of this really is quite something to behold, even from this essentially dishonest man
The underlying comparison being hinted at is that the EU was somehow aligned to the Russia- Ukraine relationship, in (fictionally) preventing us from doing what a truly independent U.K. would otherwise do is not just downright insulting, it is a fucking disgrace.
Or to put it in the more polite but equally as trenchant sarcasm of @SnellArthur
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
Mar 19
Extraordinarily powerful essay on this Putin’s war from Maria Stepanova:- a poet & writer living in Russia. Her latest book, ‘In Memory of Memory’, was awarded the Big Book Prize, Russia’s main literary award, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize ft.com/content/c27974…
“This particular book has a bad author. Bad in all senses, as a person and as a writer with scant interest in his own characters. He doesn’t care if they survive or die; he doesn’t care what their needs or desires are; &he’s definitely not interested in recognising their freedoms
“The only thing that he cares about is his own authorship, the affirmation of his will, and his control of the text and events.” Image
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
Mar 19
In the 1990s the author of this excellent article was sent to explore “Where is the eastern edge of the Western World now”.

He came across a Russian concept of “near abroad” and a (rhyming in Russian) couplet :-

“A chicken's not really a bird; and Poland's not really abroad."
This sense of entitlement to land beyond its borders and also the erroneous understanding of how the majority who live in those lands feel about their independence, seems to have led Putin (and maybe Russians) into a series of trapdoors. Image
We have seen some indication that parts of Serbia still favour Russia. But not so the battle scarred Bosnia whose sense of independence hardened through the battle for it.

Ukraine seems to be strengthening their narrative of resistance, suffering and heroic struggle too. Image
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
Mar 19
“Applicants must understand there will be no remuneration for this (Assistant Adjunct Professor) post”
And this for someone with a PhD.
Full analysis here.

They may as well write large

“Poor black/white/ethnic minority brilliant people need not apply”.
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
Mar 18
85% of S Korea’s 50 mill population is fully vaxxed & 60% boosted yet Thursday 17-3-22 was its deadliest day during the pandemic, with 429 deaths in a 24-hour period and 621,328 cases, up 55% from 400,730 the day before.

washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/…
“In recent weeks, South Korea has relaxed social distancing rules by pushing back a curfew on restaurants to 11 p.m. and easing the cap on private gatherings to six.”
“ Critics said the government underestimated the highly contagious nature of the omicron variant and eased the social distancing rules too soon, contributing to a surge in cases.”

Pfizer is the vaccine most deployed in South Korea.
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Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺 Profile picture
Mar 18
OOOPSIE

Tom Hunt, Conservative MP for Ipswich since 2019, was previously the political assistant and chief of staff to the Conservative mayor of the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority (CPCA). This is a politically restricted post.

eastangliabylines.co.uk/exclusive-suff…
This means that during that employment he was not allowed to stand for political office, or canvass for a political party

Looks as if this evidence of invalid nomination shld be put before the High Court for verification

If proven Hunt’s position as MP is nullified immediately Image
The most recent GEs.

Labour & LDs are definitely going to need some sort of pact ImageImage
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